let's bring in four veterans of the trump white house press briefing room. m acosta, abby philip, kaitlan collins and jeremy diamond. jim, as our chief white house correspondent you were there for the obama years, and the trump years. trump's anti-media rhetoric, his words were disturbing and it bled moo actions. he tried to take away funding from pbs, moved against amazon, making moves suspected against jeff bezos because he owns "the washington post." he took action, his doj took action against at&t when at&t was moving to buy cnn and the rest of time warner. it goes on and on. lawsuits against tv stations, et cetera. these were not just words. they were actions. what stood out to you the most? >> i mean, i think all of those are perfect examples of what president trump was trying to do, trying to accomplish during his four years in office. i think what he was trying to accomplish is move the united states in the direction of what i describe as state supported media. we see this happen in other parts of the world where you see countries like russia and so o

the fda making this decision on its own, given the way that they have been pressured by the trump white house, just like the cdc has. for vaccine safety, this will be a panel of outside experts, a panel of 23 independent outside experts who are formed as an advisory group specifically to advise the fda on whether or not to give their approval for vaccines. that is a good system. that is a sound structure. and when that group meets tomorrow to hear the evidence and take questions and have their discussion and make their recommendations, the signs are good that they're going to say yes, that this vaccine should be approved. the head of the committee is a researcher at the university of michigan, and today he said, quote, i would predict the likelihood of approval is high. but again, we'll all get to see it transparently ourselves. that meeting is tomorrow, starting tomorrow morning. and that meeting does mean that we will likely have a vaccine against coronavirus approved in the united states as of the time i am talking to you tomorrow night. but even still, we will still likely have something

white house chef. the white house chef is the taste tester. >> thank you. i have enjoyed your discussion. my question is, can you give us insight to our present president, trump. does he have any likes? i know he doesn't drink. >> you know, we don't get a lot of information about what president trump likes. what we have heard and what i have seen so far is that he loves meatloaf and a well-done steak with ketchup. this is what i saw on the news. there is a lot of chronicles about the fast food. the fast food label is unfair. when you are on the campaign trail, that is what you are getting. i do know that he loves meatloaf, comfort food like that . we just don't get a lot of information about what is going on in the trump white house kitchen. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >>> this is american history tv on c span 3 where each weekend we feature 48 hours of programs exploring our nation's past. o >>> next on the presidency, herbert hoover presidential library director thomas schwartz talks about the 31st chief executive. it takes a broad look at hoover's career before, during and after the white house. provided the video. >>> so, let's get to

you knew it was going to come to this with the white house staff and trump. the second year of the trump presidency, i compared what we are seeing in the trump white house to the brilliant defictpin of an insane head of state, and flow, now the trump white house admits that that is what we have been living through. the "washington post" reports after his election defeat, wageful and at times delirious, and at times, trump was like mad king george, muttering, i won, i won, i won. there is not a single legal process any where in america monday that can change the outcome of an election in a sing the state. let alone the majority of the elect electoral challenge, and everything they are following around trump rrnd aing it's to help trick naive people to respond to the emails trump sends every day begging them for money that he claims will be used to fight the election, and can be used for other purposes. tugs jut another trump money fraund. the results of the election are locked in and the incoming administration continues to add key players to the publicly annou

i don't know about the trump white house. the ones that the obamas served and president clinton would knock you out. that's a tradition. i think president roosevelt is probably most known for the marti martini. that's where he gets his identity. lillian rogers parks reminisced, fdr claimed he didn't know the formula of the martinis. son jimmy liked the mild martini. not as mild as anna. franklin got old enough to argue for a stronger martini. johnny shot up so tall, he demanded to be heard. all this time the president would mix so no one could see what the formula was. he would say that as a chairman of the committee, he had the power to decide the ultimate taste of a martini. at this point, some people aghast at this weren't sure they wanted a martini. missy would sip her favorite while fdr mixed his own. sometimes an old fashioned. when they had guests, fdr would insist on mixing martinis for everyone. he would brag that he was the best martini mixer in the east. there are references to a rum-based drink fdr would make. i h

i don't know about in the trump white house now, but the ones that obama served and president clinton 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 got old enough to speak up for a stronger martini. then johnny shot up so tall he demanded to be heard and insisted on a martini so dry. it could be mistaken for sand. all this time, the president would be mysteriously mixing vermouth and gin so no one can see what his formula was. when he was finished he was as a chairman of the committee he had the power to decide the ultimate taste of a martini. at this point, some people aghast at this were not sure they wanted a martini after all. missy would sip her favor while fdr mixed his own are teeny or ometimes an old-fashioned. when they had guess fdr would insist on mixing martinis for everyone

shots administered today to those frontline heroes, the white house was apparently embarrassed enough -- yes, apparently, it's possible -- the trump white house was apparently embarrassed enough today by reporting this weekend that trump white house staff would jump the line and get vaccinated before everybody else, they were embarrassed enough by that reporting this weekend in "the new york times" that they climbed down from that plan and publicly announced that at least, okay, most white house staff will not jump the queue. just astonishing that they even tried to get away with that, almost as astonishing that they were embarrassed enough to change the plan when it was exposed to sunlight. hey, look, shame. the national priority populations with ainge seccess vaccine, for very good reason, are health care workers, who we need to stay alive so they can keep the rest of us alive, also people who live and work in long-term care facilities. those locations where americans are most vulnerable, not only for getting the virus, but for dying from it. those are the priorities, frontline health care providers and people in long-term care

