Vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that his administration actually rejected an early offer from pfizer to double its order of the vaccines more on this from washington with mike hanna. Its clear that this executive order comes from the differences between pfizer and his administration and the refusal of the administration to commit to buying more than 100000000 doses at the time that it could the executive order ports to insist that all americans must be treated before any doses go internationally well this is simply an in forcible it would appear has signed a large number of International Contracts as has the other company but these companies contracts already in place in some cases doses have already been shipped internationally so certainly this is something that would be very hard to legally enforced president tran claims that he may invoke the National Procurement act seldom used. To force companies to actually comply but its v
An emergency approval so yes it is quicker than normal but the European Union has been quite critical of whats been going on here in the u. K. Saying that but some corners have been cut that the regulator here has been far too hasty in the e. U. s way of doing things is the best way of doing things obviously thats hugely debatable but also has to be found the United States has chimed in with interviews on u. S. Television also accusing the british regulator of just simply rubber stamping all of the research that was done by pfizer not going deeply or rigorously enough into approving the vaccines efficacy and safety as we heard there he quickly backtracked saying that he now does have confidence in british scientists and regulators and has always had confidence in all of this was just a simple mess understanding is could be a difficult backtrack though but nevertheless he has tried to explain his position by saying well look things are just different done differently in the United State
Well over one, Donald Trumps suffered yet another court loss in his attempt to overturn the results of the us president ial election. A federal judge in pennsylvania has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the trunk campaign, which tried to exclude millions of mail in ballots. The judge issued a scathing ruling saying it failed to provide any evidence of voter fraud. Trumps campaign has now lost all withdrawn dozens of similar lawsuits. Lets get an update now from mike hanna, in washington. D. C. Count is more than 30 since the elections brought in various key swing states. But this very significance because its a ruling by a federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump appeal to a frankenstein monster which had been put together haphazardly. He made very clear that he believed there was no grounds for the trump claim whatsoever. And this makes it very unlikely that it can go on and appeal, given that there are no grounds. Nevert
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