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so does he not get how serious this is for millions of people, nia? >> you know, who knows what kevin mccarthy understands. i think we do know that he is a full on trumper. he hasn't been one to stand up to this president even as he lies about this election. so you have what looks like a pretty good number of people in the house, people like mo brooks, possibly someone like jim jordan as well who want to take a stand, what they see as a stand against essentially democracy. this he wouldn't call it that but that is what it is if they object to seating the electors into electing joe biden. listen, they are still the party of donald trump even though donald trump lost this election and he is holding on to them with an iron grip and they're happy to be in his embrace. >> john? >> what spineless cowardice. mitch mcconnell is trying to corral his folks and what mccarthy is doing is the opposite of leadership because he is afraid of the autocrat caucus even though he knows what the stakes are, even though he knows what's right and if folks don't -- you can't

nia malia -- nia-malika he henders henderson, thank you. >>> coming up, a sprew at the front line, where those were the most exposure to covid are not the first in line for vaccines. a nicu nurse describes the vaccine free for all at her hospital. >>> chaos, unfair, even an all-out free for all, not things you want to hear about in terms of the rollout of this life-saving vaccine, yet, medical workers at hospitals all over the country say that is exactly how it's going so far. the most insulting to those on the front lines, seeing people with little to no contact with covid patients getting these vaccines before they do. joining me now, jennifer de vincent, a nicu nurse at mass general brigham hospital. and she is in the delivery room with covid-positive mothers. so, first of all, i know i already gushed to you in commercial break, but thank you for all you do, and especially as a nicu nurse. thank you, thank you, and welcome. jennifer, i know you are frustrated. i read you feel like this vaccine distribution process is a slap in the face. tell me why. >> it is. so, you know, we've been

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also, cnn senior political reporter, nia malika henderson. nia, democrats grumble. it's what they do. there was some grumbling about some of president-elect biden's cabinet choices. but as we look at it now, it's a pretty diverse group. it's a very diverse group which is what he pledged. so, what do you make of the choices? >> it's true, in terms of racial diversity, it's a very diverse group. there were some grumblings, early on, with his initial rollouts. they didn't seem like they were going to be that diverse. and you saw pressure. pressure from civil-rights group, pressure from people like representative jim clyburn, as well, who were pushing him to make good on this promise. i think there is still an open question about ideological diversity. are these picks enough to satisfy progressives? i do know that the interior secretary pick, progressives, very much, like that. i was texting with some of those folks, early today. and that is the pick that they wanted to see. so, we'll have to see. he's got some other picks to make. as you said, ag. he's also got educati

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stay with us as we bring in cnn congressional correspondent phil mattingly, nia malika harrison and ben ginsburg, who is steeped in all kinds of knowledge on these matters. senator josh hawley plans to reject these election results when congress meets next week and we're hearing some updated information just in the last several minutes that hawley plans to challenge the results coming from multiple states. and so this could drag out the process all day long apparently next week. he's considering this from what we understand. what the senator is saying at this point. but this has zero percent chance of success, isn't that right? >> that's correct. zero percent chance. and the notion that he's going to highlight fraud and abuse in the electoral system is totally misplaced. the forum to do that is a court of law. and in all the many court cases, about 60 now, the trump forces have tried to present that evidence and have utterly failed. and so what josh hawley is going to do is just repeat the misinformation that's been floating around the country already. >> and nia, is this -- this is pol

joining us now, cnn political director david chalian and nia-malika henderson.duo post the cnn podcast, "politically sound," which is fantastic. >> thanks, alisyn. >> okay, what is mitch mcconnell doing, david? we had toluse olorunnipa on last hour, one of our analysts, who floated a really interesting, i thought, take on it. which is that mcconnell's playing the president. mcconnell is actually depriving trump from being able to put his signature on those $2,000 checks to americans. why is he doing that? >> i don't know if i would describe it exactly the same way as playing the president. i think it's pretty clear, mitch mcconnell's singular goal here is to get the president's signature on the bill that was sent to his desk with overwhelming bipartisan majorities in the house and the senate, and that's what he got sunday night when the president agreed to sign it. when the president did that, he said, i have all of these other issues that i've looked into it. and he's like, yeah, yeah, just get your signature on that bill. so i think that will be sure to take u

