>> i think this is the toughest spot mike pence has been put in yet in the trump presidency. he's worked really hard over the last four years to avoid

mike pence has a choice to make. and this is not barry goldwater marching down pennsylvania avenue saying to richard nixon, you know, it's over. you have to resign. the president is on his way out. you'd like for republicans to have the backbone to say, this isn't right what you are doing. figuring how they can enable him to the end, up to a point, so that he doesn't exact revenge on them. and mike pence, who i am pretty sure wants to be president, himself, has to be thinking about how do i get trump's blessing and how i handle his final days, in his mind, will loom large. >> i mean, laura asked, david, or says that mike pence has agency. i guess, i ask you, not even that facetiously, does mike pence have agency, at this point? i mean, what has he shown us over the last three years and 11 months that indicates that he does? >> i think he's got agency. the question is at what price will he use it? at what price will he be -- be anything of a stand-up person? or will he find a way, in his own way, to -- i mean, i'm sur

well it's a fair question to ask phil if you consider how mike pence always praised his role in bed donald trump's role in the handling of the pandemic while at the same time of course he received lots of criticism you just mentioned the numbers that have been soaring and spiraling out of control so one of his jobs was to make sure there is enough ventilators and protect personal protective equipment in the hospital which he did of course but what really stands out in mike pence this role is inconsistency also his contrariness so for long periods of time he refused to wear a face mask in public there is this really famous video footage of him where he visited a hospital and he was the only person without a face mask so really critics say that mike pence has been sending out the wrong signal in times when the pen demick was continuing to spiral out of control if you consider scientists recommending wearing face masks and the u.s. administration doing quite the opposite so now he was the 1st higher ranking member of the u.s. administration to get vaccinated that was certainly done in an effo

well that's a fair question to ask phil if you consider how mike pence always praised his role in bed donald trump's role in the handling of the pandemic while at the same time of course he received lots of criticism you just mentioned the numbers that have been soaring and spiraling out of control so one of his jobs was to make sure there is enough ventilators and protect personal protective equipment in the hospital which he did of course but what really stands out in mike pence this role is his inconsistency also his contrariness so for long periods of time he refused to wear a face mask in public there is this really famous video footage of him where he visited a hospital and he was the only person without a face mask so really critics say that mike pence has been sending all the wrong signal in times when the pin demick was continuing to spiral out of control if you consider scientists recommending wearing face masks in the u.s. administration doing quite the opposite so now he was the 1st higher ranking member of the u.s. administration to get vaccinated that was certainly done

vice president mike pence has appeared live on t.v. to take the fire as an inoculation he says he took it because he wanted to demonstrate its safety and effectiveness to the public live to washington and my colleague alan fischer alan so maternal we're seeing soon but how soon is very soon . well it could be anytime in the next few hours donald trump has in the last few hours said that it's been approved b. didn't quite get ahead of the company and the f.d.a. what he did was not quite understand the process on thursday there was a meeting of the advisory committee they had the evidence the question the data and at the end of it they voted overwhelmingly as donald trump said $20.00 to 0 to approve the vaccine for those over the age of 18 donald trump seems to thought that that was it done and dusted but the f.d.a. as an independent body they will go away they will make their decision like they did exactly a week ago when they approved the pfizer vaccine they will look at all the evidence they will look at the findings from the advisory

something mike pence cannot do. but while the president focuses on his fantasy, the reality is the american people desperately need a president who is -- who in fact will work tirelessly on their behalf, not on his own behalf. because right now 27.4 million american adults don't have enough to eat. nearly 8 million more americans are in poverty since june. more than 20 million americans are now dependen

vice president mike pence and his wife have received with 19 vaccine on live t.v. at the white house mr payne says he took the fire because he wanted to demonstrate its safety and effectiveness to the public. ethiopia's government is offering more than a quarter of a $1000000.00 reward for information about the location of the tikrit region and ruling party they went into hiding after federal forces captured the capital nearly 2 weeks ago. in afghanistan at least 15 children have been killed by an explosion happened a religious gathering in the city of the authorities say a motorcycle carrying explosives rammed into a building but the taliban says the blast was caused by an unexploded mortar shell gasoline as well and twice to the taliban in the past 3 years mozambique's government and the u.n. are asking the world for a quarter of a 1000000000 dollars to help people impacted by years of conflict well in 500000 people have been displaced in the northern province of kabul delgado's since 2017 the un is worried the crisis could spread beyond the borders of mozambique

