good evening, every one. welcome to a very special edition of the reid out. our virtual town hall on race and america s covid crisis. we have got a gorgeous live zoom audience who will be with us throughout the night. we re one year into the pandemic. we wanted to hear if you, the american people. many you have submitted questions for this event and here is what you wanted to know. will we be with can coronavirus and it s other mutants till 2022 and beyond? help us understand the difference between the pfizer va vaccine, moderna. how do you overcome the skepticism. will the current vaccines protect us from future variants of covid? when will we be able to get to some kind of normal. this once in sustain global pandemic has up ended billions of lives worldwide. more than 510,000 american lives have been lost with black and brown americans much more likely to get infected. u.s. like expectancy dropped by a year in first half of 2020. latinx people for years. it s im
insurrection as the rhett of congress works on an american rescue. tonight the big vote on the covid relief bill and how the minority party is undermining. the new york times releasings a major break in the investigation of the death of a police officer at the hands of a mob. and cpac. and the washington post s david ignatius about what we are learn being the role of the saudi crown prince in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. it all starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. one year ago, exactly a year ago, our leadership was pubically denying the coronavirus would even be a factor in our lives even though they knew at the time different. on this very day last year expresident trump told us, quote, you have 15 people, meaning 15 cases, and the 15, within a couple days is going to be down close to zero. that s a pretty good job we ve done. here we are tonight with the house just moments away from voting on an enormous relief package to help