House task force and dr. Atul gawande now advising the biden team. Plus, former National Security john bolton. And former Homeland Security jeh johnson on the lack of white house conversation. With all eyes on georgia the Senate Majority hanging in the balance. We talk to Democratic Senate candidate jon ossoff. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning and welcome to this week. 306 to 232. That is where the Electoral College stands with projections now in from all 50 states and d. C. Joe biden with the same number of electoral votes donald trump claimed victory with four years ago. At the time trump called it a landslide. As we come on the air this morning, after refusing to accept the results, the president seems closer to admitting he lost. Trump tweeting his opponent won because, quote, the election was rigged. He did use the word won. Although he has not conceded and the president continues to spread falsehoods without evidence. It comes
We all want to go Back To School. We also want to go back to School Safely and make sure in addition to getting high up on the Priority List of being vaccinated we want to make sure there is robust testing. When i was home a few weeks ago with Family Members in the School System they had to insure they got their test. Proper protocols. The Biden Administration says theyre following the signs. Weve known since last summers that schools are not a place of spread for covid19. The School Systems got 65 billion last year from congress in covid relief to put in Safety Precautions to allow teachers to get Back To School. The bottom line at this point is that good teachers who want to go Back To School are being held hostage by these Teachers Unions and theyre now extorting the american taxpayer for more money claiming they dont have enough money to go Back To School when theyve been funded and we have the science again with the cdc report this week showing that this disease does not spread in
Toolbox. Johnson johnson now set to file for Emergency Fda approval within a matter of days as the u. S. For the first time confirms two cases of the South African variant believed to be more dangerous and the current vaccines dont seem to protect as well against it. What Public Health experts are recommending ahead. And any minute now were taking you live to the White House Briefing room. We expect to hear from press secretary jen psaki. The next steps getting set for pushing that covid relief bill forward with or without republicans. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington along with tom costello dr. Nahid bhadelia and Stephanie Gosk in West Virginia. Photograph give me if i interrupt you, but talk about those new vaccine trial results. Good news here, the Efficacy Numbers arent as high as weve seen in other vaccines, but this isnt like a bad situation here. Lets give you the Bullet Points before the briefing because theyre important. 72 efficacy in the United States with the n
Good morning and good afternoon from brussels and the 15th edition we are very pleased to welcome you secretary ofnd state Michael Pompeo for a special conversation we have hosted the secretary be for and are pleased to have him back again which is a closely watched conversation on those critical challenges on both sides of thend atlantic. Let me say a word of thanks toou our partners into all associate we are grateful to all of them also a very special thank you to the European Union and all three missions for their consistent partnership also let me say about the forum today, the secretary will make some brief remarks that we are pleased to turn this over for a conversation you have a conversation with the secretary then he has kindly agreed to take a few questions so once again thank you for being with us and brussels thank you for joining. Thank you welcome to secretary of state to tell us what is on his mind i and then i will take some questions from the audience. Please go ahead.
Campaign 2020 trail. Joining the conversation every day on our live callin Program Washington journal and if you missed any of our live coverage, watch any time on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the go with the free cspan radio app. Secretary of state mike pompeo discussed Foreign Policy and transatlantic relationships at a virtual summit. He talked about the wests relationship with china, warning about that countrys influence, including their handling of the coronavirus pandemic and treatment of hong kong. Good morning. Good afternoon from brussels. Welcome back to Brussels Forum 2020 in its 15th edition. Today, were very pleased and honored to welcome u. S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo for a special conversation with us. We have hosted the secretary with us before in brussels, in 2018, very pleased to have him back again for what is sure to be a closely watched conversation on critical challenges facing us in Foreign Policy terms on both sides of the atlantic and transatlanti