pence and is a little worried that mike pence might actually do his job on january 6 when the electoral college folks are officially koicounted -- announced, elizabeth. how much do you think that could be playing into what we are seeing, that the president wants to make sure mike pence is with him until the bitter end? >> you know, mike pence has to sleep in the bed he made, so i don't feel too sorry for him. he has had multiple opportunities to come forward and speak the truth and he continues to try to look the other way and dance around the issues. so i don't feel sorry for him. i do -- i do kind of wonder if this latest gambit is an attempt by some of the advisers to channel his energy into something, you know -- i will use the term mildly constructive as opposed to, you know, discussing military coups and martial law. i still think it is a disservice to our country, damages our country, riles up and radicalizes his base. i have spoken about my concerns about potential for violent coming out of violent extremist groups, but i suppose this is a better option than having him entertain

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when mike pence is running away from you, you know it's over. it's over. mike pence knows it. >> john, trump just recently found out about that commercial and got upset. i think that's when he really started to direct his ire towards the vice president. through all of this, ron, pence has remained very loyal to trump from the beginning. how does he walk this tightrope now given his own likely political desires? >> it's almost impossible. everyone who tries to alie themselves with dum donald trum sooner or later comes to the point where alliance and loyally for him is a one-way street. everyone sooner or later gets asked to do something they know she should not do. we've seen, you know, through the four years the republican party repeatedly fail that test. as i said to you frobefore, you don't get to this point by yourself or in a day when the president is trying to undermine the election, where he's doling out pardons to allies and to confederates really, who tried to block the mueller investigation. you get there only because he has concluded, i think fai

vice president mike pence gets the covert job as the u.s. comes coursers approving a 2nd coronavirus vaccine. ethiopia's government offers a reward to help catch the former leaders of the region who are on the run after weeks of fighting. and a call for help a quarter of a $1000000000.00 needed for humanitarian aid in mozambique. but 1st hundreds of school boys arrived home a week after they were kidnapped in northern nigeria they were barefoot clutching blankets as they set off buses in the city of katsina now they've been having medical checks before going on to be reunited with their families the boys are being held in the vast rugova forest since gunmen with apparent links to boko haram related their school last friday the mass abduction of what memories of the kidnapping of 279 in schoolgirls from chibok in 2014 well just here is one of the addresses in katsina and he describes how the boy seems as they arrived. so today what happened the 344 of them walked past all of them none of them had any shoes on they limp pastas some with bliste

mike pence there. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal has more from washington. the vice president wants to build up confidence amongst american people who might be sceptical of the vaccine. that's why he was there alongside his wife, the second lady, karen pence, who also took the vaccine. also there was the surgeon general, jerome adams, and he explicitly made the point of how he's a black man. as an african—american, he wanted to appeal to ethnic minorities in particular, who have scepticism in vaccines. polls suggest about a third of african—america ns say they wouldn't take the vaccine. but as you say, yes, president trump is notable in his absence. when the pfizer vaccine was rolled out last weekend, he did tweet at the time saying that he would take it when it was appropriate. and he's been tweeting again today, and he mentioned how the moderna vaccine, the second vaccine, had been authorised, but it hasn't so far. we are waiting for the fda to approve that, after it was recommended to do so by an outside adviser body yesterday. and just to add — the

the votes were cast for president trump and vice president mike pence. >> >> it is an honor for me to be here today. [indiscernible] we turn it over to the secretary. >> [inaudible] more than 1.7 million voted in proud and to fieldn. for the civic duty this fear. for both the primary -- this year, for both the primary and general election. despite the pandemic, i think you to the voters, poll workers and county officials throughout the state that have helped. 897,672 iowans voted for donald trump for president and mike pence for vice president. the margin is 53 to 45%. counties. the role of the presidential electorate is outlined in the u.s. constitution. have their own set of electors that were nominated by the party for their candidate. i congratulate you and thank you for your service. now i would like you all to stand and raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, do solemnly swear to say the following pledge. if elected to the position of i agreed to serve the president and vice president and nominee of the office. and the party to be nominated. thank you. you need to vote for

