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Its an effort doomed to fail but at what cost to american democracy . Ill ask mike dewine. Georgia on our minds. Two days until the runoff elections with control of the senate hanging in the balance. The whole country is watching us. Georgia voters have so much power right now. Can they pull off another upset in the state . Jon ossoff and Stacey Abrams join me to discuss. Hello. Im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is facing a perilous start to 2021. Were beginning the year ...

Many republicans worried about the huge price tag. Increasing the payments from 600 to 2,000 will cost 463 billion. Bernie sanders threatening to filibuster until the senate votes. The physical lock step with President Trump. Its up to the senate, every Senate Democrat is for it. But, unfortunately, we dont have the republicans on board. Republican senator marco rubio says he support the plan, quote i share many of my colleagues concern about the longterm effects of additional spending. Buff we ...

Senator to protest the Electoral College results in Congress Next week. First, another day of brutal pandemic headlines. The uk green lights another vaccine, while the u. S. Is stuck in neutral. The president blames states for botching the job. Operation warp speeds top adviser says, yes, they need to do better speeding the pace of vaccines is the critical task of 2021. The u. S. Ends 2020 by breaking pandemic records of the worst kind. 3,700 people dying yesterday. That number could easily go u...

Americas democracy. We are learning a fifth person died from wednesdays siege at the capitol by trump incited rioters. The flag is half staff for one of its own, officer brian sicknick. He died from wounds he received during the insurrection according to Capitol Police. Prosecutors are about to open a federal murder investigation, the president has yet to offer a public word of condolence. What he did say is he will be leaving the white house. It hasnt stopped calls for impeachment. Theres an in...

And just one followup for you, secretary mccarthy. The fencing, you said at least 30 days or no more than 30 days . At a minimum. Yes. We will work that in coordination with the city as well as the Capitol Hill Police. Thank you. Yes. Mark. Two questions for the secretary. One, i tried to follow along. Could you repeat the specifics about the fence . Will it completely surround the u. S. Capitol complex, the fencing. Yes. Could you go through the specifics one more time . Yes, constitution to in...

Another sobering record set overnight, more than 3,700 american lives lost to coronavirus the second day in a row. Weve said thats the same scale as 9 11 each day, which is really hard to wrap your mind around. Heres a sense of whats ahead. This chart of cases looks bad. Looks terrible. That was the spring. Zoom out for a chilling view of the viruss escalation, bad now, and getting worse as we head into the colder indoor months. The u. S. Toll far outpacing other countries, the cdc now projects ...

Again starting to climb. 3,725 deaths is a new american tragedy and a new singleday record. Look at these numbers. A Record Number of patients, nearly 125,000 in the overwhelmed hospitals, makes 4,000 deaths in a single day an alltooreal possibility. Among all of these lives lost, a congressmanelect from louisiana, luke letlo. He was just 41 and had announced his diagnosis on december 18th. 11 days later, hes gone, leaving behind a wife and two precious children. Vaccines are the way out of this...

Take down awhile ago, one clearly highly frustrated election official said the trump team has intentionally mislead the state, senate, voters, and people of the United States, closed quote. Also breaking now, president elect biden campaigning in georgia now for the two democratic challengers in tomorrows Critical Senate Runoff Election that will determine which Party Controls the u. S. Senate. We are following breaking pandemic news. The u. S. Death toll topping 352,000 people with more than 20....

And a Record Number of people, nearly 125,000 are hospitalized this morning with coronavirus. The situation becoming so severe in los angeles that several hospitals have had to turn patients away because of a shortage of oxygen. Just alarming in america in 2020. One of the latest victims of the outbreak, republican congressman luke letlo of louisiana, he was set to be sworn in this weekend, he died just two weeks after his diagno diagnosis. Also this morning, the uk has just approved the Oxford ...

Josh hawley becoming the first senator to say that he will challenge the eelectoral College Results in Congress Next week. These are normal folks living normal lives who firmly believe that they have been disenfranchi disenfranchised. Reporter hawley arguing that some states failinged ed to fol their own laws. 74 million americans are not going to shut up. Reporter with hawley joining a small group of conservative house members next wednesday, it will force a debate and a votes on the eElection ...