Morning for all of these lawmakers. Bring us up to speed on whats going on now and what it means for americans who need help in the pandemic. Reporter i thought when i woke up this morning i thought it would be over and its still going on. Voterama is still going on. Marathon session to try to pass amendments for budget reconciliation. First step that needs to happen so that they can pascoe individual 19 relief without any support. Now the senate doesnt do this very often. It shows how important it is. There was one amendment that all senators agreed on except for rand paul. Targeted stimulus checks for the next round of covid19 relief. This comes as 10 senators were clear with biden they want to continue this dialogue. They want to continue talking about covid19 relief. They have concerns about his 1. 9 trillion package. They want something smaller. They want something more targeted. They sent a letter to him hoping to continue that conversation, but janet yellen has been clear, she said that the risk of doing too little is worse than the risk of doing too much. And the white house adviser also agreed with her. I already went through the cause of inaction. Those costs are incredibly steep and long lasting. Longterm unemployment could have damage to peoples careers. I talked to the damage to their lifetime earnings. I dont want to lose the cost of the plan to the cost of inaction. Reporter bottom line, biden wants a covid19 relief action. Theres too much of a divide to try to pass something together, a bipartisan bill. Hes willing to move with democrats on this alone and thats what we see happening right now. Guys. What we want to know is when am i going to get my check and how much is that check going to be . This is all setting the stage for what is to come. Daniellea, thank you so much. She has lost her Committee Assignments but is arguably more influential than before. Marjorie Taylor Greene tossed off two committees by less than a dozen republicans. Greene did not take responsibility for her words. She said she stumbled across qanon at the end of 2017 and began posting about it on facebook because she felt she could not trust the government. I was allowed to believe things that werent true and i would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what i regret because if it werent for the facebook posts and comments that i liked in 2018, i wouldnt be standing here today and you couldnt point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong. Well, thats certainly true. She wouldnt be standing there if it not for the things that she said which unfortunately is the entire point. The antisemetic and other vitriol that she spouted at the time was well known and embraced bring those who voted for her. The proof is in the number. 61 republicans voted to remove congresswoman liz cheney after she tried to hold Trump Accountable for inciting the deadly mob yet just 11 thought marjorie Taylor Greene should lose her committee seats. Impeachment allows them to cleanse themselves of Donald Trumps influence. Thats not the way it is going. At the moment it seems 17 republican senators will sign on. Now trump is defying democrats demand that he show up and testify. Jamie raskin said it just reinforces trump is guilty. Cnn correspondent manu raju has the latest. Reporter good morning, christine and laura. Theyre setting up a dramatic showdown. They are demanding his testimony next week in the Senate Impeachment trial saying he should come and testify in his own defense. Theyre pointing to the legal brief he put out earlier in the week in which he made a number of claims disputing the key facts in the case. Donald trump charged by the house inciting an insurrection. He cited key facts and speaking to the rally. Everything he said in the run up to the rally that led to the protesters coming to the capitol, storming the capitol and it led to a number of deaths including a u. S. Capitol police officer. Donald trumps team called this a publicity stunt. He will not agree to testify. They called this a sham proceeding of sorts. Theres no expectation he will unless democrats take a step to subpoena him which appears like an unlikely route he will go. The question, too, remains whether democrats will terminate any witnesses whatsoever. That is still an unsettled question as well. The expectation is there will be several days of arguments on both sides. Democrats will present Video Evidence trying to show donald trump intentionally incited rioters and rally goers, Fulmented Disinformation and discord about what was happening that day. Those arguments will take place starting next week. Guys . Manu raju, thank you so much. Without any true villain, defendants invented one. A quote from a new 2. 7 billion lawsuit filed by a Voting Technology company swept up in all of the baseless Conspiracy Theories about the 2020 election. Smartmatic accuses lawyers Rudy Giuliani, sidney powell, fox news and its host lou dobbs, Maria Bartiromo deliberately lying about the company into believing the election was stolen from donald trump. Theres no shortage of evidence to support the claims. The earth is round, 2 plus 2 equals 4. Joe biden and Kamala Harris won the election. The election was not stolen, rigged or fixed. These are facts. All of the defendants dispute the claims in the lawsuit. Meanwhile, a different voting tech Company Dominion revealed it sent letters to facebook, youtube, parler, twitter asking them to preserve posts. Dominion has already sued giuliani and powell for 1. 