Fda issuing an emergency use authorization for it. So this is the fastest that a safe, effective vaccine has ever been developed. But all there is unfolding on the same day the u. S. Surpassed 16 million cases. Its only been four days since we reached 15 million cases. This Global Pandemic just ravaging the u. S. Unlike any other country. For perspective, compare canada and the u. S. , more people died from covid in the last week here in the u. S. Than have died in canada to the entire pandemic. In fact, more people died just yesterday in the u. S. Than in japan and south korea combined, since the pandemic began. The u. S. And south korea reported their first cases on the same day. More than 108,000 americans are in hospitals and friday the deaths of another 3300 americans were reported a single day record. 2,000 more deaths have already been reported today with hours still to go. Officials warned Christmas Travel and gatherings will cause another surge. But back to the muchneeded ligh
Ballot, but look, it is a Suicide Mission for our country. What it means is you are throwing down, not just eight years of the white house but potentially 100 years on the supreme court. And wrecking this country for many generations. So i think thats the legacy these folks will leave behind. I think it is dangerous and there are other ways to get assurances on the things they are worried about. Trump had a tough week, filled with questions about his past. Trump said he will not release his taxes until after his audit is complete and trump is hitting back after reports he posed as his own publicist. Scott, tell us how trump is handling these controversies. You are right. Donald trump has been put on the defensive this weekend for sure. First he continues to deny it was his voice on a 1991 recording of a People Magazine interview with a man named jon miller claiming to be trumps publicist. In an interview with the New York Times trump said do you know how many people i have imitating my
Wing . Hi ana, this is not a good week for moral when it comes to white house staffer. Particularly, the communication staff. We are talking about a press shop that did not know and kept out of the loop about the president s decision to fire the fbi director until practicely when ultimately contradicted by the president himself. That left people feeling dejected and rattled and thats how one official described that the Vice President , one of the official that is went out and spoke to the press and delivered this story line that the president was relying on the advice of the Justice Department specifically, this recommendation from Deputy Attorney rod rosenstein. The Vice President said that of seven times. Hes rattled once again finding himself in a situation where hes sharing in act rate rate inaccurate information. The president s tweet. It is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect accuracies. Maybe the best thing to do is cancelled all press briefings an
House last night to review classified documents. What are you learning about that visit . Reporter were learning that adam schiff has a different impression of the documents than devin nunes. Nunes, when he reviewed those materials that led to him holding a press conference, suggesting this backed up the president s claim about being under surveillance by the obama administration. Last night, the chairman said essentially that while he was able to review these materials he didnt really learn too much that would have made him believe that the actions that devin nunes were necessarily the appropriate ones and essentially saying that every member of the committee should be able to review them as the chairman does. This comes against the backdrop of a bit of new information and that is about Michael Flynn, the National Security Agency Director who was removed from his post after it was revealed the repeated meetings that hed had with russian officials. As you know, the white house is slowl
Next week if possible . Even then is possible. A list of potential candidates appears to be growing by the hour. These are the six people we know are being interviewed but were hearing a seventh person is in the running as well. Well take a look at each of these candidates and the impact they can have on the Russian Investigation. First in washington, athena jones joining us outside the white house. Tell us more about whats happening inside the west wing. We been talking about the low morale and in fact this was account a bad week for the white house, but particularly that if your part of the president communications team, if its your job to speak on behalf of the president and the administration, we saw this week that there were changing story lines. Thats because the press shop didnt find out about the president s decision to fire director comey until about an hour before he did it. And so they didnt have a lot of time to put together an explanations for why the president made the de