The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

On Christmas Eve President Trump plays golf at his resort in Florida as Covid deaths surge. The U.S. has now topped 328,000 Covid deaths as December is now on track to become the deadliest month of the pandemic. Trump and Pence meet in the oval office after Trump tweeted that the Vice President should be doing more to help overturn the election. Trump pardons former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Jared Kushner's father Charles Kushner.

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“Let’s hope he does not veto, you know, the Covid relief bill,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says on Pres. Trump’s attempt to upend the $900 billion Covd-19 relief legislation, which took months to negotiate. "Frankly, I was absolutely floored... when the President decided to veto the National Defense Authorization Act because it's a real gut punch to our military," Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal says.

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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. 

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The United States awaits the house vote on the $900 billion covid relief package.

The United States tops 318,000 covid-19 deaths and 17.9 million cases. 

President-elect Joe Biden receives the initial dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Biden is now part of the more than 550,000 Americans that have been vaccinated so far. Fauci, Azar and Collins are to receive the initial vaccinations on Tuesday. States are receiving fewer vaccine doses than promised. The CDC says that frontline workers and people over 75 should get the coronavirus vaccine next. The first few Moderna vaccinations happen amid global concerns about a new covid variant. 

Health officials say that the new covid variant could be 70 percent more transmissible. The chief operation warp speed adviser says that there is "no hard evidence" that the new covid variant is more transmissible. Dozens of countries have banned flights from the United Kingdom over the new covid variant, where it has originated. Giroir says that there is no evidence that the United Kingdom variant will "evade" the coronavirus vaccine. 

Sources are saying that some White House advisers are fearing President Donald Trump's final days and warns that "no one is sure where this is heading." 

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Pence, Surgeon General, Pelosi, McConnell receive COVID-19 vaccination.

Trump missing in action amid pandemic, economic crisis, cyberhack. White House claims Trump is "working very hard" on Russian cyber attack, despite public silence. 

FDA authorization of Moderna vaccine could come at any time. 

More than 1 million ballots already cast in Georgia senate runoff elections. 

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