it s just a few moments away well, we begin ms hour with president biden getting ready to head to hollywood tomorrow. the mission raise as much money as politically possible with the likes of george clooney and julia roberts maybe a rendition of oceans. was that 12 or 13 now, obama will be at the fundraiser as well. jimmy kimmel will told will interview them and the price he has ticket to get in 500,000 bucks. well, it s as much about raising money as it is about trying to get people excited for biden s reelection campaign hey, which i can tell you has been quite a challenge, at least according to the polls now, there seems to be two types of celebrity supporters for biden. one, joe, we call the raging bull type that is vocally brawling against donald trump. and all of his supporters you see this guy get elected now the other type is working behind the scenes man, on the best way to tell biden story at the convention of story that hasn t seemed to resonate with the younge
shoulders, the small of my back, my waist. often enough by late 2014 i didn t want to go to the holiday party he was hosting for the albany press corps at the executive mansion. john: some top democrats are joining the list of the lawmakers demanding cuomo s resignation including house judiciary chairman jerry nadler among several prominent new york lawmakers issued statements saying that the time has come. sandra: yeah. yet still silence from vice president kamala harris on this. she has not joined those calls by fellow democrats for him to resign. nor have we heard from senators gillibrand or elizabeth warren, all three of whom were vocal in opposition of brett kavanaugh in the confirmation hearing. all of this is after the governor s own lawyer reported a groping allegation to the police. the woman involved has so far declined to press charges herself. cuomo has continued to deny the allegations, john. john: sandra, the cover of the new york post stating it all.
speak to their state transportation departments, governors to get a list of infrastructure priorities. congressional democrats want to cram more in there than just bridges, roads and trains. the budget chairman told the hill the next reconciliation bill will likely combine infrastructure, healthcare and more as some colleagues are pushing to pass other priorities like immigration reform through reconciliation. that is the procedural tool that democrats used to pass the covid bill without republican support. it s unclear if those types of initiatives could get through the process. some could argue they re not tied to the budget. we re not there yet anyway. republicans expressed willingness to work with democrats on infrastructure, which is the biggest focus. this bold action is ours. if we want to work with republicans, we will. where we can we will. we will not be deterred from big bold action when we can t work with them. the white house sees the infrastructure as a way
things will get worse than they are right now. bottom line, it s going to get worse. we have the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. we have already lost 24 of our citizens. . we re heading towards an epidemic in the united states. the question is what the scope is going to be. tom hanks and his wife rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. . to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. all right. exactly one year ago today when the country began to feel the full effects of the coronavirus. march 11th, 2020 was the day the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. and in the u.s., shutdowns kicked in, cities began limiting gatherings. schools began to close. and major sports leagues started to halt play. everything seemed to stop. can you believe it s been a year, joe? i know. willie, it seems so much longer than a y
$1.9 trillion covid relief bill makes its final passage. that s expected wednesday. thursday president biden will deliver the first prime time address of his presidency to mark one year since the nation shut down. we re also tracking fallout from that bombshell interview of the duke and duchess of sussex, whose allegations of racism and neglect have plunged the royal family into crisis. the interview is airing right now for the first time in britain. we ll go there live later this hour for the latest reaction. first, let s get the details of the new cdc guidance just out for more than 30 million americans, who were fully vaccinated against covid-19. our national correspondent, erica hill, is working the story for us. erica, new freedoms for those lucky enough to be fully vaccinated. reporter: that s right. that number is above 30 million here in the u.s. of people who are fully vaccinated. this guidance, we ve been waiting for it, for weeks at this point, as people are just