congress and in moments he will sign it into law. this as vaccines are being delivered to americans with the goal of having enough vaccines for all adults by the end of may. nearly 1500 americans are still dying on average each day to a disease that didn t have a name just 15 months ago. i m going to turn now to chief cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, before you get into the details of the president s speech tonight, tell us what you know about this signing event. reporter: well, so this was a bit of a change. we were not expecting president biden to actually sign this bill until tomorrow when they were going to have a signing ceremony at the white house with all the lawmakers. but now the president says they got this bill last night earlier than going through those procedural motions up on capitol hill, so he wants to sign this as quickly as possible so it can go into effect. you ll see this in about 30 minutes or so. we re going into the oval office
and as you point out, he seems to cross the legal line repeatedly in these phone calls. and it also fills in some of the pieces about who was involved in this campaign and what the pattern of corrupting events were. again, this may be a racketeering investigation in georgia based on actions and statements from the district attorney s office. but the white house chief of staff really did turn up bodily in person, surprise, at the audit in georgia when they were auditing the absentee ballots in cobb county. he showed up in person. then the next day he apparently told the president to call the investigator leading that audit while he told her what answer he wanted and how much she d be praised when she produced that correct answer, which was that he mysteriously won the election. i mean, that s just it s starting to read like an elmore leonard book. and you hear on the phone call something you d otherwise never hear in a phone call with the president of the united states.
the royal family simply don t recognize some of the things that harry and meghan told oprah. this is actually a slap in the face, i think. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it is wednesday, march 10th, 6:00 here in new york. and this morning, the house of representatives is poised to take president biden s massive rescue plan over the finish line. in just a few hours, lawmakers will debate and hold a final vote on the $1.9 trillion relief package. it will deliver the largest ever direct payments to americans, bringing help to millions who are struggling. this will be a major legislative victory on president biden s 50th day in office. the president plans to sign it ahead of a prime-time address to the nation tomorrow night. that s one year after the pandemic plunged the country into shutdown. so he doesn t really have much selling to do w
show. all that with palace insiders in just a moment. first, back here at home in america, the numbers at the border are staggering. 100,000 apprehensions in february alone. one border patrol agent telling fox news that we can t catch them and release them fast enough. the new york times now referring to migrant children in custody along the border in jail-like facilities and held longer than legally allowed. border officials fear that march could be more of the same and republicans are now urging the president to call this a national emergency or else the flow will not stop. we have not heard from the president himself on this situation in quite some time. this is his last comment on it six days ago. is there a crisis at the border? martha: now from the press podium, it s clear the pressure is building for an about face on the policy that is driving all of these people here. the messaging, does it need be tweaked all? it s not also about humanity but you might not be
you re interested in a vaccine, how about this weekend instead? in one weekend they did a drive through mass vaccination clinic for more than 11,000 people. they did at the new hampshire motor speedway. nascar track, which is a place my brother-in-law paul is intimately familiar with. my brother-in-law loves nascar. loves it. he loves all kinds of car racing from formula one to drag racing. motorcycle stuff, everything. mostly he loves nascar. i m convinced that s why my brother-in-law paul is vaccinated against covid-19. he heard they were doing this at the racetrack and he was like at the racetrack. yeah. the answer from him was yes please. i will get up early and get my vaccine there. the big news in our family is because paul decided he was going, susan s mom agreed she would go too. she would go with paul. susan s mom is in her 90s. she has a bull s eye on her in terms of vulnerability to this virus if she ever got it. we ve been calling and calling and seriously stre