the president will announce the u.s. is buying another 100 million doses and bring you his remarks live when they start. moments ago, the senate confirmed merrick garland to be u.s. attorney general by 70-30 with republican leader mitch mcconnell voting yes after he spent close to a year blocking garland s 2016 nomination to the supreme court. earlier today the senate confirmed marcia fudge who last vote as a member of congress would be passing the relief which cull if i mated in this moment on the house floor. yay are 220. the nays are 211. the motion is adopted. joining us now to start the coverage as we await the president, punch bowl news founder anna palmer and mike memoli covering the white house. the covid relief bill heading to the president s desk to be signed this friday. wasn t too long ago i recall and correct me if i m wrong the chief of staff saying that they expected to be signing this early march. here we are. the president expected to sign it and we re on
hunter biden sat on the board of the company, this period also overlaps over time, he was then here in washington with the latest on all of this is david. david? his name his resurfacing at a crucial time, running for reelection and his son hunter is facing an unknown legal future. as you said they said specifically for about a year from 2015 to 2016 in ukraine, a prosecutor general similar to the attorney general position that we know here in the united states. in ukraine, the job is focus intensely on anticorruption efforts, and he famously claimed that he was fired because he was investigating burisma as we know that is where hunter biden sat on the board of the energy company. he says that then the vice president was directly responsible for his firing, and try to leverage $1 billion in united states aid money to ukraine, here is the translator
the week and the week we re facing starting tomorrow. you know, i wouldn t normally mention the attorney general position in texas, but it s actually really important to this conversation. we know that there are breakdowns in the criminal justice. we can call it systemic failures, but our justice system has pointed out the wrongful convictions and so many others, the rittenhouse acquittal. there are systematic problems with how justice is being clifrd in our communities. each state has an attorney general who s responsible to be the people s lawyer, to ensure the 14th amendment is protected and citizens rights are respected by prosecutors. in ahmaud arbery s case, the attorney general filed criminal charges against jackie johnson, the original prosecutor in the case and this is the an ongoing investigation into another prosecutor, george barn hill. what we need across the country is active attorneys general who will begin to restore the
conclusions until we see not only the whole report but the underlying findings and documentation. this is the end of the beginning. looking at the trump organization. ed: end of the beginning? ed: no, it s the end of the mueller report. end of the beginning proves democrats are going to take this okay, never mind. held up for two years. katie: we re going to read this later but that s okay. ed: it s crazy. katie: democrats are going to use this as an argument to say they are the sides of transparency house voted to release the report infull. many senators saying republicans and democrats saying it should be released. this report belongs to the american people. bill barr testified under oath when he was getting confirmed for the attorney general position that he would comply with releasing it in terms of looking at the special counsel regulations and release as
mueller were good friends. he was interested in that and wanted to know what i thought about mueller s integrity and so forth. i said bob is a straight shooter and should be dealt with as such. he said something to the effect of are you envisioning some role here? i said right now i couldn t do it. i said my personal and my professional obligations are such that i m unable to do it. he asked me for my phone number. i gave it to him and i never heard from him again until i tried that. i didn t hear from him until later about something different which was the attorney general position. thank you. good to see you again. as you mentioned, we were here