may they rest in peace and may their memories be a blessing. to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i am wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts right now. >> out front next, biden scores a major win. the house passing his massive covid relief bill. he said help is on the way as republicans double down on their opposition. the attorney general of texas threatening to sue travis county, home of austin, unless it goes along with the governor's order to lift the mask mandate. the deadline is right now, 7:00 eastern. travis county judge is my guest. new audio released of trump's phone call with a georgia official asking her to overturn the state's election. let's go out front.

>> good evening. i am erin burnett. out front tonight, help is here. those are the words exactly of president biden who marks his 50th day in office with a major legislative victory. his massive relief bill is heading to his desk after passing the house today. this represents a historic victory for the american people. everything addresses a real need with investments to fund our entire vaccination effort. >> i meant trillion. $1.9 trillion is the price tag here, the second most expensive relief bill in american history behind the $2 trillion bill signed a year ago under president trump. if you ask how much the united states earmarked for covid

relief, roughly $5 trillion. we upped the national debt by 33% in one year. borrowing a total amount of money almost equivalent to the gdp of japan. here is what does not add up. republicans s voted for what is the most expensive bill in history. now only that it is joe biden's bill they balked at the price tag. every democrat but one voted yes and every republican voted no. >> mr. speaker, i ask for a motion to add junior. those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the nos have it. >> mr. speaker ask for a roll call vote.

>> that motion failed, but it was a stunt like the one senator ron johnson featured last week. and some republicans are trying to change the subject all tog together. jim jordan writes we conservatives are doing our part to put an end to cancel culture. he accuses the left of trying to cancel dr. seuss. here is congressman tim ryan when he lost patience on the house floor. >> if we were passing a tax cut you would be getting in line to vote yes for it. stop talking about dr. seuss and start working with us on behalf of the american workers. >> he is absolutely right about that. they don't have any problem

throwing down the debt and borrowing money. that is clear. how is the biden administration planning to manage this bill now? >> well, i think managing it will be the next big challenge this. is a big bill. the biggest cash infusion going to the american people, especially during the pandemic. >>menting it -- now the politic battle that is facing them. this is coming during tax season. the irs has a lot to deal with. they have to focus on sending out the $1,400 stimulus checks to americans that are eligible for them and how they are going to work with the child tax credit. this is something the white house press secretary talked about earlier today. it is not going to happen in the next week. the implementation of the bill. in the next few days we will see president biden picking someone to oversee the implementation of this and what it is going to

look like, making it goes surely on behalf of the administration. look for that over the next few days as americans are trying to figure out which benefits they are going to qualify for. how it will help them with the lower and the middle-income americans. next big thing for president biden is selling it. starting on tuesday when he goes to pennsylvania, he will be pitching the bill to voters to make sure that it has the popularity that we saw come out in the cnn poll today. about 61% of americans favor the bill. that is what they are using to say they can't believe any republicans did not vote for it as you were just pointing to and what tim ryan was saying. they are going to try to make sure that it stays popular. tomorrow night when president biden does address the nation in primetime for the first time we are expecting hadim to out to the bill, and also to talk about what they think they are going to do next when it comes to the federal government and the pandemic response. >> thank you very much. i want to go to tim ryan.

you saw him there in the video moments ago, you know, speaking so passionately to his republican colleagues about not working with democrats. you sit on the house appropriations committee. not a single republican voted for the bill in the house or the senate. they can't say it is a problem with the price tag or running up the debt. they had no problem voting for a bigger bill a year ago. that does not add up in any way, shape or form. this time not a single one voted yes in the house or the senate. does that surprise you? >> not with the modern republican party. this is the same group that voted for a $2.3 trillion tax cut. 83% of that went to the top 1%. then you turn around and say we want to help people that are unemployed the, the middle class. you want to raise the minimum wage. take care of your pension. all of a sudden this modern

republican party has bailed on them and bailed on the middle class. i really feel like they are fighting the last battle. they are trying to inject culture wars when the vast majority of the american people want public help, and they want help around their economic situation. the current republican party is missing in action. >> so, there was one of your fellow democrats that did not support the bill as i mentioned. his statement about why, he says when combined with the over $4 trillion we have spent battling the coronavirus, borrowing and spending hundreds of basketbal -- billions more, the priorities i would like to work with the biden administration to achieve. i wanted to ask you about a specific point. he talks about in excess of the need. the bill is five to six times bigger than it would need to be

