When will a vaccine be available and what they said. Children and babies in this country. The disturbing news tonight about dozens of babies under the age of 1. Infected with the virus in one county alone, 85 babies testing positive since march. At least one of them dying. President trump is asked about the coronavirus tests he receives. He said on average one every day or every two days. He was asked, amidst the lines for hours in many hot spots, does he think theres a need for more federal help in getting faster tests and faster results for americans . Tonight, the white house defending its controversial decision to deploy federal officers to portland, oregon. Officers in camouflage. Local leaders say they dont want them, dont need them and that their presence is fueling some of the protests. And reports tonight President Trump is now threatening to send federal officers to chicago. Also developing, what the president said late today about alleged Jeffrey Epstein coconspirator Ghisla
This is Straight Talk from the disease doctor. What hes saying is that this virus does not respect borders. It doesnt respect state or city borders and he pointed to the rising rates in places like atlanta, baltimore, kansas city. He says we need to work to keep the numbers down. Unless everybody pulls together and gets the level way down of a baseline, were going to continue to see these kind of increases that dr. Birx was talking about in several of those cities. Thats what i mean by smoldering. You have got to get that baseline down and everybody on this group, everybody on the team of american citizens need to pull together. Lets because were all in this together. Dr. Fauci then went on to talk about what a diverse country we are so that its harder he spoke with me at the very, very beginning. Back in january, he said, elizabeth, this is a bit country, its a diverse country, Different Things are going to happen in different places. Smaller countries have been a easier time having t
Popular members of congress promote the same socialism my father fought against in world war ii. We have a democratic candidate for president who says im not black if i dont go for him. Now more than ever, we need leaders who stand by their principles and will not optimize their values for political opportunities. Laura electrifying remarks from my next guest, burgess owens, former nfl player and utah congressional candidate, he joins me now. Burgess, you talked about what is at stake, given your background. I have to ask you this. Is the cancellation of high school and college football, is that kind of a metaphor for what we are seeing play out between the two parties, that freedom versus lockdown narrative . Yeah, laura, what we look for in america, we are visionaries. We are hopeful, we work hard, we work for the next month of our vacation, and with these young people are doing right now, not only are they working hard for their careers, but a lot of americans live vicariously throu
And well be watching the last word like we do every night at 10 00 p. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. Hi there. Im stephanie ruhle. Live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city, it is monday, december 21st. Lets get smarter. Today, congress will finally do something it should have done months ago. Vote on a relief bill to provide badly needed help to millions of struggling americans. It includes things like a 600 direct cash payment, extra Unemployment Insurance and help for Small Businesses. The big question, why did it take so long . Also this morning, the first shipments of Modernas Covid vaccines are on their way. Millions of doses headed to Distribution Sites at this very moment. More than half a Million Health care workers have already taken the vaccine with many more getting them this morning. Nursing homes and longterm care facilities is also set to kick off today. Weve known for a while thos
Tunnel. Ahead, the nations top Infectious Disease doctor, dr. Anthony fauci will join me on the beginning of this new chapter for this country as america reaches the terrible milestone of 300,000 lives lost and more hospitals say their icus are full. All of this, not the only breaking news as we come on the air. As of the start of this broadcast, electors are beginning to lock in state results in the president ial race. New hampshire set to kick off a process that will lock in joe bidens win as President Trump works to lock down anymore republican support for his push to overturn the results. Well talk about the deadline for that. We begin not with politics but with the pandemic. We have reporters spread out across the country with the latest. Im Hallie Jackson in washington. You can see im joined by Gabe Gutierrez in columbus, ohio. John torez is with us as well. Gabe, youre at a Medical Center setting up for the first vaccines. We have seen one we know of publicly already. That was t