boy, that is a nice image. the president is also asking americans to continue to do their part, to get vaccinated, not to let their guards down in the coming months, like wearing masks. john harwood is at the white house. and john, the president, other top officials, they re going to hit the road and promote this. i m sure they have the experience of the 2008 rescue package in mind. started popular, not as pap lar as this. and you see republicans attacking the package around the edges here. is the intention to try to keep this popular. absolutely. and they ll get some help when the checks start arriving in bank accounts this weekend, $1,400 for adults and children in families with incomes under $150,000. so that is going to help them. but they do have to make sheer the other benefits of the plan including new benefits for small businesses that haven t been touched by previous rounds of paycheck protection. but this is a was a speech last night where the president was no
Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump White House might be unraveling. I heard you say nightmare and unraveling. We have the language here, bry let you go, of general mattis say you have the right to have a Secretary Of Defense that whose views are better aligned with yours. Where do we go from here . And if you believe jeremy bash who said the president that secretary matt is was never going to resign and the president would have to fire him. So it is some form of resignation or protest or firing, but either way, major and one of the
roe v. wade. right, they didn t have to put up a vote measures that would criminalize abortion, that would subject women and doctors to the legal prosecution that would ban abortion in the first few weeks of a procedure so now all of a sudden the things that ruling is insolated from are right front and square of the political debate and they re not ready to enter that world yet. jonathan, a assume like you, massive amounts of pieces for the hunt for the leaker and yet among all of the things that i ve read including in your fine piece in new york magazine, i have not read a certain date when this draft opinion may have been written. it could have been written a couple of months ago. it could have already been rewritten. have you read anything that would give a date certain around an approximate date certain of when it was written? no and the speculation i ve seen is that this was an early draft that may well have been
and i think we ll see the democrats take this opportunity to slow down the confirmation of judges, i think we already got some reporting on that today. and this is a this is an opportunity for democrats. on some level it is also sort of a terrifying time. we talk about presidents being somewhat isolated and insolated, donald trump s world is getting increasingly smaller and tighter. but this is an opportunity for democrats to stay cohesive. and slow down mitch mcconnell s agenda. because to the extent there is an agenda on the republican side, it is more mitch mcconnell than anyone else s and frankly mitch mcconnell needs to step up and start dealing with the fact that his republican president has gone off the rails. basically when we look at all of this and lanny, i know i may lose you, what do you see as the way this white house deals with what you call this meltdown? and what does it say when you see this many people leave in
of us this cooperating on counterterrorism. you know, i can go into all the examples where the russians always talked about how they wanted to cooperate with us. and frankly speaking, when they did, it always fell a little short. so, and again, i can talk about boston bomber, i can talk about sochi olympics. in each of those instances, they weren t completely full, you know, giving us the full information. and you know, we would love counterterrorism cooperation with them, but not on the backs of the ukrainian people, for sd example. do they cooperate with regards to counterterrorism, and how often? well, to some extent, our intelligence relationship has been insolated from the whims of our bilateral relationship writ large. and even during times when our relationship is really suffering, there is an ongoing dialogue. now, the extent to which it s of value to our side, certainly they re always pleased to accept intelligence from us. of course, there was an attack on the st. petersb