to just breeze through airport security in seconds, but might this be yet another example of handing over all your private information to the government? welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. the politics lead. in a matter of hours, president biden is scheduled to leave for europe. best case scenario for the president he'll leave after securing the biggest legislative deal of his presidency and an agreement among all democrats on the social safety necessary package that would give biden legislative victories on universal pre-k, expanded medicare coverage, and more, not to mention the bipartisan infrastructure bill. that's the best case scenario. but as of this hour, it seems that biden will be departing empty handed. his party deadlocked like a hung jury, unable to reach consensus. jeremy diamond starts us off from the white house where the chances of a deal have changed by the hour. >> reporter: less than 24 hours before he leaves for europe, president biden still doesn't have a deal on his social and climate spending package. as the clock ticks down, democrats still working to resolve major sticking points, including the top line spending number, an effort to expand medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing. medicare drug price negotiation, the details of the climate provisions in the bill, and exactly how to pay for everything. despite the mountain of unresolved issues, the white house remaining optimistic. >> he's getting a deal by tomorrow. is it still realistic? >> yes, what we're talking about here is the nitty-gritty details. that's always what the focus is on. at this point in the negotiations. but it's only 1:30. we've got some time. >> reporter: at the white house and on capitol hill, a full-court press still under way. president biden sitting down with the two key holdouts, senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema at the white house on tuesday, making clear he wants a deal now. >> the president has made that very clear. he wants to move forward. we owe it to the president to move forward. he's working 24/7. i guarantee you. i've been with him most 24/7. he's working as hard as he possibly can to get a good, solid deal. and, you know, he believes 100% of nothing is nothing. >> reporter: top officials keeping up the pressure meet with manchin and sinema for more than two hours. and the president could also head to congress himself. >> we haven't made a decision to do that and we're making decisions hour by hour on what would be most constructive to move things forward. >> manchin still casting doubt on key provisions to pay for the bill like a tax on billionaires' assets. >> i don't like it. i don't like the connotation that we're targeting different people. >> reporter: there is progress on some issues. senator sinema and manchin both rallying around an agreement on a 15% minimum corporate tax. the white house officials telling lawmakers that the climate provisions in the bill will total more than $500 billion. reassuring progressives. as for the rest, with or without a deal, biden will board air force one tomorrow. >> there's some flexibility in the morning but i would not suggest that he's going to delay his trip. he doesn't have the space to delay it much. >> reporter: beyond the question of whether there will be an agreement, once there is one, the white house had hoped they could see a vote on the infrastructure bill in the house very quickly. but progressives are digging in saying they want a vote on the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package the very same day. the question is, can president biden move them? the house majority leader steny hoyer telling reporters on the hill he believes the president can look them in the eye and get them to where they need to be. >> jeremy diamond at the white house, thanks. democratic congresswoman jackie speier of california. part of the group of democrats who met with president biden and white house officials this week. i hate to sound like one of my kids in the back seat of my car, but are you there yet? >> we're always almost there yet. we don't operate unless there is a deadline, and so the fact that there are deadlines and the deadlines move shouldn't surprise anyone because that's the way congress does business. it's messy. it's like making sausage. but this is transformational change that is going to take place as a result of these two bills. so it should be something that we rejoice about when it's all signed, sealed and delivered, and it's going to be signed, sealed and delivered within the next couple of days. >> within the next couple of days. today the senate finance committee released a plan for the billionaires tax to help pay for the spending bill. this would apply to those with a billion dollars or more in assets such as real estate or business interest or for those who make $100 million or more for three consecutive years. according to the committee, this tax could apply to roughly 700 american taxpayers. cnn's manu raju pressed senator manchin about this plan. take a listen to what he heard. >> are you supportive of the billionaires tax? >> i'm supporting that everyone should pay their fair share. i don't like it. i don't like the connotation