Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Tuesday, December 8. In today's news, President Trump asked the

Pennsylvania House Speaker for help overturning the election results.

President-elect Biden nominates a retired four-star general to be defense secretary and Congress will pass a one-week

funding bill to avert a shutdown as stimulus negotiations continue. But first, the big idea.

Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first person to receive the Pfizer vaccine shot outside of a clinical trial this morning.

The grandmother of four received the shot at University Hospital in Coventry, England.

British officials say they hope to vaccinate the majority. University Hospital in Coventry, England.

British officials say they hope to vaccinate the majority

of especially vulnerable people by the end of February.

Priority will go to people over 80

and a nursing home caregivers. Margaret said her advice to anyone offered the vaccine

is to take it. If I can have it at 90, she told reporters, then you can have it too.

While Britain kicks off with gusto, the first mass immunization campaign in the West. We're learning about yet another way that President Trump and his team have dropped the ball on this side of the pond.

Pfizer has told the Trump administration that it cannot provide substantial additional

doses of its coronavirus vaccine until late June or July because other countries

have bought up most of the supply. That means the U.S. government may not be able to ramp up nearly as rapidly as it had

expected or promised from the 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine that had

already purchased earlier this year. This raises questions about whether the government can keep to its

aggressive schedule to vaccinate most Americans by late spring or early summer.

Several inside sources tell my colleagues Lori McGinley, Yasmina Bhutelib, and Carolyn Johnson

that this past summer, Senior Pfizer executives urged Operation Warp Speed to purchase 200 million doses or enough

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