vice president mike pence got his shot this morning on live television. more on that later. president-elect joe biden and dr. jill biden are set to receive their first doses on monday. yet even though they should play a role as leaders in getting people protected from this virus not all of our elected representatives are onboard with the vaccine. let's be real clear here. this is what the antivax movement looks like when it's all dressed up in a tie. this is republican congressman ken buck from colorado. >> i'm an american. i have the freedom to decide if i'm going to take a vaccine or not, and in this case i'm not going to take a vaccine. i'm more concerned about the safety of the vaccine than i am about the side effects of the disease. >> so that's where we are this december of 2020. and with that let's bring in our lead off guests on this friday night. annie carny, white house reporter for "the new york times." a.b. stoddard, currently associate editor and columnist over at real clear politics. and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon, former chief c

vice president mike pence campaigning in georgia right now. we're learning more details about his plans for getting the vaccine and i believe doing so publicly. what do we know and when will the president be getting his? >> reporter: that's a great question, ayman, about the president. we know about the vice president. he'll be getting the vaccine tomorrow morning. he'll get the vaccine along with karen pence and the surgeon general jerome adams. they'll do that publicly. vice president mike pence will be the most senior ranking u.s. official in the government to get this vaccine and really try to convey to the american public some of which is skeptical about the vaccine that this is safe and should be taken when it's available to them. as for president trump, you ask a very good question, one that all of us are asking. we've got mixed messages coming from the white house. we heard the president may not need to get this because he had coronavirus, as you recall, couple months ago. so he probably has antibodies. they also said he doesn't want t

what do they think mike pence is going to be able to do? >> first of all, jason, it's a delight to see you in this chair and i'm so privileged to be here with you. >> thank you. >> there's nothing on earth, nothing on earth that they can do. i mean, eight weeks ago tonight we had an election. eight weeks ago. this is insane that this is going on in trump's mind. it's not going on anywhere else. he's just a sore loser. so, remember, 59 different courts have rejected h iz claims across the country. the fbi has rejected it. bill barr has rejected it. as attorney general. mitch mcconnell has rejected it. but trump is still living in this fantasy world. and the claim now is that somehow pence on january 6th could just throw out the election and pick the new vice president, himself and the new president? president trump? i mean, give me a break. i mean, that is literally what we fought a war about. the idea that we don't have a perpetual monarchy. the idea that, you know, pence can just open up the ballots and decide who becomes the winner is abs

mike pence isn't going to change the ball game on january 6th. he's going to supervise the moment where donald trump's election is once and for all, you know, certified as a loss in the u.s. senate. so nothing's going to change the realities here on the ground, but as we know at this point, you know, being a supporter of donald trump doesn't necessarily mean you're connected with reality in a very tangible way most of the time. >> let's read a tweet from the president from today. i saved at least eight republican senators including mitch losing the last rigged for president election. now they almost all sit back and watch we might fence a crooked and vicious foe, the radical left democrats. i will never forget. so he's threatening republican senators. i guess, how much influence does he still have, maura? >> well, i think, unfortunately, he still has quite a bit of influence among his base. that's undeniable. and the amount of disinformation he's been feeding them now for four-plus years is very troubling and i think unfortunately is going to hav

daughter, claire. >> mike pence. congratulations. claudia? nice to meet you. >> claudia, are you the one expecting? >> my son is an aviator. you are the one that took time. >> he came over to my house. can i just say thank you lately? -- can i just say thank you belatedly? my whole family is talking about that. there is some connection. he had a friend on your calendar. >> his friend was a classmate. >> great. >> how is he doing flying the f-35? >> he is doing well. >> most exciting is his wife sarah is expecting our first grandchild. >> awesome. but i just told the senator that michael trained with the man who married our daughter and he is a navy guy. thank you. >> i could not remember which kelly it was. very kind. >> we had a great night. >> he went on and on about you. meant a lot. he would probably like to be like u.s. when he grows up. i just enjoyed talking to the two of them about flying the f-35. and what it was like. >> you could talk about it much more substantially than i and forever will be. but congratulations to your family. y

