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demonstrations since the coup last month . u.s. president joe biden is kicking off a nationwide messaging blitz to promote his newly passed covid relief package. it starts today with a speech at the white house. and as our john harwood reports, the president wants people to know theres more to it than the checks already arriving in bank accounts. >> reporter: last week congress passed president bidens $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. this week president biden and his team hit the roa...

Players back. craig, serious ly. i hope at this press conference theres some sort of suspension for these three knuckle heads as general kelly calls them. if theres not, if they think theyve already learned a valuable lesson by being detained for a week i think theyre wrong. i think theyre kind of getting off easy. im not saying this should have turned into "midnight express." but ucla has to send a powerful message to these young men that what they did was something incredibly chowder headed in...

>>. >> i interviewed a lot of people. they believe it is an opportunity to take it from trump. i think its a very small chance it will work. both happened. so i wouldnt discount the possibility. i think its remote but its not non-existent. >> sure. >> they are pointing to the wikileaks, supposed russian involvement. here is what she had to say yesterday. >> your party was hacked. some of your e-mails were included in that. do you buy the presidents argument or do you think he let democrats down ...

Prize other debate that nobody watches and doesnt get taken that serious ly and implicitly diss the candidates forced to sit at it. not only is cnn keeping that format that fox used to such disastrous effect on august 6, not only is cnn keeping that format, but in cnns case, the criteria they have chosen for who will make the real stage and who will be shunted to the kids table, their criteria is on track to keep carly fiorina at the kids table. in the next debate, even though shes doing so well...

>> okay. already debating this. >> im inspired. >> >> you are? oh come on. >> serious ly, if i were a democrat i would ask him to go to las vegas and put chuck schumer in that position. >> senator schucher -- >> you dont like senator schumer? >> just having to listen to him all that time. >> with us now business columnist for "the washington post," not holding back this morning. >>. the senator is coming in. >> he is? >> i believe he is. >> must-read -- here. >> lets start with your favorite. >>...