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i am brooke baldwin. the u.s.ienced the deadliest week since april, more than 15,000 people dying from covid in the last seven days. since month of december began, every single metric has been up, after november broke record after record. for the first time, we are averaging 200,000 new infections each day, there are more people than ever in the hospital fighting coronavirus. numbering above 102,000. all of this as the united states nears 15 million cases which could happen today. cnn correspondent dan simon live in san francisco. dan, california experienced another 160,000 new cases in the last week, most of any state. what's the situation where you are today, how are people handling the stay at home orders? >> reporter: brooke, hospitalizations up 72% in the past two weeks in california. in terms of how people are taking it all, i would say they're taking it in stride. it is highly disruptive, though. san francisco isn't quite seeing the surge in terms of what we are seeing in los angeles. it took measures preem

brooke baldwin picks up coverage right now. have a good day. >>> hi there, brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn this friday afternoon. thank you for being with me. let's get to it, more than 15 million covid cases and counting, may not be too much longer before americans begin to get vaccinated. health and human services director alex azar notified pfizer they plan to proceed on emergency vaccine use. >> in the next couple of days probably as we work to negotiate with pfizer, information doctors need to prescribe it appropriately, we should be seeing the authorization of this first vaccine and as you just said, we will work with pfizer to get it shipped out. we could be seeing people getting vaccinated monday, tuesday of next week. >> which is exciting. before the prioritized groups can get shots, not only the fda but cdc has to sign off on the vaccine. a cdc panel is meeting today with a vote expected sunday. nevertheless, massive preparations are under way to get first doses out as soon as possible, but not soon enough. this week was the deadliest week in america since the

brooke?you shared her story. we need to keep hearing stories like that. and i'm especially glad you went to copo there in brooklyn. we had mohammed on the show a couple weeks ago and i have been talking about that guy and all of the mouths he is helping feed. he is truly extraordinary, copo in brooklyn. vanessa, thank you very much. >>> speaking of food insecurity, millions of americans are facing precisely that in food banks across the country are doing everything they can to help. today, one food bank in texas is seeing its 67th mass distribution since the pandemic began, and cnn's camilla bernal is live from boston. and camilla, it's stunning to me how many thousand more people, because of this pandemic, you know, are needing a little bit of help. the stigma that comes along from that first time, you know, asking for that. tell me some stories of the people you're talking to. >> reporter: well, look, brooke, the majority of the people that i spoke to said that they did not come to these ty

brooke? >> i want to ask you, too, just about, we all have our masks, and following this new study about the effectiveness in mask-wearing. what did you find? >> should be wearing the mask. first thing the study found. masks do work. these physicists, interesting study, made a machine basically that coughs and sneezes like a human, and put various kinds of masks on it. cloth masks, surgical masks, in 95 found for basically except the n95, some things got through but it did work. in other words it helped, but some things did get through. the moral of the story is, you can't just wear masks alone. they're going help, but to make it work really, really optimally well, you want to social distance as well. those two things need to go hand in hand. it's not enough to just wear a mask. you also need to keep yourself as far away from people as you can, at least six feet. brooke? >> listening to every word of yours. elizabeth cohen, thank you for all of that. >>> with me now, dr. rob davidson, emergen

>> yes, brooke.eally what's happening now in california and elsewhere is reaching capacity have to move into what we call surge protocols, procedures in which things like patient to nurse staff ratio changes so more nurses, more patients are taken care of by fewer nurses. we have a situation where icu rooms are having to discharge patients maybe sooner than they might otherwise have done. you have emergency departments becoming full because there's not an icu bed. you have ambulances waiting outside to get into the emergency rooms. you have all these triage sorts of measures that are done in crisis situations that isn't going to give us quality of care we would normally like to see, so that will be endangering. >> makes you worry if it is not covid, horrendous sending you to the er, heart attack, accident, anything else, you want to not have anything go wrong because of just the issue of the supply, staffing, et cetera. doctor robert kim farley, thank you so much. we'll speak again on all this. >> su

