Court. Welcome to a new hour of american voices. Tonight American History is upon us. Well see good and the bad. Well hit 16 million infections in the country making this site in Michigan First roll out of the vaccine all the more sweet for those strasburging wi strug virus. The first dose is expected to be administers in the coming days. Well get to who gets them in a moment. White house staff in close proximity with President Trump. Operation warp speed making clear while this moment is huge, there is still a massive responsibility to get everyone protected. This moment is extraordinary time, i am proud to be here announcing where we are with distribution. We have a lot of work to do. We are not taking a victory lap. We know the road ahead of us will be tough. We know that situations will occur. Well figure it out together. Ultimately the department of health and service determines who gets these first round of shots. Nursing homes and healthcare workers will be priority tomorrow. These are the recommended guidelines for taking the vaccine including advises to talking to other doctor and if you are pregnant. I may get a little bit of time. I just need more time for data to mature. I am looking at people who can understand this and read through it and digest it and really get to a point where they feel comfortable recommending it. Thats when i feel comfort taking it myself. A reminder of the stake at play here. 16 million covid cases and counting across america tonight. We are inches closer to 300,000 deaths. Lets turn to nbc Erin Mclaughlin in california. That hospital has cold Storage Units ready to receive the vaccines. Are healthcare workers ready for it . Reporter absolutely. One e. R. Doctor who told me this is an option soon. Well start administer here at sinai. She has two children at home and the vaccine represents a peace of mind. This offers hope and an end is near. The vaccine is our principle hope. We made a lot of progress and there are several medications on the market now that we can give patients who have covid really the vaccine in combination with universal masks use is really whats going to get us beyond this pandemic. Reporter this as california is facing a desperate situation especially here in Southern California of the grasp of infection really shocking. The number of covid cases tripling within just the last month. Doctors and nurses struggling to get a handle on this situation is completely full and while the months before we see this vaccine have a real impact to be distributed with the general public. It is a certain measure of relief that the frontline doctors will have that protection available to them as they struggle to get a handle on this situation. The doctor i was talking to is bracing on what christmas could bring with so many infections they see play out and straining the Healthcare System due to thanksgiving. They are worried that the stayathome order currently in place for much of california including the Los Angeles Area will have a chance to go forward. Erin mclaughlin for us. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time tonight. For more on where we are and where doses are being shipped out. Lets turn to our panel, dr. James hamlin, dr. Rojas, dr. Hamlin, i want to start with you. We are seeing the results of what happened over the thanksgiving weekend, not good. A lot of records, how dire is the situation at the moment and how concerned are you at the next several weeks leading up to and into christmas. Extremely concerned. We have not seen the full ramification of the spread we know occurs at thanksgiving and still takes time for hospitalizations and death numbers to increase. I am concerned that because people have not seen the full effective of it yet have not fully cancelled christmas or new years plans in the way should be happening right now. It is an odd time because the vaccine is rolling out right now and it is wonderful news. It is so important to remember that is not available in where it is going to affect Holiday Plans for anyone and far from the general public will have widespread of this vaccine. We really need to be vigilant right now. As we watch these vaccine doses being shipped around the country, which region need them the most right now . It is really about what type of person is going to need this vaccine first. Healthcare workers are broadly to be vaccinated and the next group is longterm care of people at nursing homes. 1 of people live in these nurseries. Thats really who needs to get it. Because infections are rising, we need to target the places that where the type of person there is highrisk. Dr. Rojas, senior officials at the white house are set to get the vaccine. I wonder whats your reaction to that news . I am shire many people and to elect earlier our healthcare worker, there are so many other people who actually played no part in the expansion and the way this white house and administration has. It is a real shame that this administration is actually, on one side is saying that this pandemic is not taking it seriously and the preventions that could have been made or putting themselves first in line for preventions. Dr. Rojas, with know the community of color have been hit especially hard by this virus and because there is a historical legacy of racism built into sicience and skepticism thats based in because we have a president. Just a matter of pressing. Right now we are seeing it is not the pandemic alone. It is not the illness caused by the pandemic but the problem is the pandemic have exposed all the way of Racial Injustice entrae penetrated every single system. We are about to see unemployment highest and eviction. And so i am clear that there is this kind of skepticism and concerns of community of color. On the other hand, they have to be prioritized since they are the frontline workers and overwhelmingly healthcare workers at this moment. They are the essential workers putting food on our table. They are making sure that the daytoday life who gets to work from home can continue to take place and so the government, we need our political leaders and our economic leaders to invest in doing the Public Education necessary to gain the publics confidence in this moment. Dr. Hamlin, listeniit seems fairly prevalent at this moment of what dr. Francis collins said about this