This is CNN breaking news.

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

I'm Wolf Plitzer in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer in the

situation room. We're following breaking news. The United States now in the grips of the

worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Only moments ago the number of confirmed cases here in the United States top 14 million.

COVID killed more than 2,800 Americans yesterday alone and hospitalizations are at a record high more than 100,000 people leading

to an increasingly critical shortage of ICU beds at hospitals all across the country.

But President Trump is completely detached from the country's suffering.

Sources now telling CNN, there have been multiple meetings about presidential pardons since the election and as Mr. Trump remains

obsessed on overturning it he won't say if he has confidence in the attorney general

of the United States William Barr who has publicly broken with the President's false

claims of election fraud. The President questioning whether the Attorney General

even knows how to do his job. A source tells CNN the two men had what's described as a contentious meeting at the White

House this week.

I'll talk about all of that and a lot more in just a moment with the Republican

Senator Mitt Romney, there you see me standing by live.

We'll also have a CNN exclusive coming up by President-elect Joe Biden

and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are giving their first joint interview since winning the White House

to CNN's Jake Tapper. We're going to hear what they have to say about the president's

efforts to overturn the election, the rapidly worsening COVID pandemic and a whole lot more.

But first let's get to the breaking pandemic news.

It is simply awful what's going on in the United States right now, seeing as Nick Watt is in

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