>> that's a huge disconnect, brooke.and i think at a time like this, you have to be completely transparent with the public, be honest about what's happening, and be honest. the perspective on this is there were major hiccups in rolling out the world's biggest vaccination campaign. as of this monday, we're told by the cdc that about 2.1 million americans received their first dose of a covid vaccine. let's be fair, that could be an underestimate because of a lag in the reporting system. so say double that, say 4 to 5 million americans received their first dose. that's still way shy of the 20 million people we were told would receive their first dose, basically, by the end of this week, before we go into 2021. people just need to know that this is logistically difficult, but the government isn't keeping up with its promises. and at this rate, at the rate that we are vaccinating americans right now, it will take us about a decade to vaccinate the roughly 250 million americans that need to be vaccinated in order for us to rea

>> brooke, a couple things., as someone who was a republican until trump took over the republican party -- you know the radical republicans of 1860, those are the guys that passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, got rid of slavery, enfranchised black male voters, these are the radical iced republicans. that's how this is going to go down. i sedition, it's a coup. look, right now the judiciary is the only branch of government holding this remust be intact. i don't want your viewers to miss i'm calling this a coup on purpose, sedition on purpose. when you have the executive and the legislative working in concert to overturn an election that has been certified by sovereign sister states, that's a coup. that's what it is. >> it's a strong word. i hear you loud and clear. jonathan, we have seen 18 now state attorneys general to back the lawsuit. if the supreme court has the one sentence, no noted dissent, is that the end? this is over. no more court challenges for trump and these republicans? >> i mean, it shoul

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. christmas week is shaping up to provide major coronavirus relief for americans in two ways, a second vaccine and an economic stimulus. this hour we are seeing the very first recipients of the moderna vaccine. the goal right now according to the nation's testing czar is to inject 20 million doses by the first week of january, which is encouraging for a nation said to surpass 18 million positive cases by the end of the day today. and, of course, there are those in hospitals. there are 113,000 americans hospitalized right now, and at any moment we expect to see president-elect joe biden to receive his first dose of the vaccine along with his wife, jill biden, and we will bring that to you live as soon as it happens. but i want to begin this hour in houston where we are seeing the moderna vaccine being adminis r administer administered. miguel marcos is there in the room live. miguel, all you. >> reporter: we saw the very first shot of the moderna vaccine put into the arm of dr. joseph ve

brooke?ay. how will doctors convince an already skeptical american public to get the vaccine? >> well, you know, this sort of relates to what we were talking about at the beginning, which is it would be a whole lot easier to convince a skeptical population to get a vaccine if the president would stop trying to pressure scientists to speed things up. he's acting against his own interests and against all our interests. we do not want the population to have this feeling that things are being sped up. what doctors are going to have to do, they're going to have to say to people, look, here's the data, here's what it says, here's what happened to people in the clinical trials, which for these two vaccines, it worked exceptionally well, 95% efficacy, and no one became seriously ill. i think as people start to get vaccinated and people start to see, oh, a friend of mine, she was fine, and my sister, she was fine, that people will start to have trust in this as time goes on. >> elizabeth cohen, thanks

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. it is day two of the coronavirus vaccine in the u.s. introducing the inoculations to front line health workers today. it is the first and most critical step in finally getting this pandemic under control. and it could not come at a more crucial time. right now there are more americans hospitalized with coronavirus than at any time before. more than 10,500. this as the number of deaths hit another horrible milestone. look at this. 301,000 americans killed by this disease and counting. there is some hope for all of us on the horizon. the fda announcing it is authorizing a new at-home coronavirus test that could help track the disease, so let's start there. cnn's sara murray has more on this giant undertaking to get vaccines to the people who need them most. star a, h sa sara, how is distribution going? >> reporter: on the largest coronavirus vaccine distribution so far, health care workers are eagerly lining up at 425 new sites nationwide. >> feeling really hopeful

i'm "breaking babr brooke baldw. thank you for being here.ainting this debate at immoral terms as a choice between pinching pennies and letting families go hungry. >> leaders of our country, president trump, president-elect biden, minority leader chuck schumer, speaker of the house nancy pelosi are all in agreement, we have got to raise that direct payment to $2,000. >> why can't we keep working families from starving, even as we stand ready to approve a massive defense bill? >> that was senator ed markey, democrat, massachusetts. here is senator ed markey. senator, pleasure, sir. welcome. >> thanks for having me on. >> listening to you and of course senator bernie sanders pushing for a vote on increasing the direct checks to americans to $2,000. senator sanders saying, you know, no new year's break for senators without a vote. so what's your plan? >> well, our plan is to, one, just say no vote on the defense budget. that's what the republicans want. that's what many democrats want, but what senator sanders and i are saying is, no vote on a d

