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Kicked that money out. now it is up to the states and localities to actually disperse it. however, when it comes to what they can actually do from a federal policy standpoint, officials make clear despite what they have heard from congressional democrats and the requests to extend the moratorium, they dont believe that they have the legal grounds. the president is going to continue to look for options on that front but right now, they dont see any. guys. >> phil mattingly, thank you for laying a...

They want to use the $50 billion to help with assistance. >> they must do more, all of them, to accelerate the funding to these renters and landlords. the president is clear. if some states and localities can get this out efficiently and effectively, theres no really every state and locality cant. >> more than 6 million fear the risk of being evicted. meanwhile there was a fund-raising call for the democratic committee. the president also weighed in on what democrats must do to win in 2022. >>...

>> the president went out of his way to push to the cdc to look even at 0 30 days, even targete to counties with higher infections and the cdc incidinc independently came back and said that they could not find the legal authority. i dont think this means that this president will give up. >> reporter: the white house spent all weekend dealing with this issue going back and forth with democratic leaders on capitol hill and back and forth with rank and file democrats trying to figure out how to add...

Go and volunteer to help to make sure this rental assistance, this $46.5 billion thats available with only $3 billion of it spent, that we help get these resources out to those who need it. that is -- so thats where the work is right now. getting these resources out. we got 60 days, lets make sure that people are able to apply, that we make that process seamless and that we get the money out to the landlords and to those where this money is supposed to go. and in the meantime, as congress, we ha...

To protect people from being kicked out of their homes when they couldnt work in the government shut the economy down now that has expired as of last night at the mess been coming for months why wait until the last minute to address it i think as i saw brought up on thursday by the speaker and now its expired with the president like to see the senate act on this and expand the moratorium and extended going forward. >> the real issue how to get money out to renters for most of their own behind on...

Theres no excuse they need to move the money to the renters and landlords immediately. the good news we know this can work, in june triple the amount of resources that there was in may, and places like louisville and harris county texas theyre getting money out effectively to help renters and if the federal government level we will do what we can now that the money is with the state and locals we will provide technical assistance and we can extend eviction moratorium for properties that are back...

We will take steps we took the steps to extend the moratorium for properties that have the government-backed guarantee hud, va, usda those are the steps that we can take but right now the opportunity and the necessity to get that money that is out there that congress passed and we got to the states and localities and get them into the hands of the landlords and landlord should seek that money, rather to evict it in their interest as well. dana: this is big news over the week, the senate is poise...

Do think theres a lot of importance in his point that there is money out there to deal with this and some states and localities are doing a really good job of getting that money out to renters and landlords in some states are not you mentioned earlier new york but also florida, south carolina, arkansas have not been distributing at the same rate as some of the better ones, there is a mechanism in place and this is the white house argument there is a mechanism in place to deal with the people in ...

And surging cases nationwide to levels they havent seen before. the legislation has been the same it was at the end of last week, essentially to say they do not believe they have the legal authority to extend this eviction moratorium following a ruling from the supreme court in late june that said that the moratorium would need congress to actually extend it in order for it to continue. but the white house is saying that if congress goes ahead and passes a bill extending this eviction moratorium...

Confident that the states are going to be able to get off this money without causing an uproar for the administration. >> were not going to rest until that money gets out and flown effectively for states and localities need to take those steps and will do what we can at the federal level to support them, i would underscore this is really a win-win a lot of the landlords are mom-and-pop landlords, they dont benefit if they have to evict tenants and the individuals that are affected between having...