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moment, flanked by vice president kamala harris. and it is worth noting tonight, not just what this president who has been in 50 days this evening has gotten done but how he has done it, with very little drama, no tweets and his party pretty much united. while this bill isn t perfect, it is remarkable. president biden s steady hand hasn t let us to. we ve seen ramped up vaccinations, a schedule, reversal of wicked policies like the muslim ban, return of the paris climate accords and now the passage of the american rescue plan, to rescue an economy that was left in a flaming dumpster fire by his predecessor. today really is a big f ing deal. it represents an historic victory for the american people iechl look forward to signing it later this week. everything in the american rescue plan addresses a real need. together, we re going to get through this pandemic and usher in a healthier and more hopeful future so there is real reason for hope, folks. there s real reason fo ....
balcony. let s get right to cnn s richard quest, live at buckingham palace for us this morning. richard quest, good morning, how has it gone? reporter: good morning to you. it is an overcast but still dry morning. welcome. i m actually up the road from the palace in trafalgar square, where i think you might be able to see there are several hundred people watching what s happening on big screens. the reason we re in tra it ffal square, throughout the day, the queen is literally commuting through the square, backwards and forwards, palace, manchester house, down to westminster for the lunch, and then later this afternoon, soledad, up whitehall and back home to the palace for that royal wave. on the balcony, only six or seven of them. they re limiting the number of people that had be on the balcony. just the queen, the immediate line of succession, charles, camilla, william, catherine and harry. so, up next from the calendar that i ve read, the queen has left st. paul ....
phone etiquette, the man was an older gentleman but tells the new york times he had just gotten the iphone the day before the concert and he didn t know how it worked, didn t know it had an alarm, didn t know how to turn it off. according to the times he apologized to the conductor face to face. apology accepted. the lesson learned. at least turn the ringer off. now this. here we go. top of the hour two. welcome back. couple of stories we re watching for you. president obama wants to shrink the government. joran van der sloot learns his fate. and cnn sits down with oprah winfrey in a revealing interview. time to play reporter roulette. dan lothian, let s begin with you at the white house. a new push to try to cut part of the federal government bureaucracy. dan lothian, what s the plan? that s right in is something that the president started talking about during his state of the union address last year. he really believes that the federal government is bloated. t ....
so let s get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. that s not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. congress didn t consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that s a lot of paperwork. that s a lot of reports to prepare. that s not adding value. it s not making us safer. well, congress will have to approve a rewrite and republicans promise a careful review of that. military investigators say that they have tracked down and interviewed at least two of the marines seen urinating on corpses in afghanistan. the video has gone viral. today the deputy commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan issued a directive, reminding troops, and i quote, we must treat the living and the d ....