hour two for me here on cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. right now we are on standby for what could be a historic decision. ed fast is discussion granting approval to the pfizer vaccine. if green lit, it means tens of millions of vaccine lieutenants into americans' arms in just days. the united states just reported its deadliest day so far. yesterday alone, look at the numbers, 3,124 americans lost their battle with coronavirus. meanwhile, the daily caseload continues to move, just totally in the wrong direction. every single day in this country, more than 209,000 americans are average are getting sick. hospitalizations areal all-time highs with doctors and nurses stretched thin, beds and supplies reaching new lows, but let's get to potential history here, this fda meeting, and dr. sanjay gupta. the vote is scheduled to start in the next hour. how will all of this play out if the vaccine is authorized? >> this is an fda committee. so they're making a recommendation to the fda, which the fda typically takes. that'sth expectations here. if it

>> reporter: brooke, this was expected.resident has been threatening for some time to veto the national defense authorization act because of the lack of an unrelated provision that would take away protection for tech companies. he thinks our bias against them, republicans had rejected them as unrelated to the defense bill. the bills passed both chambers with more than enough votes to override. in fact, members of congress have made arrangements to return next week to override this specific veto. one significance of this is the president has, in the past, sometimes ranted against bills, threatened to veto and then let them become law, anyway. some people have speculated that may be his intention on the covid relief bill which he ranted about in the video last night. he didn't explicitly threaten to veto and hasn't said he will veto it, but if somebody was thinking that the president was simply blowing off steam on the covid relief bill, this gives you more reason to think that he may actually be trying to take this bill down

brooke?t has to be so horrible for so many families to just feel they are at the precipice, and then their elder loved ones don't just quite make it. it's tragic, at least there's some hope for folks there in kirkland. thank you for sharing all of that with us. >>> minutes from now the house is back in session with two big votes on the table, one to send the $2,000 stimulus checks to americans, an the other to override the president's veto of the bill that funds the military. we're back live on capitol hill, next. it's moving day. and while her friends are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. it only takes about a minute. wait, a minute? but what have you been doing for the last two hours? delegating? oh, good one. move your xfinity services without breaking a sweat. now that's simple, easy, awesome. xfinity makes moving easy. go online to transfer your services in about a minute. get started today. >>> japan announced the death of its first sitti

>> it is historic, brooke. what's so wonderful is that the fda has embraced full transparency in their reviews of covid vaccines. not only are they considering this in record time but doing it in full light of day. we have sources watching proceedings, giving reports how it is going. there's robust discussion in that room, that virtual room. there are a lot of tough questions being asked. >> what will you specifically be listening for coming out of this virtual meeting? >> well, a lot of it we heard already. we heard very detailed conversation about the side effect profile. it is looking very, very promising. we know the pfizer vaccine shows 95% efficacy which is fantastic. it is also important to know that they haven't seen a lot of serious side effects. they have things like muscle ache, fatigue, sometimes fever, in substantial portion of patients, but seems to resolve in 24 to 48 hours. everyone should expect this. it is not a simple vaccine to have but as we are facing a day with two americans dying every h

. >> the tricky, brooke. american airlines tells me it has a plan in place to begin transporting the vaccine within 24 hours of fda approval, but what is so interesting here, as you mentioned, are the challenges in keep the vaccine cold while it is in transit. american airlines just shod me the cargo cold storage facility in philadelphia, pharmaceuticals only, thousands of square feet, essentially one giant refrigerator. the temperatures inside there, about 40 degrees, and the hope is that that will help preserve the vaccines that, as you mentioned, need to be super-cold while being transported. the pfizer vaccine negative 100 degrees fahrenheit. american airlines hope this is just a pitstop, though, on the way to getting the vaccine to you. >> what we find today is to move a shipment from the originating from the shipper as quickly as possible. we don't want shipments to be -- but when they're in our possession, we need to look at them very carefully. >>> another big challenge is keeping the vaccine cold in

