continued into the dark of night. we ve got it covered, our meteorologist bill karins joins us later in the hour with the latest. as for our other coverage tonight we have some dangerous politics under way in the south, voter suppression out in the open. it s now law in georgia. and we begin with the president s first solo news conference, which he began by announcing that he is setting a dramatic new bench mark for covid vaccinations. on december 8th i indicated that i hoped to get 100 million shots in people s arms in my first hundred days. we met that goal last week by day 58. 42 days ahead of schedule. now today i m setting a second goal, and that is we will, by my 100th day in office, have administered 200 million shots in people s arms. the u.s. is on track to surpass that. we re now averaging nearly 2.5 million doses every day. biden s latest goal comes as the new virus cases are on the rise in about half of our country. just ahead the white house senior adviser on
continued into the dark of night. we ve got it covered, our meteorologist bill karins joins us later in the hour with the latest. as for our other coverage tonight we have some dangerous politics under way in the south, voter suppression out in the open. it s now law in georgia. and we begin with the president s first solo news conference, which he began by announcing that he is setting a dramatic new benchmark for covid vaccinations. on december 8th i indicated that i hoped to get 100 million shots in people s arms in my first hundred days. we met that goal last week by day 58. 42 days ahead of schedule. now today i m setting a second goal, and that is we will, by my 100th day in office, have administered 200 million shots in people s arms. the u.s. is on track to surpass that. we re now averaging nearly 2.5 million doses every day. biden s latest goal comes as the new virus cases are on the rise in about half of our country. just ahead the white house senior adviser on
ability to resist a coup. tomorrow also marks the fourth impeachment trial of a united states president in more than two centuries of american history. and it speaks volumes that trump has been the defendant in half of them. we re now learning what the next several days will look like with the prosecution and defense teams each receiving up to 16 hours to make their case. but it all begins with a constitutional debate over the trial itself. we already know that that s the first line of defense for trump s lawyers who claim that the senate doesn t even have the authority to try a former president. that argument suffered a significant blow today in the pages of the wall street journal, where a leading conservative scholar wrote, quote, it deies logic. the new york times says the impeachment managers prosecuting trump plans to have a fast, cinematic case showing the outrage that lawmakers experienced on january 6th. they ll also rely heavily on video to show that trump incit
shuffles in the ground on politics which means delays before people feel the benefits. the self proclaims qanon shaman was just sentenced to 41 months for his role in the capitol riot. we ll have a live report for the kyle ritenhouse trial. we begin this hour with weekend today co-host kristen welker, and ashley parker. why is this vote so important? we ll see the house floor open up momentarily. we will probably not see the actual vote on this centure until later in the afternoon. they are with democrats on so many of these kinds of issues. we asked her why she felt it was so important to take this step today. it s an emergency, it s violence against women, it s workplace harassment. in terms of threatening a member of the united states and the president. we have to address it immediately and i m so pleased that our members understand that this central to our work in congress that we protect the integrity of the house, of the institution, but also the lives of our men an
david s family, that we should show each other kindness and love, and that should be his lasting legacy. we ve rightly been reminded of davidson enthusiastic advocacy for the constituencies that he represented. but he was also in an enthusiast for the london bureau where he was born and grew up, where he attended the excellent catholic school which he stayed in touch with for the rest of his life, where he is supported western united football club and where his mother lived on until her death as we been reminded at the age of 104 five years ago. i heard over the weekend from somebody who is in david but unlike david supported the labour party. he told me that the politics teacher mister cunningham predicted that david was going to be a conservative mp. but he also told me that in a period when he wasn t able to attend quite a lot of the politics lessens david very carefully wrote out all his notes so that his friend could copy those notes afterwards. kindness was evident at t