3 billion in damages. If you need a reminder how toxic Rudy Giuliani is viewed these days. Listen to the disclaimer that a new york city radio aired during his own Talk Radio Show on thursday. The views, assumptions and opinions presented when i new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani, his guests and callers on his programs are strictly their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions, beliefs or policies of wabc radio. Now its former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani on new yorks talk radio 77 wabc. I would have thought they would have told me about that before just doing what they just did. Rather insulting. Gives you a sense of how far this free speech thing has gone and how they frighten everybody. I mean, were in america. Were not in east germany. Theyve got to warn you about me . Given giulianis legal issue, Wabc Management is clearly trying to protect itself from any possible liability. Christine, whats so interesting about that is he still has a show on the radio. So hes complaining about free speech on his own show. Weve heard time and time again when people are criticized for holding way far out of the norm and incorrect positions, when theyre criticized for that they call it cancel culture, infringement of their free speech while they have a Huge National platform to spread the lies. Exactly. Exactly. Still ahead, big news overnight about a third Coronavirus Vaccine potentially rolling out soon in the United States. Needles. Essential for pine trees, but maybe not for people with certain inflammatory conditions. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz. The first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. Xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. Before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections, like tb and do blood tests. 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A recent decline in cases and hospitalizations suggests the country could be turning an important corner. Erica hill has more. Christine and laura, good morning. A Big Development on the vaccine front. Johnson johnson officially asking the fda for Emergency Use Authorization on thursday. The single dose vaccine has shown an efficacy of 72 in its u. S. Trials. Meantime, here in new york Yankee Stadium opens a mass vaccination site this morning. Scheduling 15,000 appointments for the first week here. Dr. Anthony fauci reporting hes hopeful kids 12 and up may be able to get the vaccine in late spring or summer. Speaking of younger kids, youth sports can actually resume monday in michigan. Masks mandatory at practice and competitions. Each athlete will be permitted two spec kators at competitions. Amid concerns that those fastspreading variants, specifically the u. K. Variant which could soon become dominant in florida and california, there is a bright spot in the golden state. Hardhit saint Marry Center Dismantling the tents. Offering a gratitude for the space and those who treated the patients there. Erica hill, thank you, erica. Real concern that the jobs loss in the pandemic wont come back. The Unemployment Rate hasnt moved in months. Economists forecast it was stuck at 6. 7 for the third month in a row. The forecast says the economy added 50,000 jobs. That would be a Welcome Change from what we saw in december. 140,000 jobs lost. Look at that chart. That shows you a country still deep in a jobs hole here. Not a normal downturn. We dont have any historical comparisons for this. The treasury soekt, janet yellen, says we need to get people back to work. Until then we need more money to combat the virus. To seeing long lines of people waiting to get food around the country is something we should never see in the United States. Too many people have to worry about whether theyll have a roof over their heads and who wants to address that . This is really an urgent need. We need to act big. The he there is joe biden. The acting big is the stimulus, 1. 9 trillion stimulus on the table in congress. There have been some signs of improvement in the labor market. Thursdays jobless claims showed 779,000 americans filed for benefits last week. That is the lowest since the end of november but cold comfort. 779 t 779,000 is a lot of layoffs for just one week. The crisis is far from over. The Congressional Budget Office said the jobs market wont return to prepandemic market wont return until 2024. When you get the Vaccine Uptake and the virus under control, jobs are not coming back the way the economy is. Kshaped economy. People having jobs and money are doing great. People who dont, have never seen this. You are the one always staying on top of this. Its so important to highlight. If you miss seeing peoples lips moves when they talk, ford may have the answer. The automaker received a patent for a clear respirator mask. 