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. we begin with what could be another historical moment in the fight against this pandemic. the fda's vaccine advisory panel is meeting to discuss issuing emergency authorization for moderna's vaccine against covid-19. and a vote could come at any moment. now, if it is authorized, that means tens of millions of more vials would come into circulation and that would be a welcome relief to a country that's, frankly, spiraling out of control. think about it this way. when future generations learn about the deadliest days in american history, they will learn about the galveston hurricane in 1900. they'll learn about the civil war and the battle of antietam and they'll learn about yesterday when 3,656 americans died from coronavirus in a 24-hour period. 3,656 people who will not be spending the holidays with their families. they likely did not get to say good-bye to their loved ones in person. those future generations will also learn about the day before yesterday an

i'm brooke baldwin.ents ago we heard from president-elect joe biden and he called out president trump for his failure to respond or even assign blame to this massive cyberattack on the u.s. >> reporter: it happened under president donald trump's watch, but of course in january 21, it will then, of course, land on your doorstep. >> let's get something straight what will land on my doorstep. his failure will land on my doorstep. >> his failure will land on my doorstep. russia is suspected of the breach that infiltrated non-classified data of at least four departments. multiple companies were also targeted. let's go to max who is the leader in foreign communications. this breach before christmas, what does that tell you? >> brooke, did tells me we'll soon have a normal president again that will look after american interests rather than his own petty grievances and grudges. it was refreshing to me from a leader who was talking in a rationale, sober way without conspiracy theories or fraudulent claims of vari

>> well, look, brooke. the states basically say they feel as ready as they can be, with the caveat that they don't know exactly how many doses they're going to be getting. they don't know exactly what day those doses are going to arrive. and they know they may have to adjust the plan, as they kind of learn how this is all going to go down. but, look. in -- in a sign of just how close we are getting, operation warp speed officials are briefing, right now, and they said, today, they are starting to send out the supplies that go along with the vaccine. the syringes, the needles, the alcohol wipes, face masks. so, essentially, everything except the actual vaccine you will need. now, if you are a member of the general population, you still have a little bit of a wait, ahead. here's what health and human services secretary, alex azar, had to say about that timeline, today. >> you should start seeing, at points in february and march, general-population vaccinations occurring. what we've said is we expect that, in

i'm brooke baldwin. great to be with you. we begin with news about the second vaccine that's available for use. we are seeing the first moderna vaccining being administered across the hospitals in the u.s. the goal is to inject 20 million doses by the first week of january, and health and human services secretary alex azar said he's confidence that the distribution to general population could be closer than we thought. >> later in march, we could be seeing more general population injections, if one of other manufacturers entering into the play, this only accelerates the timeline. in the second quarter of next year, enough vaccine to vac nate every american who wants to be vaccinate vaccinated. >> comforting words. u.s. health officials trying to calm panic amid report out of the uk about a new variant that could be more transmissible. we also, just a heads up, we expect president-elect joe biden to receive his first dose of the vaccine today. as soon as we see that happen, we'll take it live for you. also today, congress is o

brooke? >> totally.o glad they sent that out because we think so much about the doctors and the nurses and the staff. what about the janitors moving beds, feeding people? all those people come in close contact with covid and need the shot. >>> joining me now is emergency room physician dr. rob davison. good to see you begagain. first what dan was talking about in southern california. when you hear about icu beds at 0%, what do you do when you run out of icu beds? >> i know around here we try to find other places we can transfer people. when it's an entire region like that, that is the nightmare scenario. i frankly don't know what you do. i know earlier in new york they had worked on ways to split ventilators and use them on more than one patient. i'm sure they will be converting non-icu beds and units into places that can handle more critically ill people, but then it's staffing those nurses who are trained in critical care and doctors who are trained in critical care. frankly, this is what we've been tr

that's mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. 30 years mark has provided critical perspective to some of the most historic moments in american politics. >> impeachments. >> the attitude in the country remains that bill clinton lied. they don't want him to leave. >> war should not be the first resort. it has to be the last resort. >> white house firs >> this is a prison of enormous talent. >> and the current president. >> donald trump is criminally uncurious. >> there from the beginning, his wife of 54 years and shields. >> tell me what you remember about the early days of mark doing "the newshour." >> whenever there was big political news, they would call mark. and it just kind of migrated eventually to a friday night regular venue. mark liked it. and i think lair liked it a lot. so that made it a go. >> from the politics observation team -- >> mark became a regular guest on the mcneill "newshour" during the 1988 presidential election. he brought a wealth of experience on democratic campaigns. in 1968, robert kennedy. in 1972, ed

