With three crucial spending bills up in the air right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york welcome to the week. Today marks four weeks since joe biden was projected as the president elect, and today marks one month until voters in georgia set the tone for the u. S. Senate. Republican senators david perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing democratic challengers jon ossoff and the reverend Raphael Warnock respectively. Georgia has not elected a democrat to the senate since 1996. Last month joe biden became the first democrat to win georgia in a president ial race since 92. Now, President Trump spent this evening rallying supporters in valdosta, georgia. He urged the crowd of course to vote for the incumbents, while also saying that the election he just lost was rigged. That contradictions pretty glaring. Urging people to take part in a process he maintains is airredeemably fraudulent. But that narrative is everywhere. Even behind the scenes. This was the wifi password for repor
North carolina tonight issuing a new curfew. Washington state taking action, too. Breaking news tonight from the Supreme Court involving President Trump and his effort to somehow overturn the election. Tonight, the justices have now weighed in, shooting down a challenge by trump allies in pennsylvania. The court rejecting it in one sentence. What they said and terry moran is live tonight. This evening, president elect joe biden revealing what hell do on the virus in his first 100 days. What this means for masks in this country. And vaccinations, calling for 100 million vaccinations in 100 days. And dr. Anthony fauci right there, what he said. Mary bruce standing by. And tonight, president elect biden making news with his historic pick for secretary of defense. A retired fourstar army general. If confirmed, he would be the first africanamerican to lead the pentagon. Sweeping punishments at ft. Hood following the death of Vanessa Guillen. 14 Senior Leaders fired or suspended by the penta
The wings right now ready for distribution across the country, starting tomorrow. The new vaccine mailed by moderna just needs final approval from the director of the cdc to start shipping out. A Committee Gave its final recommendation for approval earlier today. The optimism from Health Officials about the approved vaccines is weighed against the heart breaking numbers of people in the u. S. Who are newly sick and dying from the coronavirus. More than 18,000 americans died from covid in just the past seven days. 18,000 americans dead from covid in a week. An emergency medicine doctor tells cnn that right now there are no longer coronavirus hot spots in the United States. The entire country, the entire country is now a hot spot with one american dying from the pandemic every 30 seconds. Theres also breaking news tonight from washington. We are learning some stunning new details of talks in the white house that turned into screaming matches, one unbelievable subject discussed during a m
My entire building just fell down, it is collapsing. Neil chilling 9 one one calls from the National Christmas day bombing, what the police chief is saying about warning signs one year ago. Is a new coronavirus strain raises the alarm Governor Andrew Cuomo isnt letting 7000 Buffalo Bills fans attend their nfl playoff game. Another slap in the face to shutdown businesses. Fox and friends starts right now. When you would be here in my arms. In the excitement, all 12 of you. Jillian if i could fill it all in my office. I have one of these and i went to grab it and knocked involving over my desk, coffee goes everywhere, good morning. We may smell like coffee but if jillian starts winking at you we dont want to give you the wrong impression. Everything is cool. With that welcome to the final fox and friends first of 2020 on this new years eve morning. Jillian thank you for joining us. Lets bring in this. Mitch mcconnell slamming the brakes on 2,000 believe checks for millions of americans.
This marks another apparent change to the white house schedule following the president s early return from florida yesterday. All of this amid renewed military tensions with iran in a few minutes well have a live report from tehran from you. And over on capitol hill just moments ago Senate Republican leaders blocked efforts to bring a vote on 2,000 stimulus checks to the floor in a rare holiday session of congress. We start on the latest with the white house transition. Joining me now nbc news political reporter at the white house, nbc news correspondent mike memoli, and victoria soto, the director of communications. Im going to start with you, monica. Vice president pence asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit led by house republicans, it would have expanded his power to overturn the election when congress meets to certify bidens win. Talk us through what this all means. Vice president mike pence is expected in his role, of course, as the number two in government, to oversee th