bill cassidy, and democratic senator chris murphy. then all adult americans will be eligible to get a vaccine, no later than may 1. chris: we ll talk with dr. anthony fauci, the white house chief medical advisor, about what the country has been through this past year and the president s timeline for a return to normal. plus the calls for new york governor andrew cuomo to resign near a tipping point. we ll ask our sunday panel whether he has lost his ability to govern. our power player of the week. i didn t think i would get as famous as i have become. chris: the face of shriners hospitals for children grows up, all right now. fox news sunday. chris: hello again from fox news in washington. the pressing of $1400 direct payments has begun with the first deposits hitting bank accounts this weekend that stimulus, part of president biden s $1.9 trillion rescue package aimed at getting the country back on its feet one year into the covid pandemic but republicans call the pl
address. and in that speech, the president cast a vision of a post-pandemic summer. i set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. i said i intended to get 100 million shots in people s arms in my first 100 days in office. tonight i can say not only are we going to meet that goal, we re going to beat that goal because we re actually on track to reach this goal 1060 million shots in arms. tonight i will direct allstate®s, prescribes and territories to maybe all adults eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. if this pandemic is nearing its end, what is next on the administration s agenda. unity and bipartisanship were driving forces of his campaign. no republican in the house or the senate voted for the covid relief bill. that did not stop the bill because democrats used the budget reconciliation process to pass it, as long as they kept every single democrat in the senate onboard, they could pass a more sweeping, more progressive bill. but that tac
is a political debate these days. even what time the sun rises and sets. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, and joshua johnson. welcome to the week. did you have a good week? president biden certainly did. over the course of 48 hours, he took big steps toward addressing his priority. the pandemic. on wednesday, congress passed the american rescue plan. the next day, he signed it into law. that night, he delivered his first primetime presidential address. and in that speech, the president division of post- pandemic summer. i set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. i said i intended to get 100 million shots of people s arms and my first hundred days in office. tonight, i can say we are not only going to meet that goal, we are going to meet that goal. because we are actually on track to reach this goal of 100 million shots in arms on my 60th day in office. tonight. i am announcing i will direct all states, tribes and territories, to make
normalcy by july 4th weekend. there is light literally now that the lights have sprung forward. we ll have an extra hour of daylight. after the year we had it s hard not to feel a little good about what is on the horizon. however it could be a vastly different reality right now if the insurrection on january 6th had not failed. it has been two months and eight days since that day. the fbi is still working to make sure everyone that stormed the capital is fully prosecuted for their crimes. they are dotting their is and crossing their ts going through mown tapes of evidence but it all started at the top. cleaning up that january 6th mess is a top priority for merick garland. we re learning more about some of the rye jotters that were arrested. sivic is accused of stealing the badge and radio from a dc police officer after a crowd beat him unconscious. he buried it in his backyard in buffalo. he will appear in front of a federal judge on tuesday. also we re learning about a memb
and the $15 minimum wage that the house voted to include in the covid relief bill. but even with democrats in control, the possibility of any of this becoming law is nowhere near guaranteed. and without a change to the filibuster, much of this progressive to-do list will die. joining me now is senate majority leader chuck schumer of the great state of new york. leader schumer, thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. good to be with you, jonathan. the old days back in gotham. so, listen, you were able to get the senate to pass the covid relief package, and as a result it became law. how do you hold your razor-thin majority? how did you hold it in order for all of these progressive to-do list items to get through passage? well, first, it s such a major piece of legislation. it s the most significant change for middle-class people, for poor people, people trying to get into the middle class in decades in a very long time. and it has amazing things in it. the c