over delivering. so this was a distinct change, i think, in messaging and sort of represents a noof phase according to some of the people i talked to who are responsible for the vaccine rollout. i think numbers wise, yeah, it s totally possible when you start to look at the amount of vaccine that s available, look from moderna, pfizer, johnson & joh johnson, getting the vaccines into people s arms, and also into hard-to-reach communities. it s not a slam dunk. i think the vaccine itself will be available but to make sure people actually can have access to it, people who want it can have access, it s still a question mark. i also think that the idea then that they say by july 4th we re going to have this ability to basically, as he s describing, this return to normalcy. again, i think it s very doable. it seems very realistic, but this is a different sort of change in messaging from this white house. i was going to ask you, sanjay, what you think the major obstacles are in t
either chamber of congress. what is striking about that fact, about 41% of republican voters say they support the bill. a bill republican leaders say they ll not vote for in part because they feel left out of the process. it didn t have to be this way. we could have had a bill that was, you know, a fraction of the cost of this one that could have gotten bipartisan approval and support, but the speaker decided to go in another direction. now, there certainly can be legitimate reasons not to like this current relief bill like there were legitimate reasons republicans and democrats didn t like the last one. feeling left out of the process was listed as a reason then, too. few leaders making decisions without significant input from members and feeling rushed but it passed by wide margins it passed because the whole out weighed the individual parts people didn t like. 359 votes in the democratic controlled house and 92 in the republican senate. it was largely bipartisan, same
president biden. unlikely to draw republicans vote in chamber. 40% say she support the bill they support the bill. but republicans felt they were left out of the process. it didn t have to be this way. could have got bipartisan approval and support but the speaker decided to go in another direction. f now, there certainly can be legitimate reasons not to like this current relief bill like there were legitimate reasons republicans and democrats didn t like the last one. which passed in december and cost $900 billion. feeling left out of the process was listed as a reason then, too. few leaders making decisions without significant input from members and feeling rushed but it passed by wide margins it passed because the whole out weighed the individual parts people didn t like. 359 votes in the democratic controlled house and 92 in the republican senate. it was largely bipartisan, same with the first major covid relief package that cost nearly a year ago, the one that cost
officially add unhinged convicted felon who snapped after he lost the 2020 election to the list. that is how the current leader of the free world, president joe biden, describes his rival and his first expansive remarks taking down donald trump post trial, post conviction. the president taking the presumptive republican nominee on head on, for having made history in all of the wrong ways. for becoming the first ever ex-american president to become a convicted felon and for being the first convicted felon to then try to become president again. current president telling a crowd at a fund-raiser in connecticut last night that the 2024 election campaign had entered, quote, uncharted territory, with trump s criminal conviction. adding that as if the guilty verdict isn t disturbing enough, quote, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. echoing remarks president biden made last week, he called out trump s claims of a rigged just
Ace and later a rather than sending them to prison. Friends, colleagues, country men. And lets today welcome all of the new members and all of their families to what we all know would be a truly today is an important day for our country many senators took the oath this afternoon, 13 for the first time and a new republican majority accepted its new responsibility. We recognize the enormity of the task force. We know a lot of hard work awaits. We know that a lot of follow the Gopled Congress and see the new members. The best access is on cspan television cspan radio and cspan. Org. New congress best access. More than 1,000 American Children are involved in sex trafficking, up next, several sessions from an event focused on stopping the sex trade around america and around the world. First we hear from Rob Portman Portman welcome, everybody here. Some late arrivals. Some of you may have heard the red line is running late or incapacitated or something, so we have been getting a bunch of ema