the common defense. the national defense authorization act is how we will deliver. madam president i yield the floor and notice the absence of a corporate >> thankho you madam president. i was disappointed last week when president trump vetoed the nda,

first and foremost is the national defense authorization act. this month both the house and the senate passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities the fiscal year 2021 national defense authorization act. senator inhofe of oklahoma, a republican, was on the floor before me. he and senator jack reed of rhode island put in more time than most members can appreciate to make sure that this bill really served our military and the goal of national security. they came up with good bill, one that i was proud to support. this annual legislation has been signed into law for six consecutive decades. when the senate fails to do anything, they always do the national defense authorization bill. it shows that congress can come together, at least on this measure, when it comes to supporting our men and women in uniform and keeping our country safe. this year the bill authorizes $740.5 billion in defense spending, it provides another 3% well-deserved pay raise for our troops. it also recognizes that many in the armed forces are on the front lines here at home a

opportunity for us to take stock of the evolving threat and ensure our national defense is prepared to meet the challenge ent only of the day but tomorrow. this authorization act is no exception. it takes a strong approach to counter threats posed by our adversaries around the world, it invests in modernized national defense is critical to maintain peace and provide support for service members and their families and above all, sent a message to the world that our country is and will main global military leader. i support this legislation on the senate floor many times and i'll do so once again when the opportunity to override the veto presents itself. one of congress' most critical response ability's is to gratified for common defense and the national defense authorization act is how we will deliver. i yield the floor. >> thank you. i was disappointed last week when president trump vetoed and daa, this bill has been, this will be the 16th year we've had it. the national defense authorization act and i have said countless times, the floor in the house and the floor in the senate, this is the most important bill we have. this is what we are supposed to be do

it's the national defense authorization act. i have said so many times, countless times on the floor of the house and the floor of the senate this is the most important bill we have. some people don't agree with that but i do. that is what we are supposed to be doing here. we are supposed to be defending america. we are in the most threatened situation we have ever been in. i sometimes look back and think of the good old days of the cold war did two superpowers out there. we knew what they had they knew what we had. mass. destruction meant semi- at that o time, you kill us they kill you, everyone's happy. that is living in the past. but anymore not with the weaponry that is out there you can get one outside group but doesn't have any resources at all would have the ability to wipe out another country. so it is a real threat we are up against. i do chair the committee called the senate armed services committee. of course ins have been very active in the national defense authorization act every year ends 1987 that is a long time. s

got to get it done, i support the president on this, but this defense bill is not the place to do it. that's something that we've seen with the national defense authorization act a lot in the past. is the sense, look, you don't want to load it up -- because it's a must-pass bill you try to load it up with stuff for defense. the defense committee has tried to fight that off and tried to keep it as purely defense-based as possible. in this case, republicans and democrats agree this is not the place for section 230. we'll have to see if the president follows through. >> you mentioned the president's earlier objection on naming bases after confederate generals. what does the final language in the bill say? >> we don't know for sure, we have not seen the final language out. they just finished the conference yesterday and they always like to delay it and make our lives miserable. it looks like, based on reporting we've seen, it's most likely a situation where the army is given a three-year period to study the issue, come up with alternate names, and then the army would have the final say, because these are large army bases, the final say in what the names may ac

first and foremost is the national defense authorization act. this month both the house and the senate passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities the fiscal year 2021 national defense authorization act. senator inhofe of oklahoma, a republican, was on the floor before me. he and senator jack reed of rhode island put in more time than most members can appreciate to make sure that this bill really served our military and the goal of national security. they came up with good bill, one that i was proud to support. this annual legislation has been signed into law for six consecutive decades. when the senate fails to do anything, they always do the national defense authorization bill. it shows that congress can come together, at least on this measure, when it comes to supporting our men and women in uniform and keeping our country safe. this year the bill authorizes $740.5 billion in defense spending, it provides another 3% well-deserved pay raise for our troops. it also recognizes that many in the armed forces are on the front lines here at home a

