To our country. My name is captain carnation mendoza and i served with the Capitol Police for 19 years. I take a light a lot of pride in my job prior to serving to the Capitol Police i served as activeduty soldier with the United States army my last duty station was split between the pentagon in the Washington Area criminal investigation division. I received various awards from the army in the Capitol Police to include an award during the pentagon attack. Unfortunately i did not save any lives but there certain lessons that always stuck with me after 9 11. One of those lessons is knowing the unthinkable is always possible so be ready. So it always take my job very seriously as 9 11 is always in the back of my mind. With the Capitol Police i served in various operational administrative and collateral assignments i am currently serving as a captain in the special Operations Division where i have various responsibilities to include serving as a field commander in the Field Force Commander
The white house is making one final push to get the covid relief bill through the senate, over the objection of republicans. All im trying to do is make this a more deliberate process. More states rolling back covid19 safety measures. I will not keep the mask order in effect. Evidence supports the use in preventing disease and death. On average, more than 2 million doses going into american arms every day. If we continue to vaccinate more and more and more, well get rid of the masks. But i dont know really what the big rush is. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its friday, march 5th. 6 00 here in new york and storytime is over in the u. S. Senate. Senator ron johnson of wisconsin, who has proven that his tastes normally run towards makebelieve and fantasy overnight demanded a foray into nonfiction. As americans wait for passage of a 1. 9 trillion Economic Relief bill tha
The Unemployment Rate down just a pinch to 6. 2 . Momentum behind Vaccine Rollout Raising hopes for our economic recovery. Lets not forget there are still close to 10 million fewer jobs today than a year ago. Before the pandemic. Its all framing the drama that we are watching on capitol hill right now. The senate slowly moving toward passing President Bidens covid relief plan. We are watching the debate live on the senate floor right now. You see vermont senator Bernie Sanders there. One delay already cost ten hours 43 minutes and nine seconds. Thanks to republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, we now know thats how long it takes to the entire 628 covid relief bill out loud. Debate over the bill happening as we speak. We will dig into next steps in moments. Also right now, the white house taking a twopronged approach with its agenda today. Any minute now that covid19 Response Team will hold its briefing. Nbc news has reported all week that we expect expect being the operative word,
Giving up. Chief White House Correspondent and Weekend Today cohost, kelly odonnell, Garrett Haake on capitol hill, chris lieu, former Deputy Secretary Of Labor in the Obama Administration and david jolly, former republican. Garrett, youve been chasing this senate vote since they gavelled into session today after their long night of reading, the reading marathon. How long is the process going to take . Any way to estimate . Reporter this could be a very long process. Sort of a popular parlor game on the hill to ask senators when they think theyll be done. The ones ive talked to expect it will be well after midnight. So far there have been more than 250 amendments filed although in contrast, the last time we did one of these there were more than 900 amendments filed and only about 40 got voted. Were till looking at dozens of amendment votes and debates on each one of those that could take us well into the wee hours of saturday morning, andrea. David jolly, were at a point a day behind s
To rebut some of the things said today . Walk us through the end game in all of this. Well, lester, there still are going to be closing arguments. So we will have another opportunity to hear from house managers and then again from President Trumps former President Trumps defense attorneys. The way that its structured, the managers could save out some of their time and have basically the last word on the floor. Before we get to that point well have a question and answer session from senators. While the prosecution and the defense seem to have not taken the entirety of their time, im interested to see the senators have four hours for q a. In the last impeachment trial they took all of their own time. They dont like to give up their time but theres a sense they want to get on with this. I think you could see them asking questions that allow the house managers to come back and make these cases in public, potentially to respond to what the trump team has done here, but were just going to ha