>> i've been shocked by it, chuck. i watched your intersaew with senator lamar alexander, who came to government as a reformer, who's leaving government, can say whatever he wants, can barely say donald trump lost the election. my entire life, chuck, my entire career and yours, republicans have run as the daddy party, right? as the party of tough guys and tobacco-spewing and gun-toting, and you know, not take any garbage from anybody. and come to find out, there's no spine. there's no toughness at all. all you've got to do is put up the threat of a primary or have somebody who berates them on twitter and the entire party completely folds. there's -- i've been really surprised, particularly by the behavior after the election, and i think they're going to have to deal with that legacy for a very long time. they will not have a party. and the funniest part about it, chuck, and the reason they won't have a party is because, within six months, i guarantee you, sure as i am sitting here talking to you, donald trump will be b

>> i have been shocked by it, chuck. i watched your interview with senator alexander, a guy i met two years ago who came to government as a reformer, can barely bring himself to say donald trump lost the election. my entire life, chuck, my entire career and yours, republicans have won as the daddy party, the party of tough guys and tobacco spewing and gun toting and not take any garbage from anybody. and come to find out there's no spine, there's no toughness at all. all you've got to do is put up the threat of a primary or have somebody who berates them on twitter and the entire party completely followed completely folds. i have been really surprised particularly by the behavior after the election and they will have to deal with that legacy for a long time. they will not have a party. the funniest thing about it, chuck, the reason they won't have a party, within six months i guarantee you as i'm talking to you here donald trump will be berating them and going after them because that anti-party establishment and anti-par

>> chuck, thanks for a chance to be on again. i'm going to celebrate the combination of two things, that the senate passed the c.a.r.e.s. act which provided $2.2 trillion in support to the american people and funded much of that great work at nih and at private firms like pfizer that is delivering these vaccines to the american people. but i'll agree with governor sununu that the fact that nine months later we don't have a next round of covid relief is something i personally am frustrated and embarrassed about. i will put a lot of that responsibility at the feet of the leader of the senate republican majority, mitch mcconnell, because over and over as negotiations have tried to move forward over the last nine months, he's had a key red line and sticking point. there's now, i think, real optimism because a terrific group of eight senators, along with two members of the house, have worked hard over the last couple of weeks and come forward with the framework, a $908 billion framework for a next round of needed relief. we should not

many of you heard chuck norris jokes out there. the dark is afraid of chuck norris. we have our own chuck grassley jokes. right now the covid is afraid of chuck grassley. we are very thankful to have him back and in good health and continually working for islands. -- iowans. he is a tremendous asset to our state and we wish him continued health. as we are approaching the end of our congressional session we have a number of things that need to be done. i want to address two of those that some of my colleagues have mentioned. one is making sure we have a coronavirus bill that is done. earlier today park governor of iowa kim reynolds did state that congress needs to come together and get a bill done. we have people across the state of iowa and across this nation that are hurting. we want to keep a stronger economy. we want to keep citizens safe and healthy. finally we have the national defense authorization act that is hanging in the balance. we need to work together to ensure we get this completed. we have done this for many decades now in a bipartisan fashion. we need

i'm chuck todd. the electoral college has spoken and this morning mitch mcconnell finally decided to congratulate joe biden as the next president of the united states. >> yesterday, electors met in all 50 states. so as of this morning, our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. the electoral college has spoken. so today i want to congratulate president-elect joe biden, the president-elect is no stranger to the senate. he's devoted himself to public service for many years. i also want to congratulate the vice president-elect, our colleague from california, senator harris. >> for what it's worth, it's the first time anybody in that leadership position has used the electoral college as somehow the bar before acknowledging a victory, especially one that was not even among the four closest this century. meanwhile, vaccinations are under way with more hospitals inoculating workers. we'll speak with a doctor who administered the first vaccine publicly in this country ahead this

