Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and right around the world. Im paula newton, live, from cnn center in atlanta where its 2 00 a. M. , on the east coast. 11 00 p. M. , out west. I want to thank everyone for joining us. Now, two big votes in the u. S. House of representatives are sending both support and a stinging rebuke to the u. S. President. Lawmakers from both parties voted, monday, to override President Trumps veto of a sweeping, defense bill. They also voted, by smaller margins, to increase the covidrelief checks, from 600, to 2,000. A move supported by the president. Now, those issues, now go to the senate, where President Trumps republican allies will have some tough decisions to make. Stimulus checks from the 900 billion coronavirusrelief package are expected, now, to start going out, this week. Now, this is all happening, as the u. S. Faces its highest number of covidhospital admissions, yet. More than 121,000 people, at this hour, in hospital with covid.
Furthered the big lie, people like Maria Bartiromo there and Tucker Carlson and sean hannity, they also built up january 6th as if it was some day of reckoning. Exactly, and they constantly told their viewers to come out and fight on january 6th. You know, is it a surprise that some people took those words literally . Mean, just a few days ago you had James Murdoch who is part of the family that owns fox news saying that it was imperative for media Property Owners to show some responsibility and to stop putting on those kinds of lies. Now, i dont know if his brother lachlan and his brother rupert who own fox news, if they will listen to that, but if they dont there are other options including the fact that cable prosecutors like comcast and charter which send fox out to hundreds of millions of people, they can demand some accountability in the way that facebook and twitter have done, and theres also i think the possibility of reviving the fairness doctrine which the fcc enforced until
People are looking for any comments on what is going on with the criminal probe in mexico. Also, one piece of data on Economic Data today. The retail sales report from march is due out at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time. And economists expect the rise of. 8 following 8. 3 advance in february. Thats the corporate news. I think our good friend Michelle Carusocabrera, even though shes here we have more on the international news. A deadline for prorussian militants have come and gone four hours ago. As a result, ukraine is threatening a fullscale antiterrorist operation if the protesters refuse to leave. They also offered amnesty to protesters to lay down their arms, but anyone who supported violence would be punished. And this hour there are reports of another Police Station being seized by prorussian forces in another part of Eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian Security Forces launch ed a plea and the group was reportedly involved in a firefight. This raises concern that is russia would use this as an ex