good evening. i m mehdi hasan. joe biden has been spending the weekend at home in delaware before he heads out on the road this week to sell the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. he has a lot to work with. it is difficult to overstate what a big win this piece of legislation is for the president. it s the second biggest economic stimulus in american history, giving cash direct to the poorest americans. and if you want to know how much our politics has changed, here is the great irony. the joe biden of the 1980s and 1990s would probably have voted against it. don t take my word for it. take his, from 1984. what happens if every tax dollar that we pay, 50 to 60% of it is just going to pay the interest on the debt? he will be paying for what we lived on. we should be investing to allow him to be able to live on something. here he is in 1988, decrying, quote, stories of welfare mothers driving luxury cars and leading lifestyles that mirror the rich and famous. biden s words
account at the moment as covid relief checks are rolling out with president biden s relief plan now law. the stimulus is a huge help in getting america back to normal after a year of anything but normal. as the president made clear this week in his first prime time address to the american people, while this progress is huge, it does not mean we can lower our guards. if we do this together, by july 4 there is a good chance you, your families, and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your understand neighborhood and have a cookout, a barbecue, and celebrate independence day, where we not only mark our independence as a nation but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. as mentioned a moment ago, those $1,400 relief checks are officially rolling out. 85% of eligible households can expect to see a direct deposit by monday. and with public polling in their favor, president biden and vice president harris embark next week on a tour to tout thei
allegations against cuomo. congressional and state leaders in his own party say cuomo can no longer govern effectively and should resign. cuomo remains steadfastly defiant saying in a teleconference friday that he is not going anywhere and he flat-out denies the allegations against him. i did not do what has been alleged. period. look, it s very simple, i never harassed anyone. i never abused anyone. i never assaulted anyone. now and i never would, right? i want to bring in new york assembly leader crystal stokes. so good that you could be with us. so what are your thoughts now about this newest allegation in the new york magazine from a political reporter who said that he behaved inappropriately around her? well, i think all of these women should be heard. they should have their due process much like i believe the governor should have his. when women complain people should listen, and i think we have set up a process in new york with the assembly judiciary committe
essence moved to areas like del rio and here like el paso. and so this is what the federal government usually does, they react to where the big flow of migrants are. and they build up tent facilities, these are processing facilities that are air-conditioned inside when it is hot or they have a heating system. but they look like giant tents. and you re absolutely right, poppy, this one in particular, will have the capacity of about a thousand and expected to be operational next month. now will that be enough? we ll see. what the federal government is doing is what they call de compression flights and that means whenever there is a large group of migrants in one area, sc for example, here in el paso, they ll bus them to other areas along the border that have capacities to be processed in those areas.
Tragedy. Back at the Justice Department losses. Our legal panel is standing by to weighin. [indiscernible] we begin tonight with ongoing Rescue Efforts in South Florida although no survivors were foun on friday. When it up meant people are still unaccounted for. The efforts are continuing and they are dangerous. The Medical Examiner has identified the first victim. Stacy thing, they say she suffered blunt force injuries. She said they seized the mother of the 15yearold boy seen in video on the date of the collapse being pulled from the building. Her son trapped in the rubble, his call for help from a passerby who alluded first responders. Firefighters carried by the safety. Many other families are still hoping to hear from loved ones including Rachel Spiegel was 65 yearold mother, judy, lived in the building. Outlook you can hear me. Im very concerned. The have to stop their operations because of the weather. Firefighters have been dealing with all kinds of Lightning Storms of the past