chuck is not done. this is an honor, an important honor, but he's still vibrant and he'll continue to push the envelope of social justice for all of us for years to come. so, chuck, thank you for your legacy. and thank you for what you're doing. and i look forward to what is next with you working together. >> we shouldn't belabor this -- >> it's not your turn yet, sorry. you got to indulge us another minute. [laughter] just want to add to the kind of, frankly, reverence of the amazing legacy, chuck, that you have created in the bay area. and the frame that i hold where you are concerned is truth to power. that you have always stood in a place of rightness. and equity and access. centering in particular but not only young people with their voices, their role, their agency, and the agency of people of color even more broadly. and so i certainly have for a long, long time looked to, looked up to, and have learned from all that you have meant to our community. so i certainly personally thank you and also i

thank you, sir. >> thank you so much, chuck. best to you. >>> turning now to what appears to be theno largest hack of the u.s. government ever. secretary of state mike g pompe admitted friday, quote, we can say pretty clearly that it was the russians who were responsible. but just as the trump administration seemed ready to speak with one voice on the subject, president trump tweeted that, perhaps, china was responsible. there is no evidence china had anything to do with this hack. a who's who of government agencies were penetrated and remain compromised by the security breach that officials are calling,se quote, a grave rk to the federal government. well, joining me now is republican senator mitt romney of utah. senator romney, welcome back to "meet the press." and you made a very impassioned plea for the president, in particular, to speak out, the administration to speak out on what was going on with this russian hack. secretary pompeo did do that. i imagine what the president tweeted about china is not what you thought needed

chuck? >> valerie castro in council blu bluffs, iowa, where we're getting people not only to get the vaccine to them but getting them to take it will be a challenge. valerie, thank you. some states say they're not getting the amount of vaccine they've been promised. the former head of the cdc joins me to talk about that. plus, trust in the cdc, the dangers of holiday travel and more. >>> but first today, the supreme court dismissed a challenge to president trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census. it hands the president a partial victory. although it's possibly a temporary one, because the court said too much is unknown right now about whether the administration can even carry out the plan and what effect it would have on the states. folks, could we actually have a redo of the census? just something to think about. we'll be right back. just something to think about. we'll rbeight back. ♪ ♪ irresistibly smooth chocolate. to put the world on pause. lindor. made

>> i think so, chuck. it hasn't been discussed. so far this morning, you know, that hasn't been discussed. it was brought up in the public session around lunchtime and it's going to come up later on. generally, most vaccines, one of the questions we ask, have you had allergic reactions to vaccines and medications? they're looking for these propensities. the striking thing to me, and i want to underscore what commissioner hahn said and morgan said, making it so transparent. the process so transparent. it's so important. i've been watching the fda hearing all day, and it feels historic for that reason because not only are you having discussions about the product, but also the ethics and the steps forward. the two things that stuck out to me, dr. nancy of the cdc said this is not a full approval. this is emergency use authorization. so here are the plans for us to continue watching for, hey, what's the real life effectiveness. this is not within a trial. everything is not perfect. what's the real life effectiveness of the vaccine once

>> well, a number of things, chuck. i think, number one, despite the fact that he has not conceded the election to president-elect biden, he is aware of the fact that he will be leaving, he being president trump, on january 20th. so, he wants to leave as many hurdles as he can for his successor, and that includes what you were talking about at the pentagon. it includes just the difficulty that he has made it up until just a week or two ago for biden and his team to get access to information. and it also suggests that despite him pushing forward to challenge this election, he is aware of a legacy and he wants that legacy to be this, and he wants that legacy to have an impact on his successor, some would say in the same way that he tried to undermine president obama when he was in office. >> dannie pletka, is there a good-faith argument that exists for appointing corey lewandowski and david bossie to this pentagon review board? >> well, on the one hand, this pentagon review board has often had appointees on it who have a

i'm chuck todd. wednesday, december, and suddenly with a goal and congress might actually do something. right now congressional leaders in the white house are nearing an agreement on a $900 billion covid relief deal. members have been publicly mum on the details but it could include stimulus payments among $600 per person among other measures. that direct stimulus check addition comes at the extraction of aid to state and local governments. this morning, mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer took to the senate floor to announce a deal is within reach. >> the democratic leader and i worked into the evening, alongside the speaker of the house and the house republican leader, we made major headway toward hammering out a targeted pandemic relief package that would be able to pass both chambers with bipartisan majorities. >> as we race the clock to reach a final accord before the end of the year, we are close to an agreement. it is not a done deal yet, but we are very close. >> also happening right now, presi

