Sidney Powell was at the White House again today for meetings. It was not immediately clear if she met with President Trump.

Sources told ABC News that the president had considered trying to appoint Powell, an election lawyer Trump had cut from his legal team, as a special counsel to look into the 2020 election -- even though the president cannot do so under the auspices of the Justice Department. Attorney General William Barr has already rejected the idea of appointing a special counsel to investigate the election.

-ABC News' John Santucci and Ben Gittleson.

President-elect Joe Biden received the first shot of a coronavirus vaccine during a televised event in Delaware on Monday.

Many have expressed hope that Biden receiving the jab on camera will help stoke public confidence in the vaccine, as well as ensure the continuity of government.

"I’m doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared when it's available to take the vaccine, there’s nothing to worry about," Biden said.

His wife, Jill Biden, received her shot earlier in the day. The Bidens received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to a statement from his office.

The president-elect also took time to thank health care workers and first responders, including the woman who administered the shot, saying, "We owe you big, we really do."

Finally, Biden encouraged people to still wear masks, socially distance, and avoid travel during the holidays.

Vice President-elect Harris stopped in Columbus, Georgia, on Monday to campaign on behalf of Senate Democratic candidates. She told reporters that she will be heading right back to Washington, D.C., afterwards to vote on the COVID-19 relief bill.

Harris said that she was in the Georgia to support Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, "and to remind Georgians that their voice is strong and matters in this election."

"And so, I want to remind everyone to vote and vote early," she said, noting that the runoffs will determine "the future of Georgia and, certainly, our country."

Finally, the vice president-elect said they were closely monitoring the situation with the new strain of COVID-19 in the U.K., and they will "make a decision as appropriate" regarding banning travel.

-ABC News’ Beatrice Peterson

Attorney General William Barr told reporters Monday that he sees no reason to appoint special counsels to investigate Hunter Biden and baseless claims of widespread election fraud. President Donald Trump has privately discussed naming lawyer Sydney Powell, earlier fired from his legal team, as a special counsel.

"I think to the extent that there's an investigation I think that it's being handled responsibly and professionally currently within the department and to this point I have not seen a reason to appoint a special counsel and I have no plan to do so before I leave," Barr said at a news conference at the Justice Department.

Without presenting any evidence, however, Barr also said that he’s sure there was election fraud in the election, and that the country is too tolerant of it, but not enough to change the election results, saying "we had looked at suggestions or allegations of systemic or broad based fraud that would affect the outcome of the election and I already spoke to that and I stand by that statement."

When asked about seizing voting machines, Barr said that he didn’t think the federal government has any basis to do so.

"I see no basis now for seizing machines by the federal government, you know, a wholesale seizure of machines by the federal government," he said. Finally, when asked if the president had the ability to pardon himself, Barr said that he was not going to "opine on a constitutional issue as far as the power goes."

Over the weekend, President Trump and his legal team considered the idea.

-ABC News’ Luke Barr and Alex Mallin.

Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who has maintained a strong anti-illegal immigration stance during her short tenure in office, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for her Georgia Senate runoff campaign from donors linked to a family owned company that was forced to pay out more than $95 million in fines for unlawful immigration practices and alleged hiring discrimination, disclosure records show.

Between late November and early December, Loeffler's campaign received more than $28,000 in contributions from at least 11 members of the Asplundh family, according to new campaign finance reports filed to the Federal Election Commission. The Asplundh family owns and operates the large, privately held Asplundh Tree Expert Company, which has done work for the U.S. Department of Energy.

In 2017, the Pennsylvania-based tree-trimming and vegetation management company had to pay the largest civil settlement ever levied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a yearslong investigation resulted in the company pleading guilty to "unlawfully employing aliens." Additionally, in January 2019, Asplundh agreed to pay $55,000 in back wages to settle hiring discrimination allegations stemming from one of its facilities in Georgia.

ABC News sent a detailed email to two staffers on Loeffler's campaign that outlined the company's past settlement over its unlawful immigration practices and back pay for alleged discrimination. In addition to asking for a general comment on the donations and the company's past, ABC News also asked if the campaign knew that members of the Asplundh family had donated and intentionally excluded their occupations and employers; if the campaign -- given the senator's stance on immigration and the company's infraction in Georgia -- wanted their support and their donations; and if the campaign did not want their support or donation, if they would refund them.

In response, Loeffler's deputy campaign manager, Stephen Lawson, replied, "[W]e're marking your email as spam. Please don't ever email us again."In a follow-up email a minute later, Loeffler's press secretary, Caitlin O'Dea, wrote, "And Merry Christmas!"

The Asplundh family did not respond to requests for comment, either.

-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan and Soo Rin Kim