Hi, molly. Molly wonderful to be with you, im molly line in for arthel neville. As these talks continue on the hull, millions of doses of Modernas Covid vaccine are on the way after the fda approved emergency use friday night. Meanwhile, some detail of that stimulus deal still need to be hashed out including how much to give out in direct payments. House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy blames the holdup on speaker pelosi. Speaker pelosi finally admitted after the election that he he held up to try to make it an outcome of the election. This whole time when we could have had covid relief for those unemployed, the number of small bids out of work. I am very hopeful we get this done today. Molly a lot of hope that progress is being made. Congressional correspondent chad pergram is watching it on capitol hill for us. Where do we stand on this potentially being wrapped up . Reporter they think they might vote tonight in the house of representatives, but just before i came on the our here, th
Worse, as youre saying. Were seeing an incredible surge. The hospitals are full. The rollout of pfizers vaccine continues across the country. Were going to see the Vice President get it alongside the second lady, alongside the certain Surgeon General. Theyre doing that to try to instill confidence in people. Congress drawing closer to a stimulus deal with the lives of millions of americans on the line. The fact that we cant come together on a bipartisan basis on what is essentially disaster relief, i think, is shameful. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its friday, december 18th, 6 00 here in new york. Alisyn is off. Erica hill with me this morning. And its a big morning, an important morning, not just because youre here. No, this is the least of the importance, let me tell you. This is a big, big day here. Its important that youre here, at least to me. But a lot going o
Resign over the insurrection. I will get reaction from the former secretary of state general colon powell. He is is standing by live. Our correspondents and analysts are also standing by as we cover every angle of this horrific moment in u. S. History. We are getting new information on the push to remove President Trump from office. Lets go to our Senior Investigative correspondent. Manu, tell us what you learned. Reporter discussions among Top Democrats about how to force President Trump from office with just less than two weeks left in his presidency in the aftermath of yesterdays attack on the u. S. Capitol and the president inciting violence and urging supporters to go to the capitol that led to riots and violence and deadly clashes in the u. S. Capitol. Democrats are talking about extraordinary measures to remove the president from office. Nancy pelosi is telling her colleagues and others that she is open to a quick Impeachment Vote as soon as the next several days if the Vice Pre
Cross sucking the wes miscalculations. Im joined by my guest generally in new york. He is a political analyst, as well as a former Foreign Correspondent in russia in washington. We have michael maloof. He is a former pentagon seniors Security Policy analyst, and america. We cross to martin j. Hes an Award Winning journalist and commentator or a gentleman cross sack rules in fact that music and jumping in time you want and i always appreciate let me go to michael in washington. First, let me, he saw from my introduction, i kind of wanted to focus on russia bed down. The news flow is kind of interrupting this error. Shine is very much on in the news flow, taiwan. So michael e, its go do a little bit of history. Remember in december, i think, december 17th to the russian center, no to diplomatic note to nato, into the United States. A do watch your step. Im going to borrow some chinese words. You know, you could get burned with ukraine. Now lets talk about right now. You know, the nancy p
Get political information. But only at cspan do you get it straight from the source. No matter where you are from or where you stand on the issues, cspan is americas network. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. If it happens here or here, or , here, or anywhere that matters, america is watching on cspan. Powered by cable. Washington journal continues. I served we prosecute terrorists, we go after counterterrorism activities. Conduct surveillance authorized by law that allows us to identify terrorists and other adversaries of the United States. At the end of the Bush Administration i served for about six month sunny the Bush White House working on counterterrorism and National Security measures. Host when it comes to measures of National Security what is the significance of the assassination of Ayman Alzawahiri . Guest taking out the leader of al qaeda is usually important. Ayman alzawahiri was part of the 9 11 plot. He was the deputy at the time for Osama Bin Laden. He formed the isla