Realize our defense is inadequate. Leanne called wadwell. Lets get to the very latest there on capitol hill. When do you think we can expect to see an agreement . Reporter well, this has been weeks, really, months in the making. But a deal does seem imminent at this point. The reason is because there was a major breakthrough overnight on the final major Sticking Point that had to do with a Federal Reserve lending program. Its actually an issue that did not have a lot of direct impact on americans. But it was a policy agreement between the republicans and democrats and democrats didnt want to tie the hands of the next administration, the biden administration. They were able to pair down that language and pave the way for a deal moving forward. On the sunday shows this morning, lawmakeres were saying that a deal is close, echoing what were hearing from house aides. Lets listen to mitt romney on meet the press this morning. I believe theres going to be a deal. The big one was resolved last night very late and over the past several weeks theres been a lot of work done. It should have happened a long time ago. But we got a group together about four weeks ago that sat down and said, we got to find a way to get some progress here for republicans, for democrats. We met time and time and time again. We came up with a 900 billion, roughly, proposal. That was picked up by leadership on both sides and theyre working on some additional points. But i think its going to get done. It will get done before christmas. Reporter so what is happening now . Well, negotiators and staff are hammering out the final, final details of what this 900 billion proposal is going to look like. But the parameters remain the same. Theres an extension of unemployment insurance, money for small businesses, money for Vaccine Distribution. This is something that has been being discussed up here on capitol hill really since the end of may when the house of representatives passed their 3 trillion hero. E. R. O. S. Act. Not a lot of people not everyone loves everything in this proposal, but we do expect it to pass once it finally reaches the house and the Senate Floors at some point today. It could bleed into tomorrow. But relief seems to be very close for most americans. Theres a lot hope that there will be more relief with the biden administration. Thank you so much. Lets go to the white house, everyone. President trump going to new lengths to overturn the election that he lost. Josh is in washington, d. C. Who is the president calling on now to help him . Well, the president s efforts at this point, alex, are on two tracks. The president is encouraging this push in congress when they have that joint session on january 6th to affirm the results of the Electoral College vote to actually push back and object to that affirmation of the Electoral College vote. In fact, just a few minutes ago we heard from President Trump when he called into Rudy Giulianis radio show to say that he spoke last night to the tommy tubberville, he left open the possibility that he will join an effort in congress to object to that Electoral College affirmation despite the fact Mitch Mcconnell has pleaded with fellow republicans not to go in that direction. We also now know that nbc news has been able to confirm an extraordinary meeting that took place in the white house on friday night where the president discussed naming Sidney Powell as a special counsel to investigate voter fraud in the election. According to a person familiar with this meeting who spoke with kara lee, among those participating in that meeting was Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn who was recently pardoned by President Trump and who has been calling for the president to impose martial law, seize Voting Machines and have the military do a rerun of the election. That got pushed back during this meeting as did the idea of naming Sidney Powell to a special counsel position. She has not responded to our request for comment. But the person familiar with the meeting tells us that it got so alarming that at one point, White House CouncilPat Cippalone and mark meadows called the meeting short because they were concerned about where it was going. The country is dealing with a foreign cyberattack. What are we hearing about that . The president does not seemed as concerned about this cyber breach. He has been tweeting that its basically much to do about nothing. That everything is under control even though we know its far from under control. Its likely ongoing and has absolutely not been remediated. The president taking issue with the fact that has been put out there by secretary pompeo and others that it was russia behind this breach. The president , instead, floating without evidence that it was china. But we did hear this morning from mark warner, the democratic cochairman of the Senate Intelligence committee and he had this to say about who was behind that breach. I would echo what secretary pompeo has said and marco rubio, all indications point to russia. This is extraordinarily serious. When the president of the United States either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out the adversary as we make this attribution, hes not making our country safer. Alex, you have secretary pompeo saying it was russia, you have democrats and republicans, including the other cochair of the Senate Intelligence committee marco rubio of florida saying it was russia and you have the president out on a limb by himself throwing out china as a potential actor in this matter. The latest indication of President Trump seeming to cover for the russians even when there is significant evidence of maligned interference by moscow. Thank you so much. Youve teed it up perfectly. Im joined by california congressman adam schiff, democrat chair of the house intelligence committee. What do you make of all of this . First of all, the fact that the president is pointing the blame at china when everybody else says its russia. I dont know there was any question, but it was russia. And for the president to be, once again, so deceitful to essentially through twitter that putin couldnt say better, and, of course, its an echo of the president s other deceit. When china does engage in bad acts, and they do, it also means no one will take the president seriously if he correctly calls out china. So its just uniformly destructive and deceitful and further injuring our National Security. Let me ask you how serious this attack is, what kind of threats might it pose to our National Security both in the short term and the long term . Well, you know, its extraordinary because so many of our agencies were penetrated, so many private Sector Companies all over the world. It will take weeks, months, it may even take years to understand the full scope of this. Its also going to take a long time to get the russians out of these systems and economic losses for the private secretary are going to be enormous. So its very farreaching. We dont yet know the full extent of the potential damage. We dont yet know whether this extends beyond unclassified, declassified systems. But its really quite breathtaking in scope and it also means