this is new day and it will be an historic day in the u.s. congress. you re looking at live pictures of the u.s. capitol where later this morning, we do expect final passage of the $1.9 trillion relief package. this is a monumental piece of legislation that will have a huge impact. a new round of direct payments, the largest ever to americans, but it does much much more than that. child tax credits, more money for schools and health care on and on. the president will sign it ahead of his first prime-time address to the nation tomorrow night. and then he ll hit the road to sell the plan, which may not be that hard. we have a brand-new cnn poll which shows strong bipartisan support for the bill and especially what s inside it. the president s prime-time address will mark one year since the official start of the pandemic. today, nearly one in ten americans have been fully vaccinated, but there s still a along way to go for herd immunity. and public health officials say peopl
incredible privilege, should they feel an obligation to enhance and build the society they come from? no, they just feel like destroying it. governor greg abbott is defending his decision to lift the statewide mandate. the all the numbers are moving in the right direction. there has to come a time when you begin a return to normalcy. don t stop believing brian: of course, the governor of texas saying what other governors are saying, the governor of connecticut is saying, the governor of maryland is saying, obviously, the governor of florida is saying. there is a time almost a year to the day when we shut down, i think 15 or 5 hours to slow the spread, and it ends up being over a year. and now people like to condemn governors in red states for opening up their state, but it s about time. we re doing well with the vaccines, we re turning the corner when it comes to living with this, we know more. i think that s the spirit which we ve got to put through the country right
it is a priority of the administration. do you believe right now there is a crisis at the border? the answer is no. i think there is a challenge at the border that we re managing. is there a crisis at the border? at this point is this a crisis at the border? we don t have to put new labels on what we ve already conveyed is challenging. is there a challenge at the border? let s go. dana: a couple thoughts there from a communications perspective if i could. definitely think the white house is feeling the heat about the president not being as visible or taking questions. they had him go out yesterday. he is at a hardware store looking around but not answering questions. one of the questions is about the border. they pull it out. today at 12:30 p.m. when jen psaki briefs the press she will bring with her somebody that deals with border security issues because they know they need to have a better answer. if i were jen psaki i would agree i would bring someone else
lawyers that she could have chosen as well as a number of private practitioners that could have signed up as they had more. i don t know mr. wade s prosecution record. but if he has not filed a felony case, then that is an occurrence to have him sitting in this position. and so that begins to draw up questions. and you also look at information that s coming out. because of this and what s happening, we are seeing his bilge records. so it is giving people on the trump side something to hold on to, things with meeting for the biden council. and about what discussion she might have had with the feds about that case. she has not come out to address
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