>> he has not, no. >> kate bedingfield, thanks very much. let's go to ginger. >> thanks for having me. >> snow shower from vermont to washington, d.c. is our focus. you could see some, blustery day, the wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour but the temperature 40 so it will feel like the 30s. it's going to be an okay day. let's get windy cities sponsored by carmax. >>> sure do appreciate you being with us this morning and coming up, it's a historic day for that woman right there, kamala harris, we're going to speak with some of her sorority sisters from howard university when we come back. my nunormal: fewer asthma attacks. less oral steroids. taking my treatment at home. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for swelling of face, mouth, tongue, or trouble breathing. infections that can cause shingles have occurred. don't stop steroids unless told by your doctor. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. may cause h

joining me now from the white house north lawn is kate bedingfield. she's a communications director for president biden. kate, it's great to have you on. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, chris. >> president biden laid out the logic behind the $1.9 trillion rescue package today and i think in the beginning there was a little bit of a question of, maybe you can get 10 republican votes for this. maybe this can be a -- look, we all realize this has to happen. am i wrong to feel like that sense is slipping away? what's your read on it? what's the white house's read on it? >> i think you're wrong, chris. as you said, this is a package that has gotten support from the chamber of commerce, the business round table, these are -- as you said, these are traditionally conservative groups who have been very supportive of this package and, look, we are in the midst of a tragic crisis in this country. we have 4,000 americans dying every day from this virus. they're dying in blue states, they're dying in red states. the virus doesn't see par

and joining us now is white house communications director, kate bedingfield. taking the time to be here. can you tell us what that means? a nonexistent plan? what were you handed when you all went into the white house trt from the trump team about the vaccination plan? >> not a lot of detail. and you heard biden speak to this the other day when he said, the state of the vaccine distribution plan so far has been a dismal failure. this is something he's incredibly focused on as we move forward into our first hundred days. he has set a benchmark to get 100 million shots in arms, in the first hundred days of his administration. and this is something that he's going to be extremely focused on. he's going to leverage every tool available to him in the federal government. some of the things that he is signing today are eos that are going to direct agencies to use the defense production act and all other mechanisms available to them to increase the number of syringes, for example, and just to make sure that we have the material that we need to get these vaccinations in

on this week, just days before the inauguration, incoming white house communications director kate bedingfield talks exclusively about the biden agenda. you can watch the full interview on george stephanopoulis at 8:00 on abc 7. >>> vice president kamala harris will resign tomorrow ahead of her inauguration according to her aides. this means, there will no longer be black women in the u.s. senate. they will hold an inauguration ball to celebrate the oakland native. oakland salutes will have performances from the symphony and communityst commissioner and close friend will host the event at 3:00 p.m. on the oakland youtube channel. >>> we know vice president-elect kamala harris will make history. now we are learning she is going to use the moment to pay tribute to other trail blazers before her. she will be sworn in by sotomayor. harris will take the oath with two bibles, one that belonged to miss regina shelton, a mother growing up and the bible longing to the late justice thurgood marshall, the first african-american justice and calls marshall the inspiration for her legal career. >>> and one

. >> we just talked to kate bedingfield of the briden administration who said biden is contacting agenciesroduction act. we'll see if that's able to up the speed of some of this. what i want is for you to tell wrus we are with covid. the deaths seem to be skyrocketing that new cdc projection is terrifying of what's going to happen over the next three weeks and yet we also see in the graphs of hospitalizations and cases maybe it's dipping a little bit? i might be able to pull this up for you. this is the new confirmed cases. it looks like we may not be at the peak? we may have come down from the peak? so is this a blip or what's happening right now? >> well, you know, i study these models all the time, and, you know, i do want to see a few more days of a trend to really know, but i think you could be right. this is cautious, very cautious optimism, but when i look at the models, you see deaths peaking around middle of next month. so about three, four weeks from now that should be peaking. what does that mean? because that's a lagging indicator. if that's when deaths peak that likely means h

>>we are in a volatile time incoming white house communications director kate bedingfield said on abc this week. president elect joe biden's team is working closely with law enforcement to ensure that we're preparing for any scenario that that should arise after noon on january, the 20th lawmakers are still reeling from the violence of january 6 when a mob marched from white house rally and smash their way into the capital their ambition was to assassinate the speaker to hand the vice president. >>and to hunt down members of congress, the fbi is warning that the president's supporters may be planning more violent protests around the biden inauguration. >>on sunday afternoon, the area around the capital was uneasy calm. pennsylvania congresswoman madeline dean is already looking beyond inauguration day. >>she is one of the 9 lawmakers who will prosecute the senate impeachment trial against private citizen donald many members of congress south carolina republican congresswoman nancy mace said on nbc's meet the press republicans must speak out against president trump we need to rebuild o

. >> tonight, white house communications director kate bedingfield on the president's call for action employ

chief anchor will go one on one with the incoming biden white house communications director kate bedingfield. plus george speaks with two members of congress who voted for impeachment for president trump. that's all coming up on "this week." and while i have you, you can see the new riveting abc news documentary "24 hours: assault on the capitol." it's an inside look at the siege. it's on hulu. i watched it last night. it is indeed riveting. whit, over to you. >> something to watch. >>> dan, we want to move now to the pandemic. the number of deaths in the u.s. nearing 400,000. this morning, los angeles has become the first county to reach a total of 1 million cases. that's 1 million cases in just one county, and the vaccine backlog is nowhere near resolved. abc's zohreen shah joins us now from l.a. zohreen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. only over 10 million first doses nationwide. megasites are trying to change the pace. the dodgers are recently the world champs and still trying to break records here. first with testing. now with vaccinations. they have over 7,000 vaccinatio

let's bring in kate bedingfield who will be the communications director in the biden white house. te, thanks for joining us this morning. give us more of a flavor of what to expect on wednesday in terms of action from president biden. >> yes. so president-elect biden, then-president biden is going to come into office and take decisive steps to roll back some of the most egregious moves of the trump administration, and he's going to take steps to move us forward, across the course of the first week and a half in office, you're going to see him move on promises that he made on the campaign trail to ensure that we are focused on workers. you'll see him make good on his buy american process. -- promise. you'll see him make good on promises to move us toward a more just and racially equitable society. you'll see him make movement on racial equity, and movement on climate, on jobs. so over the course of the first week and a half, he's going to do everything that he can within his power to move us forward, but then, you know, as your correspondent just said, that's only one piece of the a

. >> there's been no contact at all according to kate bedingfield since the election and linsey davis, par freezing tolstoy, all inaugurations are different in their own way. >> certainly true and right now in this particular moment i'm reminded of june of 2015 when we all watched as donald trump descended the golden escalator in trump tower going down to the basement announcing he would run for president and a small crowd there, reportedly some had been paid $50 to aend it. perhaps a small crowd today, but they all were there watching as that unprecedented scene rolled out as we all watched and we all watched this unprecedented scene before us from a man who loves certainly pomp and pageantry, a man who once again has produced, directed and is starring in this made for tv moment, but the big send-off really still fails to mask the fact that he leaves the white house the most embattled president since richard nixon. >> first one to be impeached a second time facing that senate trial even though he won't be president anymore. cecilia vega, you've got that hat on down at the capitol bec