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have come together. the final stage here is to get it on president donald trump s desk. that is the final signature. all indications are that donald trump has decided to walk away from his day job of running the country. there are other things that he should be doing and, instead, he is entertaining conspiracy theories. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it is tuesday, december 22nd. 6:00 here in new york. alisyn is off. erica hill again with us, this morning. nice to see you. good morning, my friend. this is fantastic. i may come back tomorrow, depending how you behave. breaking overnight. better late than never. four months late. congress finally passed a $900 billion emergency-relief bill. president trump is expected to sign it within days. treasury secretary steve mnuchin says stimulus checks to millions of americans could start being sent ....
in the fight against the pandemic. here he is, dr. anthony fauci rolling up his sleeve to get the shot. i feel extreme confidence in the safety and the efficacy of this vaccine and i want to encourage heereveryone who has opportunity to get vaccinated to have a veil s protection over this country that would end this pandemic. while the vaccine is making its way to health care workers, they re also overworked and dealing with record numbers of patients. we re exhausted. we re frustrated, and we need the public to really respect public health guidelines. this is happening as public health officials are trying to quiet fears about this virus variant that emerged in the uk. biontech ceo says they are confident pfizer s vaccine will protect against this mutation. today the white house deciding whether to show proof of a negative covid test coming from europe. dr. fauci says it may already be here in the u.s. either way the country goes into the christmas holiday wi ....
president s opposition could now trigger a government shutdown sending the economy into a free fall. that means even more uncertainty for american families going hungry right now and the homeless during the holidays. yesterday also saw the second most deaths reported in the entire pandemic, and the president s sudden opposition to the relief bill has white house aides surprised and annoyed, we re told. he posted this video an hour after a top aid indicated the president would sign the measure. i am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple. send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a covid relief package, and maybe that administration will be me. no, it will not be him. he lost the election to joe biden, even though he likes to live in fantasy land. it would be funny if there weren t so much at stake here. stimulus checks, which could be sent next week, extended unemp ....
even his own staff to demand changes to the $900 billion deal calling it, quote, a disgrace. and leaving the desperately needed help for millions of americans suffering financially from the pandemic in limbo. is that what he wants? what is the game he s actually playing here? president trump also announced a flood of pardons for former aides and allies, including some who pleaded guilty during the mueller investigation. some corrupt former members of congress and some military contractors involved in a deadly shooting of iraqi citizens in 2007. so what has been clear for four years now of president trump is he does nothing quietly and he s definitely leaving the white house kicking and screaming. let s go to the white house, let s get the latest as things have changed minute by minute. john harwood is joining us now. john, the president s demand bli blindsided a lot of people on the hill and white house. if the president vetoes it, he could override it. is that the leve ....
additionally, the president wanted to take away legal protection for social media companies. that is not in the bill. he wanted it in there. now how speaker pelosi said the house will convene in five days to try to override that veto. now, this comes on the heels of the president and congress and has to amend $900 billion covid-19 relief part of a spending bill, saying instead of $600 to most americans, that should jump to $2,000 cash payment. but many lawmakers are worried tonight that the whole thing could fall apart after weeks of complex negotiations that included the president s treasure secretary steven mnuchin. the fox team coverage tonight, correspondent david s font with inventing that stimulus and where that stands but mark meredith on the president s surprise announcement today, good evening, mark. good evening to you, bret within the hour president trump winning in florida to kick off the holiday vacation. he didn t talk to reporters on the way to d.c. but ....