vaccine. If you want to look at the facts, i think you should be reassured. Put aside all of the noise and all the skepticism and potential interference from some source or another. Dr. Hamlin, what sort of a Public HealthCampaign Needs to happen here to ensure that enough americans get vaccinated . It is going tong all about transparency and keeping things apolitical. The process has been wonderfully transparent that the results are in of new england general medicine of the pfizer trial. Anyone wants to look at them . I watched all nine hours of it and many meetings on thursday. Anyone is welcome to go back and watch that and read the minutes and you can hear people are voicing concerns and you are hearing experts realtime. It is not among anyone in the infection Disease Community who i heard from or spoke to about authorization of metlivife movi. This is a provisional approval, we are going to continue to learn more as many, many people people are vaccinated. Theyll be followed. Well have months and months of followup. We may learn there are certain side effects and certain subgroup of people. It will be shared right away so people can understand the risks and benefits of everything moving forward. Hopefully, you can continue to see bipartisan right now, President Trump is taking a lot of credit for this sevaccine ev though it is developed outside of warp speed. If we can just stick to the facts and not the political side. Alexis, you have done a terrific work of this virus, as people begin to get vaccinated, is there a way to track and share that data as well . Yes, i have not seen exactly whats going to happen on the data in front of you. The big worry is itooklike testing all over again. I imagine the administration is planning on integrating that data so people can try and understand it. I think it is going to present a lot of the same problems to be honest with you. There will be a lot of independent efforts that try to let people know whats actually going on with vaccination across the country. All right, dr. Hamlin, alexis and dr. Rojas, thank you all so much. The National Security council confirming it is investigating a unit of the commerce department. We are learning that russia is behind it. Nbcs ken delanian is racking all this. Who is specifically behind this russian hack . Sources confirmed reporting in the Washington Post and New York Times that it is the russian version of the cia known as the spr thats behind this. It is a campaign of hacking federal Government Agencies and private sector network. Nbc news was among those reported last week. The Cyber Security is a major player hacked by the same identity. Email accounts have been penetrated and there are some reports that is russians using software called solar wind which givers access to run a mark on these government networks. There is no indication of any k classified network. What a nightmare for the government to see what information is being taken and how to protect the Network Going forward cht. Why were these departments targeted . You earlier said it may be apart of a bigger effort, what would it look like . Russia is engaged in the shadow of the United States. We reported last week of these mysterious attacks, and reported in the past of intelligence suggesting russians and now we have these hacks. Of course, america is hacking china and russia. This one is being taken seriously. There was a Council Meeting on saturday about it and people are scrambling because this is a massive penetration of the agency. The Congress Department regulates the internet, there is information there that would be beneficial for russian spies to have. Ken dilanian, thank you so much. Building team biden. The power of the president elect biden choosing someone personally affected by covid19. All the president s rage and his fight against the American People means, what it means for our democracy. Ns, what it means our democracy. customer hi . burke happy anniversary. customer for what . burke every year youre with us, you get fifty dollars toward your home deductible. 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Biden and harris said they would listen to the experts and scientist as and make sure sciee lead when it comes to the coronavirus. Trust in this vaccine is not high right noi when you look at vulnerable population. When it comes to taking it publicly, thats something biden was asked recently in an interslew inte interview on cnn. Dr. Fauci says we have a vaccine thats safe. Thats the moment which i will stand before the public. Part of what has to happen and you know as well as i do that people have lost faith for the vaccine to work and staggering low. It matter what is a Vice President and a president do. I think my predecessor have to set the model as to what should be done. Once this declared to be safe and i think Barack Obama Says once fauci say it is safe, thats my measure. And it is important to communicate to the American People, it is safe. It is safe to do. Biden talking about the importance of communicating with the public about the safety of this vaccine and the importance of taking it. Bidens in coming press secretary jen saki asked when biden would be taking it and there were no details provided. You are hearing the Vice President and the president with the willingness to do it but no details on that front. There is continued pressure to make sure that a lot of those senior positions continue to have diverse candidates. Give us a sense of where this pressure is coming from and any pictures anticipated in the coming weeks . Absolutely. We know biden himself brought his entire campaign stressed his commitment of having a cabinet that looks like america. Having a white house represented of what america looks like. Part of that pressure is something that biden sits up for himself. Politics have been dominated by older white mecn. We saw more candidates of Color Running for presidency than ever before. We have an electorate with the most diverse. We ended up with the president elect biden whos again an old white man. We cant just look at things the way it has been done. Part of that pressure is something biden set up for himself but especially when it comes to latinos in the white house and native americans in the white house, there is a lot of pressure for biden to meet that