Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion CovidRelief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this morning after a Marathon Session in the senate, they took the first key step toward passing a bill without republican support. They passed a budget resolution, that essentially would set the stage for moving forward with the larger package, that 1. 9 trillion package that includes what joe biden has been looking for, getting that through both chambers and avoiding a republican filibuster by using the budget process. Now the next few weeks are absolutely critical. Because while they just passed the budget in the senate and final approval in the house and then beginning the drafting and writing of the legislation. The first part was the easy part. The tough part really begins which is why this meeting in the white house is important. The democratic leader and the key chairman will talk with the president and the team to discuss exactly how they want to move this legislation forward. That process and their plan. But then theyll start getting into the details writing out 1. 9 trillion in federal spending in a very complicated and not to mention the politics internally in getting a conservative democrat like a joe manchin on the same side as a liberal independent Bernie Sanders who sides with the democrats. That is a complicating task and something theyve have to continue to navigate. How to structure Relief Checks for individuals in particular, among many, many other details, but that is the next couple of weeks here to get that sorts out here, guys. John, the politics for republicans are not exactly easy h here either. Because theyre in the position of voting no for people that need it. George w. Bush did this in 2001 with the tax package and went through reconciliation and got democrats on board who said, well, actually tax cuts are pretty popular. I wonder is that the white house kind of bet here. Even if they dont get agreement, theyll get some republican votes . Well, it is possible theyll get a small number of republican votes. After all, some of the polling has shown that a significant chunk of republicans respond favorably when elements of the Biden Proposal are described. But even if there is a political discomfort for republicans and opposing big checks for people, there is also a partisan imperative and the strong sentiment within their base is not with joe biden. And so it is not going to be all that difficult for most republicans to vote against it. But joe biden is going to make the case and make a speech this morning that given the fact that we had this week and more than 700,000 people filing first time unemployment claims, yes the Unemployment Rate went down but 400,000 people left the labor force. Were still down 10 million jobs for what we had prepandemic. Theyre going to make the case we need this bill to get to the other side of the pandemic and get this economy going again. All indications, as manu said, that theyll be able to hold democrats. They will be making changes. It is clear theyre going to tailer the qualification for the 1,400, which may dprop it down to 1. 7 trillion but it is not a large scale change in the package. Republicans arent willing to meet them close to what biden has proposed and that is why the the legislative version of bipartisanship isnt going to isnt likely to work even if the Popular Support version of bipartisanship is there to some extent. Yeah. Politics of it all. Thanks. Next hour were expecting to hear from Marjorie Taylor greene who was striped of her Committee Assignments last night. 11 republicans joined democrats to remove her from the committees for all of the things that shed said, about the support for qanon and violent rhetoric, et cetera. Jessica dean joins us now with more. Jessica, democrats wanted accountability here and republicans wanted to kind of put this behind them, right. But based on her public comments, it doesnt seem like greene is going to silent here, right . Including on the big lie of the election being stolen. Reporter right, jim. We do not expect her to be quiet or to fade into the night so to speak now that this vote has happened and shes been striped from her committees. In fact, she tweeted first thing this morning that she woke up laughing at what she said a bunch of morons, the democrats and republicans are to give, quote, someone like me more free time. So clearly she anticipated being here and she anticipated spending her time on whatever former President Trumps next venture is and support very conservative republican candidates. Now what do we expect today . Well, coming up here in just the next hour we do expect her to have a Press Conference. We do expect her to take questions since that is typically how a Press Conference works. Ive tried to ask her questions here in the capitol in the hallways along with other reporters and she has not answered any of our questions really. So this is an important for us to hear from her and ask her some of the questions that we would like her to answer to. We did see her on the house floor yesterday talking about her beliefs and walking back some of them. But not Comexplicitly Apologizi for any of them. This is before the vote. And that is her version of events so hopefully well get a bit of back and forth with answers later today. Important to note about the vote, jim and poppy, we did see 11 republicans siding with the democrats. The 11 republicans not the same republicans. It is a Different Group than the ten who voted to impeach former President Trump. And again 11 there. So more willing to go with the democrats on this issue, jim and poppy. Yeah. Kinzinger straddled both groups. But it is not a small group within the party. Thank you very much. Joining us now to talk about this, tia mitchell, washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal constitution. All politics is local and greene won a primary and she won her district. Tell us about that district here and is she, are these views popular there . Greene won a primary and a runoff against another republican and then, of course, the general election. And the problematic comment were covered in media including the Atlanta Journal constitution prior to the election. So we cant say that voters in her district were not aware of some of the comments she made. I think there is a divide now, the district is very conservative. It is rural. Northwest georgia. There are republicans who say they are troubled that greene came to washington and seems to be more