it will save millions of lives and soon end the pandemic once and for all. god bless the united states of america, and god bless the world. >> reparations are now underway across the country to start giving those first shots. that can't happen soon enough with the death toll quickly approaching 300,000 souls. "the washington post" reporting the white house ordered the fda chief dr. stephen hahn to authorize this vaccine by close of business tonight or resign and that the agency did, in fact, speed up the process. the fda denied that said it was, quote, encouraged to continue working expeditiously on pfizer's and biontech's authorization request. he wanted it done today. he wrote, quote, heavily bureaucratic fda is still a big old slow turtle. get the damned misspelled vaccines out now dr. hahn. stop playing games and start saving lives. that was followed by this drama, i just want to stop the world from killing itself. as we mentioned the supreme court has dismissed the texas attorney general's bid to overturn election results in wisconsin, georgia, pennsylvania and michigan. trump called that case the big one. indeed, it's his second loss in a week before the court. michigan's attorney general had this reaction to the court's decision. >> the fact that we even find ourselves in this place where we have to be relieved that something ridiculous didn't occur that should never have occurred, you know, it's a sad chapter in american history that we really need to put behind us. >> texas attorney general ken paxton who by the way is under fbi investigation is happens to be the mastermind of this lawsuit called the supreme court decision not to take the case unfortunate. the state's republican chairman had this response tonight. quote, this decision will have far reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic. perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form -- wait for it -- a union of states that will abide by the constitution. dwell on that a moment. we'll discuss in a bit. also today a wisconsin judge rejected yet another trump appeal saying he found no credible evidence of misconduct or wide scale voter fraud. the trump campaign is appealing that decision. the electoral college will meet monday to officially deliver the presidency to joe biden. trump made what may have been a freudian slip when describing the president-elect's white house writing, this, quote, the biden administration will be a scandal plagued mess for years to come. and with that he effectively admitted defeat, and it didn't go unnoticed. >> does the president recognize that joe biden won the election, and will he acknowledge it on monday when the electors vote and certify the election? >> i think that was a sort of cashed in terms of if in fact, but i don't think he was conceding anything in particular. he's still litigating his case in the courts and looks forward to that process playing out. >> the president has not won any of his court cases claiming fraud. he has yet to prove fraud in any court. >> he believes there are still important legal and constitutional questions to be answered. >> meanwhile "the new york times" reports the manhattan district attorney's office investigation into trump's finances has intensified. prosecutors have interviewed several employees of trump's bank and his insurance broker in recent weeks. a reminder here, no pardon can save donald trump from that case. "the times" also reports materials from trump lawyer rudy giuliani fueled a federal investigation into hunter biden. prosecutors in pittsburgh p.a. opened that inquiry at request of attorney general bill barr. earlier this week hunter biden revealed he was the subject of another federal investigation in delaware focused on his federal taxes. the president-elect is continuing to fill out his administration. today he introduced his choices for big domestic policy positions and reminded the nation of the tough road ahead in the fight to end this pandemic. >> this nation needs presidential leadership right now. presidential leadership is willing to model the steps we should be taking to save our own lives and lives of our families. you know, we can wish this away, but we have to face it head on. >> with that let's bring in our lead off guests on this friday night after this week we've had. susan page, veteran journalist, best selling author, usa today washington bureau chief who of course was moderator of the vp debate during this cycle. she's barbara bush's biographer. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." dr. celine gounder, clinical professor of infectious disease. she was recently named the president-elect's coronavirus advisory board, which is exactly why i would like to begin with you, doctor. "the new york times" calling tonight the fda approval historic turning point in the pandemic. the question to you -- what needs to happen now? >> well, i think first of all we have not had much good news over the last year, and i do think this is a moment to pause and truly celebrate what scientists and doctors have been working extremely hard diligently over the last several months to bring about. this is truly a miracle, and i do think we need to sit back and appreciate that. now, there is a lot of hard work ahead. the companies, pfizer and then some of the other companies that will soon have their own vaccines online do have a lot of work to do in terms of manufacturing, and we in the incoming