The president is still demanding an increase in direct payments. Democrats say they will try to pass that today. Its not clear what President Trump got out of all of this. This morning, the New York Post is blasting the president s efforts to try to overturn the election results, with this front page saying stop the insanity and dictionary i declaring you lost. Were also learning new details about the suicide bombing in nashville. Police releasing new Surveillance Video of the moment of the blast on Christmas Morning. Police now have identified the man who they say detonated a bomb inside an rv parked downtown. An american suicide bomber. Theyre now focusing on why he did this. Joining us now to discuss it all, margaret talev, cnn political analyst and politics and white house editor for axios and cnn political analyst, toluse olorunnipa, a White House Reporter for the washington post. Thank you, jim, ill take it. Margaret. Ill start with what happened last night. After 7 00 p. M. , the president finally signed this Coronavirus Relief package and Government Spending bill. Had he signed it at midnight, by midnight, on saturday night, cede instead of out waiting for sunday, millions of americans would not have their benefits lapse. But because he waited a few more hours, they will. And that means Something Like 12 million americans wont be able to pay for groceries or wont be able to pay their rent. Why . Why did he do that . Alisyn, basically, all of washington is scratching their tlaeds asking this question this morning, including Top Republican leaders. It is correct, if you are an american who is waiting for that 600 per person to arrive this week as the secretary, President Trumps treasury secretary told you, is not going to happen most likely this week, is going to be delayed. Fur expecting that extra 300 expansion in unemployment benefits, that is youre probably going to miss the first week of it. That is going to be delayed. And it is because of the president s delay on this. And in the end, it doesnt change what package people got. It doesnt make you anymore like to get 2,000. None of that will change as a result of the president holding back on this. Another interesting detail, my colleague, mike allen reporting this morning that this deal, the president s decision to go ahead and sign it was actually cemented yesterday afternoon in a phone call with mnuchin, with house leader kevin mccarthy. So we didnt hear that he would sign it for sure until last night. But hed actually made that decision hours earlier. So what you had was a very Public Campaign to try goad and embarrass the president into signing it. And a private campaign that was actually probably for effective in terms of convincing him, youre the leader, the country cant do without you, youve fought a good fight, youve helped frame the conversation for the things you care about. That is what it took to get it done. And even then, we all had to wait several hours to hear of the decision and that extra time delay, you know, has probably made a difference in peoples ability to get the relief. And if you really need the 600, that day mattered. As do millions of americans. Perhaps many watching right now. Toluse, as so often happens here, its about ego management of the president. His friends kind of cajoling, pushing a little bit. Mr. President , you did so well here, to finally get him to act. Of course, the other looming deadline, january 6th, where congress, as a moment where the president s allies could challenge the results of this election, as thats happening, you have the president losing one of his closest allies. That is the New York Post. Look at the cover of the New York Post this morning. Rupert murdoch owned, stop the insanity. Telling him to stop this unfounded challenge on the election kpp his allies cajole, ego massage him into abandoning this battle . They are really running out of room. Theyve been trying to coddle him in the last seven weeks since his election loss, essentially saying, the president has every right to go to court, every right to challenge these results. We believe the president , we stand with the president , while at the same time moving forward with preparing for a jed joed presidency. So it has been an effort to coddle and cajole the president and really try to trick him into believing that they are on his side and they believe that he can continue this fight to remain in office. I think the New York Post is one of Many Organizations and outlets that are starting to kind of break away from that and essentially tell the president , listen, you need to face up to reality. You lost this election, youre going to be leaving office in just under a month and you need to do whats best for the country instead of lashing out against the country that youre supposed to be leaving, because youre throwing a tantrum over your election loss and essentially trying to say, you lost over fraud. I think the president will realize, as january 6th comes closer, as january 290 comes closer, that a lot of these republicans that have been coddling him and indulging him over his baseless claims of Election Fraud are going to be kind of tiptoeing away from him silently as they move forward with certifying joe bidens win and preparing for a new era, preparing for joe biden to be the president. President trump to be a former president. To be not in power, not in office, and thats going to be the new reality come january 20th. And a lot of these republicans are starting to realize that and they are going to act accordingly. They cannot continue to coddle a president and not pretend as if they have their own political lives to think about and that includes President Trump as a former president. How brave. 