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measure. ro kiana calls it an ideological revolution on behalf of justice. which is this, is this covid relief, or some epic anti-poverty measure? when we announced the american rescue plan, we had a set of very specific goals. one to provide the resources to get shots in people s arms and support a national vaccination campaign, provide the resources to get schools open so we get parents back to work, and provide families and businesses with the relief they need to make it to the other side of this crisis. and if you look at the legislation that the president will sign tomorrow, it does all three of those thin things in a direct and aggressive way. we re going to be able to now accelerate the national vaccination campaign. we re going to be able to provide the resources finally so schools can accelerate the reopening, and we targeted the relief in this package to those who need it most. the people who need it most are people who are working families who are strugglin ....
more than 529,000 americans have died, the highest death toll of any nation in the world and nearly 2,000 people in the united states are still dying each day. this isn t over. and the numbers don t tell the whole story. it is the lives interrupted, the families suddenly broken, so many people left to die and grief alone that really hit that does hit the hardest and cannot be forgotten. mothers and fathers and brothers, sisters and friends and coworkers, so many taken too soon. i know i m going to remember michelle, a nurse whose brother-in-law, sister-in-law and mother in law were all admitted to her hospital and she was the only person able to hold her mother-in-law edna s hand as she passed. unlike in a normal circumstance where you would be together gathering as a family, we ve all had to work through this separately. and there is also danielle lopez whose uncle was killed by the virus last summer. it just i m sorry, i m trying to even process that all t ....
lower press and also on the website. thank you, everyone. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] back live to the white house now. thatresident will announce the u.s. is withdrawing from the paris climate change accord. according to the associated press, they are saying president trump will argue that the paris american bad deal for workers and was poorly negotiated by the obama administration. we will have the president s comments at 3:00 eastern. in the meantime, we take you back to october of last year. president obama in the rose garden announcing the implementation of the paris agreement. barack obama: good afternoon, everybody. today is a historic day in the fight to protect our planet for future generations. ten months ago, in paris, i said before the world that we needed a strong global agreement to reduce c ....
sleep last night i told my wife, i might make an announcement tomorrow. what kind of announcement? tell them it is time to go. this morning i woke up and i walked up to starbucks and usual and got my coffee as usual and got my copy. saw everybody at pete s diner. got home and thought, i think today s the day. speaker john boehner we had some good times. we laughed, we cried, we listened,, w wde cried. we cried a lot. there were tears. why is speaker john boehner leaving now? margaret: speaker john boehner wanted to leave a year ago. what happened was eric cantor out of nowhere in eric cantor s mind, john boehner felt that he had to hang on. he had made up his mind last night. you found him weeping when the pope was with him. i think he was holding out for the pope s visit. when you talk to people in his network, yesterday was a peak for him. he had worked for two decades to get the pope to washington. he has a personal moment with the pope that he describes duri ....
sleep last night i told my wife, i might make an announcement tomorrow. what kind of announcement? tell them it is time to go. this morning i woke up and i walked up to starbucks as usual and got my coffee. came back and read and saw everybody at pete s diner. got home and thought, i think today s the day. phil: you ve got to love the pete s diner reference. speaker john boehner, we had some good times. we laughed, we cried, we listened, we cried. we cried a lot. there were tears. why is speaker john boehner leaving now? margaret: speaker john boehner wanted to leave a year ago. what happened was eric cantor out of nowhere in eric cantor s mind, john boehner felt that he had to hang on. he had made up his mind last night. you found him weeping when the pope was with him. i think he was holding out for the pope s visit. after that he had nothing left to prove toy anybody. when you talk to people in his network, yesterday was a peak for him. he had worked for two deca ....