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white house? president trump has said nothing. >> yeah, steph, we're hearing virtually nothing from white house officialshack and certainly not from the president. it's interesting because it is incredible in breadth and scope and obviously alarming as senator romney was just articulating in that radio interview and yet the president is focused almost entirely on a different kind of hack. what he claims to be the hack since the election here in the united states. of course, there's no evidence of that, but that's been occupying the president's time and he frankly does not appear to be tuned in to this russian hack. obviously, officials in the government, on the national security council and in those departments are keenly aware of what the russians have done and are trying to get to the bottom of it but it has not risen to the presidential level in terms of transparent communication. he's not issued any kind of warning. >> this hack is not in the past tense. the robbers are still in the house at this very moment. >> yeah. >> and the president is saying nothing? that comment we just played a moment ago wa

nothing. the white house has insituated that the president has, quote, many calls and meetings during these days here while he's at palm beach. but of course we have seen the president golfing almost every single day since he's been here. so the question is we've seen the president split with his own party on raising the stimulus checks to $2,000, more than tripling what he had initially -- or what his administration i should say had initially negotiated for in this agreement. so you're seeing a situation where typical allies of the president are unhappy and they're frustrated with what's happening on the house floor given that they just passed this. so the next question is what does the senate do? because when the president finally relented and agreed to sign that bill last night, even though it wasn't any different than it was when it was first sent to him several days ago, he said that the senate would bring those $2,000 stimulus checks to a vote on the floor. but mitch mcconnell has not said as much. we do not know what he is going to do. so they're waiting to see. you're seeing a president

so things may change in the next couple of hours, but certainly we've heard nothing from either the white house or the department of justice that suggest bill barr is on his way out. but we do know donald trump will not be happy with what he had from his attorney general. now to be a fly on the wall of that conversation. thank you that live in washington d.c. . well, there isn't, sadly is a professor of philosophy, yale, who is the author of both how propaganda works and how fascism works. he joins us live from new haven, connecticut via skype or it's good to talk to you jason. so what do you think he say no evidence of fraud that would change election results. right, and we've also heard mitch mcconnell and directly at least talking about a new administration on a personal level. how do you think this is going to go down with president trump? i think he's going to deny and to flock to and claim that it's fraudulent all the way until the moment at which he's off shirt, out of the white house. and then he'll use this to urge the republicans to claim that biden's probably presidency is illegitima

white house. she observed, speaking of liquids, i'm going to give once more the recipe of a drink in my department. cocktail high balls were served upstairs and i had nothing with them. the new year's eggnog was a traditional and the white house was concerned with its making. the creamy mixture was prepared in the same way and the punch bowl was carried before the president. each time lifting his cup, president roosevelt gave the same toast, to the united states. lillian declared after tasting some of the eggnog that president eisenhower made was very strong but the one that roosevelt had was also very strong. you see a lot of strong eggnog not only from the roosevelt administration but to the present day. i don't know about in the trump white house now, but the ones that obama served and president clinton would knock you out. that is just a tradition. i think president roosevelt is most known for the martini. that's where he gets his identity. lillian rogers reminisced that fdr claimed he did not know the exact formula because they have been worked up by family committee. his son jimmy said he liked a mild martini but not as mild as anna's. then franklin

nothing. ♪ >>> the white house coronavirus task force has literally just released a report saying that the co-vidigh, and, quote, we are in a very dangerous place. case in point, florida. this morning which has just become the third state to top 1 million coronavirus cases. for context, florida has more cases than the populations of miami, orlando, and tall has lee combined. t a day after the governor held a first press conference in nearly a month. he is not budging on mask mandates or business closures, saying he doesn't think they work. infectious disease expert told me earlier this hour the governor's approach could come with dire consequences. >> it seems very clear that the governor is going to wait for a vaccine rather than take any actions which might seem to be unpopular. the net result of that decision is going to be a lot of people in the hospital, and a lot of people that go to their grave. >> i want to bring in miami beach mayor. it's good to see you, mr. mayor, but a very dangerous place is the quote from this just released report from the white house coronavirus task force. what's

