and correspondent shaquille brewster. so shaquille, $27 million. >> reporter: $27 million. and that was just approved unanimously by city council. this was a regularly scheduled meeting that they had, but we started to get indications that something was in the works when a late agenda item was add he had. we saw that it was involving the estate of george floyd. and counsel had a closed session and then announced that $27 million settle little. we know the family of breonna taylor, their family received $12 million in louisville.littl. we know the family of breonna taylor, their family received $12 million in louisville. the city of minneapolis gave out about $20 million for the family of the australian woman killed several years ago. and now george floyd and his family getting $27 million. we also see in a statement from the city counsel and from the floyd family that 500,000 will be dedicated to the community where he was killed, to that intersection, i'm sure you have seen me report from that intersection, an area that is still blocked off to this day with a large memorial,flowers, commemorations for george floyd. and we know that the family attorney benjamin crump responded, and i want to read a little bit from the interview, initial reaction to what the city council and the act be the city council has taken. thisis crump he says that they showed his life mattered by his actions and it not only -- it represents not only does george floyd matter to them but black lives matter to them. and this is the highest amount ever paid in a civil rights wrongful death in u.s. history. we know that again the high water mark if you look at it historically is about $38 million in a national sense, but still a significant amount of money. and if you give me a few more moments here, i want to bring in andre, we're outside of the courthouse where of course the trial for derek chauvin is taking place. you've seen the fencing and barbed wire. andre has been out here in the rain, the cold, protesting, sometimes waving a flag. you heard me report the news, $27 million. what is your reaction? >> when i first heard it, it was astonishing. $27 million. so i'm astonished to hear it. but at the same time, the only way that that can become a credible amount is with a guilty verdict out of that very building behind me. without that guilty verdict, take money is nothing. >> thank you so much and talking with me. and you hear that again, jury selection is under way. that is something that we're watching. i believe the court is in recess right now, but that jury selection process in the trial of derek chauvin, that is still happening as the settlement is taking place. >> i know at love people around the country feel exactly the same way without a guilty verdict, that money means nothing. shaquille brewster, thanks for joining us. we'll go to reverendal sharpton in a few minute. and president biden's rose garden event to tout the passage of his relief bill. and he will celebrate one of the major reasons to have hope, $1.9 trillion in aid with those $1400 checks, starting to go out this weekend. according to treasury secretary janet yellen. the other reason to have hope, was at his primetime speech last night promising all american adults will be eligible to get a vaccine by may 1. hopefully even sooner according to his press secretary jen psaki. key word is eligible. it means that you will be able to sign up, not that even will get one by may 1. some states though are already ahead of that curve. michigan announced that it will open eligibility to all adults on april 5. and alaska as already done that. the president is dangling a carrot in front of the american public and that carrot is july 4th. if we abide by public health guidance, if we continue wear mask, if we keep on social distancing, then we can have small get-togethers with our family and friends and our backyards for a barbecue on july 4th without masks. but again, joe biden saying that it all comes down to to us. joining me now is kelly o'donnell. also dr. van gupta. and also dr. paul ofet. everyone welcome. so kelly, in doing this rose garden signing, he is having a celebratory moment from what we saw last night. what more should we expect from the president? >> these are staged events that are a reason to draw coverage and keep a conversation going. so the white house is beginning what is now an education and information stage. it has been passed. the political fight is over and what is next is about explaining to the public what is in it in terms of specific benefits that they may receive and bigger picture benefits for state, vaccine and availability and all the different component parts. and certainly politically democrats want to celebrate this moment that the accomplishment was achieved, the first big piece oflegislation. but also the president is trying to get the american public buy-in. last night he talked about the president meeting each american citizen to do his or her part to follow these guidelines, to achieve the goal that you outlined, the idea that there would be sort of sanctioned backyard get together-togethers. certainly there are those who do it regardless of the rules. but he is trying to get people excited to give people a sense of what is the expectation of time line. if people continue to follow the mitigation steps and get vaccinated when it is your turn. and that is why the may 1 deadline is important. it lifts the restrictions based on age or personal health or job description. and says any adult who is interested in getting the vaccine would be eligible come may 1 with the white house directing states do that. and trying then to ramp up some of the pieces that we'll hear more about from the administration in the days ahead about how that they are trying to facilitate more federally assumed community places where people can get the shots, and also ways for people to find their appointments both online and using a phone bank for those who don't have easy access to the internet. >> dr. gupta, it is ambitious that everyone will be