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I think what we heard from President Biden is very clear laying out the United States needs to earn its place back in world leadership. Its a necessary place. The sell to the International Community is one theyre hearing. It had phone calls in london, paris, berlin, tokyo, seoul and australia as well. So making very clear that hes talking to his allies again, that he wants their support again and hes also talking to the United States enemies. He said he had a phone call with President Putin in russia saying this was no longer a United States that was going to roll over and let russia continue what it has been doing, destabilizing the electoral process in the United States, poisoning political critics of putin in the country, clear reference to navalny there. On china, going to confront china. But all of this working with allies. I think the message here as well is, you know, his heart is behind the diplomatic effort coming the state department. His sell to americans is important because the International Community does wonder if theres a President Trump in the waiting to come back with future presidencies. So his message about American Diplomacy was a current one. Were doing this because it brings peace and prosperity in the United States. This is naked selfinterest. The very diplomatic message, absolutely. This is going to go down very well among our allies, christine. Nic robertson in london. Thank you for that very much. One notable omission from bidens speech is rejoining the iran nuclear deal. Today they will host a top level meeting to discuss irans escalating Nuclear Enrichment program. There are growing concerns irans activities are ruining any chance of rejoining the deal. The senate still in session. Without any republicans. Ms. Baldwin. Est 5g network. Awardwinning customer satisfaction. Or insanely great value. Now, with tmobile for business, theres no compromise. Network. Support. Value. Choose. All. Three. 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Im christine romans. 30 minutes past the hour. The senate wrapping a session that lasted about 15 hours. It ended by unlocking democrats power without republican support. On the vote the ayes are 50, the nays are 50. The senate being equally divided the Vice President votes in the affirmative and the amendment is agreed to. Tiebreaker. Cnns congressional reporter daniella diaz. So nice to see you friday morning. For them it still feels like thursday night because this has been going on forever. What does this mean for americans in need of help in the middle of the pandemic and financial crisis . Christine, its really interesting because this began at 2 30 p. M. Yesterday. They have not paused. They just wrapped moments ago. The senate has been here all night. This is a procedure that just passed. Its part of budget reconciliation. This is the procedure that Bidens Administration and congress is going to take to pass his covid19 Relief Package without any republican support. That means they just need a simple majority in the senate, 51 votes. This shows the urgency of the Biden Administration and democrats in congress to pass a covid19 relief bill if they dont want a bipartisan package. Now one thing i want to mention is there was an amendment that was passed last night by 99 senators that showed that they are all okay with targeted stimulus checks this time around. They want the stimulus checks to go with a salary cap. They agree with that. There were dozens of amendments that were passed last night. Theres 10 republican senators that have sent a letter to biden. They sent it last night to tell him that they want to work with him on his covid19 package. They believe that at least 1. 9 trillion package that biden wants to pass is too large and should be more targeted, a smaller package. They sent him a letter to continue that dialogue with him to try to have him converse with them about what their concerns are. So thats where things stand right now. And, you know, this bottom line is this shows the urgency from the Biden Administration to pass this package when theres a divide between democrats and republicans in the senate to agree on a covid19 package. Daniella, explain the debate last night. They wanted to get democrats on the record about raising the minimum wage. Joni ernst said it would hurt small businesses. Bernie sanders saved The Democrats from a hard vote. He stood up and told the Senate Chamber he does want to see a 15 minimum wage increase but he says he doesnt want to see it now. He understands the pandemic is affecting businesses and he said he wants to see it by 2025. That is what his legislation is. He agreed to a voice vote on the senate floor which means that since The Democrats didnt have to go on record about how they voted for this. So that passed and there was no issue with that. Showing his legislative experience no doubt in a long night in the senate. Daniella, so nice to see you. