This marks another apparent change to the white house schedule following the president s early return from florida yesterday. All of this amid renewed military tensions with iran in a few minutes well have a live report from tehran from you. And over on capitol hill just moments ago Senate Republican leaders blocked efforts to bring a vote on 2,000 stimulus checks to the floor in a rare holiday session of congress. We start on the latest with the white house transition. Joining me now nbc news political reporter at the white house, nbc news correspondent mike memoli, and victoria soto, the director of communications. Im going to start with you, monica. Vice president pence asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit led by house republicans, it would have expanded his power to overturn the election when congress meets to certify bidens win. Talk us through what this all means. Vice president mike pence is expected in his role, of course, as the number two in government, to oversee th