Burner as the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats push forward on a cody relief bill that some lawmakers and even leftleaning economists say could actually hurt the economy in the long run. President biden saying today its an easy choice, pointing to the latest jobs numbers as proof there is no time to waste. This as he met with 10 republican senators earlier this week who proposed a Counter Offer to his nearly 2 trillion plan. White house correspondent Kristin Fisher has been following it all. She joins us live from the north lawn from the white house with the latest. Good evening, kristin. Good evening, bret. The week started with President Biden meeting with republican senators and hoping to cut a deal. But it is ending with the president giving his strongest signal yet that he intends to move forward with his relief plan without republican support. Im going to act. Im going to act fast. In his most fiery defense of his 1. 9 trilliondollar relief plan, President Biden made it
i won t comment on the grand jury investigation. liz cheney loses her job in a landslide. her next fight? urging midterm voters to reject you know who. i hope you do whatever it takes to donald trump out of the office. are you thinking about it? are you thinking about running for president? it ah, that s a decision i m going to make in the coming months, savannah. i won t make any announcements in morning. it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. liz cheney is on the losing end of this. she s on the losing end because she stands up to donald trump and because she calls out his lies. her loss. you see how big it was, is a giant win for the former president. cheney one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump. her defeat means eight of the ten will not be in congress in january. she insists her fight is just beginning. this is just wyoming. zoom out. it underscores her challenge. the pink on the map, those a
here s the white house coronavirus response coordinator. today, we re taking additional actions including sending 5 million free rapid tests to schools each month. and providing another 5 million lab-based tests each month. these ten million additional tests available each month will allow schools to double the volume of testing they were performing in november. education secretary miguel cardona was asked this morning about the feasibility of providing schools with ten million free tests each month. the president made it clear that through the defense act that there s going to be higher production of tests. we re prioritizing our schools. we recognize schools are the hubs of the community. that we should not be closing our schools as dr. walenski said. you re going to see distribution of tests as early as next week to make sure they stay open. new assistance from the white house in a push to keep schools open is where we start this
semantics. what dr. walenski was talking about today is keeping the vaccination for covid up to date. if i was not vaccinated at all and i got vaccinated tomorrow, two weeks to a month from now i would be at my optimal degree of protection and that fully vaccinated. however, five months later if i wanted to be up to date to be optimally vaccinated i want do get the booster. that was shown at the press conference today when you get the initial vaccination for a period of time you are really good but getting down to five months you need the boost to get back up better than begin with. that s what she meant. what fully vaccinated means is more of are you up to date on the vaccinations. let me press you on that, dr.
masking decisions for themselves. at this time we say that it is the right decision to lift this mandate for indoor businesses and let counties, cities and businesses to make their own decisions on what they want to do with respect to masks or the vaccination requirement. given the declining cases and hospitalizations, that is why we feel comfortable to lift this in effect tomorrow. and now those numbers are coming down and it is time to adapt. california, connecticut, oregon and new jersey also decided to lift some mandates earlier this week. while many republican-led states did not have mandates, massachusetts did. governor baker said he would lift the mandate for kids in school. and governor walenski said today