23 days left. However many days after the election, margaret, that his, you know, republican enablers have decided that maybe now, its time to begin slowly tiptoeing away. I guess, when you lose, you know, the New York Post. That sends a shiver down the spine of others. 63,000 americans have died this month from covid19. While President Trump plays golf. And as we pointed out, those benefits will lapse. Yes, theyll be retroactive for the people who are emplunemploy but if you cant buy groceries this week, it doesnt matter. Its the flip screen of him being warm in florida, playing golf, while all of this other, as the New York Post calls it, insanity is unfolding, has just been really, you know, disturbing to watch. And then, of course, in terms of what hes going to do next, the National Defense authorization act, he vetoed it. You know, republicans may have enough votes to override it. Whats going to happen in these 23 days . Yeah, theyre leaving him no choice but to override him, which will be another rebuke of him. But they have to do this. Otherwise, National Security is j jeopardyized, programs he cares about, like the space force are jeopardized, and this all comes as republicans are looking at a couple of other deadlines and dates. One is the georgia runoffs. Those two special elections to literally determine who controls the senate. So theres that. And the other, of course, is joe bidens inauguration day. But if you are are watching the president on twitter, which is a pretty good way to tap into how hes feeling moment to moment and what he wants to broadcast to people, then you know that yesterday, for therese the second time, maybe the third time, hes thrown out the idea that he wants to call all Trump Supporters to washington, to the Nations Capital ahead of that january 6th date when Vice President mike pence mike pence and the congress have to accept the Electoral College results. This is yet another deadline that republicans in Congress Just dont want to happen. They dont want the president to try to stage some sort of official or initial rally or march to try to challenge and contest a legitimate election win by the president s opponent. And that is another date that were facing down. So i think part of the reason that youre starting to see this pushback is because these republicans are like, oh, my goodness, what is going to happen in the next, whatever, 23 days. Like, there has to be a transition of power. Listen, and the last time you had those groups in d. C. , there was violence. There were violent clashes with police, et cetera. Theres a security risk. And theres a pandemic. So its not safe, even if youre outside to have thousands of people in the same shared space not wearing masks, protesting for something that cant happen, that is not going to happen. Right, toluse, president elect biden, who will be president in 23 days, is giving an important speech this afternoon on National Security. Of course, this country just had a suicide bomber strike in the streets of america. The president hasnt commented on it. Do we expect the president elect to comment on it and what else should we expect from him. I do believe hell comment on this bombing. We have seen president elect joe biden really rush into the void every time President Trump has been silent. President trump was silent when it came to what he was going to do about the Coronavirus Relief bill. We saw President Trump put out a blistering statement on saturday, attacking the president saying that he was going to leave, that he had been involved in abdication of responsibility that would lead to danger for the country. I would expect another situation like that, where President Trump being silent about this bombing attack in nashville over several days, christmas day, the day after christmas, tall way through the weekend, saying nothing, making no Public Comments at all. I believe that joe biden will try to show the country that he can be a leader and take sort of a position of leadership to speak to the country. He says that he has been briefed about this. Hes being briefed by his National Security leaders. And thats whats going to happen before he comes out and speaks. And i imagine hell speak about that issue as well as other issues facing the country right before he takes office, hes going to inherit a country that is facing a number of challenges, including when it comes to National Security and i believe thats what hes going to talk about when he speaks today. Toluse, margaret, thank you both very much for all of that analysis. Okay. Also, developing overnight, authorities have identified the man who blew himself up inside an rv on Christmas Morning in downtown nashville. But his motive is still unclear. This is the new Surveillance Video from the moment that that motor home blew up. You can see that it damaged dozens of buildings and also knocked out at t service in the area. Cnns natasha chen is live in nashville with the latest. What is the latest at this hour, natasha . Well, alisyn, investigators are