Away. Theres also movement this afternoon on pandemic relief. Despite a twohour meeting in the Oval Office Last night on the president s plan and a much smaller republican counteroffer Congressional Democrats are now moving to fast track their 1. 9 trillion package. We have so much more on what that means for struggling americans in just a moment, but, first, lets Dig A Little Deeper on this legal response filed by the former president s attorneys. Our cnn chief domestic correspondent jim acosta is live with me this afternoon. Jim, this all goes down one week from today. What will we be hearing from team trump . Well, what youre going to be hearing, brooke, is part of what you just said a few moments ago, constitutionally they will argue that the president cant be convicted at the senate trial after leaving office as president , but they are also going to say that the president s comments on january 6th, that rally on the ellipse just before the riot that took place at the Capitol Fall
in fact, the white house says the checks for some americans could come as soon as this weekend. cnn s kaitlan collins is at the white house. william news to many. give a sense what we re about to hear and what the plan is for biden to take his message on the road next week? it will be welcome news. really the easiest for people to grasp. they will get the checks if you k qualify. it is $1.9 trillion and why biden will hold and event talking about how to get it implemented. they re picking someone to oversee that because it s a big plan. look for that on monday. i think first this afternoon it s going to be more of a celebration for president biden in the rose garden signing this. only democrats you ll see in attendance given zero republicans voted to actually pass this plan. the white house saying, yes, by camera meeting. both houses represented but not a bipartisan event given none of the republicans were a part of getting this actually signed into law, of which presiden
adviser to covid act now. sabrina, let s just dive in on this. number one, let s talk about the substance of this legislation. you know, this is very progressive. it s not just this patchwork of, you know, people are struggling in america and let s get them money, but it is specifically, you know, let s get parents money because of their children. this is something that has been done in other countries, never really in america until now. can you speak to that and just what this offers up americans? well, i think that s what you heard the president speak to in his remarks just now talking about the substance of the bill. now, some of this is, of course, the immediate relief that the administration felt was necessary in response to the coronavirus pandemic like another round of stimulus checks, $1,400 direct payments that will start going out as soon as this weekend and continue to roll out in the coming weeks, but there is also an expansion of the child tax credit for anothe
Good morning. Im jim sciutto. This morning tens of millions of americans waiting on Economic Relief during an ongoing pandemic. Sources tell cnn the white house and congress remain far apart on a new stimulus package. Millions of American Workers now without the 600 weekly socalled enhanced benefit after that expired on friday. The negotiations are expected to resume today on capitol hill. We should note speaker of the house nancy pelosi, she will join me on this broadcast in just a few minutes. And a new warning this morning as deaths rise in 30 u. S. States. White House Task Force coordinator dr. Deborah birx says the u. S. Has now reached, quote, a new phase in this pandemic saying the virus is now extraordinarily widespread with cases rising in both urban and an area thats been accepted so far, rural areas across country. Despite all this President Trump continues to spread disinformation about the pandemic, claiming that cases are going up only due to more testing. Its not true. T
Cnns jim air costa joins us as well as our dr. Sanjay gupta with all the medical implications. Jim, what do we know . Reporter the latest information we have and jim just mentioned a while ago, that the president is showing mild symptoms of the coronavirus. As of this moment they are doing Contact Tracing, essentially tracing people who have been in contact with the president and his top aide hope hicks over the last few days, and they are trying to look at ways, you know, that could have the president out in front of the cameras today. One of the things that the white house is going to want to try to do is calm the Financial Markets because when, you know, the president of the United States contracts the coronavirus that obviously has the potential to cause some major jitters up on wall street, but according to this official i was speaking with moments ago, not only are they testing people who have been in close contact with the president and hope hicks, they are testing Top Administr