adviser to covid act now. sabrina, let's just dive in on this. number one, let's talk about the substance of this legislation. you know, this is very progressive. it's not just this patchwork of, you know, people are struggling in america and let's get them money, but it is specifically, you know, let's get parents money because of their children. this is something that has been done in other countries, never really in america until now. can you speak to that and just what this offers up americans? >> well, i think that's what you heard the president speak to in his remarks just now talking about the substance of the bill. now, some of this is, of course, the immediate relief that the administration felt was necessary in response to the coronavirus pandemic like another round of stimulus checks, $1,400 direct payments that will start going out as soon as this weekend and continue to roll out in the coming weeks, but there is also an expansion of the child tax credit for another year with regular payments going out to families as well as an extension of unemployment benefits which were set to expire this month, part of why the deadline to pass something was so credit call, and then there is, of course, funding to help reopen schools as well as to go towards vaccination efforts and to state and local officials as they continue to weather the aftermath of the pandemic, but it was worth pointing out that president biden said that this is really just beginning and he spoke to how the key next phase will be the implementation of this bill, how the administration distributes that money and then they will move toward looking at perhaps another stimulus and get revitalizing the u.s. economy. >> but, you know, doctor, just to you. obviously from an m.d. perspective, from a human perspective, from someone who obviously relies on science and the data and organization and responding to all of this, you know, this to me just highlights a man who knows how to run government, who isn't just, if i may, winging it, you know. he's like this is how we're going to get it done. then we'll send in the national guard, then you have the mass vaccination sites, then we'll even, you know, get an i.t. on the line for people at home who are having issues with signing on online. it -- i'm just curious your impression of the level of organization and long-term planning of this from the perspective of this white house in just the first, you know, 100 days. >> it's clear to me that president biden is focused on healing the nation. we also learned a lot with the isolation and the social distancing and the staggering number of deaths so this hopeful plan is what we need. the pathway to recovery and getting us all back to normalcy, isn't a straight road. definitely not an easy ones. there are a lot of things to consider so i am a little bit concerned of all the challenges, including putting in place all the operations that is needed not only to vaccinate everyone but also to allow in-person businesses to fully reopen in a safety measure. >> charlie, what did you think? >> well, i thought in many respects the legislation certainly addresses the covid crisis well. no issue with that. my concern are some. other provisions in here, for example, extending the earned income tax credit to the unemployed. you know, that's -- that's a big policy change and tnot directly related to covid. there's $700 billion that the cbo says can't be spend until 2022 and beyond so i think they are using this emergency to advance a more expansive role of government in the lives of people and that should be fully debated. >> could you think people -- let me jump in. i mean, people are hurting. millions of americans are hurting. they want their kids back in school. they want to keep a roof over their head. they want money in their pocket. do they care about what you're pointing out? >> well, people who have been displaced and lost. their livelihoods. that's not issue at all. we should be supporting those people, and they have been supporting those people, but some of these provisions though that are disconnecting, you know, income from work i think are big policy debates that ought to happen maybe outside of the emergency at some point. if the goal is to simply expand size of the welfare state on an indefinite basis, i think that's not the proper way to use this crisis. you know, the country has gone big here. i think we're up to $6 trillion and i supported the first five bills that came through, but this one i think is a little too large. even though there are many good aspects. >> i hear you. >> but politically, and, again, not a single republican there at the rose garden event, not a single republican voted for this, politically is this a win? >> you know, look, i think it's sure a win for biden, absolutely. it -- it's a win, but, you know, they really never tried to do this on a bipartisan basis. they said we're going to do this in reconciliation. they heard ten republican plans with a plan for 600 billion and said we're going to go our own way. okay, that was a choice that they made. >> did they have -- hold on, pause on that thought, just over to you, sabrina, did they have a choice? >> well, i think that the administration moved fairly quickly towards reconciliation because as they did entertain those bipartisan conversations with republicans it became clear that in order to secure republican support they would have had to significantly reduce the overall price tag and president biden was adamant that they wanted it to be as close to $1.9 trillion as possible. in the end that is in fact what he was able to secure with democratic support, but that republican counteroffer as charlie pointed out was just a fraction of what the administration was propose. there was another bipartisan compromise that was only roughly $800 billion so, again, really just a fraction of what the administration was seeking here. know do think that what the white house is doing around you'll hear them sell this message when they travel country beginning next week is pointing out there was broad warp support for this bill across the country, in polling some which showed three-quarters of a americans backing this bill at least right now. so that's the message you'll hear in the coming weeks from the white house as well as democrats that it may not have been bipartisan on capitol hill, but the bill does have bipartisan support with the american public. >> right. it's not like this money is just going to blue states. it's going to all