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 of you.
and it s shameful. harsh words from speaker john boehner this morning, foisting blame squarely on the president for failure to reach a grand bargain while also explaining why nothing will get done in washington this year. patricia, are you a capitol hill deny i zen. we know that there s not a lot of expectation that any kind of legislation reform is going to happen in congress but there are very big ticket items on the docket that need to be dealt with before the ends of the year. super committee triggers going into effect, bush eras tax cuts expiring, payroll tax cuts expiring. what s amazing to me is we call that the time in which those things will be tackled the lame duck session of congress. i don t know what this is if that s the lame duck session. this is the angry duck session. this is the 112th cook res. you do absolutely nothing. i agree with john boehner but it s not just the democrats who have been shameful, it is the republicans as well. . it takes both sidesed to rea