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vice president mike pence got his shot this morning on live television. more on that later. president-elect joe biden and dr. jill biden are set to receive their first doses on monday. yet even though they should play a role as leaders in getting people protected from this virus not all of our elected representatives are onboard with the vaccine. let's be real clear here. this is what the anti-vaxx movement looks like when it's all dressed up in a tie. this is ken buck from colorado. >> i'm an american. i have the freedom to decide if i'm going to take a vaccine or not, and in this case i'm not going to take a vaccine. i'm more concerned about the safety of the vaccine than i am about the side effects of the disease. >> so that's where we are this december of 2020. and with that let's bring in our lead off guests on this friday night. annie carny, white house reporter for "the new york times." a.b. stoddard, currently associate editor and columnist over at real clear politics. and maremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon, former chief counsel to the house i

what we just saw with sanjay and what we're about to see with mike pence, because it's going to make a lot of sense. but i was also waiting for a political moment. tucker carlson went on tv and he questioned the validity of the vaccine. he questioned whether it was necessary. he threw shade on vaccinations. i'm not going to play it again, because i don't think it's helpful to americans. but you can see right there what it says on the screen, bad vaccines. and he also said, it all seems a bit much. it feels false because it is. it's too slick. now, the reason that i'm highlighting this is because president trump has the opportunity to make a huge difference. he has the opportunity to save a lot of lives. there are people who listen to him. there are people who watch what he does and what he says. if 50% of americans are hesitant to get the vaccine, he can make a difference there. but clearly part of his base, tucker carlson, is willing to throw shade on it. so why doesn't tucker carlson do this? what's the thinking behind this? >> i think you laid it very well. the president for whate

>> today, vice president mike pence campaigned for republican georgia senators david perdue and kelly loeffler at a rally in columbus, georgia. the two senators have runoff elections in january against john ossock and rafael warnaock. mr. perdue: thank you for being here. remember when benjamin franklin was asked what kind of democracy e had, a or a republic, he said a republic if you can keep it. and you all are what will keep it. i'm delighted to be here to introduce someone i know very, very well. david an i are first cousins, our fathers were brothers, we've known each other all our lives. i would be here today even if we weren't related because we want united states senators who will go to d.c. and keep their georgia values in d.c., not have washington, d.c. values. that's what david perdue has done. that's what he'll continue do -- continue to do to represent you and georgia and the armed services committee and all the things that are so important that region and our state. these two fighters here. david perdue and kelly loeffler. georgia needs them, america needs them, our repu

vice president mike pence has been inoculated with the pfizer bun tech vaccine. in a televised event, president-elect joe biden will do the same on monday. politicians are getting their chance in public in order to boost american confidence in the vaccination process. the more than 300 students have been reunited with their families a week after being kidnapped from a school in northern nigeria. armed men on motorbikes stormed the school last friday. it's still not clear how the rescue was secured and whether a ransom was made. the global program aimed at securing fair access to covid-19 vaccines for pollination's since roughly doubled it supply. arrangements for nearly 2 million doses have been made as part of the covid alliance, first deliveries do next year. it's an initiative between three global health players, including the world health organization. so for, 92 -- so far, 92 middle income and lower countries are set to receive it. dozens of higher countries are pooling their vaccine buying power. once the job gets regulatory approval, it will be aliquoted t

us vice president mike pence gets a coronavirus vaccine live on—air at the white house. he calls it "the beginning of the end", but almost 3000 americans are still dying every day from covid—19. with cases raising across the country, with hospitalisations rising across the country, we have a ways to go. the spread of covid—19 is accelerating in the uk, with the crucial r number now back above one. doctors and medical leaders warn of significant pressure on the national health service. and more than 300 schoolboys freed from their kidnapping ordeal in nigeria have been reunited with theirfamilies. the us vice president, mike pence, has become the first senior figure in the trump administration to get a coronavirus vaccine, which he called "a medical miracle". and he did so in a very public way, in front of cameras at the white house, along with his wife and the us surgeon general. the move comes as officials are mounting campaigns to quash scepticism about the record—fast development of the vaccine. mr pence said he wanted to assure the american people that while th

us vice president, mike pence gets a coronavirus vaccine live on—air, at the white house. he calls it "the beginning of the end", but almost 3000 americans are still dying every day from covid—19. with cases raising across the country, with hospitalisations rising across the country, we have a ways to go. senate investigators conclude that boeing "inappropriately coached" pilots for a simulator test that should have helped ensure the 737 max could fly safely again after two deadly crashes. the spread of covid—19 is accelerating in the uk, with the crucial r number now back above one. doctors and medical leaders warn of significant pressure on the national health service. and more than 300 schoolboys freed from their kidnapping ordeal in nigeria have been reunited with their families. the us vice president, mike pence, has become the first seniorfigure in the trump administration to get a coronavirus vaccine, which he called "a medical miracle". and he did so in a very public way, in front of cameras at the white house along with his wife and the us surgeon general. the

