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
and dunkin donuts have brought in goodies for us to celebrate national coffee day. rob: is everybody ready for desert at 5:25 in the morning? is that maple coffee? yeah there is a new maple pecan coffee. and pumpkin spice over there. i will take a pumpkin spice, too. thank you. chirs to national coffee day. heather: cheers, friends. cheers to their donuts. rob: jackie has a doughnut. i have another one in here, rob. baby wants it. we have plenty of donuts. rob: we have our sugar bomb. thanks.
look over to my left shoulder participating in a parade in this town. you can see a lot of people have their chirs lined up along the street. they re very excited about the prospects of having hillary clinton, this national celebrity, come to their town. one man came up and said isn t it excited we could potentially have our first grandmother president in 2016? there s a lot of excitement. i still can t get the image of everyone in their pajamas in the slumber party. that s all i m thinking about. how fun. m.j. lee, appreciate it. thank you. coming up captured inmate david sweat, spilling details on his escape. now we re learning about major corruption.