Morning for all of these lawmakers. Bring us up to speed on whats going on now and what it means for americans who need help in the pandemic. Reporter i thought when i woke up this morning i thought it would be over and its still going on. Voterama is still going on. Marathon session to try to pass amendments for budget reconciliation. First step that needs to happen so that they can pascoe individual 19 relief without any support. Now the senate doesnt do this very often. It shows how important it is. There was one amendment that all senators agreed on except for rand paul. Targeted stimulus checks for the next round of covid19 relief. This comes as 10 senators were clear with biden they want to continue this dialogue. They want to continue talking about covid19 relief. They have concerns about his 1. 9 trillion package. They want something smaller. They want something more targeted. They sent a letter to him hoping to continue that conversation, but janet yellen has been clear, she said that the risk of doing too little is worse than the risk of doing too much. And the white house adviser also agreed with her. I already went through the cause of inaction. Those costs are incredibly steep and long lasting. Longterm unemployment could have damage to peoples careers. I talked to the damage to their lifetime earnings. I dont want to lose the cost of the plan to the cost of inaction. Reporter bottom line, biden wants a covid19 relief action. Theres too much of a divide to try to pass something together, a bipartisan bill. Hes willing to move with democrats on this alone and thats what we see happening right now. Guys. What we want to know is when am i going to get my check and how much is that check going to be . This is all setting the stage for what is to come. Daniellea, thank you so much. She has lost her Committee Assignments but is arguably more influential than before. Marjorie Taylor Greene tossed off two committees by less than a dozen republicans. Greene did not take responsibility for her words. She said she stumbled across qanon at the end of 2017 and began posting about it on facebook because she felt she could not trust the government. I was allowed to believe things that werent true and i would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what i regret because if it werent for the facebook posts and comments that i liked in 2018, i wouldnt be standing here today and you couldnt point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong. Well, thats certainly true. She wouldnt be standing there if it not for the things that she said which unfortunately is the entire point. The antisemetic and other vitriol that she spouted at the time was well known and embraced bring those who voted for her. The proof is in the number. 61 republicans voted to remove congresswoman liz cheney after she tried to hold Trump Accountable for inciting the deadly mob yet just 11 thought marjorie Taylor Greene should lose her committee seats. Impeachment allows them to cleanse themselves of Donald Trumps influence. Thats not the way it is going. At the moment it seems 17 republican senators will sign on. Now trump is defying democrats demand that he show up and testify. Jamie raskin said it just reinforces trump is guilty. Cnn correspondent manu raju has the latest. Reporter good morning, christine and laura. Theyre setting up a dramatic showdown. They are demanding his testimony next week in the Senate Impeachment trial saying he should come and testify in his own defense. Theyre pointing to the legal brief he put out earlier in the week in which he made a number of claims disputing the key facts in the case. Donald trump charged by the house inciting an insurrection. He cited key facts and speaking to the rally. Everything he said in the run up to the rally that led to the protesters coming to the capitol, storming the capitol and it led to a number of deaths including a u. S. Capitol police officer. Donald trumps team called this a publicity stunt. He will not agree to testify. They called this a sham proceeding of sorts. Theres no expectation he will unless democrats take a step to subpoena him which appears like an unlikely route he will go. The question, too, remains whether democrats will terminate any witnesses whatsoever. That is still an unsettled question as well. The expectation is there will be several days of arguments on both sides. Democrats will present Video Evidence trying to show donald trump intentionally incited rioters and rally goers, Fulmented Disinformation and discord about what was happening that day. Those arguments will take place starting next week. Guys . Manu raju, thank you so much. Without any true villain, defendants invented one. A quote from a new 2. 7 billion lawsuit filed by a Voting Technology company swept up in all of the baseless Conspiracy Theories about the 2020 election. Smartmatic accuses lawyers Rudy Giuliani, sidney powell, fox news and its host lou dobbs, Maria Bartiromo deliberately lying about the company into believing the election was stolen from donald trump. Theres no shortage of evidence to support the claims. The earth is round, 2 plus 2 equals 4. Joe biden and Kamala Harris won the election. The election was not stolen, rigged or fixed. These are facts. All of the defendants dispute the claims in the lawsuit. Meanwhile, a different voting tech Company Dominion revealed it sent letters to facebook, youtube, parler, twitter asking them to preserve posts. Dominion has already sued giuliani and powell for 1. 3 billion in damages. If you need a reminder how toxic Rudy Giuliani is viewed these days. Listen to the disclaimer that a new york city radio aired during his own Talk Radio Show on thursday. The views, assumptions and opinions presented when i new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani, his guests and callers on his programs are strictly their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions, beliefs or policies of wabc radio. Now its former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani on new yorks talk radio 77 wabc. I would have thought they would have told me about that before just doing what they just did. Rather insulting. Gives you a sense of how far this free speech thing has gone and how they frighten everybody. I mean, were in america. Were not in east germany. Theyve got to warn you about me . Given giulianis legal issue, Wabc Management is clearly trying to protect itself from any possible liability. Christine, whats so interesting about that is he still has a show on the radio. So hes complaining about free speech on his own show. Weve heard time and time again when people are criticized for holding way far out of the norm and incorrect positions, when theyre criticized for that they call it cancel culture, infringement of their free speech while they have a Huge National platform to spread the lies. Exactly. Exactly. Still ahead, big news overnight about a third Coronavirus Vaccine potentially rolling out soon in the United States. Needles. Essential for pine trees, but maybe not for people with certain inflammatory conditions. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz. The first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. Xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. Before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections, like tb and do blood tests. 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A recent decline in cases and hospitalizations suggests the country could be turning an important corner. Erica hill has more. Christine and laura, good morning. A Big Development on the vaccine front. Johnson johnson officially asking the fda for Emergency Use Authorization on thursday. The single dose vaccine has shown an efficacy of 72 in its u. S. Trials. Meantime, here in new york Yankee Stadium opens a mass vaccination site this morning. Scheduling 15,000 appointments for the first week here. Dr. Anthony fauci reporting hes hopeful kids 12 and up may be able to get the vaccine in late spring or summer. Speaking of younger kids, youth sports can actually resume monday in michigan. Masks mandatory at practice and competitions. Each athlete will be permitted two spec kators at competitions. Amid concerns that those fastspreading variants, specifically the u. K. Variant which could soon become dominant in florida and california, there is a bright spot in the golden state. Hardhit saint Marry Center Dismantling the tents. Offering a gratitude for the space and those who treated the patients there. Erica hill, thank you, erica. Real concern that the jobs loss in the pandemic wont come back. The Unemployment Rate hasnt moved in months. Economists forecast it was stuck at 6. 7 for the third month in a row. The forecast says the economy added 50,000 jobs. That would be a Welcome Change from what we saw in december. 140,000 jobs lost. Look at that chart. That shows you a country still deep in a jobs hole here. Not a normal downturn. We dont have any historical comparisons for this. The treasury soekt, janet yellen, says we need to get people back to work. Until then we need more money to combat the virus. To seeing long lines of people waiting to get food around the country is something we should never see in the United States. Too many people have to worry about whether theyll have a roof over their heads and who wants to address that . 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I think what we heard from President Biden is very clear laying out the United States needs to earn its place back in world leadership. Its a necessary place. The sell to the International Community is one theyre hearing. It had phone calls in london, paris, berlin, tokyo, seoul and australia as well. So making very clear that hes talking to his allies again, that he wants their support again and hes also talking to the United States enemies. He said he had a phone call with President Putin in russia saying this was no longer a United States that was going to roll over and let russia continue what it has been doing, d