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
kind of accountability that s necessary and give veterans, 6 1/2 million of them, this kind of health care, the kind of first-class, state of the art treatment they deserve. medical care delayed all too often is medical care denied. because it can result in the kind of fatalities and other kinds of problems that have been documented. doesn t sound to me correct me if i m wrong, as if you still have a lot of confidence in secretary shinseki. i m going to ask and continue to pose tough questions to secretary shinseki. i think he s going to have to provide answers. not only to the congress but to the american people most especially to the heroes, the veterans of the united states. 6 1/2 million of them that depend on these va facilities for health care they need and deserb. wolf, looking forward, general
i know that people are angry and want scriwift reckoning. we have to let the investigators do their job and get to the bottom of what happened. our veterans deserb to know the facts. once we know the facts, i assure you, if there is misconduct, it will be punished. our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin broke the story for us. he s joining us now live from phoenix. that s where the scandal first erupted. were you surprised the president allowed secretary shinseki to stay at the job? i think i m getting messages from many veterans groups who were surprised. the fact that the president said this was near and dear to his heart, a cause he takes seriously, that he won t stand for the mistreenlt of our veterans seeking health care, yet the person who has been in the job trying to fix that and hasn t is going to be allowed to
instead. black swan is a psychological thriller. it will be getting a lot of oscar buzz. people will talk about this for a while. at least it gives you a lot of twists, people. that s what we are all about. usually by this time of the year we have been hearing christmas songs since halloween which means the ear worms get stuck in your head and you find yourself in the newsroom singing. the weather outside is frightful and by you i mean mean. i like to sing more than the average person, but some of the songs can take a perfectly lovely tiny tim and turn him into a scrooge. and the songs that land on the worst ever lists usually deserb to be there, like wonderful christmas time. i saw mommy kissing santa claus. what is the most annoying? we hit the streets to get your