Hes filling it out too much with too many holdovers from the Obama Administration. And were also waiting on congress to do its job, quite frankly. Capitol hill is familiar is in a familiar place yet again. Yet it is a no less disappointing place yet again. Paralyzed, unable or unwilling to reach a deal on a relief package as millions of americans struggle in this pandemic and are about to hit a cliff with benefits running out. Well have more on that in a moment, but first for the latest on where the country stands with covid19 and this pandemic, heres cnns adrienne broaddus. Reporter as the pandemic continues to worsen across the wasnt, one ray of hope with an Advisory Board for the food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for pfizers coronavirus vaccine. I voted yes, we know enough to know this appears to be the way out of this awful mess. Reporter after the full fda signs off, an Advisory Panel for the centers for Disease Control and prevention is expected to vote sunday whether to recommend the vaccine. Once the full cdc signs off, vaccinations can start. Here in chicago hospitals are preparing, theyre starting to receive the Pfizer Vaccine by getting freezers capable of storing the vaccines ready at the appropriate temperature and setting up vaccine bays like this one at Rush UniversityMedical Center to streamline the vaccination process once emergency use authorization is granted. We as a nation need to continue to wear the masks, to keep the physical distance to avoid crowds. Were not through with this just because were starting a vaccine program. Reporter but as the country prepares for the potential first vaccine doses, some hospitals are quickly reaching their breaking point. Cdc director, dr. Robert redfield thinks the next few months will be tough. Probably for the next 60 to 90 days well have more deaths per day than we had 9 11 or pearl harbor. Reporter more than 2,700 deaths were reported thursday. And in the first ten days of december, the United States reported more than 2 million new coronavirus infections. More than 107,000 coronavirus patients are in the hospital, a record. In new mexico, the surge forcing the state to activate its, quote, crisis care standards. Including suspending all nonessential surgeries, Los Angeles County shattering its daily case record again reporting more than 12,800 new cases. Its happening so quickly sometimes we cant even take in these numbers. Thats up 128 since last week. 300 since last month. 1,000 since a month and a half ago. Reporter and pennsylvania seeing a substantial up tick in cases this month. Starting saturday indoor dining, gyms and indoor entertainment such as movie theatres will close until january 4th. Over the past several weeks its become clear that we need to take further mitigation actions to protect pennsylvanians and stop the spread of covid19. We all hoped it would not come to this. Reporter and here in chicago at Rush UniversityMedical Center they set up a vaccine clinic for employees. Youll notice there are about 10 stations behind me. Thats where the front line workers will receive the vaccine and the folks you see behind me are preparing to go through a drill where they will practice administering the vaccine in a mock situation. Back to you. Adrienne thank you so much. Joining me now cnn medical analyst dr. Larry brilliant. He spent his career fighting epidemics including his work with the w. H. O. To wipe out smallpox. Thank you for coming back in. When we talk about the vaccine, this is headed to approval to get the green light for emergency use. What does that moment mean in the fight against the pandemic . Thanks for having me, kate. It seems like its always darkest just before the dawn. Whoever said that most recently, im afraid its going to get a little darker yet. But im hoping the dawn is going to be a little brighter. This is a historic moment. Its not just that we went from a novel virus leaping from a bat to a human to a vaccine in ten months p. Its that we went from that new virus to a Vaccine Campaign in about a year. Its amazing. There are still questions, though, after the big meeting, the long meeting yesterday of the vaccine Advisory Board. There are still some questions about what people with severe food and drug allergies should do after we learned of the allergic reactions of a couple of people in the United Kingdom of the vaccine. I want to show you what dr. Paul offett said about this. There are tens of millions of people who carry epipens with them who have allergies who are going to believe now they cant get this vaccine. Thats a lot of people. It is a lot of people. What do you think should happen here . Theres a tradeoff between speed and being comprehensive. We really dont know about pregnant women. We dont know about people who are immunocompromised. We dont know about age groups and different demographic groups. Were getting the data as we go. We dont even know is it better one dose if we only have a scarce amount of vaccine, or wait for two doses even though thats what pfizer recommends. These are experiments that have to go on simultaneous with the vaccination program. Thats not unusual. In the smallpox and polio program, the campaign went on side by side. People are playing closer attention to a vaccine