Biden Has "Absolute Confidence" In Covid Vaccine And Urges Vigilance

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The United States tops 321,000 covid deaths and 18 million cases. Hospitalization are at an all-time high in the pandemic. Fauci says that he wouldn't be surprised that the covid-19 variant is already the United States . Dr. Fauci has a one-on-one with Wolf Blitzer. Fauci and administration health officials receive Moderna vaccine. Dr. Fauci says he has no side effects and that "I feel fine" after getting the covid vaccine. Fauci speaks about the fast-spreading coronavirus strain in the United Kingdom and how the strain may be in the United States already. President-elect Joe Biden says, "I have absolute confidence" in covid vaccine and urges that people have vigilance during the "darkest days" ahead. Biden says to not expect a political "honeymoon" in the United States in the midst of a nightmare. Biden slams President Donald Trump for not responding to cyberattack on United States and calls it a "grave risk" to security. Trump is holed up in the White House, while he is turning on allies and getting deeper in denial. Televangelist Pat Robertson says that Trump lives in an "alternate reality" and that Trump should move on from the election. The coming contagion: Congo's rainforests and future pandemics. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.0	I'm Wolf Blitzer in the situation room.
0:55.0	We're following breaking news.
0:56.0	President-elect Joe Biden refusing to sugarcoat the challenges ahead
1:00.0	as he prepares to take office in less than a month. A short while ago he
1:04.8	urged vigilance against COVID-19 warning of dark days ahead even as he expressed
1:10.1	confidence in new vaccines. He also slammed President Trump for not responding to the
1:15.1	huge cyber attack on US agencies, calling the hack a grave risk to America's
1:20.8	security. This, as President Trump remains huddled up inside the White House,
1:25.2	turning on many of his allies as he plunges deeper and deeper into denial about his defeat
1:31.4	and ignores the raging pandemic.
1:34.3	As of this hour, more than 321,000 Americans are dead.
1:38.4	More than 18 million have been infected.
1:40.9	Hospitalizations right now are at an all-time high. And Dr. Anthony
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