>> chuck, good to be with you today. you know, unfortunately, this is a grave moment offour our count and this pandemic. when it comes to the vaccine timeline, we all want the vaccine delivered quickly and as fairly as possible. you can be sure every day and night myself and others on the biden team are working towards that end but we also want to be realistic about the timeline. i think if everything goes well, that we may see a circumstance whereby late spring, you know, people who are in lower-risk categories can get this vaccine but that would really require everything to go exactly on schedule. i think it's more realistic to assume that it may be closer to midsummer or early fall when this vaccine makes its way to the general population. so we want to be optimistic but we want to be cautious as well. >> right. look, the president-elect made 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days. is that timeline a realistic tlooinl? >> again, i think that is it doable? yes, i think we can do it but what we've got to do is p

chuck? >> yeah. it's interesting, they have already had to clarify that the president's comments is really end of the second quarter which really could be summer, not spring when it comes to making good on that promise as everybody wants a vaccine. >> reporter: always something has to be adjusted. always. >> always with this president, for sure. kelly o'donnell, thank you. >>> peter baker, it's not a shock that while the country is focused on covid, a lot of people are hurting, both health security and financial surety security. this president is acting like captain ahab searching for this white whale that is somehow going to overturn this election rather than working on being president, which one might argue might help him have more people believe anything else he says. so he seems to be in some sort of delusional state of denial here. >> that is what some of his own advisers have told him, you know, be prepared to concede. it's time to give up the ghost. you're not going to win this thing. there is

goldbee. >> thanks for having me on, chuck. i think you're right. there are a number of different concerns that dated back really to at least 1947 when the national security act deliberately set up both secretary of defense as an explicitly civilian position and a chairman of the joint chiefs as the president's senior military adviser. so those roles, by design, were intended to be different with different purposes. the president should actually want a civilian political leader in the role of secretary of defense. somebody who can go out and advocate the political reasons for his policies who can defend him in difficult partisan battles on controversial issues. what we often have when we have cases like either secretary mattis or secretary marshall almost seven decades ago is a situation where you have military officers who are a little bit too close to some of those who are still on active duty and they have a much harder time running the pentagon without relying on other military officers or without creating unnecessary friction than a civilian wh

if i could have two, chuck, i will would say climate change. he has a $2 trillion climate change bill he wants to get through. it's big he has a climate czar in john kerry. i think that's the other piece of information he's looking for. >> you stole my thunder a little bit there, that was basically the second big piece i wanted go john sununu, where are republicans in your mind obligated to work with biden on the domestic side of things? >> i don't think it's a question of whether they're obligated, i think it's where the opportunities are. and the opportunities are on executing and completing the work that needs to be done on the pandemic, infrastructure was mentioned, taxes are mentioned because there are tax provisions that are going to expire and result in significant tax increases in the next couple of years, if they're not extended those are opportunities and they are actually quite important economically quite frankly, if he decides to spend all of his time on health care or try to legislate climate change, they're going to waste time, t

chuck? >> ron allen, thanks very much. doctor, i want to start with what i found to be an alarming survey result out of a hospital system in miami. the jackson health system surveyed about half their employees, and it said there, would you receive the covid-19 vaccine once available in the first round. this is a health care system. these are the folks that we want to be vaccinating the first time. it looked like the country, doctor, only just under 50% said they'd be interested and another 35% wanted to wait. didn't want to basically be the first ones to get it. i'll be honest, doctor, i get it, in the overall american public but these are folks that work in the medical community every day. that was a little bit disturbing. are you concerned about that? >> i am concerned about it. unfortunately the antivaccine movement doesn't respect what your profession is. we have individuals i know for a fact at one of the small hospitals i happen to be on staff in in the suburbs of pittsburgh there is a nurse right now posting on face

