christmas will be different than last. but i can t make that commitment to you. the vaccine rollout which was already lagging is now facing a new challenge. widespread severe winter weather that has shut down shipping hubs and canceled appointments as well as transportation. vaccinations in aln affected. the distribution in some places have been brought to a grinding halt as dr. fauci put it. officials say this means the u.s. will have to work double time to catch up. cnn s jeff zeleny is traveling with president biden in michigan. the u.s. is approaching any day now the 500,000 covid death. president biden under a lot of pressure to ramp up vaccinations. what is he saying today? reporter: he absolutely is under pressure and he knows that he own this is challenge and problem. it is why he wanted to come here to the pfizer plant behind me in portage, michigan, to see firsthand and make the case that, a., vaccines are safe. we have not heard this message in a while, because
i was already ready for a fun show but you were super charged. a few minutes ago i was listening to you and dan goldman have a conversation when you uttered the words, the my pillow guy s soliloquy, words i never thought i would hear in my life. i m deeply appreciative for you kicking it off for us. have yourself a great game and we ll talk about the bucs on monday. i will do, ali. thank you very much, my friend. thanks, friend. all right. well, tonight it is a tale of two parties. one is governing and the other it is not clear what the other party is doing. republicans are destroying themselves from the inside, consumed with feuds over how loyal they can be to a former president who incited an insurrection. and fighting over what actions to not take about the dangerous conspiracy-spewing congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. meanwhile, democrats want to pass laws and help americans who are hurting from the pandemic. today joe biden made it clear he will pass his co
stolen. he amplified these lies at every turn, seeking to convince supporters that they were victims of a massive electoral conspiracy that threatened the nation s continued existence, but every single court to consider the president s attacks on the outcome of the election rejected them and state and federal officials from both parties refuse president trump s increasingly desperate demands that they break the law to keep him in power. with his options running out, trump announced a save america rally. it was an january 6th. he promised it would be, quote, wild. each of those facts cited by house democrats is indisputably true. goes on to draw on donald trump s exact words at the january 6th rally. words we can just play for you because trump said them publicly in front of cameras. we won this election and we won it by a landslide. we re going to have somebody in there that should not be in there and our country will be destroyed and we re not going to stand for that. we r
to block any trump comeback. we begin though with the looming moment of truth for voting rights. the senate will be gavelled into session momentarily, and we will hear from the democratic majority leader, but the more critical action today will be in private. democrats caucus tonight and the current explain for a vote tomorrow. the current math adds up to a stinging defeat for the president and his party. let s get straight to our chief congressional correspondent manu raju. a big day for the democrats, but math isn t changing, is it? reporter: it s not changing, and the question is how far do democrats continue to push this issue and try to set up future votes once this certain-to-fail vote happens which will occur tomorrow. now, the way it will play out is this. in a matter of moments chuck schumer will address the senate and talk about what he views as the way forward, and the way forward tomorrow, a key vote to try to overcome a republican-led filibuster to pass two swe
patrick, it s a check drawn on his campaign funds. you see in the upper left hand corner texans for dan patrick. the czech is drawn on his campaign funds. it s for $25,000. payable to a young man named eric frank. eric frank is a young man who you are about to meet. i almost could not believe the story was real until i saw the actual check. there is the czech! it really happened! this isn t possible! apparently it is it happened, we are going to introduce you to eric frank in just a moment and get the story behind that just moments from now just in a minute. this afternoon in washington and there was a bit of a surprise in the vote in congress that trump advisor steve bannon should be referred for prosecution to the u.s. justice department i mean once upon a time the last time someone refused to comply with a subpoena from congress and congress voted to refer that person for prosecution because of it last time it happened in 1983 the vote in the house to refer that official r