administration as well as the current administration have much to do in terms of vaccine distribution. so there is a lot of work ahead. but there is light at the end of the tunnel. and i do think we should be celebrating that. >> hear-hear. it would be nice to take the briefest pause to celebrate this colossal achievement. peter baker, no pressure to perform, but if you were indeed assigned the a1 lead off the front page of your newspaper tonight how would you sum up this day in this presidency? >> well, that's a great question. i think it's sort of the end of denialism, in effect. the president of the united states can no longer pretend the supreme court is going to somehow swoop in and overturn the will of the voters. and after months and months of, you know, denying that coronavirus is a serious threat we now at least have a genuine light at the end of the tunnel. the president, of course, told us before the election that we're rounding the corner. and just in the last two days alone we've seen more people die in the united states each of the last two days than we saw on 9/11 with many more deaths to come. the problem, of course, doesn't necessarily mean the pain is over, either the political pain or medical pain. rudy giuliani telling my colleagues tonight we're not finished believe me, so they're still trying to find some way to salvage a victory that doesn't seem to be happening. and between now and the time most americans get that vaccine there's going to be a lot of sickness still, a lot of deaths still. we have literally tens of thousands of deaths still to go before most americans get that vaccine. so the vaccine is a great hope, great turning point, no question about it. but there's a lot to be done to try to prevent and contain this virus from further spreading. >> and susan, my question to you is indeed the president has been spending all his time to try to overturn the results of the election. in ways it's as if he just realized this is an achievement he can attach his name to and claim credit for. do you think the administration realizes this is still a net tragedy for those of us watching all of this? and there are 300,000 americans who are not around to share in our joy at this news? >> i think president trump has not focused from the start on the human cost of this pandemic. he's focused on the politics. he promised the vaccine rollout and that day has finally arrived, but he's not participated in a day of national mourning for all these lives lost. and we've seen thousands and thousands of americans die. the death rate just keeps getting higher. the president has been focused instead on overturning the results of the election going to take him out of office. one big reason he lost in november is because of the human and economic cost associated with the pandemic and questions about how well he handled it, brian. >> doctor, indeed we've lost over 16,000 of our fellow citizens this week. the clock is ticking. you lost valuable time, you, members of team biden with the transition getting held up. it occurs to me most of this vaccine rollout is going to occur on your time, on your calendar. are you content with the organization that's in place? >> well, this is really an exercise of passing on the baton. so the current administration has some plans in place for the very initial phase of vaccination which includes health care workers including myself as well as the residents and staff of nursing homes. but there's still a lot to be done after that. the next phase after that would be critical infrastructure workers, and there's still a lot of decisions that have to be made about who those people are and which industries that will be prioritizing vaccination, and after that people over 65, people with chronicle medical conditions. so we won't be reaching the general public probably until april or may. so there really are very long months ahead of a lot of logistical planning and working with the public to both encourage them to get vaccinated but also to be patient until it is their turn. >> and doc, let me back up one topic and that is today's pressure on the fda. the american people want and need this vaccine -- we all do -- to be perfectly safe. as safe as medical science can make it. we wake up to a tweet from the president pressuring the fda to just approve it today, period. that doesn't help the effort, so what do you do as a public health matter? >> well, i think what i as a public health, as a doctor, as an epidemiologist what matters to me is how does the process run? and the process ran as business as usual. you had the internal vetting by the fda. you then had an external scientific body advising the fda that also conducted their business as usual, vetting thousands of pages of clinical trial data and coming to the conclusion that this vaccine was safe and effective, where they could confidently issue an emergency use authorization. so i think that corners were not cut and that we should feel confident that the fda really just did its typical bureaucratic job. and i mean bureaucratic in the best possible way, just doing science the way it should be done. >> peter baker, i want to play for you -- you mentioned rudy giuliani earlier. this was rudy's appearance tonight on what appears to be the new network of choice for the trump crowd and that's news max. we'll discuss on the other side. >> the president's reaction is to look at other options. we always knew this was