simply to replace lost covid income. there is other stuff in there. i understand you think it is important. are you concerned about it, that it will end up being way too big? >> no. not at all. the mistake we made in 2009 and 2010, we passed a bill that wasn't big enough. we needed to inject more money into the economy. it is not just about meeting the level of need. it is about going beyond that so that we can jump start the economy once we get everybody vaccinated and we are ready to move and the virus subsides. we want to jump start the economy. that is exactly what this is going to do. what else it will do, erin, because of the investments in the local communities like youngstown and akron and the little communities there in my congressional district and others around the country, it is going to jump start and it is go

to plug the communities back in. the money that they are getting, they can use for infrastructure. they can use for broadband. so, water and sewer. they can invest into their community so when the economy starts to grow, the communities are plugged in to tap into the growth. that is how you build a middle class. that is how you plug the forgotten communities back in. the republican party is mia. they don't see these as helpful. we find them essential to plug in the forgotten communities in america the last 40 to 50 years. they will be on the menu for growth. >> you mentioned the culture wars. i played it to you. you said stop talking about dr. seuss and start to work with us. eric eriksson tweeted i know a lot of smart people are out there saying the g.o.p. was so focused on dr. seuss they couldn't mount effective opposition to the covid plan. more voters will remember sdr.

seuss than the covid plan. >> people vote their pocket book. you can go back through any election. unless there is some type of terrorist attack, people vote for the party and the leaders that have helped them increase their wealth and their economic security. that is what we did. we saved millions of people who were going to lose their pension. we made sure people could make their rent and utility and car payments. they didn't destroy their credit. you know, the $1,400 check. the bill is popular already. nobody has gotten a nickel from it yet. wait until they get it. they will really like the bill. they are going to be stuck with the party of mr. potato head and dr. seuss and we will be talking about getting people health care

and visiting their doctor and putting meat and potatoes on their table because they got good paying jobs. i think we are on the right side of this. i don't know what the modern republican party will do at this point. they are going off of a cliff like wily coyote. >> i appreciate your time, congressman. i want to go to a "washington post" columnist and a former director of the nixon presidential library. tim, when i put numbers out there about the increase in debt and the size of the bills. this is the second biggest bill in american history. when i say five to six times bigger than it needs to be, because it has other things in it that are extremely significant in terms of what they are going to do to the country and how government operates. how sequential is it in terms of the expansion of aid? >> it is sequential. americans are going to be asked in 2022 are you better off than

you were in 2020. there is no question that cultural issues matter. but the bet that the republicans are making is that in the end, when people have more money in their bank accounts and are more fully employed at a year and a half, they will remember that the republicans on the side of their culture as opposed to the fact that they are happy they are in a better economic and better space. so, i think that the other elements of the christmas tree, all of the other elements of the package that might not have been as essential, if they further the development of our economy and if they make people feel better by 2022, democrats will benefit more than republicans. >> congressman ryan made the argument on the size and the excess of need. he said the bill was about going beyond need and he feels that is important. when you look at it, i know you have been through it, one of the people that has in full.

was the bill focused enough? was there too much in it or no strings attached to the spending? >> i think this is a good bill and a necessary bill. in that sense it is a good thing. i think there are things in it that may be priorities this time around. funding pensions. i don't know if it was important to put in this bill. that might hamstring some of the other ambitions that biden has for his agenda later on. spending a lot of money on infrastructure. in general, i think that it was a totally reasonable response.

there is a lot of suffering out there. hugely transformative priorities like the child tax credit. something democrats wanted to put in place for years now because it could put child poverty in half. not just during the pandemic but going forward. >> implicitly, once something is in for a year or a couple of years. it can happen. the price tags come in there over a longer period of time with the good and the bad that comes with it. tim, biden said he is all about bipartisanship. we are calling out the hypocrisy of republicans. okay. but the bottom line is that this was incredibly partisan. and he has really big stuff that he wants to do, right.