i want to bring in senior political reporter nia-malika henderson and senior political analyst david gergen. the president, as we just heard, he's silent, even as the pandemic is spiraling out of control here in the u.s. the federal government is scrambling to try to deal with this major cyberattack. how stunning is this? this is, for all practical purposes, a complete abdication of responsibility. >> listen, it's stunning, but it is not surprising. we have all watched this president over the last four years decide he's more interested in tweeting, more interested in spreading misinformation. at this point, more interested in sort of self-pity about losing this last election. that is where he has focused for these last many years. so here he comes at the last month or so of his presidency. so he's doing what he has always done. and all americans, unfortunately, are paying the price. we see there on the screen, 310,000 total deaths from covid. 17 million cases. all the experts predicted that this would happen. and you saw an administration that went for months and months and months sa

. >> let's discuss with my panel nia malik-henderson.a is reporting on the flood of presidential pardon requests and this is normal for any administration, they get pardon requests. we will see who he pardons. this is a guy who likes to pardon allies and not use the pardon power as much as to, you know, write injustices. >> that's right. this is sort of the friends and family plan we see this president employee when it comes to the pardoning and clemency process. there isn't the usually channels going through the doj, vetting folks, as well as vetting their records and using as you said pardons as a simple of justice gone wrong and then justice done through the pardoning process. he isn't really interested in that. we have seen him pardon people, commute sentences like bernard kerik or joe arpaio. i think many people are wondering will he pardon himself? is that even possible? will he pardon his children, even though they have not' necessarily done anything wrong. it would ab pre-pardon process. as everything with this president, breakin

to him, and i think he is going to remain very involved and because of those 74 million voters that niat, i think they are going to feel beholdent to him and he is going to be tweeting, this i can predict, on every single piece of legislation or deal that is going to come down the pike. >> yeah. it's going to be interesting to cover. thank you both. >>> tune in this sunday to cnn "state of the union." my guest is dr. moncef slaoui and chris krebs and joe biden's nominee for transportation secretary pete buttigieg. 9:00 a.m. and noon eastern on cnn on sunday. millions of americans are in desperate need for basic food right now. a look at how you can help next. ♪ ♪ ♪ light it up like dynamite ♪ (this is ah) ♪ light it up like dynamite ♪ so watch me light the fire and set the night alight (alright) ♪ ♪ shining through the city... >>> in the national lead today, the economic toll of this pandemic almost every day, somewhere in america looks like this. long lines for food, stretched for blocks, so many families thankfully, desperate that charities are reaching out. >> it's actually going to

>> we don't know, nia.ill he or won't he sign the bill that his administration says he supports has been a four-year running game in washington. think about all of the shutdowns that we've almost averted and almost happened at least because the president was very unclear what he was going to do until the last minute. this time what's different, there's only a few weeks left and there's not a lot of incentive for him to cooperate and place nice with others. lindsay graham was playing golf with the president, republican allies who are trying to get him to sign the bill saying it's not perfect and we understand you have concerns about the bill, but it's better than nothing. but right now it's what your team negotiated. but the president so far has not said that he will sign the bill. he's left it very unclear. now, several of his people the other night when he posted that scorching video , severals note to me, he did not say he would veto it, it's a bit of a cliffhanger. it's hard to do what he'll do. >> cliff

en el sur de shifr nia las reacciones no se han hecho esperar. y nos dio detalles sobre el dinero que va a llegar a los estadounidenses afectados por la pandemia. muchas familias han estado desempleadas por meses y meses durante este aÑo. hay mÁs de 14 millones de desempleados podrÁn contar con su cheque de desempleo y un poco mÁs. >>> se van a incrementar 300 dÓlares semanales al pago de las personas desempleadas. entonces ya de esa manera ya son para una persona desempleada 1200 adicionales que el estado te estÁ pagando y los 600 que vas a recibir por persona en una hogar. >>> en el caso mi familia somos 4 y es un estÍmulo caeria muy bien. >>> millones de contribuyentes van a recibir el segundo estÍmulo de 600 dÓlares. >>> el presidente ha bhai abogado por uno de 2000 dÓlares. aÚn asÍ va a servir para varias familias. >>> tan casado con un un residente o ciudadano hovan recibir. >>> los pequeÑos negocios van a contar con prestamos para seguir haciendo prÉstamo a los estragos de la pandemia. >>> los pequeÑos negocio un estÁn recibiendo el famoso

