Tonight, several developing headlines as we come on the air. The numbers just in. 165,000 new cases of coronavirus in just 24 hours. And tonight, the news, cases are now on the rise in all 50 states. By one estimate, 74 americans diagnosed every minute. Tonight, the refrigerated trucks we have not seen since the spring. The hospitals in the Heartland Running out of beds. And news on that Pfizer Vaccine tonight. When could it be widely available and what dr. Fauci just said about when americans will likely get this. And how theyll have to transport it. I needs to be kept at 94 degrees below zero. Also tonight, the other breaking headline. 24 hours after President Trump fired his Defense Secretary in a tweet, tonight, three more top pentagon officials out. Martha raddatz standing by. Tonight, the President Elect joe biden is asked what would he say to the American People on what is now playing out. A president who will not concede. Bidens response and mary bruce is live. The Supreme Cour
the idea is to keep them out of hospitals like this one. david? all right, matt gutman leading us off tonight on these new numbers. matt, thank you. of course, the other story breaking as we came on tonight, news from the pentagon now. just 24 hours after president trump fired his defense secretary in a tweet, reports at least three more top officials are now out. and the president-elect joe biden was asked today what he would say to americans about what they re witnessing, a president who won t concede. abc s mary bruce right there asking the questions. reporter: today, president-elect joe biden reassuring the american people that he s forging ahead with his transition. even though the white house isn t cooperating and president trump won t admit he lost. sir, what do you say to the americans that are anxious over the fact that president trump has yet to concede and what that might mean for the country? well, i just think it s an embarrassment, quite frankly. the only thing
interference by russia in the 2016 election. and then when he was caught out, tried to cover it up and obstruct that investigation. now we have the situation with ukraine where we re looking ahead to 2020 election. he is soliciting interference from another country, and when he got caught out, he s tried to obstruct that investigation. so we really do have a lot of urgency to move quickly because we have another election at stake. do you have any reservations, though, about moving forward, actually charging the president of the united states in what is akin to an indictment without having heard from people like john bolton, mick mulvaney. obviously you wanted to. the white house isn t cooperating. but democrats could wait out the court fight and possibly compel them to testify. well, i think we have to deal with we have to play the hand we ve been dealt, okay. so back in may, we asked don mcgahn to come in. he s the president s former white house counsel who allegedly was told by
to work through it as expeditiously as we can. the report that was put out by the intel committee this week has a lot of urgency to it. i mean, we saw with the mueller report, we saw that the president had welcomed and used interference by russia in the 2016 election. and then when he was caught out, tried to cover it up and obstruct that investigation. now we have the situation with ukraine where we re looking ahead to 2020 election. he is soliciting interference from another country, and when he got caught out, he s tried to obstruct that investigation. so we really do have a lot of urgency to move quickly because we have another election at stake. do you have any reservations, though, about moving forward, actually charging the president of the united states in what is akin to an indictment without having heard from people like john bolton, mick mulvaney. obviously you wanted to. the white house isn t cooperating. but democrats could wait out the court fight and possibly compel th
before, in the court of public opinion, people begin to wonder what is this white house hiding, why are they not allowing these officials who were directly involved with this call and these negotiations between the ukraine and the u.s. to appear before the public and answer these pressing questions. jeff, it is a bet. nancy pelosi has said there is enough in what the president has said himself and the rough notes, the rough transcript, whatever it is, there s enough to go on just there. but they need or want to have witnesses. and they wouldn t be subpoenaing these witnesses if they didn t want them. they don t have the luxury of going true an extensive court battle, as they learned when the mueller report was released. time is running out of them. that s right, democrats want to get this done quickly because they don t want it to bleed too far into the presidential chain ne campaign next year. they will certainly be hampered by the fact that the white house isn t cooperating.