This. Good to see you this afternoon. Thank you for joining us on this. There is a solution sitting on the president s desk as we speak. Any idea if hes going to sign it . Reporter well, its absolutely on his desk as we speak. After finishing the enrollment process, that bill was actually flown here to south florida, yasmin, so the president could either sign it or veto it, but theres actually less optimism today than there was even just a day ago. The way this has played out the past few days, both sides had been urging the president to drop the threat, simply sign the piece of legislation that his own negotiators had agreed to with members of congress. The president has been silent on this for several days following that initial threat he made in that twitter video before he flew here to enjoy the maralago vacation. Today he is doubling town on twitter once again talking about the need to, in his view, have the 200,000 checks that his own negotiators agreed to. The president appears
Turmoil on the outgoing president s watch as the coronavirus is raging like never before. Tonight, more than 334,000 americans are dead, more than 19. 2 million have been infected. Dr. Anthony fauci warns of a surge upon a surge of new cases after holiday gatherings and travel. Lets go to cnn Congressional Correspondent phil mattingly. Reporter thats right. 275134. That means in the democratic led house, the bill passed to expand direct payments. This is in response to President Trump himself, what he initially pretty much stopped the process of signing the large covid relief and spending bill into law. One of his demands, increasing direct payments, stimulus checks in that measure from 600 to 2,000. Democratic leaders said okay, lets do it. Tried by unanimous consent, republicans blocked that. This time did it under suspension of rules, without getting too deep into the procedure and weeds, they needed twothirds of those present to vote for it to pass. And just barely, just barely cro
Protection program is open again, giving Small Businesses a renewed lifeline. But today we are watching the house voting on sending 2,000 checks to americans and override the veto of the defense spending bill, all of this comes as the United States is entering a pandemic. Consider this data point as well. Nearly 1. 3 million americans pass through airports on sunday. Thats the highest level for air travel since the whole pandemic began. Well have more on science and data in a couple of minutes. First, lets go to kaitlan collins, live from west palm beach, florida. Kaitlan, is there a strategy to the president s decision to sign the stimulus . Reporter i think if there is, brooke, even the president s own staff doesnt know what it is because when we were talking to white house officials yesterday as the president tweeted, good news is coming, that was the tweet a few hours before he did finally sign this deal, white house officials werent sure what he was going to do. A lot of it had to
But we do say good morning. It is sunday december 27th. The year is almost over. Josh, good morning to you. As you know, there are many people right now wondering those folks who have lost their unemployment, theyre wondering if there is anyone or anything that could change this president s mind at this hour for get this bill signed. Its already down there at his desk at maralago. Apparently there isnt anyone. And many have tried, kendis, including senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a staunch trump ally who showed up at the end of the week, played a round of golf with the president at his club in west palm beach, and emerged to say the president seemed more committed to ever to his new standard for this legislation, these 2,000 checks that the president has been calling for. Now, if you want to know what actually President Trump is thinking, the best place at this point to find those answers happens to be twitter. Because even his close aides have no idea what exactly his game p
Reidout. Ally velshi, msnbc host of velshi and susan de. First we have some breaking news. Lets go to my colleague for the latest developments on the tennessee explosion. Lets go straight to the News Conference ongoing right now, rev. And that is based on the evidence that weve gathered to this point, weve come to the conclusion that an individual named Anthony Warner is the bomber, that he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the bombing. We base this conclusion on forensic evidence, including dna evidence that youll hear about as well as evidence that was gathered at the scene of the bombing. Because this was a collaborative effort, what i want to do is turn the microphone over to each of the agency folks here. Theyre going to talk about their agencys role in the investigation and how the evidence they gathered and the tests they conducted e led us to this conclusion. Let me start out by introducing Tennessee Bureau of investigation director david roush. Thank y