12/22: Congress passes a COVID relief bill in a late-night vote. AG Barr is refusing the president's demands.

Congress passed a nearly $900 billion COVID aid package late last night, after months of fighting. When the president signs it, it'll allow $600 checks to go out by the end of the year. A fight is brewing over the Trump administration's response to a new coronavirus strain that is raging in Britain. Numerous flights from London land in the U.S. every day, even as more than 40 other countries have added restrictions or bans on travel from the UK. We talk about this new coronavirus variant and the vaccine rollout with Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University's school of public health. President Trump, who has 30 days left in his term, met with lawmakers yesterday about contesting the Electoral College vote that he lost. He's also pushing Attorney General Bill Barr to have a special counsel investigate the election, and take over the tax investigation of Hunter Biden. We have exclusive new information this morning in the death of a Louisiana teenager that we first reported on last month.

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