get them into people s arms. a top administration official said it could be months until every american who wants a vaccine could get it. let s begin at the white house. our cnn correspondent john harwood joins us. good morning. the president with interesting reporting from there that he is willing to cut back on some of what they re asking for in this relief package. but what does that actually mean? lesser amounts or scrapping things like calling for a $15 min minimum wage? i think the amount of cutbacks in this package is much smaller than we are used to. the biden administration understands that bipartisan is good, it meets the president s desire for unity, but as he said earlier this week, bipartisan unity does not require votes from democrats as well as republicans. big is the most important thing to the biden administration. and you could understand why. we ve got an economic recovery that is just waiting to blossom once you get control of the pandemic. the economy
mean anymore. i don t know what the word week or month so, how are you feeling after a week of the biden presidency and none of that other president? i can t tell if i m coming or going. i m so confused. the fact that there are, like, press briefings at multiple departments of the government every day where they tell us, like, here s what we think the challenges are. here s what we think we re going to do and we re going to take your questions. i feel like what is what is what is this? i don t even know how to cover normal news like this. it is a it is a radical adjustment, and it is very disorienting and i can t tell if i m coming or going. the one word i have for it, rachel, is welcome. yeah. it is very welcome. fair enough. yeah. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. well, yesterday the senate voted to proceed to the impeachment trial of donald trump without first debating whether it is constitutional to have an impeachment trial of a president who has
worshipping satan, drinking the blood of children? anderson, i thought you did that. there is brand new evidence that the new coronavirus variants are spreading in the u.s. rates of illness are lower fon kids who are in school than out of school. when the protocols are followed they work. when they are not followed is when you can have breakdowns. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to viewers in the united states and around the world on this saturday evening. you are in the cnn newsroom. we start this hour on capitol hill where the gop is essentially turn on itself. rookie congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is not only facing fierce criticism from democrats but also from one of the republican party s former standard bearers, senator mitt romney. joe johns is with us now to tell us more. this may poorersonify the battl for the gop here? reporter: right. not pretty. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is kind of doing her own thing right now. she tweeted out
all around the world. i m robyn curnow. thanks for joining me. so ahead on cnn, little more than a week before the start of former u.s. president donald trump s impeachment trial, five of his defense attorneys leave the team. plus a tiny bit of good news in the fight against the coronavirus in the u.s. as cases reach a new milestone. also, protests across russia are under way again in support of activist alexei navalny. but now supporters are reaching out to the u.s. for help. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with robyn curnow. and we begin this hour with breaking news. with just a little more than a week before former president trump s second impeachment trial begins, we re learning his five defense team lawyers have quit. south carolina attorneys butch bowers and debra barbier were expected to be two of the lead attorneys. they re no longer with the team. also gone greg harris, johner and joshua howard. according to people familiar with the mat
to vote, to acquit. i want to bring in cnn s washington correspondent sunlen serfaty. is there enough republican support for donald trump to acquit him in the senate trial no matter what defense is presented? reporter: that certainly is the key question here. a lot of people of course pointing to that procedural vote that the senate had last week as an early indication on where the final vote may end up. and that was a vote on senator rand paul s point of order to vote on the constitutionality of an impeachment trial. it was then that only five republicans broke ranks and voted with the democrats on that question so potentially a lot to read into there although many senators are saying they are keeping an open mind and notably that five is not enough. they need 17 republicans in the end to break ranks. the senators who of course will serve as jurors say they re keeping an open mind but specifically still much attention on each and every word that republican senators are say