By stoking civil unrest, puts the safety of americans his refusal to concede the election entered a more dangerous phase as he Stock Exchange resistance and unrest among supporters and spreads false hoods aimed as undermining integrity of the american voting system. More than a week after the president elect joe biden was declared winner, trump continues to block his successors transition, withholding intelligence briefings, critical information about coronavirus, and access to the vast machinery of government that mr. Biden will soon oversee. Speaking of the president elect, he was asked about trump stonewalling last hour. Bidens answer was simple. More people may day if we dont coordinate. How do we get the vaccine, how do we get over 300 million americans vaccinated . Whats the game plan . It is a huge, huge, huge undertaking. If we have to wait until january 20th to start that planning, it puts us behind, a month, month and a half. So it is important that it be done, that there be
Civilian leadership at the pentagon. The times reports it this way. Quote, trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office Meeting thursday whether he had options to take action against irans main nuclear site in the coming weeks. The advisers including mike pence, secretary of state mike pompeo, christopher miller, the acting defense secretary, general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs, warned that a strike against irans facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of mr. Trumps presidency. There was also more reporting today that trump wants to order a reduction in the number of our troops in afghanistan from about 4,500 down to 2,500. Were now into week two of trumps effort to stall the biden transition. Again today trump falsely declared victory. What he barely mentioned today is the coronavirus now spreading uncontrolled through our country. Trump appears to have abandoned all public efforts to manage the pandemic. He certainly has made no refer
So im hopeful that the Budget Committee conference will revisit or at least come up with a product that has not been discussed which will accomplish the objective of putting this country on a fiscally sustainible path for the long term, coming up, treasury secretary jack lew on implementation of the doddfrank regulations. And president obama at the white house hanukkah reception. Later, the democratic steering expiring hearing on Unemployment Benefits. Span, washington journal looks at the mission and role of the National Institutes of health. Starting live at 7 30 eastern with director Francis Collins on the medical research priorities. Future projects and the impact of sequestration. At 8 00, allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci followed by derek green director of the National Human Genome Research institute gave at 9 00, harold varmus. At nine 30 come i look at the National Institute of Mental Health with director thomas in cell thomas insel. All with your comments
Hes been doing so all week. Bill, whats the latest . Good morning to you, lynn. The storm is just off the florida coast. Tracking all the way up and down the eastern seaboard. So many people on the west coast travel there or have family and friends that could be impacted by this storm. A lot of our favorite vacation spots on the east coast are getting impacted. High winds in florida. It will be a lot worse as we go through the weekend and especially the tail end of the weekend into the northeast. It almost looks like an extra tropical system or a hybrid with tropical conditions to the north sucking in dry air to the south. Thats going to be the story with this. New england is not going to be hit with a hurricane. It will be a noreaster with rain instead of snow. The forecast path takes it parallel to the coast and then inland, somewhere right along the big cities. Some of the most highly density populated areas. Between washington, d. C. And new york city. We wont focus too much on the
The east coast is bracing for a direct hit by Hurricane Sandy. Utility companies are busy ma making emergency plans. The storm is churning out in the caribbean where its being blamed for at least 21 deaths. 11 of those in cuba alone. Lets begin with nbcs jay gray. Reporter sandys Early Warning came as the storm lashed the caribbean. Violent winds and driving rains battering the island, cuba taking the most direct hit. I have been watching it for the last two or three days. I saw this morning that its headed this way. Reporter models show sandy brush i brushing the midatlantic and targeting the east coast early next week. If the forecast holds, new york could take a direct hit. We have opened the office of Emergency Management situation room already. The nyc coastal storm plan was activated early this morning. Early signs are showing up in florida. Thick clouds and a growing surf. Its beautiful. Reporter and lifeguards warn extremely dangerous. Every year we have some kind of terrible t