CNN’s SE Cupp discusses the relationship between the Republican party and President Trump as his time in office comes to a close amid negotiations over stimulus packages and government spending.
Category: december 2020
Mehdi Hasan takes a look at Trump’s four years of failed deal-making. “Donald Trump has had four years to prove himself the ultimate dealmaker. What he has proven instead is the truth of a line from his own book: ‘If you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.’” Aired on 12/29/2020
CNN’s Don Lemon looks at the number of claims and failed attempts by President Trump to overturn the election results.
Experts from the World Health Organization have told the end of year media briefing that even though the coronavirus pandemic has been severe, it is ‘not necessarily the big one’, and that the virus is likely to become endemic and the world will have to learn to live with it. The head of the WHO emergencies programme, Dr Mike Ryan, warned that the next pandemic may be worse, while Prof David Heymann, the chair of the WHO’s strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards, said the ‘destiny’ of the virus is to become endemic, even as vaccines begin to be rolled out across the world
The severity of the Covid crisis facing the NHS has become even clearer — with a record 53,000 new cases reported in 24 hours. Public Health England said the scale of infections and pressure on hospitals was causing “extreme concern”. A leading scientific adviser to the UK government said urgent action was needed to prevent a “catastrophe” in the New Year. There are calls for a delay in the return to school after the Christmas break, to prevent the spread of infections. The armed forces are being drafted in to help with testing in schools. Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by health correspondent Catherine Burns and political correspondent Damian Grammaticas.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blocked a bid by Democrats to hold a vote to boost COVID-19 relief cheques from US$600 to US$2,000, despite President Donald Trump having urged Congress to do so when he signed a stimulus bill on Sunday. McConnell also urged members of both parties to override the veto by Trump of the National Defense Authorization Act, noting both houses of Congress passed it on a bipartisan level before the bill was vetoed by Trump. If the Senate votes to override, it would be the first veto override to take place since Trump took office. The bid by Democrats to boost stimulus cheques was to address only improving the financial aid, but McConnell said the Senate would “begin a process” to focus on several priorities outlined by Trump that he addressed when he signed the US$892-billion stimulus package. The priorities included the US$2,000 boost to direct payments, but also getting rid of the Section 230 legal protections for tech companies, and investigating election fraud.
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Croatia; 5 deaths reported.