instead mike pence cwas out thee today. even if the president's doctor said you shouldn't take it yet because you had covid or whatever, he could have been there with mike pence. now, maybe if pence is taking it, the president may decide to because pence may get some cover for doing that. we don't know where he is on the russian hack, he's not talking to the rthem about the attack. he has this obsession that he lost, and it's clear he can't accept that he lost the job. >> did you expect this behavior from the president as a lake duck president? >> yes. i think we all did. yes, we expected this from the president of the united states. no one watching the last four years thought that this president would do anything other than exactly what he's doing after he lost this election. for the same reason gloria brought up he's not on tv because he's afraid of a pick. he's afraid of that needle going into his arm, because if he flinches, that may be a sign of weakness. i'm even more concerned about the grift that has been happening

mike pence is expected -- [ laughter ] -- to get his first of two pfizer shots tomorrow. he and his wife karen are doing it on television to show that the vaccine is safe. i guess the thinking is, if it's good enough for america's first karen, it should be good enough for the rest of them too. [ laughter ] [ applause ] but this is exciting for mike pence. getting vaccinated is the only time mother ever does shots with him. [ laughter ] it's worth mentioning that mike pence, who is the head of the covid task force, wrote an op-ed in "the wall street journal" six months ago saying there would be no second wave of the virus, this is nothing but hysteria from the media. so maybe save that dose for someone else. the only cure mike pence should get is a bottle of clorox and a heat lamp. [ laughter ] [ applause ] the vice poodle was in columbus, georgia today to give a shot in the arm to republican candidates in the senate runoff, and as he is known to do, he made one h-e double hockey sticks of an entrance. >> vice president mike pence! >> jimmy: oh, there he is. white lightnin

mike pence is expected -- [ laughter ] -- to get his first of two pfizer shots tomorrow. he and his wife karen are doing it on television to show that the vaccine is safe. i guess the thinking is, if it's good enough for america's first karen, it should be good enough for the rest of them too. [ laughter and applause ] but this is exciting for mike pence. getting vaccinated is the only time mother ever does shots with him. [ laughter ] it's worth mentioning that mike pence, who is the head of the covid task force, wrote an op-ed in "the wall street journal" six months ago saying there would be no second wave of the virus, this is nothing but hysteria from the media. so maybe save that dose for somebody else. the only cure mike pence should get is a bottle of clorox and a heat lamp. [ laughter and applause ] the vice poodle was in columbus, georgia today to give a shot in the arm to republican candidates in the senate runoff, and as he is known to do, he made one h-e double hockey sticks of an entrance. >> vice president mike pence! >> jimmy: oh, there he is. white lightni

. >>> vice president mike pence gets his covid-19 vaccine, the latest on the distribution in the bay area, the news at noon starts now. >>> this is ktvu fox 2 news at noon. >>> good afternoon, i am gasia mikaelian . >> i am mike mibach, new covid- 19 numbers released for the state of california. 41,000 new cases reported within the last 24 hours, 300 californians have died. the entire bay area under a mandatory stay-at-home order, all driven because of a lack of icu beds available up and down the golden state. and alert also is being sent by the state to your phone. elissa harrington has more. >> reporter: employees at small businesses say they hope this is the last time they have to close their doors. as the strictest stay-at-home order has taken effect throughout the entire bay area for at least three weeks. had blum salon in napa, cy ellis staley to serve as many clients as possible. >> i don't think it's fair where the backs of small businesses, when large retailers stay open. i think the salon is much safer than target >> reporter: under the stay-at- home order many personal car

vice president mike pence gets the. jab as america moves closer to an emergency approval of a 2nd vaccine. with an average of a 1000 per day.

