good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and leading lifestyles that mirror the rich and famous. biden s words
this country and biden s first full month compared to 3,602,020 and increase of 170% with president trump actually protecting our borders and americans. the last thing that we need in the middle of a pandemic is an additional 1 million illegals marching the border, they re not waiting their turn like others who do it legally. the vice president of the national border patrol council spoke out on what he s been seen. we want to make sure, were seen a lot of criminals coming across and a lot of unaccompanied children coming without their parents and we see a massive amount of family units crossing the border illegally. judge jeanine: how is any of this allowed to happen all 10 million americans out of work trying to get back on their feet, now american citizens have to compete with illegals who want the same jobs. the ones who are caught are often released into the interior of our country or bust to a towa village or city near you. even the bus companies are complaining about
united states and around the world. tonight, new york governor andrew cuomo is clinging to power in the face of multiple allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted advancements. but he is increasingly isolated after a piece in the new york magazine. a performer political reporter who covered the administration said the governor sexually harassed her in front of colleagues on multiple occasions. she grows a growing list. he is denying any wrong doing and refusing to resign tonight. cnn s athena jones is in new york. what do we know about the new allegations? reporter: hi, pamela. they are coming from, as you said, a journalist, jessica bakeman, a former capital beat reporter. she writes in a first person piece in new york mag give, and the multiple intenses. cuomo has hands had been on my body, my shoulders, waist. she adds, cuomo never let me forget i m a woman. she describes her job as to report on the governor s every move. she didn t want to go to the holiday party at
for a lot of people. we are finally turning the tide on the virus. if there is ever a time to put on the mask, this is it. everyone says covid doesn t exist. we have a problem with too many people coming here to let loose in ways that are not proper. we want people to have a good time on spring break. don t put your guard down completely. be prudent a bit longer. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. you just heard those words from dr. anthony futauci. be prudent a bit longer. they are begging americans to avoid travel, wear the mask, they are making pleas in a time when 1 in 5 americans received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine. help is now also arriving nationwide. the form of cash. many people telling cnn their covid relief payments have now appeared in their bank accounts. the payments, they are part of the covid relief package that impacts families dir
over them. i look at government, government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited. the constitution was set up all kinds of checks and balances specific powers given to this branch and other branch. and then we have the bill of rights that protects individual and ninth amendment that is really a short restatement of the declaration. you have the 10th amendment that talk about federalism. the whole system is set up to protect the individual. the whole system is set up recognizing that there s a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot penetrate that the government is citizens. now i look at the government today citizen jason whit lock massive taxes massive spending, massive controlling, massive redistribution, massive transforming, rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, but the political parties in my view particularly the democrat party gaining power, holding power, expanding power, trying to penetrat