there's nothing that's stopping an african-american from being named the white house chief executive chef. it's a matter of the presidential taste. i go into that. that's how i end the book. first, let me begin with this cat and mouse game between the first lady and the white house physician. as you know, eleanor roosevelt was fundamentally uninterested in food. yes. she's the brainy type. on sunday night, she would have the scrambled eggs dinner, which the staff called scrambled eggs with brains. she would invite intellectuals over and they would talk about everything. there's controversy about whether eleanor actually cooked the scrambled eggs or just stirred them at the last minute before they were served. she had the scrambled eggs. the white house housekeeper was the one in charge of the food. the president was on a diet. often, he would like to stray from the diet. the white house physician and eleanor roosevelt would team up to make sure he would stay on the diet. henrietta in her diary member r memorialized an exchange between emn eleanor and the doctor. what mcentire said is

. >> well, there's nothing about the white house coronavirus task force that makes any sense in this current -- this current administration. the only hope is that now with the new regime coming in that we're going to fix a lot of those issues and hopefully politicize it less and hopefully we can move more of it to the centers for disease control and let the cdc do what it's set up to do and hopefully they can right their internal issues as well. enough about this nonsense. we have to look towards the future at this point. >> dr. peter hotez, thank you so much for being with us this morning. thank you for all the work you've done with us and for the american people all year. we hope you have a wonderful holiday. >> john, erica, thank you for giving me a voice this year. it means everything to me and wish you all the best for a happy, healthy holiday. >> you, too. your voice is so important and it's really appreciated, dr. hotez. thank you. >> thank you. >>> president trump throwing stimulus checks for struggling americans in doubt as he pardons allies. what can congress do about this

the man in the white house has said nothing about the new distressing jobs report that came out. a recovery is happening and it's helping some people immensely and others not at all. 700,000 americans have been filing for unemployment insurance claims every week for 37 weeks. plus, 20 million people are still on the pre-pandemic unemployment rolls. this is unheard of. so what does the man in the oval office do? you guessed it. nothing. he said nothing about that dire report. congressional republicans were uniformly silent on the jobs report. but it makes sense when you think about it. for months mitch mcconnell has blocked relief to those in need, relief that passed the house on october the 1st. and the man in the white house has said nothing about the need for relief in weeks. 13.4 million people are on pandemic unemployment programs that expire at the end of the month. he doesn't care about that. he was never even part of negotiations to get another round of relief to americans in need. he made a point of saying he wasn't going to participate. so why should we expect anything d

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in new york the executive office building which is right over there right next door to the white house so nothing at all from the president his spokeswoman saying that he is open to getting the vaccine but as yet there are no plans for him to receive that publicly ok thank you very much allan fisher there in washington. to brazil where the supreme court has ruled today that corona virus vaccinations can be made mandatory at the moment no vaccine has been officially approved by the government let's get more now from monica in rio de janeiro monica is the gulf. planning on or does it want the ability to make people accent you've got to get a vaccine. you know on the contrary the federal government of tried to get you and tells you that nobody should give him a thing and he gave an example if you have cancer you shouldn't be forced to do there of being a new ship that should be something voluntary all but governors like the governor of sumbawa which is brazil's richest state and has already been working with china to produce a i wrote a vaccine he wants to make it mandatory in his state so there was

the finishing line he sat on the bill for almost a week and in the end got absolutely nothing for it now the white house is saying yeah well they're going to look again at some of the spending priorities and the bill that he signed they're also going to look at the possibility of widespread voter fraud i'm sure what is going to happen is that both houses of congress will say let's see what your proposals are you know we'll stick on the pile we'll get right on to that on january the 21st or maybe not because you will be president after that. something else is not going to get is on the defense bill because congress is about to write does now. yes things are looking great for donald trump in the last few weeks of his presidency the n d w which is a big defense bill has passed through the house for 59 years in a row but donald trump this time around decided to veto it now he decided to be to it for a couple of reasons 1st of all he said he wasn't going to sign anything that asked for bases named after confederate general is to be renamed and then changed in said he wanted a provision stuck in the bill that