even mike pence knows. he's backing away from your train wreck, from your desperate lies and clown lawyers. when mike pence is running away from you, you know it's over. trying to save his reputation, protect his future. oh, there is one last thing, donald. on january 6th, mike pence will put the nail in your political coffin when he presides over the senate vote to prove joe biden won. it's over. and mike pence knows it. >> so elizabeth, let me read you some reporting that bears out how that ad landed inside of the west wing. axios is reporting that a source who spoke to trump said the president was complaining about pence and brought up the lincoln project ad that pence is backing away from him. it is got inside of his head. the role on january 6th has begun to loom large in trump's mind according to people who have discussed the matter with him. trump would view pence performing his constitutional duty and validating the election result as the ultimate betrayal. elizabeth, the stories bring me such a mix

waiting for mike pence. he's arrived in georgia. can he rally the voters as president trump continues to challenge the results of november. good afternoon on a friday. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to our coverage. we'll bring you the vice president when that begins. the president himself heading south tomorrow. he says turning out supporters is critical for the republican chances of holding the senate. the high stakes run-off are a month from tomorrow. at the same time, a ruling that could potentially overturn the election results expected any moment. jeff paul is live in carson city. we'll get reaction with matt schlepp. we begin this hour with griff jenkins in georgia where all the action is. live in atlanta. griff, good afternoon. >> hey, bill. good afternoon. yeah, seems like the epicenter of the election is in georgia. the march for trump bus tour going through 13 states was just here. we're outside the governor's mansion. the rain is coming down. while here, they're chanting "stop the steal" which they believe is voter fraud and c

food and drug administration shortly by its president mike pence who chairs the federal government's coronavirus task force got vaccinated today alongside the u.s. surgeon general to adams. i didn't feel a thing as the u.s. surgeon general and a black man i'm equally aware of the symbolic significance of my vaccination today but vaccines even ones that are 95 percent effective will not alone in this pandemic we must now do the necessary work to go from vaccines to vaccinations it would truly be the greatest tragedy of all if disparities in covert outcomes actually worsened because the people who could most benefit from this vaccine can't get it or won't take it and we all hope and i think this is doable that by the time we get to several months into this year we will have enough people protected that we can start thinking seriously about the return to normality and that's up to all of us to step forward and get vaccinated. well let's take a closer look as the u.s. enters this a new stage in this a process against a covert. correspondent in washington is all of a salad welcome oliver

you and i had a talk about mike pence. he was at this meeting with members of congress who tried to object on the college count on january 6th. what do you think their relationship is and how much pressure is the president putting on mike pence? >> i think he's putting some pressure on mike pence. as jonathan reported that the president turned on everyone who's giving him some answer that he does not want or not going on television or ak no acknowled acknowledging joe biden. mike pence falls on that category and he's certifying the vote in congress in early january. people gotten into the president's head and there is something that pence can do there but really is not. >> thank you all for being with us tonight. >>> what the president had just done and from congressman jim himes and james clapper and a new covid strain and a likelihood of another holiday surge, that plus more breaking news. the president signaling he may veto the covid relief bill. little girl is lost. friend. she needs to be home. the rules have changed

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on january 6th in a joint session of congress that mike pence will preside over, what you are seeing on the tv screen happening right now in california and what you watched all day long, the tallies, those electoral tallies from each state will be in mike pence's hands and he will open them and he will read aloud and accept this final electoral count is the last step in the process to make joe biden it is 46th president of the united states and it is mike pence who will be presiding over that over his l very loss as vice president of the united states. >> a formal process but a significant formal process, the electoral college making it official once and for all. kristen holmes is watching this for us. it's a little bit complicated. walk us through precisely what we are seeing. >> reporter: every state has a little bit of a different process here. what we are watching now you see them take the oath and you see a little bit of an introduction, who are these electors. in. kra, the way that they are chosen is different in each party in california. top democrats congressional and senate

vice president mike pence gets his vaccine on live tv, to encourage others to have the shot as more than 3000 americans die of covid-19 every day. >> with cases rising across the country, hospitalizations rising across the country, we have a ways to go. anchor: the spread of covid-1 is accelerating in the u.k., the crucial r number above one. doctors warn of significant pressure on the national health service. >> a lot of hospitals are operating at capacity, and add a third spike onto that post-christmas, potentially it is extremely serious. anchor: more than 300 schoolboys free from their kidnapping ordeal in nigea are expected to be united with their families. at after bugs and glitches and crashes, one of the year's biggest the games, cyberpunk, is pulled. ♪ heo. the u.s. vice president, mike pence, has become the first senior figure in the trump administration to get to coronavirus vaccine, which he called a medical miracle. and he did so many very public way, in front of cameras at the white house, alongside his wife and the u.s. surgeon general. the move comes as officials or mou