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. Thank you guys. All right. Stripped of her vote but not her influence, congresswoman marjorie Taylor Greene tossed off two house committees by democrats who were joined in the vote by less than a dozen republicans. When given the opportunity, greene did not take responsibility for her hateful rhetoric. She said she stumbled across qanon at the end of 2017 and began posting on it on facebook because she felt she couldnt trust the government. Listen to all of the passive voice here. I was allowed to believe things that werent true and i would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what i regret because if it werent for the facebook posts and comments that i liked in 2018, i wouldnt be standing here today and you couldnt point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong. So shes not wrong about one thing. She would not be standing there if not for the things that she said, the things that she liked, the antisemitism, the bigotry that she spewed that was known by those who voted for her and is now endorsed by her party. Democrats are fed up. Top House Democrat steny hoyer showed republicans, this is remarkable, a poster. He carried it over to show a poster, a social media post of Taylor Greene holding a rifle threatening progressive lawmakers. This vote shcould be a first step in correcting the error of those who so far have chosen to do nothing. Republicans have yet to offer a clear and unambiguous declaration that Political Violence is unacceptable and has no place in their ranks. Speaking of the direction of the republican party, it appears there is still a high price for anyone in the gop who chooses country over party. Nebraska senator ben sasse is one of five republican senators who voted to move forward with former President Trumps second impeachment trial. For that hes facing a Censure Resolution in his home state, one he says he can live with. You are welcome to censure me again, but lets be clear about why this is happening. Its because i still believe, as you used to, that politics isnt about the weird worship of one dude. The party could purge trump skeptics, but id like to convince you that not only is that civic cancer for the nation, its just terrible for our party. Senator sasse is urging the gop to accept critics of the former president if it wants to survive. Now the latest on the pandemic. Seattle Childrens Hospital forced to cancel 1300 patient vaccinations. Cnn has the pandemic covered from coast to coast. Reporter im rosa flores in south miami. They are to audit 1,000 damaged doses of covid19 vaccines. They blame human error saying that a Vaccine Refrigerator at a mobile unit was unintentionally turned off. Now the Department Of Health is asking the county to account for all vaccinerelated equipment and its asking the county to review all procedures in place to store and handle the covid19 vaccine. Im Stephanie Elam in los angeles. The state of california has seen its average number of daily new cases drop by about 60 over the last month. This as the state announced more than 13,000 new cases, but thats below the average of about 18,000 new cases for the last two weeks. The Positivity Rate also dropping below 7 to levels we havent seen since early december while hospitalizations are down from the high that we saw in early january. Deaths, however, in the state remain stubbornly high. Im adrian brown in chicago. Over in wisconsin its on again, off again, back on again. On thursday Governor Tony Evers required everyone to wear a Face Covering in all public spaces. This move came one hour after the republicanled assembly voted to repeal the previous mask mandate calling it unconstitutional. Governor evers said the most basic thing people can do is wear a mask to help keep each other safe. Im Evan Mcmorris santoro. Restaurants, gyms, places of worship in massachusetts will soon be able to welcome more people inside. Businesses that had been on a 25 Capacity Limit will see that limit raised to 40 starting next week. On thursday Governor Charlie Baker said the pandemic situation in his state has improved enough to allow more people to share in indoor activities. There are still a lot of restrictions in place. Indoor and outdoor gatherings remain limited to 25 and 50 people respectively and Movie Theaters can only hold a maximum of 50 people. Im erica hill. Youth sports can resume in michigan starting on monday. Masks will be mandatory at practices and competitions and for sports in which mask wearing isnt an option, testing must be in place. Each athlete is permitted two spectators at competitions. The governor saying march 1st is in person learning. Many thanks to all of our correspondents with those reports. With millions of kids still stuck at home, 24 states and washington d. C. Are allowing teachers and staff to receive Coronavirus Vaccine. In 26 other states some educators may fall into the age group their state is currently vaccinating anyway. Atlanta Public Schools is discussing plans to have a mandatory fourweek extended School Program in june to address possible Learning Loss for 51,000 students. President bidens covid Relief Package will give 170 billion to school and has made opening schools a key benchmark of his aggressive 100 day plan. The republicans package would give schools 20 billion. The president s Top Democrats are split on how to cancel student loan debt. For the first time the white house has publicly considered Executive Action to forgive Student Loans. The president prefers Congress Acts first. Congressional democrats want biden to do this on his own. On thursday Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren reintroduced a Resolution Calling on biden to cancel 50,000 per borrower. Progressive lawmakers say biden could use the same Legal Authority to cancel debt that then President Trump used to temporarily wave interest on federal Student Loans during the pandemic. Liberal Consumer Groups were disappointed when the policy was not included in the president s 1. 