there has been nothing coming from the white house as the nation is now facing the most consequential cyber attack in years according to the director of the nsa. russian hackers suspected of infiltrating, okay, russian hackers, months long attack, the department of homeland security, department of treasury, department of commerce, department of agriculture, nuclear labs and fortune 500 companies all compromised. the full scope of this attack isn't even known but the president of the united states who took this oath. >> preserve, protect, defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> protect and defend tonight said this about the attack. nothing. the united states the target of a major attack and trump says nothing. instead, this is how he spends his time today, tweeting about the election, repeating his tired and false claims about the election he lost and as for his administration's response to the attack. >> we are taking a hard look on this and obviously take any sort of cyber hacks very seriously. >> well, it's hard to take a hard l

nothing. ♪ >>> the latest white house task force is warning of new surging in texas. rates are soaring. unsustainable increase in mitigation measures. but some parts of the state are showing signing of improvement. in el paso the situation is improving but it was after weeks of hospitalizations. doctors warn that a uptick in cases could soon surge. dr. edward michael sop son at t tech. just paint a picture for us. what are you dealing with right now, your hospital system, how importantly how about staffing, how is jr. staff holding up. >> chuck, thank you for having me on. we are see m sog improvement, thank goodness, here in el paso. i think we hit our peak about a month ago. that 1100 included patients in about of 00 additional beds that we created in our hospital system over the last five to six weeks. so we just about hit the peek. >> what is typical. right now, if it were not for the pandemic, what would be a typical amount of beds that would be full this time of year versus what the pandemic has added to the load. >> typical numbers for us now are probably more like 500 to 600 pat

the white house came out with a statement and nothing specific, but they said file it in the fiction section. >> i sent questions to the white house, seven months before the publication and asking for fact checks, asking for another interview. asking to talk to other people. nothing they said send more questions. they wanted to know what i had. and what day did melania meet donald trump? she likes the gaps, she likes the mystery. >> thanks for the conversation and for writing this book. >> thanks, susan. fun. >> we nights this month, we're featuring book tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span2. tonight as part of our 2020 year in review, we focus on books about the courts and the constitution. jeffrey sutton has the book, essential scalia. and then to the new york times on finish the fight. later douglas ginsburg and voices of our public. join book tv on c-span every weekend. on c-span2. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. book tv on c-span2, today it's brought to you by these television compa

there is nothing stopping an african-american from being named the white house chief executive chef, so it's just a matter of the presidential taste. i go into that. first, let me begin with this cat and mouse game between the first lady and the white house physician. as you know, eleanor roosevelt was fundamentally uninterested in food. yes. she was the brainy type. on sunday night, she would have the scrambled egg dinners, which the staff called scrambled eggs with brains, because she would invite intellectuals over to talk about everything. there is a controversy whether she cook the scrambled eggs or just stirred them before they were served. anyway, she had these scrambled eggs a lot. they had a housekeeper, henrietta nesbitt in charge of the food. president roosevelt was on a diet. he would stray from that diet. the white house physician and eleanor roosevelt would team up to make sure he would stay on his diet. henrietta nesbitt memorialized in exchange between eleanor roosevelt and the doctor, and i'm going to read that now. he was a navy admiral, dr. ross mcintyre. what he s

nothing i will protect myself or nothing will be done in the white house, to say those people don't need containment the way we do. i wish there was a more elegant formulation. the roots lie in the colonial experiment in africa in part because of racism in very large part. >> and we use that and have a very specific example because it is dangerous because they will bleed out. >> incredible that that was going on and on all the way through the epidemic. wouldn't have better to say we are scared? anyone in their right mind would be scared. or petrified. but to say we are not playing this iv in because we don't want people to bleed out from the site. we should have just said we are frightened. by the way, a no touch policy? what is the point of ppe? now there are some technologies that we have seen in the congo these ingenious cubes where the clinician's her hands in to answer the iv i can imagine it would be difficult. i have not done that by the way. but basically the whole point of ppe is so you can touch the patient. leaving women to deliver unassisted, that led to a lot of loss as well

