This will add millions of doses to our current supply of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. One group that hasnt been cleared to take the vaccine is children. Dr. Anthony fauci today tells cnn that the u. S. May start Clinical Trials with children in a matter of weeks with results available in just a few months. This hopeful news follows an Alarming Development out of the uk, where a new, more contagious strain of covid has emerged. Its so serious that its prompted british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson to reverse course and put parts of the country back into lockdown. Given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus, the potential risk it poses, it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas as planned. Thankfully the strain does not appear to affect the impact of treatments or vaccines, but englands chief medical officer says urgent work is under way to rule out if the new strain is somehow deadlier. Urgent work also under way on capitol hill where negotiations over the longawaited and muchneeded covid relief bill are still ongoing. Were told there is a single holdup. Cnns senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju joins me. When our viewers listen to what this holdup is, theyll be shaking their heads saying, what . Negotiations are centered on this one issue. The biggest Sticking Point right now about whether or not to rein in the Federal Reserves emergency powers. Those are Lending Authority that was created in the march stimulus law. That law allowed the Federal Reserve to carry out several emergency lending facilities. Republicans believe they should be restrictive. They say the intent of that law is essentially to be wound down. Their concern is that if it continues it could be used as a slush fund, not necessarily for this current crisis. Democrats say that the what the republicans are pushing largely by republican senator pat toomey that they believe that essentially would constrain the Incoming Biden Administration and they are pushing back. At this hour, there are negotiations intensifying between pat toomey and the Senate Democratic leader chuck schumer. They had a meeting in their office. The two spoke. Toomey came out suggesting we could still reach a deal. I talked to another senator in that meeting, mitt romney. He cant predict if they can reach a deal but they have an idea where their disagreements now lie. I also saw toomey moments ago talking to other senators as well. Kyrsten sinema who is a democratic senator from arizona sitting down with toomey right now behind closed doors. Shes part of the talks as well. And Senate Democrats are getting briefed to hear about the latest where things stand. This is seen as the biggest Sticking Point. If that gets resolved, the view other is issues still outstanding could also get resolved and then they can reach an agreement. Still its uncertain, though, whether or not this can move as fast as many people want. They still would like to get it done through the house by tomorrow. The hope is possibly in the senate by tomorrow, too, but the deal hasnt been reached. Still needs to be drafted. Schedule votes. Thats particularly challenging in the senate which requires 100 senators to agree to schedule a vote. So any single senator who can object and delay things, and some might because they may not like the deal and havent seen the details of whats being discussed. A lot of questions about whether this 900 billion relief package can pass by tomorrow night when the government is slated to run out of money if they dont pass another funding package. A lot of this tied up in these negotiations happening right now. Well see if they can get a deal. So many are waiting as theyre seeing things expire such as Unemployment Benefits in just a matter of days. Absolutely. Senator coons telling me in the last hour that he didnt know if he would be able to negotiate with senator tomey to walk back some of his demands as well. That seems to be the sole holdout right now. Manu raju, youll stay on this. Thank you so much. Thank you. Modernas Coronavirus Vaccine is being packed up and readied for delivery just hours after the fda issued an emergency use authorization. One step remains before americans can actually start getting the Moderna Vaccine shots. And that is the green light from the cdc. The agencys Vaccine Advisory Panel has just sent its recommendations to the cdc director who must now give the final go ahead. While we wait for that to happen, were told it could be at any time. Lets go to cnns pete muntean. If all goes well, how long before someone could be rolling up their sleeve for a vaccine from moderna now . Well, bianna, were standing by for the shipments to begin here. Operation warp speed says trucks carrying the Moderna Vaccine will roll out of here starting tomorrow. The shipments, those deliveries will begin on monday. It all begins right here. This is a critical spot. This is a mckesson facility. Thats the company in charge of the distribution of the Moderna Vaccine. And its a strategic spot. Were not too far from memphis just down the road. Thats fedex headquarters. And its fedex and u. P. S. That will be carrying the Moderna Vaccine to 3,000 locations across the country. This is a huge rollout. Four times larger than the initial pfizer rollout of last week. Massive rollout indeed. We know there have been issues with the shipping process of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. What are you learning about that . Were also hearing