The Voting Rights cspan. Org. As washington journal live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Take you to the house floor. E p our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Washington journal live every sustaining grace. Help the leaders of our nation make wise decisions in our day. May they look to you for guidance every step of the way until we stand in your light forever. Set us all on a path that will lead to peace and security. Bless us this day and every day and may all that is done within the peoples house be for your debater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1. The journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. Lawrence. Lawrence laurnings mrs. Lawrence i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
And well be watching the last word like we do every night at 10 00 p. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. Hi there. Im stephanie ruhle. Live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city, it is monday, december 21st. Lets get smarter. Today, congress will finally do something it should have done months ago. Vote on a relief bill to provide badly needed help to millions of struggling americans. It includes things like a 600 direct cash payment, extra Unemployment Insurance and help for Small Businesses. The big question, why did it take so long . Also this morning, the first shipments of Modernas Covid vaccines are on their way. Millions of doses headed to Distribution Sites at this very moment. More than half a Million Health care workers have already taken the vaccine with many more getting them this morning. Nursing homes and longterm care facilities is also set to kick off today. Weve known for a while thos
Be included. A 600 stimulus check for most americans and 300 per week of enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits among other relief measures. But to make matters even perilous for the incoming administration, they will he also be inheriting a government that has just been breached by a massive russian hack. Meanwhile President Trump is casting doubt on russias role in the attack, even though u. S. Officials, lawmakers, experts and even the secretary of state and the attorney general have all said russia is culprit. And the president is using the hack to instill further doubt about the legitimacy of bidens victory. For the latest, imjoinm joined Garrett Haake and Josh Lederman. Garrett, when will we see the actual text of the covid relief bill . Weve been told that the text of the bill was imminent since about 10 00 this morning. There are reports that it is being held up by printer problem, digital unloading problems, it is giving me nightmares of term papers finished too late. But this
Beginning early next year. The admiral says they will work on other parameters first. It may vary a little state by state. Youre going to lean heavily, if you have a little run youre going to lean towards the essential workers on the front line. A busy week Left Congress set to vote on a relief package today. Well have more on that ahead. We have more on the rollout of the new moderna vaccine. Lets get right to kari sanders. And were also in memphis where the vaccine is being shipped out across the country. Well they now have the moderna vaccine. The chief pharmacy officer could not have been more thrilled to see that ups van pull up and start off loading the boxes. You can see they were very gingerly moved to a pal lette enthen taken back to where theyre being stored. There was ice packs more or less in there keeping it at a secure temperature of 20 blow elow or colder. 3500 vaccinations arriving from moderna today. 61,000 are arriving from across the state for distribution. They are
Seeing a rise without a mask himself and most folks in the crowd not Wearing Masks either. Remember, just days ago, he said the virus is dying out. Right. Its not dying out, clearly. And in texas, governor greg abott, a key ally of the president is urging people to stay home. The northern part of the state is seeing more young people fill hospital beds who seem less sick, but are still contracting this. Lets begin in texas and our correspondent Lucy Cavanaugh is live in dallas. Good morning, lucy. Reporter good morning, poppy. Texas is just one of 26 states seeing a surge in these coronavirus cases this as President Donald Trump said this epidemic, this pandemic has america to its knees and dr. Anthony fauci describing this as a disturbing rise and disturbing surge in cases warning about this concern about this plan to economically reopen states that have been championed by the president. He is also saying that its going to be critical how we operate over the next few weeks in terms of