Unemployment benefit at 400 a week versus 600 a week. Speaker nancy pelosi said negotiations over a second covid19 relief bill are not finished. The country has just surpassed 5 million confirmed cases of covid19. The pandemic is still causing havoc on millions of american lives. With me is jill winebank, a former watergate assistant special prosecutor. The big question seems to be as they watched the president roll out these four executive orders is does he have the Legal Authority to do this . He does not have the Legal Authority to give the kind of assistance that americans need. Not only is he not offering what they need, but congress has the power of the purse. When he says im going to give 400 instead of the 600 that they need, and he did that from his own country club where people pay 350,000, where he was denying people a few hundred dollars, he cant do it. Only congress can allocate money. So thats a promise that has some p. R. Value but has no economic value to the American P
I would take all those billions of dollars being wasted right now on at the corporations, and i would put that money into three full years of the best preschool education in the entire world. If they cannot afford to do that, talk about 30 billion if we cannot afford to do that, i do not see what help we have upholding any sense of dignity, pretense of democracy, in the eyes of people in the rest of the world. [applause] i just have to add one thing to that one point i will add, to deny this to children is an act of thievery, but it is worse than stealing a car. This is an irreversible theft. You never get to live the second year of your life again. Thatthis is it you get it once. Then it is gone forever. I think the president fails to act on this aggressively, that dramatically, prophetically, to get this for us quickly i think is not just a budgetary issue. I think it is a theological abomination, a crime against the innocent. I agree. [applause] i say all the time, quoting the conve
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