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CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin December 30, 2020

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 up to 5,000 to 7,000 a day if were not careful. The number of new cases is back up, and a man in colorado tested positive for a new variant of covid19. Stephanie, let me start with you there in colorado, the confirmed case of this covid variant, theyre now watching this potential second case. We have learned both men were members of the National Guard. What else do you know . Reporter so this is whats interesting. It explains why theyre both not in the counting now. Both men were deployed to work here at this assisted living facility, because there had been an outbreak of the coronavirus here. So they were short staffed, they needed more hands on deck. Thats why both these men were here. One is confirmed, the other is not confirmed yet, but they did say six of the Colorado National guard that were deployed here, these two came back testing positive, one confirmed for sure. Theyre now both in separate counties in colorado, isolating and recovering, but obviously what they are looking to do is flag any other case that is come out that look like they may have the sequencing of this genome and be able to tell whether or not they were infected. However, looking at what they have seen so far, they dont look like they have spread. Thats not a definitive answer there, but they did say the state came through and tested the residents, and the state would be here testing the people that work here as well. All of that very important for Contact Tracing and finding out where the virus came from in the first place. As theyre working on that in colorado, kristin, to you in washington, we talked about this the last couple days, first rollout, it was like 100 million promise, then 40, then 20, now just above 2. Why has it gone so slowly . Reporter we just had a briefing and they addressed this pointblank, essentially that theres a big learning curve when it comes to a National Root jowl, tick what areally one like the pfizer vaccine, or moderna, which had so many intricacies about transporting. They did acknowledge for the first time that ive heard that this is not where they hoped to be. They said they really knew the numbers as they stood right now, remember 11 million doses distributed, was nowhere they hoped to be at the time. General perna said he was going to address that lag time. This is something we have discussed. This is what Senior Administration officials have been calling me about for days, talking about how the 2. 1 million number is dont accurate. They just believe its a delay in states reporting to the cdc. Perna said he would directly address this and try to make sure its tighter as we move forward. The cdc is in the middle of a briefing right now and they possibly will be updating their vaccine website, the dashboard weve been watching over and over again, but well have to wait and see how that goes. Thank you both. I want to jump to politics. A Public Service announcement theres no evidence of Election Fraud. There is nothing to suggest that joe biden is not the president elect. Any assertion otherwise is a fantasy or placate a president who is unable to come to grips with his loss. Now they have a republican accomplice by the name of senator josh hawley. Cnns Congressional Correspondent Phil Mattingly is live on the hill. Phil, why is senator hawley why is he doing this . Reporter let me start with a cup the points. First, joe biden is the president elect of the United States. The electors versus certified. By the Time Congress is done with its role, joe biden will still be the president elect, and will be inaugurated january 20th. Why josh hawley, senator from missouri, is joining with republicans deciding to object to the certification matters, is because house members cant object on their own. They need to pair it up with a senator, so a senator, in this case josh hawley saying he will join house members triggers actual. Why hes doing this, according to his statement is twofold. He says he has problems with how some states changed their voting rules, and he notes pennsylvania specifically. And he said that was against state law. This has been litigated ad nauseam over the last several weeks, and the Trump Campaign and republicans have lost every single one of those cases. The second issue that was raised, he thinking Technology Companies censored certain content to favor joe biden. What hawley says is hes not doing this to overturn the election not to make President Trump president again, but instead to raise the awareness of these issues, and he cites a democratic precedent. In 2005 a group of democrats in the house did the same thing on ohio issues as well. However, this will make january 6th a long process. It would not change the end result, but its clear that josh hawley has joined House Republicans and its likely there will be other senators as well. Congresswomanelect mace welcome, and congratulations on your win. I have a couple questions on politics. Joe biden, you know, definitely won the election, so are you comfortable with what senator hawley is doing here . I do question why there are no u. S. Senators or house members from these battleground states where these folks want to have these objections. So i think that is problematic from the getgo, but also no Single Member of congress has the thor to upend the Electoral College. I look at south carolina, our state changed temporarily our own election laws. So were going to upend the Electoral College voters who overwhelmly goated for the president in this section . South carolina voters dont want california or new york or any other state to determine of results of the election. If we vote for overturn the Electoral College, what we are saying is Congress Knows better than the states and knows better than the voters in that state. I got it. These are all questions that have to be vetted out on january 6th. Let me ask you about this covid relief bill. Your future colleagues voted in favor of the 2,000 checks to americans in need. Do you agree with both talk about strange bedfellows, talk about President Trump and senator sanders who agree the senate should do the same . I do want to acknowledge that Congressmanelect Luke Letlow passed away last night. I had covid19, its a very serious illness, he leaves behind a wife and two young children. I was horrified this happening and i hope every american takes this seriously. Im heartbroken. Im a single working mom of two kids. I cant imagine what his wife is going through during an enormous time of need. It shocked everybody in congress, democrat and republicans align. The one thing i want to say about the stimulus checks that i have a problem with, whether its 600 or 2,000, these checks are get to people who dont necessarily need it. I qualify for a but my income was not effect affected. My income was down because i ran for congress. But for people whose incomes or