on the veto override of the national defense authorization act, some republicans changing their votes from a yes to a no, but the vast majority sticking with their original votes, which again, it passed with major bipartisan support. the reason why, well, take a listen to what the top republican on the house armed services committee said before the vote. >> i would only ask that as members vote, they put the best interests of the country first. there is no other consideration that should matter. >> reporter: and guys this is this complicated dynamic or dance that republicans are facing in the wake of november 3rd. how do you deal with somebody who's extremely popular with the base, but also on the way out the door. he doesn't seem willing to accept that loss, and demands loyalty from everyone. it's an open question, one that i think we're going to see play out over the course of the next several days, see it play out in a runoff in georgia. and the united states senate which has to consider its own override of the veto of the national defense authorization act. and what senate majorit

no one sees this in any relation to the national defense authorization act so you know there's there's no enthusiasm in the congress to start mixing up these issues and it's now a question of whether the president is going to you know carry out his threat to veto the law and then everyone is going to be watching early next week to see what the majorities are in the congress because if they pass with bipartisan support they might indeed have a veto proof majority which would be kind of a capping you know irony at the end of donald trump's presidency if he if he had a few tow that could be overturned ok so. vote next week how long depending on the size of the majority of donald trump may or may not be able to to scupper it. yeah i mean there's nothing that donald trump hates more than losing we've seen that in the way he's been trying to contest the election results over the last several weeks since he was defeated by joe biden and so if he sees that the congress has the votes to overturn a veto he may well you know find some kind of excuse to to avoid that kind of an embarrassment at th

i support the national defense authorization bill. but we want senator mcconnell to schedule a vote on the $2,000 individual payment. so what senator bernie sanders is saying is give us an up-or-down vote on that and then we can vote on the veto overriding the national defense authorization bill. my sense is this is an approach worth pursuing. i would like to see us override the president's veto on the ndaa but i also very much want senator mcconnell to schedule an up-or-down vote on the payments. >> i do want to ask you on breaking news we just got, "the washington post" and others reporting senator john haul jwl said he would contest the vote next week, which would be at least a delay to senator joe biden's victory. what is your reaction to that? do you fear or worry that there may be others that may follow suit now? >> this is just grossly irresponsible by senator hawley, going and undermining even more public confidence in our democratic process, siding with the false trump narrative that somehow the election was fraudulently won b

one bill that's still percolate, we passed it, the senate passed it 86-14 i think, the national defense authorization act. is going to be going to the president soon. i'm hopeful the president will sign it. if he does not sign it, that will be another issue that may be considered on the other hand, i have indications that perhaps there will be a substantial number of republicans who voted for the bill who may not vote to pass it over the president's veto so we'll have that to consider as well. i just wanted -- because i hadn't mentioned that, i wanted to mention that that's still on the docket. i yield. mr. scalise: clearly president trump's expressed his concerns about some items in and not in the national defense authorization act. ultimately we will see soon if he signs it or vetoes it. he's obviously got to weigh all those decisions. mr. hoyer: if the gentleman will yield. i hope he will sign it. i know he has concerns about a section that senator inhofe said should not be in the bill. as the gentleman knows, this has great consequences for our national security an for our troops and i would hope

no one sees this in any relation to the national defense authorization act so you know there's there's no enthusiasm in the congress to start mixing up these issues it's now a question of whether the president is going to you know carry out his threat to veto the law and then everyone is going to be watching early next week to see what the majorities are in the congress because if they pass with bipartisan support they might indeed have a veto proof majority which would be kind of a capping you know irony at the end of donald trump's presidency if he if he had a veto that could be overturned ok so. vote next week. how long depending on the best the size of a majority say donna from my own may not be able to scupper it. yeah i mean there's nothing that donald trump hates more than losing we've seen that in the way he's been trying to contest the election results over the last several weeks since he was defeated by joe biden and so if he sees that the congress has the votes to overturn a veto he may well you know find some kind of excuse to to avoid that kind of an embarrassment at the e

