Revealed it has allocated almost 20 million vaccine doses to states with just over 11 million distribut distributed, but guess this, only 2. 1 million administered. Lets begin with the escalating tension between the president and republican lawmakers. Kaitlan collins is in West Palm Beach where the president is spending the holidays. Mr. Trump is clearly not used to having congestion sal republicans refuse to do his bidding. But thats whats happening. No, jim, hes not, and hes lashing out as a response, saying that it is going to be a death wish if Senate Republicans to not change their ways and meet his demands for these bigger stimulus checks, but whether or not theyre going to follow through with that, even though more of them are up is porting it, is still unclear. It all lies in the hands of Mitch Mcconnell, who we heard from earlier today, but did not lay out any kind of a timeline for when hes going to bring what the president wants to see for a vote on the senate floor, though we now do have indications hes going to include the president s other demands in this request for those higher stimulus checks, those 2,000 stimulus checks. And jim, of course, that is not something that we know democrats would support, so, basically, all of the fate of this is in limbo right now, as the president is continuing to lash out. Tonight, republican senators are feeling the heat from the very top. We didnt expect to be in session this week, but we are. President trump now says, unless republicans have a death wish and it is also the right thing to do, they must approve 2,000 payments asap. 600 is not enough. That tweet is forcing Senate Republicans to decide between defying the president or getting behind bigger stimulus checks. Which many in the gop initially resisted but a growing number are now supporting. That includes david perdue and kelly loeffler, two republicans just days away from a Heated Senate runoff in georgia who both sided with the president today. Ive said, absolutely, we need to get relief to americans now and i will support that. I fully support what the president is doing right now. The fate of the stimulus checks is now in Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnells hands, who offered though clarity today, but blocked an effort by democrats to vote on it immediately. This week, the senate will begin a process to bring these three priorities into focus. Democrats are eager to take advantage of the republican family feud. Theres one question left today, do Senate Republicans join with the rest of america in supporting 2,000 checks . Now some of my republican colleagues are said they support the checks, but theres a major difference in saying you support 2,000 checks and fighting to put them into law. Senator Bernie Sanders is vowing to hold up a vote to override trumps veto of the massive military bill unless they vote on the 2,000 checks. And his frustration spilled out on the senate floor today. Do we turn our backs on struggling working families or do we respond to their pain . Mcconnell said the senate will vote on whether to override trumps veto of the defense bill tomorrow, potentially setting the gop up for its first major rebuke of the president during his last days in office. Failure is simply not an option. I would urge my colleagues to support this legislation one more time when we vote tomorrow. The house passed an override of trumps veto on monday, causing him to lash out on twitter today, saying weak and tired Republican Leadership will allow the bad defense bill to pass, a disgraceful act of cowardice and total submission by weak people to big tech. With the Financial Stability of millions of americans on the line, the president spent today like he has more others in palm beach, on the golf course. Now, jim, while the president has been here, he has clearly been frustrated over pretty much everything. From whats going on in the senate to even renovations that have happened at his Maralago Club here in florida, but of course, what we know from sources is that the center of all of this is that election loss and the president still dealing with the aftermath of it and refusing to publicly accept it and lashing out at republicans and other members of his party who do so. It is the cloud that hangs over him at all times. All right, cnns kaitlan collins, thank you so much for that. Lets get more on the breaking news with cnn Congressional Correspondent phil mattingly. Lets start with the 2,000 stimulus check bill. What kind of pressure is Mitch Mcconnell under right now . He didnt seem like he was sweating things too much. And what are his options . Hes got a complicating balancing act. Not only do you have President Trump, who still enjoys the faith and support of the vast majority of the republican party, pressuring him on twitter and otherwise, and hes got two republican senators that could determine whether or not hes majority leader in the next congress that are up for reelection right now in runoffs that both support the 2,000 stimulus checks. Heres where mcconnell sits at this point in time. Just a short while ago, mcconnell introduced his own legislation. It would include those 2,000 checks but also include the two other demands President Trump made in exchange for signing the original covid relief package. That is a repeal of those online Liability Protections known as section 230, as well as a commission to study voter fraud, of which there is no evidence up to this point, but has been a major issue for the president. This would give mcconnell an option, an option beyond just the