whitmer: thank you, chuck. ofecognize carolyn howling the 10th congressional district for the purpose of seconding the nomination. i second the nomination. gov. whitmer: thank you, carolyn. seconded the nomination. are there any other nominations? hearing on, i call for a vote. all in favor of lieutenant governor garland gilchrest as chairperson of the 2020 presidential electoral college, south signify by saying, aye. [group] aye. it.'s have lieutenant governor garland gilchrest is unanimously elected as the chair of the 2020 electoral college. please take the helm and preside over the meeting of our electors. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you, governor whitmer. and thank you electors. now i would like to appoint state representative tate as secretary. i would also like to appoint levar apart as the -- lavora barnes as the sergeant at arm's. of role of official electors the vice president president of the united states will now be called. indicate your presence by rising and stating, here, when your n

chuck? >> allison barber in north dakota for us, thanks. that is part of when you hear about the money and covid relief for state and local governments, a lot of times that's -- that money is what is supporting some of these services so be thinking about that when you hear about the financial strain on state and local governments. >>> california meanwhile setting national record on wednesday with the most new cases reported for a state in a single day. more than 28,000. wur as i mentioned the state is gearing up for some of the toughest restrictions since that spring surge. here's governor newsom yesterday. >> the bottom line is if we don't act now our hospital system will be overwhelmed. if we don't act now we'll continue to see a death rate climb, more lives lost. here's what we are introducing today. regions where the icu capacity is falling below 15% we are now mandating that we are implementing a stay-at-home order for three weeks. >> joining me now is dr. mark morocco from the ucla med

chuck yeager's test flights also helped the development of the nasa space program. his contributions featured in the right stuff. the book and movie about america's first astronauts. >>that was shared calvin reporting yeager flew more than 360 different types of aircraft and retired from the air force's in general. the judge which first broke the sound barrier in the x one hangs inside the air and space museum in washington d c. >>i'm alexandra le mon in washington coming up i'll have details about what we can expect the covid-19 vaccine to accomplish and what it won't do. >>and welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, thanks for second sticking with this early hour, let's get another check of the weather with john scher able. he is live in the weather center hey john hey we're back out we are seeing a really nice start to this morning winds have calmed down considerably from the same time yesterday but along with that we're also off to a much cooler starts this morning than where we were 24 hours ago to all in all today about to be in excuse me another really nice

chuck schumer said, "now we take georgia, then we change america." we all know what that change would be. they have been very clear. they want to raise taxes on hard-working georgians, they want to defund the police, open our borders, implement the green new deal. i am fighting for every single georgian to live the american dream i was blessed to live. our borders, implement the green new deal. i am fighting for every single georgian to live the american dream i was blessed to live. greg: do you believe the election was rigged? rev. warnock: there are 250 investigations open, including an investigation into one of my opponent's organizations. for voter fraud. and we have to make sure that georgians trust this process because of what is at stake in this election. you know, the promise that chuck schumer made was to fundamentally change america. i'm making sure we do not go down the road of socialism. russ: lisa, your turn to ask the question of rev. warnock. , there arepastor those who are uncomfortable with someone switching from the pulpit to the se

chuck, congratulations on everything, chuck. and johnierness who just had a big victory, thank you, johni, what a job. what a job. they had you down a couple of points and you won by a lot. >> thank you. president trump: it's one of those things that you really, you should be proud of yourself you campaigned hard, that was a tremendous victory. thank you very much. also representatives jim jordan, where is zim a great wrestler. really great wrestler, i won't go over the record because the only way you're not great is compared to this guy perhaps. he's a warrior. and markwayne mullin. thank you for being here. glad your son is doing well and setting records also. these two guys are great. they're really, really fantastic people. dan was born and raised in the working class town of waterloo, iowa. his mother said she knew tan would be a wrestler the day they brought him home from the hospital. even as an infant he refused to let his back even touch the ground. that's sort of an interesting statement. probably. so at 4 years old hi