in infrastructure is an example. how hurtful is this. >> if you pushed it through without talking it would have been difficult. he did try. he did try. the bill is different than it was before. no minimum wage. we know how it got removed. i don't think biden was that unhappy about minimum wage not being in this package. better politically to vote on that separately. it does reflect consultation. what matters is that you are seeking to help the american people. you have a partisan bill that is sectarian, that is a problem. when you have a partisan bill that 61% of the american people like, the american people that voted for republicans also like it. >> right. >> in a national sense it is bipartisan. i think republicans made a mistake. they didn't support a bill this time they would have supported if the president was trump. i think that is a flaw.

if he has a governing majority and most americans support the initiative why not go for it. >> sounds like mitch mcconnell talking. next, the deadline just passed for travis county in texas to stand down on the mask mandate or be sued by the state attorney general. a travis county official responds next. stunning new audio of trump asking a top georgia official to help overturn the election. >> i won georgia, i know that. whatever you can do francis, it is a great thing. >> mental health is one of the signature issues for prince wiland kate. after the interview they are still so far silent. ♪ ♪ comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs.

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they lost. travis county and austin have a few hours to comply with state law or i will sue them and they will lose again. so, he says you have a few hours to comply or he will sue you all. does the threat do anything to deter you? >> it really doesn't. it was pretty meaningless to start this. he is the one who is supposed to know what the open meetings act is and there is honestly no way we could comply with it today. we passed it in a meeting on tuesday and to have another meeting like that would take at least four days. before he started to tweet about the laughton, he knew we were not going to respond today before 6:00. >> so, you know he says he will beat you in court. where does it go? you go ahead and fight it. the texas supreme court in

december did back the challenge to curfew orders. they are going to say this is the same thing. >> our attorney general is confused about the law. this is not the same thing. so, in times of emergency, the texas governor, greg abbott has emergency powers. me as the travis county judge, i also do. abbotts are bigger and state wide. he ordered for this thing we are talking about now that i could not order our people to wear masks. our public health authority who the city and the county have hired to be the person to say there is a pandemic or outbreak ore malaria this is what you hae to do.

he is trying to tell us at the local level we can't do that. he is trying to say our local health authority can't tell us what to do. >> people have to wear masks. many companies in texas are still doing that. national chains. home depot. places like that. where do you see this headed? does it end up making the governor look like he is right? he can say they didn't have to wear them and cases go up. you get where i am going with this. is that a concern. >> yeah. we only vaccinated 9% of the population here in travis county. we are working well with the governor and his person with the texas department of emergency management. and then two republican judges

all partnered up saying will you give us vaccines to give out at the formula 1 track. we are working as hard as we can to get people vaccinated in a bipartisan manner. doing 50,000 a week. ken paxton is over here tweeting about lawsuits. if he wanted to do something, he could come this weekend and we would put him to work as a volunteer. >> j i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next, we have breaking news. never before heard audio. president trump asking another top georgia official to try to overturn the election. >> this is what it is about. everyone knows that it is wrong. >> one of the star impeachment managers is next. and meaghan markle takes on a popular tv host after she

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call with an investigator for the state of georgia where the president tried to pressure her to overturn the will of the people by pushing baseless claims of voter fraud. >> ohio, texas, a record. alabama, 40 points. i won everything but georgia. i won georgia by a lot, and the people know it. something happened there. i mean something bad. when the right answer comes out, you will be praised. they will be praised. people will say great. that is what it is about. everyone knows it is wrong. whatever you can do, it is a great thing and important thing

for the country. so important. trump did not win everything but georgia, and something bad did happen. out front now, one of the house impeachment managers for trump's second impeachment trial. i appreciate your time. we all saw you making the case. you know, impeachment manager hat for us. when you hear the phone call, when the right answer comes out, you will be praised. whatever you can do, it is a great thing. how damning is it? >> i think that it is just another stone in the already very heavy evidence against the

president, you know, for infringing on our democracy. one of the elements that he made was the big lie and laemts to go after elected individuals to try to change the election. and then when he ran out of the options, whether it was on the courts, trying to intimidate individuals he moved to what he then did on january 6. i think that there is going to be more, erin. i think we will see more and more that what we showed in the trial was in fact the truth. >> you say there will be more and more. it comes on the call that we

heard already. here is part of that call. >> i am notifying you that you are letting it happen. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, one more than we have. tell me, brad. what are we going to do. we won the election. it is not fair to take it away from us like this. >> the word echo is eerie and disturbing. a pattern of pressure. two investigations into trump's efforts in georgia. one of those investigations is criminal. how much legal jeopardy is the former president in? >> right. i think that we are going to see many of the cases. not just the ones in georgia. just listen to his language.

