So how can you view the once in a lifetime . Nasa says they are bright enough to see even from most big cities. And hour after sunset, look southwest. You should be able to see the conjunction with the naked eye. Youll have a one or two hours. If you have a small telescope you can see the four largest moons. Well, back down to earth. Its the top of the hour. Here at msnbc in new york. Senators have reached a deal on covid relief. Now they just need to vote on it. This is the week. It has been eight months in the making. We finally have a deal. At long last we have a bipartisan breakthrough the country needs. We need to promptly finalize text and avoid last minute obstacles and cooperate through both chambers. Leaders reached an agreement tonight ton a 900 billion relief package. A short while ago congress voted to pass the continuing resolution. That will extend the deadline. Congress has not voted on the deal itself. Not yet. That vote should happen tomorrow. This final package will provide direct payments to americans. Unemployment insurance. Small Business Loans and funding for vaccine distribution. Lets get straight to capitol hill. Were standing by and watching the machinations of the process. Where do things stand . So, at this moment, we are waiting for this senate to vote on the one day extension of government funding. As you said that gives them more time to pass this covid are leaf deal. We are waiting for text of the legislation. Something that hasnt been released. And something that lawmakers rank and file have not gotten done themselves. Senators and house members have also not seen the text of the legislation. And havent read the details of this legislation. But the thought is they will get it relatively soon and read it over night and prepare for a vote on monday. Tomorrow the house will go first. There will be some debate over the legislation. And then the house will take the vote and the senate will follow suit. The goal is get it to the president s desk by midnight tomorrow. And that will also include a government funding bill to fund the government for the rest of the year. So their year will be mostly wrapped up. One of the final stumble blocks had to do with the objection from a republican if pennsylvania. Who was upset over a program through the Federal Reserve that had been used for small and medium size business lending and also for some bond buying for state and local government. What was it that broke that log jam . Is the program gone. Did they keep it . So this was a hold up that wasnt even completely related to aid for the people who are hurting in this economic disaster. Who are people are being impacted by covid. This held up the legislation the negotiations for two days. Let me explain. This is for a pandemic Federal Reserve and Treasury DepartmentLending Program for small and medium size businesses. It was created in the cares act and meant to expire at end of this year. Lots of the money didnt get used. 430 billion of those funds are actually going to be reallocated to this 900 billion bill. So also thats another thing. This bill is actually not going to cost that much for taxpayers. At least half of it has been put out through the treasury. What happened with the a disagreement between the senator and democrats . They were concerned he wanted to ensure the Lending Programs could never be restarted. What they were concerned about is it would tie the hands of the Biden Administration and narrowed the language and agreed that it was satisfactory on both side. Thank you. Well keep an eye on the negotiations. In the meantime. This deal on covid relief is much needed. Long awaited good news. Were setting records for new cases and death. 17. 8 million confirmed cases so far. By our count. Meanwhile, every day were learning more about the maszive russian hack on government email accounts. With all this going on the covid19 negotiations and investigation into the hack. What is President Trump up to . He is still fixed on the baseless he won the election. Confirmed the president held a meeting this week and discussed naming powell a special counsel to investigate supposed voter fraud in the election. Joining us now to help discuss this. A white house correspondent. The host of oh my world. And a former spokesperson for the u. S. Mission to the united flagss and former treasury spokesperson. And National Political reporter for the new york times. Good to see the three of you. Let me start with you shane, whats the mood like inside the white house right now . Particularly with everything going on . All you have to do is follow trumps twitter feed and the mood is hes still focussed on the election he lost. And not many of the other crisis the country is facing. There were big events in the last week. Big issues on capitol hill. Hes not central to that. Talking about the roll out of a vaccine. Hes not made that a center piece. It was the Vice President who was out there on camera taking the vaccine. Instead hes doing fund raising. Raising millions, tens of millions of dollars for a pandemic hepack hell have after he leaves office kp trying it over turn the Election Results already certified. You have been reporting on what the president will be doing towards 2024. He