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hello and welcome. you join us as us presidentjoe biden prepares to deliver his first primetime address to mark a year since the covid 19 pandemic struck. he is expected to tell americans he is taking a more aggressive action to speed covid 19 vaccinations and move the country closer to normality byjuly 4th. a few hours ago the president signed into law his $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. lets go live to the white house and have a look at the scene of the east room. traditionally, presidents beforehand spoke in prime time from the oval office but this is the east room of the white house and mr biden in a few seconds time will walk down that red carpet of the cross hall and deliver the address that was the same place in which obama spoke and occasionally mr donald trump. as you can see at the end, the door has opened and the president is approaching the podium. president is approaching the odium. ,., ., , president is approaching the odium, ,., ., , ., podium. good evening, ....
people to get the vaccine. we re moving from that phase, the survival phase, really into the phase of taking action yourselves. but also collectively, investing in ourselves, beginning to ask the question that why it was so many americans were so close to being on food bank lines when had their jobs disappeared and beginning to make choices about setting ourselves up for the future. van jones? look, help is on the way. help is on the way. and i think it s not good enough just to win, it you ve also got to spin to win. he s going to do that tonight. progressives like this, which it s hard to please progressives. and republicans like it so much they voted against it they still want the credit. 50 days in this is really about joe biden s legacy as president of the united states. this is the largest anti-poverty program in decades. he s talking about ending a pandemic and most of all in many ways he s trying to tell people that government works, government can work fo ....
and it was certainly. nearly 30 million more cases, nearly half a million lost lives and millions of lost jobs. now with federal relief choengs the way, three vaccines on the market, but deaths still averaging about 1400 a day. president biden addressed the nation. good evening, my fellow americans. tonight i d like to talk to you about where we are as you mark one year since everything stopped because of this pandemic. a year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for day, week, then months. that led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness. photos and videos from 2019 feel like they were taken in another era, the last vacation, the last birthday with friends, the last holiday with extended family. while it was different for everyone, we all lost something. a collective suffering. a collective sacrifice. a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us. but in the loss, we ....
he signed in $1.9 trillion bill, that bill is being called a coronavirus release to relief measure. he isn t planning on taking any questions about it. that s not surprising, he has not held a press conference since taking office, the longest and at least a century of president hasn t waited. our leaders don t believe they have to justify spending nearly $2 trillion, even though the entire gross domestic product of canada it s tripled all federal spending during the entire new deal, accounting for inflation. you think you would be able to ask some questions about it. in a functioning democracy, argent reporters would demand joe biden would explain why the relief bill does not seem american at all. they may also ask why they re so many money for farmers with certain skin color state is that legal? we did it. it violates civil rights, but we can t ask him why he did it, he s not taking questions, and probably doesn t know anyway. the past year has empowered our leaders ....
jillian: chaos in portland. protestors smash windows and light fires. the house pass two control bill that is will ultimately make it harder for americans to buy and sell firearms. they don t do anything to prevent gun violence. they rob law abiding citizens of their constitution amendments. good friday morning to you. i hope that you re having a good morning so far. we are grateful that you re joining us on friday morning. hope you have a good weekend ahead. hopefully fun plans but i was asking friends here this morning, what are you doing this weekend, nothing, nothing. we are all hunkered down. we lose an hour sleep on sunday. spring forward. i will keep to myself. i feel guilty but we know plans today, looks like vice president will be selling $1.9 trillion plan which they will officially sign today so they do have plans but immediately joe biden will go right to delaware where he will hang out for a while. he will sell the covid rescue plan to the count ....