mike pence there. 0ur correspondent nomia iqbal has more from washington. the vice president wants to build up confidence amongst american people who might be sceptical of the vaccine. that's why he was there alongside his wife, the second lady, karen pence, who also took the vaccine. also there was the surgeon general, jerome adams, and he explictly made the point of how he's a black man. as an african—american, he wanted to appeal to ethnic minorities in particular, who have scepticism in vaccines. polls suggest about a third of african—america ns say they wouldn't take the vaccine. but as you say, yes, president trump is notable in his absence. when the pfizer vaccine was rolled out last weekend, he did tweet at the time saying that he would take it when it was appropriate. and he's been tweeting again today, and he mentioned how the moderna vaccine, the second vaccine, had been authorised, but it hasn't so far. we are waiting for the fda to approve that, after it was recommended to do so by an outside adviser body yesterday. and just to add — the

the development follows a move earlier this week by some republicans to sue vice president mike pence, who will oversee the congressional certification. they're demanding that he recognise sets of alternative, pro—trump electors sent of behalf of local republican party groups in swing states won by president—elect biden. i asked juliegrace brufke, staff writer at the hill, to break all this down for us. definitely january 06 is teeing up to be a crazy day. the conservatives in the house now have a senator on board. you need to have a member from each chamber to be able to challenge election results. senator hawley has made it very

vice president mike pence and his wife karen will be vaccinated live on camera. that will make the vice president the highest ranking member of the government to be inoculated. a white house official tells cnn president trump will not be getting a coronavirus vaccination until it's recommended by the white house medical team. cnn's kaitlan collins has more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, christine and laura. president trump has been basically absent all week. this is part of this larger pattern that we have seen since he lost the election. of course back in november, six weeks ago, where the president has, instead of his usual demeanor, it's straight from the public eye, refused to answer reporters' questions on a regular basis like he spent the last four years doing, and this comes of course as this vaccine rollout is happening, something the president was tweeting about yesterday saying they are getting great reviews for the vaccine rollout, and as he normally does, he's viewing this through the lens of the coverage, how are other people seeing

>>well president-elect joe biden and vice president mike pence plan to get the covid vaccine this week to try and show americans that it is safe dances also praising the administration's efforts to get those vaccines out so quickly kareen wynter has the latest. >>this week america witnessed the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. >>a vaccine is being administered in every state in the union. >>vice president mike pence campaigning at a rally today in georgia for the 2 republican us senate candidates facing a runoff on january 5th. >>vice president pence will receive pfizer's covid vaccine on friday. president elect joe biden is expected to get his vaccine next week pfizer's vaccine was given emergency use authorization from the fda last week doctor anthony fauci the nation's leading infectious disease experts suggested this week that the country's top leaders, including the president should be vaccinated as quickly as possible. president trump tweeted over the weekend that all white house staff should get doses later in the program, the president elect see on wednesday. i

pence certifies it would you encourage republican lawmakers to stand up and protest things? president trump: i just left washington to go to the army-navy game. there are thousands of thousands people out there. i had nothing to do with it, i didn't know they were forming they -- brian: call out congressional leaders. president trump: i'm saying spirit, liveliness, whole thing, fund-raising pouring in to fight this, it is one thing to say you know, you ran a great race, congratulations. i'm okay with that. but they didn't. they didn't run a good race. they ran a horrible race from the basement. they ran a race where he didn't even run. but what they did is, they cheated. they cheated like nobody's ever cheated before that we know of. now, if you look at it, it is not even four or five states. it's five cities, milwaukee, right? detroit, philadelphia, atlanta, take those, pittsburgh you could add. so it is five cities. it is four cities, it is even three cities. i don't need five. just one second. they cheated like nobody's ever cheated before and they got caught just like th

