Plus, diana duped . The new investigation into a famous interview Princess Diana gave. Was she tricked into talking . The new tribble to trebek from jeopardy itself and four people who could become the shows next host. Later, reaching new heights. The incredible feat that has one rock climber making history. Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. Were following several stories breaking overnight concerning the transition of power in washington. Attorney general william barr has now given prosecutors the authority to investigate claims of voter fraud. His move has prompted a top official at the Justice Department to resign. The other big story this morning, the future of obamacare at stake as the Supreme Court takes up a case today affecting millions of Americans Health care. It all comes as a new Coronavirus Vaccine and antibody treatment shows promise but daily hospitalizations just hit the highest level since july and president elect biden is warning of a dark winter ahead. This morning, ob
Plus, diana duped . The new investigation into a famous interview Princess Diana gave. Was she tricked into talking . The new tribble to trebek from jeopardy itself and four people who could become the shows next host. Later, reaching new heights. The incredible feat that has one rock climber making history. Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. Were following several stories breaking overnight concerning the transition of power in washington. Attorney general william barr has now given prosecutors the authority to investigate claims of voter fraud. His move has prompted a top official at the Justice Department to resign. The other big story this morning, the future of obamacare at stake as the Supreme Court takes up a case today affecting millions of Americans Health care. It all comes as a new Coronavirus Vaccine and antibody treatment shows promise but daily hospitalizations just hit the highest level since july and president elect biden is warning of a dark winter ahead. This morning, ob
But many queions remain. The news came on the same day thtotal number of u. S. Infections tped 10 million. We will speak toulitzer ize winning journalist laurie gaett. We will look at the death of palestinian chief negotiator saeb erekat who has died from covid. Then fears are growing that the Trump Administration is moving to overturn the election of joe biden. On monday, attorney general william barr authorized new probes into voter fraud as republican lawmakers are backing trumps decision not to concede to the president elect. President trump is 100 within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and wait his legal options. Amy we will speak to kristen clarke, president of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Attorney general william barr upended Longstanding Justice Department policy on monday by announcing federal prosecutors could investigat
Francine, went up 15 . That was the kind of move we saw. Last night, and a lot of people missed this in america, exhausted from the election, we nestor8 00 or 9 00 p. M. , barr making these statements. I would suggest this mr. Barr mr. Barr making these statements. He was extremely careful. Every word was chiseled out. For me the headline is the 20year veteran of this under election crimes, mr. Pilger, a herk to james moody, resigned. To me that is the real headline. Francine it is a huge deal and we are trying to figure out what this means for the Republican Party and the strategy possible there. Stephanie baker says it could have something to do with the Senate Election in georgia. We will have plenty more on that. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trumps attorney general, william barr, will let the Justice Department investigate potential voting irregularities in the president ial election. But barr has acknowledged there is no conclusive evidence and w
Today low to mid 60s. 61 to 66. Some upper 50s at the coast. Kumasi, reggie. Mike, thank you. Happening today, president elect joe biden talking about his plans for health care. Hes already at work tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile President Trump and his team defiant claiming that the election was stolen but providing no evidence to back that up. Abc News Reporter alex presha live in washington. Goodern moi morning, reggie kumasi. No evidence right now to back up those claims of Election Fraud. Meanwhi meanwhile, we know president elect joe biden is set to address health care. Supreme court looking at the Affordable Care act today. But on the coronavirus front, some good news. Drugmaker pfizer announcing that its vaccine has a 90 or more than 90 effectiveness rate in some lateround clinical trials. As the u. S. Passes 10 million covid cases president elect joe biden is welcoming pfizers vaccine breakthrough but warning more work is still to be done. The challenge before us