door fast. nbc s exclusive sit-down with the treasury secretary on when the money will hit accounts and criticisms the package is just too big. are you spending too much? i don t believe we ve overshot the mark. plus, what we know about that new accelerated vaccine timeline. can the white house keep promises made in the president s prime time address? and can cities and states keep up? i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday morning, nbc s monica alba and kristen welker are at the white house, we re joined by dr. joshua sharpstein. ellison barber is with us as well. kristen, look ahead to what we can expect at the rose garden and next week across the country as it appears important to the white house, the president, his aides and advisers they get out and sell this package that just passed. reporter: that s the keyword, hallie, sell. that is what we are going to see from president biden and vice president harris. he s going to hold a signing ceremony for that
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families than any other administration. we did more for working families. we did more for our union brothers and sisters. we did more to battle racism and antisemitism. today so much of the politics is just noise. just static and that s why people tune it out. what matters is actually improving people s lives and that s what you did. you made this state a better state for the generations that follow and that is undeniable, unusualable and true even in these ugly, crazy times. i thank speaker carl hasty and andrea stewart cousins for their leadership, and let me say this on a personal note, in many ways
0 back. it s my way of saying i see you, i appreciate you, and i thank you. i m not comfortable just walking past and ignoring them. of course, usually they are male troopers. in this case, i don t remember doing it at all. i didn t do it consciously with the female trooper. i did not mean any sexual connotation. i did not mean any intimacy by it. i just wasn t thinking. it was totally thoughtless in the literal sense of the word, but it was also insensitive. it was embarrassing to her and it was disrespectful. it was a mistake, plain and simple. i have no other words to explain it. i want to personally apologize to her and her family. i have the greatest respect for her and for the new york state police. now, obviously in a highly political matter like this, there are many agendas and there are many motivations at play. if anyone thought otherwise, they would be naive and new yorkers are not naive. but i want to thank the women who came forward with sincere complaints. it is not easy
touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances, and has called the new york attorney general report biassed. also in the report, the governor s brother, cnn anchor chris cuomo was identified as an ongoing participant in strategy calls with the governor s inner circle. he may have even drafted one of the statements. he was also interviewed by investigators. willie. so what happens next is the big question? one option is impeachment. the new york state assembly is ramping up its impeachment probe of governor cuomo. after an emergency virtual meeting with assembly democrats, speaker carl hasty released a statement saying it was clear governor cuomo could no longer move in office and democrats would move to complete an impeachment inquiry as quickly as possible. according to the new york times things could move swiftly here. a person familiar with the process telling the times it could take just a month to complete the inquiry and to draw