>>of the national defense authorization act and how doctors across the country are reaching out to communitiesnight, the covid vaccine and mistrust there is a sense of hesitancy among some people in minority communities that's right because the past plays a critical role. >>or distort a reports. >>one doctor khalili gates rolled up her sleeve for the covid-19 vaccine. i was with mixed emotions, turner does which is to get infected with covid-19 and perhaps end up in the icu that i work and it wasn't really a good alternative for me and so i decided to have the vaccine. >>the northwestern medicine pulmonologist and critical care doctor is encouraging others to do the same. but first there is history to face particularly in latin x in black communities were distrust in medical research was born from past abuses so we have to understand is we're trying to figure out how to rule out the vaccine in these communities. we have to understand our history like the tuskegee syphilis study african american participants were not informed one an effective treatment penicillin became available. so there lots

i am returning without my approval h.r. 6395, the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2021. the act. my administration recognizes the importance of the act to our national security. unfortunately, the act fails to include critical national security measures, includes provision that is fail to respect our veterans and our military's histories, and contradict's efforts by amiadministration to put america first and our national security and foreign policy actions. it is a gift to china and russia. no one has worked harder or approved more money for the military than i have over $2 trillion. during my four years with the support of many others, we have almost entirely rebuilt the united states military which was totally depleted when i took office. your failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step. the act fails even to make any meaningful changes to section 230 of the communications decency act. despite bipartisan calls for re

>>well the law was the national defense authorization act was passed that's our birth certificate and the name that was on that birth certificate was in that force all right so so from the administration. well i there was there is years worth of there's been this has been debate you know for for a couple years. i don't know where it specifically came from, but what i can tell you is it's all of a sudden i know you've got a lot of questions about the logo. can you talk to me about the symbolism on that salute the predominant symbol is the delta. that delta has been the symbol of air force space command for years. that we've been using that back since 1982 and i'll tell you. it's been long as before that back to the it's on our and we're proud of it was the creation of this politicized in any way you think i'm i'm not a politician at all i'm focused on my job i focus on coming to work every day responding have a series of actions in space. the general repeatedly reminded news nation. he was not a politician throughout the interview over the summer, however he did weigh in on a controver

the house is voting but it now has enough votes to override trump's veto of the national defense authorization act. 109 republicans joining democrats to defy trump. this will be the first such rebuke of trump's presidency just days before he leaves office. and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has made it clear that he will also call for a vote to override trump's veto. this vote one of two major decisions for republicans, possibly pitting them against the president. just an hour earlier the house approving trump's 11th hour call to increase stimulus checks to $2,000. despite 130 republicans voting against the measure. that vote forcing them to either side with trump and the democrats or their own party. both of these high-stake votes are of trump's own doing. saturday night he allowed unemployment benefits to expire for an estimated 12 million americans because he wouldn't sign the coronavirus stimulus bill, only to sign the same bill the next day without getting anything in return. and last wednesday the president vetoed a massive defense spending bill which provided money for military

the majority leader's standing firm on funding for the military, supporting the national defense authorization act of the president vetoed. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel following the development and joining us now. that evening, mike. >> good evening. you have the senate majority leader offering new legislation to address three of president trump's key priorities. the $2,000 checks, the repeal of section 230 protections. an advisory committee that would study the 2020 election and make recommendations to congress on improving security, integrity, administration of federal elections. democrats are calling those poison pills and want to vote on just the $2,000 checks. mcconnell was vague about timing. >> those are the three important subjects the president has linked together. we will begin a process to bring these three priorities and the focus. >> was no intervening action or debate. >> senate democratic leader try to force a vote today on the $2,000 stimulus checks but mcconnell objected. >> we should not adjourn until the senate holds a vote on both measures. the ndaa veto

the president has been threatening for some time to veto the national defense authorization act becausee 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. republicans are on a conference call right now. kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, said the presid