concerned with, you know, raising cain and doubling down on her most problematic statements than she is on doing the legislative work that they sent her to washington to do. But she also still has a lot of support among far right conservatives and trump loyalists who like what shes doing and they think she, you know, theyre saying keep going, keep at it, keep raising hell. That is what we want to see from you. So that is that divide that kind of defines what shes doing, even what were seeing today, the duality of showing remorse on the house floor but tweeting more defiant this morning. Those are such good points and im so glad you have a pulse because you covered all of the races and the district here. You know, when steve king finally got striped of his Committee Assignments, he didnt get reelected. I wonder if you think this is different, though. Because one of the points you made in your reporting is maybe shes not losing all of her power here . Yeah, so this district is so deeply conservative. And, again, it is not like she wasnt known to have said racist, xenophobic and antimuslin things before she was elected and that runoff was very telling because that is against another republican who basically campaigned on hey, guys, im just as conservative as she is but without the problems. Right. And she still won. And so i think it is unlikely that she would lose in a deeply conservative district like that. There is chatter about redistricting and how that could effect it, but it is such a Deep Red Pocket of the state this is hard to make it less competitive for someone, again because trump remains popular in this part of the state as well. And also, she it is not like she was tied to the district, she moved there to run. So she could just move somewhere else and run again. It took a few years for voters to turn on steve king after years of racism. Tia, on a separate issue, because legislators in georgia, theyve already introduced legislation to roll back voter access there that expanded the vote in the 2020 election. Including to black communities there and it led so such high turnout in 2020 and helped turn the state blue. Will these measured succeed . Do democrats or Stacey Abrams have a way to stand in the way of restrictions on voter access . I dont think well, democrats dont have enough votes in the georgia General Assembly to block republican initiatives like that and governor kemp, even though he stood against President Trump in the big election lie, as you guys have called it, hes still very conservative and it would be unlikely for him to veto these measures. So activists like Stacey Abrams and the other voting organizations, theyre only remedy would be the courts. I think the courts could probably give them some reprieve and if nothing else could maybe delay some of the implementation, but it is unlikely some of these proposals are unpopular with the republican leadership, including, for example, eliminating excusefree absentee voting. That is not really popular at the upper levels of the gop. So that is less likely to pass. But requiring, for example, more identification, drivers license numbers and things like that to vote by mail is more likely to pass. And again, i dont think the democrats could do much to stop it. And those are deliberately targeted at certain communities. It is transparent. Sad to see. Tia mitchell, thank you go ahead. I was going to say, republicans said that even in georgia, republicans have said, you know, they think that it will help their chances of winning if they pass some of these measures that limit access to voting. So it is not conjecture, it is what republicans themselves have said. Out of their mouths. 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Out numbered covid cases ten to one which is fantastic news. That is a fascinating figure. We should take some comfort from that. Athena jones joins us from Yankee Stadium. Were seeing this around the country. Sports stadiums being used, fenway park in boston, Yankee Stadium here in new york. Who is eligible and what is the turnout like . Reporter good morning, jim. That is right, Yankee Stadium, perhaps the Broncos Most Iconic Landmark will be known for something else. This is a mass vaccination site open to only residents of the bronx. It is by appointment only, you also have to bring proof that you are a resident of the bronx. So you have National Guard going along the lines and people have been lining up now nor about two hours before the site opened at 8 00 a. M. This morning. Now National Guardsman are going down the line making sure they have appointments and residents of the bronx and separating people who need help getting appointments. This is a site open from 8 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. Monday through friday. There are 15,000 Appointments Available this first week. Were told that today there are only about a thousand and theyll be ramping that up. That is a site that is very important for city officials when it comes to fairness and equity. They want to make sure they could get vaccines into more people faster and more evenly. Theyre chosen the bronx for this site because this is the borough with the highest Test Positivist Rate in the entire city. Were talking over 6 when you talk about 3. 5 in manhattan. This is also the borough with the highest poverty rate in the city and there is a Large Population of black and latino and poor residents and theyre more likely to get sick and die. Were talking about essential workers and so that is why they have launched this site here today. And so far so good. Were told by the Company Running this, that 13,000 of the 15,000 appointments over the course have already been taken. Jim. Folks, go take advantage of it. Youre lucky if you have the opportunity to get vaccinated. Athena jones, thank you very much. This just in, the Drugmaker Astrazeneca is expecting results from its u. S. Covid Vaccine Trial in the next four to six weeks. This is comes as the university of oxford published a nonPeer Reviewed study saying that the vaccine is effective, this is key, against the u. K. Variant of the coronavirus, which has been shown to be more transmissible. That is great news as well. Our chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta, good morning, sanjay. Good morning. Promising news on this time line for Oxford Astrazeneca and it is not Peer Reviewed but encouraging that oxford said and by the way it works against the u. K. Variant, too . Absolutely. And this is the key question i think