Top of the hour, im alisyn camerota. Im victor blackwell. Good to be with you. The Vice President and democrats have a message for the gop, the fight is not over. Senate republicans blocked a vote, even a debate, on a sweeping election reforms bill. And progressives are calling out what they say is President Bidens lack of intervention. And some say that if he does not take a stronger hand on Voting Rights, they could block his infrastructure plan. Manu raju joins us. Reporter we know that there is a negotiation happening right now with bipartisan, a group of senators, as well as Senior Administration officials in the senate to try to figure out if there is a bipartisan path forward. The next 24 hours is pivotal. Democrats are trying to pass a smaller bill with about 1. 2 trillion over eight years, and a more massive bill along Straight Party lines. Theres talk of up to 6 trillion, but theres also pressure among liberals who say the bipartisan talks are chewing up too much time. They m
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
That bag has more from tehran. This parliamentary vote was instigated after the assassination of irans leading scientist more in fact resulted. Now this conservative parliamentarian to hold a majority in the parliament, they control parliament. They put forward a motion. Theyre calling on the government to stop inspectors. Currently i. A. E. A. Inspectors can access Irans Nuclear sites without any prior notice. So its unrestricted under something called additional protocol. Now these conservative politicians are calling on the government to stop that. Theyre also calling on the government to increase enrichment to 20 percent currently, its just over the limit in the 2015 nuclear deal, roughly 4. 5 percent, not 20 percent is concerning because once you get to 20 percent, it doesnt take much effort to get to 80 percent which is weapons grade, but iran says it doesnt want a nuclear weapon, but what essentially is playing here is that the conservative parliamentarians that grouping has a d
Company Purdue Pharma appears before congress to answer for its role of the buick crisis. We begin in the u. S. Where covered 19 cases have now passed 50000000 with no slowdown in size the rollout of the 1st Pfizer Vaccine across the atlantic and the u. K. Offers hope but relief in the states is still a long way off on tuesday president elect joe biden and his plan to bring an end to the pandemic mike hanna has a story. President tran convened what was billed as a proxy summit just days before the f. D. A. Is q. To decide on whether to grant an emergency use authorization for the 1st of 2 vaccines and it appears the president is intent on claiming credit for the unprecedented keeps up the fact seems development were just days away from authorization from the f. D. A. And were pushing on the heart that which point we will immediately begin mass distribution before operation warp speed the typical time frame for development that approval has you know. Could be infinity and we were very v
We report from sudan where thousands of refugees who fled the fighting in ethiopia are getting help. President donald trump, a suffered another court loss in his attempt to overturn the results of the us president ial election. A District Court judge in pennsylvania has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the trump campaign, which sought to exclude millions of mail in ballots. In the states, the judge issued a scathing ruling saying it had failed to provide evidence of voter fraud. But from campaign is now lost to withdrawn dozens of civil lawsuits and go live now to washington d. C. Out to 0 as mike hanna is there might this case, one of dozens of similar lawsuits filed by the trump campaign. None of which the so far been successful. Indeed, adrian, the count is more than 30 since the elections brought in various key swing states. But thats very significant because its a ruling by a federal judge and also significant because of the extremely scathing language he used. He likened the trump a