were going to have to considerably up our Cyber Defense game if were going to prevent further attacks on the supply chain like this one. Things like the electrical grid, the water supply, the Nuclear Safety and security, the nuclear codes. All of these things i know are things, congressman, that are of concern right now. Its been described as potentially leaving a back door access which means continuing to get information from our very secret and secure systems. Are you concerned about a backdoor access that continues . Absolutely. And i think the Cybersecurity Agency has already said publicly that solar winds was not the only vulnerability. They have detected other vulnerabilities from users who didnt use that version of solar winds. The russians used multiple entry points and we need to figure out what all those entry points were, whether they have retained a presence in those systems, in some cases, that may mean burning down the whole system. But in terms of Critical Infrastructure, it also means that if we cant detect that theyre there, they may have prepared the battlefield such that they can take control of Management Systems of Critical Infrastructure should push ever come to shove. And thats a very dangerous prospect. Its been suggested that russia could wage a kind of war on the United States were it to want to, without ever dropping a bomb because of what has happened . Well, i do think we need to look at the totally of the russian cyber actions. They hacked our Democratic Party and institutions. Theyve hacked think tanks. They released stolen emails during the 2016 campaign. They used their cyber means to set up false flag operations on social media to divide americans and now this massive hack, this intelligence gathering, this economic damage, this preparing of the battlefield. You look at it in the totality what the russians are doing, clearly they werent deterred in any way by this president. Their actions are only broadening and were going to both have to respond and deter, but were going to also have to think about how do we protect our supply chain and that is a very hard problem to solve. Before i move on, do you get a sense that after january 20th in terms of deterrence of this kind of future activity, do you think that a President Joe Biden will be oneupping President Trump in terms of keeping this nation safe relative to russia . Well, he doesnt have to do much to oneup President Trump on this. If he did anything, it would oneup President Trump. He will establish a deterrent. The reason why the russians didnt involve themselves more in the 2020 election, they were involved but to a certain point, they realized that joe biden might very well win and there would be a heavy price to pay. If they were sure donald trump would win, it would have been a different story. Biden will work hard to reestablish deterrence. Hes going to have to make a major investment along with congress in our Cyber Defenses. And i think we can expect all of that to take place as soon as he leaves the starting gate. Congressman, speaking of winning, the Electoral College cast their votes last week, but thats not stopped the president and his crusade against the results. In fact, President Trump urging his followers on twitter to take to the streets for a big protest on d. C. On january 6th. Be there. It will be wild. Its the day that congress is set to count electoral votes for president. Is there any chance, sir, that joe biden will not be validated again as the winner of this election . Theres no chance of that, what there is a chance of is if the president essentially urges his supporters to descend on the congress on january 6th that it could cause civil disturbances. Whats more, the fact of challenging the result in congress will fail, but it will do another body below to our democracy. All of this is doing longterm damage to our country. The president through his actions is creating a permanent class of citizens who believe their election was stolen when it wasnt. Ill say this too, if the president succeeds in congress, it will fail, but it will not only hurt the country, but the republicans in the senate. Its not a position mcconnell wants to put his member in because too many have failed that test already. Absolutely. A number of new reports are detailing the length to which the president was beiwilling to toover turn the election results. I want to play for you some advice th advice that Michael Flynn has for him. Lets take a look. 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. Its not unprecedented. Theres people talking about martial law. Weve done martial law has been instituted 64 times. So taking what Michael Flynn says there and then the president tweeting martial law equals fake news, can you, sir, make any sense of this . Is there any chance that the president would try to follow the advice of his former National Security adviser and what would that even look like . Well, first of all, i have to say, i shutter every time i see Michael Flynn to think that that man was the head of the Defense Intelligence agency. What hes just saying is perfectly normal, perfectly ordinary, done 60some odd times in history is a military coup. Thats what hes talking about. Ive resisted using the word coup but hes talking about a military coup. That may have done 60 times in history, but its been done by dictators around the world, not in the United States. Could the president do it . I dont think the people around the president are going to go along with it. It would fail. But it would be such a an additional destructive blow to our democracy, the fact that theyre entertaining this is so beyond the pale. But, again, this is a man who has no moral compass. He will do the length and breadth of what people let him get away with. Sadly, hes had all too many enablers in his own administration and the republicans in congress and thats what even breeds this kind of reckless talk. 31 days to go, sir. Do you think after the inauguration on january 20th that this kind of disruption in the air will continue . Well, i have no doubt that trump will continue his hectoring from the sidelines. I do hope that we all tune him out. That in congress, the press, that we dont carry his tweets and utterances. It will carry on, though, because hes got a fortune hes raised since the election. Hell use that money to continue to sow discord. But we need to do our best to focus on the future, to let the new president and the Vice President have an opportunity to succeed, to address the challenges facing the country. Were in the middle of a terrible and deadly pandemic. That needs to be the top priority for all americans and part of that is going to mean tuning out this dangerous nonsense from soontobe former president donald trump. Thank you so much. Its good to see you, my friend. Happy holidays. Thank you. You too. Stay safe. The Moderna Vaccine is on the move. Where its headed first and where the next injections will start. Youre going to hear from a member of the president elect coronavirus Coronavirus Task force on what theyre hearing from the Trump Administration next. 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