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trump administration blows it up. this is the headline in "the washington post." white housea chief to authorize vaccine friday or submit his resignation. yeah, don't actually follow the correct scientific process. just force it through. approve it or else. that's what they did today. and now the fda, under that fda commissioner, has just approved the vaccine just in the past few minutes. but the trump white house, with this threat, they have bungled in a way that's going to have long-standing consequences -- they have bungled what ought to be an uncomplicated piece of good news, a ray of sunshine, right? a piece of finally something for us to have hope about. by preceding tonight's approval with a public threat against the fda that the commissioner had to force this approval or else, the trump white house has made sure to unnecessarily create the impression that there might be some reason to worry that that threat is the real reason it got approved, right? because they threatened this guy that he needed to do it or else they'd have his head. i mean why? why would you do that

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white house. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. president trumpeems to be pinning his hopes on this texas lawsuit that by almost all accounts has no legal basis. >> reporter: that's right. the supreme court could rule at any moment on this dubious texas lawsuit supported by the white house and republican members of congress aimed at throwing out millions of votes and overturning the election results. in the meantime, trump administration sources are confirming white house chief of staff mark meadows threatened the head of the food and drug administration to authorize the coronavirus vaccine or resign. the fda's commissioner is disputing that and a source close to the covid task force at the white house told me earlier today that kind of threat has been worrying public health officials because it could compromise public conferred in the vaccine. >> it's been some journey for all of us. >> reporter: stop the presses! president trump accidentally told the truth! conceding that joe biden is about to replace him at the white house while pleading to the

this is alleged payments to the trump white house to pay for presidential pardons or clemency. this derived from a highly redacted court document which was unsealed in washington earlier this week. "the new york times" has just filled in some of the proper nouns behind the big black lines in that court document. we started to figure out who this might be about. we've got that story for you next. stay with us. to support a strong immune system, your body needs routine. centrum helps your immune defenses every day, with vitamin c, d and zinc. season, after season. ace your immune support, with centrum. tonight...i'll be eating cheesy cauliflower pizza with extra broccolini. my tuuuurrrrn! tonight...i'll be eating cheesy cauliflower pizza and yummy broccolini! (doorbell rings) thanks. (doorbell rings) thank you. ♪ is that my leotard? no. yes... ehh, you can keep it. the team's been working around the clock.wire, we've had to rethink our whole approach. we're going to give togetherness. logistically, it's been a nightmare. i'm not sure it's going to work. it'll work. i didn't know

what do you make of the trump white house's silence so far? >> a consistent pattern of always underestimating the russia threat. president trump continued to praise putin for four years. never criticized him for anything. as we remember most famously in his helsinki summit, threw our intelligence community under the bus to side with putin. i'm not surprised he's not saying anything new. that's very consistent. that means to me if the commander in chief is not taking the threat seriously, that signal tos to the rest of the government and to vladimir putin that he can get away with these things and not suffer consequences. >> come the new year, what advice would you have to the biden administration about what they should do to respond to these attacks or deter future ones from happening? >> most immediately we have to take cyber security more seriously than we have before. we're just not treating it. we used to think about nuclear weapons. 50 or 60 years ago it was new technology and we didn't understand it. finally we got our doctrines together

the white house not giving any reason for the shift in schedule, but implying that president trump wants to have new year's eve festivities in the white house. they didn't take questions from reporters, but the white house didn't call a lid. there could still be on-camera availability with the president. that would be significant because we haven't heard from him apart from his tweets about what his insight has been, both these major questions on legislation and the raging coronavirus pandemic, which apart from touting the vaccine part of "operation warp speed," the president hasn't talked about the slow roll-out, all the issues plaguing the distribution and the mounting cases and deaths. instead when he was in florida, he spent a good amount of his time on the golf course. we knew from his tweets he wasn't pleased with certain republican senators because he wanted more of their support on various bills. now we have questions about his plans and his role on january 6th when the joint session of congress that the vice president is expected to preside over will formalize joe biden's victor