Advisory Board meeting than they probably ever have in the history of these meetings. And were hearing these things like the lead on the Advisory Board said this morning theres concern, he doesnt think theres enough data of the age range between 16 and 18 yet. He has questions. Im left wondering if im the parent of a 16 to 18yearold, what do i do when this becomes available . You might have to wait. If you want to get the complete data. The fda may recommend that until all that data is in, they either will recommend against. Theyll recommend for. Or they wont take a stand. There will be ambiguity. It is the trade off. But id rather be in the position were in right now than try to dot all the is and cross all the ts, the biggest concern you have is that theres not something awful waiting. And all indications so far are there are not, but weve only had vaccine in the arm of tens of thousands of people. Its going to go to hundreds of thousands, hundreds of millions and ultimately billions of people. So we have a long way ahead of us but this is still a momentous day. Thank you for coming on, doctor. Thank you for having me. We mentioned the Supreme Court lawsuit at the top of the show. Now president trumps continued efforts to overturn the results of the election is getting the full support from a clear majority of republicans in the house. Were going to control through this list for you. But its 106 House Republicans now backing a lawsuit that originated from texas, the Texas Attorney general that wants the Supreme Court to throw out the votes of millions of americans in four battleground states that the president lost. This morning texas filed its reply to the Supreme Court defending its lawsuit. So we are standing by to see what the high court decides. Let me bring in cnns john harwood. Hes live at the white house for more on this. When you look at the list, this is more than half of the republicans in in the house and to be clear, there are members on the list backing the lawsuit who were elected in the very states that they want to see the president ial votes thrown out in. Theyre not questioning their own election wins, though. Reporter theyre not. But what were seeing kate is a demonstration by House Republicans of the extent of the rot inside the Republican Party right now. These people know what donald trump is, as ted cruz said in 2016 hes a pathological liar. Marco rubio called him a con artist. But because theyre afraid of him and afraid of the supporters that he holds the loyalty of and because the only principle that matters to them is holding onto power, theyve agreed to sign on to this lawsuit aimed at the throwing out the votes in other states, in four battleground states. These are people who if donald trump said im going to trash you on twitter unless you go smack your mom in the face, they would go smack their moms in the face and try to explain it to them afterwards. In reality what theyre doing is smacking american democracy in the face. Its pretty remarkable. I just dont see a universe where this changes in 40 days when the president leaves office. Reporter no, its not going to change. The occupant of the white house is going to change. Donald trump is going to leave. Well see whether not being president diminishes his grip on those members or his followers. Hes going to have a lot of problems. We learned today about a criminal investigation in new york city by cy vance is accelerating. Hes interviewing trumps bankers and insurance brokers. So trump may have plenty of problems that will cause the Republican Party to be less afraid of him, but we dont know that yet. John, thank you. Still ahead for us, millions of americans desperately need Coronavirus Relief but congress is paralyzed. Why cant they work out a deal . Plus, president elect joe biden will soon introduce more top level nominees but hes facing criticism that some of the faces may be too familiar. You can earn your degree faster and for less with relevant Life Experience and eligible transfer credits. Because your experience matters. See how much you can save on your degree at phoenix. Edu. Its shiori. 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Lets get to jessica dean joining us with more on this. How is the Biden Campaign responding to the pushback . Reporter were told biden is not feeling defensive about his choices at all. The biden team would tell you theres a couple things going on theyre facing a multitude of crises as biden assumes office in january and they need people who know how to work government, who understand how to pull the levers and make things happen because they dont have time to waste and theyre going to have to do a lot of things, big things at once in order to get the crises under control and thats before they get to the Agenda Setting that they want to do with other things outside the scope of getting the coronavirus and the economy under control. Thats one thing. Theyre looking for experience. We also know that joe biden looks people and trusts people he has good relationships with. And thats important to him and were seeing it. In the picks you just put up these are people he has long standing relationships with who he can trust to do their jobs. Thats important to him as well. Theyll tell you this is still