msnbc. that s going to do it for us tonight. now it s time for the last word where ali velshi is in for lawrence tonight. i too am at that time in my year and just getting ready for this has been fun because we re going through people doing inspiring things in our lives, in the news. that doesn t bubble to the top as much as it should, so i m excited about it. rachel, have yourself a fantastic weekend and we ll see you on monday. thanks, my friend. thank you. well, it s just 101 days into president biden s term, six months after his election. the new president has already proven that the trump republican claims about a biden economy were total lies. he s a headwind in the stock market because if he gets in the market will crash. not only is the economy booming under biden but we re at transformational moment for the american economy. a moment that could improve the course of the nation for generations to come. in 101 days president biden has overseen a really stro
so and it goes away. i m looking forward on getting the second one on the day after my birthday, the day after your birthday, may the 3rd. it does make you feel fluy and kind of like at the same time, energetic. i didn t feel energetic. you do feel a sense of joy, a little bit? and the gratitude, of, oh, my god, i can t believe i m sitting here a year after the world shut down that they raced to make this vaccine and i m benefiting from it and this operation is being run so well. so some of that joy and gratitude hopefully takes over the flu symptoms. yeah, no, i absolutely felt like incredible gratitude. it felt like history i really was amazed when i got my first vaccine. and i was talking about it with the nurse and saying, this is incredible, this is history. and she agreed. and it was, you know, kind of like something i ll remember forever. at the same time, the second one is challenging. and you ve got to do it. the thing is, we had a doctor friend tell us
helping the millions of americans hurting from the pandemic. with one month on the job now under his belt, it s full steam ahead on his $1.9 trillion rescue package which would include direct payments of $1400 to eligible americans, as well as enhanced unemployment benefits, a national vaccination program and more. despite two-thirds of americans approving of the bill, unsurprisingly, it s been met with republican recalcitrance. president biden remained undeterred. what would they have me cut? what would they have me leave out? should we not invest $20 billion to vaccinate the nation? should we not invest $290 million to extend unemployment insurance for the 11 million americans who are unemployed so they can get by? this is the united states of america for god s sake. we invest in people. who are in need. speaker of the house nancy pelosi says we can expect a vote in the house by the end of this week. roughly two weeks before a key jobless benefit programs expire. joinin
in the previous hour on the way this new law in georgia changes the secretary of state s involvement, which is to say removes the secretary of state from the process, for me is the most chilling part of this bill. we ll see what the experts in jor jr. have to say about it. but your concentration on that was really illuminating. thank you. it s scary stuff. and being able to overrule and in fact replace elections boards counties by counties, you can imagine partisan bad actors going in and saying let s figure out which counties voted for the democrat. and those will be the elections boards we ll replace. we ll uncertify those results and make sure those go the way we want. it is a recipe for disaster in terms of small deed democracy. and the speed of the way they did this is part of the scandal of it. joe biden said these three words today in the same answer in his press conference, sick, despicable, pernicious. that s what joe biden called the georgia legislature s voti
and rachel, your concentration in the previous hour on the way this new law in georgia changes the secretary of state s involvement, which is to say removes the secretary of state from the process, for me is the most chilling part of this bill. we ll see what the experts in georgia have to say about it. but your concentration on that was really illuminating. yeah. well, thank you. it s scary stuff. and being able to overrule and in fact replace elections boards counties by counties, you can imagine partisan bad actors going in and saying let s figure out which counties voted for the democrat. and those will be the elections boards we ll replace. we ll uncertify those results and make sure those go the way we want. i mean, it is a recipe for disaster in terms of small d democracy. and the speed of the way they did this is part of the scandal of it. mm-hmm. exactly. all right. thanks, my friend. thank you, rachel. thank you. joe biden said these three words today in the