Eating. To seattle where the homicide rate is soaring to a 10year high just as the city plans to cut a big chunk of its Police Department budget. Mounting fallout over the assassination after Iranian Nuclear scientist. Iran says israel was behind it and pulled it off with some hightech and remote weapons. The balance of the power in the senate in the balance itself, hanging on two Key Senate Races in georgia. Also tonight well tell you why President Trump made significant progress in attracting hispanic voters to the Republican Party despite liberals saying he is antiiimmigrant. Im gerry baker in for elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Gerry we begin with the latest on that cdc meeting over who will get the covid19 vaccine first and when. Blake burman is at the white house for us. Blake what is the latest . Reporter gerry, this is an Advisory Group that helps out the cdc, acip, Advisory Committee for immunization practices. After a lengthy discussion a short while ago they voted to recommend that Front Line Health Care workers be the first ones to eventually get a covid19 vaccine when that comes down the line potentially here in the upcoming weeks. Here is the recommendation, quote, when a covid19 vaccine is authorized by fda and recommended by acip vaccination in the initial phase of the covid19 vaccination should be offered one, to Health Care Personnel and two, residents of longterm care facilities. When you talk about health care workers, for example that list includes those who work at those longterm Health Care Facilities and long with those in hospitals, outpatient facilities,ems workers and Public Health officials. Gerry, there are 21 million adults who are health care professionals. That is 8 of the adult population. As for those in nursing homes, it is 1. 3 million individuals out of 1. 7 million beds available. Add it all up, talking about 22, 23 million individuals that this Advisory Committee just recommended be first ones to get those vaccines. One thing to keep in mind though, this is an Advisory Group for the cdc. This is their recommendation, what they think should happen. At the end of the day when there is a vaccine and gets distributed out to the states, it will be the governors who will eventually have the final say within their states as to where a vaccine may or may not initially go. Gerry . Gerry 21, 22 Million People in that first order of priority. I think Companies Making these vaccines have said they might have 20, 30 million doses available quickly. Any sense how quickly once theyre approved they can get the vaccines to those people who have been identified as priority . Reporter everything we heard, gerry, from operation warp speed when there approval from the fda it should be out the door within 24, maybe 36 hours. We know the fda will take up pfizer on december 10th, nine days from now. Moderna a week after that. It is certainly possible that youre talking about the first doses of vaccination at some point in the middle of this month. Gerry . Gerry blake burman thank you very much indeed. The race for the vaccine is unfolding as lawmakers inch closer to a covid relief bill. Nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin spoke today. There is Bipartisan Group of senators and leadership from the house problemsolvers caucus unveiled their own proposal with one another calling it quote, stupidity on steroids to not do a bill before christmas. Watch this. This is 908 billiondollar frame work which will take us december 1 through march 31st. Not going to make everybody happy but there has been an enormous amount of work done. There will be a lot of enormously good giveandtake. I came with the notion im hearing from beginnians, somebody used it. I borrowed their term it would be stupidity on steroids if Congress Left for christmas without doing an interim package as a bridge. Gerry perhaps some, cynics might say wouldnt be the First Time Congress demonstrated stupidity on steroids. Joining me congressman former House Oversight committee chairman, congressman jason chaffetz. Congressman chaffetz, thanks for joining me. Thanks, gerry. Gerry what is the odds, do you think of some kind of a stimulus, some kind of cares marc four package well get before the end of this year, before the end of this congress . I think the odds are pretty good, now the election, voting is done i think democrats will loosen up some of their demands. I dont think any way nancy pelosi for instance was going to do a package prior to the election. I just hope it is as clean a bill as possible. There were a lot of superfluous things in the other bill, stuff absolutely nothing to do with coronavirus. If they keep the bill clean, keep it reasonable, there is no reason why both ends of the political spectrum cant come together to get this done. Gerry do you think a bill is likely to include some provision for vaccination . Obviously an expensive business vaccination. Speaker pelosi said the bill should contain that. Do you think that will be in it . Yeah. That is obviously germane to the topic at hand. So i think making sure that that, the vaccination is widely available, prioritized for firstresponders, nurses, doctors, people like at that, that there isnt a cost to the American People, ultimately they pay it in forms of taxes. There is still a bill for the American People but the immediate need to come up with a credit card or cash to do it i think can be part of that relief package but there are Small Businesses, big businesses, Like Airlines and others do need relief and they need it now. Lou gerry democrats still pushing, want a big bailout for many states, particularly blue states that got themselves into deep fiscal problems. Republicans im guessing are not warming to that idea . I think thats where fiscal conservatives are very concerned, there is more than 100 billion, what i read in this 900 plus billion dollar package that would go to states. Putting some guardrails where they can use it, how they can use it so it doesnt grow government. We went through with barack obama and joe biden. 