but beyond the white house has not been giving any sort of background guidance to reporters about what it might be trying, trying to signal, sending any messaging. nothing like that. a deafening silence from the white house on this issue. the president is meeting with the acting defense secretary at 3:30 today. it is possible that that issue could come up. maybe we'll get some insight into that, but it really, as i mentioned before, has been days since we have seen or heard from the president aside from his twitter feed. >> shannon pettypiece, across from the white house this afternoon, thanks, shannon. >> turning back to the coronavirus pandemic. roughly 312,000 americans have died as we are now seeing more than 3,000 deaths every day. and we have this sobering prediction from the centers for disease control that somewhere between 50,000 and 80,000 americans could die in the next three weeks. joining us now to talk about this is dr. michael osterholm, director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. and a member of president-elect joe biden's covid advisory board. great to have you with us once again. >>

trump becomes a witness in this case, that is what his testimony might claim, he knew nothing about this, but his white house counsel's office did. and does know something. because the judge's memo describes one of the people in this investigation as having provided, quote, a coordinating role, including with the redacted and the white house counsel's office to ensure redacted's work on behalf of redacted's clemency petition reached the targeted officials. the targeted officials. the targeted officials for a presidential pardon are the president and white house counsel pat cipollone, who defended the president by lying for him in the senate impeachment trial of donald trump. what did the white house counsel know and when did he know it? are the targeted officials who the judge refers to now targets of a federal criminal investigation? we don't know yet. federal prosecutors didn't want us to know any of this yet. they asked judge howell to keep her opinion sealed because it, quote, identifies both individuals and conduct that have not been charged by the grand jury. judge howell told the prosecutors, in effec

that the federal government was blind sided or when it was evident what was happening white house officials said nothing. but the key here to me or one of the key most important things from my understanding of your reporting is they get this access and they don't trip any wires. they don't trip any alarms and essentially no one knows for a pretty long time and then because they're interested in maximizing the value of the access they don't just go rummaging willy nilly because they don't want to let people know about the access. so there is, i think, months where huge parts of the federal digital infrastructure was compromised. >> it's really stunning. and i think the thing that is really stunning is the fact that they only found out about it because fire eye, one of the top cyber security firms in the u.s. was itself compromised. and fire eye disclosed that early last week. now in rolling back the tape on its own attack, it realized that they started to suspect that this might have been some kind of supply chain attack. and indeed they were able to confirm that it had come in through solarwinds. so the

again by russian intelligence agencies, or that when it was evident what was happening, white house officials said nothing. but this much is clear. while president trump was complaining about the hack that wasn't, the supposed manipulation of votes in an election he had clearly and fairly lost, president trump was silent on the fact that russians were hacking into the building next door to him, the united states treasury. don't worry. as much of a bummer as it was for his cool world tour, robert o'brien is coming back to washington, coming back from his trip early to work on this mart. we'll see how this goes. >>> at buzzfeed news today, t y pried loose the information act to get this thing. we have never seen this document before. it was the criminal referral that was made to the fbi and the justice department concerning president trump's behavior, specifically about his call last year to the president of ukraine where president trump told the president of ukraine that ukraine would only get its military aid from the u.s. government if that country's president helped trump get re-elected by announcing so

white house. they're saying nothing is going on but clearly something is because the biden team has repeatedly raised this. you can see it really culminated in the president-elect's frustration today. >> and lauren, we've learned just this afternoon that congressman louie gomert is suing vice president pence in this bizarre undemocratic push to overturn the election results. i haven't found anybody in washington who is taking this lawsuit seriously. but how messy could this get? >> well, let's be very clear tonight, jim, that this lawsuit is not going to change the outcome of the election in any way. essentially what gomert and other republicans are asking for is that they want the vice president to play more than just a ceremonial role on january 6th. and at the end of the day he's not going to be able to. that's not the law. he can't overturn the electoral results of the election on january 6th. now, there's going to be a fight on the floor over the election results. it's not going to result in a change of who actually won the election in 2020, jim. >> all right, it'll feel like a very much a 2020