here with me, cnn senior political reporter nia malika henderson. barbara starr. and retired admiral, john kirby. so, welcome to all of you. and barbara starr, let me just begin with you. you know, why -- why did president-elect biden select general austin? can you take us back? how did they first meet? >> well, as jeff said, we know that they have met since they both served in the obama administration. general austin. very well-known, during those days, when he served in iraq and afghanistan. closed out the iraq war, essentially, in 2011. and went on to lead central command. so, a lot of his experience that president-elect biden is familiar with really does center around the middle east. but, that is a point of interest, in itself, because, look. those days of war genagainst is war against al qaeda. the trump administration, urgently, trying to wrap that up and move on. austin, if confirmed, will come into office with different, middle east concerns. and i would think, that the question of iran and iran getting nuclear weapon might be one of the very first, major

this is our camera man in baghdad where nia. also directed the filming over the internet the play itself is about a battle for freedom but and failure the director divided it into a separate scene which were then filmed in various locations in baghdad. she's already spent months working on a project. much of the inspiration came from beethoven himself and his music. is for me. i mean the nature of it all has incredible clarity and his musical language. and it just was odd and also his sincerity in a way and it was when i listen to beethoven i feel. i also feel free i'm moved by the music not carried away this is kind of new modes and another from the money there's nothing manipulative about his music but it's brilliant sushi freedom . ringback for the iraqi musicians and performers the long distance collaboration was also a new experience. but it gave them strength during a difficult time. hard being locked down for a few months doing nothing was really hard it was harder than working. so my energy. out and doing something. or.

fauci spoke with the chancellor about the nia rule in developing a vaccine with moderna. efforts started in january as soon as i tens the genetic code. within one day of that, our group at the nih used that sequence to pull out the gene, or the rna, that codes for an important protein, which is the predominant imaging that you would use in a vexing. >> both the moderna and pfizer vaccines use messenger rna to disable that protein, which is what the coronavirus uses to latch onto sales and replicate itself in the human body. >>> in report found people in the bay area are less likely to follow stay-at-home orders this time around. person at the start of the pandemic, a firm that collects cell phone data, location data, look at all nine bay area counties. overall, the study found people are not staying home. back in march, san francisco county received an a. this time they got a d. and had the best grade. they are now and a-. >>> owned businesses are having to get creative in order to survive the pandemic and the shut downs that have followed. amber lee shows us that a theat

republic expanded its territory southward in what became known as the pacific cation of the doubt by nia a bloody conflict that ended with a map which had people being pushed off most of their land. and the promise to respect land titles never occurred to day them up to make up roughly 12 percent of today's population and they are the poorest and most discriminated sector of society on this edition of talk to al-jazeera in the field who traveled to the outcome your region to see why i'm up which of communities are rising up and to explore whether there is a path to peaceful coexistence. 2 months ago they had none this when the call family made their claim on this property land then legally still belongs to a chilean family. they've renamed it new way new came up all on what they call recovered territory. they have a few sheep and cattle and grow vegetables. the eldest son brandon tells me he's hoping to make a go at producing blueberries had it not been for what happened to him almost 4 years ago his mother would still be teaching her children to respect chile's institutions instead of h

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on topic of hacking attacks politics sayst and this is nia again i'm just reiterating myself this is a paula c. then the actual cyber cyber warfare or well. just not to. contradict into my p.d.f. statement site of a cold flick to but which is very much a poll to sites tony is there any indication out there that this could have been carried out by any country other than russia at this point in time. no at this point in time i think everyone's right confident that forensic evidence is showing that that this was a i reckon nation state backed attack and it's from the same group actually this isn't new this began with moonlight may's attacks in 1999 and there have been numerous attacks since then by those same kind of back russian intelligence back groups and so this is something that is not a new occurrence but this is the most serious occurrence and certainly in light of what's happened in 2015 forward that it's escalated to a point that is simply an acceptable and has to be stopped karen in 2018 the white house eliminated the cyber security coordinator role steps like this that were t

