Want to wish you a very good morning on this sunday, january 3rd. It is 2021. Im christi paul. And im john avalon in today for victor blackwell. Good to see you. Good to have you back with us, john. The u. S. Is under an awful lot of pressure both from partisan politics and the pandemic. We have more than 350,000 people that have died as of today in this country because of the coronavirus. For the 32nd day in a row, more than 100,000 people are battling covid19 in a hospital. Now vaccines are on the way. Getting people vaccinated, its taking much longer than had been anticipated. There are 13 million doses that have been distributed thus far, but only 4. 2 Million People have received their first shot. And president elect joe biden will inherit this crisis in just 17 days. Before the inauguration on january 20th, a series of consequential steps begins today. In just hours, nancy pelosi faces reelection as speaker of the house. With 117th u. S. Congress set to be sworn in. On tuesday, c