i need you. i need you to get vaccinated when it s your turn and when you can find an opportunity. and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors gets vaccinated as well. here s the point. if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th, there s a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. that doesn t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special, where we mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark or independence from this virus. president biden announcing last night his goal of 100 million shots in 100 days will be met and beaten. when i came into office, you may recall i set a goal that many of you set was kind of way over the top. i said i intended
cylinders, my friend. thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you for joining us at home. happy to have you here. tomorrow democrats in washington will be wearing their sunday best. it is a really big landmark day for them at 9:00 a.m. they ll start the home stretch final debate to pass the american rescue plan. a big covid relief bill that is the first thing the biden administration and the democrats in congress put their shoulders to when they got sworn in just two months ago. and you know, time will tell how this legislation is viewed over the long haul. but just at face value, it is more wide reaching progressive legislation than anything past, anything passed at least the last two democratic presidents. legislatively in terms of its progressive reach, in terms of its reach to make things better for people who need the most help. it is definitely on par with the affordable care act, with obamacare. but this bill, what the senate passed this weekend, what the house
places, there has been this big lie perpetrated that started by donald trump but spread across the country there s widespread voter fraud and harder for people to vote. often times the people targeted are the people that disagree with donald trump s republican party and what s especially scary as we go forward is that the price of admission to win a republican primary now is that you have to buy into the big lie and you have to show complete fealty to donald trump, complete loyalty to donald trump. if you don t, you re forced into retirement or beaten in the republican primary. so in other words, this problem, jose, is just getting worse and worse, and that s why passing hr 1 and hr 4 through the federal government, the united states congress is so incredibly important. let s talk about priorities, legislative priorities for you. you ve been one of the outspoken
principle. he s saying in his mind, bushing through hr-1 is not going to help the country. getting rid of the filibuster in a partisan way is not going to help the country. that s what he s saying i grant you that. i grant you that. i m not arguing with you on that. what i m trying to figure out is why is getting why is not passing hr-1 what is bad about hr-1? i haven t heard why it s bad and what s bad about the filibuster? i haven t heard that. i ve just heard saying that it is bad, the filibuster getting rid of it is bad, not why. passing hr-1 is bad. not why it s bad. it s just that we need bipartisanship. i told you the last time why i get rid of the filibuster is bad, because what will happen is, another party will come in and they ll just jam everything through the way they want to. there will be no procedure, no reason to compromise. and i think it will be it is
country. getting rid of the filibuster in a partisan way is not going to help the country. that s what he s saying i grant you that. i grant you that. i m not arguing with you on that. what i m trying to figure out is why is getting why is not pa passing hr-1 why is hr-1 bad. i haven t heard why it s bad and what s bad about the filibuster? the filibuster, getting rid of it is bad, not why. passing h.r. 1 is bhad, not why it s bad. just we need bipartisanship. i told you last time why getting rid of the filibuster is bad because what will happen is another party will come in and they ll just jam everything through the way they want to. there will be no procedure, no reason to compromise. and i think it will be it is a crucial part for how the senate operates in terms of the voting rights act. i m not here to take and i even said in the piece, it s a