still working at the scene, several blocks away from us. But yesterday in this spot, investigators named Anthony Quinn warner as the suspect. The u. S. Attorney for the middle district of tennessee said he was here when the bomb went off and died in the explosion. This is a relatively fast process to get him identified. They used fragments of the rv and the blast to get a vehicle identification number, to trace back to the owner. They also found human tissue that was quickly processed at quanti quantico along with other dna samples. Police released late last night that new video of the blast. That orange glow and those harrowing moments. And you also see an officer in that video walking away from it in the seconds right before. Thats officer james wells. Heres what he said about that. You watch the video, you can see that moment of clarity for me, when i heard the guy say, go and check on him. So i was peeking around, looking like this and this. No, do around and go check on so i turn around and start walking in the opposite direction and three seconds later, boom. So im not going to shy away from that, because thats what saved my life. Thats what got me to see my kids and my wife on christmas. Reporter Law Enforcement say warner was not on their radar prior to this incident. Theyre still looking into a motive here, going into his history, talking to people who might have come into contact with him, who knew him. The type of explosives used are still under investigation, as well. In the meantime, governor bill lee has asked for federal aid related this disaster, but we have not yet heard from President Trump on that, alisyn natasha, thank you very much. How will investigators figure out the bombers motive . We look at the clues with a former top fbi official, next. Introducing voltaren arthritis pain gel. The first full prescription strength nonsteroidal antiinflammatory gel. Available over the counter. Voltaren is powerful arthritis pain relief in a gel. Voltaren. The joy of movement. Less oral steroids. Taking my treatment at home. 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The very moment that this went off. Authorities have now identified the bomber as 63yearold anthony warner. The only person killed, thankfully, in the blast, but dozens of buildings sustained significant damage. The question, of course, now, how did he do it and why did he do it . Joining us now, i know senior Law Enforcement analyst, andrew mccabe. He is the former Deputy Director of the fbi. Andrew, good to have you on this morning. Good morning. First, big picture, if we can. This is an american citizen, an apparent suicide bomber on u. S. Soil. Tell us the significance of that . Its extraordinarily rare, jim. Extraordinarily rare. We have seen many, you know, numerous people who are motivated by International Terrorism or domestic terrorist ideology try to detonate device here in the United States. Many of those, the fbi has been able to foil. But very few of them include someone who is willing to kill themselves in the course of that act. I spent time with new York Police Department counterterror folks a couple of years ago. And they have enormous alarm bells set up. If you buy acetone, like something you can make a bomb out of at a hardware store, alarm bells go off. This was an enormous and apparently sophisticated explosive device. How much of a security miss here that he was able to construct this and set it off entirely under Law Enforcement radar . Well, well find out. As we get more about this particular scenario. But it is true that Law Enforcement, at the state and local and federal level maintain what they refer to as trip wires. So thats communications into the industries that prepare the precursors and the materials that could be used to assemble explosive devices. But it is not a perfect system. Explosives, like tnt and militarygrade explosives are very highly regulated, but precursors are not. And as we know, theres a lot of information out on the internet these days to instruct people on how to assemble devices if they wish to do that. It is far from a perfect science, trying to be aware of every person who purchases stuff that they could use to hurt people. Sure, listen, fertilizer bombs, right, go back to oklahoma city. Basic materials can create giant devices here. Okay, lets talk about motive. And it is too early. They have not assigned a motive here, but based on the clues that we have so far, for instance, parking this bomb in front of an at any time transmission facility, do we have a sense of what the possibilities are, as to what motivates this . Well, sure. Theres always all kinds of possibilities. Thats exactly what the investigators are looking for now, as they course through all of the material in his home, his internet usage, people who hes in contact with on email and phone and things of that nature to see if hes left behind any writings or indications of what his belief system may have been. But i agree with you, jim. I think that the odds that this is simply a suicide are very small. Its very, very rare to assemble a device of this size and to deploy it on a public street, where you know, clearly, this individual knew he could wreak great havoc and cause loss of life. Its hard to imagine anyone going through that level of planning and execution without having something to say. Now, we do know in the history of