9 trillion American Rescue plan. Laura, there are centrists who are a little worried about this focus, just for giving student loan debt. They would like to focus in on inexpensive college, making sure everyone has access to inexpensive college and also reinforcing the plans we already have for incomebased repayment and for giving Student Loans at a certain time. They want to shore that up. They think its people who saved and paid for school and then other people get their loans forgiven. 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Hes written to the prosecutors for making the 94yearold man be part of his trial and his own attorneys have come out and said they believe this case is illegal. Nevertheless, its going forward. It comes before he was sentenced to 2 1 2 years in prison. Heating the pressure up on Alexey Navalny. He has said he believes the only reason hes behind bars is because he survived that poisoning by the chemical nerve agent novi ch hok. He believes Vladimir Putin and the russians are behind that song. He was in a hospital in the town of olmst. The leading doctor who treated navalny mysteriously died. He was only 55 years old and so far the authorities in that area have not given any reason for his death. We dont know whether or not there was foul play in play. No reason for that. Thats another mysterious death around that case, guys. Certainly raising more questions about whats happening. Fred, thank you. Police in flint city, florida, stole a car with viles of Coronavirus Vaccine inside. 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Fords biggest money maker. Its going to cut the output by up to 20 in the first quarter. It reported it lost 1. 3 billion last year despite a better Fourth Quarter finishing a rough year for the auto industry. Ford making a big bet on electric. It will invest 29 billion in ev. The super bowl is just days away but big sports better and Fantasy Firms are winning big. Sundays game will be the third super bowl since they legalized betting. Fans in two dozen states and d. C. Have the ability to bet on the super bowl online on an app or in person. Draftking and fan duel are dominating. Shares have soared ahead of the game. Draftk draftkings is hoping to reach more customers. Super bowl lv here in tampa. Andy scholes has the Bleacher Report. The super bowl is here. So excited for this matchup. 43yearold tom brady against 25yearold patrick mahomes. Brady looking for the seventh super bowl. Mahomes trying to be the young e est to ever win backtoback. Mahomes was just 6, a first grader. 19 years later theyre set to face off. Brady says if he wins his seventh title the thing hes looking forward to the most is celebrating with his family. Thats the best part about winning is having the people that have helped you get there and supported you there with you there to enjoy it. Some of the best memories ive had in my life were being with my kids right after the super bowl and celebrating with them. I hope we have that experience on sunday. Its going to be a tough game. Im focused on the game trying to win the Second Super Bowl and holding that lombardi trophy and have that second ring. If im at the end of my career and have a lot of super bowl rings, ill be happy. All three of bruce arians coordinators are black. Theyre the only team with two fulltime coaches that are women. Commissioner Roger Goodell giving a state of the league address yesterday, he said hes proud of the nfls Hiring Practices despite the fact that only two minority candidates were hired this off season. I know people want to focus on the head coach, but there are a lot of positives. Three new General Managers that are africanamerican. Theres a lot more diversity in the Coordinator Position also and across the league. There are some real positives to build on and thats what were going to do. Were not satisfied and we feel like we can do better and were going to. All right. Well have much more on the chiefs and the bucks tom in our cnn Bleacher ReportSpecial Kickoff in tampa bay. Coy wire and myself get you ready for the big game. Well be joined by twotime super bowl winner malcolm jenkins, dr. Sanjay gupta tomorrow here at 2 30 on cnn. The nba is going to have an all tar star game sunday, march 7th. Theyre going to hold all of the events, slam dunk contest, three point game in atlanta. Many nba players not happy about trying to hold this event during a pandemic, including lebron james. I have zero energy and zero excitement about an allstar game this year. You know, i dont even understand why were having an allstar game. Pretty much kind of a slap in the face. Were also still dealing with a pandemic. Were still dealing with everything thats been going on and were going to bring the whole league into one city thats open. Yeah. Christine, lebron said if hes selected hell be there physically but not mentally. All right. Andy scholes. Not happy about it. Thanks so much, andy. Super bowl weekend. Laura jarrett, whats your favorite super bowl food . What does Laura Jarrett make . Laura jarrett likes to watch the commercials and eat pizza, chicken. Please do it safely this year. For those enjoying, please follow the advice of health experts. Just you and your immediate family. Maybe a little wine, beer. Thanks for joining us. Im christine romans. Im Laura Jarrett. 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