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for watching. a dramatic reversal from the president, offering to help the economy drowning in pandemic fatigue. another hope today, two million receiving the covid vaccine under estimate, says a top trump health official. scenes from airports remind us of a public health failures and a prompt warning for a post-holiday surge. >> we very well might see a post-seasonal,s in sense of christmas/new year's surge. as i have described it, as a surge upon a surge. i share the concern of president-elect biden that, as we get into the next few weeks, it might actually get worse. >> next fall, dr. fauci says, we can start thinking about a new normal. but the consequences are easy to see. a new cnn analysis shows the share of icu patients with covid-19 is on a straight line up, from 16% of patients in september to nearly 40 now. that stimulus bill the president signed does give more money to hospitals, $3 billion worst, but that's well short of the original $35 billion that lawmakers had wanted and what hospi

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me.ngle coronavirus metric you can imagine, right? cases, hospitalizations, positivity, deaths, and the data gives a clear and scary message, that the next few months are going to be like nothing this country has ever endured. 3,400 american lives lost yesterday to this virus. millions more are facing

their kicks, brooks sales projected a 27% year-over-year after gaining 1.6 million customers.rooks running a subsidiary brookshire hathaway is here, jim, good to see you, maybe nike releasing earnings and there is new leadership, covid during off the schedule but that could be an opportunity for you guys, how close are you to overtaking them in the running space, do they hear your feet on the track behind them or can they hear your breath on their neck. >> thank you for having me, here's wha how i would describew competitive our marketplace is, runners have so many choices and we've been focused on them for decades and it's all about great gear, were trying to create the best gear experience mild after mile and they have so many choices, right now we feel this environment people are heading out the door to invest in themselves and get fresh air in move, they have chosen brooks, we've gained more market share than ever in the category itself is growing with people finding out that running is pandemic friendly, they can do it other backdoor. liz: absolutely, many people that nev

>> good afternoon, brooke. as a general matter, yes, until employment law, employers can require employees to get vaccines. some employers have required flu shots for a long time now. they are very important exceptions to that. most importantly employers have to have a system in place where they can consider and grant accommodations to employees who cannot get a vaccine because of some other medical issue, and also for companies that have unionized employees, they need to be thoughtful about the way it engages with the union regarding any issues relating to a vaccine. >> so what if you have an employees who doesn't fall in those categories, whether it's a, you know, a special disability issue or a religious belief, and just as like, uh, i don't want this thing? what rights do they have? >> well, they -- unfortunately for the employee, not a ton. that being said, you know, the advice that i've been giving to a lot of employers is you need to be very thoughtful about whether you're going to require a vaccine. whi

brooke?> martin, thank you. >>> breaking news out of georgia, where the president has called on the governor to resign over trump's false beliefs about voter fraud. we'll wait for what the governor has to say. >>> and we'll talk to a woman trying to protect her family and running her home. stay here. >>> coronavirus pandemic has affected parents all around the world, as they work to keep their children safe and stay sane. joining me is chris howerton, she's author of the blog "rage against the minivan." welcome. >> thanks for having me. as i red your recent op-ed, i thought of so many parents who could relate. how has the pandemic -- >> my kids of teenagers, so they're old enough to go places, do things themselves, and as they've gotten older and shown me more responsibility, i have given them more freedoms. at this stage in my life, they like to run around town by themselves, bike for friends' houses. they were really active, social kids. with the pandemic i've had to pull them back and rein

my congressman is mo brooks. he is coming on after you. i have called every office about my problem. with the health care my son had. once they graduate, if they don't go to college, and then if they don't go to college it cuts off at age 23 and they are always behind. i just got the affordable care act permission to buy blue cross blue shield through alabama. which i thinkonth is ridiculous. in the war, they still would have dropped his insurance. all i have been asking for is a change in the school requirement and bump the age up to the age of 36 like they did in the affordable care act. on the affordable care act, toerans were put on page -- update the systems between the v.a. and dod. host: thank you for bringing your story of. congressman ryan, do you want to respond? caller: -- caseworkat is a situation. you have to go through your congressperson because my staff is overwhelmed with the 700,000 people we represent. i will mention to congressman brooks that you called and we will get your name and make sure your staff connects with yo