for good reason in this second surge and ultimately what we're seeing from the trump white house show about nothinge president saying at the vaccine summit and put out an executive order raising the question if there are covid executive orders, why didn't you do it in the last nfour years. the team has a problem. the united states has a lot of issues regarding how it gets the vaccine compared to other countries. some of this goes to what a chief science advisor has to say. this is from trump's operation warp speed. >> can you explain this executive order the president will be putting out? >> frankly, i don't know and frankly, i'm staying out of this. i can't commit. >> you don't know? >> i don't know. >> but you're the chief science advisor for operation warp speed. >> our work is, you know, rolling. we have plans. we will deliver the vaccines as needed so i don't exactly know what this order is about. >> that's a diplomatic way trump's own experts don't want to be involved in the order. "the new york times" report s pfizer offered administration a chance to lock in more vaccine doses than the unit

nothing? >> now sources are saying the white house is considering travelers from the you can showing proof of a negative test. >> i think a couple of things. first, travel bans can slow down the spread of a virus by a couple of weeks. they're not going prevent that variant from showing up in the united states. i think the idea of getting a negative test may be a bit more useful. but i understand governor cuomo's concerns. certainly it would give us a little bit more time if we put in that travel ban. but my sense is these variants are probably well beyond the u.k. already. and i would not be surprised if some was already here in the united states, if we were testing and looking for it a bit more vigorously. >> getting back to the testing question we've talked about now for ten months. dr. rhiner, we saw president-elect biden get his shot today. the first moderna shots were rolling out and happening today, all good signs. but things are moving slower than operation warp speed said they would. they are now saying the first 20 million plaerns would be vaccinated by the first week of january, not

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eight years in the white house of present obama, he did absolutely nothing about it.it's not until now that he's running for president -- yes, hold the congressional black caucus responsible because i cannot think of anybody who has less useful -- i live in an area represented by a member of the congressional black caucus and it looks like crap. lastly, i think it's funny that he said we should not disparage the winners of this and that. four years ago everyone who voted for trump and every day since then, those who supported him were attacked, some beat up, and i don't remember hearing beat people up. i required maxine -- i remember maxine waters telling people to from people. guest: black lives matter has to stand for itself. iat happens to investments -- can only speak for the national urban league. i am proud of the things we do. we do not have a presence in mccormick, mississippi. we do have a presence, a new presence, in jackson, mississippi. just in the last year we helped 1200 people become homeowners even in the face of this difficult work -- we provided hund

it must seem -- well, nothing strange in this white house, but quite interesting that it is now william barr who is on the outs after he degraded himself for years and may in fact be even make it to the end of donald trump's term. >> no. donald trump in many ways has william barr to thank for his presidency. as i write about in my book, william barr is really the person who helped guide the mueller report in such a favorable way to donald trump that the president was able to go out and claim that he was fully exonerated, although he wasn't and that's not what the report did. and that there was no collusion, all the claims that trump made. that happened in large part because of william barr and how barr was able to manage it to the point that which i just -- just an astounding point of barr and mueller and trump is that the day after robert mueller testifies before congress, donald trump as only donald trump could do went out and took the greatest hits of volume one of the mueller report which is about colluding with the foreign power and foreign interference and volume two which was abo

blindsided again by russian intelligence agencies or that it was evident what was happening, white house officials said nothinghink is going on here? and what do you need to hear from the administration. >> the administration should be focusing on this hack. we need to get to the baottom o what happened. not only does this administration need to focus on it, but it needs to be communicating with president-elect biden's transition team and incoming administration so we can get to the bottom of what happened so we can make sure right now that our federal agencies are taking down whatever they need to in terms of their cyber systems to protect the integrity of our systems. and, you know, right now, the national defense authorization act, which both houses of congress has passed, have provisions in it that would help strengthen our cybersecurity. yet the president is threatening to veto it. that's unacceptable. we need to keep focused on the importance of cybersecurity here. we need to improve on a daily basis. and we certainly need to get to the bottom of what just happened with this harussian hack. >> senator ro