787 billiondollar package would go to do infrastructure that sort of thing, but less than 5 actually did that so the concern is that will be repeated unless you actually put some guardrails. Get this to the people who need it. People who work in a restaurant. People who, people who really actually need that relief and they can get it soon. Gerry Senate Republicans talked about a slimmer proposal, something much more order what youve been talking about, what do you think the odds are, what would be included in that, what are the odds Something Like that could get passed . You would have thought they could got this done four or five months ago. I would like to say since the election is over that is good. Slimmer package making sure it is focused on those who need it increases odds. When you start throwing in provisions about immigration and these types of things that have absolutely nothing to do, gerry, with what is needed for covid relief, then you got a people throw up their hands, i will not be party to. Congressman, while i have got you, other big news featured attorney general william barr announcing that prosecutor that he appointed to investigate aspects to do with the russia investigation making him a special counsel which i think, as you can explain to our viewers what that means but i think it sort of protects him. Means the investigation is ongoing through the Biden Administration. Give us your response to that. Evidently this designation happened back in october. Were turning a corner here into december but basically means that the investigation can continue even under a new attorney general, if firing of this person is near impossible. You would have to come up with some really good reasons to do it. You cant just say he is an atwill employee terminate this. A special prosecutor has a budget. Has resources. Has the ability to go out to get documents he needs. Also the wherewithal to do without having an attorney general or somebody fire him along the way. It is a real important step. Im dispointed the investigation didnt wrap up before the election but im still curious to want to know what mr. Durham has found. Gerry jason chaffetz, well be following that for some time to come. Jason chaffetz, thanks for joining us. Thanks, gerry. Gerry coming up radio show host jason rantz why the Seattle City Council is slashing the Police Department budget by nearly 20 just as the murder rate in that city continues to spike to the highest levels in more than a decade. These are run by new liberal, progressive or socialist democrats with far left policies that are hurting the very people they have always claimed they care about. Im greg, im 68 years old. I do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. 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As Seattle City Council was debating how much more they defund the Seattle Police there was two stabbings. Up with was a person walking in downtown seattle, stabbed in the neck. The good news he is okay. The bass news, the second stabbing was a caseworker working in a essentially a place facility for formerly Homeless People who are getting help to get their lives back in order. She was stabbed to death. This was happening while we were talking about cutting more funds from the police. We have 55 homicides this year. That is up for context, from 28 last year. This is the highest weve had in at least 12 years. Things are not going well in seattle but i cant say that im surprised by these statistics. Gerry whats the political reaction, jason . We just had an election where a lot of democrats put their hand up after the election said this whole defund the police thing was disaster for nair party especially congressional house races yet here you are, rising crime, terrible stabbings, cutting the Police Budget, what will the political reaction be . The political reaction in the Pacific Northwest generally speak something much different than what is going on nationally. Here you embrace the fringe, progressives socialist beliefs and end up getting reelected. If you have a d next to your name chances are including if youre literally a sack of potatoes you will have a high chance, if not a for sure, a certainty that youre going to actually get elected or reelected regardless of your results as somebody in office. Simply taking on parroting talking points coming from the activist community basically means you will be in power a very long time. We are just again, put it in perspective, were going into year 16 of a 10year plan to end homelessness. We dont necessarily judge results here in seattle. We judge talking points, the ability to kowtow and placate some of the very loud and very angry activists and right now those activists happen to be antipolice and theyre the ones who have the ears of the council and the mayors office. Gerry youre sill getting widespread violence and vandalism. These people, supposedly, joe biden seems to have been elected president. We all thought this was kind of a bullying tactic by some of these leftwing radicals in the runup to the election, vote for us or were going to burn your city. Vote for joe biden, city is still burning, so what is going on . What do they want . I see the signs here, more dead cops. Is it really pure anarchy . Do they want to destroy all the institutions of society like that . It is kind of interesting. You have two different groups within the larger blm movement here in seattle. Number one weve cut the Police Department budget by 18 . There are some want that cut by 50 . Now the council said that was their end goal but they did acknowledge maybe they threw that number out there a little bit too quickly but still intend to get to 50 . So the group was sort of, theyre the victims of being overpromise and underdeliverred. But you have another very how group, much smaller than the 50 crowd, literally want to see the abolition of police. They want to get rid of prisons. They want to get rid of prison sentences. Theyre not hiding some of these positions and they do have allies. Whether it is on the Seattle City Council or the King County Council or the state legislators in olympia, they do have some people who are starting to parrot some of these more fringe positions or at least if not fully adopting them, they are at least sympathetic towards them. It is just empowering these people. Last night we had another essentially a riot of marauding protesters out there doing what they do. Vandalizing big business, terrorizing neighborhoods. Police not allowed to do their job. We have the lowest police deployable staff weve had in the city of seattle since 1990. Let that sink in. Were seeing a mass exodus of officers who are continuing to leave. Weve seen almost 150 officers this year who have left. We believe, i believe, based on my sources that im talking to, that number will get closer to 200 in the next month. We have 100 officers who already have applications out to different agencies around the region this is not going to get better. Gerry jason, thank you very much. From the peoples republic of seattle, thank you very much indeed for joining us. Thank you so much. 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Gerry were seeing more restrictions being imposed by some of these governors particularly in blue states but were starting to see more and more people really just tired of this, not being able to stand what is going on with the damage being done to businesses. How do you think this is going to play out . Finally americans have said enough is enough. You listened to you in the beginning. He said we would shut down three weeks and bend the curve and flatten the curve, all these Different Things that the scientists allegedly were saying. Then we would go back to a normal life yet you see democrats across the country, mayor lightfoot in chicago, is with a whole bunch of people around here maskless at a rally. Mayor of d. C. At a biden rally. All the democrats do whatever they want to do in violation of their own covid restrictions and rules while restaurants and Business Owners in democratically led cities and democratically led states being decimated about the