that we're targeting different people. >> what would your response to senator manchin be? >> well, i like what he says in terms of everyone should pay their fair share, but the truth of the matter is people like elon musk who was objecting to the billionaires tax just made $36 billion on his stock yesterday. so what we need to do is find a way to make sure that those who are the very, very rich, the 700 people, are paying something. if what they can do is hold onto the stock and take a loan out against it and not pay the taxes on it then they're not paying their fair share. and, you know, for those of us that pay 30%, 35% of our income to taxes, we're paying our fair share. we just want to make sure everyone else is, too. >> reporter: progressive democrats started off with a wish list in the $6 trillion range. now in the ballpark of somewhere around 1.5 to $2 trillion. how will you convince your voters they're not getting scraps, that democrats did deliver on the promises you campaigned on. >> you know, jake, what's really important to appreciate here is that we have just -- if we had just done $500 billion on climate change, as the president was saying yesterday afternoon, if we had just done that, people would be ecstatic. but we're doing that plus we're doing another $350 billion in creating universal pre-k. only 50% of our kids actually have pre-k in this country. in germany, it's 90%. so that's huge. child care, 7% of your income going to child care as opposed to 30%, which it is in some of the areas and certainly in my area. another big win. so i think what we need to appreciate, regardless of what that final number is, this is massive transformational change for working families in america. the infrastructure bill is going to create 2 million jobs, and we want to make sure that the 1.6 million women who have left the workforce over the last two years because of covid, because of the child care network that doesn't exist, that they can go back to work. so both these bills represent a jobs package. and that's the way we're going to sell it to the american people. >> arguably since the summer we've heard democrats are on the verge of a deal in a few days, maybe tomorrow. i want to play what mitt romney said about this entire process. take a listen. >> i watch this going on and it's like the seinfeld presidency. it's a presidency about nothing. i mean, what is this -- what's going on here with this negotiation? we're trying to get a budget in place. trying to get defense authorization in place and they're fussing around where it's really hard to tell where they're trying to go. >> are you concerned at all there might be other independent voters out there? he's not independent, but other moderate republicans and independent voters out there maybe moderate democrats who may also see it that way? >> the proof is in the pudding. it was really easy for then-president trump to pass a $5 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest 0.5% because they didn't pay for it. we're trying to be responsible here and have a package that is paid for. so that we can look the american people in the eye and say, yeah, this is happening. you're going to get universal pre-k, but it's also paid for. so that's the difference. and while i really respect senator romney, he just needs to look in the mirror and realize he was able to vote for a tax cut that was never paid for. and we're trying to do the more responsible thing. >> i'm sure senator romney would say, well, he has a rebuttal to that. but beyond that we don't have any time. but you say the proof is in the pudding. we're waiting to see the pudding as i'm sure you are even more so. jackie speier, thank you for your time today. kids as young as 5 could soon be eligible for a covid vaccine. but does that mean parents will be on board? 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we're on it. we're on it. with jardiance. ask your doctor about jardiance. in our health lead, parents, start thinking about scheduling an appointment. your young children could get vaccinated against covid as soon as next week. this would be a giant leap towards containing the pandemic and protecting your kids and loved ones now that the fda made a key vote in favor of the smaller pfizer dose for kids 5 to 11. as nick watt reports, in order to slow down the deadliest pandemic in a century, parents need to get on board. how many will? >> reporter: around 28 million kids could become eligible for a vaccine as early as next week. >> states have now placed their initial orders of vaccine for kids. >> reporter: fda advisers voted 17-0 to recommend the pfizer vaccine for kids 5 to 11. in trials, over 90% effective at preventing them getting sick. and safety? >> when we make these decisions it's all based on one thing. would we give this vaccine to our children? no one would have said yes if they weren't willing to give it to their own children. >> but only about one-third of parents plan to get their 5 to 11-year-olds vaccinated right away. so says one poll. >> there's urgency because we're seeing disease in children. we've seen death in children. among all children ages 5 to 11, covid-19 was one of the top ten causes of death in the united states over the last