Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this mornin
thousands of actors are set to hit the picket line for the first time in over 40 years. the joint board of the screen actors guild and television and radio artist unanimously approved the action after tense negotiations suddenly broke down. the strike officially began at midnight and coalition of 160 s, are000 actors will join the picket lines since may. now face major delays. biggest stars are showing support for the actors strike. the cast of oppenheimmer, the film s director said the cast left the event to write their picket signs. fran drescher says industry, greed and artificial intelligence are the main reasons for the walk-out. we had no choice. we are the victims here. we are being victimized by a very greedy entity. i am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. i cannot believe it, quite frankly. how far apart we are on so many things. if we don t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble. we are all going
And conservatives dont want to be around each other and so they have to spread out, you may not see this from like the ivory towers of your law school, but it makes the actual people in this country when the president calls you dont get to interrupt me on this time. Let me also suggest that when you invoke the president s sons name here. When you try to make a little joke out of referencing trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean. It makes you look like youre attacking someones family. The minor child of the president of the United States. So lets see if we can get into the facts, to all of the witnesses. If you have personal knowledge of a single Material Fact in the schiff report, please raise your hand. And let the record reflect no personal knowledge of a single fact. And you know what . That continues on the tradition that we saw from adam schiff where ambassador taylor could not identify an Impeachable Offense. Mr. Kent never met with the
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of the clinton trial. the american people do not have time on that, do not lecture us how we cook or drive or get to work to put food on our table that he enjoys from the back seat of a private jet. harris: do you need a private jet to pass a message if the message is whole and should be something the world can do? kayleigh: no, greta thunberg. he is so smug, no wonder he became president. douglas murray honed in on his staff, of 45 people, the same size as office to defeat isis. do we need john kerry? no. okay. harris: why does he need all those people to do the job. kayleigh: yeah. harris: what about being a
withheld from ukraine as he tried to get them to investigate joe biden and his son, hunter, reporting the secretary of state and john bolton lobbied the president in the oval office saying you need to let this go forward and this is good for america that ukraine gets its military aid, he disregarded them. what does that tell you? that tells you this was donald trump s decision and his alone. it won t work to blame it on pompeo or rudy guilliani or anyone else. how do you prove that if you don t hear from john bolton? that s why we need a real trial and real witnesses. i trust our colleagues on the senate side will render faithful constitutional service by making sure there s a real trial. those cabinet members you mentioned urging the president to let the money go through as he was legally obliged to do, money adopted by congress, approved by congress, went