an option, that we would have to convert this into -- originally we thought about this as possibly four or five separate cases. if we allow them to rollover this election fraud is just going to get worse and worse and worse. this is the worst in our history so far, and it's got to be stopped. and i think the only person who has the courage to stand up to it is donald trump. >> so peter, you hear it in rudy's voice fresh from bragging about the level of early care he received at georgetown hospital for the coronavirus. this isn't going to stop. since we've been on the air "the wall street journal" is reporting the president mulling over appointing a special counsel to investigate the election and hunter biden. none of this is going to stop, peter, so how on earth does the president-elect keep his head down and focus on the bible he's going to place his hand on and the oath to follow and the job to follow after january 20? >> yeah, i think the president-elect has shown a certain discipline during this transition period, a patience obviously with the outgoing president rather than engage in the kind of back and forth that trump kind of cherishes, relishes. biden has more or less kept quiet and focused on his administration, building his team, outlining his plans for what he intends to do once he does take office. in effect, you know, all but ignoring the noise as if basically he knows it's just noise and it's going to go away and won't stop him from becoming president rather than justifying or, you know, dignifying in effect with a sort of campaign-style back and forth -- which is what i think the president would like to see. he's going to be chosen on monday i believe by electors who are going to be chosen by the american people in all 50 states. that would be a significant moment, the idea something is going to happen after that assuming those electors do cast their ballots for president-elect biden as we expect them to, a 306 vote majority in the electoral college. same as president trump got four years ago. there's very little that you can imagine will change that between now and inauguration day. doesn't mean they're going to stop as you say, and as rudy giuliani is now vowing to do. they may keep coming back to the court, but remember this is president who said he was counting on the supreme court to be the refuge of last resort to overturn the will of the public and the supreme court basically just said 9-0, nothing we don't see any merit to this. >> and susan, with the republican party right now full with packs of matches along comes the chairman of the gop in texas with kind of loose talk in a press release about seceding from the union. adam kinzinger said this. i believe the texas gop should immediately retract this, apologize and fire allen west, their chairman and anyone associated with this. my guy abraham lincoln and the union soldiers already told you no. obviously he's having a little fun there, but, susan, these are potentially dangerous times. >> you know, this texas case looked comical. legal experts of all stripes described it as having virtually no chance of succeeding in the supreme court, but that doesn't mean it's without a cost. and we had a situation where 18 states and a majority of the republican members of the u.s. house signed onto an appeal to overturn a democratic election because they didn't like the outcome. charging fraud when they provided no evidence of fraud. and that has carried a cost i think to our democracy and to our president-elect who will take office at a time of national crisis with a significant portion of the american public, a majority of the supporters of his opponent saying he's not legitimately elected. that is one more hurdle for a president who's going to be facing a lot of other ones when he takes office on january 20th. >> we've been showing the names of those house republicans. they will stand for all-time as having joined this court brief. great thanks on a friday night after the week we've all had and witness to our big three guests for starting us off. susan page, peter baker, dr. celine gounder, thank you for your work. and coming up, it was over before tonight but it really is over now. the trump supreme court slams the book shut on trump's defeat. that can't be good news for his beleaguered attorney general. i'll talk to a former federal prosecutor up next. and later, the television anchor turned presbyterian pastor enlists america's top doctor to reassure a very skeptical population that the covid vaccine is indeed safe, it's indeed for real. all of it as "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on this consequential friday night. when you switch to xfinity mobile, you're choosing to get connected to the most reliable network nationwide, now with 5g included. discover how to save up to $400 a year with shared data starting at $15 a month, or get the lowest price for one line of unlimited. come into your local xfinity store to make the most of your mobile experience. you can shop the latest phones, bring your own device, or trade in for extra savings. stop in or book an appointment to shop safely with peace of mind at your local xfinity store. our friend neil katyal who's argued dozens of cases before the supreme court reacted to this evening's supreme court decision this way. he wrote, quote, it is a strong 9-0 loss for trump. it's impossible to lose more. back with us tonight is daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york