hour, the president never uttered the words entrepreneurship, individualism, liberty, and he used the word freedom only once during a section about china. and this week, in his national day of prayer proclamation, biden did not even use the word god. not once. that is because joe and his h radical base value of government dependence all else. dependence on government handouts. government programs, governments solutions. according to biden, government is the answer to all of our problems, and now, we are seeing the results. after a disappointing jobs report, the t unemployment rate just went up. but according to biden, we are right on track. watch this. listening to commentators today go [laughs] as i was getting dressed, you might think that we should be disappointed. but when we passed the american rescue plan, i want to remind everybody, it was designed to help us over the course of a year, not 60 days. a year. we never thought that after the first 50 or 60 da
means getting back to normal sooner. there s also some big political news today, new census numbers mean seven house seats will soon change states and the shifts benefit republicans. house republican retreat designed as a unity meeting is instead exposing the party s sharp divide over donald trump and the insurrection. and as president biden nears the 100-day mark there s word today of a white house plan to target rich tax evaders. the white house says giving the irs $80 billion for this crackdown will bring in some $ $700 billion to help pay for biden initiatives. let s bring in kaitlan collins at the white house. reporter: this is significant news, we re hearing first from the cdc director announcing these changes, this new guidance for people who are fully vaccinated. and then in a little bit we ll see president biden himself talking about it as well and tying it, of course, to his entire covid-19 strategy. of course he was the one who put that 100-day mask guidance in p
as boss. i believe that voters determine the leader of the republican party, and president trump is the leader that they look to. i support president trump. voters support president trump. he is an important voice in our republican party, and we look forward to working with him. the republican voters have unified in their support and their desire to work with president trump. smoke, sand, sirens, and few signs of truth. an overnight escalation of violence in the middle east. israel firing tank shells into gaza and amassing troops on the border. hamas rockets are an around-the-clock threat to israelis. jewish and arab mobs now clashing on city streets. we ll go live to the region in the hour. first a page turning, life-changing moment in the covid pandemic. the rdc says if you are fully vaccinated, you can ditch the mask or at least put it in your pocket or purse. the president celebrated this moment thursday at the white house as evidenced of what america can do when it
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe to this bbc news special. this is president biden s first presidential address to congress. he will talk about america being on the move again. in the next few minutes president biden will address a joint session of congress to mark his first 100 days in office. he will speak soon. let s see what is happening inside the chamber. it is quite odd. it is a covid friendly address. normally there would be something like 1600 people in this chamber, or members of congress that all members of the senate. all of the members of the cabinet would be there and all of the members of the supreme court would be there. senior members of the defence department would be there. it is a much reduced crowd. there are a select few people about 200 in all in the whole chamber. top republicans, top democrats are there. the first ladyjill biden is up in the gallery. and of course it is a historic occasion because sitting behind joe biden