their part. there s a good chance you, your families and friendses, will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout or barbecue and celebrate independence day when we mark our independence as a nation and our independence from this virus. joining me now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor, kelly o donnell, yamiche alcindor, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama, jim messina and former rnc chair, michael steele. welcome, all. kristen, let me start with you. if big primetime address last night after a major legislative win. now of course the challenge to make sure that americans understand why it is that they are receiving the help that they have. what s the plan going forward? reporter: that s right. now the president and vice president are going to be focused on selling this massive piece of legislation that just passed, $1.9 trillion covid relief and of course one of the cente
trillion stimulus bill into law, this is millions of americans continue to get vaccinated and millions more wait for bonus checks that are coming their way, maybe as soon as this weekend. we re going to talk to the former health and human services secretary admiral brett giroir if operation warp speed had a lot to do with this and what happens now to keep the speed going. all of that, the mixed signals that we get from the cdc back then and to this day. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. what an incredible world and what has changed in that world and now getting back to some sense of normalcy in the same world. we begin with blake burman monitoring developments at the white house in preparation for the president to address the nation later this evening. sir? it s been an unbelievable year. tonight we will hear from the president, president biden in his very first prime time address to the nation. the white house says the president has been going line
states senate today, senate majority leader chuck schumer is going to join us. and rachel, this new information tonight, the new tape of donald trump making a call to georgia to an election official, this one before christmas. so earlier than the one that we already heard is just such stunning additional information about what was clearly an ongoing campaign to try to change the result of that election. 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. and this may be a racketeering investigation in georgia based on actions and statements from that district attorney s office. but the white house chief of staff really did turn up bodily in person surprised at the audit in georgia when they were auditing the absentee ballots in cobb county. he showed up in person and then the next day he apparently told the presi
once he does here is what will happen. there will immediate i will be an extension of unemployment benefits through september. billions for state and local governments, billions for schools, billions for vaccine distribution, and expansion of the child tax credit and those $1400 direct stimulus checks. but that right there is only part of the big news that has come out today. a year after the w.h.o. declared a global pandemic we got some of the best news yet. a new study shows the pfizer vaccine prevents near all asymptomatic infections. a huge step towards ending this pandemic and getting us back to normal. on top of that the pfizer vaccine shows it is 97% effective at stopping hospitalizations and deaths including against the uk variant which doctors say is more contagious. it is incredible news delivered at an incredible speed. tonight president bide listen deliver his first prime time address to the nation and he is expected to recognize the immense lost that we have suff
weekly jobless benefits that goes through september. there is expansion of tax credits affordable care act subsidies. and there s also funding for schools, states, and vaccines and a lot more as well. here s how an eligible family of four earning under $150,000 a year, couple earning $96,000, i should say, with two children, would receive here. each person gets $1,400, plus there is a $3,000 tax credit for each of the two children age 6 or older. the total help for this family is going to be more than $11,000. still not a single republican in the house is expected to vote for it in the coming moments as was the case in the senate. i call upon my republican colleagues to stop their march madness and show some compassion for their constituents who are less than wealthy. i ve heard people across the country say this bill today is costly, corrupt, and liberal. it s a laundry list of left-wing priorities that predate the pandemic and do not meet the needs of the american famil