Blocking the commonsense multihundred billion dollars measure that republicans have been ready to deliver for months. Now come first, all of my colleagues had a fine a fine thanksgiving well know that across the country we celebrated a thanksgiving, all of us, every american, unlike any in recent memory. Too many loved ones spent this holiday alone unable to join with loved ones out of concern for their safety. As painful as it is to refrain from seeing family and friends, these are tough choices that we sometimes have to make it and we need to maintain a result more than ever while the hope of a vaccine shimmers on the near horizon, were living through the worst stretch of the pandemic right now. Last friday for the first time over 200,000 new cases of government were reported in ina single day. The United States is averaging over 1 million new cases a week. Some 20 of of all patients now hospitalized in the United States have covid19. The worst andpa most unalterable part of this pan
Well dig into how joe biden will handle did increasingly authoritarian china after the director of National Intelligence warned the biden team against, quote, politicizing intelligence and urged them to acknowledge that china is the greatest National Security threat facing the United States. Plus general Michael Flynn, President Trumps former National Security advisor, speaks with our own lou dobbs after receiving a full president ial pardon. Im Jackie Deangelis. In for Elizabeth Macdonald tonight. The evening edit starts right now. Jackie President Trump has yet to concede the election. Appears he is setting his sights on 2024. Four more years. Otherwise i will see you. [applause] some key republicans are backing the idea. Joining me house judiciary ranking member, jim jordan of ohio. Great to see you. Good to be with you, jackie. Jackie talk about President Trump. Lindsey graham, josh hawley, rick scott, all told politico they would get mind him in he ran in 2024. Your thoughts. I wo
Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with breaking news on just how soon americans may be able to get a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus. Tonight the drug maker moderna says it has applied for emergency approval from the f. D. A. For its vaccine, making it just the second company, after pfizer, to ask for emergency authorization. The company says its on track to have 20 million doses ready by the end of december. The army general in charge of distributing the shots in the u. S. Says that by june, 100 of americans who want to be vaccinated, will be. And the h. H. S. Secretary, alex azar, tells cbs news that many seniors in nursing homes, along with front line workers, will have already gotten their shots before the end of this year. But its what happens before then that has Public Health officials sounding alarms tonight. Dr. Anthony fauci the nations top Infectious Disease expert says the country is now facing a surge on top of a surge. The virus
Fighting yet. So martha, on behalf of not just the senate but the nation, thank you so much for your service to our country, in uniform and here in the senate. We wish you all the best in the bright days to come. Now, madam president yesterday i mention the several bigticket items left on the congressional agenda before the end of the year. Over the next few weeks the city was passed an appropriations bill to keep the government funded that we must ask the annual defense bill, a piece of legislation that congress has passed every year for nearly 600 years in a row. At the top priority as well is a major covid relief bill. We are in a moment of Genuine National catastrophe. The rate of new cases of hospitalizations and deaths are the highest or do the highest at any point during this awful pandemic. The economic fallout of the pandemics spreads and spreads, november saw the largest single to we could jump in unemployment benefit application since early april, enhanced job benefits are o
Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be