year. >> reporter: louisiana just lifted its mask mandate everywhere except schools. done its job apparently. broward county, florida, will, starting monday, lift the mask mandate for high schools. >> we are strongly encouraging the use of masks but not making it mandatory. >> reporter: many other school districts across the country are considering something similar, but the cdc still says wear masks in school. and has no plans to change that. here in los angeles, the city council did just change the deadline for all city workers to be fully vaccinated. it was last week. it's now december 18th. meantime officials in new york city are standing firm. 5:00 p.m. friday, the deadline for new york city workers to have had at least one shot now. as of this morning, more than a quarter of the nypd still hadn't gotten the shot. the commissioner says that some vaccinated officers might have to work overtime or double shifts. jake? >> a hard decision for people in the business of public safety. nick watt, thank you so much. joining us now, an emergency medicine physician and medical director at the baylor college of medicine. doctor, thanks for joining us. right now kids 12 to 15 are getting the full adult 30 microgram pfizer dose. for kids 5 to 11 it will be 10 micrograms. can you explain why are the doses based on age not weight considering, you know, a 12-year-old could be smaller than an 11-year-old. >> what we do know is that pfizer actually tested a few different doses before they settled on the 10 microgram dose used in the phase three trial. so what i conjecture is that the 10 microgram dose is what seemed to do the best in that age group. >> what would you advise parents do if their kid just turned 12, go with the 12 to 18? >> yes, definitely go with the 12 to 18 full 30 microgram dose of the vaccine. >> you heard in nick's piece, several schools are considering pulling back on their mask mandates, but community transmission is still considered high in almost 80% of counties in the u.s. does this worry you considering not all kids are going to be protected right away? >> it definitely worries me. i think we're jumping the gun a little bit. we saw this happen in june over the summer when we declared the pandemic to be over a bit too early. we decided that those who are vaccinated need not wear masks, which turned into everyone not wearing masks. and then subsequently, the spike and the delta wave followed. it's not the time to start peeling back those layers of protection just because we have a vaccine for 5 to 11-year-olds on the horizon. we do still need children to mask in order to stay as safe as possible. >> over 6 million children in the u.s. have gotten covid, according to the american academy of pediatrics. do those kids still need to get vaccinated considering they do already have some immunity already from having gotten the disease and their body building up antibodies? >> absolutely. the recommendations for children will be the same as the recommendations for adults. even if you already have had covid, natural immunity is not enough to protect you from contracting an alternate strain of the virus. for people who have had covid, we still recommend you get vaccinated. >> as cases and hospitalizations start trending down, are you worried about the 22% of the eligible, yet unvaccinated population, do you think that they are a lost cause at this point? >> i don't think that anyone is a lost cause. i do think, though, that there has been so much misinformation that at this point it's kind of difficult for people to determine what's fact and what's fiction. all we can do in the medical community is continue to push the data, continue to push the science, continue to talk about facts and hope that those who are hesitant will listen. >> the cdc says immunocompromised adults might need another booster down the line, theoretically a fourth shot. just for people with a compromised immune system, do you foresee that the covid vaccine booster could become an annual shot much like the flu shot even though i know they're different? >> it could become annual. it could become something that's biannual, actually. a lot of vaccines work in that way. when you get the initial dose, it's sort of primes your immune system, almost as if you're painting a wall. you put the primer down so the color sticks and it pops a little more. for those who are immunocompromised, while the rest of us may be starting at ground zero, they're starting at a negative ten because they don't have a functioning immune system to begin with, which is why it takes more doses in order for them to develop an adequate immune response. >> pfizer is considering lowering the dosage of the vaccine for kids 12 to 15 in the future right now as you and i discussed. they're getting the full adult dose. teens 12 to 15 are in the lowest vaccinated group when you break it down by age in terms of everyone eligible. do you think this inconsistent messaging is part of one of the problems that might be scaring some parents away? the fact that this is very much a work in progress? >> it's not inconsistent messaging. it's evolving messaging, jake. and while i do think that could potentially be scaring parents away, what i want people to understand is that