oil pressure that the cdc and all of the other government agencies did from the quacks at the trump white house over the course of the epidemic. it is good the fda calls on the outside experts to make hard decisions about vaccine safety. under the trump administration we got fda approval and unapproval of hydroxchloroquine as a possible treatment for covid after president trump saw segments on fox news primetime about how it is definitely the cure and leaned on the fda to approve it and they had to unapprove it. for vaccine safety this will be a panel of outside experts, a panel of 23 outside experts who are formed as an advisory group specifically to advise the fda whether or not to give their approval for vaccines. that is a good system and a sound structure. when that group meets tomorrow to hear the evidence and to take questions and make their recommendations, the signs are good that they are going to say yes. that the vaccine should be approved. the head of the committee is a research every at the university of michigan and today said i would predict the likelihood of approval is high. ag

riddance freund soon as we're in the white house. but with trump on his way out netanyahu is going to have to find other ways to get a political boost and right now he really needs one of course of trump's middle east peace deals still proves a winner these really pm might get mad. it's to weather the storm but here is what israel's streets now regularly look like. her. the protesters biggest problem with benjamin netanyahu is his alleged corruption crimes he denies any wrongdoing he's calling the trials politically motivated but the opposition got a new weapon this year cold it or rather the nation's fury at the way into the always been dealing with maybe failing to deal with the pandemic the perception is one of mismanaged log downs with businesses and the unemployed left in the lurch and corruption has so many people involved 3 when they just start on a blank slate i need a constitution we need to limit the terms of the prime minister to 2 terms the us we need to stop the corruption here in israel and open it and you know when it's done you know

washington post" but sources say the authorization was already expected tonight or tomorrow with the trump white house hoping to ship out the first doses within 24 hours. health experts are warning this is going to be a long process to widely distribute a coronavirus vaccine taking months and that the pandemic could get drastically worse before then. in moments i'll speak to the head of operation warp speed dr. moncef slaoui will the vaccine rollout and when you can expect to get vaccinated. first, kaitlan collins, what are you hearing happen during this call between white house chief of staff meadows and dr. hahn of the fda? >> reporter: as this call was going on, the president was publicly lashing out on steven hahn on twitter for not getting this done faster and having his own staff and chief of staff lash out to him privately because we are told that mark meadows did call dr. hahn this morning and basically, complaining if they did not get this coronavirus authorized, this emergency authorization granted by the ends of the d ofe may not have a job. the job security of the fda commissioner now in q

100 days. 100 million shots in the first 100 days. >> to make that happen, biden is asking the trump white house to place orders for that many shots now. it's not clear how much coordination there is with the trump white house. it's not clear how much cooperation his nominee to be health and human services secretary, javier cecerra whose under microscope of senators who help he needs to get passed during covid-19. >> let's just go through the problem with this nomination. so first, he supports medicare for all. he will be responsible for running medicare and medicaid and obama care and many other healthcare programs. he's going to use the discretion the law gives him to take away your health insurance on the job. >> tomorrow it's the defense secretary announcement. neil? >> neil: thanks very much for that, peter doocy. watching and monitoring this ongoing summit. alex azar, the health and human services secretary. he had a very ambitious plan to effectively start rolling out millions of doses of this pfizer vaccine as soon as starting in the next 24 to 48 hours. how quickly they could get to tha

it's amazing to me operation warp speed an accomplishment of the trump white house and he continues to step all over it. thank you both. >>> millions of americans could be getting their first shots as soon as monday as we wait for fda emergency use authorization that could come any moment now. but ensuring everyone gets a vaccine quickly may depend on the other vaccine still in trials. take the so-called dark horse of the covid-19 vaccine race being developed by johnson & johnson which requires just one dose. cnn's stephanie elam is taking part in the j&j vaccine trial and here she shows us what it's been like. >> reporter: everyone in this office is here in the pursuit of science. >> hopefully, i'll develop immunity over the next few weeks. >> reporter: art clinical research will administer shots to about 200 people and part of a randomized covid vaccine trial for johnson & johnson. >> i think enough is known that i'm very comfortable with getting the injection. >> reporter: but not everyone is, especially since trials have been sped up to battle a coronavirus crisis that is out of co

timing of a campaign announcement trump is not expected to attend the inauguration of president-elect joe biden. he also does not plan to invite biden to the white house or even call him. trump is quoted as having told a white house holiday gathering tonight, quote, it's been an amazing four years. we are trying to do another four years. otherwise i'll see you in four years. then there is let's not forget the uncontrolled pandemic, which is right now killing an american every minute. hospitalizations in our country have doubled since november 1st. they've tripled since october 1st. it is out of control. today a panel of experts advising the cdc issued recommendations about who will get the first vaccines once they're approved. health care workers and long-term care residents would be the first to be inoculated. the same panel suggested some 40 million doses of the vaccine could be made available by the end of this month. more on that just ahead. today the president-elect formally introduced his team to help deal with the economic fall out from what we've been living through. biden made it clear his focus will be about jobs. >> from the most unequal ec

