Gillian welcome back. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is calling for the after a if that crossing between gaza and israel between gaza and egypt, excuse me, to remain open as humanitarian aid rickles in. Im illinois january turner, great To Be With You, griff. Griff here we go, im griff jenkins. President Biden Defining the u. S. role in the israelhamas role in a speech thursday night and canning for 105 worth of aid. We have Fox Team Coverage with peter doocy at the white house, greg palkot in the israellebanon border and trey yingst in Southern Israel where we begin. Whats the latest there . Reporter griff, good afternoon. Just a few moments ago we saw more rockets fire from the gaza strip toward Southern Israel. It comes as the israelis continue their airstrikes all throughout gaza a trying to hit different hamas positions. I do want to show you as our cameraman was filming earlier, the israelis Striking Gaza A right before our eyes. Take a look. [background sounds] you can see th
through what this is actually going to look like. gene sperling is a longtime economic aide. he served other presidents. he has been a adviser to president biden on the campaign trail. but he is not expected at the sore money. because right now like most americans he is working remotely, has not been vaccinated yet, and is still in california according to the white house. and he won t be in the west wing doing the job for several more weeks according to the press secretary earlier today. that is interesting. gloria, this package, relief package is popular. is the white house worried that it won t be so popular, that popularity that wane? why this real effort to bolster this. well, a lot of people who were there, including the president himself, were there in 2009 when the stimulus package passed. and one of the problems with that, biden himself has said, is that they never explained the benefits of it to the american people. and it was unpopular. this bill starts out more
fantastic group here to help us understand all that s going on in the political news. kelly o donnell in the white house, the co-founders of punchbowl news and the editor of the nevada independence. kelly, what are the president and vice president going to say about this bill that hasn t always been said? a lot of it will be a focus on the real underpinning of this. the biden administration, president in particular, wants to sell to the public that government can work for them. that they can accomplish golds that were campaigned on, promises that were made. in the specifics today president biden will talk about the limitation phase. it s not the sexiest part of this kind of a law but it is critically important and also one of the areas where there s all kind of land mines and things that could go wrong. president biden knows this firsthand because he had been in charge back in the obama administration of implementing the recovery plan at that time so he knows there are a lo
people coming here to let loose in ways that are simply improper. we want people to have a good time on spring break. but don t put your guard down completely. just be prudent a bit longer. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. it s the major part of the new enormous covid relief package that millions of american families are desperately waiting for, the money. and it s rolling out right now as we speak. several people today telling cnn they are already seeing the pen being deposits in their bank accounts. up to $1,400 per person, including children in the household for those eligible. cnn s arlette saenz in wilmington, delaware. arlette this is the president s first major legislation that is now bearing fruit for families severely impacted by the pandemic. it is, pamela. and those $1400 checks are really the first tangible impact that american families are feeling from in covid relief package. as you mentioned, some americans alr
meanwhile, the biden administration is still denying there is a border crisis preferring to call it a, quote, challenge. with officials now scrambling to find places to shelter asylum seekers including a new influx of young children. we have live team coverage for you on all of this. david spunt is in wilmington the, delaware, covering the administration s response, but first we start with griff jenkins who s down on the border in mission, texas. griff? reporter: hey, eric, good afternoon. we are here in the rio grande valley sector, mission, texas, part of that. and let me just show you the proximity to which we are to the border. you can see as we come around the wall, a hole in the wall, the levee in the distance about a mile two two miles is the rio grande river. that is ground zero where we see migrant after migrant, as well as some single adults. they are just coming in an overwhelming number that the border patrol agents here can t deal with. and it s not just the of