>> and nia, for you, he's in a coat and tie, a civilian, talking about how he hung up his uniform the last time four years ago, and he was making clear the distinction is important. the quote -- i come to this new role as a civilian leader with military experience. the issue is will he be granted this waiver? a lot of democrats on the hill gave jim mattis a hard time. now they have a democrat in the white house, whether the same be in the reverse? will democrats equally give general austin a tough time? what say you? >> listen, i think they're going to have a hard time denying this history-making candidate, who came off so well today, who talked about the history of african-americans in the american military, how that's been difficult at times and a representation at the upper ranks hasn't always been what it needed to be, as barbara starr talked about. sitting here, seeing not only austin, but then vice president-elect talk about him, talked about him as someone who could rebuild and renew global alliances, these two barrier-breaking candidates, a nominee and the vice president-elect

my wife and our sons had the opportunity to at the end of -- a seminar in tans nia -- tans nia, just an incredible experience, stay five or six days afterward, go out on a safari and have a chance to see amazing things, amazing things. when it was all over we went back to the airport to catch a flight back to the states. i'll never forget our son ben, our youngest son said to his mom and dad and older brother and me, that was the best vacation we've ever had. we talk about things we share with one another but that's one that is especially close to my heart. godspeed. god bless you. the presiding officer: the senator from idaho. a senator: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of nathan a. simington of virginia to be a member of the federal communications commission signed

for the government has been so many countries, well more than two dozen now, el salvador, lit wain nia, israel, saudi arabia, kuwa kuwait, canada, all preventing british citizens or people living in the uk at the moment to travel to those countries. the biggest impact has been with france where there's a ban on freight going to and from the uk between here and france. and that's important because 20% of the goods imported to the uk come through those port crossings and some of that includes fresh and frozen food. so the government meeting right now in the emergency cabinet session with government special advisers is to manage the impact now, not only to contain the virus in the uk but make sure there's going to be enough food and other goods coming into the country if this persists. currently this is a 48 hour suspension by france but it's not clear where it goes from there. poppy. >> thank you very much for that reporting. >>> this news of this new variant comes at the same time some good news comes and that is the first doses of the moderna vaccine are set to arrive at health facilit

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government, you would not go hack the military or nia or csi -- cia.ou would hack the civilian side coming through one of their service providers. no different than if you were going to hack a bank. to go after a bank spending billions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars to protect their infrastructure is very challenging. if we go through someone within the supply chains, some small, innovative company they are using to either help with technology or sell their products, those are the ones that are the most vulnerable and therefore, your entity is vulnerable because they are part of your operations. david: that raises the question, how dependent are we in the government on those independent contractors, the subcontractors in the subcontractors to this -- subcontractors? sam: we are very dependent. go back to the pandemic when all of a sudden we couldn't get ppe and those sorts of things. there is total dependency on the supply chain. that is not a bad thing, but whether -- what it requires is the government establish standards just like a co

. >> also gone, shun connery, nia rivera, regis philbin and eddie van halen and chadwick boss man.ear battle with colon cancer. he leaves behind a legacy. he could be the first actor to receive two post hume mouse awards. >> once you walk in you may take off your mask. >> by summer hollywood productions picked up again with safe protocols in place but not everything has been smooth sailing. tom cruise released a tirade on the set of the next "mission impossible." hollywood also came out in droves to support global social and political movements. stars like a-rod and jennifer lopez, joe jonas and madonna all hit the streets to call for justice in the death of george floyd and to support black lives matter. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and in the race for the white house, kanye west made the ballot in some states receiving about 60,000 votes. >> i first met joe biden when i was doing my show veep. >> but hollywood stood behind the winning ticket. >> ladies and gentlemen, the cast of "the office." >> reporter: finally, this was a year for reunion. from fresh prince of bel air, legally blond, mean