also general counsel for the house intelligence committee during the trump impeoplement. -- impeachment. he was among the questioners we watched during hours of the live television coverage of the hearings. first and foremost, the story just now breaking from "the wall street journal." it would be easy to pass this off as a another kind of crazy venezuelan conspiracy theory, but if the president is mulling over the naming of a special or independent counsel -- there's the headline. to look at hunter biden say nothing of the election returns does that not mean -- and this is where you can fill in my lack of justice department knowledge -- that such a role could be codified so joe biden's presidency could have within its justice department this office constantly investigating his son that the president would not be able to touch or influence? >> well, there's -- it certainly would cause problems. joe biden has said he will not interfere in anything going on in the justice department, and donald trump cannot appoint a special counsel. only bill barr can do so. but, yes, it does appear that the president in all of his pettiness and vengefulness is trying to do everything possible to make the transition and make the biden administration as difficult as possible to accomplish anything. and this dove tails exactly what happened with the texas case and what is going on right now with the election, which is i think the headline is less that the supreme court rejected this texas lawsuit 9-0. and more as you just discussed that so many house republicans, so many states attorneys general joined in this. this was a pr stunt. it wasn't an actual legal claim. there was zero chance of winning, but it's not going to end right now as we're seeing from this wall street journal reporting and as we're seeing from other reporting. this may just be the beginning. and when you have 75% or 77% of the republican voters or republican -- registered republicans believing that there was voter fraud when every court that has addressed this issue has stated resoundingly that there are no -- there's no evidence. there's no facts to support the allegations of voter fraud. we're living -- at least 75% of the republicans are living in an alternative universe. but those 75% of republicans are living in that alternative universe we're going to see what we have seen which is nearly 75% or close to that of the house republicans are also going to go into that alternative universe. and their objective is going to be pure obstruction of joe biden. >> so if we reasonable people can agree that this was an unserious lawsuit, misspelled the state of louisiana for good measure, by the way. that this was not a serious document. we hear rudy tonight saying at least we didn't lose on the merits. well, we can go back and reargue at the circuit court level. does this drive you mad as a member of the bar in good standing? >> it's incredibly frustrating. these are very frivolous lawsuits that in any other circumstance would be sanctionable, which means there's a way in court that lawyers actually can be sanctioned because they're the officers of the bar. they're the officers of the court. they can be sanctioned for bringing frivolous lawsuits. but in some respects these lawsuits are so absurd that they're not really sanctionable because there's no precedent. and judges generally are reluctant to sanction lawyers when there's no precedent. so they actually benefit from their own ineptitude in some ways because i think judges will generally be reluctant to sanction them. there is recourse of sanctions, and i am somewhat surprised we haven't seen any sanction motions in any of these cases. but, yes, it's incredibly frustrating from a legal perspective but also just fundamentally, brian, from a rule of law and a democratic perspective. the voters have spoken. take your loss, take your lumps, move on. but the notion that we're going to make up claims of voter fraud or some allegations with no substantiate substanchiation there was something wrong with this election because donald trump is a sore loser and everyone is going to follow him like little ducklings and lemmings is incredibly disallusioned for this democracy we have built. over 240 years. as a lawyer and citizen i'm more frustrated as a tremendous toll this is taking on our democracy and on our institutions. and one last bastion that has really stood up has been the judiciary, and that is by design. they're life tenure. it means something. they're not beholden to the populace, not beholden to the politicians. and we have seen facts matter in court. >> thank you for lending your voice to our broadcast tonight. stay inside and stay safe. thanks for having into your beautiful home. dan goldman, our guest tonight. coming up for us vaccines could be days away but a significant part of the population is still not onboard with it. we'll talk about what's at stake in changing american minds that need to be changed when we come back. how do you feel about the coming vaccine? >> the african-american community we're just not trusting because we do feel we're the first persons they want to test it on. and we're being experimented on. >> we're used to being mistreated. we're used to being experimented on, and we're used to being last in any category when it comes to health care. >> two words to start off here. remember tuskegee. public health officials are focused on