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There at the game, plus you can win free tickets to other games. there are free xboxes being given away and free groceries for a year. theres an airline giving away free flights for a year. anheuser-busch says today they will buy everyone in the country a beer once the country hits the goal of 70% of american adults having at least one shot. the four biggest child care providers in the country will offer free child care to you while you go get your vaccine or if you feel poorly after you get you...

Palestinian state within israel is suicidal and it turns out the most israelis view that, but weve put forward realistic practical plan. >> reporter: at his ideological core is a strong opposition to a palestinian sovereign state and his party keen to annex parts of the west bank. bennetts other position right side not without controversy, saying that palestinian terrorists should be killed rather than released. in the april 2019 election his party did not get through the electoral threshold and...

Push through the month of june to reach the 70% threshold. and that means america working together. that means faith-based and community based organizations and businesses and everybody chipping in to do their part in order to reach people where they are. >> i am hearing that this is a messaging push as opposed to infrastructure push. the vaccines are out there. >> i think that it is a push in all directions. we are trying to work with businesses to make sure that folks have time off.

Vaccination event in your town. all sorts of stuff. we can do this.hhs.gov. its interesting, theres not very many things in this country that we care enough about as a country that were willing to devote free beer to it. let alone free super bowl tickets and free million dollar prizes and free college scholarships and all the rest of it. but, you know, if anything can get us across that threshold, its probably a national call for volunteers to help do this for your country paired with free beer ...

Hes making clear to his caucus that the calls to pass a sweeping voting legislation, some sweeping election overhaul would face resistance from him. i did try to get him to say he will never ever touch that 60-vote threshold for the filibuster. he would not say that. ultimately hes pretty clear. he wants the two sides to work together. if they dont, biden- will have to deal with potentially a stalled agenda. >> lets get some analysis right now. our chief political correspondent dana bash is with...

Chuck schumer said ill do the same. they were able to come to a disagreement and have the same staffing levels. everything was done in the most bipartisan way. and for him -- >> but the filibuster. >> one person blocked it, but we have seven people, six voted, we need three more. lets give it another shot. >> so youll never reduce the 60-vote threshold? >> were going to make it work. >> youre not reducing the 60-vote threshold? >> were going to make the place vote. and you cant make it work unle...

You dont have to be fully vak sun ated. you dont have to have a negative covid-19 test to travel to the city of chicago. thats because last summer the citys department of public health put in place an emergency travel order. if youre coming from a state with a covid-19 case rate of 15 per 100,000 residents per day, then you have to at least quarantine when you got here. based on improving numbers and vaccinations and case rates, you dont have to do any of that because the city now says there are...

And protecting our people. how often have we heard african leaders such as yourself say we need to fix our health systems? back in 2001, african leaders signed the abuja declaration to say were going to spend 15% of our annual budget on health. to date, only a few countries have achieved that. youre absolutely right. we look at that and the african union is actually working hard on that issue. as you will recall, president kagame, the president of rwanda, has been named the african champion to m...

At least one dose of a vaccine by the fourth of july. >> so we can declare our independence from covid-19 and free ourselves from the grip that its held over our lives for the better part of a year. each of you has the power to help us gain this freedom as a nation. >> reporter: the president announcing a slew of initiatives to make it even more enticing from free uber and lyft rides to free child care options to 24-hour vaccine appointments at pharmacies on friday night, and there are more ince...

Well, because biden only has a majority of four votes in it the house and a tie in the senate. with two mebsmbers of the senat voting more my republican friends. but were not giving up. >> you know, he doesnt say their names. he is clearly referencing the two senators who even though theyve always voted with the president on major issue passed through the senate, theyre linchpins on some issues with his agenda. also they oppose nuking the filibuster. the 60 vote threshold needed for legislation ...