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their part. there s a good chance you, your families and friendses, will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout or barbecue and celebrate independence day when we mark our independence as a nation and our independence from this virus. joining me now, nbc news chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-anchor, kelly o donnell, yamiche alcindor, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama, jim messina and former rnc chair, michael steele. welcome, all. kristen, let me start with you. if big primetime address last night after a major legislative win. now of course the challenge to make sure that americans understand why it is that they are receiving the help that they have. what s the plan going forward? reporter: that s right. now the president and vice president are going to be focused on selling this massive piece of legislation that just passed, $1.9 trillion covid relief and of course one of the ....
welcome to friday. it is meet the press daily. president biden is preparing for a rose garden event this afternoon with the vice president, democratic leaders in attendance. this is the fourth or fifth time we had some sort of event marking the passage of this bill, the senate, the house, the signing last night and then this signing today. his remarks will come after prime time address last night after he laid out a series of goals and promises to defeat the virus and get life back to some semblance of normalcy. the president is planning to tout the relief package he signed into law and the various elements believes will sell well to the public. the white house is also con fronting the challenge of everything else because they got to decide now what. covid was job one, two and three for this new president. they have an agenda beyond covid. the president and vice president are planning to hit the road next week to sell the massive covid relief package to the public after ....
Instance, did do that tele briefing which was a bit of a mess. a lot of people didn t have the opportunity to pose their inquiries and they ended it before everybody can understand what they were saying because that guidance in itself has a lot of confusion in it. because what if you are in a moderate or substantial transmission area and then you are moving to one that is different and week to week are we going to see those mask changes. all of that we don t know kret because it is happening on the fly. but when it comes down to this far more significant data and obviously the cdc was aware of this, that is why they made the urgent change. but look at how we re learning about it, through leaked documents in the media that nbc news has also obtained after the washington post first reported on it. we haven t heard anything from the white house about this so far today. there is a normal press briefing in the next hour or so with the principal deputy press secretary here. so of course we ....