another 745,000 filed first-time unemployment benefits just last week. and unemployment is going to run out in ten days unless this stimulus bill is passed. these people still insist the election was stolen. they sit in hearings denying the reality of january 6th. there is a new investigation into communications in the day or so leading up to the january 6th terror attack between gopqers and those who attacked us. question, is it time to stop hoping for better from these people when they keep showing you their worst? is this not the most perverse and complete co-opting of a party by opposition and animus that we have ever seen in this country? and yet president biden still extends a branch. i have been talking to a lot of my republican friends in the house and senate. continue to do that. so we re keeping everybody informed. why? mr. president, every single house republican voted against covid relief. i have not seen anyone act like a friend toward you or your ambitions.
christine, it s friday. it is friday. i m christine romans. march 5th, everybody. it s 5 a.m. in new york. we begin with covid relief as millions of american families wait desperately for relief. what they re getting in washington is political theater. on the senate floor almost 11 hours and a few sore throats later the clerks are finally done reading all 628 pages of the $1.9 trillion covid relief package to a mostly empty chamber. theater without an audience. ron johnson forcing the clerks to read the entire bill aloud before the debate resumes this morning all in a doomed effort to slow relief to the many who desperately need it. cnn s daniella diaz is live on capitol hill. senator johnson s tactic didn t sink the bill. what happens now? reporter: it was a super late night here in the senate. they wrapped the reading of this bill around 2 a.m. we started early afternoon. this was more than 10 hours that they spent reading this bill on the senate floor. democrats are
tremendous amount of research coming in. look, even before sasha got the part, he was aaron, i m sorry, we are going to have to take that in to our offline discussion. we are out of time, and sasha, that s the only reason aaron sorkin got the last word, sasha baron cohen. you will be hearing from my publicist. i have had the last word. okay, sasha did get the last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. welcome, day 44 of the president s administration, and the fight against a spread of the virus that has wiped out about 10 million jobs and half a million citizens is up against a full on assault from republicans in the u.s. senate. biden s nearly $2 trillion relief bill is being read allowed right now on the senate floor, that would be 628 pages of it to a mostly empty chamber being read by the clerk at the request of wisconsin republican senator and conspiracy theorist ron johnson, that made good on his threat to drag out the process of getting to fin
into our off-line discussion. we re out of time, and sacha, that s the only reason aaron got the last word. thanks for joining us tonight. okay, sacha did get the last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. well, good evening once again. day 44 of the biden administration, and the president s plan to slow the spread of a virus that s killed over half a million of our fellow citizens, wiped out about 10 million jobs is now up against a full on assault from republicans in the u.s. senate. biden s nearly $2 trillion relief bill is being read aloud right now on the senate floor. that would be 628 pages of it to a mostly empty chamber being read by the clerk at the request of wisconsin republican senator and conspiracy theorist ron johnson who made good on his threat to lead his party s effort to drag out the process of getting to final passage. this all got under way earlier today after vice president harris broke the 50-50 tie on the vote to begin debate of th
at this point, they have some of the communications devices belonging to the mob, members of the mob that invaded the capitol, and from looking at the devices they have found instances of communications with members of congress in the days around the january 6 insurrection. we don t know the content of those communications but in some cases we know that some of the rioters claimed that they were acting as security for members of congress who were going to speak at various rallies around that date. we also know that there s some indications that they re talking amongst each other with the contacts with the members of congress. at this point, wolf, we don t know that any members of congress are actually actively under investigation. there is not necessarily anything illegal about having those contacts but certainly one official said there s smoke here and investigators will have to figure it out. is this a new phase in the investigation? reporter: it is. we now have around