the white house is making one final push to get the covid relief bill through the senate, over the objection of republicans. all i m trying to do is make this a more deliberate process. more states rolling back covid-19 safety measures. i will not keep the mask order in effect. evidence supports the use in preventing disease and death. on average, more than 2 million doses going into american arms every day. if we continue to vaccinate more and more and more, we ll get rid of the masks. but i don t know really what the big rush is. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it s friday, march 5th. 6:00 here in new york and storytime is over in the u.s. senate. senator ron johnson of wisconsin, who has proven that his tastes normally run towards make-believe and fantasy overnight demanded a foray into non-fiction. as americans wait for passage of a $
but the real point is that ron johnson and others who think like him are playing to a smaller audience. that they hope will become a bigger audience of conservatives who say, look, this is not just covid relief, but this is liberal overreach. and that there s too much in this bill that goes beyond what is needed for covid. and they want to begin to make an argument that they ll make more next year about why congress has to return to republican hands. it s obviously difficult to make that argument in the face of needed relief for so many people and especially when you re giving away money, which is going end to up being pretty popular to most people. why didn t senator johnson reject when president donald trump ran up the debt by $7 trillion? i mean, this newfound like commitment to fiscal responsibility is just a joke now it s a joke after the last four years. you can argue that this isn t targeted enough. i mean, there are legitimate arguments, obviously, on both sides,
adam kinzinger s own family said they re embarrassed to be related to his because of his vote. they re accusing him of being in the devil s army. here is a preview of tonight s presidential town hall. what should we expect? reporter: good morning. for weeks president biden has been stressing the urgency and importance of passing this $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, but most of that business of selling the american public has been happening here at the white house as the president has tried to drum up bipartisan support in meetings with senators and representatives as well as a group of bipartisan governors and mayors who came to the white house on friday. but now president biden will have his first opportunity to take his message outside of washington directly in conversation with the american people. that is why president biden is heading this evening to milwaukee, wisconsin, where he ll participate in the cnn town hall. i spoke with a senior official who made cl
a.m. friday localtime. the pentagon says the air strike was in response to recent attacks against american and coalition personnel in iraq, including an attack in erbil this month that killed a civilian contractor and wounded a u.s. service member. officials say the u.s. response targeted a transit hub used by militia fighters near the iraq/syria border and that multiple facilities were destroyed. here s defense secretary lloyd austin speaking last night. we re confident that that target was being used by the same shia militia that conducted the strikes. we were very deliberate about our approach, as you would expect us to be. we allowed and encouraged the iraqis to investigate and develop intelligence, and that was very helpful to us in refining the target. can you say why this was important to do, mr. secretary? and was this your recommendation? it was my recommendation. as we said a number of times, we will respond on our timeline. the attack against the iranian-ba
thing. plus the maga faithful gather in florida. let me tell you this right now, donald j. trump ain t going anywhere. the ex-president speaks publicly for the first time since the election later today. and good news on the covid fight, a new vaccine is on the verge of approval. we now have three highly effective vaccines, each of them are very effective against severe disease and you get essentially no hospitalizations or deaths. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for spending your weekend with us. president biden spent his first month in office pushing a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill. it s one of the biggest pieces of legislation in the history of this country and after the house passed it early saturday morning it s one big step closer to becoming law. the next step, the senate floor. we have no time to waste. if we act now, decisively, quickly and boldly, w