good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and leading lifestyles that mirror the rich and famous. biden s words
zone. dr. fauci s right. the pandemic is not over. and even when it is the mental health effects of it could be with us for a long time. we put your questions to a clinical psychologist in tonight s installment of dear doctor. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. well, we are making progress getting america closer to 4erd immunity as our national vaccination effort accelerates. yesterday 4.6 million doses were administered nationwide. that s a new high point. way up from 2.9 million shots last week. so far the u.s. has given more than 107 million shots. the seven-day rolling average is more than 2.5 million per day. about a fifth of americans have received at least one dose. as shots are going in arms, checks are going in the mail, or direct deposit. you can check for your stimulus payment on the irs s website. go to irs.gov/coronavirus and then click on the get my payment tool to see if you re eligible for this stimul
was so desperately needed, urgently needed. this plan is going to make it possible to cut child poverty in half. i m going to succeed. we re going to succeed moving forward. look, the american people strongly support this. that s the key here. as someone who spent the entire primary campaign criticizing joe biden, this weekend, the president did what i thought he couldn t, or just wouldn t, by getting results on what undeniably is the most pro-worker, anti-poverty accomplishment by an american president since lyndon johnson. don t take my word for it. listen to the senate budget committee chair, a certain bernie sanders, who called it, quote, the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country. and he s right. i mean, how else to describe a bill that halves child poverty. halves it, thanks to $1400 direct payments, survival checks, a typical family of four gets $5600 in new payments or $7600 in new payments if you th
for their rights, among the first to ever beat isis on the battlefield. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson, welcome to the week. president biden s covid package is one big step closer to becoming law. but what s after that? how will democrats govern with republican support uncertain at best? it could depend on this senator, democrat joe manchin of west virginia. the stimulus package has smaller unemployment packets to gain his support, not $400 per person but $300. even with his support, there s getting over republican filibuster in future. takes every democrat and ten republicans to stop it. has a number of democrats calling to end of the filibuster. more you learn about them, easier it is to see why. they re not nearly as hard as they once were, if you re thinking of mr. smith goes to washington, jimmy stewart talking continuously, that s old-fashioned. today you just email the floor leader, no stamina required. emerged after the senat
thank you for watching, we ll be right back here next sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern as ever and catch me monday through thursday, 7:00 p.m. eastern live on the choice on nbc streaming channel peacock now to hand it over to my friend ayman, before i go, i must ask you, what do you make of the circus around djokovic and the australia open, now deported after being not vaccinated and false information on his visa form, depraved himself of a possible victory at the australia open because he doesn t want to get vaccinate. happen. i m glad the saga is over, but for me, it highlights the hypocrisy and the privilege that certain people think they have that the rest of society don t