and maybe we can even be closer than six feet apart. imagine what that would look like with your friends and family. president biden says it s a realistic goal if we all buckle down a little longer. in his first primetime address last night, the president pledged to make all adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by may 1st. that s just seven weeks away. and a month earlier than the last projection. so the president spent only part of his speech touting the $1.9 trillion relief package that is now law. but the hope is here tour, as they re calling it, is about to begin with the president and vice president hitting the road to promote it. the first round of direct payments to americans will arrive in bank accounts this weekend. we ll speak to a member of the biden cabinet in a moment. we begin with john harwood. great to see you this morning. what was the takeaway from president biden s speech last night? some people thought he would be doing more of a sales job, but th
Lets bring in our leadoff panel for this friday night. Franco ordonez, White House Correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. The New York Times katie benner, pulitzer prizewinning reporter who covers the Justice Department. And yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for news hour on pbs. Thanks to all of you for being with us. Katie, let me start with you. We have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. You cover the Justice Department, the legal end of this. It sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that Executive Order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. How clear is that now . Absolutely. So as you say, this was another selfinflicted wound by the Trump Administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. So we saw a lot of confusion last night.
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Muellers team to the test here. Do you think he testifies . Thats a tough call. I would have to handicap it as being negative. I would not put him on. Shimon, lets remind people of the judge. His name is judge ellis and he said point blank to muellers team you dont really care about mr. Maufrts bank fraud, you care about what he could give you that would reflect on mr. Trump and lead to prosecution or impeachment. He hasnt always swung their way in the pretrial hearings and motions. In fact, President Trump used those words in a speech at a rally sort of thinking perhaps the judge would cite his words. So that was something the defense team was hoping they would get a dismissal on some accounts or perhaps some of the decisions would go their way. This judge is known to speak his mind. Hes very well known in the district and he mov
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Damaging. Both the combination of the Michael Cohen revelations and also the fact that mueller is still going. Its causing a lot of people around the president to worry, and theyre also worried about the midterms. Theyre worried mueller might drop something before the midterm elections that could be devastating to republicans. And trump also seems to believe that possibly if he talks, it could bring this investigation to an end more quickly, but theres not necessarily any evidence of that. Yeah, i mean, its interesting the way that trump seems to think that he could Charm Mueller the way that he thinks hes done with kim jongun and with other world leaders. If he gets in the room, he can win them over. This is of course a very different situation. The other thing that is interesting where giuliani is saying put up or shut up, the irony in that is that bob mueller i
Hello again, everyone. Thanks so much for joining me. Im Fredricka Whitfield in washington, d. C. Its the meeting that just wont go away. More than two years later, the story is still evolving on the in infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. President trump now taking a firm stance on the true purpose of the meeting, tweeting, in fact, today, this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. That message very far from the initial statement from donald trump jr. That we later learned was dictated by President Trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children, with no mention of dirt on Hillary Clinton. So this shift comes as sources tell cnn the president is concerned about his son becoming entangled in the russia probe. Cnns white house correspondent
wrong. Reporter while the white house has had difficulty sticking to the script, the president maintained again in that