night, the president said we are way ahead of schedule in building up vaccine supply and getting shots in americans arms. he said every adult in america will be eligible to get in line starting may 1st. and that there will be enough vaccines for everyone by june 1st. and he said if people take advantage and actually get those shots, that could mean putting this virus in our rearview mirror by summertime. watch this. if we do this together, by july the 4th, there is a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate independence day. after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. the president made that speech just hours after signing the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill into law, delivering on a promise he made befo
more than 529,000 americans have died, the highest death toll of any nation in the world and nearly 2,000 people in the united states are still dying each day. this isn t over. and the numbers don t tell the whole story. it is the lives interrupted, the families suddenly broken, so many people left to die and grief alone that really hit that does hit the hardest and cannot be forgotten. mothers and fathers and brothers, sisters and friends and coworkers, so many taken too soon. i know i m going to remember michelle, a nurse whose brother-in-law, sister-in-law and mother in law were all admitted to her hospital and she was the only person able to hold her mother-in-law edna s hand as she passed. unlike in a normal circumstance where you would be together gathering as a family, we ve all had to work through this separately. and there is also danielle lopez whose uncle was killed by the virus last summer. it just i m sorry, i m trying to even process that all that th
sign it tomorrow after he was going to speak in prime time. this makes more sense on the timeline, getting to talk about already having signed it for his speech tonight. this is a singular achievement for his first 100 days in the agenda. as we keep talking about, a year ago today, a freight train was essentially about to hit this country. we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. we have therefore met the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. is the worst yet to come, dr. fauci? yes, it is. can you elaborate? we will see more cases and things will get worse than they are right now. we are moving very quickly. the vast majority of americans, the risk is very, very low. and just look at how startling a year it has been in this country as measured by, well, every single metric you can come up with. infections, multiple sushlgs in cases, each one with more confirmed cas
they were debating on president biden s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. the package is expected to pass handing the legislature its most legislative win. it is broadly popular with the american people. look at these new numbers from our latest poll. 61% of americans support this. president biden will begin touting the win during his prime time address, his first one to the nation. that s tomorrow night. this as the white house prepares to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine. chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, yet one more republican delay here now, another one of these votes to adjourn. is that the last one? when is the actual vote going to happen? yeah, there could be more. we expected this vote to take place around noon eastern, but it s now being delayed because of marjorie taylor greene, the freshman republican from georgia, who has made a motion to adjourn the chamber. this is actually the fo
eric swalwell filed a different one, what i thought was going to happen, is benny thompson would go first, and other members of the congress would decide they would join in. it could become a larger class. i didn t realize, if anyone had slightly different approaches to the same problem, it could be a parade that lasts until the end of his life. i ve spent the day studying eric swalwell s lawsuit. we are going to be joined by the harvard constitutional law professor, laurence tribe. if he tells us this is a real lawsuit and it won t be dismissed, it will get to a jury. it will get to a washington, d.c., jury. then that indicates it s going to be many, many, many more. yeah, and well, i know he has been thinking about it and writing about it. i just read his piece. i can t wait for you to talk to him. we will do that. thank you. and one of the things to watch now is who will be the first criminally charged attacker of the capitol who turns on donald trump and fires a