of the states and it's going -- and it was popular with folks on both sides of the aisle and, charlie, to add to sabrina's point. already republicans, look at some of the republican mayors out there already touting this covid relief for their own constituents. they are thrilled. >> well, sure. look, i was in state government, too. i loved it when federal money came our way. it made my life a lot easier, and, again, to be fair. last summer states -- the states in particular really struggling financially, but then something happened in the fall. they had a huge revenue gusher coming in. and many of the states fiscal problems were considerably less than anticipated. i don't begrudge any state or local government some support. i question the amount of support that is going out the door in light of the fact that the revenue pictures were much better than originally forecasted back then, so, like i said, there's a lot of good stuff in here. >> yeah. >> but i think it's too big and they are going too far in some respects and i think they want to make a lot of this stuff permanent and use the crisis as a pretext for these changes. >> doctor, back over to you. off the top you were just saying essentially hang on, everyone, you know. we're not out of the woods just yes. i want you to come back to that point because even when you look at the death toll, right, it's much, much better than it has been, but u.s. is still lose more than 1,000 people a day. what is your advice to all of us, some of whom are vaccinated, some of us who are not. how we should be living our lives? >> i think we should be more aggressive into fighting this information around hard-to-reach communities. one mistake we did in the beginning of our vaccination efforts is not learn the lessons of developing countries that have actually put in place strong massive scale vaccination campaigns and plans, and we should start considering releasing the red tape around these vaccines sooner than we did in the past, so i think -- i think it's important to have this deadline of returning to normal by july 4th, but it's more aspirational to me than a hard set promise. i think it's important to understand that there's a long road ahead to recovery which includes the 10% of covid-19 patients that are now struggling with lung covid. in order for us to understand how big of a challenge that will be, it's putting into perspective that 3 million people right now are still struggling with their covid-19 infection from last year. that's going to be a challenge, not only for public health expenditures but also in-person return to the office. should that occur within this year? >> that's a great question. i've got an employment attorney later on is everybody is wondering do i have to be vaccinated to go back to the office, what our rights are as things return to normals whatever fwhormal will be later on this year. great conversation. thank you all very, very much. we have much more to come here. more breaking news this afternoon, including the growing chorus of powerful democrats calling on new york governor andrew cuomo to step down. the governor remains defiant saying he will not resign an claims that he never harassed anyone. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. we'll be right back. some say this is my greatest challenge. governments in record debt; inflation rising, currencies falling. but i've seen centuries of this. with one companion that hedges the risks you choose and those that choose you. the physical seam of a digital world, traded with a touch. my strongest and closest asset. the gold standard, so to speak ;) people call my future uncertain. but there's one thing i am sure of... cell phone repair. did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? 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>> the governor is in complete denial and is attempting to gaslight not just the credible women who have come forward bravely with their stories but all of new york and all of america that's watching at this point. >> i want to push back on you just a bit. i want to play another part of the governor's conference call. listen to this. >> the people of new york should not have confidence in a politician who takes a position without knowing any facts or substance. that, my friends, is politics at its worst. >> senator, why not let the investigation conclude before casting your judgment on the governor? >> i want to push back on the claim that people are making decisions without facts or evidence. we have the facts of nearly a decade of cuomo's power in new york which involved underfunding and undercutting social services. when we go to the nursing homes, this is before even the issue that happened last year. this is an entire decade of underfunning them to a point where they had skeletal staff and lacked ppe. on top of that the governor rewrote the rules to direct them to accept covid-19 positive patients. when additional people died because of his decisions, he lied about how many people were dying to protect himself and that's coming out now. now he's bullying legislators to keep quiet, and this is one after the other woman coming forward with credible stories. at this point we have to wonder how many women is it necessary to come forward in order to move forward with impeachment proceedings? >> listen, i hear you. again, i have to remind everyone watching. these are allegations and, again, we need to wait for this investigation or at least we know that an investigation is taking place, an independent investigation, but you bring up a lot of issues, you know, that concern new yorkers, senator, and i know a lot of democrats are suggesting that governor cuomo is unable to lead at this moment. what does this mean for new yorkers who are still very much in a pandemic? >> it means we have a very capable lieutenant governor that can step in after seeing this through. we have a very capable attorney general who is conducting her own investigation, and i would also just add that an impeachment involves investigation and trial as well. impeachment is not a conviction or a jump to conclusions. it is a holing trial of the governor so -- to be looked the by the senate. >> right. it's two steps. impeachment and as we've learned on the national level and then the trial and whether or not he would be convicted and removed. is there anything that governor cuomo could do right now, could say that, would change minds, acknowledge, apologize, nick? 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