we are joined by mo brooks of alabama.e has challenged -- promised to challenge the election results when they get to congress in january. thanks for bringing it up. plenty of articles about the election. this is the lede in the washington times. "trump throwing a hail mary to block biden election." "trump called on the supreme court to have the courage to intervene as his republican allies sued four swing states in what was described as a hail mary effort to prevent states from casting electoral votes for presumptive president-elect joe biden. the supreme court rejecting another case on tuesday in which republicans sought to overturn the certification of the election for biden. that lawsuit claimed that pennsylvania's legislature did not legally enact a law to expand mail-in voting during the pandemic. separately, the arizona supreme court dealt another blow to the president by rejecting a lawsuit from the state's republican party chairwoman claiming fraud." plenty of moving parts on that front. something we will cover st

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i was watching fox yesterday and they senator republican from missouri, his name was brooks, he said he was going to reject the election on january 5. brooks, the congressman from alabama -- he was on this program last week, last wednesday, talking about what he will do on the floor of the house. caller: he said he would reject the election. host: he was going to object to the certification in certain states. namer: i'm sorry i got his wrong, but he said we can call of our senators to pressure them to reject the same thing. i did not know that was possible, so he is encouraging the voteke me who felt was corrupt, to fight back against the corruption, because and iis so much of it, can't believe you try to sweep it underneath the rug. i think 73 million people like me want to fight back. that is what i am going to do. i cannot sit back and complain about it and not do nothing about it. host: what you are talking about is he can object during the certification on january 6. as a member of the house, he would need a member of the senate to join him in the objection, and if that happens,

congressman brooks, let me start with you. tell me a little bit about the meeting you had with the president and what his plan is for the next before january six. >> it's not the president's plan. the president does have a voted not. we were there to inform him on what we intend to do. there are no dozens in the house of representatives who are persuaded as i am that there has been massive voter fraud and election threat and we can either assess that or fight it. we've chosen to fight. very pleased that jody hice has stepped up to the plate and he's going to take the lead role in the state of georgia, his home state. we've got others and many other states too who were going to take the lead. it's looking very promising on the house side. we do need senators who will stand up for america, for a republic, for our election system. we will see how that plays out. >> martha: you, of just staying with you about congressman brooks for just a moment here. the way this has to go, as i understand it, is that he would have to have a sena

brooke? >> also reiterating fauci in your piece saying, we have yet to see that post-thanksgiving peak. athena, thank you very much. we'll talk vaccine with our next guest, president and ceo of the biontech pharmaceutical organization. welcome back. >> thank you. it's nice to be here. >> more and more states are releasing their vaccine distribution plans, and just based on what you're seeing, how confident are you in a successful rollout? >> well, the good news is that a lot of governors are really roling up their sleeves. we've been on phones with governors across country rolling up their sleeves trying to get their hands on the latest and greatest information of how to prioritize the distribution of the vaccine and what's going to be necessary to make that happen. not just at major distribution sites but also at local and community pharmacies. so everyone has their eyes trained on this and the guidance that's coming out of the cdc, the centers of disease control and prevention, this week is

. >> ht: alabama republican congressman moue brooks joins us now. he's made headlines in recent days wit his plan to challenge the 2020 election results. congressman, explain first how you planned to do that. >> guest: well, under the united states constitution, article i and article ii along with the 12th amendnt, the united states congress is the ultimate judge and jury, the final arbiter of all election contests involving federal officials whether it be congressmen, senators or president of the united states. ando there's a process in place but which we do that, and that process is initiated on january the 6th beginning at 1 p.m. when we have a roll call of the states to a combined session of congress presided over by the vice president of thenited states, mike pence. d at theppropriate time when a state's name is listed and they submit their purported election results or electoral college vote, then if a house member and a senator concur and we objec to that particular submission of electoral college votes, tt triggers a two hour floor debate in

