mouth about meghan markle and prince harry. his thoughts are almost too bizarre to believe, but we begin the reidout tonight with the question you ve been asking that i m sure you ve been asking for an entire year now, when will we return to normal life? we have the first sign that some aspects of the pre-pandemic lives are on the horizon with the cdc giving the green light for fully vaccinated people to gather with other fully vaccinated people without wearing masks or social distancing. getting to see our loved ones again to share a meal indoors with grandparents, parents and friends is the best thing we ve heard in a very long time. we re also seeing grim numbers that have haunted us all year with newly reported coronavirus and hospitalizations on the decline. the reason for this progress boils down to science in the form of three vaccines. the problem is there s a segment of the u.s. population that insists on rejecting science while clamoring that their so-called perso
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.
we have enough that do exist. i thought it was much ado about nothing. look, i know you don t want to talk about it. this is why this is the reason i wrote the book. this is why you have conversations with people who don t look like you so that you can have a degree of comfort with them to be able to discuss these things and you know their intentions. so as i always say and i ve said to you since i met you, and you know that, if you don t have a friend who looks doesn t look like you, you re not doing it right. i hear you. look, i got a lot of black friends, but none like you. i tell you why i thought it was relevant, one, always happy to talk about what i say. i m more inclined to talk about what i do versus what other people do when they want to talk about what i said. say. but we ll leave that to the side. people don t follow these issues. the reason i thought meghan markle was really impressive to me was, one, talking about your pain ain t easy. it s not. even
george floyd. floyd s sister will join me in a few moments. and fallout from the interview with prince harry and meghan, alleging racism in the royal family. there s a conversation with you with harry. about how dark your baby is going to be? potentially, and what that would mean or look like. much more on that interview straight ahead this hour. but i want to get right to something we ve all been waiting for. the cdc releasing official guidance for americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. what can they do? where can they go? can you hug your family, or be inside without masks? dr. jonathan reiner joins me now. thanks for joining. this is good news. we can see some small gatherings, grandparent hugs. but dr. leana wen argues, it s too cautious. you should be cautious, right? she says the cdc should be saying if you re willing to get vaccinated, you should be able to travel freely. do you agree? i agree. this administration said that science wo
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