to >> no one knows how this will end, lawmakers say that after donald trump vetoed the national defense authorization act that would fund the military for 2021. the president calling it a gift to china as russia and saying numerous provisions contradict his administration's foreign-policy, he wanted to take away legal protection for social media companies, that is not a bill. he wanted it in there. nancy pelosi says the house will convene in 5 days to override that veto. this comes on the heels of the president telling congress it has to amend the covid-19 relief part of a spending bill saying $600 to most americans should jump to is through $2,000 cash payment but many members are worried the whole thing could fall apart after weeks of complex negotiations that included the president's treasury secretary steve mnuchin. the possibility of amending the stimulus but we begin with mark meredith on the president's surprise announcement. >> donald trump will be landing in florida for a holiday vacation. he didn't stop for reporters that is made plenty of news the last several hours making it clear congres

going to veto this defense bill if it came to him in the shape that well it came to him and essentially the bill which is $740000000000.00 is also known as the national defense authorization act it is an act passed every year for the last almost 60 years by congress to fund the u.s. military and every year it seems like the amount of funding for the military grows but it's also usually packed with items that are not necessarily specific to funding the military in this case there are a couple of different items that are listed within the bill that the president has a problem with one is the renaming of certain forts and military installations in the united states that have the names of confederate soldiers one of those is fort benning in georgia the president does not want to rename those military installations but the bigger issue the one the media here doesn't really want to talk about is the issue of the fact that this bill actually prevents president trump from being able to withdraw our troops from afghanistan as he has said repeatedly that he desires to do and that he will do here's some of what president trump said about it numerous provisions of the act directly co

the national defense authorization act is widely bipartisan exercise throughout both in the house and the senate. these bills usually pass by great majorities. and i think the president just picked the wrong one. so i don't think that was a political wind shift. i just think he picked the wrong bill to veto. and on the other issues, look. i think it is pretty clear to everybody that the president is not going to win this election. that nothing is going to happen on january 6th to overturn it. and members are beginning to look past this election. and start looking at their own future. >> i mean, he lost right? let's call a spade a spade here. you heard president-elect biden and he is president-elect. this has been certified already in the states. say that the current administration despite that is putting up in his words road blocks in the transition process. this is happening days after, you had a u.s. suicide bomber, right, on the streets of nashville. a couple weeks after it was discovered that russia carried out a deeply damaging, and they're still assessing the damage, of a massiv

now, before he left he vetoed the national defense authorization act, which is the entire funding authority for the u.s. military. and he did it based on two reasons which he threatened before. first, he is very mad at twitter for labeling his false posts as false, and for reminding everyone he lost the election. he wants to get back at them by changing the law. and, second, he wants desperately to keep the name of dead traitors who took up arms against the union on u.s. military bases despite the fact that a bipartisan coalition wants them gone. and not a moment too soon. now, we don't know what's going to happen with the other two bills that are sitting there, the funding for the entire government, the omnibus and the covid relief bill, the $900 billion which he complained about in a twitter video yesterday even though he clearly seemed to not understand when a he was talking about when he objected to a bunch of budget lines in the omnibus portion of the bill that his own white house had asked for. yes, donald trump had asked for the same spending that he is now criticizing and threatenin

following the ofvote on hr 9501 ascendant resume consideration of the message on hr 6395 the national defense authorization act and senate vote on passage of the bill. the objections of the president to the contrary notwithstanding. all with nointervening action >> is their objection? >> i object. >> objection is heard. pe>> i like to for a moment reflect on where we are at this session of the united states senate and the choices that have been made. i want to thank senator sanders, senator schumer for bringing this with clarity to the floor of the senate. we support $2000

