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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Supreme Court Denies GOP Effort To Block Certification of Election Votes

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme County denies the GOP's effort to block the certification of Pennsylvania's election results.  The United States has topped 15 million covid-19 cases, which adds to the 1.4 million cases from the first week of December alone. There has been 285,000 deaths in the United States from coronavirus. The FDA review confirms that the Pfizer vaccine is safe and effective ahead of its expected authorization this week.  United States President-elect Joe Biden has introduced his health team and vows that the members of that team will be "ready on day one" of Biden's presidency to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Biden is going to nominate retired General Lloyd Austin as his defense secretary.  Wolf Blitzer has a one-on-one with the Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett Giroir. Giroir talks about the first vaccines being administered. in the United Kingdom, while Trump signs an executive order that prioritizes Americans for the coronavirus vaccines. Giroir says that they are "incredibly concerned" about the spread of the coronavirus.  There is a showdown happening in regards to the vote on the defense spending bill and Trump is threatening to veto the bill. Lawmakers are also negotiating on a possible stimulus bill.  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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0:00.0

This is CNN breaking news.

0:09.4

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

0:12.1

I'm Wolf Plitzer in the situation States and around the world I'm Wolf

0:12.5

Pitzer in the situation room we're following breaking news

0:15.6

following what's being described right now as a near fatal blow to

0:20.0

President Trump's efforts to try to overturn the presidential election that he clearly

0:25.4

obviously lost.

0:27.0

Only moments ago, the United States Supreme Court officially denied a request, the last minute request, from Pennsylvania Republicans to

0:35.0

block certification of the state's electoral votes, the election results, as the President

0:40.6

has been aggressively pushing for

0:42.8

including today.

0:44.2

The president and all of his lawyers

0:46.3

have completely now failed in their effort

0:49.1

to discredit the results of the election

0:51.4

five weeks ago today.

0:53.0

Let's go to the White House.

0:54.0

First, our Chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta

0:56.4

is joining us right now.

0:57.8

The Supreme Court just dealt the president,

1:00.5

a huge setback.

1:02.4

It looks again and again like it's completely over for the

1:06.6

president he's gonna have no choice but to accept reality

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