or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most kcons consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this day we celebrate. now, whether it s a success may depend on what happens next. though, a massive messaging blitz and sales pitch is underway. tomorrow president biden holds the first prime time address and next tuesday stops in the home state of pennsylvania which he narrowly won last year and republicans today rolling out their counter arguments, as well. we re doing damage to the future of this country spending dramatically more money than we obviously need. we re about to have a boom, and if we do have a boom, it will have nothing to do with this $1.9 trillion. not a single republican lawmaker voted fo
good evening. it is a historic day in the fight against covid and physical and financial struggles it created. on the day president biden s signature domestic policy passed and $2 trillion covid relief bill, the president announced plans for a deal with johnson & johnson to produce 100 million more doses of the one-shot vaccine and america should have enough vaccine for every adult by the end of may. this as cases are declining again. we ll have more on that in a moment. we want to start with that covid relief bill that passed. whether you applaud the $2 trillion bill is house democrats did immediately after the pass or loathe the price, it s a big deal. it sets the tone in washington for two years with direct payments going to about 90% of households and money for the unemployed and those who have children and can t pay rent or bills. this is the most consequential legislation many of us will ever be a party to. what knows what the future will bring but nonetheless on this
I think not considered by a neutral body, that these are charges that the district attorney already knew she was going to get. this is why the thing was filed as if the indictment had already been returned. that s another reason i hope the district attorney will wait until tomorrow to give us all in the public the sense that the grand jury is actually going to consider in some detail an overdue deliberation of the evidence they ve had before today. elie, long been reported that the d.a. willis is pursuing a rico case against the former president, racketeering charges. we ve all seen it in mob films. what might rico mean in this context? all indication ts are that the d.a. is looking at a rico charge and this is real life and we could see it. traditionally rico is applied to mob families or organized drug trafficking organizations. in the last couple decades, it s expanded to include corrupt political organizations. this is an enterprise, a group of individuals working together to
Political organizations do it, mob families do it, it s not illegal. in fact, doj doesn t even hold it against a defendant if he s faying paying for other people. but what s the practicality of this. imagine you re walt nauta or de oliveira s position, these people don t have tons of money. they re not people of huge means. you can get this lawyer assigned to you from trump s pac, free, you don t have to pay, it s very s expensive to hire a defense lawyer. and then you think the pressure, it s a real factor that protects donald trump. it protects him very well. we re out of time. i have another question next time. elie, preeappreciate it, sara, to have you. what republican presidential candidate nikki haley had to say after mitch mcconnell froze for 23 seconds at the podium during his weekly news conference last week. that s ahead.
On this. and let me ask you to give us some historical analysis because i, again, know just enough to be dangerous, but my read today based on the new york times piece i quoted at the top suggests that rudy giuliani really was a pioneer in using the reco law, racketeering statutes, to prosecute mob families in new york city for federal crimes in ways they hadn t been prosecuted before. is that right? yeah, and it s sort of i hesitate to say turnabout as fair play. it is striking it s rudy giuliani at the center of this. just as frank said, this is exactly how you would build a reco prosecution by working your way up and an important fact is two of the critical players here, which are always two critical players in a reco organization, are the lawyer and the accountant. so you have allen weisselberg and have michael cohen, lawyer and accountant, which in any mob prosecution are always individual s who they you he