Nothing more important happening out there right now. I was just talking with paul this hour about the economic challenges, and may be are worse than we have perceived and the Economic Team that was announced by biden and what theyre going to have to do to try to turn it around, and he unprompted said it depends on what happens in georgia. Everything depends on georgia. That is where policy that will be the reason we either get policy that works or we dont. Its all down to georgia. I saw that, and when economists, you ask them a question, the answer depends on the assumptions and that is what he needs to know. What kind of senate we need to talk about. In order to talk about what is going to happen next. Thank you, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Take care. Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, scott atlas has resigned his position as chief adviser on the coronavirus, and america is safer for it. That means that the most ignorant president to face a crisis at least are not get his brain poisoned
Its moving day. And are doing the heavy lifting, jess is busy moving her xfinity internet and tv services. It only takes about a minute. Wait, a minute . But what have you been doing for the last two hours . Delegating . Oh, good one. Move your Xfinity Services without breaking a sweat. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Xfinity makes moving easy. Go online to transfer your services in about a minute. Get started today. Hello and warm welcome to our viewers in the United States, and around the world. Im paula newton, live, from cnns World Headquarters in atlanta. Where its 2 00 a. M. , on the east coast. 11 00 p. M. , out west. And i want to thank all of you for joining us. Now, for the third day in a row, and the 23rd time this month, the number of americans hospitalized with covid19 has hit a record high. At this very hour, there are more than 125,000 people in hospital, with covid19. Twice as many as just two months ago. Now, the crisis is still expected to worsen. But Health Official
Pandemic, and thats where we are tonight. Were also going to have jon ossoff join us later in the hour as the days close in on that Georgia Election that will decide who controls the senate. Jon ossoff will be joining us once again on that tonight. You have a great show and a great new year, and i will see you next year, my friend. Thank you, ali. Thank you very much. Well, Anthony Fauci graduated first in his class from Cornell Medical School in 1966 and two years later in 1968 the country endured the most turbulent president ial Campaign Year since the civil war. President Linden Johnson johnsonen abandoned his reelection campaign. President ial candidate Bobby Kennedy was assassinated a month after the reverend Martin Luther king, jr. Was assassinated. The Democratic Convention brought a week of rioting to chicago. There were large and small protests somewhere in america virtually every day in 1968 when the country seemed irreparably broken into unreconcilable political factions ove
Payments from 600 to 2,000. Will Senate Republicans stand against the house of representatives, the democratic majority in the senate and the president of their own party to prevent these 2,000 checks from going out the door . Were about to get the answers to these questions. Is there objection to the modification . I object. Objection is heard. The senate is debating that right now, and Chuck Schumer does have a little leverage. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders says he is willing to filibuster the veto override of the ndaa until Mitch Mcconnell relents and brings the payments bill to the floor. And its not just sanders giving the majority leader a headache. It is potentially a handful of his own senators including the two republicans from georgia who are on the ballot down there one week from today. I stood by the president 100 of the time. Im proud to do that. And ive said absolutely we need to get relief to americans now. And i will support that. Im delighted to support the president
Confederacy. Tonight, the house overrode that veto by a vote of 32287. Mitch mcconnell says he expects the senate will vote to override the veto as well, which would officially pass the defense spending bill into law. The override process in the senate is set to begin tomorrow. More on that in a second. The house also passed a bill tonight introduced by democrats to expand direct payments to eligible americans as part of the sweeping covid relief bill that Congress Passed last week. Now, the bill would expand those payments from 600 for every adult to 2,000 per adult. More than twothirds of the house voted for it, but its chances in the Republicanled Senate remain an open question. Now, that vote tonight is, of course, not a democratic stunt, its a direct response to trumps own temper tantrum. After Congress Passed the bill and sent it its a 900 billion relief bill to the president last week for his signature, instead of doing what he should have done, putting pen to paper, he publicly