i am putting you on notice. just outrageous. we are going to see different states and what happened in pennsylvania as well. talking to the members of the legislature there and other states i think there are going to come out. if he did it in pennsylvania. if he did it in georgia, there were other swing states that i am sure that it went on in as well. let's not forget the other cases in new york, tax issues. the money that he made as well as the district of columbia bringing charges against the former president. >> it is pretty stunning.

if found guilty in new york those carry prison terms. that is just one piece of the possible pie here. this was a heated back and forth you had. >> one of the things the next tax credit for single people has a marriage penalty in it. i bring it up because i know the strength that black lives matter had in the last election. i know it is a group that does not like the old-fashioned family. >> i hope my colleague from wisconsin will not leave at this time as he talked about black lives matter. how dare you. how dare you say that black lives matter, black people do not understand old fashioned families. despite some of the issues and some of the things that you put forward out of your mouth in the

oversight committee in your own district we have kept our families alive over 400 years. the assault on our families. how dare you say we are not interested in families in the black community. that is outrageous. that should be stricken down. >> he said, i quote him, i know the strength that black lives matter had in the last election. it is a group that doesn't like the old fashioned family. what words are there to describe him saying such a thing? >> if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck.

i went on on the floor to discuss the bill. it is going to lift millions of children out of poverty and pride assistance through the earned income tax credit. i cannot continue to let these individuals stay on the record without being rebuffed. you know, it appears now that the sum of the members of the republican party are very comfortable or too comfortable making these types of statements. we have to call them when we have to. >> pretty incredible. i appreciate your time congressman. thank you. >> thank you. >> next, prince william and kate

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tonight, the royal family

silent, refusing to specifically address meaghan markle's claim that the palace ignored her threats over suicidal thoughts. markle made a formal complaint to a british broadcaster where piers morgan questioned her mental health struggles. >> reporter: three days after a landmark interview with oprah winfrey, meaghan's revelations about mental health are making waves. >> i knew if i didn't say it i would do it. we know she filed a formal complaint after piers morgan questioned the seriousness of mental health concerns. >> i'm sorry. i don't believe a word she is as. >> morgan has gone from his tv presenter chair.

the royal family, especially william and kate made mental health a priority and have a branded campaign called heads together encouraging brits to speak up when they are struggling. >> yes. >> you know, some are not as lucky as you guys have been. >> we have been brought closer because of the circumstance. >> the parallels between their mother and meaghan are long. mental health was also a focus of diana's landmark interview after leaving the family in 1995. >> when you feel nobody is listening to you, all things happen. you have so much pain inside yourself you want to hurt yourself on the outside but it is the wrong help you are asking

for. saying i am concerned for my mental welfare. yes. yes. it is terrible what we see out there. but nothing was ever done. >> reporter: the queen in her only statement after the interview said the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for harry and meaghan. the issues raised, particularly of race are concerning. british tabloids have run wild with her edition. it is unclear what the palace means by that. but it is clear that the palace will deal with it quietly as a family matter. >> what do you think? >> it makes for better family, better preparation, better at your job and doing better in school. >> reporter: meaghan's complaint against piers morgan was not the only one. the british broadcast regulator

got more than 40,000 of them from the public. it is important to understand while the british press can be just as sensational at american tabloids, broadcasters are held to higher standards of impartiality and fairness. >> thank you very much, scott. i want to go to richard, as scott just laid it out, william and kate run an initiative about mental health, and they have done a lot of good. days before the interview aired, kate and william spoke to the parents of a 12-year-old boy who tried to commit suicide. it is just the other day. >> i can't imagine what it has been like for you, you know, it is every parent's worst nightmare receiving the clue you did on that night. >> to actually bridge the gap between a point of crisis and despair and brought him back to

