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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 o ....
democratic senator joe manchin who has staked out a position as the most powerful member of congress. then it is now time to open texas 100%. chris: governors in both parties end pandemic lockdowns, and the president pushes back. the last thing we need is neanderthal thinking. chris: we ll ask arkansas governor asa hutchinson about starting to lift restrictions in his state and former cdc director tom frieden about whether some states are moving too soon. plus, growing calls to impeach new york s governor over his handling of covid nursing home deaths and accusations of sexual harassment. we ll ask our sunday panel whether cuomo will survive the twin scandals. and our power player of the week, the head of peloton, on how the pandemic gave his bikes a big push. all right now on fox news sunday. chris: and hello again from fox news in washingtonment washington. president biden s push for his $1.9 trillion covid relief package is now in the home stretch after ....
one of the things i want to ask you if you could take a listen to what congressman jim clyburn, obviously a close ally of president biden s, a leader in the house, the number three official democrat in the house, what he said about senator joe manchin to our jim acosta this afternoon. and he s still refusing to support it. so he has all the cover he needs to now step away and do what we need done, and that is provide the 49th vote and i hope the 50 vote will come along. he s talk about the fact senator manchin asked for time to put together a new kind of proposal, which he did, and said he could get republican support. he did not. it doesn t strike me senator manchin is looking for political cover, necessarily. but do you agree is the ball right now clearly in senator ....
Manchin s court here? there are two senators, democratic senators whose votes we re going to need in order for us to enact the freedom to vote act. so i m very vocal about those two democratic senators will change their minds and recognize we re going to need to get the freedom to vote act done without a single republican, that any hope they may have we re going to bring along republicans that by now should be out the window because mitch mcconnell has made it absolutely clear that republicans will not lift a finger to protect our right to vote, our freedom to vote. so i hope that joe manchin and kyrsten sinema will be the 49th and 50th democrat who will enable us to vote and enact the freedom to vote act and the john lewis act. it s very true, leader mcconnell has made very clear he s opposed to this and trying to fight it tooth and nail. you said last month and you re a ....
i will not be the 50th democrat voting to end that filibuster. to those who say we must make a choice between the filibuster and x, i say this is the false choice. you are not going to budge on the filibuster? no. bret: democrats kyrsten sinema from arizona and joe manchin saying they are not going to break up the filibuster. this would enable the democrats to have a number of different votes if they didn t have to reach 60. we are back with the panel. mara, they seem pretty set on this. and even though they get asked literally every single day, they keep on saying the same thing. yeah. look, it takes, you know, all of the democrats to change all the rules and so far they don t have the democrats. until joe manchin has some piece of legislation that he really, really want and the republicans are filibustering and he wants ....