Announcer this is cnn breaking news. This is cnn tonight. I am don lemon, and we do start with breaking news. A humiliating defeat for the president. The house voting to override his veto of the defense bill. That is the bill that the president opposed because he wanted to hold troops hostage over his grudge match with twitter. Yes, he was mad at twitter. So he was holding up pay raises for our troops. The house in a bipartisan vote saying a hard no to that. So the next stop is the senate. That as the house also passed a measure tonight to increase covid relief checks from 600 to 2,000, which the president could have pushed for just a long time ago. After all, his treasury secretary negotiated the deal in the first place. A deal the president first refused to sign, leaving desperate americans, who cant pay their own rent, put food on their own tables, leaving them in limbo until he finally caved last night. This president gained nothing with all these antics, nothing. Just needlessly c
Wrong with saying that youve recalculated. So, look, all i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state. Where the president isnt pushing a coup himself, his partners in congress are doing it for him. A dozen republican senators now declaring that they will obstruct the certificate of joe biden as Donald Trumps ouster in wednesdays joint sessions of congress, calling for a lastminute audit in states where republicans insist, without evidence, that disputes were credible. Two months after the election and after dozens of failed lawsuits. Of course, the white house is obliging the obstruction. Vice president mike pence already welcoming the efforts of those senators as he goes into the joint session over which he will preside. The president is reduced to tweeting in support of the support ahead of the rally for georgias gop senate candidates, david perdue and kelly loeffler. And the Georgia Senate race cast a long shadow o
Hospitals are, yoet, on a brink. Youre already drowning but you just have to keep trying because thats what you can do. Good morning to you. Saturday, january 2nd, 2021. Let me say it again, 2021. Im christi paul. Welcome to 2021. John avlon with us. Were so excited to have you here, john. Im delighted to be here while victor enjoys a very well deserved day off. Happy new year to you, christi. Happy new year to you. In the first two days of the new year we are seeing ongoing pressure being put on the u. S. Health care system and political system. The variant of the coronavirus seen in the u. K. Is being seen here in colorado, california, florida. Vaccines should be effective against the strain. Reporter the u. S. Is behind schedule on vaccinations but dr. Fauci said the plan is not to delay in giving second shots in an effort to vaccinate people more quickly. Meanwhile, President Trump seems more focused on trying to undo a simple fact, joe biden will replace him in 18 days. Yet the pr
The president is still demanding an increase in direct payments. Democrats say they will try to pass that today. Its not clear what President Trump got out of all of this. This morning, the New York Post is blasting the president s efforts to try to overturn the election results, with this front page saying stop the insanity and dictionary i declaring you lost. Were also learning new details about the suicide bombing in nashville. Police releasing new Surveillance Video of the moment of the blast on Christmas Morning. Police now have identified the man who they say detonated a bomb inside an rv parked downtown. An american suicide bomber. Theyre now focusing on why he did this. Joining us now to discuss it all, margaret talev, cnn political analyst and politics and white house editor for axios and cnn political analyst, toluse olorunnipa, a White House Reporter for the washington post. Thank you, jim, ill take it. Margaret. Ill start with what happened last night. After 7 00 p. M. , th
Would disappear. Now ten months in and mostly absent president ial leadership we continue to confront an excruciating cost to coast covid catastrophe. In los angeles funeral homeowners have to turn desperate and bereaved family members away. One doctor called it a bathtub filling up with water and the drain is blokds. Trump continues gofg with friends, seemingly more outraged by his wifes redecorating at maralago than the mounting death toll and sluggish vaccine rollout. It looks like hes trying to president president ially sabotaged. There is no breaching in two weeks. Now trump is not alone when it comes to caring more about his own self interests. In the senate, Mitch Mcconnell is refusing to hold a simple vote on 2,000 in desperately needed aid to the american people. Democratic leaders want to call this survival. Heres the deal. We are not going to split apart three issues because democrats are afraid to address two of them. To be clear, mcconnells unquenchable progress standing i