wants to run again and the amount of cash he has. Particularly the money raised in places like georgia where there are the senate run offs next month. I think one thing that we reported this week that he doesnt want to talk too much about whats going to happen after 2020. Hes focussed on whats going on right now. Yes, he has been raising millions of dollars that could fund the future politically. In the meantime, he is just focussed entirely on the fact that he Still Believes this election was rigged and won it. And he needs to to do everything he can to overturn the results. That led to joe biden victory. Including a filing today by the campaign challenging some decisions by the pennsylvania Supreme Court. Going up to the u. S. Supreme court. Which is the first time directly going up that high without being part of the texas lawsuit that ended up getting not being looked at. Its one step after the other. That is where the president s thoughts and focus have been. Another big story has to do with the big hack of a number of Government Agencies by russia. Something the president has down played. I wonder what you make of that particularly because Cyber Espionage and warfare is not a game only the russians are playing. They maybe playing it dirtier than most. But i find it hard to believe that the United States doesnt have at least some tools to do spying. Whether it was the kind of tools that edward snow den blew the whistle on or anything else. Thats right. President trump down played this. He seems checked out. The president of the United States is not a job where you can check out. He has said he tried yesterday to say this may have been china. Which goes against secretary pompeo said. He said it looks like the russians are behind this. Thats clear. It is not a normal for countries like russia and china, iran and north korea to hack the government systems. We were aware of it. I have no doubt that the government is aware of this. The Cyber Defense systems were not strong enough. In this case, it was a very sophisticated hack. The russians hacked the supply chain. They hacked the private companies that provide the software to the government. When people were installing and update they invited the malicious hardware in. The problem is when theres no statement and nobody has summoned the ambassador. And no sanctions. And no actions against the diplomatic and intelligence presence of the russian, they have no fear. China has no fear. Theyll continue to do this activity and now it falls on bidens lap to beef up the defense resources and make it so costly countries will not try to even make attempt to hack the systems. Can i get your reaction to something that senator romney of utah said today. He made the rounds on the sunday shows and gave assessment of the way that President Trump is spending the last month of his time in the white house. 30 days from today inauguration day. This really sad in a lot of respects and embarrassing. The president could be writing the last chapter of add mirs with a victory lap with regard to the vaccine. Hes leaving washington with a whole series of conspiracy theories and things that are nutty and loop pi. People are shaking their heads wondering what has gotten into this man. What is your sense of the strategy . Including deflects blame from russia. If he wants to run again in 2024. It seems like an odd way to end your time instead of touting the things that you have done in saying im going to run again so i can do more good for the american people. It doesnt make sense strategically to me. The vaccine is a good example. He could be taking a victory lap. For the government and private sector. The Republican Party long cheered. Its a huge success. Thags not his focus. His focus is raising money and trying to spread the theories about why he lost. And sfifighting the fact he los. Romney isnt the only republican who feels that way. He maybe the only senator speaking that. Since the Electoral College voted republicans have publicly accepted joe biden is the president elect starting with mitch mcconnell. And many top deputies. The party is moving in that direction. Donald trump maintains a Magnetic Pull on the Republican Party base. As long as the president controls the republican pear base, the Republican Party leadership in congress will be deferent shl to him and the his wishes. Can we zoom out from President Trump. We should be clear theres a career infrastructure of people who deal with cyber security. Who deal with National SecurityCounter Terror etc. How much of this actually even depends on any president as opposed to depending on the infrastructure that sort of exists to deal with attacks from russia and china and elsewhere. Thats a good question. In terms of the actual defense mechanism for dealing with this, its entirely on the people who daily job is to deal with that. It has to do with preventing it from happen again. And having a strong message from the top which in this case is President Trump i think with a more traditional president or didnt have a complicated relationship russia. You would hear much stronger words about this from the white house than we have. Briefly before we go, the president intimated this would be china. Theres no