. >> brook lyons didn't have time to think.an instant, she and her 3-year-old son were under attack. >> she looks up and here's a guy with an assault rifle pointed at her. >> two male attackers forced brook into the car with her son. that's right, they headed here, this credit union in elizabethton where she worked as a $9 an hour teller. >> they knew how to get to the bank without being told. >> jeff blanton is a special agent for the fbi. he investigated brook's case and said she was instructed to go inside and get $350,000 or else. >> she's been told by the two guys if the police are called there will be a shoot-out, that she and the child will be in the middle of it. >> a frantic brook screamed that she needed the vault open because her 3-year-old son was being held hostage outside. that's when brook's day got even worse. >> she finds her boss in the bank. and says, two men have carson with guns i need to get into the vault. her boss refuses to open the vault. >> we can be judgmental in that kind of circumstance. >> right.

we're going to be joined by brooks by an susan video, congresswoman brooks is a member of congress from a district in indianapolis. she has served on the energy and subcommittee -- health for many years where she has become one of the leading authorities on health abroad. in america and and we have been thrilled to have her on this high-level panel. a csis serves on commission on strengthening america's health security, which focused largely on our overseas programs and international engagement. a moment to turn to in to hear -- for us to watch a 4 video of congresswoman brooks is coming to washington as we speak and so of being with us. and kindly agreed to put this together. her ery grateful, also, to staff, sam, for all of his help together. all this following that, i'll turn to congressman ami bera, democrat from california. sacramento. is he's an m.d., public health authority. the very active on democratic side in this high-level panel in his work in ongress, chairs the asia subcommittee and house foreign committee. and served as a public health county.y in sacramento at the univer

by video, congresswoman brooks is a republican memberr f congress from the district in indianapolis, she have served on the energy and commerce subcommittee health subcommittee for many years where she has become one of the leading authorities on health security in america and abroad. and we have been thrilled to have her on the high-level panel and she serves on a cis commission on strengthen americans health security and she's focused largely on or overseas programs and international engagement i am a moment ton in hear us to watch for and have minute video, congresswoman brooks is coming to washington as we speak and incapable of being with us and kindly agreed to put this together and i'm very grateful to her staff sam west for all of his help in putting this together, following that i'm going to turn to congressman democrat from california and district sacramento, he is an md public authority and been very active on the democratic side in the high-level panel and is working congress and the asia subcommittee and house foreign affairs committee and served as a public health autho

that's "new york times"'s columnisdavid brooks, and columnisdavid brooks, and post."elcome to you both. and thanks for being here with us on thidchristmas day. id, i want to start with you, w because, finally, finally, we have a covid reliefunding bill. republicans andemocrats managed to fi a way to comewa together and compromise. and the time couldn't be morean dire. dire. will expire tomorrow. at the last minute, of course, the president steps innd saysmi the direct payments are not big enough. what do you make of how theen preschose to intervene in the process at this time? >> first i want to say karen and i did not coordinate our poinsettias. that was just a coincidence. ( laughter ) you know, to me, this is-- you know, what trump did was trump at the end of the day. i think the expectation is that his attempt to sortrow a monkey wrench was just more noise and at he'll sign this at the end of the day. there are certainly a lot ofai republican senators telling him sign it because it's so necessary. to me, the big story out of this was that we had a group of people

congressman brooks, let's start with you.homas jefferson and john quincy adams were the only two presidents to be elected by a congressional vote. why do you believe the 2020 election should be subjected to this process? >> because it's quite clear to me that the order of evidence is overwhelming. if you were to count votes cast by eligible american citizens joe biden didn't win the electoral college. you've got a report from a georgia senate subcommittee on elections that discusses the election process in georgia.ey they had affidavits, they have live witnesses, they had documents and they concluded that george is on the election system of the movie of trust in november of this year. you got in pennsylvania, >> raymond: congressman, if i let you finish i will be totally out of time. look, we heard it in pennsylvania and i spoke to some investigators in nevada about the ballot harvesting they saw, about the irregularities all over the place but essentially gyou are trying to invalidate sx states electoral votes. what do you w

