the president will announce the u.s. is buying another 100 million doses and bring you his remarks live when they start. moments ago, the senate confirmed merrick garland to be u.s. attorney general by 70-30 with republican leader mitch mcconnell voting yes after he spent close to a year blocking garland s 2016 nomination to the supreme court. earlier today the senate confirmed marcia fudge who last vote as a member of congress would be passing the relief which cull if i mated in this moment on the house floor. yay are 220. the nays are 211. the motion is adopted. joining us now to start the coverage as we await the president, punch bowl news founder anna palmer and mike memoli covering the white house. the covid relief bill heading to the president s desk to be signed this friday. wasn t too long ago i recall and correct me if i m wrong the chief of staff saying that they expected to be signing this early march. here we are. the president expected to sign it and we re on
bipartisan effort. utah and west virginia. that s going on. that is going on at the same time over on the house today, they began marking up the surface transportation bill in the infrastructure transportation committee. this is a half-trillion dollar bill right now. and they just passed the innovation and competition act, $250 billion, described as part one of the biden jobs act. and one or more will hit that bait. so you see it as flooding the zone, something has to get through. but the big ticket item, the infrastructure bill. you say they ll do it piece by piece? they may have to. i think they re going in every way that they can to try to get this through. again, i think the only way to get to 50 is to get caught
one of the biden jobs act. and one or more will hit that b bait. so you see it as flooding the zone, something has to get through. but the big ticket item, the infrastructure bill. you say they ll do it piece by piece? they may have to. i think they re going in every way that they can to try to get this through. again, i think the only way to get to 50 is to get caught trying to get to 60. i don t think they ll ever make it. i don t think the republicans will negotiate in good faith. but they ll play out that string. i think they ve only got nine or ten weeks. if they don t have something by august, then they re in real trouble. i have no reason to doubt president biden s relationships. but i have every reason to doubt
apparently spotting him, even parking at the dead end of their street, apparently watching and waiting and then took off for a few hours and she came back when she obviously thought the coast was clear and that s when he was able to serve her. it was a lawful service. and mo brooks is now in the case. cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers joins us now to diss c discuss this. now that congressman brooks has served what happens next? he has to answer the complaint, his lawyers will answer all the allegations in the complaint of course mostly with denials but presumably some facts as well. and then it s time for motions and discovery. that s really the big ticket item here, it s the reason, i think why representative swalwell filed the case in the first place to get discovery in terms of depositions and interrogatories to learn exactly what happened on january 6th. if brooks feels he was improperly served is there anything he can do legally?