a historic slate of nominees and appoi appointe appointees, something theyre proud of, something that biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris promised to do, put together a cabinet that looks like america, thats what theyve been trying to do even though theyve gotten a lot of pushback and pressure from outside groups for more diversity. Well be introduced to a new round of nominees and appointees later this afternoon and among those are a number of Obama Administration veterans. You have dennis mcdonna leading the department of veterans affairs. Tom vilsack who served as the agriculture secretary for the entirety of Obama Administrations has been tapped to do that again. So yes, it is a lot of familiar faces where some democrats were hopping to inject more fresh blood into there. Well hear more about those nominees and appointees later this afternoon. This is happening as were told biden would like to have his full slate of nominees by christmas. We know his time lines can shift a little bit but right now his goal is to get it announced by christmas to get the nominees through the confirmation process and getting them settled in their roles as soon as possible. One of the big ones were still waiting on, probably the biggest one were waiting on, is who will be attorney general, who will lead the department of justice . We know biden narrowed it down to a short list of contenders, including senator doug jones and sally yates, as well as judge merrick garland. Looking to capitol hill, congress is paralyzed. Negotiations over a covid19 emergency relief package are on the brink of collapse with leaders from both parties now turning to the all too familiar position of pointing fingers. Mitch mcconnell says there is no path forward on two sticking points, Liability Protection for businesses. Republicans want the protections to be broader than democrats do. Theres also state and local aid, democrats want much more than republicans will allow. But now this failure in negotiations is going to hurt even more. Some emergency benefits that have been keeping people afloat across the country expire at the end of the month things like unemployment benefits, eviction protection, relief that millions of people have clearly relied on during the pandemic. These are some of the people who, frankly, congress has failed. I have to take the bills and throw them up and pick the ones and hope they total the amount that i have. We stopped going to food banks because theyre closing and theyre far now. And we kind of if they open at 9 00 you have to be there at 5 00 a. M. To hope to get anything. When we go to the laundromat we see homeless washing themselves. And one day if i dont go back to work im going to be one of them. I live check by check but now its not check, its box. Box and a half to stretch out for seven days. Makes you feel like a failure as a parent, a man to know you cant provide for your family. Its like i dont deserve my own kid. Thats heartbreaking. Joining me now is john kasich. Thanks for coming back in. Lets pick up where we left off, because this is what we were getting to, governor you look upset. Why are you upset . Well, these are people that cant pay their bills and they want to. The stories of these people in a car, kate, waiting four hours to get food at a food bank, yeah it breaks my heart because i dont know, its because maybe i i thank the lord that i can kind of think about them and realize that, you know, they deserve better. I mean, and yeah, we also can help demand that the government provide some aid, which they should do. But maybe we need to think what we can do, even if its a little bit of stuff we can do for something else. Think about this. These are people, maybe in the gig economy, they lost their jobs. They got no food. What could you imagine that . They have no food. Says here the homeless are washing themselves you know, it was a lot of controversy when i expanded medicaid, i was the first republican governor to do that. People were mad, you love obama, whatever. I said, wait a minute, theres 600,000 people if i dont do this, theyre not going to get health care, theyre going to be living under a bridge or in jail. We cant treat people like that. Remember the quote about did you feed the did you feed the neighbor . Because if you didnt feed the neighbor, you didnt feed me. Thats the word from the lord. When i look at this, it just it makes you want to cry, right. Then you have the people in d. C. , fighting with one another and its look, ive been in many negotiations i was there when we went through government shutdowns. At some point when its got people on the line, their lives and when they dont get these kinds of things, kate, think about what happens to them from the Mental Health aspect, the psychological aspect. You heard the guy say its like im not even a man because i cant feed my family. So, whats failed to happen down there is, take off the title, take off all that phony armor and think about what people need. And sometimes you got to make a little compromise that you dont like to have to make. But so what, in the long run, people are better off. And thats what we got to do. That doesnt mean compromise your principles this is why this is so frustrating. It is good to see you we