eligible by may 1. then again, this white house does know a thing or two about politics. they know -- jen jen psaki even saying that they could do it sooner. so is this easy or will therebe some challenges? >> good afternoon. you know, you through the distinction appropriately up front, you said that there is a difference between eligibility and when this reality will actually set in and people at least hopefully 75% to 80% of the country adult aged eligible population gets vaccinated. we don't expect that likely to occur end of june or early july. but we'll get better with the max clinics, we'll get better with scheduling. we know it has been difficult. but those things will smooth out and i think that it will get easier and i think that it is achievable by the end of june. >> what are the numbers like for these get-togethers once we are able to have them, is it five people, ten people, 20? are we expecting to get more concrete guidelines on that? >> cdc, those guidance, the guidance that was released a few days ago, that is a living set of guidelines and they know that they will be updating them once more people have vaccines in arms, you will see guidance on travel, because they know that people want to travel, you will see guidance on what is an appropriate crowd size. we all recognize that once vaccines are out there, people will demand it and guidance will follow. >> and something that jen psaki was asked about, which is why purchase additional doses of johnson & johnson when it seems like everyone will be able to be covered by the vaccines, all documents at least, with what we already have in stock. she said that it was for trials for children or saving for children once the trials are finished. talk to me about that because i know that parents will certainly be nervous to get their kids one of these vaccines. >> first of all, these vaccines will be studied in children before they are approved for emergency use authorization. right now they have already fully recruited trials for the pfizer and moderna vaccines down to 12 years of age. they are in the midst of doing trials down to six years of age. and so i think that we probably will have vaccines for at least the over 12-year-old by the beginning of the summer, probably have vaccines through the 6 to 12-year-old by the end of the summer. those studies will include anywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 children and you will know the dose and so i think that parents can be comfortable that these vaccines will work and be safe. >> and then what about the variants that are out there? the uk variant, pfizer vaccine apparently does well against it, so waiting on data from moderna and johnson & johnson. but what about the south african variant? >> the virus that left china was the first variant are. that is what swept across europe and country. all the vaccines that have been what are all made to prevent the d 614 g variant. the question is will it also prevent the uk variant. and i think that the answer is yes, it will prevent severe disease. which is good. right now we haven't crossed that line. the line gets crossed when people who have either been nationally infected or are hospitalized with a new variant, and then we're talking about a second generation vaccine. we're not there yet. >> everybody, thank you for starting us off today. and with me now is democratic senator michael bennett. he has push for the expansion of the child tax credit which is now signed in to law with this deal. senator, thank you very much for being here. lots in this bill. billions for local and state governments for schools, but also again this child tax credit. this is essentially your proposal. you have essentially been working on this for years. what will it mean? >> it will mean that we'll cut childhood poverty in america by almost 50%. it will mean that moms and dads who are struggling to pay for housing, for health care, for higher education, early childhood education or struggling to save or struggling to put a college fund together, that they will have a little bit of help finally from their federal government. and i think that it will make a big difference to a lot of people's lives. in colorado alone, a million kids will benefit from this, 57,000 kids will be lifted out of poverty in colorado. over 10 million kids across the country. and i think that the long term benefits of that for this country are going to be enormous. we have one of the highest childhood poverty rates of any industrialized country in the world. and hopefully this is the beginning of changing that. >> so you used to be the superintendent of schools in denver. tell me about how your background there informs your knowledge of child poverty and what it means for kids as they grow up. >> yeah, in denver most of the kids are kids of color and kids living in poverty and their parents are working two and three jobs, you know. and they are killing themselves. that is what they would say. we're killing ourselves. and no matter what we do, we can't get our kids out of poverty. so you start to lose faith that the american dream is rule and that the country is the land of opportunity. and kids have much morse educational outcomes as a result. but if you can lifts kids out of poverty, give them some support, then there is nothing that they can't accomplish. and so my goal is to end childhood poverty in america. i think that the richest country in the world ought to be able to do that. but i feel really grateful that president biden made this a real priority and go did you say. is this it is an amazing step forward. >> if you are single, you get $1400 if you make $75000. and a couple, $150,000. and some say that it is not fair. any consideration given to that? >> that is true. the idea is that trying to figure out what income threshold to turn off the child benefit. and income threshold agreed to was $75,000 for single parents, $150,000 for married parents. that is the consistent with the threshold that was used for the checks. and i understand it is part -- my bill actually has