businesses havent been negatively impacted, if youre making 75 granda year and youre making it all year, you still get a stimulus check. Would you have voted for it, congresswomanelect, just given what youre saying . When you look at checks going to dead people, people who are not sit zensz of our country, checks going who made a great income and whose incomes have not been negatively impacted, those checks need to go to people who lost their jobs, their businesses. Thats where that money should go. It shouldnt we need to focus on those most in need. Thats not what the stimulus checks are doing. Theyre essentially going to everybody regardless of need. Congresswomanelect mace, i want to talk about you. Im a big believer in representation, in more women being elected to congress on both sides of the aisle. Your party had a number of victories in november, so again, congratulations to you. Thank you. Your back story, you dropped out of high school as a 17yearold. As a fellow southerner, i appreciate the waffle house story. How duties get from the waffle house to the u. S. House . One big roller coaster. Ive had as much failure as success. The story i told on the campaign trail is my life has been a series of second chances. I dropped out of the school at the age of 17. I had no intention of every going back. My very first job was at a waitress at a waffle house on the side of the interstate. When i had my acceptance speech on january 4th, i did it in the parking lot of that same waffle house. I learned about the value of hard work. You dont have to be the smartest person in the room, but if you want to be successful, you have tore the hardestworking when the, my mace masks were soaked in my tears, because i was overwhelmed with how humbled i was with the win. I plan to work harder to represent the folks who sent me to washington and beyond. Listen, i wish you well. Thank you. Come back anytime. Congresswomanelect nancy mace. Thank you so much. You got it. Coming up, new details off colorado where Health Official expect a second case of a variant, that some believe may be even more contagious. Plus breaking news from the bombing case a Christmas Day. What the frightening 911 calls reveal. And turning up the heat in georgia. President obama delivers a Closing Argument in this latest campaign ad. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin, well be right back. Wake up on the right side of the bed this year shop the new year sale with 15 off today at casper. Com some things are good to know. Like where to find the cheapest gas in town and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your buck. Something else thats good to know . If you have medicare and medicaid you may be able to get more Healthcare Benefits through a humana Medicare Advantage plan. Call the number on your screen now and speak to a licensed humana sales agent to see if you qualify. Learn about plans that could give you more Healthcare Benefits than you have today. Depending on the plan you choose, you could have your doctor, hospital and Prescription Drug coverage in one convenient plan. 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Whats concerning is its taken so long to detect it, and it tells us once again if youre not testing, you wont find it. Now that we are intensified our testing, of course its here. We need to bolster or genomic system for the United States. Dr. Wen, welcome. Officials are monitoring the one confirmed case. They are also watching another suspected case of this variant both instances involved men who are working at an assist tiff living facility. They are members of the National Guard deployed to this nursing home. What does that tell you . What we understand so far, less for the one person who is the confirm case of this new variant is he did not have travel to the uk, which means by definition there is community transmission, because this individual had to get this variant from someone. It harkins back to what happened earlier in the pandemic, back last winter when we were doing testing and every case that we found was basically the canary in the coal mine. I very much great with dr. Bright, this illustrates the true achilles heel of our entire response, which is lack of testing. Lets move to vaccinations. Elizabeth cohen is reporting that the United States is willfully underperforming in its vaccination effort. What is the u. S. Getting wrong . Several things. First, we overpromised. We had rosy projections that unfortunately as were finding out now were not grounded in reality. Second is a lack of a national strategy. Basically the federal government said their responsibility is getting the doses to these depots. After that, its up to the states to figure it out. The third problem is they didnt provide the funding and guidance thats necessary for state and local governments to do this work, but i want to put a positive spin that i believe we can do this. We certainly have the ability and infrastructure to actually do it, but we just need the guidance, and the National Leadership to get us there. Thats the difference, it sounds like between how the Trump Administration has approached it versus the Biden Administration really having the federal government take the lead. You wrote another oped for the washington post, so id read part of your words. In fact more fancy wordplay thats cause for concern, instead of Vaccine Distribution they promise allocation in december, actual delivery wouldnt take place under january. What do you mean by fancy wordplay . We ahead a lot of promises first 100 million doses, then it was vaccinating 20 million people, which is actually 40 million doses. Maybe they thought we wouldnt notice when they downplayed it, the estimate to 20 million doses, then it became 20 million allocated, not distributed. Allocated means the states can order it, but not delivered to the state. We need honesty and transparency. The American People understand that Vaccine Distribution is going to be extremely complicated. Theyll understand missteps, but we at this point want honesty. We want the federal government to say these were the barriers we encountered. Here is how were going about fixing then and course correcting. Thats whats been missing. What about the news that the uk has authorized the astrazeneca vaccine. The Health Minister says he thinking it would get the uk in a much better place by spring so how much of a game changer moo i got this be . I think it could be a game changer. We in the u. S. Still need to look at the data. Just because it was approved by the uk doesnt necessarily it will get the same stamp of approval here. We need to carefully examine this. Vaccine hesitancy is real. I go hope the uk is right that they can and maybe we can learn from them. Dr. Wen, thank you. Thank you, brooke. The suspects Girlfriend Told Police he was building bombs in his rv. Our Health Matters more than ever, thats why the new myww is our most Holistic Weight Loss Program ever. 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