they are controlling the narrative for once. they can put their story forward. they can also say which stories weren t true. and i m comfortable in knowing that we did everything that we could to make it work. oh, my god, we just did everything we could to protect them. president joe biden says the american rescue plan will help the u.s. rebound from the covid-19 pandemic. everything in this package is designed to meet the most urgent needs of the nation. this was never about getting people back to work or kids back to school or the disease behind us. there is an incredibly transformational, frankly progressive piece of legislation. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john be berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day, monday, march 8th, 6:00 here in new york. and the stunning new claims this morning about the royal family by prince harry and meghan markle. in a bombshell two-hour i
shocking statements from the duke and duchess of sussex, known by their earthly names as harry and meghan, in their interview with oprah winfrey, meghan revealing for the first time thoughts of suicide and stunning questions about racism within the royal family. in those months when i was pregnant, all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of, he s not going to be given security, he s not going to be given a title. and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he s born. what? and who who is having that conversation? with you? what? so um there is a conversation hold up! there are several conversations. there s a conversation with you with harry. about how dark your baby is going to be? potentially. and what that would mean or what that would look like. who. and you re not going to tell me who had the conversation? i think that would be very damaging to them. meghan also shared her fe
so isolated that at one point she had suicidal thoughts. this is a day from stepping back if their senior roles in the royal family, harry talks about feeling trapped who at one point charles stopped taking harry s calls, this begs a response from the palace, questions they have to address. cnn anchor max foster live at windsor castle. max, what is the palace saying? reporter: nothing. i haven t heard anything from them so far. i think they are scrambling to come up with a response, if i m honest. they didn t get a preview of this and there was revelation of revelation, after revelation. some of them very difficult to watch, john. i just didn t want to be alive maanymore and that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. reporter: driven to despair by the family she married into and the institution behind it. we had to go to this event. i remember him saying, i don t think you can go. i said, i can t be let alone. because you were afraid of what
The 116th and 117th Congresses passed a series of landmark spending bills focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and infrastructure. More than $5 trillion has been devoted to pandemic relief,.