we're not giving recommendations and then just changing our minds the next week or the next month. we're examining the data as it's presented and changing recommendations based on science. it's the nature of science to evolve. for our recommendations, to stay the same from one week to the next in the face of new data would be misinformation. >> thank you so much. really appreciate it. the committee investigating the insurrection on january 6th is now targeting a new trump associate. details next. when subway® opened they changed the fast food game. but sometimes you gotta refresh ...to be fresh. welcome to the eat fresh refresh. refresh where there is so much new, some say that it can't fit in one ad. i say... ...we're talking a new all-american club, deli-style oven-roasted turkey and... oh, that's the new steak & cheese. oh yeah, i knew that. that's the one with the new... ...seasoning. and that was the new mvp parmesan vinaigrette . right. which makes a next level foot... hold up. the subway logo? 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>> because mike pence is an establishment at the end of the day. all establishment republicans in d.c. bought into this very myopic view that trump was just throwing the republican party. >> that video was made by democratic activist laura windsor. she posed as a serpt of trump's and eastman's to get him to talk. but it's significant because just last week eastman told the national review that any plan to have pence overturn the election was, quote, crazy and not viable. you see there in that video, when he thinks he's talking to someone sympathetic, he has a completely different story. we've reached out to mr. eastman about the potential subpoena and video. he has not had any comment but a committee aid tells cnn he could avoid a subpoena if he wants to voluntarily cooperate with investigators. >> the committee investigating the insurrection has postponed a request for some records from the trump white house. why is that? >> that's right. the committee is adamant. they've postponed this request. they're not withdrawing it. we don't know specifically what these documents are but it does appear that they're paring down the amount of stuff they're asking for because they are faissing some potentially very lengthy litigation. former president trump has sued to try to block the house investigators from getting a lot of these documents and appears they want to narrow it down to what they really need but reserve the right to go back and ask for this stuff in the future. >> paula reid, thank you. former president trump just threw his support behind a world leader. a leader who just had criminal charges recommended against him. plus, law enforcement officials today revealing new details about the film shooting involving alec baldwin. they say no one, no one has been ruled out when it comes to potential charges. stay with us. sharing smiles together is a gift. at aspen dental, it's easy to gift yourself the smile you deserve. new patients, get started with a comprehensive exam and full set of x-rays with no obligation. and if you don't have insurance, it's free. plus, get 20% off your treatment plan. enjoy flexible payment options and savings when it matters most. we're here to make your smile shine bright so you can start the new year feelin' alright. call 1-800-aspendental 7 days a week or book today at aspendental.com if your summer looked like this, chances are your lawn looks like this. fortunately, scotts turf builder can repair the wear and tear so you can keep the fun going long into the fall. hearing is important to living life to the fullest. that's why inside every miracle-ear store, you'll find a better life. it all starts with the most innovative technology. like the new miracle-earmini, available exclusively at miracle-ear. so small that no one will see it, but you'll notice the difference. and now, miracle-ear is offering a thirty-day risk-free trial. you can experience better hearing with no obligation. call 1-800-miracle right now and experience a better life. i'll shoot you an estimate as soon as i get back to the office. hey, i can help you do that right now. high thryv! thryv? 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>> reporter: just a few months ago, cpac, an american import, joined in hoping to revive jair bolsonaro's dwindling base. taking a page from the trump playbook -- >> bolsonaro will win unless it's stolen, by, guess what, the machines. >> the machines. >> reporter: bolsonaro has been sowing doubt on the integrity of brazil's entire electronic voting system calling for printed ballots to supplement electronically cast votes. >> you don't have proof that there is fraud. but there is also no proof that there isn't. >> reporter: as the calls for his impeachment grow louder and the threats of criminal prosecution loom large, bolsonaro continues to fight for political survival. echoing the words of his u.s. ally and role model donald trump and threatening not to hand over the presidency next year if there is suspicion of fraud. >> translator: i have three alternatives for my future. being arrested, killed or victory. >> jake, the report by the brazilian senate recommending those criminal charges against jair