had a slightly higher threshold before we have had the cut off. but again as we get into the conversation about making the tax credit permanent which i think that we'll have right after this, that will be part of the discussion i'm sure. >> let me ask about that because this lasts for a year. i know you want to make it permanent. do you expect to get any republican support, will it pass again through recreconciliation? >> and let me mention also, this is an incredibly progressive piece of legislation because the amount that you get for your kid, which is $3,000 for kids over the age of 6, doesn't change at all. so the poorer you are, the greatest the benefit in terms of your income. whereas a lot of things that the government does with taxes like home mortgage deductions or philanthropic deductions, the rick richer you are the better off you are. and this is not the way it works. i saw polling yesterday that overall the polling for the bill was very strong. this provision 95% of democrats support and 73% of republicans support. i've been working with mitt romney over the years on different versions of the child tax credit. he has now put out his own very generous proposal. i have disagreements with him about how he pays for that. but directionally, he has made a very important step forward and i'd hope that we could get bipartisan support to make it permanent. >> senator bennett, thank you very much for joining us. and congratulations to getting the meat of what you have been proposing for years passed in this bill. and still ahead, how much longer can governor cuomo hang on as dozens -- or a dozen, excuse me, house democrats including sean patrick maloney, jerry nadler and aoc are now asking him to resign? 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been selected. five men and one woman with ten more to go. they will have a new charge to consider as well. third agree murder. that was reinstated. joining me now is rverend al sharpton.dagree murder. that was reinstated. joining me now is reverend al sharpton.eagree murder. that was reinstated. joining me now is reverend al sharpton.gree murder. that was reinstated. joining me now is reverend al sharpton. your reaction to $27 million. >> it is a historic figure but well deserved. i've worked on this particular case with the family, i did the unity at george's funerals and so i got to know his children and grandchildren. and you must remember the human side of this, they removed a man who had children, who was dependent on him. that had grandchildren that could have depended on him. so this gives some level of income that would deal with what his life could have been. and it is also a recognition of the city being part of the problem. we must remember that chauvin and these policemen were employed by the city and doing city work when they killed george floyd. and it will come out in the criminal trial, had a litany of complaints against him and he was still on the force. so the city has culpability here and i think that they properly settled this and the fact that it is for this big amount, look at what they took in terms of the life of a man who had really at best was accused of something of having a $20 bill that they don't know whether he knew or didn't know that it was supposed to be counterfeit and they put a knee on his neck for almost 9 minute and killed him. how do you value that human life. >> and za shaq brewster was talg to a man outside the courtroom and he said that that money means nothing without a conviction. the pressure surroundings people involved in this trial is immense. when i think about on what i could compare to, it is the riots in los angeles. it is o.j. >> well, i think that the fact that the man outside the courtroom said what the family has said, that all the money in the world they settled for would mean nothing if they don't get justice. you can't pay for the right to kill us. you can't pay for the right to put a knee on someone's neck for 9 minutes. and i think that when we look at this kind of tension, we should not think of riot, we should also think of the riot that was on the neck of george floyd. many people are calling me saying, reverend, will there violence like there was that killed george floyd. i'm concerned about there being some way that they are not criminally held responsible for lynching by knee george floyd. that is the violence i'm concerned about. we certainly don't condone or call for any violence regardless of the verdict. but we're saying let's deal with the violence that we know that did than, not just the violence that people hope won't happen. >> i don't mean necessarily the violence, i mean with the rodney king beating which was caught on camera, everybody saw it, the injustice that many felt was served with the acquittal of those officers involved, given this was also caught on camera and it started a public outcry that far surpassed anything that we saw, with the entire nation taking to the streets to protest what has been a problem that is a long time building, the pressure surrounding this regardless of -- i'm not talking about violence afterwards. the pressure surrounding this is immense. >> no doubt about it. and i've been talking about the people that would call me telling me call for peace. and we know exactly where your journalist i think things have been. but when i think of rodney king and i was involved with rodney king, the difference -- and i'm homing that it will make a difference, with the rodney king case, they moved the trial of those policemen to simi mal have i valley and got acquittal and this is in minneapolis where it happened. and then we had to go to federal court and we did some some convictions though, but i think it was nowhere near the 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both respond out and keep the public safe. last night president biden laid out the path to the end of the tunnel. and today he will talk about tackling the pandemic and also the staggering level of poverty. and with about this bill, the poorest 20 percent will see