a rare apology. Operation warp speed is actually issuing that apology having said it learned a lot of lessons in the last week. General Gustave Perna apologized to states who thought they were getting more vaccine but did not. Heres what he said. It was my fault. I gave guidance. I am the one that approved the forecast sheets. I am the one that approved the allocations. There is no problem with the process. There is no problem with the Pfizer Vaccine. There is no problem with the Moderna Vaccine. All right . It was a planning error, and i am responsible. This Moderna Vaccine has one big advantage over the Pfizer Vaccine. It does not need to be stored at super cold temperatures, rather, it can go in a regular freezer. That opens up this vaccine to a lot of places without deep freezers, namely, rural areas. This is a start of a massive movement. And it all begins right here in mississippi. Absolutely. And having two as opposed to one vaccine makes it so much easier and efficient getting it out around the country as well. Pete muntean, thank you. According to the cdc, at least 270,000 doses of the Pfizer BiontechCovid Vaccine have been administered under the fda emergency use authorization so far. So far, there have been six serious allergic reactions. There were additional reports of reactions but they were not considered serious. The cdc says investigations into these reactions are ongoing. With me now is dr. Peter hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of medicine. Great to see you. What should people know about these reactions because were hearing they were in the Pfizer Vaccine as well as the Moderna Vaccine. Well, it depends what we mean by serious. We know serious allergic reactions do occur about the order of one to two per million for the influenza and the hpv vaccine for cervical and other cancers. 3 or 4 per million. Now 6 among 270,000 would be high, but theyre not saying they may not be serious. So theres a little bit of confusion there. So i know this is under investigation. The fda has made that decision to move forward except if youre allergic to any known component in the vaccine. And i think thats a wise recommendation for now. So hopefully the fda is now looking into this. Which is why its so important these vaccines are administered in a facility that can then monitor for a few minutes after the vaccines are delivered, right, and then offer epipens or whatever aid these patients do need to receive and theyve been treated on the scene there as well. Earlier today the u. S. Surgeon general addressed reports of reactions to the vaccines. Lets take a listen. This is normal. This is expected. If you are someone who has had a severe allergic reaction to a vaccine in the past, please let your Health Provider know. But to everyone else out there please know this means the system is working. We are recognizing and catching these very, very rare side effects. So you agree with what the sur Surgeon General said there and how important for these cases to be known that we have full transparency when there is an issue . Yeah, well, again, we need clarity on the severity of those six reactions, if they went into anaphylactic shock, thats one thing. But i think we would have heard about that by now. And then what is the allergic component to the vaccine . Theres some speculation it could be the polyethylene glycol thats found in in food additives, thats a component of the lipid coating thats required for the rna. And, you know, just by the logistics of how this vaccine is sdr distributed that it requires the deep freezer, it is in closely regulated facilities because its quite difficult to move it out to more remote areas which is more like what the Moderna Vaccine will do. And well see if the same allergic reactions occur with the Moderna Vaccine. The point is, it does not appear to be linked to people who have Food Allergies so far. Only if you have a known severe allergy to previous vaccine injections or components of the vaccine. But i think, bianna, the other point to remember is this is a brandnew technology. There are going to be speed bumps, as we roll out this vaccine. And so theres going to have to be that discussion between the government scientists and the American People. And thats the one part thats been missing out of operation warp speed so far. Its a Great Program in terms of scientific rigor and in terms of integrity of the Clinical Trials but they never really built in a program of public communication. Thats going to be a top priority for the Biden Administration to fix. It is crucial. And dr. Peter hotez, i dont want to diminish the miracle of having two vaccines in a record period of time. We just want to be transparent if there are any holdups but youve got thousands upon thousands of people having no side effects at all, so people should definitely talk to their doctors but not be dissuaded from taking the vaccine. We have to breaking news well have to end this conversation unfortunately too short. We love having you on, though. Thank you. Thanks, bianna. And now to that breaking news. Were learning of a Heated Oval Office meeting friday where trump allies floated ideas of ways to overturn the election. I want to go straight to jeremy diamond. Jeremy, just when we thought we couldnt hear anything crazier, what are we learning about this meeting . Very clear that as President Trump continues to refuse to accept that he lost this president ial election to president elect joe biden, the president is also still consulting aides and allies for more