but other than that, nothing on his schedule. a trend the white house seems to be growing sensitive to as they added this note to the scheduling memo. as the holiday season approaches president trump will continue to work tirelessly for the american people. his schedule includes many meetings and calls. sarah westwood joins us now with more details. one thing we know the president is not doing is giving up on his push to overturn the election. >> reporter: that's right. we are witnessing some truly erratic behavior from president trump in his final days in office here, particularly on the election related issues but also extending to his attacks on fellow republicans and that minute push to undermine the deal his own white house negotiated. last night as the president was arriving in florida he called for a special counsel to investigate his claims of voter fraud. and the timing of that was notable because it came during the last day that attorney general bill barr had in office and barr has said on multiple occasions he sees no evidence of the kind of

in terms of pardons from this white house, we know that nothing is off the table when it comes to what the president might do between now and inauguration day as any number of individuals could receive a pardon. people are angling for pardons and making their case to the president, to his allies, trying various ways to get in front of him and whether or not the president decides to take moves on someone like the attorney general in question remains to be seen. you can be sure there are any number of pardons the president is considering. there's no reason why that wouldn't be on his list. >> carol lee, mike memoli, thanks for joining us. >>> let's return to nbc news special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. as we could be on the verge of history, the fda moving closer to granting an emergency use authorization for pfizer's vaccine. joining me now is dennis carr l carroll. it's great to have you with us. you recently said there's no reason why we shoulder have a pandemic again. a lot of people love to hear those words. tell us why. >> well, first off, it's really important to recogni

. ♪ >> the roles typically held by men a lot of the time, nothing is going to be traditional in this white houseemale team, the first time in white house history to have senior leadership positions in the communications team filled by all women. >> 6 moms of young kids on that team so i think that is something a lot of working women are focused on. >> the media is celebrating a historic all-female communications team in the biden harris administration but it is more likely history repeating itself because there is already a women led press team in the white house. at the independent women's forum, kelsey bullard joins me to react. we just set it at the top, the biden team is receiving a lot of praise for their all-female communications team but in your mind everybody to make a donald trump's senior communications team? >> americans don't even need to leave their living room to see that the current white house senior press team is made up completely of women. taylor and kenny is out there every day as press secretary. alyssa bara, white house medications director, stephanie grisham representing t

he says the justice department's found nothing to suggest that regularities, that could overturn the result. alan fisher is at the white house. just after the election, he told investigators that he should investigate any credible evidence that he was criticized for that. many people believing that he was buying into what the president was saying about the possibility of their big voter fraud. but now he's saying, look, we can't see anything. there is nothing there. i don't want please the president we know, or he's already fired one person. because they said that this was the most secure election that there is ever been. and there are people speculating that bill bodies know on some sort of political death want to 2 drug firms have applied for european approval for their coronavirus vaccine. the american firm, pfizer and its german partner biotech, have joined to ask for emergency consent. the european union's medicine agency says it aims to make a decision by the end of the months. the companies say the 1st shots could be administered almost immediately. iran's parliament has passed a bill to ignore restraints on the count

blindsided again by russian intelligence agencies, or when it was evident what was happening, white house official said nothing most significant attacks that we faced in years, it may be a decade, maybe longer. it's hard to say on this side of the defence, just reading the price, he's doing a greatjob of reading the price, he's doing a great job of collecting pieces for us on great job of collecting pieces for us on the outside. but by all indications, this looks to be pretty widespread. it was going on for quite some time before it was detected, highly sophisticated, and it shows how vulnerable our systems are. if you read any of the cyber experts in the last 20 years, they've been warning about our vulnerabilities, they've been warning that we are under investing talent, that we've been under investing in our defence systems and, although there have been shifts in recent years that more money has been invested and hiring is getting better, it's still very slow until we build the capabilities we need in the federal government to be able to protect not only the networks associated with federal government syste