standards and make sure that reputation is there. I will say he has announced a lot of cabinet members have been people of color. We exec more announcemepect mor weeks including education secretary and attorney general. We are watching for that. Thank you so much. All accounts, mark anthony, was a healthy 65yearsold, he supported President Trump and trusted him when he said the coronavirus would go away. He believed the president when he said those with no under line conditions would be fine. After arizonas stayathome orders was lifted, he visited a bar, since marks death, his daughter called out trump for his mishandling of the virus. Now shes calling on president elect biden of someone who experienced the virus first ha hand of the disease. Shes joining me right now why is it so important that he have people with firsthand knowledge of this virus to fill some of those rules. We need to make sure the response and not just right now but the longterm is around those who are most impacted. Whether 16 Million People who have contacted the virus and theyve survivors. Their lives have been fundamentally altered. The only way to really know how to make sure that their needs met is to have somebody making the table and coaching and guiding from that community base, academics and bureaucrats are putting into place of policies. Right, the one house has to imagine some of those academics and bureaucrats given the scope of this virus would have like wise be touched by the biden harris administration. What in your view needs to be done to ensure no more lives are lost to this virus . Part of it has to go back to we need real people who have experience this type of lost. Really counseling and in the room and connecting with Community Leaders who have long withstanding relationships of some of these hard to hit and hard to message and connect with the community. That comes from individuals who are still really experiencing this firsthand. There could be some important bridges made by sort of bringing more of that frontline direct experience expertise into the room. Kristin, last time i was talking to a doctor in arizona about this virus and what those of us, First Responders dont necessarily understand about the virus. He said to me that it is incredibly predictable, thats the thing thats hard to explain to someone. For you as someone who experienced direct lost to this virus. What is something that you feel those of us would not share those experience just dont get about it . I dr. Yeoman has been a frie of mine throughout this. Something thats so heart wrenching about this virus is that it can only be unpredictable but strike quickly. There has been so many cases where people woke up a scratchy throat and in a couple of days are intubated in the icu. This is a dangerous situation where we cant be playing around with. All right, kristin, thank you as always for joining us. 20 years ago, al gore conceded the 2000s e lerlection saying it was for the safe of the democracy. We wont get that concession for President Trump even of what is set to happen tomorrow. Stick with us. Set to happen tomorrow sticwik th us. [announcer] your typical vacuum has bristles that can leave cleaning gaps and wrap hair. 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Members of the president s own party now calling him to accept reality. Here is Lemar Alexander on meet the press. I hope he puts the country first, i hope he takes pride of our country and congratulates the president elect especially in the middle of the pandemic. We need to get the vaccines out to anybody who needs it. Millions of americans desperately seeking help by way of relief funding. A bipartisan deal on covid relief may be announced soon. Joining me now is ale alabamex. Is it likely we see a covid relief package this week . We had a little bit of deja vu of people announcing potential deal and that deal is falling apart especially when it comes to covid relief bill. We should believe it when we see it. The reaspart of this keeps happg is everyone in washington have to look like theyre trying to get something done otherwise people are going to be upset. The question is are things so dire in the country and do people in washington realize how dire things really are to the point where they are finally moving this. Something of a stock gap measure and at least to get the country through march when president elect joe biden to put forward his own stimulus plan. Well hear a lot bipartisan and covid deals the next several months. What is interesting to me and as i understaood the time i cam on air that they would be separating it on two packages and they would put this Liability Insurance and they would put the age of cities and states in another package. How would that even work . Alicia, our team reports this evening that the plan for the Bipartisan Group is to break up the Coronavirus Relief negotiations into two packages. The noncontroversial, things like business aid and unemployment. And state and local funded is a top priority for democrats. Thats a puzzle that nobody has bd an to figure out. It is not clear whos going to sign onto which one. Unless the controversial piece has significant bipartisan repo report. It may not be worth much. It may not move forward. This is an attempt by negotiators to say we are putting legislative test on paper and we are trying to move forward. By friday something gets agreed to. Friday is the key deadline here. Appropriators are looking to wrap up, and Party Leaders have said coronavirus needs to ride along with that. It cant ride along with that if there is not an agreement. Alex, breaking it up into two deals, is it admission that they could not agree on the core tension. I want to play a sound relief. What about an a package for the americans . What could you do to get the 900 billion out . I am pushing it very hard. If the democrats really want to do the deal, they should do it right now. I want to see checks going for more money than they are talking about going to people. Alex, can you make any sense of that . This is what trump has been saying for four months. Hes been pushing for a deal many ways. Hes not talking to people on capitol hill. The problem is Mitch Mcconnell and Senate Republicans are not on board with the same message hes doing. This is a lot more about trump talking because trump does not seem like hes against the deal rather than doing it, the politics on capitol hill to get this deal over the line. Hes leaving it complete to congress and joe biden is delicately weighing in but does not want toover step his bound so as a result congress is producing this mess. So tomorrow is the Electoral College is set to cast their votes, the president protested and making numerous claims of all lies and fraud. Is there any way the vote us does not go tomorrow or anything having to do with the president s claims . There is no reason alicia to belief that the Electoral College will do anything other than cast its votes for joe biden. 