our senior correspondent abbey philips is with us, nia-malika henderson is with us. and 18 attorneys general are now signing on in support of this lawsuit filed by the texas attorney general that seeks to invalidate not a few hundred or a few thousand or a few hundred thousand -- millions of votes by american citizens. when this far-fetched lawsuit was filed did you ever imagine it would receive this kind of support? >> i must say i didn't, but it looks like the rigged election caucus is growing larger every day, and that's because it's political, and that's because these elected officials believe that there's absolutely no down side to supporting donald trump in this ridiculous quest. the only question i would really ask is in supporting donald trump and trying to invalidate these elections are these elected officials willing to say that their own elections were fraudulent and that in fact they should not have been elected, and that their own elections should be redone, recounted, toss sa tossed aside? i would like to have all of them answer that question. i doubt t

the year that robbed us of alex trebek, chadwick boseman, eddie van halen, nia rivera and so many moreas also given us reasons to celebrate. like when a south korean film won best picture at the oscars. when a tiny adorable owl was discovered inside the rockefeller center tree. nursed back to health and released back into nature. we, too, hope 2021 brings a return to familiar territory propelled by a massive vaccination effort that's just getting started. 2020's vision is for a better year to come. >> what a year, everybody. what a year. thank you to joe fryer for that. so many of us are certainly reflecting on this year and figuring out what lessons we can take with us. steph ruhle shares her hopes for the new year. >> in 2021, i hope we stay connected. i don't mean social media connected with views and likes. i mean connected like with our family. who we didn't get to see face to face or our neighbors who maybe we only waved to before this year and then they became a lifeline. i hope we keep this sense of ke community and put love first because that's what matters. >> i hope we do, t

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we want to bring in election lawyer along with phil mattingly and nia malika henderson. this effort led by republican senator josh hawley to challenge the election started out as a push from one senator but appears to be picking up steam. i'm hearing it could be as much as a handful of republican senators. our colleague, jake taper, is hearing as many as 140 house members. will this challenge go anywhere, despite the numbers growing here? >> well, no, because under the rules, both chambers, the house and the senate, would have to agree that -- on a trumpian slate of delegates. that obviously is not going to happen in the house of repres t representatives. and there aren't even a majority of votes in the u.s. senate to have it. so, no, that won't go anywhere. >> and despite that, you have these members of congress, though, going forward with this. what does this say about your party tonight, ben? >> well, nothing good. i think they probably see it as a freebie vote, which is extremely short sighted for the future of the party. but they see that the democrats in the house

joining us now, cnn political correspondent abbey philip and haven't haven't political reporter nia-malika enderson. thank you for being with us. an interesting speech he gave, abbey, last night. he's just not pulling any punches. he's not doing the verbal gymnastics that we've heard certainly from republicans for the past four years, but also from democrats who knew they couldn't alienate president trump and they needed him, governors, democratic governors, needed him during this pandemic. you know, other people in congress needed him if they were going to get things passed. joe biden sounds like, just doesn't need him anymore. >> and he doesn't. joe biden knows he'll be inaugurated january 20th, but i think that this moment last night represents a real a change in gear for joe biden, because weeks ago, shortly after the election, you would hear from people in the biden campaign that they were not going to dignify all of these lies, frankly, around the election by giving it a lot of oxygen, by talking about it too much. by making it a part of biden's speeches or his public comments. he ce

front with me tonight, abby phillip, cnn political correspondent and former republican congresswoman nia love. david gergen, what is the president trying to accomplish with any and all of this. >> i think he's first and foremost desperately trying to hold on to power. he's going to cling to the curtains in the oval office until the last second on january 20th. he realizes his power is draining away. i think his second objective is to keep himself in the news. i think he intentionally wants to make these pardons which have grown increasingly controversial if he named his kids and named himself, to create alternative and competing stories so you don't have a three or four days or a week of focus on the pardons. you spread that out. i think that's partly what he's doing with these domestic bills and what he's doing as he beats a potential work-around with iran. >> congresswoman, as david was saying, one thing we know is that the president wants desperately to keep control of the republican party. but i'm wondering your perspective on, if he's desperate to do that, is driving a wedge within

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