jillian: chaos in portland. protestors smash windows and light fires. the house pass two control bill that is will ultimately make it harder for americans to buy and sell firearms. they don t do anything to prevent gun violence. they rob law abiding citizens of their constitution amendments. good friday morning to you. i hope that you re having a good morning so far. we are grateful that you re joining us on friday morning. hope you have a good weekend ahead. hopefully fun plans but i was asking friends here this morning, what are you doing this weekend, nothing, nothing. we are all hunkered down. we lose an hour sleep on sunday. spring forward. i will keep to myself. i feel guilty but we know plans today, looks like vice president will be selling $1.9 trillion plan which they will officially sign today so they do have plans but immediately joe biden will go right to delaware where he will hang out for a while. he will sell the covid rescue plan to the country alt
honor the more than 529,000 people who have lost their lives to covid-19. and address the sacrifices that americans, that all of us have made during this pandemic while recognizing how it has very much changed our lives. that is right. president biden is also expected to tout what just passed and that is his $1.9 trillion covid stimulus package known as the american rescue plan. largely popular with the american people. but it passed only along party lines. there was not a single republican in either chamber that supported the bill. the president will sign it into law tomorrow and then he s going to pennsylvania next week to sell it to the american people. so let s begin at the white house with our john harwood. good morning to you, john. what have you learned in terms of the tone we re going to hear from the president tonight? reporter: well, poppy, pretty consistently president biden has struck a very sober tone about this pandemic, honoring the sacrifice of people, spe
he spoke about its passage a little while ago. update our viewers. reporter: wolf, it was the top priority from the day president biden set foot in the oval office 50 days ago. and when he speaks to the nation tomorrow night in his first primetime address he says he is going to talk about the next phase of the covid recovery process, the next phase where the backbone of it will be the legislative victory he just secured. help is on the way. reporter: tonight on day 50 for president joe biden the first mission accomplished. this bill represents a historic, historic victory for the american people. reporter: the house passing biden s number one priority, the sweeping $1.9 trillion covid relief plan. and biden planning to sign it into law on friday. we have passed historic, consequential and transformative legislation. reporter: the bill broadly popular nationwide with 61% supporting the measure according to a cnn/ssrs poll and 66% saying the bill will help the eco
they were debating on president biden s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. the package is expected to pass handing the legislature its most legislative win. it is broadly popular with the american people. look at these new numbers from our latest poll. 61% of americans support this. president biden will begin touting the win during his prime time address, his first one to the nation. that s tomorrow night. this as the white house prepares to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine. chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, yet one more republican delay here now, another one of these votes to adjourn. is that the last one? when is the actual vote going to happen? yeah, there could be more. we expected this vote to take place around noon eastern, but it s now being delayed because of marjorie taylor greene, the freshman republican from georgia, who has made a motion to adjourn the chamber. this is actually the fo
washington on the big news regarding vaccines. 100 million of these johnson & johnson single dose vaccines that will be out there. i guess, kevin, pronto, huh? yeah, sooner than some expected. although to be fair, not as many doses unfortunately, neil as had been hoped for. this is a boon for all americans that still need to take the vaccine. this is great for everyone especially as we try to get the economy rolling again. the white house today actually told governors on tuesday to expect fewer than 400,000 doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine next week that is far below what they initially had expected to be available however, in making the announcement today with johnson & johnson and merck, the president said he s helping manufacture this vaccine under the deal brokered by the white house. that s a win for all of us. you may recall last week, mr. biden announced the u.s. would have enough covid-19 doses for every adult american by the end of may. that was in itself a t