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, my fe
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 for you
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 saw h
signed a $1.9 trillion bill, that bill is being called a coronavirus relief measure. joe biden didn t take any questions after he signed it, plan on taking questions tonight. that s not surprising, joe biden has not held a press conference since taking office, the longest and least a century a president has waited. our leaders no longer believe they have to justify spending nearly $2 trillion even though it s more than the entire gross domestic product of canada. it is triple all federal spending during the entire new deal and counting for inflation. nothing like this has ever happened. you would think we d be able to ask him questions about it. in a functioning democracy, our reporters demand that joe biden this coronavirus are relief bill includes race-based land reform that does not seem american at all. they also might ask why we are apportioning billions of dollars to pay off debt for farmers with certain skin colors. is that legal? we just did it. and asked joe biden