troubled nation? we re following the latest with rudy giuliani. his law license suspended in the district of columbia just as it was in new york for making, quote, demonstrably false and misleading statements. and we will continue to cover that story. we ve got a lot to dive into this morning, and we ll start with some politics. president biden, in illinois yesterday, to make the case for his two track american families plan. the president, pitching the infrastructure package as a new era in america. and during that trip, president biden called out senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, for touting the american rescue plan during a recent trip to kentucky. the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill passed earlier this year without a single republican vote. here is what the president said, along with mcconnell s comments on the bill earlier this week. mitch mcconnell loves our programs. you see what mitch mcconnell said? so you re going to get a lot more money. i didn t vote
rampant voter fraud in the 2020 election. a lie so hazardous to the democracy that an insurrection at the capitol didn t break the spell. in his op-ed this weekend manchin spesk cli came out against changes to the filibuster that would have allowed democrats to advance legislation with a simple majority vote and manchin didn t just assert that the loyalty to the filibuster is out of a bleefr that it does more good than harm but manchin chose the legislation to make official the declaration of independence from the facts around the gop assault on voting rights at the very moment that president biden signaled the urgency. from the washington post reporting on that it comes as biden intensified his rhetoric against republican-led efforts to restrict voter access at the state level. it also serves as a washing that manchin will not bend despite the pressure to drop his demands for bipartisan deals at a time few seem possible. the reality of this very political moment is somethi
reason why we, as a country, are the envy of the world, because you have decided you ve had enough of the pandemic, you re itching to get out, you re itching to go to, well horse races, you re itching to go to disneyland, now-reopened albeit at limited capacity and you re itching to spend which is why, in the first quarter of the year , we had overall economic growth north of 6.4%. what s going on here? we re going to detail it as well as then take a look at whether an economy that is doing that well needs any help at all from, well, the government. let s explore that now with mark meredith with the president of wilmington, delaware because there s a lot of spending on tap and now growing questions as to whether this economy really needs it. what do you have? reporter: hey, neil good morning to you. that s right. president biden is making it clear he wants to spend a lot of taxpayer money, but getting congress on board with this idea is the big obstacle and there s even repor
so and it goes away. i m looking forward on getting the second one on the day after my birthday, the day after your birthday, may the 3rd. it does make you feel fluy and kind of like at the same time, energetic. i didn t feel energetic. you do feel a sense of joy, a little bit? and the gratitude, of, oh, my god, i can t believe i m sitting here a year after the world shut down that they raced to make this vaccine and i m benefiting from it and this operation is being run so well. so some of that joy and gratitude hopefully takes over the flu symptoms. yeah, no, i absolutely felt like incredible gratitude. it felt like history i really was amazed when i got my first vaccine. and i was talking about it with the nurse and saying, this is incredible, this is history. and she agreed. and it was, you know, kind of like something i ll remember forever. at the same time, the second one is challenging. and you ve got to do it. the thing is, we had a doctor friend tell us