her full response in just a moment. meantime, the committee has a lot more on their hands. a trove of trump white house documents surrounding the attack. the national archives began turning over those records just hours after the supreme court rejected donald trump s claim that they were protected under executive privilege. and that is not all. there is fresh reporting from the washington post about a coordinated effort led by rudy giuliani to overturn the election results in five key states by helping to justify alternate electors that would cast a state s electoral college votes for trump, not biden. one of the reporters on that piece will tell us how far giuliani went and about the trump electors who refused to go along with him. on that same subject of alternate electors, more breaking news, this out of georgia. the fulton county district attorney has now asked for a special grand jury to investigate any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020
democrats who was in the meeting with president biden, congressman ro khanna is standing by live. and also instagram and what s app are down along with the parent company facebook which is facing fierce criticism over a whistle-blower allegations and evidence of spreading hatred and violence and misinformation. and we ve just received a copy of the testimony that the whistle-blower will give to congress tomorrow. plus new details of former president trump s plans for a 2024 race for the white house. is he already an unofficial candidate? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. let s go straight to capitol hill. our congressional correspondent ryan nobles is joining us. president biden just wrapped up a virtual meeting with key house progressives as part of the on going negotiations to get his multi-trillion dollars economic agenda passed. first of all, what are you learning about wha
admin administered yesterday alone. nearly 70 million americans have gotten at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine, which means one out of five americans has received a shot. this as those $1400 stimulus checks are starting to hit bank accounts. despite the progress being made, thoupds of people are traveling and attending spring break events across the country. many not wearing masks. no protection. masks and social distancing don t seem to be priorities. health officials are warning of the potential consequences. saying the next few weeks will be critical in determining if we ll see another surge. even though the numbers have gone down, over the last couple of weeks, they ve plateaued and when you see a plateau at a level as high as 60,000 cases a day, that is a very vulnerable time to have a surge to go back up. we can avoid that, if we continue to vaccinate people, get more and more protection without all of a sudden pulling back on public health measures. all right.
oversight. more than 100 million administered doses of the covid vaccine. this just in, another mayor development. new calls for the new york governor andrew cuomo to resign. both new york democratic senator, the majority leader chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand saying cuomo should step down after multiple allegations of sexual harassment. let s begin our coverage at the white house. jeff is joining us. the president earlier today, he was cautiously optimistic during his address over in the white house rose garden. what else can you tell us? reporter: cautiously optimistic but optimistic in deed given the last year that america has endured. president biden says he believes this 1.9 trillion dollar bill is historic in transformational for millions of american families. he said the first signs of the stimulus checks will begin arriving in the bank accounts of americans this weekend. even as he says he still has work to do to sell this bill to rest of the country. help is
despite republican efforts to slow down the final vote with a flurry of last-minute objections on the house floor. the bill would create a massive surge of new funding that will send $1,400 checks to tens of millions of americans, provide billions in aid for schools, small businesses, state governments, and the vaccine distribution effort and slash health care premiums for many obamacare recipients. joining me now is nbc s garrett haake on dpl xl. nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander. former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards. and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it s not terribly surprisin