306 electoral votes is what he won and 306 is what we expect him to get. There was a Supreme Court decision ruling against the idea saying is not a constitutional right for electors to vote however they want. President trump have exhausted every legal option here and every political option and theyre at the end of the road where they came a few days ago. The four key states, at that point joe biden is still at the top. Hes going to leave the white house and there are some speculation that hell leave and never come back. Hes not going to accept that joe biden is legitimate elected and that could have huge consequences for biden to lead. No evidence of fraud and no evidence to believe this is real. Joe biden will be the winner of the electoral vote tomorrow. Next, the doctor is in. You cannot take away her title after this short break. 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He taught at Western University for more than 30 years. He was never a professor and not been a lecture in 2002. Enough about him. I dont need a phd to tell you why it is wrong. Jill biden has a doctorate in education, something that she should be proud of and something that allows her to call herself a doctor because she can. While they are just two letters, doctor before my name conveys accomplishments and respect and authority and rightfully so. The backlash of this piece have been swift, phds across are adding doctor to their names. We dont have the luxury of others assume that we are competence. We are asked to prove your competence over and over again. A credential reminds others of the work and twhat it takes to get to that point. Something more right at the surface. When that woman takes pride in her own accomplishment and when she refuses to make herself smaller for others comfort. Kind of remind me how dare to say it, shes am basbitious. We looked up the word doctor for you. 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So theres a lot that can have been compromised here, and how long were they watching . What did they collect . You know, these are all Big Questions that have to be answered. You know, it doesnt help that the head of dhss cybersecurity was fired. So its a very concerning moment right now. Right. I mean there are folks who believe that this could be a part of a larger effort, that this could simply be the first wave. Can you sort of pull back for us and give us a sense of what that might look like . Well, look, regardless of who is going to enter the white house in january, russia, china, state actors remain committed to doing this kind of espionage, doing this kind of spying. Its an ongoing threat, and, you know, they have the capability. I mean this is obviously a very sophisticated state actor who did this, and their motivation in this case, its important to distinguish spying versus, say, taking down a system. Theres no indication this was a cyberattack. Rather it looks to be aimed at just spying, collecting intelligence. But, again, that could have huge impact on any number of things, both protecting sources and methods abroad to just giving an adversary an idea of what is being discussed in the white house. I mean lets talk about russia specifically since we know that they were behind this. If you were the Biden Administration, as you sort of prepare to come into office to contend with this entire bouquet of issues that we know theyre going to be facing, how do you then process the information that we learned today, and how much this then factors into the way that they have to approach, as you said, russia, china, and other foreign actors . Look, russia and from my personal experience, theyll keep pushing until they get that p pushback. And since their interference in the 2016 election, there has been zero consequences for their action. If the Biden Administration wants to stop this russia is going to keep doing this, but theyll only stop if theres that pushback. So the Biden Administration, if they want to counter this, its not just about building up cybersecurity, but its also about building up aggressive counters to these actions so russia will know this kind of meddling will not be tolerateto thank you for spending time with us. At the top of the hour, dont miss the week. Maria teresa kumar is in for joshua jackson. Shell spoke to the florida scientist who spoke out against the States Coronavirus numbers. Then the government raided her home. Shell tell us why. Hell be back to wrap up american voices next. Ur home , heres something you shouldnt try at home. Look, Liberty Mutual customizes Home Insurance so we only pay for what we need. Its pretty cool. That is cool grandma very cool. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Im a talking dog. The other issue. Oh. Im scratching like crazy. 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The country surpassed 16 million confirmed cases this weekend. The cdc announced this afternoon that the vaccine can officially be administered in the u. S. Vaccinations are set to start as early as tomorrow. The New York Times is reporting tonight that the senior white house Staff Members will be first to be vaccinated. Nbc news has not directly confirmed that reporting, but a National Security spokesperson confirmed that senior officials across all three branches of government would be a priority to vaccination due to a president ial policy directive from 1996. The boxes full of vaccines have a long but very detailed trek ahead of them. Once they leave pfizers Distribution Center in wisconsin and michigan, theyll go to the fedex hub in memphis, tennessee, and the ups hub in louisville, kentucky, where theyll be placed on cargo planes and