evidence. At least not from the secretary to have state. China is a threat. It would be a mistake to take our eye off china as if they could not do Something Like this. They certainly could. I presume. This is not outside of their ability. Absolutely. It wouldnt be a surprise at all. When i was in government the chinese hack had had the office of management and budget. Its not new activity for them. The russians are certainly very strong in this regard. They have been doing this activity for a quarter century. Certainly longer than we have. The key here and following on the point about the steps to take to make the strong response is that if you have a strong response, you need to communicate immediately. To the whole world that well not standing for this. The United States is no stranger to pursuing cyber attacks. We need to do what we can to protect ourselves and our information as much as possible. Or these countries are not going to fear using these again. Good to see you all this evening. Thank you. Still to come the Senate Finally reaches a deal on coronavirus relief. Its welcome news for millions of americans including those lining up to get vaccines shipping now from pfizer and moderna. We will answer your most asked and most pressing questions about the vaccine. Plus, should undocumented immigrants be left out of the census . The Supreme Court is being criticized for what critics call wait and see approach. First the headlines. Good evening. Some soft stories were watching new zealand Prime Minister says stla more covid19 vaccines than they need. The extra doses will go to neighbors. The car bomb in afghanistan capitol killed at least nine people this morning. Violence spiked recently. This con tlasts peace talks with taliban and leaders trying to end years of war. She announced her pronouns are she and her. Speaking about gender fluid identity in the past. 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Many are eager to get shots. Many are skeptical. Everyone has questions and concerns. Tonight, lets answer some of them. Joining us to help is internal medicine physician and medical contributor. Dr. Roy, good evening. Happy sunday. I love answering audience questions. We have some. Lets start with the first one from a viewer who asked please talk about the risk from a covid19 shot. Im hearing rumors. I want facts. I have been told that bells palsy is a side effect of the vaccine. Its a sudden weakness in the facial muscle. Makes your face look like its drooping. Have you heard of that. Yes. I have treated patients with bells palsy and youre right. Its a paralysis or muscle twitching. Causing drooping. So, so far what we have seen is of the 37,000 people who have been vaccinated, seven cases have been seen. Both with the pfizer and moderna. However, if you do the math. Thats 99. 98 who didnt get it. So these numbers are this incidents is fairly consistent with the general population of bells palsy. Were not the manufacturers do not think theres a correlation. That said, both pfizer and moderna are closely nf investigating the cases. My name is miles. Im a 61 yearold black male. And excellent physical health. Hi a severe allergic reaction to a flu vaccine 20 years ago. My fiancee is a 57 yearold black female with asthma. Id like to know if its advisable for either of us to take the vaccine. Thank you. Good question. Before you answer i should note nothing you hear from us stont a substitute for the advice from your own doctor about your situation. General will speaking. What a wonderful question. According to the cdc, if you had a severe reaction to any other vaccine, not covid. Other vaccine or injection. The recommendation is talk to your doctor. As for your fiancee, she falls under the category of yes get the vaccine. Shes black, and she has asthma. Which is considered a risk factor for the getting the severe disease. So she recommended to get the vaccine. You, talk to your doctor first. Best of luck to you both. Lets get to a question from robin. I work for a hospital in indiana. I have a set date for my Pfizer Vaccine. My questions are, what would happen if i received my initial Pfizer Vaccine and then my hospital runs out of the vaccine. Due it low stock. What would happen if im outside of the time frame to get my second Pfizer Vaccine . Would i have to start over . Thank you. Happy holidays. Thank you for the questions. And being a front line worker trying to keep us safe. Yeah. Thanks. Great question and thank you for the work you do and already setting that date. Look, we recognize its going to be difficult for some people to really strictly adhere to the 28 days. That said, were encouraging and strong advising to come back as close as possible. The short answer is we dont have the data to answer that question. We dont really know. Thats why were strongly recommend people to come back. During that time frame. Lets get to a few more quick answers. Lets listen. My question is this. Is it okay for transplant recipients to receive the vaccine in thank you. Doctor . Great question. While we dont have exact information on the Covid Vaccine on transplant recipients. We know they have clinically worse out comes from covid19 infection. The benefits of vaccination out weigh