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
go through it with her trainer, it s a joke of how many push-ups she can do and everything else. i m a big believer in that. being a fighter, something tough, it helps in fighting something like cancer. i ve seen it time and time again. shannon: you saw it didn t take any time for people to talk about the makeup of the court. eventually, one day, they re going to leave the court. but david axle rod tweeting this, if they re as good as they can be next year carries through one of the extraordinary promise to fill it, despite its own precedent in blocking garland, it will tear the country apart. not long ago before the case came up, i asked the majority leader about an opening next year. if it happened in any case. here s what he told me. we don t know if they re going to have a vacancy. what we do know for sure is we pick he s picked two new supreme court justices and we ve confirmed them. we will leave no wvacancy behin.
people say she has come through this, almost a joke about how great she is, push-ups and everything else. being a fighter the way she is i think that helps a lot in terms of fighting something like cancer. i have seen it time and again. shannon: it took no time for people on both sides of the aisle to talk about the makeup of the court and what happens when one day there are going to leave the court but david axelrod tweeting if there is a supreme court seat next year and mitch mcconnell carries through on his promise to fill it despite his previous precedent in blocking garland it will tear this country apart. i asked the senate majority leader about an opening next year and here is what he told me. we don t know if they will have a vacancy. what we do know for sure is we each picked two new supreme court justices and confirmed them.