in the white house. but with trump on his way out netanyahu is going to have to find other ways to get a political boost and right now he really needs one of course of trump's middle east peace deals still proves a winner these really pm might get mad. as to weather the storm but here is what israel's streets now regularly look like. the protesters biggest problem with benjamin netanyahu is his alleged corruption crimes he denies any wrongdoing he's calling the trials politically motivated but the opposition got a new weapon this year cove it or rather the nation's fury at the wave into the i was then dealing with me failing to deal with the pandemic the perception is one of mismanaged log downs with businesses and the other the prime minister 2 terms of the us we need to stop the corruption here in israel and open it and you know we need to know mainly but on the government to spend it doesn't want any mall. is corrupted and walking for one person trying to escape from his they trial demonstrations picked up pace in t

as children in 2017 the trump white house tried to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals program or daca prompting angry demonstrations the administration's case was blocked by the superior court and in july trump officials tried to stop the scheme from accepting new applications friday's ruling clears the way for the nest emitted 1000000 undocumented teens and young adults to apply i do you know castro's life for us in washington d.c. heidi just give us a little bit more about the background to all of this. sure rabble we know that trump still has more than a month left in office but certainly the court ruling today is a death knell to one of his signature hardline immigration accomplishments of his time in office now we know that trump won office partly by his promise to undo this obama era program that trump had called amnesty to young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the united states as children at its peak that obama program called dhaka assisted about 800000 immigrants and it gave them work permits as well as temporary protection from deportation will as soon as

americans you know talking about investing in infrastructure the obama white house had an office dedicated to dealing with pandemics the trump white house dismantled that office in your opinion what impact on u.s. public health did bent dismantling half. so the house of emergency infrastructure was started to be be built in this country in the early ninety's we had a large infusion of importance money even after 911 in 2001 and since then he's back running great deal of you know our parents exercises and we have a fairly decent infrastructure laid out what we need to do is fund it only so we have the right kind of personnel in the right places at the right time to get these. help mitigation strategies like vaccines out there and it's going to take resources whether it comes from an office of preparedness or it comes from. directly from congress in a large and. do we mean public health making nothing happen is not free it takes it takes investment and we must continue to invest so behind the scenes we're already you know making nothing happen it's not for free that that's the best quote we've heard no long time leisurely join

trump's false conspiracy theories about a rigged election, white house press secretary stopped short of saying the president still has confidence in the attorney general. >> the president, if he has any personnel announcements, you'll be the first to know it. >> reporter: she suggested barr didn't have all of the facts before referring the matter to the trump campaign. yes, the same campaign she is represented as an adviser on conservative media. >> the attorney general was speaking to what has come before his desk and, again, i point you to the campaign for specific questions on this. >> reporter: that was hardly the only dodge of the day. on reports from cnn and other news outlets that the president and his advisers have discussed pardons for members of the first family and close associates like giuliani and trump himself and mcenany side steps that matter as well. >> i've not heard of any pardons or any conversations i've had in the white house. >> reporter: democrats say it's time for gop leaders to stands up to the president. >> no, mr. president, that would be a gross abuse of

christmas for the trumps in the white house is "america the beautiful." she credits volunteers from across the country with helping her make the choices. there's a nod to first responders and health workers. >> it comes weeks after the first lady was heard on a recording using expletives to complain about holiday decorating. >>> next, a holiday tradition going online. >>> for the first time since its debut in 1954 the new york city ballet will not perform "the nutcracker" on stage. >> they said the ballet's 2019 production will be streamed online beginning next friday. >>> a man enjoying the water in florida got some unexpected company. >>> check out the video near naples. a dolphin joined him on his board. >> but he didn't see it. he was too busy riding the wave. his friends though freaking out. >> the dolphin was like, i can do this much better than you. ough freaking out. >> the dolphin was like i can do this much better than you. ♪ merry christmas! ♪ rich chocolate layers sprinkled with festive peppermint. with love from san francisco.

. >>> let's take a look outside at the trump white house where a judge has reinstated daca. the obama era program shields undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children from deportation. president trump ended daca in september 2017 arguing it was unconstitutional. >>> ahead, getting kids back to class sooner than later. one bay area lawmaker has a plan. what he wants schools to gear up to do. >>> also what about the potential side effects? what we're learning about the pfizer vaccine as the bay area prepares to receive its first batch of doses as early as next week. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, tracking some isolated wind for the mountains. also a few chances of showers coming our way. i'll see you back here in about 6 minutes. >>> in the sky he was an icon. tonight we learned general chuck jaeger has died. he was the first pilot to break the speed of sound. he flew more than 60 missions as a combat pilot during world war ii. in 1947 in the bell x1 he did what no man had done before. he reached the speed of mach one, the sound barrier. chuck yeager was