This is separate from the 1. 9 trillion stimulus plan that already has at least one key democrat balking. First, lets get the very, very latest from Mark Meredith at the white house right now. Same house, different occupant, i guess. Reporter neil, were still here also. President biden getting right to work this week signing multiple executive orders focused on a number of different issues from the environment to immigration policies as well as the my. On friday the president having a chance to sign two executive orders he says he hopes will focus on helping americans that are still struggling during this pandemic, one on increasing federal Food Assistance for low income americans, the other on developing ways to increase the minimum wage up to 15 an hour. The president says these executive orders are not going to be enough alone, he wants congress to pass that 1. 9 trillion stimulus package. On the covid19 package that passed in december as a first step, as i said at the time, its jus
His memory we celebrate today. At least 13 of them died. Much of the capital was leveled and it stayed that way. Blocks of trouble for decades. If you were in washington in the 1990s, you remember what it looks like. The interaction of january 6th was much worse than any of that. A Police Officer was hit in the head by riders, then later had a stroke and died at a local hospital. An unarmed protester was shot by authorities. A woman may have been trampled to death by the crowd. As of tonight, those are the three casualties we can confirm from the riot Capitol Building on january 6th. In response to that, our leaders have assembled the Largest Military presence in washington in all of american history. In 1864 as the civil war raged on the other side, americans died every day in large numbers in battle. There were fewer federal troops protecting washington, d. C. , than there are tonight. And its truly a national forest. The guardsmen you see in washington come from every state as well
With more on all of that. Hey, peter. Neil, good afternoon. Heres something that we dont say every day. President biden and Mitch Mcconnell are on the same page about postponing the start of the Senate Impeachment trial until february because President Biden thinks that benefits his young administration. The more time we have to get up and running to meet these questions the better. The senate not known for doing things quickly. That have rules that are designed to make things go slowly. But the white house wants to delegate some work to the house. You said congressmen walk and chew gum at the same time but theres so many hours in the day. Has the president expressed concern that a slow down will confirmations . Only that it cannot. Theres so many hours in a day. But again, if theres a senate trial happening in the senate, it would happen in the senate, the house can move forward on a package. President biden signed two executive orders, one to help with Food Insecurity issues and the
Rioters stormed the u. S. Capitol to try to install the defeated president in power by force. Now, in a moment, ill be speaking with one of the democrats that will prosecute the case, but theres also big news tonight from the new administration, facing a mounting economic crisis, President Biden continued to push forward with an agenda 72 hours into his administration, with more than 10 million americans out of work and 50 million people, including 17 million children facing food insecurity, the president issued an impassioned plea for the passage of his 1. 9 trillion covid relief plan. The virus is surging. Were 400,000 dead, expected to reach well over 600,000. Families are going hungry. People are at risk of being evicted. Job losses are mounting again. We need to act. No matter how you look at it, we need to act. If, if we act now, our economy will be stronger in both the short and long run. The bottom line is this, were in a national emergency. We need to act like were in a nation
Program. Equity is the organizing principle of the United States. On the day he was inaugurated, joe biden signed executive order 1395 that makes equity mandated across the federal government. Strangely neither joe biden or anybody else in the administration has ever defined the word. So what is equity . Tonight finally we know what it is. Equity turns out is racism. Its as simple as that. Equity is racism. To be clear, we dont mean racism in the since that ice cream and shakespeare and math are supposedly racist or that dr. Suess is now considered a cyclops in the ku klux klan, were not talking and the ilhan omar definition of racism. No. We mean racism in the literal sense, in the way that Martin Luther king defined the term, which is the act of hurting some people and helping others on their race. Bigotry, prejudice, hatred. Thats what equity is. We know this thanks to Lori Lightfoot, mayor of chicago. She said equity and inclusion are the north stars of this administration, lightfo