countering distrust toward this vaccine particularly in black communities in our country. michelle norris from "the washington post" puts the conundrum this way, quote, vaccine hesitancy from black americans is different from an anti-vaxxer stance. it's not that black americans don't trust vaccines. they don't trust a public health system that has in too many cases engaged in grievous harm by experimenting on black bodies without consent or ignoring the specific needs of black people. here to talk about it we welcome to our broadcast tonight dr. peter hotez. he's a vaccine scientist working with a team to develop a low cost covid-19 version for global distribution. he happens to serve as codirector for the center of vaccine development at texas childrens. and he's the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at bailor college of medicine. also with us tonight the reverend liz walker. we're proud to say she started as did a number of us in local news. notably the first african-american weeknight news anchor in boston and now senior pastor at roxbury presbyterian. at the center of an effort and enlisting dr. fauci and others to build confidence in the vaccine. dr. hotez, i'd like to begin with you and your reaction to this fda authorization tonight. >> well, it's certainly important news and a critical first step towards vaccinating our way out of this epidemic. we were hoping not to have to completely rely on bio technology solutions, but in the absence of a national covid-19 strategy by this white house it's really backed us into a corner. and now we pretty much have no other major tools now to halt the screaming epidemic where we're looking at 200,000 new cases per day and 2,000 deaths per day. we're in a dire situation and so having this vaccine is going to be an absolutely critical tool. and i hope it's going to be the first of four or five vaccines we'll have in the coming months. so a major first step, but a pretty long road ahead. >> hear-hear. and time is of the essence. reverend walker, it's great to have you. i'm looking at pew research polling. says 61% of white americans are prepared to have the vaccine. 42% of black americans -- i'm going to make a sweeping assumption about all of our viewers, the folks smart enough to watch this hour every night know their history. so we have established the fear and distrust. tell us what you're hearing in your congregation, however. >> well, some people are saying they want to wait it out and see what's going to happen which gives me a little hope. this is very tragic situation if we don't take the vaccine. and a lot of people as you have already pointed out simply do not trust systems not just because of history but because of their daily experiences, people who feel that they have been abused and they have been disrespected, ignored by hospitals, by systems in general. so, you know, getting that to change is not going to be an overnight situation, so we're taking this very seriously, and we're trying to get out and get information to as many people as possible. >> dr. hotez, i know that behind you there are copies of the book you wrote about your autistic daughter and your fight with the anti-vaxxer community is what prompted you to write it. and we should point out as we did in the lead in, in a way this is two different arguments. but also in a way this makes you uniquely equipped to talk about a public health campaign to get folks to accept this vaccine. so what from your prior battles will you take into the next fight? >> well, brian, you asked a really important question. there's a couple of moving parts to this. first of all, operation warp speed has been a great program in terms of scientific rigor and integrity of clinical trials. one thing we haven't seen is a communication strategy or a plan. and that's been a gap. and the gap has been filled by the pharma ceos who i think are well-intentioned but have really botched the messaging. and we keep on hearing about the stock trading and the adverse events that we learn about through phone calls with jp morgan investors. all of that has had a damaging effect. then we have also the fact we have a pretty aggressive anti-vaccine lobby. and i've been going up against this for years. and so i have a daughter with autism as you point out and i wrote this book vaccines did not cause rachel's autism. which made me public enemy number one. i know we're talking about with the african-american community there's a much larger piece than simply the anti-vaccine movement from the structural racism, the historic racism. but there is that piece because one of things we've learned over the last year or two is the anti-vaccine lobby and the major groups have been specifically targeting specific ethnic groups. they targeted the somali immigrant community in 2017, the orthodox jewish community in 2019 using very inflammatory language around the holocaust and targeting the african-american community, and staging rallies in harlem. they had a rally at i don't know how they did this at the riverside church, an iconic church in the history of the civil rights movement. really piling on the language around tuskegee, very provocative, and so this also has caused a lot of damage. so we're going to have to really improve how we communicate with people and build trust. and i think a component of that is really building out a communication strategy. and i really congratulate my colleague here for her