give him the peace and calm for a time to just work things out and find the support. >> so, they have not said anything yet about meaghan, and of course we do not know whether they will or why they haven't or whether their version of things is different or what will happen here. there is a lot of possible reasons, right, richard. >> well, they are not go to say anything outright, i don't believe. not in the short-term. that is not the way they do it. they will be pointing out it is not a reality program. it is not big brother. it is not the kardashians. you don't live out your life on television. that is how they will be seeing it. hence the statement by the queen. hence the family looking at it internally. about you there is no question, this is exceptionally embarrassing, besides everything else and the dreadfulness of the situation. it is incredibly embarrassing. all that it requires now, as i said before is somebody next time they are doing something

for mental health or charities or foundations. what about your own sister-in-law and your own house. bearing in mind what meaghan said, that calls were made, cries for help were given and she was ignored. harry said to them, this will not end well. and then it ends up like this. i don't expect them to come out and satisfy the tv audience. that is not the way they work. >> what about what the queen said, recollections may differ. >> i am guessing it is the interpretation put on the idea about -- you say that. i am getting that this is a case of the royal family, not just wanting to -- whoever was asking it was just wanting to know the situation. now, in the cold light of day, it looks appallingly distasteful and crass and it looks arguably

racist. but in the way that -- i am not defending it. i am saying is that the way they will have looked at it, something different is going to happen. we need to know what it is likely to be so we can be ready when somebody asks us a question about it. that is maybe not how we look upon it, but that is how the royals will have viewed it. >> yep. all right, richard, thank you very much. and next, republican lawmakers are united in opposing biden's covid relief bill, but what do republican voters actually think? >> whether it be biden or trump, i think the country needs that stimulus. >> you are going to hear a lot of the voters talk. and the former first lady, michelle obama in a revealing new interview talking about her struggles during the pandemic. to support local restaurants, we've been to every city. including little rock and even worcester. and tonight... i'll be eating the chicken quesadilla from...tony's tex mex...in... katy. (doorbell) (giggle)

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put party affiliation aside to put president joe biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. >> biden or trump, i think the country needs the stimulus. >> reporter: he's not alone. 61% of americans support it. one of the largest aid packages in history. bell's work as a promoter dried up during the pandemic. >> i'm mostly a stay at home dad watching my little guys and my wife is the primary breadwinner right now. >> reporter: just 26% of republicans support the overall bill according to a cnn poll but a majority approve of the family tax credits. one of those an extra $1,000 per child for families who qualify. >> that's significant. you have two kids, that's an extra $2,000. >> it is. you know, i think people that have more than two children are going to be getting that much more of a break. >> reporter: in the suburbs outside of philadelphia, frank heron says he's restaurant survived because of two ppp

loans. this bill calls for 7 billion in additional ppp money and 25 billion in grants for restaurants and bars. >> actually gave us a lot of confidence we would be able to make it harron voted for trump twice. >> it's very scary and the value of our money is going to decline significantly because of this. >> reporter: barbara was a republican for 40 years but this past november, disappointed with trump and the gop, she voted for biden and changed her party registration. she's all in on the stimulus bill. >> i think it's great. because people are hurting. >> reporter: she and her husband both retired say the previous $600 stimulus checks did little to help with bills. this time she says they can save some of their $1400 checks. >> we also keep that money in case our children need help. if they would run into problems, that stimulus money would go to

them. >> the motion is adopted. >> reporter: sozero republicans voted in favor of the bill. >> shame on them. >> what does it say about the future of helping americans? >> then voting a long party lines was wrong because it was not right for america. it was not right for you. it was not right for me. it was not right for my children. >> reporter: one of the reasons that republican voters like president trump is because they believe he is probusiness and he created policies that help support a strong economy so i asked the republican voters that we spoke with how they think biden is handling the economy. they said it's not a fair question. it simply too soon to tell in order to give them a grade, erin, but they did say they are willing to give him a chance, erin. >> significant in and of itself. thank you so much. next, former first lady michelle obama opening up about

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tonight, former first lady michelle ochobama opening up ab the mental health struggles that she's faced during the pandemic. she revealed she suffered from low grade depression. >> depression is understandable in these circumstances during these times, you know, and to think that somehow that we can just continue to rise above all of the shock and the trama and the up h up heave l we've been experiencing is unrealistic. what i've said to my children, to my daughters is that i think one of the things that is getting me through is that i'm old enough to have perspective. >> one in three americans say they experienced anxiety or depression during the pandemic

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