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as somebody who has been eagerly awaiting her vaccine shot and having no idea when i would become eligible, i will tell you, i feel this personally. as the president made clear tonight, he s saying this doesn t necessarily mean all american adults are going to be vaccinated by the end of next month, by may 1st. but he is ordering all states and territories to open eligibility to all adults by no later than may 1st, which means you can get in line, which means you can start setting up your appointment, which means you can make your plans. any american adult who wants a shot will be free to sign up for one, and the president says his administration will do everything it can to make vaccine shots available to every single american who wants one. and that is just almost unbelievably good news. for all of the americans who want to get vaccinated, present company included, but also for what it says about the progress the administration feels it s making toward that ultimate g ....
having no idea when i would become eligible, i will tell you, i feel this personally. as the president made clear tonight, he s saying this doesn t necessarily mean all american adults are going to be vaccinated by the end of next month, by may 1st. but he is ordering all states and territories to open eligibility to all adults by no later than may 1st, which means you can get in line, which means you can start setting up your appointment, which means you can make your plans. any american adult who wants a shot will be free to sign up for one, and the president says his administration will do everything it can to make vaccine shots available to every single american who wants one. and that is just almost unbelievably good news. for all of the americans who want to get vaccinated, present company included, but also for what it says about the progress the administration feels it s making toward that ultimate goal of getting everybody vaccinated. and you know, also, it mat ....
merck. president biden will announce the purchase of an additional 100 million doses of that johnson & johnson vaccine. an eye on this minneapolis courtroom. it s day three of former police officer derek chauvin s trial. he is charged with murder in the death of george floyd. a fourth juror was seated minutes ago. more on the legal maneuvers coming up. first, our reporters as the house moves closer to passing this covid relief bill. we have garrett haake, carol lee and i want to bring in business correspondent, the one and only stephanie ruhle. garrett, help us understand how this process is going to play out right now. when do you expect we will actually see the house take a vote on this? reporter: i think the house will probably vote late in the noon hour, maybe 1:00 this afternoon. house democratic leaders have scheduled an enrollment ceremony for later this afternoon. they remain that confident that this bill will pass. you are looking at kevin mccarthy having ....
Tightened some of the language around religious freedom exemptions ask protections, which could actually get more republicans on board. now we expect them to do this vote this morning. speaker pelosi will then have an enrollment ceremony and later today we ll see the house vote on the defense authorization bill. this is the yearly military spending bill that came together in the last few days. over $800 billion in military spending. democratic priorities in there like passing incentives for chip production, but also republican priorities in there too getting rid of that vccine mandate for covid-19 for military members. ali vitali, thank you so much. joining us now is congressman representative of illinois. he s one of the lawmakers who wrote a letter and is a member of the house intelligence committee. it s a pleasure to see you. first, how do you expect today s votes to go? i think they are going to overwhelmingly pass. i m just literally standing ....
Let s bring the conversation back in studio an audie cornish, a little boston accent coming out. it s interesting because speaker pelosi being there in the enrollment ceremony to send it to the white house wrote an op-ed in the washington post because she wanted to talk about the importance of this. just as i began my career fighting for lgbtq koontzs i m overjoyed one of the final bills i sign as speaker will be the respect for marriage act and ensuring the federal government will never stand in the way of you marrying the person you love. critical distinction, federal government because a state could still and people think with this supreme court might open the gateway for states to do it as of supreme court opened the gateway for states to act on abortion rights but a pretty important piece of federal legislation there. i don t want to diminish the moment. you talked about masto. you will recall many years ago same-sex marriage was approved in masto, somewhat kind of kicking off ....