bolsonaro is expected to be handed over to the attorney general today. but many aren't sure anything will really come of it. the attorney general, jake, he was appointed by the president himself and is seen not only as an ally and a supporter of bolsonaro. for those 600,000 families who lost a loved one to covid-19, perhaps change may not come here with this report but perhaps it may come at the polls next year. >> isa soares, thank you. turning to our politics lead. cnn's dana bash travelled to three pivotal states in the united states to speak to lawmakers from both parties about how trump's big lie about the election is affecting their preparations for upcoming elections. and undermining the competence of voters. dana, one of the states that you visited is texas where you pushed a republican state lawmaker on some of the restrictive election changes they're making, despite no evidence, no evidence that texas didn't have free and fair elections. ones that were quite successful for republicans. >> really successful for republicans in texas. and one of the most remarkable takeaways, jake, was that i did not speak with a single republican in texas or in arizona or in georgia who believed that the former president is telling the truth. they all said to me point blake, joe biden is the freely and fairly elected president. however, what they said was their constituents don't believe that and that is why they are feeling pressure to act. >> we want to restore that confidence that we should all have in our elections. i don't think it was lost in texas. i don't think it was in jeopardy of being lost in texas. y. >> why do you have to restore confidence in an election that you're saying went well that you're saying was free and fair. the only reason you'd do that is because people are being gaslit. >> i do have -- i think we do need to acknowledge in the political zeitgeist that exists right now, that is hanging over like a cloud. >> pure theft. >> reporter: a zeitgeist perpetuated by the former president and his allies p. we had a rigged election. a stolen election. >> the bigger picture is beyond donald trump. it is the changing demographics of the country. >> and the only topic they have left is to try to shrink the electorate and make it harder for black, brown and young voters to participate. >> there's no question that's what they're doing right now? >> i don't think there's any question in their mind. they're not hiding the fact that this is what they're doing. they are pretty out in the open shouting it out loud. >> and the point that he just made is really critical because you said texas went republican. it did. donald trump won there. but he didn't win the big cities. and those are the places where the voter turnout was enormous. probably higher than ever. and those cities went for joe biden. and that is why there is so much pressure and these republican lawmakers there, even though, you know, they are hearing from their constituents, they also see an opening to change voting laws that maybe will keep them in power just a little bit longer, despite demographic changes that help the democrats. >> don't they see that they are humoring trump's lies, giving credibility to them, and that is doing lasting damage? >> privately, likely the answer is yes. but nobody would admit that anywhere close to the record. and that is because they are under such enormous pressure, jake, by their -- again, by their constituents who believe these lies. and over and over in various ways, they would say almost -- it doesn't matter what i think. it matters what our constituents think. and the pushback, of course, was, but you're a leader. you're supposed to say this is not true. what is true is that the election was free and fair. and the answer was, we need to get back to election integrity. it's really remarkable. the same verbiage in every single place i went. they used the same term. >> that's like saying we need to vote against nasa funding because my constituents think that the moon landing was faked. >> yeah, well, except for the difference is that the term election integrity has a lot of power. not just with the republican base, but even if you look at cnn's own polling, with the electorate that's broader than the base. >> what else can we expect to see tonight? >> i think that it really does show that all of the discussion that you have on the show and elsewhere about the big lie, it isn't just a hangover from 2020. this is very much being used in an active way to change the laws in critical swing states that could change the elections in these swing states. both in the midterms, a year from now, and ultimately in 2024. both in how voters have access to the ballot but also how the votes are counted and who is in charge. >> voters are supposed to pick politicians. politicians are not -- >> nothing short of democracy in peril. >> dana bash, thank you. congratulations on the new special. watch "stop the vote: the big lie's assault on democracy" at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight on cnn. a big bomb cyclone. plus, new tech that could change the way we all travel at the airport. we'll explain, next. ♪ ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ ♪ (peaceful music) ♪ ♪ ♪ (battle sounds from phone) ♪ ♪ (battle sounds stop) ♪ ♪ (dragon roar from phone) ♪ ♪ ♪ well the sun is shining and the grass is green ♪ ♪ i'm way ahead of schedule with my trusty team ♪ ♪ there's heather on the hedges ♪ ♪ and kenny on the koi ♪ ♪ and your truck's been demolished by the peterson boy ♪ ♪ yes -- ♪ wait, what was that? 