ways that he could possibly move to continue to contest this election or at least undermine the legitimacy of joe bidens election as the 46th president of the United States. Were told on friday the president met with Michael Flynn, the former National Security adviser, who was pardoned by the president , despite having pled guilty to counts of lying to the fbi and his attorney, sydney powell, who has been trafficking these deranged theorys about the 2020 election that have been roundly and thoroughly debunked. The president nonetheless was talking about potentially naming sydney powell as a special counsel within the government to investigation voter fraud in the 2020 election despite a total lack of evidence any of widespread voter fraud in this election. And he also discussed apparently this idea that Michael Flynn has brought up recently about using martial law to rerun the 2020 president ial election. I want you to listen to this crackpot idea brought up by Michael Flynn recently on another network and then well talk about it. He could order the within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. These people out there talking about martial law like its something that weve never done. Weve done martial law has been instituted 64 64 times. Now, it is not clear at all that that idea is being seriously considered, but it did come up in this meeting in the oval office. The military has made very clear that they would never be involved in any efforts as it relates to overturning the results of the election or determining who the next president will be. Thats a job for the voters and, i leelectors who have chosen jo biden. Many of these ideas being floated by sydney powell and Michael Flynn, they drew significant backlash from some advisers including white House CounselPat Cipollone and chief of staff mark meadows. Sources are telling us the meeting devolved into a screaming match at times. One source calling it, quote, ugly as flynn and powell accused the president s advisers of not pushing hard enough to overturn the results of the 2020 election. What is clear, this effort is continuing. And a source told me earlier this week that the president has even floated with some advisers staying at the white house past Inauguration Day before being talked down from that ledge. But it is clear that the president is engaging with some of these very dangerous and concerning ideas. The question is how far he will continue to take it. And well have to wait and see on that one. Aside from crazy and just deranged, it also shows you where the president s priorities are right now with all these other crises going on. Jeremy diamond, thank you so much. Joining me now is republican congressman john curtis of utah. Congressman, you were one of the first republicans in congress to acknowledge president elect bidens victory. I want to get your reaction to this stunning report out of an Oval Office Meeting last night, including talk of martial law and screaming matches. Well, let me just tell you, ive been in congress for three years. For three years i keep hearing all these worst case scenarios. It was a conversation, not a revolution. There were far more important things in front of us, and i think we need to move on and tackle them. But thats all you have to say to that . I mean, i understand there are far more important issues on and we had you on to talk about covid and we will in a singled. We cant grow numb to incidents that what happened in a third world country and we would have a state department that would be alarmed about hearing these types of reports. Listen, youre talking about a conversation that reportedly took place. We dont know anything about the details. And you just cant get me all riled up about that. Does it bother you . It bothers me that its such a big deal to so many people who know nothing about the facts and know nothing about the details. Lets get some facts in front of us and then we can have that conversation. But you do reiterate that president elect biden is, in fact, the president elect . Of course. Okay. Well, lets move on to why we had you on in the first place because theres another, as you said, many crises going on in this country. How confident are you that we will have a covid relief deal soon . Well, i am confident. Whats frustrating to me American People and i have to tell you very frustrating to me is that there are so many lowhanging fruit ideas that are bipartisan that we could move forward if we could just get a vote on them and yet were tying it up with all of these issues that are very, very difficult to solve. Id love to see us just push forward these ideas that have broad bipartisan support. Lets get a vote on them. Do you understand this holdup coming from senator toomey about some obscure fed policy allowing them to have certain privileges and certain separation from congress in terms of use of funds . Sure. As i understand it, what were talking about is funds that were allocated and not used by the Federal Reserve. And i got to tell you, theres a lot of us on both sides of the aisle very, very concerned about the amount of money were spending with no accountability. Why wouldnt we repurpose some of the funds from the original bill and use them in a more effective way . I can see his argument. But can you understand why some people would be scratching their heads trying to wonder why all of a sudden republicans are worried about deficits and spending given what this administration has done over the past four years . I think your point is valid.