sad over everything we ve gone through, the lives that have been lost but i m hopeful because of the vaccines and because we are seeing reopenings. i m really hopeful on this day that it will be better for us. remarkable jump by some governments, not so good by others. over in the uk everything is still sharp, every restaurant, every nonessential shop, families allowed to see other families. we ve had a lockdown that is taken away personal liberties, we look across at the us within the and hope that our leaders can follow suit and fall you guys out of what has been a pretty dire year here and around the world. jillian: we say good morning, you re watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. benjamin: tonight president biden will address the nation to mark one year since the pandemic started in the us. jillian: the white house releases new details on the speech. reporter: minutes ago we received additional guidance from the white house on what the speech would loo
despite republican efforts to slow down the final vote with a flurry of last-minute objections on the house floor. the bill would create a massive surge of new funding that will send $1,400 checks to tens of millions of americans, provide billions in aid for schools, small businesses, state governments, and the vaccine distribution effort and slash health care premiums for many obamacare recipients. joining me now is nbc s garrett haake on dpl xl. nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander. former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards. and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it s not terribly surprisin
the biden administration s repeatedly denied that there s a crisis at the border despite the commander in chief requesting backup. john: texas governor greg abbott will join us live for an exclusive interview later in the show to talk about what he is seeing in his state. sandra: in just a moment we will be speaking about joe biden s policies pushing the district he represents to the breaking point. john: greg, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: we re here at the point of entry at brownsville where anyone can walk up, claim asylum if they have evidence of a credible fear. but let s go up in the sky to the fox drone team and show you over these ports of entries where some 25,000 asylum seekers are waiting for clearance. that s not the problem, officials say. it s the crossings illegally between the ports of entry. you see the rgc sector, they had 1500 apprehensions just in the last 24 hours. the numbers sandra mentioned about the unaccompanied children, fo
joe biden ask kamala harris. the most progressive legislation in a generation. one of the most sweeping federal recovery efforts in history. the exexpansion of the child tax credit that s going to cut in half childhood poverty. it demonstrates a government that s working for the people. the bill is amended is passed. [ applause ] that s what it sounds like. today president biden back out at work touring a medical center distributing vaccines to veterans. the landmark bill is the first major legislative victory of the biden era. about $2 trillion. the house expected to vote on wednesday. they are racing so it will get president biden s signature before any unemployment benefits would expire in mid-march. it includes $1400 stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, another $50 billion for loans for small businesss around the nation, $14 billion for vaccine distribution, a large program that supports children, more on that part tonight. and these checks are sla
dr. seuss to kids on the very day, the new old white guy strikes the author from the event. cancel. some of his books contained racist imagery. fair enough. you just cancel the whole god because of that? the dude sold 600 million books. true he s not a real doctor, but who whispered what he wrote cat in the hat. it s the only one of his books that i ve read. i decided to do some investigating. just how bad could these books be question. it turns out pretty bad. first, yeah, according to a great lecture on white supremacy, i had no idea. what about any others. green eggs and hitler? how did this get published. one more police, if i ran the zoo we d only have fuller bears because they re white? that is offensive. to everyone. okay, i kid too many cnn media reporters are watching this, much like those stories, they re not real. times are bad. returning into a police state but were now the police credits not the government banning books, removing movies from streaming services or