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>> well, i think, jake, the winds will still be strong enough to keep power crews away from dealing with live wires. they'll be cleaning up. there's a lot of damage. but this storm system is slowly spinning off. winds still northeast. hence the term nor'easter. a lot of people are shocked by how much damage we've seen. the amount of rainfall, the forecast was pretty good. over 4 inches central manhattan. get into areas around new jersey toward connecticut, 5 and 6 inches. we did expect the wind gusts to become hurricane strength. develop ed during the dark of te night. in massachusetts, in around cape cod, over 80, 90 miles an hour. a lot of trees that are down. especially around boston. i think those people are waking up to a big mess. it's going to take days, weeks in some cases. the good news is, thank goodness the winds will be lightening up overnight and good thing this didn't occur two months from now because we'd be shoveling and seeing a lot of snow plows on the road. those that have lost power, at least they'll not wake up with frigid cold. they can make it through the next couple of days. now the next system is on the way. series of three storms making their way from west coast to east coast. and each one has been producing tornadoes. a tornado watch, louisiana, southeast, southern mississippi 10:00 central daylight time. even a warn north of baton rouge. we've had eight tornadoes already today, east texas and toward louisiana. but many, many more warnings. and that's going to continue. so again, this third in a series of three gives us not only a threat now, but it will continue to make its way into the tennessee valley and then, jake, you're in for more heavier rainfall as the storm by the end of the week continues to make its way back to the northeast. those that have seen flooding and there were numerous water rescues. this ground is still saturated. we'll another round of heavier rainfall moving into the area. the good news is it's a snowless nor'easter. the series of three finally moving out of the area and winds will lighten up. but those, of course, it's a nuisance to lose power but give the crews time once these winds lighten up. they'll be able to get to work. thank goodness this is getting over with. >> tom sater, thank you. in our tech lead. you may be your own ticket for the future of air travel. no paper or fumbling with your phone. just your face. and a few questions about cybersecurity and privacy. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean got a look at the latest technology which is supposed to speed things up. >> reporter: for the first time, your next flight could be unlocked by facial recognition technology, starting at bag check, going through security and all the way to the gate. >> success. >> you're welcome to board. >> reporter: the new partnership between delta and the transportation security administration aims to save passengers time as people are flooding back to airports. >> really hopefully reduce stress and increase the speed at which people traverse through the airport. >> reporter: they showed me how the system works at bag check. what typically takes 2:30 is now down to 30 seconds. he says the process of verifying your identity in the tsa checkpoint is now down to only six second. >> i think the timing could not be more perfect in many ways because more and more regular travelers are coming back to travel. >> reporter: the trial will start at delta's busiest hub, at first for those in delta's frequent flier program who also have tsa precheck. passport and visa photos in a federal database are compared with your live photo. the tsa insists that file is immediately destroyed, upping security from cyberthreats and hacks. >> we've definitely taken privacy considerations into account the whole way. somebody does not want to participate, they do not have to opt in and participate. they have that choice if they want to have the experience. >> reporter: american airlines is also trying facial recognition at its dfw terminal lounges but industry experts think using the technology from the moment you arrive at the airport could cut the time you spend waiting in half. >> if we see the tsa get that kind of an increase in productivity, long airport security lines could be a thing of the past. >> reporter: the point is, jake, this is just the start. delta's also rolling out some of this technology in detroit and more hubs will come online soon but this will face the real test here in atlanta. delta plans to serve about 2.5 million people during the thanksgiving travel period here alone. more than 40% of all of its passengers airlinewide. >> pete muntean, thanks. new details on the fatal shooting on set. we're now getting the account of the last person who touched that gun before handing it to alec baldwin. stay with us. 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