on ndaa, the national defense authorization act, if it's like any other year, there'll be a 2/3 vote, enough votes, to override the president's direct veto. so they may be working to shore up the votes to make it clear that they've got the votes to override the veto. we'll get through all of that. but once we get post-inauguration day, i think both parties have an opportunity to show the american people, hey, it's time to go. i think president-elect biden understands what he's dealing with. i think he'll reach out to the senate majority leader. i think there's going to be some room for doing some things together. whether it's a covid relief -- whether it's covid relief, whether it's an infrastructure bill, you know, we can try to get a big -- we've been trying to get a big infrastructure bill passed for many years. these are two places where there's a better than even chance you could find common ground. i think rodney and joe would both agree that's the place to get to. they're going to have their disagreements. as rodney pointed out before, the founders that built this tension into

you know, having voted for the national defense authorization act. w, having to decide whether they are going to buck the president, and what the impact of that is, on the base -- on their base in georgia. and number two, you know, the covid-relief package. same thing. you know, having the president put that number out there is -- is a tough thing for these members because i think most republicans don't feel that's an appropriate amount. so, it's -- it -- the president's not doing anybody any favors, on either side of the aisle. and particularly, himself, when it comes to helping to win those senate seats. >> john harwood, last word? >> i think it all depends on whether the president is actually serious about trying to take down the covid-relief bill and the omnibus. don't know if he is, yet. if he does, that puts him in a real problem but i got to go back to one thing on the russia probe. if there was nothing to this, why did mike flynn lie? why did george papadopoulos lie? why did paul manafort and roger stone lie? why did he try to get don mcgahn t

no one sees this in any relation to the national defense authorization act so you know there's there's no enthusiasm in the congress to start mixing up these issues and it's now a question of whether the president is going to you know carry out his threat to veto the law and then everyone is going to be watching early next week to see what the majorities are in the congress because if they pass with bipartisan support they might indeed have a veto proof majority which would be kind of a capping you know irony at the end of donald trump's presidency if he if he had a veto that could be overturned ok so. vote next week how long depending on the size of the majority and donald trump may or may not be able to to scupper it. yeah i mean there's nothing that donald trump hates more than losing we've seen that in the way he's been trying to contest the election results over the last several weeks since he was defeated by joe biden and so if he sees that the congress has the votes to overturn veto he may well you know find some kind of excuse to to avoid that kind of an embarrassment at the en

up with partisan provisions. >> is also the issue of president trump veto of the $740 billion national defense authorization act made it past the house and senate with a veto-proof majority. now a national security republican is encouraging his colleagues to vote to override. >> this is a great bill. this goes after china, russia, it does a lot to shore up our cyber defenses, which as we've seen are extremely vulnerable to sustain the president's veto after you voted for this bill, i just don't understand. >> but some of the progressive left say that is where spending should be cut. >> we can't find money to get $2,000 into the pockets of americans, the priorities are wrong so i'm not going to vote to override his veto. >> the final vote on the defense bill could be close. some republicans have signaled that while they voted for the bill, they may side with the president now. that vote could wrap up as soon as later this hour. bret. >> bret: if it does, we will bring you back for breaking news. mike, thanks. at the 11th hour as we mentioned, president trump did sign the covid relief government funding bill

the river and these nation-states coming after us. i want to move, we've got to get to the subject of the national defense authorization act, he'd be towedday. what does he want to see changed in order to get it signed? >> one thing i want to make clear is when the president took office he inherited a military with the readiness was the worst in american history. we were out of ammunition, we had the lowest ship count ever come of the military had suffered through eight years of sequestration. he turned that around and spent two and a half trillion dollars rebuilding the military -- the president has been committed to a strong national defense, this bill didn't include the protections that were necessary, our adversaries are using to promote this information on twitter and facebook and other social media platforms, we got to get that were formed to protect the american people. the president campaigned on ending forever wars, he has drawn down troops in afghanistan and iraq and we can redeploy those troops to the front lines in eastern europe to protect american interests, the same ones that have had us under attack, cyber and otherwise f

