a shot of capitol hill there. new this morning, president biden s $1.9 trillion rescue bill is moving 0 ton the senate after the house passed it overnight. no republicans voted for the bill. two democrats aopposed too. the house package includes $1400 direct checks to people making less than $75,000 a year. direct aid to small businesses, an increase in the child tax credit, direct funding to state and local governments, funding for schools, more money for vaccine distribution. seven more steps in place here before the bill heads to the president. unemployment benefits, help for small businesses, they will lapse soon. there s still significant disagreement between parties on how much to spend and where that money should go. the time for bold and decisive action is now. this american rescue plan act will crush the virus, return children safely to school, support vaccinations, put dollars in family s pockets and put people back to work. we are holding our kids back. thi
held, it followed record turnout among black voters. the cdc reporting nearly 3.4 million doses of vaccine administered since yesterday. setting a new daily record. this is not the time to let down our guard. we know what to do, we wait for science to rescue us. science starts rescuing us, we start pulling back further. the race is on to dislodge the giant container ship wedged across the suez canal. defense officials say the u.s. navy is sending a team of dredge experts. the nightmare. it goes on to tell cnn that could cause price spikes. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. the sun coming up there in washington, d.c. as you look at the white house. it s 7:01 on this saturday morning. we are so grateful for your company. listen, if you received your coronavirus shot recently, you re probably the reason the nationwide campaign to vaccinate the country looks so good right now. covid vaccines are being administered at a new recor
under some sort of winter storm warning as much of the u.s. braces for another round of brutal temperatures, snow and ice. good to have you with us. well, the fallout from donald trump s second impeachment trial is only beginning, and its impact on u.s. politics will likely be felt for some time. democrats control the presidency and congress, but the acquittal, despite an abundance of video evidence, shows the republican party remains largely the party of trump. still, for some there is bipartisan agreement, specifically on the need to know more about the deadly january 6th riot. but there s still more evidence that the american people need and deserve to hear and a 9/11 commission is a way to make sure that we secure the capitol going forward and that we lay bear the record of just how responsible and how abjectly violative of his constitutional oath president trump really was. i think, you know, there was yesterday s vote, but there s definitely a number of court po
child. we will have a live report with reaction from the royal family . good to have you with us. there may be some in washington, d.c., who are moving on from donald trump s second impeachment trial, but debate over the former president s acquittal still rages on in some quarters, specifically over house impeachment manager s decision against calling witnesses. however, they point out the republican loyalty to trump has remained largely unshakeable. that remained conviction unlikely despite the evidence. we could have had 1,000 witnesses but that could not have overcome the kinds of silly arguments people were hanging their hats on. just so the american public is aware, witnesses in a senate hearing do not come and stand before the senators and make any statements. it s a deposition. it s videotaped and that is brought before the senate. so i know that people are feeling a lot of angst and believe that maybe if we had this, the senators would have done what we wanted b
it is midnight in the east. the trump lawyers are up next in the impeachment trial after house managers rested their case. and we re hearing they re looking to keep arguments short and tight because really what is there to defend? the less they say may be the better after that opening-day disaster. but that was largely stylistic. look, the jury is rigged. we are not at a criminal trial. these are not members of the society simply. they are invested and interested parties. senator mcconnell told you that. he said they re not impartial. now you know that members of the republican side of the senate are meeting with the defense team. how is that impartial? they took an oath to be impartial. how is that impartial? one trump lawyer, castor, demolished his own client s lie that the election was stolen from him. he said voters are smart enough to pick a new administration, and they did. the big lie, of course, led to this insurrection, and it still hasn t been retracted by trump, so