their even come rise by 20%. there is the president right now. child poverty will be cut right n. half. the new york times calls it the biggest anti-poverty effort in a generation. and as we await the president to take the podium, he is slapping right now -- let's listen in. >> thank you to our great president, joe biden, our speaker nancy pelosi and special round of applause for all the senate and house members who are here and those who are not, it couldn't have happened without all of you working as a team. so thank you very much. it has been a long and difficult year in america. we've lost so many. and in so short a time. but finally hope is on the horizon and help is on the way. what do we say to america? help is on the way. help is on the way. you will receive your $1400 checks in a few weeks. help is on the way. people are being vaccinated more quickly and more effectively than we ever managed. help is on the way. half the children in america will no longer be in poverty. and help is on the way, our schools will open more quickly and more safely than anyone has ever thought. we democrats made promises. we made promises in georgia. we made promises in the country. we said, if we gained the senate, content the house and elected the president, we would finally get things done and get us out of this covid crisis. and we are on the road to success. help is on the way. this is a wonderful day for america. this is the most significant piece of legislation in so many ways in decades. and we are just getting started. help is on the way. thank you, everybody. >> good afternoon. good afternoon in the rose garden. thank you, mr. president. madame vice president.honored t and i join chuck schumer in acknowledging our members who are here, members of leadership, because without all of you, this would not have happened. and it certainly would not have handed without joe biden as president of the united states. mr. president, everybody is complimenting us and every time i say i accept on behalf of the house democrats. and of the staff of the house democrats. and i know of the senate staff as well. they worked so very, very hard. but let me say this about my members. imagination, works with the senate colleagues. i say the beautiful diversity of the members. and i say to them, our diversity is our strength. our unity is our power. and in this bill, our diversity to protect everyone in our country, toend the disparity and access to everything that the bill presents, our diversity was rejected in the house and senate. but unity on behalf of all of the american people is what tha made this such a triumph of. whatever differences as there may have been, certain exub ranlss here and there, we all-new new our purpose. and we were unified for the children, for their health, their education, yes, is this a great day to be in the rose garden and to have us be able to fulfill the promise that president biden has made all along. that help is on the way. promise fulfilled. thank you, mr. president biden. >> thank you, madame speaker and mr. majority leader. and america. the president promised help is on the way. and today, help has arrived. help has arrived for the workers who lost their jobs, help has arrived for the students who have been stuck at home. help has arrived for the families that have strug willinged to put food on their table. and small businesses who have struggled to keep their doors open, help has arrived, america. that landmark legislation will give relief to families and make sure more shots get in arms. and i want to thank nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and all of the members of congress who voted for this legislation and helped lead to its success. and of course we would not be here today were it not for the leadership of our president joe biden. from the beginning joe said we have to tell the story, we have to show that we understand what the people are experiencing and what they need. i've been in rooms when they just he and i or a small group and the cameras are there and he is the same person every time. and he always talk about what do the people need. and when president and i were preparing to take office, we knew what we were up against, so we started working on a plan, this plan, the american rescue plan, and mr. president, from the very start, you sought the people out, you asked them as only joe can do, how are you doing, you listened to what they said, and you remembered what they said. and every day in every meeting, you reminded us who we were doing this for. the american people. and in particular, the american people who were hurting the most. the workers who have been out of a job for six months to a year, the families that lost a loved one, the communities that have been apart. you have carried a card in your breast pocket with the number of those americans who have died from covid-19. every day he carries that card. literally keeping their memory close to your heart. you have grieved, mr. president, outloud with our nation, mourning the loss of so many extraordinary americans. yourempathy has become a trademark and can be found on each and every page of the american rescue plan. joe biden, you had a purpose, and you had faith that would support that plan. you had faith that congress would pass this plan simply because it is the best thing for the american people. and you put in the work to make it happen. to get relief directly to the american people. and we both served in the senate so we know that there is rarely a bill that is so concrete and tangible. mr. president, people will feel and they will see what we all did here. they will see the checks in their bank accounts, they will see the child tax credits when they file their tax, when they return to work or school, when then hug their grand children for the first time in a year. americans will see what you did. and they will feel the impact of this bill for jen races to come. and that is what happens when you make historic investments, that is it what happens when you lift half of those children living