nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan into law, meaning millions of dollars will flow into bank accounts and the hands of americans. another 12,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment claims, lost their jobs just last week. tonight s prime time speech is a new time for the president. look behind with sorrow, look ahead with hope. we re one year into the start of the new world. sports stopped, offices and schools began closing. the world health organization one year ago today called covid-19 a pandemic. one year. nearly 30 million cases here in the states, 118 million plus globally, soon to be 530,000 american deaths. the president will outline his two-track path to post-pandemic life tonight. a spring surge in the covid vaccine rollout and a surge in economic help to families, small businesses and to schools. but the president s hope does come with a messaging challenge. telling folks if there are ball games or a family picnic coming up, mask up and be extra careful ju
effective advocate for what i actually do believe. it helps me anticipate the weaknesses my own argument, bolster them and be better prepared when they are challenged. so there are many reasons to expose ourselves to different perspectives. take the issue of a national minimum wage. there are those who believe congress should set the minimum wage for everyone and it should be $15 an hour. there are those who think congress should set the wage but it should be higher or lower than $15 an hour. there are those who have no quarrel with $15 an hour as a minimum wage but they believe that issue should be left to the different states and cities. there are those who believe government should not set the minimum wage at all. so it s the same issue. there are just differentview points. then there are some issues where try as we may, we cannot understand the other side of the issue at all. when you look at president biden immigration plan you will find a lot of money for south and cent
president biden. unlikely to draw republicans vote in chamber. 40% say she support the bill they support the bill. but republicans felt they were left out of the process. it didn t have to be this way. could have got bipartisan approval and support but the speaker decided to go in another direction. f now, there certainly can be legitimate reasons not to like this current relief bill like there were legitimate reasons republicans and democrats didn t like the last one. which passed in december and cost $900 billion. feeling left out of the process was listed as a reason then, too. few leaders making decisions without significant input from members and feeling rushed but it passed by wide margins it passed because the whole out weighed the individual parts people didn t like. 359 votes in the democratic controlled house and 92 in the republican senate. it was largely bipartisan, same with the first major covid relief package that cost nearly a year ago, the one that cost
truth be told, he doesn t have the to do much selling. there s strong support, bipartisan support for the bill. 61% in favor. cnn s lauren fox live on capitol hill. lauren, what is the timing of the historic vote today? in just a little over an hour, we expect the final debate to be begin in the house of representatives over this $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. after about two hours of debate they ll hold that final vote or that is our expectation this morning. democratic leaders confident that they have the democratic votes they will need to pass this piece of legislation. they don t expect a single republican vote, despite the fact it has more than 60% approval in the latest cnn poll of the american people. now this bill includes a lot of things that are going to make life easier for americans. $1400 direct checks for people making $75,000 or less. more money for vaccine distribution. more money for small businesses. more money to get kids back in the classrooms after th
45 have become president what d you think when you think of those 45 individuals we have called president? how many do you think did a goo job? what do we want in a leader? do we even expect the president to be a leader? do we want to present leaders who will tell us what we want t hear, do we want leaders who will tell us the truth, even if it s not what we want to hear? there is some consents and slightly like george, washington,. probably the same with john adams and i ve always admired abraham lincoln in large part because everything come of the failures them of the self doubt he overcame it to lead us through the most divisive time in our country s history. lincoln, a government of the people, by the people, for the people. i liked ronald reagan because h was hopeful. he also lost he lost the nomination, he came back to become one of the more popular presidents we ever had. my grandmother spoke highly of franklin roosevelt. folks still mourn what could ve been with john