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good evening. i am erin burnett. out front tonight, help is here. those are the words exactly of president biden who marks his 50th day in office with a major legislative victory. his massive relief bill is heading to his desk after passing the house today. this represents a historic victory for the american people. everything addresses a real need with investments to fund our entire vaccination effort. i meant trillion. $1.9 trillion is the price tag here, the second most expensive relief bill in american history behind the $2 trillion bill signed a year ago under president trump. if you ask how much the united states earmarked for covid relief, roughly $5 trillion. we upped the national debt by 33% in one year. borrowing a total amount of money almost equivalent to the gdp of japan. here is what does not add up. republicans s voted for what is the most expensive bill in history. now only that it is joe biden s bill they balked at the price tag. every democrat but ....
american people and talk about what we ve been through as a nation this past year. more importantly, i m going to talk about what comes next. i m going to launch the next phase of the covid response and explain what we will do as a government and what we will ask of the american people. there is light at the end of this dark tunnel in the past year. what we cannot let our guard down now. the covid relief bill is part of the light at the end of the tunnel, biden said. house of representatives passed that legislation, 220 to 211 on an almost strictly party-line vote. minutes ago, house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer heralded this moment calling it a momentous day. this is the most consequential legislation that many of us will ever be a party to. who knows what the future may bring, but nonetheless, on this day, we celebrate. so what do we say to america? we say to america, help is on the way. help is on the way. you will receive $1,40 ....
Conflict. ambassador taylor, how concerned are you about this? so, anderson, we were in kyiv last month and the month before. the foreign minister made the point that others have made as w well, and that is this is not the last battle. the ukrainians are in this for the long term. they hope they can send it soon. by the way, general hertling is exactly right. the line from washington to boston, that s the line, and the ukrainians only have to find one place along that line to break through whereas the russians have to defend everywhere along that line. so the ukrainians know what they need to do. they know it s hard. they also know that there are more weapons coming. they know that aircraft are coming. again, if they don t win this battle, they ll win the next one. and if they don t win that one, they ll keep fighting, anderson. they are not giving up. so, general hertling, was it ....
Than the defense that they had for the first couple months of the conflict. ambassador taylor, how concerned are you about? this so anderson, we were in kyiv last month. and the month before, the foreign minister made the point that others have made as well. that is, this is not the last battle. the ukrainians are in this for the long-term, they hope to get into it soon, they hope they can do the breakthrough. by the way general is exactly. right the line from washington to boston, that s the line. and the ukrainians only have to find one place along that line, to breakthrough. where is the russians have to defend everywhere along of that line. so, the ukrainians know that, they know they need to do, they know it s hard. they also know that there are more weapons coming. they know that aircraft are coming. they don t have their aircraft right now. and again, if they don t win ....
Because they don t the want to lose business. what is your message to americans out there, especially christian americans, people of faith who are confront with this? confronted with this? certainly. well, i would have to say that, you know, if we re fighting a battle, there s no ground behind this particular battle. i believe it was pope john paul ii, he said this would be the last battle, the assault on the family. and he was speaking perfectly here during his visit to the united states. and so this is where we have to stand because there s nothing behind it, there s nothing, you know, once this battle s over and we lose if it is that we do lose, then there s nothing else behind it. so we have to fight. rachel: wow. a man who understands truly what s at stake in this battle and is willing to take the arrows and the financial results of that. and, ross, you are an ....