in poverty out of poverty. because of you help has arrived and on behalf of our nation, thank you. and it is now great, great honor to introduce the president of the united states, joe biden. >> good afternoon. thank you, kamala. when i look out over what happened when jill and i had the chance to move into this magnificent building behind you, i promised the america people and i guess it is becoming an overused phrase that help is on the way. but today with the american rescue plan now signed into law, we've delivered on that promise and i don't mean that i've delivered, we've delivered. lack out there on all of you. there are still kids in poverty if it were not for all the work that you did. and i want to say to bernie, you made a big difference in how a lot of people voted. i look at at the house members who have made the case to the american people why this is so important. i watch my buddy jim done down in south carolina talk about how it will effect individual people. my clination is it to mention every single one of you.will ef. my inclination is it to mention every single one of you. i want to thank you all. i want to thank particularly the speaker who from day one, from the very first day, i got the nomination was supportive in ways that are hard for me to describe. and you know, i served a long time in the united states senate, longer than anybody other than pat. and if you were still in the senate, i'd, pro temp because i was two years ahead of pat. but all kidding aside, i never saw anybody handle such a controversial piece of legislation right on the edge than chu chuck schumer. you made it happen. i notice how hard it is to pass it is to pass legislation particularly when we only have small majoritities. and i agree with many, what you shepherded through the congress, not only meets the moment, it does even more. it is historical and they call it front formation al. and it really is. the bill wassupported by the american people. and had a strong support of governors and mayors across the country. both parties red states and blues, over 430 mayors contacted me supporting the bill. and here is why. because what you all did with it in the resignments you made, it directly addressed the emergency in this country. because it focuses on what people need most. we often talked about how you have to tell people in explain straightforward language what it is you are doing to help. you have to be able to tell a story and why it matters. because it will make a difference in the lives of millions ever people and very concrete specific ways. this legislation will provide $1400 in direct payments which we all promised. and that means for typical family of four, middle class family, making $110,000, that means a $5800 check that they will be getting and a lot of you know what that can mean. think of the millions of people going to sleep thinking my god, what am i going to do tomorrow? i've lost my health care. i don't have a job. unemployment runs out. i'm behind in my mortgage. what am i going to do? well, guess what, they will be getting that check soon either by direct deposit or a check from the treasury. and they will get it some as early as this weekend. it provides resources needed to open our schools. how long of you have dealt not only in your own home or with your children and grandchildren if you have them, with how difficult it is, the mental pressure and stress on so many families, so many people needing help the if they had being is he is access to counseling. this legislation extends unemployment insurance by $300 a week. and it will help 11 million americans who were days from losing their americans who were days from losing that benefit. this is the biggest investment in childcare since world war ii. that's not hyperbole. it's a fact. it's a fact. it provides help for small businesses to stay open. and you know, so many have had to close because the first time around, you all worked and did a great piece of work and the house passed significant legislation. what's the first thing the last president, he fired the folks who were supposed to watch and make sure it got in fact distributed the way it was supposed to. so much went to people who didn't need it. you all took care of that. it extends coverage and lowers health care costs for so many americans. so many americans. and it is a big number for people. it provides for food and nutrition. because people know, and you were all out there handing out food like many of us were. you saw people who were in car lines that were literally miles long. you would see four lanes of cars that went back for half a mile each just to get a box of food. again, through no fault of their own. it will help people keep a roof over their heads. half a million haven't been able to make their mortgage payments. about to be thrown out of their apartments. have to make up all that they owe. and those mom and pop realtors are in real trouble. it will cut child poverty in half. i've talked to so many of you. rosie, you and i have spent so much time talking about this. it is finally coming to fruition. and the american people understand it. it pays for many of the steps we've taken to vaccinate americans. we're going to be in a position where because of what you all did and passed, we had the money to go out and literally purchase hundreds of millions of vaccines. and then go out and make sure we had enough vaccinators. vaccines are one thing. to get it out of that vial and into someone's arm took tens of thousands of people. and because of you, we were able to mobilize the military. we were able to mobilize fema. i was able to allow former doctors and nurses to come back and engage in this activity. and one of the things that we said in the beginning that no one thought that i was being straight about was i said, this will create, we have to spend this money to make sure we have economic growth, unrelated to how much it will help people. guess what? every single major economist out there, left, right and center supported this plan. even wall street