the school district and teachers union middle and high schoolers will show up two days a week to complete classes online. what a complete fraud. the teachers union should be ashamed of themselves. ainsley: that s a beautiful shot of our capitol and i happened to be in chicago because k through 8 grade all back in school. last week k through 5 went back. the second week of this and the high schoolers are not back in school yet. we have a panel of business owners, some of them have lost their businesses, some are struggling to pay employees and we have a high schooler who plays sports and just want to be back in school. hey, bipartisan, hey, steve. it s going to be exciting because major cities have been slow to open up and the kids have been frustrated and some of them just want to save their senior year. i m glad that you re up close and personal and i think it s great because we will be talking about getting up and going in california, not so much as well as up a
you might have gone to get your coffee, seen your friends. i was here at 30 rock with my entire staff. i went to a school play that day. but by the end of the evening the w.h.o. had declared covid a pandemic. seattle shut down their school system, the first major district to do so, the stock market fell off a cliff. the sign of a lot more pain to come. the first case of covid popped up on capitol hill and the nba suspended its season leading all the rest of major sports to follow suit. that all happened in one single day. it was a stunning disruption to all of our lives and as we know it was just the beginning. one by one states shut down, businesses closed and normal life came to a complete halt. but we also know the future is much brighter than it has been in a long time. tonight president biden will mark the anniversary. tomorrow he signs the american rescue plan into law, hopefully getting more help to those who need it most. remember, we went from no vaccines to three va
adding to the more than 532,000 deaths and more than 29 million cases so far. five hours from now, the president will give his first prime time address to the nation from the white house. we have special coverage spanning two continents throughout this entire hour, beginning with nbc news correspondents, kelly o donnell covering the white house, sarah harmon in munich, germany, and joelene kent in los angeles. i ll begin with you at the white house. the president signed the american rescue plan moments ago. one day earlier than what was scheduled. did the white house realize waiting two days did not reflect the urgency of the crisis that millions of americans need that had money? reporter: well, the white house decided to act as quickly as they received the bill from capitol hill. so that s a standard part of how it works. it takes a few days to turn even a just passed piece of legislation into a document for the president s signature. so they hurried it up. by doing so, it
specifically on the right of the political spectrum bashing her believability? because it s the same reason they like to talk about dr. seuss. i don t know. you know, so dr. seuss family will say, we want to take the books offline because it doesn t represent. they ll go, we re going to buy them because we re going to lean into the racism. the palace will say, look, recollections vary and these allegations and the questions about racism are very serious. we re going to look into them. and the right goes, there is no racism. we re going to lean into it. all of a sudden, you have the right who is always anti-royal family pretty much. now they re supporting the royal family and they have become the press release, so to speak, for for buckingham palace? it s quite interesting, isn t it? it always has to be for some reason lately the opposition party. i wonder why. they re straight-up opposition. they are. what s going on with these laws across the states being put forw
why are they so concerned about this story and whether or not it s true? after four years of empowering the biggest liar in presidential history, now you have a thing for truth? doubtful. tonight the queen doesn t deny accusations of racism. against the royal family. in the family s first public statement since the bomb drops. but people here on the right continue to savage markle and her story. something struck a nerve with them. was it a multi-racial woman speaking out against an institutional white royal family? no, no it s not about that. what is it about that? the royals aren t questioning what she says about race being used against her by them. they don t deny her allegations about conversations with an unnamed someone questioning how dark the skin of the unborn child would be. so, why are so many here on the right fringe unable to accept the story? could it be that the opposition party is passing laws that disenfranchise minorities. that are all but a constructive frau