efforts. this is so important. i'm glad tony fauci is involved with this. but at the same time we're going to have to figure out how to launch some counter defense measures against this very aggressive anti-vaccine lobby, and there is a component of racism to that as well. >> you point out you're up against history. you're up against the lives, the members of your congregation live in america every day. you're also up against a virus that has ravaged way over-indexed in communities of color in this country. tony fauci spoke to your gathering. tell us the one element of his talk that was reassuring about someone who played a role in the development of this vaccine? >> i think the most important thing about dr. fauci's presentation to our congregation and the larger community, we had almost 3,000 people register for this event. is the fact he showed up, very transparent. he was aware of the problems and he spoke that. he said he would take the vaccine, he would suggest his family take the vaccine. and he talked about the dangers of not taking it. i talked to a lot of people in my congregation who heard him. they found him to be credible, trustworthy, and that really counted. but, you know, it's going to take more than dr. fauci. it's going to take people in the community. so we are hoping that community leaders will follow dr. fauci's lead and speak out. doctors and nurses who are in the community, community health center representatives. and all of those people are working in the boston area i know to talk to people, to get information to them. i believe that an informed community can make their own decisions. so this is not about anything other than getting you all the information that you need to make informed decisions. there's a lot of disinformation. there are rumors, there's speculation. people are listening to aunt molly and joe down the street. and so we want to get the facts out and let people make their own decisions. >> liz, let me just say television's loss is your congregations gain clearly. and let's do this same discussion once we get down the road a bit and start getting some vaccine out. we'll come out and do a progress report. our thanks to dr. peter hotez and the reverend liz walker. greatly appreciate it. another break for us. and coming up, after what we witnessed this week for that matter this year it's a fair question to ask what is the republican party anymore? who is the republican party these days? we'll put those questions to our next guest. 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is this the moment when the gop abandons its belief in democracy and the simple nonnegotiable principle that the losing party must accept the results of an election? it is a great night to have with us bill kristol, a vet on of the reagan and bush administrations, these days the editor at large over at the bulwark. bill, as they say on sesame street tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the number 126. that was the number of republicans who put their names on this, also the number of words it took the u.s. supreme court to send this case away as an unserious document. for you have i have tough questions. as of tonight right now what is the republican party, and who is the republican party? >> as of now the republican party is mostly donald trump's party. about three quarters of republicans think the election was stolen from donald trump according to the polls i saw. and today two thirds of the house republicans signed that document you're discussing, but two thirds of the republican attorneys general went to join that lawsuit, actually. actually as attorneys general of real states put their names on this ludicrous lawsuit dismissed 9-0. so right now it's trump's party. and people hoped november 3rd or november 7th when the election was called, you know, he'll be a lame duck, finally you might see some liberation, some courage, some separation of the republicans from trump. we've almost seen the opposite, haven't we? even though he's a lame duck, even though he's really making arguments, conspiracy theories, anti-democratic arguments that go beyond most of what he did as president actually for most of those four years, the republicans have signed on. >> did you think you'd live long enough to hear loose talk of succession from the chairman of the gop in the state of texas as we did tonight? >> it's amazing, right? it's texas, too, not a fringe state exactly. i mean maybe this will be sort of the height of the wave and the fever will break, whatever metaphor you want. but the way i put it if the fever breaks there's still an underlying illness here. trump will go to mar-a-lago, there will be some business as usual, they'll fight with the biden administration. but you've seen the kind of underside of the republican party for four years now, five years. but now most vividly and most worrisome really is i don't think it can be dismissed. i think there are three major parties in america. the democratic party, the trump party and the smallest of the three the old-fashioned republican party. >> in the 45 seconds i have remaining in this segment, how clear, how present is the danger right now tonight to democracy, do you think? >> i think it's not present right now, but i think it's very foolish for anyone to heave too many signs of relief. good news today with the vaccine in the supreme court january 20th there will be polls showing maybe 60% even, 58% of the