house version of the bill that passed with some republican support that is just a straight vote on 2,000 stimulus checks. There is another wild card here that is going on right now, jim. And that is the fact that while five republican senators including those two georgia republicans say they support the 2,000 checks, that leaves 47 who arent saying anything related to it at all. And the vast majority of them, im told, do not support the idea, are opposed to it on fiscal grounds. Thats what mcconnell is attempting to balance right now and thats where another factor comes into play. Jim, you know this well. This congress, the 116th congress, it comes to an end on sunday. They still have to process the National Defense authorization act veto override. The clock is ticking and it is very possible that the clock just runs out before they have a chance to address this based on how mcconnells operating right now. And phil, you were just mentioning that defense bill. When it comes to that, mcconnell is breaking with the president again. Is he trying to provoke the president . You know, i think whats most interesting when you watch Mitch Mcconnell, the majority leader over the course of the last four years, hes not been publicly critical of the president. If theres one area where hes been willing to buck the president , rarely by name, but at least on the subject matter itself, its on Foreign Policy and defense. And that goes for a lot of republicans and definitely that is the case with the National Defense authorization act. Mitch mcconnell has made very clear if the president vetoed that bill, the senate would move quickly to override that veto. 84 senators voted in favor of it. It has been passed and signed into law for 59 consecutive years. This would be the 60th. The president vetoed it. The house overrode that veto easily yesterday. The senate will do the same and it will be another big vote, is what im hearing at this point in time. Mcconnells made no bones about it. This defense policy bill is extremely important to National Security, in his view. Many republicans share that view and they will willing to rebuke the president in a pretty significant manner in order to ensure it gets put into law, jim. All right, the sausage making is getting very 2020. Phil, thank you for that. In a hardhitting speech an hour ago, president elect joe biden slammed the Trump Administrations plan to distribute the Coronavirus Vaccines, warning it is falling far behind. Lets go to cnns m. J. Lee in wilmington, delaware. This is concerning. President elect biden says at the current pace of vaccinations, it will be years, not months, to vaccinate the American People. Thats right. Just another reminder of how much is riding on the successful distribution of this vaccine and biden essentially said today, donald trump is not getting the job done. He said, look. The numbers speak for themselves. At this point in the year, many, many more americans should have already been vaccinated. Here he is. The Trump Administrations plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind, far behind. Were greaateful to the compani, the doctors, the scientists, the researchers, the Clinical Trial participants and operation warp speed for developing the vaccines quickly. But as i long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should. A few weeks ago, Trump Administration suggested that 20 million americans could be vaccinated by the end of december. With only a few days left in december, weve only vaccinated a few million so far. Now, biden is proposing basically a much more aggressive federal plan to get people vaccinated. He essentially said people should be getting vaccinated five to six times faster than they are right now. A couple other things that he talked about in this first 100 days plan, he talked about setting up mobile sites and bringing those in, particularly to communities that are hard to reach. Doing a Public Campaign nationwide to try to convince people who are wary of the vaccine actually being safe to try to convince people that they have to get vaccinated. He talked about this mask man date that hes talked about before, that the first 100 days hes in office, he wants everybody across america to be wearing a mask. And he also talked about how he is prepared to do anything, moving heaven and earth, to get all of this done, but it was very clear that he was not going to undersell just what a daunting task this is. He said, this is going to be the greatest operational challenge that the country has faced. Jim . Okay, m. J. Lets stand by, we want to bring back kaitlan collins, along with ryan lizza. Ryan, let me start with you first. Lets not forget, President Trump still has not conceded the election. So, we have all that going on, but when it comes to the pandemic and vaccines, these are life or death issues. Do you think this pressure from joe biden will make a difference, light a fire under the Trump Administration, to speed up the rollout of these vaccines . Um no, i dont think it will. I dont think the Trump Administration, certainly not President Trump, is listening to joe biden on this issue. Whether hes right or hes wrong and hes certainly right that the goal for december is off by a huge amount. In just terms of the politics of this, you know, this is the number one issue for the Biden Incoming biden administration. Covid crisis is clearly why joe biden is going to be president and its something that by the end of his first year or sooner, he needs to be able to say that he solved it, so, you know, talking about how big a deal it