>> it's an impossible position for mike pence, as you can imagine. because he has the ceremonial role that he's going to play when congress meets on january 6th. and it's really to sort of oversee a kind of pro forma process of kind of acknowledging the electoral votes that have already been cast in the states. and what the president is asking him to do is basically say, i never received these electoral votes. i don't think that that is something that is actually within mike pence's power to do, but it's something that as you can see is swimming around on the internet. it's got on the the president. and you know, reporting is already that president trump is already viewing mike pence as not being loyal enough. i don't know what pence's options are. he's already been threading this really narrow needle basically trying to say we're going to count all the votes that are legal, not count the ones that are not illegal but you haven't heard him kind of repeating some of the more full throated election fraud allegations. and i think that's one of the reaso

he will allow mike pence to take over, and he will then go ahead and have mike pence pardon him, and it's a very -- let's just say it's a very nixon type of event, and it was probably discussed between roger stone and president trump at some point that this is certainly one way to avoid any potential prison time. >> i suppose if he was going to do something like that, he could arrange for the type of pardon that nixon in fact got, where nixon hadn't been charged with anything. it was a prospective pardon that he basically arranged from ford so as to make sure that he'd never be indicted after he left office. i suppose that same sort of arrangement could apply there even if he wasn't in fact charged. >> though we have to remember that it doesn't apply to state charges nor does it apply to the charges that will be brought by cy vance's office. >> yeah. let me ask you, michael, about something that you describe in detail, which is also something that i spent a long time chasing, which is this unusual story -- this is page 249 of your book, chapter 12, which has got a lot of great stuff

i will pick the fly on mike pence's head for personal reasons. the weekend after the vice presidential debate i was doing a live show in arizona and a fly literally landed on my head, and the director said, there's a fly on your head. and i thought, yeah, right, i just fell off the turnip truck. of course there's a fly on my head. and i didn't remove the fly from my head because i thought he was making a mike pence joke. so, i sat for four minutes on national tv with a fly on my head thanks to mike pence and could have ruined my career. >> ali very well cher, i'm not what the weird obsession donald trump has with you, but i get it. i think you're amazing. he's obsessed with ali. what is happening? i think it's because you're an original kenyan muslim. i think that gets to him. i'm going to cheat again and pick a tie between the health care workers, who i think are the heroes of the whole world. but also the black woman activist. stacey abrams, but also people like latasha brown. it's a three-way tie. >> absolutely. >> sri to say these health care

no, they'll vote for donald trump and mike pence. here's what fascinates me about noon hour. pennsylvania, georgia, arizona. remember how hard fought the campaign was. come here, 306 to 232. they were donald trump states. if he gets those 47, he is reelected. 270 is the finish line. but those are three of the five, arizona, georgia, pennsylvania. michigan, wisconsin, those are states joe biden flipped, they'll be blue in 2020, electoral votes will go, despite what the president said and what the lawyers tried by the end of the day, they'll go to joe biden. by end of the hour, these states here, including the 47, which again, testament to the biden campaign, to big changes and celebration, reaffirmation of democracy. >> president-elect joe biden has been president-elect for weeks now, but after today republicans and others who refuse to call him president-elect will have no excuse. >> the only excuse will be that the president will get mad at them, the current president will get mad at them. the only excuse. this is over. the president had every recourse in the state of georgi

pence that we hold on to what we've accomplished. the right literary work, the tax work, energy work, energy independent for the first time in our history. [cheering and applause] let me remind you. the democrats have told us what they want. they said if they get these two seats schumer came here that will take georgia and change america. hui've got a message for chuck schumer, i'm a georgian and we ate ready to give you georgia. right? [cheering and applause] aoc said we have to have these two seats because we don't want to negotiate. we want the green new deal without compromise we will not let that happen either, are we? i won't give you all the reasons why we cannot let this happen but i will tell you this, if we hold the line now we can set the stage for future generations. we don't have to worry about this but we can listen to what people have already told us, ronald reagan said to us freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. onif we don't it must be fought for and protected and passed on or one day in our

you and i had a talk about mike pence. he was at this meeting with members of congress who tried to object on the college count on january 6th. what do you think their relationship is and how much pressure is the president putting on mike pence? >> i think he's putting some pressure on mike pence. as jonathan reported that the president turned on everyone who's giving him some answer that he does not want or not going on television or acknowledging joe biden. as the president-elect. mike pence falls on that category and he's certifying the vote in congress in early january. people have gotten into the president's head and there is something that pence can do there but really is not. but that is playing a role. >> thank you all for being with us tonight. i do appreciate it. as we say, a lot going on. next, what the president has just done and what he is habit to do and from congressman jim himes and james clapper and a new covid strain and a likelihood of another holiday surge, that plus more breaking news. the president si