Washington, and with that, welcome to americas news headquarters, im leland are visit earth. Kristin and im kristin fisher. The president also signaled that he has no intention of conceding even as the president ial transition moves ahead. David spunt joins us live at the white house where the just returned from camp david. Reporter hey, kristin. The president said pointblank about the election that his mind will not change in six months, so for his supporters, for those close to the president hoping that maybe he might concede, that he he might accept joe biden as the next president of the United States when he gets sworn in on january 20th, there is your answer when he says that his mind will not be made up in six months. Now, he doubled, tripled, even quadrupled down on his claims that the election was fraudulent, though no indication that is the case. Joe biden is the President Elect. He took 306 electoral votes. The president 232, the same spread, actually, that trump and secretar
But i think that the idea now is that we have to hit back hard, we have to hit back strong if were going to finally put this dual crisis of the pandemic and the economic pain that is engendered behind us. With respect to larrys point, one thing is just wrong, which is that our team is dismissive of inflationary risks. Weve constantly argued that the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risk of going big. Providing families and businesses with the relief they need to finally put this virus behind us. Second, i want to quote fed chair Jerome Powell who strongly reiterated this view the other day, i think it was just a week or so ago, that inflationary risks are also asymmetric right now. Im much more afraid of people losing their careers and life that they built because they dont get back to work in time. Im more concerned about what that will do not just to their lives but to the American Economy. Im more concerned about that than which exists with higher inflation. In our
I think it was an effective measure. The idea now is we have to hit back hard. We have to hit back strong if were going to finally put this dual crisis of the pandemic and economic payment engendered behind us. With respect to larrys point, one thing is just wrong which is our team is dismissive of inflationary risks. We have constantly argued the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risk of going big. Providing families and businesses with the relief they need to put this virus behind us. I want to quote Jerome Powell who strongly reiterated this view the other day. I think it was a week or so ago that inflationary risks are also asymmetric. He said, im much more worry about falling short of a complete recovery and losing peoples careers and lives they built because they dont get back to work in time. Im more concerned about the damage that will do, not just to their lives but to the United States economy, to the productive capacity of the economy. Im more concerned abou
Were following all those headlines. And this. While democrats are moving forward without republicans to get americans covid relief aid, the white house is ramping up vaccine efforts. The new plan, send Vaccine Doses to community pharmacies. Its an allout push to get ahead of more fastmoving variants. But first, we begin on capitol hill. Lauren fox is tracking the republican rift between trump loyalists, longstanding conservatives. Lauren, where do we stand . You have two politicians fate at stake here. Marjorie taylor greene, but also liz cheneys leadership position. Thats exactly right, jim. Last night, we should note, Kevin Mccarthy, the minority leader in the House Of Representatives sat down for an hourslong meeting with Marjorie Taylor greene to talk about her future. We are told that the minority leader is still undecided about whether or not she will keep her post. But essentially we are learning from that meeting that Marjorie Taylor greene did not apologize for the past statem
Injured. He said by and large the vast majority of these men and women are decent, honorable people. What did he mean by that . The vast majority part, exactly what he meants go ahead, kristin . Thank you, jen. President biden has been very clear that one of his core charges to the country is to try to unify the country. How can he do that while the Impeachment Trial is going on next week . Well, he were focus his efforts, exactly what hes doing, on delivering necessary relief to the american public, and using his forum to talk about how hes going to reopen schools, how hes going to get shots in the arms of americans, how hes going to ensure that the one in seven American Families who are concerned they cant put food on the table can do exactly that. Thats how hes spending his time. As we started this briefing, and how he will continue doing it moving forward. Whats the message to republicans who say the very trial itself undercuts any effort at this . He invites republicans to work wi