is, the gravity of it, how difficult its going to be, is better, of course, than talking about how its going to be an easy lift and, you know, and raising expectations too much. Im not saying this is all a political speech, hes 100 correct that the Vaccine Distribution is proceeding much slower than the Trump Administration promised, but i think youre starting to see biden realize hes going to be in charge of all of this very soon and he wants to sort of set the groundwork for what hes inheriting. And the Trump Administration strategy was to push a lot of issues in this pandemic onto the states. We remember how testing was essentially a state problem early on, now were seeing a struggle with this vaccine rollout and its clearly a struggle at this point, if you look at the numbers. Do you think we should have seen this one coming . Well, certainly, because you saw the issues that we had not only with testing, but also with ppe and the matters that they faced, where you did see the federal government push it off to states. And a what weve heard from states and local leaders is they are pushed to their limits before they were even in charge of distributing the vaccine to people. That had to do with testing, with contact tracing, with social distancing measures and what they were doing around the state when it came to restaurants and businesses and schools. And now theyre also in charge of Vaccine Distribution and of course, one of the things theyve talked about is the need for more funding if they are going to be also in charge of that. And so, i think with the Vaccine Distribution, we have heard a lot of overpromising from the administration on this, and now, you know, they set these limits, these incredibly ambitious limits for the end of december and we are only days away from the end of the month and they are nowhere close to meeting them yet. And that is giving people pause for concern, but it is a similar pattern to what you saw happen with, back in march when we were being assured that anyone who wanted a test could get a test and of course that wasnt the case and they said that hospitals had all the ppe they needed when we were hearing from people on the ground, saying, thats just not the case. And so, of course, Vaccine Distribution is incredibly important, incredibly sensitive thing for people to handle and i think if its not going the way they had said, you know, at least the administration could be transparent about that and we are not getting those daily briefings like we had been in the earlier phases of this pandemic. Certainly not. And lets show that graphic again one more time and ill talk to you about this, m. J. I mean, this is extraordinary. Covid19 vaccine delivery here in terms of what the administration has put out, allocated, not a confirmed shipment, 19. 88 million doses, thats according to the department of health and Human Services, but only 2. 1 million doses administered, as in going into peoples arms. This is what joe biden was talking about earlier today and i think to some extent, as ryan was saying, m. J. , the president elect wants to make sure the public understands that this problem started under Donald Trumps watch. Thats absolutely right. You know, there are not many issues that joe biden has been more critical of trump on than covid19 and i think we just saw the latest it ration of that. He knows just how important and how much is at stake in having a successful Vaccine Distribution. We heard him saying there, it could be the difference between taking months versus years to really round the corner on this virus. I think theres an interesting point to raise here about whether president elect joe biden actually personally blames the sitting president for how bad things have gotten in the United States. I think its clear that he does put a lot of blame on President Trump personally. It was interesting, if you listen to the speech carefully this afternoon, he ticked through a number of entities that he was thankful for. He thanked the vaccine companies, he thanked doctors, researchers, people who took part in the Early Vaccine trials and other experts who have just been involved in making sure that this vaccine was produced and he did thank briefly and congratulated President Trump for signing the covid relief package, but later in the speech, when he was talking about President Trump more indeath, in dep depth, he said, i wish he would encourage people to wear a mask, because they would make a difference. Maybe he could follow in Chris Christies footsteps. He hoped that the president would urge everyone to get the vaccine, as well. Clearly, there are two things at play. Joe biden talking about the administrations failings at distributing this vaccine quickly enough and the personal conduct side of things that he believes that President Trump could have been doing more, much, much more to try to get people vaccinated and to be acting responsibly throughout this pandemic. Okay, great insights, all of you, thank you so much for that. The breaking news continues next. Ill ask the number two democrat in the senate, dick durbin, about the push to force a vote on 2,000 stimulus payments. Where is that going . People are waiting for that money. [narrator] grubhub perks give you deals on the food you love doorbell ringing the kind of deals that make you boogie upbeat music [man] mmm mm mm. [narrator] get the food you love with perks from [crowd] grubhub [narrator] grub what you love. Were following breaking news. A new twist in the fight to increase pandemic stimulus checks from 600 to 2,000, as Presi