january, this might not be happening at all. after a lot of democratic internal wrangling, the bill passed the senate over the weekend with exactly zero votes from the house. president biden said he would sign it as soon as he gets it, and the legislation could not be more urgently needed, as he indicated over the weekend. we took office 45 days ago. i promised the american people help was on the way. today i can say we ve taken one more giant step forward in delivering on that promise, that help was on the way. today the white house said the $1400 checks included in the plan could start going out by the end of the month. make no mistake, this bill is massive. it stands to help millions and millions of americans who have been economically crippled by a near year-long pandemic. the bill spends most of the money on the american people, describing it as the most generous form of aid ever going out. more than 93% of children, 69 million, would receive benefits under the plan.
liberals, and white republicans who voted for barack obama, there was a sense he would mean we re past that period in our history and he would sort of wave a wand over the united states and declare us all now healed. neither of those expectations were fully met. i think that s why we have this ongoing conflict in conversation. the book tracks the democratic party s makeup from the civil rights movement all the way to the bill clinton presidency. hillary clinton, what s her role in all this? it s interesting, because hillary has had the biggest swing in her character arc as a public figure. she starts out as the goldwater girl republican teenager, then she becomes this feminist, very liberal powerful female figure in her young life as a college student. really swings all the way to the left. and then we get to the 1990s, and she is now the wife of a president of the united states whose career path was really framed by moving the democratic party to the right. by rebuking jesse jacks
movement. and there are others who say you scant do that, because you re going to come off as the angry black man. it s unfortunate when you re an individual that breaks barriers, sometimes you have to do it in a way that is different from the way someone else whose people have been in that room before. true with a person of color, with women. again, we hear all the time, if a man acted like this, he would get promoted. if a woman acts like this, she would be considered a you know what. you re talking about a longer game which is something you write about in the article as well? absolutely. for me, people of prominence or people i admire from the civil rights movement all the way back through slavery. having spent many years, four years researching this individual and what he went through for the film 12 years a slave. and what i went through, and he had to believe in something that was not even seen. so when i look back at
from the civil rights movement all the way back to slavery, and having spent many years, i mean, truly about four years researching this individual solemn and what he went through you mean for 12 years a slave. for the film 12 years a slave, and what he went through and the fact that he had to believe in something that was not even sane. so, when i look back at individuals who could see something that did not exist in any way, shape or form, when i look at the president and see that he has a long-range vision, i m very impressed by that. so, again, there are moments where i get very frustrated. i m like, come on, man, do this, do that, but clearly, this is an individual, just in terms of the politicking of politics and how to weave his way around some of the anger, some of the rancor, he certainly has an understanding of how he needs to present himself. john ridley, thank you very much. thanks. up next, a deadly plant explosion in omaha, nebraska. plus plus, police say a
movement. and there are others who say you scant do that, because you re going to come off as the angry black man. it s unfortunate when you re an individual that breaks barriers, sometimes you have to do it in a way that is different from someone else whose people have been in the room before. true with a person of color, with women. if a man acted like this he would get promoted. if a woman acts like this, she would be considered a you know what. you re talking about a longer game which is something you write about in the ashl as well? absolutely. people from the civil rights movement all the way back to slavery, having spent four years researching this individual and what he went through for the film 12 years a slave. and what i went through, and he had to believe in something that was not even seen. when i look back at individuals who could see something that did not exist in anyway shape or