public wants to give joe biden a chance, but we have a real problem. and it really needs to be addressed on every level, political, cultural, social, intellectual over the next months and years because this will come back. and it can come back like a disease, like an infection, it can come back worse the second time. >> bill kristol, you're welcome on this broadcast any time. coming up for us, getting a covid vaccine is one thing. getting it into your arm where it can work is quite another. a look at another one of the many challenges ahead of us coming up. well, talking about tonight's news now that the fda has officially signed off on emergency use of this vaccine. the rollout now gets under way. but think about this. the federal aviation administration is warning commercial aircraft operators that the volume of dry ice we now need to fly around the country to preserve pfizer's coronavirus vaccine may present risks for crew members. the subarctic temperatures required to transport and preserve this vaccine is driving up the demand for dry ice for starters. nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez shows us how that demand is complicating distribution efforts. >> reporter: tonight in michigan it's a cold rush. how does it feel to be part of this now global supply chain? >> frightening but pretty amazing. >> reporter: brad pitman and samantha gazi run a dry ice company here. the wave for fda approval has been daunting. >> we've got calls from the tri-state area people waiting for shipments. they don't know exactly what day they're going to get it. >> reporter: since the pfizer vaccine must be stores at 80 degrees below zero across the country demand for dry ice is surging. >> temperature starts to go up rather quick, so time is of the essence once this lid is off. >> reporter: pfizer plans to ship 100 million doses by the end of march. inside of these massive freezers each of pfizer's trays holds 190 doses. 975 doses. each container can store the doses for up to 30 days if the dry ice is refilled every five days. >> i've always loved helping out. >> reporter: tonight companies big and small are scrambling to keep an unprecedented supply chain on ice. >> and our thanks to gabe gutierrez for that report. coming up, we think we have found the perfect way to send you off on your weekend. i'm looking right at you, leslie jones. last thing before we leave you tonight. like dinnertime on a really hot summer night we thought it best to keep it light as we send you off into the weekend. for starters how about this? here is your chairman of the coronavirus task force, mike pence prance clapping as he arrived at a georgia senate rally. it was immediately theorized he was perhaps the next contestant on "the price is right." it rightfully launched a thousand memes, but there it is. our second topic is leslie jones, national treasure. working at 30 rock leslie jones was that rare cast member on "saturday night live" in that you could tell when she was in the building. these days she's the host of "super market sweep." and during the pandemic she's doing what we're all doing, she's staying home and watching tv. as far as we can tell she watches a whole lot of this network, and we're happy about that. her approach is both low tech and high volume. she shoots video of the video on her tv and supplies commentary, not all of it family friendly, but at least it lets you know you're alive. and it makes you question why'd uever want to hang out with boring people. she loves a good home camera backdrop. she gives nicknames to her on-air favorites. here's a sampling of her work during nicolle wallace's broadcast just today. >> your loss. >> go back to mar-a-lago. we'll come help you pack. >> come help you pack. yep. ooh, nicky, you look so cute today. petulant. petulant. that's right! tell them, coach! recuse yourself. >> get behind solving covid-19 with the incoming administration. >> thank you. >> get your act together and decide to give the country more than $906 billion because you know we need that. handle the nation's business. >> tell them, coach! >> and stop acting like little trumplettes who can't figure out how to put on their own pants. >> whoo! >> she has over a million twitter followers. >> i'd be remiss if i didn't say what leslie jones wants us to do and that is have joy in our lives and in your hearts, take care of one another, stress the positive and we'll all get through this and come out the other side alive and well. so let us follow the advice of the essential leslie jones. that is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. thank you for spending this time with us. have a good weekend unless you have other plans. on behalf of the men and women of the networks of nbc news, good night. i have pictures in my head that will never go away. i'm never going to have my son back. i don't get to go to his high school graduation. or see him go to college. i had no idea what had happened! >> it was like a meteor hitting. >> potsdam rescue, need an ambulance. >> a 12-year-old kid. loved to ride his scooter everywhere. lost his life at the hands of a killer. >> he's a soccer coach! >> great person on and off the field, a great role model. >> there is absolutely nothing connecting him to this case. >> they don't have the fingerprint. they don't have blood. they don't have the witness. >> there's a darkness that's at work here.

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