agreed. according to moody's, for example, by the end of this year, this law alone will create 7 million new jobs. 7 million. and the bill says one more thing which i think is really important. it changes the paradigm. for the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this nation first. it's not hyperbole. it's a fact. for too long, it has been the folks at the top. they're not bad folks. a significant number know they shouldn't have been getting the tax breaks they've had. but it put the richest americans first. we've all heard it. specially the last 15 years, the theory was, cut taxes and those at the top and the benefits they get will trickle down to everyone. well, you saw what trickle down does. we've known it for a long time. this is the first time we've been able since the johnson administration, maybe even before that, to begin to change the paradigm. we've seen time and time again that that trickle down does not work. by the way, we don't have anything against wealthy people. you have a great idea, go out and make millions of dollars, that's fine. i have no problem with that. but guess what. you've got to pay your fair share. you've got to pay because guess what? folks making, living on the edge, they're paying. and so again, all it has done is make those at the top richer in the past. and everyone else has fallen behind. this time it's time that. we build an economy that grows from the bottom up and the middle out. this bill shows when you to that, everybody does better. the wealthy do better. everybody across the board. if that's our foundation, then everything we build upon will be strong. a strong foundation. our competitiveness around the world, the jobs here at home, the health and quality of our lives. that's what the american rescue plan represents. and it is all about rebuilding what i've been saying, bernie and a lot of others are saying, the back bone of this country. the back bone of this country are hard working folks. hard working folks. middle class folks. people who built the country. and i might add, i think unions built the middle class. and it's about creating opportunity and giving people a fair shot. that's really all and everything it's about. in the coming weeks, jill and i and kamala and doug and our cabinet with all of you, members of congress, we'll be traveling the country to speak directly to the american people about how this law will make a real difference in their lives and how help is here for them. almost every single aspect will be significant. if you took pieces of this bill and broke it into all the pieces, every one of those pieces standing alone would be viewed as a significant accomplishment. but it's all the work you've done for years to try to get us there. this law is not the end of it. i view it as only the beginning. look, one of the things that i would be most worried about, and i think you have, too, especially those of us who have been around for a hundred years like me, you've watched people lose confidence in government. just lose confidence that we tell the truth. that's why when i announced, i quoted franklin roosevelt. he said i'll give it straight to you from the shoulder. the american people can handle anything if you tell them the truth. and they really can. just give it straight from the shoulder. and when we do something right, we're going to make a case for it. when i make a mistake, i'll own up to it and say it was me. i made a mistake. and i said last night, this is not over. conditions can change. we're not finished yet. conditions can change. the scientists have warned us about new variants of this virus. and the devil is in the details of implementing this legislation. i know from experience, from the president turned to me like i haven't done to the vice president yet and that, take care of it. you take care of the plan. she could do it. but i remember being, given the dubious distinction of having to implement the recovery act back when we came into office. barack and i. i spent literally four or five hours a day for six months. i talked to over 160 mayors, probably more than two or three times, every governor save one who was looking at from alaska to russia, and making sure that we're in a situation where we talk to everybody. it takes, the devil is in the details. it is one thing to pass the american rescue plan. it will be another thing to implement it. it will require fastidious oversight to make sure there is no waste or fraud and the law does what it is designed to do. and i mean it. we have to get this right. details matter. because we have to continue to build confidence in the american people that the government can function for them and deliver. so there is a lot of work for all of us left to do. but i know we'll do it. to every american watching, help is here and we will not stop working for you. together with you, we are showing it's possible to get big, important things done. that's what america does. it tackles hard problems. and how we do, look, it's how we do have it within ourselves to come out of this moment which we've been saying, a lot of us have been saying for a long time, more prosperous, more united and stronger than when we went in. that's what we'll be able to do. and it is really critical. it is really critical to demonstrate, not democrat/republican. it is critical to demonstrate that government can function, can function and deliver prosperity, security, and opportunity for the people in this country. and as my grandfather used to kiddingly say with the grace of god, the good neighbors and the creek not rising, that's exactly what we're going to do. god bless you all. thank you for all you did and may god protect our troops. thank you. i wish i could come out and shake hands with every one of you. next time we won't be so far apart. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. appreciate it. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the president and stage participants have departed. good afternoon, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin in new york.