Hello to viewers in the United States and around the world. I am dana bash in washington. A big day for joe bidens transition, unveiling his Economic Team and announcing the senior White House Communications staff will feature all women. Also, the president elect gets his first intelligence briefing, a top secret look at the threats facing the country that he will be in charge of as president come january 20th. The president , current president is on twitter and television telling countless lies about the election, none of which deserve to be repeated here. The latest reality check on the president s fantasies coming from wisconsin where recount produced the same result as on election night, that is a joe biden win in wisconsin. Trump appointed judges continue to dismiss his election challenges and the fired top trump Election Security official put it simply, dont believe a word the president is saying. Theres no foreign power that is flipping votes. Theres no domestic actor flipping v
Have we heard from Republican Leaders whether they will go along with what the president wants done . Its been a lot of silence on behalf of republicans. We have heard that House Democrats are willing to put forward a 2,000 direct payment, and that would be by unanimous consent. They would allow that to be added to the package. I think the bigger issue here is this is not a policy debate. This is not something that President Trump is all of a sudden saying, you know, we dont agree on the policy whats happening. He had once to get involved in the debate and the negotiations on this bill. He did not do that. And now hes basically upset with republicans because they have abandoned him in his fight against the electoral college. So its unclear where exactly this ends up because nobody knows what his strategy is. Nobody knows what Donald Trumps end game is. Is he actually going to veto it or was this just a threat that he was upset and he will pull back on that. Thats something were watchin
Hello, everyone. Im alicia menendez. Breaking news tonight. Investigators searching the home of a tennessee man in connection with the Christmas Day bombing in nashville. Also breaking tonight, two pandemic unemployment programs expiring in just hours. Will President Trump sign the relief bill that would help millions . Also tonight, Coronavirus Crisis in california. The governor says the state is preparing for a surge on top of a surge as many refuse to follow stayathome orders over the holidays. Well bring you the latest live from the golden state. This is american voices. Tonight millions of americans will lose critical Unemployment Benefits if President Trump does not sign congress 900 billion covid relief package before midnight. Trump is calling for congress to increase the stimulus checks to 2,000, a figure members of his own party are not on board with. And he is doing nothing to help negotiate a new agreement. All this comes as a Government Shutdown looms on monday. Lets bring
From there. Thatll be a day of celebration. We just want to do it right. So we picked the end of april, the last day, april 30th, as the day where we can seeogress. And we expect to see that. Harris meanwhile, the cdc has issued a travel advisory urging people in new york, new jersey, and connecticut to refrain from nonessential Domestic Travel for 14 days after President Trump had considered a quarantine. This, as Task Force Officials born even if the United States takes the right action, covid19 and its death toll could still spike. I would not be surprised. I dont want to see it. I would like to avoid it. But i wouldnt be surprised if we saw 100,000 dead. We put them into a model. We look at the italy data, selfisolation, and thats where we come up with, if we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100000200000 fatalities. We dont even want to see that. Harris wow, those are huge numbers they are talking about. All modeling, of course, based on what
Like that happening for a period of time. But i would hope it would be a limited period of time, doctors, theyll come back and say for the rest of our lives we have to wear masks. The road map also talks about doing gps for social distancing, and hotels for isolation for people, giving them free hotel rooms. Are those ideas youre looking at . The gps, thats a very severe idea. Ive been hearing about it. Gps, what happens, a siren goes off if you get too close to somebody . But he was with me for a long time. He did a great job at fda. So were taking a look. I just received it a little while ago, he sent it over. So very good. Go ahead, lets give it a shot. Sir, what do you say to americans who are upset with you over the way you down played this crisis over the last couple of months . We have it very much under control in this country, the coronavirus is very much under control in the usa. Its going to disappear. Its like a miracle, it will disappear. March 4th, we have a very small nu