Epidemic of Violent Crime in america. His focus, overwhelmingly and as expected is on guns. If White House Correspondent peter doocy starts us off from the north lawn, good evening. A few minutes ago, the president said he never gives up hope that congress could someday pass on Assault Weapons Ban but in the meantime he thinks there are more common sense measures that can be taken to protect crimeridden cities making the same joke twice. He doesnt think anybody needs a gun with 100 rounds of ammo unless they think a deer is wearing kevlar. We arent changing the constitution, we are enforcing it. Speak of the headlines of the president s multipoint plan are arrest firearms dealers, help former prisoners reenter the community and expandable limit opportunities for young adults. Help make sure the young people pick up a paycheck instead of criminal. Critics argue criminals are emboldened by softer sentencing standards and bail reform. The biden plan will not address the rise in murder and
Epidemic of Violent Crime in america. His focus, overwhelmingly and as expected is on guns. If White House Correspondent peter doocy starts us off from the north lawn, good evening. A few minutes ago, the president said he never gives up hope that congress could someday pass on Assault Weapons Ban but in the meantime he thinks there are more common sense measures that can be taken to protect crimeridden cities making the same joke twice. He doesnt think anybody needs a gun with 100 rounds of ammo unless they think a deer is wearing kevlar. We arent changing the constitution, we are enforcing it. Speak of the headlines of the president s multipoint plan are arrest firearms dealers, help former prisoners reenter the community and expandable limit opportunities for young adults. Help make sure the young people pick up a paycheck instead of criminal. Critics argue criminals are emboldened by softer sentencing standards and bail reform. The biden plan will not address the rise in murder and
Burner as the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats push forward on a cody relief bill that some lawmakers and even leftleaning economists say could actually hurt the economy in the long run. President biden saying today its an easy choice, pointing to the latest jobs numbers as proof there is no time to waste. This as he met with 10 republican senators earlier this week who proposed a Counter Offer to his nearly 2 trillion plan. White house correspondent Kristin Fisher has been following it all. She joins us live from the north lawn from the white house with the latest. Good evening, kristin. Good evening, bret. The week started with President Biden meeting with republican senators and hoping to cut a deal. But it is ending with the president giving his strongest signal yet that he intends to move forward with his relief plan without republican support. Im going to act. Im going to act fast. In his most fiery defense of his 1. 9 trilliondollar relief plan, President Biden made it
Production next week. Now we dont know which ones are going to be built but we just know for boeing which has had rapid troubles over the past year and a half or so to say nothing of the virus shutdown here, but this is welcome news, certainly for the markets and of course the biggest advance today is Gilead Science drug that is showing promise, or could be effective against the coronavirus, its out there a number of other medical concerns that are also involved in the hunt for a vaccine or a treatment and there are a variety of them out there half a dozen is coming up here and i will explain a little bit later but its what gilead is doing thats getting a lot of attention as we stressed so many times here regardless of the stimulus around the virus, what will really move the markets and connell ly proven to be the case is progress on dealing with and or treating the virus so this gilead news is big news in need, Jackie Deangelis on that and much more. Jackie theres optimism in the mark
North carolina. For Bernie Sanders, vermont. And right now were looking at alabama with polls are just closing, and that looks like it will be for joe biden. So three of the first four contests that we can comfortably report tonight go to joe biden who little more than, what, 72 hours ago was given up for politically dead. That was then, this is now. Whatever he was able to cobble together even in states that had early voting that came before his stunning performance in South Carolina, well, one of that materialized to be a big worry for him. Were going to be digesting all these numbers besides alabama, just closing right now, the states of maine, massachusetts and oklahoma have also closed. Tennessee, which was to close at this hour because of the hurricane, a lot of folks having difficulty getting to the polls right now, they will, in fact, be allowed to continue looking for places to vote until at least 9 p. M. Eastern time, in some parts of the state up to 11 p. M. Were going to be