i'm chuck todd. at any moment in delaware, we're expecting president-elect joe biden, vice president-elect kamala harris and their economic team to pick. that will include janet yellen and a number of other high level positions. we'll go to the president-elect when this gets under way. we expect in a couple of minutes. we've also got some developments on capitol hill. as a bipartisan group of senators has just announced a $900 billion compromised framework for emergency covid relief before this calendar year. steve mnuchin is also expected to speak with nancy pelosi on this same topic right about now. we'll keep a close eye on these stories as they develop but as we wait for the president-elect, we start the show today with something that might be flying under the radar a bit. it could have serious and lasting consequences for american politics well beyond 2020. president trump is lashing out at republicans who aren't helping him overturn election results in states he narrowly but clearly lost. we sh

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. >> reporter: cynthia mcfadden, nbc news >>> america has lost an aviation icon famed test pilot chuck yeager pushed new limits of human flight, helping propel this country into the space age. 44 years after the wright brothers first took flight chuck yeager took flying into overdrive >> history was made by this aircraft. >> reporter: in an experimental plane dropped from a bomber, yeager rocketed into history in 1947, breaking the sound barrier, depicted in the movie "the right stuff. for yeager all in a day's work >> and i'm just lucky to come through it in one piece. and that's the way you look at it >> reporter: the west virginia native first served as an army mechanic, then a fighter pilot, a combat ace in world war ii later as a test pilot taking on more risk. >> people thought if you break the sound barrier the plane will break up chuck didn't think that would happen. >> reporter: an aviation icon who pushed faster and higher >> you don't look at it as being dangerous. it's something that you're sort of dedicated to and you just sort of concede the fact that that's your job and

. >>> and remembering chuck yeager. the first person ever to break the sound barrier has died. >>> well, good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. so we begin with a major first step in the fight against covid-19. this morning health officials in the u.k. started administering the first doses of the widely tested pfizer vaccine. this went to margaret keenan who turns 91 years old next week. the grandmother said she was privileged to be the first person vaccinated against the virus. >>> here in the u.s. the fda could authorize pfizer's vaccine as early as the end of this week. meanwhile, the trump administration is denying a "new york times" report claiming it failed to lock in more pfizer vaccine doses over the summer which could delay more americans getting the shot. debra alfarone is in washington. debra, finally some hope in the battle against this virus. >> reporter: absolutely, anne-marie. all eyes are on thursday. that's when a panel from the fda will be looking at these new vaccines. after that the

. >>> chuck yeager, the man called the most righteous of those with all the right stuff. he lived life the faster than the speed of sound and his story is next. >>> 5 million renters in america face eviction from their homes one attorney with whom we spoke said that number is expected to grow tonight, the struggle from the people living it >>> the facts. the >>> weird news have you heard about the aliens? we've been communicating with beings from other worlds for years now but leaders have kept it a secret. cnbc cannot confirm. that is the word from an is ramly security chief his name is heim eschef. he says we've signed agreements with other species and the american astronauts and the alien representatives all, you know, whatever we have contracts to do experiments there, he says they're interested in us and we in them. the galactic federation. so why now well, he told the jerusalem post that for years now unidentified flying objects have asked not to publish they are here because humanity is not ready. he insisted president trump is aware and was on the verge of disclos

it is meet the press daily and i'm chuck todd. president trump appears to be leaving washington the same way he has governed it, chaotically. the uncertainty has only complicated talk necessary capitol hill where a group of bipartisan lawmakers yesterday unveiled a compromise package regarding nearly $1 trillion. but mitch mcconnell is signaling it's a nonstarter because he thinks the president wouldn't sign it. so now we're facing the collision of a must pass government funding bill with the chaos and drama of emergency relief, a bunch of which expires this calendar year all with the backdrop of a worsening pandemic. on top of all that, the president is now threatening to veto funding for the u.s. military. this is the second veto threat for the same bill that he's issued, by the way, but this time he says he's vetoing it unless lawmakers soften protections for social media companies which has some bipartisan support. but before he had threatened to veto that same bill over the decision to rename military bases that were named fo