so what has been clear for four years now of president trump is he does nothing quietly and he's definitely leaving the white house kicking and screaming. let's go to the white house, let's get the latest as things have changed minute by minute. john harwood is joining us now. john, the president's demand bli blindsided a lot of people on the hill and white house. if the president vetoes it, he could override it. is that the level of humiliation he wants right now? >> look, donald trump doesn't know what he wants and the question you posed in the intro was the accurate one, what exactly is the game he's playing here? the president is having difficulty handling his defeat to joe biden. we know the president is not serious about governing or actually obtaining a solution for the american people. he's moment to moment gratifying his psyche, his ego, trying to persuade his supporters to send him more money, trying to somehow get attention that's been draining away to joe biden. he's only got 28 days or so left in his presidency, and the question is, is he simply throwing this tantrum about the pill so he's telling the

nothing stopping the republicans they control the white house, the senate. why haven't they passed something? the only bill that passed a bill in congress is the one the democrats put forward months ago. even right now as we're debating this republicans are standarding in wait gettithe way getting so passed. >> i 100% agrees, but frustrated at people are suffering. members of congress getting vaccinated, getting their paychecks but not able to pass financial relief for constituents. what do you make of the opt ices of that? >> it's an abomination, alex. i've been distressed by photos of members of congress being vaccinated. it's important our elected leaders are able to be vaccinate so they're safe from transmission of covid, every american deserves the same thing. in the short term, every american deserve as congress will to do their job before getting in line first for a vaccine. $600 payment. what is that? nothing. they're going home for christmas and act like they did something here. i think that the disconnect between the lived experiences of most ameri

white house. this was a bill that had the white house's approval. he's been totally humiliated. revealed as nothing more than an errand with the president acting as a petulant child, golfing. this is going to impact vaccinations. it's already impacting millions of american on unemployment benefits. eviction protections are going to be removed. this is real survival stuff for a president who is totally acting with contempt for the everyday lives of americans. >> margaret, you're nodding your head. >> i also think the other dynamic is that if this is so bad, it will be trump's shutdown. >> sure. >> republicans in congress will want to separate themselves from him because remember, mitch mcconnell -- the senate hangs in the balance, and mitch mcconnell is looking with laser focus on georgia. what does this switcheroo do to those senator who's voted for this stimulus. >> nothing good. >> and are running on it. now the president's saying, this isn't my bill, and so where are his supporters supposed to go? it really puts this emin a tough spot. he's not helping the republican party. >> david perdue is sa

nothing to gain. kristen welker at the white house, we're seeing the vice president get and promote covid vaccines. the president has been tweeting attacks against political opponents in both parties, continuing his futile attempts to overturn the election. it really is a strange distraction. he's not doing his job as president and still hasn't commented on the hacking. >> reporter: it's been a remarkable week at the white house for that very reason, andrea. to your first point about vice president mike pence getting vaccinated, a very significant event here at the white house today, and of course white house officials say, look, president trump has had covid, he has the antibodies so he's working with his doctors to determine if and when it would make sense for him to get vaccinated and he certainly is open to it. but let's just take a step back, andrea. this was the week that the vaccine started to be administered. and we haven't seen the president in front of the cameras, he hasn't spoken about this publicly. instead, as you point out, we've really heard from him largely on twitter overnight, tw

nobuko cushion or is no longer in the white house pretending to form foreign policy for the middle east. nothing but clear political aggression but so russia's foreign ministry the scribed us pressure over the north stream to gas pipeline project with europe any russian pipeline no matter where when or how it was constructed a what documents legitimized it has provoked a single reaction from the us for decades political aggression and illegal counter work i would like to tell washington you can just break the rules if you want to be a responsible player in the international economic community you have to abide by the rules you know he said that condoleezza rice in the context of russian guess america's own words have quote out with it or despite washington's attempts to stop the project the construction of the pipeline restarted over the weekend and after bahrain granted permission for the work in a german waters off the baltic sea more through into is almost complete with 94 percent of the pipeline now built. it is close to completion that there's not much left to do and that is why i think the

