martha mccallum is here. which is amazing. given how bad her day went. did she have a tough time getting up this morning. thank god she s fine. but her commute to work was a disaster. martha. martha, just uber it. do you feel like the two political parties don t matter anymore. the malevolent media and the people they call racist. the media makes it clear they don t like and it s half the country, the half that shows their love for their country because that means you must be a racist rube, right, mara? i saw dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with expletives against joe biden. on the back of them. comp flags. in some cases, just dozens of american flags which is also just disturbing because the message was clear, it was, this is my country. this is not your country. i own this. greg: expletives. amazing. you know who else was disturbed facing dozens of american flags, the nazis at normandy. but i digress. the new york times rushed to her defense in a tweet saying she w
a new round of stimulus payments, a step closer to reaching millions of americans. how long it will take before your family sees a check. plus widespread vaccinations are ramping up, nearly 3 million just today. the president says there should be enough vaccine for everyone who wants a shot by the end of may. and open and candid, prince harry and meghan markle get set to open up to the world. is a royal rift about to get bigger? i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday evening. for millions of american families this evening, it is no longer if but when they will receive their next pandemic stimulus checks. cnn s jessica dean is on capitol hill. jessica, tell us what is the timeline if everything goes smoothly from here. when will american families and businesses start to see these payments? reporter: the short answer, pam, is if everything goes as plan, which it s l
states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. for millions of american families it may no longer be if, but when they will receive their next pandemic stimulus checks. on saturday the u.s. senate narrowly passed president joe biden $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. the yays are 50, the nays are 49, the bill as amended is passed. this is biden s first major legislative win since his election even though he failed to get support from republican senators. some of the money from his stimulus package could start appearing in bank accounts before the end of the month. it includes $1,400 per person to those who qualify and unemployed americans could get a $300 increase to their jobless benefits through september 6th. cnn s jessica dean has more on what s included in the stimulus bill and the next steps to getting it passed in the house. reporter: the senate passing this massive covid relief bill right along party lines, 50 to 49, b
the top republican in the senate says president trump is practically immorally responsible for the january 6th attack on the capitol. if he really feels that way, the question is why did he vote to acquit. plus, the impeachment phase is over, but possible criminal investigations may just be heating up. the question, who gets the final word on whether donald trump is to blame for the capitol riot. and the cdc releases new guidelines designed to get students back into the classroom, but they don t include teacher vaccinations. the question is should they? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is marking a presidents day unlike any other. i am kasie hunt on this monday, february 15th. we ll start with the news. the u.s. senate acquitted former president trump for a second time this past weekend. the vote was 57-43, and that was ten votes short of the 67 that would have been needed to convict. the seven republicans who
of the strictest covid countermeasures many of them have ever seen as the world confronts a second olympic games amid a pandemic. cnn s selena wang is live inside tokyo with more now. how many spectators will there be, and how will the government be choosing them? reporter: well, ana, it s hard to believe we re only 17 days away from the start of the games and we still don t know how many spectators are allowed or how they will be chosen. all we know from organizers is that anyone allowed to attend is going to have to follow strict covid rules before, during and after the games. international spectators have already been banned and with the latest change reflects just the growing restrictions and what is already an extraordinarily restricted olympic games, even for than what i experienced in the tokyo summer games. i ll be traveling in a couple of weeks but already i ve had to download an olympic health tracking app, put in my daily temperature and once i enter beijing i ll