military families they are speaking to make, and what it s like to be one of them. and so they speak obviously from their own personal experience. and, you know, we will tune in when the president starts speaking about what message he wants to send this memorial day. we know this has long been something that the first lady has made a priority. she, even as second lady, during the obama administration, working with the former first lady michelle obama, made working with and supporting military families a priority, a project that they made sure stayed at the forefront of the administration. and that s something they are continuing to do memorial day weekend. let s listen flou to the first lady, dr. jill biden. and we must do everything we can to help them carry the weight of their grief, and always, always honor their service. ten years ago first lady michelle obama and i created joining joining forces. and this work continues to be one of my top priorities today. we are
Spending. How will the president agend hit the wallet? we will talk to kaylee and congressman of florida, that s all ahead. A very busy day. It is. We begin first with house lawmakers now introducing two bipartisan bills that aim to hold china accountable for its role in the pandemic for the legislation would example shoul commission to investigate how this pandemic started and how families of victims to sue beijing. Hello, and welcome to i m sandr smith here in new york. And this is america reports. I am in for john roberts fro los angeles, the bill has come is house republicans on the judiciary and oversight committee wants her own investigation into an nih grant that reportedly used taxpayer money to fund the institute of neurology studies on that coronavirus is. There are concerns over how tha chinese lab could be the source of that and eventually spread around the globe. Congressman dan crenshaw callin out china s lack of cooperation and transparency earlier on america s newsroom.
30 voted for the commission over in the house. Mitch mcconnell said a commission would be inherently partisan and would only continue from president trump s second impeachment trial. Senator cassidy said he supported the bill to prevent a partisan issue. Are they more likely to trust a commission handpicked by speaker pelosi or one picked by a bipartisan vote? after the vote today, majority leader chuck schumer took republicans to task about what he framed as fear of donald trump. I m just terribly disappointed that so many republicans refuse to even look at a bipartisan, down the middle look at it because they re afraid of donald trump. Donald trump is a bane to our democracy. And unless people in his own party stand up to him, it s bad for the party, it s bad for those individuals, but most of all, it s bad for the country. Schumer says he s reserving the right to reintroduce the legislation in the future. We re talking about all this right now with simon kippur. Simon, i ll start wi
jersey and connecticut will lift most of the covid restrictions starting may 19. that is a potential turnaround for a tri-state region that was at one point the epicenter for the virus in our country. and this comes just as we are getting new reports that the fda is preparing to authorize the pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds by early next week. yet the news tonight also includes rapidly developing variants and continuing vaccine hesitancy among a large block of adults in our country and all of that has the experts doubting if the u.s. will ever truly reach herd immunity. well, this afternoon the president appeared to have a much more positive outlook. when do you believe the u.s. will reach herd immunity? i believe by the end of the summer we will be in a very different position than we are now. much more on all of that ahead. the former president launched a grenade into the battle for control of the republican party. ever since he lost trump has been pushing the b
epicenter of the virus in our country. and this comes just as we are getting new reports that the fda is preparing to authorize the pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15 year olds by early next week. yet the news tonight also includes rapidly developing variants and continuing vaccine hesitancy among a large block of adults in our country. all of that has experts now doubting that the u.s. will ever surely reach herd immunity, that brass ring we have all been told about. well, this afternoon the president appeared to have a much more positive outlook. when do you believe the u.s. will reach immunity? i think by the end of the summer, we will be in a very different position than we are now. much more on all of that just ahead. meanwhile, the former president today launched a grenade into the pedal for control of the republican party. ever since he lost, trump of course has been pushing the big lie that he won. this morning he took that to a new level with this statement, quote, th