yet, at the white house, no day of infamy speech, nothing at all from president trump. >> we're going to have to show that there are consequences for doing what you've just done to the united states of america. other people that want to do is harm are doing better. they're going to watch what consequences are. this needs to happen soon. the president should come out and say something. >> we're going to have more on that story in a bit. we begin with the latest on the moderna vaccine. we go now to cnn political correspondent sara murray. sara, how could additional vaccinations, how soon could they happen, rather? >> they could happen quickly. the goal is to get this out the door, start providing protection to as many health care workers and long-term care residents as possible. here is dr. anthony fauci talking a little more about how quickly they want to move. >> i believe we'll see shots in the arm by the early part of next week. i would hope monday or tuesday, but we just have to wait to see for the final decision, but very soon, literally within a few days. >> when you add in the m

christie is saying it was a mistake not to wear a mask in the white house meanwhile an anti-masker goes viral. >> what do you do? absolutely nothing but walk by people you have no idea what people are doing. >> the woman who shot that clip said the unidentified man jumped on a table in the middle of costco and started yelling covid-19 is fake the employees told him to step down but they have an anti-hands-on policy. >> this 107-year-old got covid she survived thousands line up to get the vaccine. >> reporter: ten minutes after getting the pfizer vooerngs a health care worker was rushed to the e.r. with a severe rash and shortness of breath. >> she had a red flushed rash over her face and torso. i was concerned about an anti-fill lactic reaction, so gave her the standard treatment of intermuscular epinephrine, and she responded immediately. >> reporter: after a night in the icu receiving more medications, she's stable now. she had no previously known allergies. two others in the uk also had a severe reaction. >> if you have a severe reaction, you should not take this vaccine or if you do take it, take it in the context of a place i

nothing to promote mask wearing. he held an event indoors at the white house yesterday in a small room unmasked.hing, he's promoting bad practices that spread coronavirus. the only thing he seems to be working on, errol, there's the pictures from inside, nary a mask from inside this tiny room from the white house which we know is a hotbed of infection. he's working to overturn the election in public, throw out democratic votes. on the phone with republican leadership in various states exploring the different possible avenues for undermining democracy. >> yeah. these are two elements of the trump style that we have grown to see over the years. one is that trump is for trump. the president called himself at one point a war time president saying he would make war on the coronavirus. if that's the case, he clearly has been absent without leave. he's been awol. he works for himself far more than the public good. that's why he lost the election. people sense that. he's not doing what he's supposed to do. so it's perfectly in character to see that over the last few weeks he's been working full time for

anthony foti key member of course of the white house coronavirus task force and he has welcomed the news of these vaccine seed initially predicted that there would be nothing until perhaps the middle of next year so the whole process has gone incredibly quickly pressure from the trumpet ministration is part of the reason for that and he says that the vaccines are good news a light at the end of what has been a very very long tunnel. the sweetness is the light at the end of the tunnel which i can tell you as we get into january february march and april that light is going to get brighter and brighter and the bitterness is going to be replaced by the sweetness and we all hope and i think this is doable that by the time we get to several months into this year we will have enough people protected that we can start thinking seriously about the return to normality and out of the nightmare scenario is always that a rise in hospitalizations would push the seventy's to breaking point how hospitals and health care systems coping nationwide. we're seeing that across the country there are many hospitals that are saying look we're fool we can't take any more cases ther

. >> this has anything to do or nothing to do with the sort of issues last week related to the white house'srn over bill barr saying he did not see evidence yet of widespread fraud that could have effected the outcome of the election? >> i couldn't imagine it's nothing to do with it. but we're also told he was thinking about doing this before the comments were made. >> got it. pete williams live for us. great to see you on a monday. >>> now, the president's failing efforts to overturn the election he lost with the focus turning to georgia. another setback for him this morning. the state's governor is again rejecting president trump's demand that he call a special session of the state legislature to try to flip the results. and just within the last hour georgia's secretary of state who is also a republican is announcing today he's going to recertify the election results for joe biden. >> we are now counted legally cast ballots three times. and the results remain unchanged. all this talk of a stolen election, whether it's stacey abrams or the president of the united states, is hurting our stat