thank you very much, brooke sutherland of bloomberg opinion. in the next hour, we will speak to the ceos of boeing, as well as ryanair. you don't want to miss that. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: let's check in on the bloomberg first word news. i'm ritika gupta. fewer americans than expect it filed for an implement last week. totial jobless claims fell 712,000. that is better than all but one of the 40 estimate in the bloomberg survey. continuing claims were also down to a little more than 5.5 million. november jobs reports come out tomorrow. house speaker nancy pelosi and senate democratic leader chuck schumer are now backing a bipartisan stimulus plan. they see the proposal from house and senate lawmakers as the foundation for a new round of negotiations. the plan calls for $900 billion .f spending the u.s. has restricted travel visas for millions of memory of china's communist party new rules will allow party numbers and their families to obtain visas good for one month. previously they could get 10 year visas. the u.s. embassy in beijing says

alix: brooke, always great to catch up. if you and guy were in a bar together, there would be so much conversation about planes. intense. coming up, oil up by over 1.5 percent in the u.s., despite the -- this is bloomberg. ♪ ofif we get a combination further significant downgrades and demand because of the covid-19 crisis is prolonged, and at the same time a breakdown of producer discipline on the side of the opec+ producers, but so far, that actually hasn't happened. compliance has actually been pretty good. so there's not much headroom for them to supply more oil than they currently anticipate into the market. atkinson ofas neil the international energy agency, head of oil industry and markets. for today's futures in focus, we are going to look at oil. joining us now is julian lee come up bloomberg oil strategist -- julian lee, bloomberg oil strategist. the demand was pretty grim. they cut demand again, yet oil rallied. why? there's a lot of pent-up optimism over vaccines, i think. we've had traders who perhaps for nine m

with moe brooks he has six years. unfortunately the political incentive says do the show trial. the fake vote. fst good for the them politically. has this driven you out of the republican party? >> indeed. at the end of the day there's now one prodemocracy political party in the united states ov america. that's the democratic party. i am a member of that party because of that. i'm a single issue voter. i believe in american democracy. what happened in the month of november premeditated, deliberately, faith and belief in american democracy was poisoned by president trump,

moe brooks ought to be ashamed of himself. we are trying to work to improve the country, to improve the state. that we represent. and this is not an improvement for the state of alabama. for him to take this on. >> yeah. indeed. congressman james clyburn, leader. thank you so much for being here. we wish you a happy holiday, thank you. >>> meanwhile, while both democratic senate candidates are fending off attacks right is taking aim at reverend warnock over his faith. >> you see this warnock fellow. who's coming down here and disguising himself as a moderate pastor from the south. if you look at him really what he believes, he is a radical. he wants to defund police. he's all about abortion. he doesn't represent what real americans believe. >> huh? i wonder what this particular guy thinks institutes a real american. i'm sure it will come to me. we have seen real life physical attacks on black churches. vandalized. reportedly by a group of proud boy thugs. ripped signs off the churches ask set them on fire. reminiscent of cross

congressman mo brooks.ascinating to hear this because the implications for the future is what your focused on. good to see you. >> my pleasure. >> harris: hypocrisy run amuck? you know. i'm on it. one california official lashing out at a journalist that caught her eating outdoors after voting to ban all in-person dining. yet another example of democrats ignoring their own coronavirus guidelines. the growing backlash next. the e need to silence our phone. who knows where that button is? i don't have silent. everyone does -- right up here. it happens to all of us. we buy a new home, and we turn into our parents. what i do is help new homeowners overcome this. what is that, an adjustable spanner? good choice, steve. okay, don't forget you're not assisting him. you hired him. if you have nowhere to sit, you have too many. who else reads books about submarines? my dad. yeah. oh, those are -- progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. l

matt, congressman brooks, thank you for both of you. poll identified president trump as the most admired man in america. displacing barack obama for the first time in 12 years. what does that indicate? and what should the president do with the support moving forward? for that, we turn to conservative author and filmmaker. how does this poll square with the voting results we've been seeing? trump was the most admired with 18% followed by obama. then biden was down at 6%. where is the enthusiasm for biden? >> well, clearly there's very little. i think that one would have to say that trump is the colossal figure, both on the positive and the negative side that defined the 2020 election. in other words, the people who voted for trump voted for trump. and the people who voted for biden voted against trump. so trump, in that sense, has defined the election. he has not sense not just men of the year, but men of the last four years. i don't see any way for the republican party to go forward without trump. and when i say without trump, i mean wi