i rise in strong support of the fiscal year 2021 national defense authorization act. this ndaa will provide the tools and resources essential to maintaining our national security. i'm pleased that the conference report includes a 3% pay raise for our troops and invests robustly in initiatives to compete with china, russia and others who threaten our security around the world. the conference report includes vital investments in our fleet, our readiness and continued construction of the virginia class submarine and the modernization of our nuclear deterrent through the columbia class submarine. i look forward to supporting the final passage of this bipartisan legislation and urge my colleagues to do the same. thank you, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from washington reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. thornberry: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished chair of the republican conference, the gentlelady from wyoming, ms. cheney

the size and shape of a female. so simple. that's included in this national defense authorization act. it is vitally important we are putting our service members, their safety first and getting that over the finish line. i am encouraging our democrats to come back to the table. let's work through these issues and get the ndaa done and get this coronavirus bill done. >> welcome everybody back. hope you had a pleasant thanksgiving. it is december 1. we still have a coronavirus relief package that has been passed and signed into law by the president and providing relief to the american people. people are hurting. they are beyond frustrated with this whole exercise. republicans have been forwarded package that, as the leader emphasized, can be signed into law. one that provides assistance to schools and students, provides assistance to hard-hit small businesses. one that provides additional resources for testing. why don't we go ahead and pass what we all can agree upon? what we know can be signed into law? and then debate and negotiate and get further consideration to additional measures.

house voted to override the president's veto on the national defense authorization act. nator bernie sanders says he's going to delay vote in the senate unless mitch mcconnell brings a vote of $2,000 checks to the floor. do you support sanders' move? >> i strongly support the $2,000 and agree with bernie that we need to have a vote. mitch mcconnell needs to bring this bill up and we need to have a vote on it. we know where the democrats stand, we wanted more in the stimulus checks from the beginning. we'll be there voting for $2,000 per person, the question will be will the republicans be there. we need both, the defense bill, give the military a pay raise, the cybersecurity funding in that bill, and by the way, i think the real reason that the president actually vetoed that bill is because there is anticorruption, anti money laundering language in there that anonymous shell companies would have to be reported. underneath everything, that would take immediate effect. i think he's really worried about that. >> very interesting. >> we've got a situation to get the defense b

they will take up the veto override the national defense authorization bill and also in $2000 check to americans in response to the pandemic. "washington journal" continues. host: adam good men joins us -- aboutn joins us to talk the republican party in a post-trump washington. you predicted president trump would win this past election, why do you think you lost? the tale of the tape in the selection was actually how well republicans did against all expectations. they made a gain of at least half a dozen seats in the united states house where they were expected to lose seats. they will at least be in a tie or maintaine control after the elections in georgia. they made dramatic gains among hispanics, especially hispanic women. , trumps numbers among african-americans were double or triple what they were in 2016 in certain parts of the country. any women are said to serve 96 congress, or publican women than at any time in history. so against all expectations in the middle of a pandemic, with all the media predicting doom and gloom, the president of the united states just barely apparentl

well, that is included in the national defense authorization act, so it is vitally important that we are putting our servicemembers safety first and getting that over the finish line. so just encouraging our democrats to come back to the table. let's work through these issues. let's get the nondisclosure agreement done and get this coronavirus will done. >> i welcome everyone back i hope you had a good thanksgiving. it is of course december 1st and we still don't have a coronavirus relief package that has been passed, signed into law by the president and is providing relief to the american people. people are hurting. they are beyond frustrated with this whole exercise. republicans put forth a package that is the leader has emphasized it could actually be signed into law, one that provides assistance to schools and students and one that provides assistance to the hard-hit small businesses and additional resources for testing. so, why don't we go ahead and pass what we know can be signed into law and then we can debate and negotiate and get further consideration to the additional measur

