First . Good morning. Thank you for having me. These are weighty decisions. We have been having meetings since april of this year and weve had approximately 25 closed meetings and six to seven open meetings to discuss this. These decisions are made based on science and facts provided to us by the cdc. We asked for the data and the data is presented and analyzed to us and presented to us. So our decisions or deciding which of the priority groups are based on current knowledge and current information about the pandemic, the epidemiology, the persons most affected by this pandemic. Okay. So take us through it with specifics. As i understand it you will have 40 million doses and that translates to 20 Million People. So this year before the end of the year theoretically 20 Million People can be vaccinated. Who are those . So as of today we have talked about this among the group and it seems pretty clear that the top group of individuals will be Health Care Providers. There is a second group
Well see more of a surge as we get two to three weeks past the thanksgiving holiday. And the thing that concerns me is that abuts on the christmas holiday. And as the nation suffers, where is President Trumps focus right now . It remains still on the president ial election. That is now over. Fixated on baseless lies about massive and widespread election fraud. But we are now learning while President Trump is there we are learning about joe bidens plans to respond to the pandemic once he takes office. During an exclusive interview with jake tapper. Listen to this. Im going to issue a Standing Order that in federal buildings you have to be masked and interstate transportation you must be masked, airplanes, buses, et cetera. So its a matter of and i think my inclination, jake is the first day im nag rated is to say im going to ask the public for on 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask. Not forever, 100 days. I think well see a significant reduction. If that occurs with vaccination and
To vote. This is not just about georgia, this is about america, this is about the world. Look at that, it is a beautiful early, early morning, really overnight in l. A. Right now, isnt it . Beautiful city lights there. Maybe youll see some Christmas Lights here or there. Regardless, we just want to wish you a happy saturday wherever you happen to be waking up. Were glad to have you with us as always. It is saturday, december 5th. Im christi paul. Look whos in with us. Hey, christi. Good to see you all. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. We will start today with covid19 being the number one cause of death this week. The coronavirus has now caused more deaths than heart disease, lung cancer or stroke. Cnns allisison kosik is outsid mount sinai hospital. The stats are so alarming. We know a vaccine is on the way. The concern is how do we get these numbers under control until then . Reporter absolutely. Good morning, martin. We are seeing hospitalizations skyrocket across the count
About this ask from the president . Reporter well, i can tell you one thing, ana, this is not what republicans want the focus of this rally to be here tonight. They were hoping that the president would come here with a clear and very specific message about republicans needing to get out and vote and support the two candidates running in the january 5th runoff. David perdue and kelly loeffler, the republican incumbents, they need to win at least one of those seats in order to maintain the majority in the United States senate so the fact that the president s focus, as he makes his way here to georgia, is the election that already occurred and the one that isnt about to happen is making republicans very nervous here in georgia. And this continues, ana, after that tweet that you played that you showed from earlier in the day with President Trump. Governor kemp actually responded to the president , and he said that he did ask for the signature match audit to take place and he told the presi
Unveiling in the rose garden. Its there it its impossible to fathom, really. Although, i will say, this is not the only way in which President Trumps rally may hurt himself and his party because given the divisions within the Republican Party, and the president s relentless attacks on the republican governor of georgia. Its very possible this could be counterproductive, politically, as well, as they move toward those january runoffs. Susan, we are on the seem wavelength. This brings me to your amazing piece. I saw it last night and i sent it to producers. They were already on it but its amazing. Says, the president is acting crazy, so why are we shrugging it off . You say, donald trump, it turns out, is even more whiny, dishonest, and selfabsorbed than he was before his decisive loss to biden. The temptation is to look away, to cringe, and avert your gaze. But when the president launched a direct attack on american democracy, im not ready to say, yeah, whatever, just yet. I talked a li