o donnell. it s nice to see you do these interviews because you are seemingly able to cover the ground you were never able to cover last year. i don t know exactly what the worry would have been from the trump administration about letting senior doctors come on a show that was hosted by somebody who they think is a terrible person. there s no harm that dr. fauci would have done to the trump administration by answering questions from me or from you while they were still here. i don t know what petty thing was driving that, but it was such a relief to be able to ask questions directly of the policymakers at the heart of these things and get real answers. it feels like we re finally doing the real work. of course, there was the constant pretending that covid-19 either wasn t so bad or was getting much better every day when it was getting much worse, so there was just that madness about trump world and the trump white house, and what is odd about it, i agree with you, is th
the president will visit a small local business that s benefited from the paycheck protection program loans as millions of americans eagerly await another round of direct payments to ease the financial burden of a year battling covid. joining me now to kick things off, my fellow chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host, peter alexander, who s live at the white house. associated press white house reporter, jonathan la mir, and erin haynes, editor at large at the 91. peter, i have to start with you and this messaging strategy that we are seeing from president biden. talk about it, what is the goal here and what can americans expect from this bill? because that s the big question on everyone s minds. yeah, first of all, kristen, you look nice at that desk here this morning. let s walk you through what s going on. we expect president biden to leave here shortly to head to that local business that s benefiting from ppp, that loan like so many other businesses ac
visits with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk of covid-19 disease indoors without wearing a mask or physical distancing. and refrain from quarantine and testing following a known covid-19 exposure if the vaccinated person remains asymptomatic. so far, more than 30 million americans have been fully vaccinated, which is more than the total number of confirmed infections nationwide. today the u.s. surpassed 29 million cases. it sparked new concerns about the spread of more infection shows variants just as more states reopen and lift their mask mandates. joining me a emergency medicine physician and medical director at the baylor college of medicine. alwaysia to he sue. i wonder what you think about the new guidelines that so many people have been waiting for. are they what you expected? there definitely some parts of the guidelines that are what i expected. we have been vaccinating people in this country for the last three months. we have over 3
$300 from $400. they didn t get closer to the $618 billion package. the $1.9 trillion bill includes 350 billion for state and local governments and a portion of the money tied to unemployment rates. they took issue with the $130 billion in emergency funding for schools, the majority won t be spend for 1 to 7 years and a third round of $1,400 stimulus checks which will go to felons like the boston bomber. senator tom cotton tried to stop it but every democrat voted it down. senator tom cotton voted in favor of the last bill and we asked for him comment on that. while no republicans supported it, joe manchin sided with the republicans about trimming back unemployment. now the white house is working the phones. biden is ready to go when it passes. our legislative team are certainly not taking anything for granted. they re checking in with officers, making sure they have the questions answered. the house is expected to vote on this tomorrow and then it should head to the pres
stated, i had that stated, ma am, we decided to hold abbey gate open one more hour in hopes to save a few more lives, knowing the imminent attack was approaching the gate. that statement is engrained inside my brain knowing that they had closed the gate, my son would be alive today. the i have wondered who gave that order to hold that gate open for one more hour, and for whom. within the following weeks dylan s batallion began returning to camp pendleton, marines had the opportunity to reach out to the families. i was very fortunate i lived close enough to the base that several of the marines came to visit me and began telling me their stories. every story being told could ins sided that abbey was ambushed