the subject matter itself, it's on foreign policy and defense. and that goes for a lot of republicans and definitely that is the case with the national defense authorization act. mitch mcconnell has made very clear if the president vetoed that bill, the senate would move quickly to override that veto. 84 senators voted in favor of it. it has been passed and signed into law for 59 consecutive years. this would be the 60th. the president vetoed it. the house overrode that veto easily yesterday. the senate will do the same and it will be another big vote, is what i'm hearing at this point in time. mcconnell's made no bones about it. this defense policy bill is extremely important to national security, in his view. many republicans share that view and they will willing to rebuke the president in a pretty significant manner in order to ensure it gets put into law, jim. >> all right, the sausage making is getting very 2020. phil, thank you for that. >>> in a hard-hitting speech an hour ago, president-elect joe biden slammed the trump administration's plan to distribute the coronavirus vaccines, warning it is falling far behind. let's go to cnn's m.j. lee in wil

breaking tonight, the senate has taken the first steps to override the president's veto of the national defense authorization act. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell singh today the senate will stay on the defensive bill until it's completed one way or another. he also slammed efforts to approve the $2,000 direct payments, stimulus by unanimous consent calling out senators chuck schumer and bernie sanders in a fiery floor speech today. i'll get reaction from the independent senator from vermont, bernie sanders here on the show later tonight. first, correspondent david spunt is in washington also keeping an eye on the senate's end-of-the-year legislative business. good evening, david. >> senators have a lot of work to do but not much time to do it. two major funding bills sitting in limbo tonight and those senators hope to come to an agreement before the new senate is sworn in on sunday. >> let's talk about covid-19 relief. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell on the floor just hours ago announced he will move forward with a covid relief package that includes $2,000 direct payments, but there's a cat

cash we also that day had an overwhelming vote to override the president's veto of the national defense authorization act. the ndaa. .verwhelming vote 314-87. republicans voted to override the president's veto. we hope that the senate will follow suit. they had a big strong vote in the senate in favor of this vote. we hope that will overturn the veto of the president. that's what happened in the past week. reports of theen vaccine distribution not tosuring up to what we need have a fair equitable distribution of the vaccine that is free. i support what joe biden said yesterday, that in his the 100 million , that he would engage the defense production act to make sure that we not only had the vaccine, but the means to make the inoculation. it's one thing to be in the lab, another thing to be in the arm. inre's a lot in between terms of logistics, administration, materials. one thing that is holding up the further vaccination to the country is this administration, the trump administration lack of distribution of syringes and other things that go into that and holding up some of the vaccine as well. thi

speaker nancy pelosi just reresponding to the president's veto of the defense spending bill saying "the president's veto of the national defense authorizationd undermines the will of the bipartisan congress. the house will vote monday on whether to override it. and now this. >> i'm going to celebrate. i deserve to celebrate. i was good. i'm on santa's good list. i have inside information. >> charles: well, despite taking heat over lockdowns, the democratic governor andrew cuomo doubling down saying he's on santa's good list and not the grinch that critics make him out to be over his indoor dining ban. we invited the governor on and waiting to hear back from him. andres, andrew cuomo saying he's been superlative throughout this. >> thanks for having me, charles. i can tell you that this will be the first christmas in 36 years that i'm not going to spend with my father because he died on march 27 from covid. until he died, he was working eight days a week, 30 hours a day. this is no time for jokes and little stuff. this is serious. and this goes to cuomo and mayor de blasio, republicans, democrats, house, senate, president. we don't care abou

he says unless the liability steel is repealed he will approve the national defense authorization act, republicans on complaint social media giants are biased against conservatives. democrat claim they are not doing enough to control misinformation. what will the fallout be from tonight's tweet. welcome to fox news at night. white house correspondent kevin cork kicks us off at the latest on all these stories, another busy night. >> the ap called the president's claims of widespread voter fraud persistent and baseless and if you only saw the headline today you may have had the impression the attorney general of the united states agreed with that sentiment but tonight the doj made crystal clear it is simply not the case. the headlines and shockwave across the nation putting the attorney general at odds with the president. william barr, said the ap claimed the justice department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election. the headlines may have captured the imagination they neither conveyed the spirit nor the content of the aji