landmark relief bill. the house gearing up for a vote on the $2 trillion plan. it could get to the president s desk as early as tomorrow morning. that s a big deal. as a matter of calendar, it would beat the sunday deadline for renewing programs for the jobless. biden visited a hardware store that will benefit from this kind of support today, and he contrasted this money and the way he is going to deliver it, the new approach here with discredited trump programs where some of the money went the people who just didn t need it. an awful lot of that went to bigger businesses that in fact weren t supposed to qualify. in the last administration fired its inspector general. so a lot of money went to people who shouldn t have gotten help. we ve got several aspects of this story, but we begin immediately with our experts, former governor of vermont and former presidential candidate and also a doctor howard dean, and washington post reporter libby casey. good to see both of you.
the tax cut 2.0 resonate do you think does that help with the president talking about this next leg of tax cuts? well i think he has credibility on this issue, because you look at since december, when they enacted that tax cut they re still looking like it s tough on the generic ballot but its improved a lot democratic advantage of 13 when they passed the tax cut down to the seven or eight range, and i think you can expect that to be the closing argument here. maria: what s most important in terms of the races we need to focus on? the distractions of last week and yesterday obviously the tragedy of yesterday, the candidates have to get back talking about what matters to them and republicans have to talk about the trump programs. if they do that they will have some success. there are 14 governors races that are dead even. there are seven senate races that are dead even. maria: i imagine after the mid-terms, the president is going to have jeff sessions step down. if he s got the righ
maria: look at the numbers does the tax cut 2.0 resonate do you think does that help with the president talking about this next leg of tax cuts? well i think he has credibility on this issue, because you look at since december, when they enacted that tax cut they re still looking like it s tough on the generic ballot but its improved a lot democratic advantage of 13 when they passed the tax cut down to the seven or eight range, and i think you can expect that to be the closing argument here. maria: what s most important in terms of the races we need to focus on? the distractions of last week and yesterday obviously the tragedy of yesterday, the candidates have to get back talking about what matters to them and republicans have to talk about the trump programs. if they do that they will have some success. there are 14 governors races that are dead even. there are seven senate races that are dead even. maria: i imagine after the mid-terms, the president is going to have jeff sessions
distract from them. mr. trump supported someone else against me in 2010 after i won the democratic primary. he gave me a check. the last money he ever gave to me. the facts of the case speak for i was. this is a massive fraud and this is a guy we have gotten their playbook. we have gotten the testimony of the former president of the university. this was a scam from top to bottom. they were telling people to raise the limits on their credit cards who did. so they could use that money to buy more trump programs. what about the argument that has been made that you can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with an ivy league education and still not find financial success? is that enough to sue? that s not a fraud. harvard is registered as a university. they have professors that are equal equalived. we have dozens and dozens of complaints already and more pouring in every day. this was a bait and switch scheme. this was not a university.