the senate's top democrat, chuck schumer, says he will try to quickly pass the bill on the senate floor tomorrow. and now vermont senator bernie sanders says he will filibuster and override the defense bill approved in the house until mcconnell allows a vote on the $2,000 direct payments to americans. that bipartisan house vote to reject donald trump's veto of the $741 billion defense bill sets up the first override of donald trump's presidency weeks before he leaves office. 109 republicans broke with the president to vote for the override. and it has now been more than two weeks since we've actually heard directly from the president in public. he has yet to comment personally on the christmas day bombing in nashville, and he has said nothing in recent days about the latest covid surge or the staggering loss of american lives. president-elect joe biden, meanwhile, did speak to the nation today after a meeting with national security experts. he began by thanking member of law enforcement for their work on the nashville case. then he said this about the trump administration's efforts duri

chuck is not done. this is an honor, an important honor, but he's still vibrant and he'll continue to push the envelope of social justice for all of us for years to come. so, chuck, thank you for your legacy. and thank you for what you're doing. and i look forward to what is next with you working together. >> we shouldn't belabor this -- >> it's not your turn yet, sorry. you got to indulge us another minute. [laughter] just want to add to the kind of, frankly, reverence of the amazing legacy, chuck, that you have created in the bay area. and the frame that i hold where you are concerned is truth to power. that you have always stood in a place of rightness. and equity and access. centering in particular but not only young people with their voices, their role, their agency, and the agency of people of color even more broadly. and so i certainly have for a long, long time looked to, looked up to, and have learned from all that you have meant to our community. so i certainly personally thank you and also i

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chuck schumer said it best. now we take georgia, then we change america. they would increase taxes, open borders, socialize our health care. my opponent, radical liberal, is list agent of change. someone that has falsely used the bible to attack our military. the bible never said we serve -- that you condition serve gan't america. i'm working hard for every single georgian. i'm kelly loeffler. i'm asking for your vote on january 5th. thank you and may god bless america. >> thank you, senator. revr reverend? >> i'm one of 12 children in my family. i'm number 11. the first college graduate. these are dark and difficult times. amidst the fog of this pandemic and the economic turn, even during this season of joy, it's hard to find joy. i think about my dad in a moment like this. god bless his memory. he used to wake me up and down and say, get ready, get dressed, put your shoes on. it was dawn. it was morning, but it was still dark. it's dark right now. morning is on the way. it's our job, to put our shoes on and get ready. there are those engaged in the polit

leading off our discussion tonight, chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney who worked on the staff of both robert mueller and james comey at the fbi. he is an msnbc legal contributor and the host of the compelling podcast "the oath," which has a new episode tomorrow. also with us, democratic congressman eric swalwell of california. he's a member of the house judiciary committee and the house intelligence committee. and congressman, with your indulgence, i'd like to go to chuck rosenberg first as a former federal prosecutor to read into this judge's memo tonight. we normally defer to the elected official first, but we will start with you, chuck. thank you. thank you, congressman. start with you, chuck, and i want to just open the microphone to you on your reading of this judge's memo tonight. >> yeah, it's fascinating, but, lawrence, what you said at the beginning is really important. we don't know who the targeted officials are and we don't know if white house officials were complicit or completely ignorant of the scheme. what the judge is doing her

chuck, as always, thanks for joining us this morning. it's hard to believe that already one month from today, january 20th, joe biden will take the oath of office to become the 46th president of the united states. the electoral college made it official. alabama's brand-new senator tommy tuberville is suggesting he might challenge that count on january 6th when congress convenes. that would block the unanimous senate vote. how likely do you think it is for that to happen and what would that mean? >> mitch mcconnell this week, after the electoral college voted, he went public and congratulated president-elect biden and said the phrase president-elect, but he warned he had a meeting with republican senators of which i'm not sure tommy tuberville was in the meeting because he is not yet a senator. he gets sworn in january 3rd. he said objecting to this vote on january 6th would be a bad vote for your colleagues so be careful. the point being all that he would accomplish is force a vote by the full senate to essentially reaffirm. you have a b