to small businesses in unemployed americans in the obama/biden administration, and in the clinton administration. i spoke with gene earlier today. he is ready to get to work. together, we will make sure that the benefits of the american rescue plan go out quickly and directly to the american people where they belong. let me close with this, help is here, and hope is here. and in real and tangible ways. we are just days away from 100 million shots in the arms of millions of americans. that is the way. that is the way on the way to get every single american access to vaccines. 100 million checks going into the pockets, and/or direct deposits going into the pockets of americans, and millions more americans. that is real progress. we have a lot more to do. we have to prove to the american people that their government can deliver for them, and do it without waste or fraud. that we can vaccinate the nation, that we can get our kids safely back to school, and we could get our economy back on track by helping hundreds of thousands of small businesses open and stay open, and that we can give people in th

to small businesses and unemployed americans in the obama biden administration and in the clinton administration. i spoke with gene earlier today alongside my economic team. he is ready to get to work. in fact, he has already hit the ground running and together we're going to make sure that the benefits of the american rescue plan go out quickly and directly to the american people where they belong. let me close with this. help is here. and hope is here and real and tangible ways. we're just days away from 100 million shots in the arms of millions of americans. that's the way, that's the way on the way to get every single american access to the vaccine, 100 million checks going into the pockets and/or direct deposits, going into the pockets of americans on the way to a million more, millions of more americans. that's real progress. we have a lot more to do. we have to prove to the american people that their government can deliver for them and do it without waste or fraud. that we can vaccinate the nation, that we can get our kids safely back in school and get our economy back on track by helping

in the end, because of that deliberative process -- this was different introduced by the clinton administration. because of that deliberative process, republican senators were involved, that spending package was windled down to $ -- witled down to $4 billion. maybe we can improve this bill. we don't need a $1.9 trillion blowout. the vast majority of this has nothing to do with covid relief. evidence by the fact nobody knows exactly how much. but probably close to $1 trillion of the previous $4 trillion we already authorized is not yet spent. some is not even obligated. so why are we authorizing another $1.9 trillion when you still have $1 trillion sitting on the sidelines not being spent? it's actually hard to spend this much money which is why we should not authorize another $1.9 trillion. i'm trying to make this a more deliberative process. this obscene amount of money will further mortgage our children's future. reporter: i know you said yesterday in a radio interview that you're going to need 12 or 13 of your colleagues to help with the amendment -- reading of the amendments. can is? senato

in the clinton administration and look, he has a long -- has had a reputation for being -- bullying,a, because as always, it's not the crime, it's the cover-up you know, what he did with the nursing home is certainly -- nursing homes, forcing them to take in people, even if they have covid, you know, was a very questionable decision. but then covering up the data, that's really the kind of thing that gets somebody in trouble. >> seth: and based on the fact, you know, now he's said that he unintentionally made women feel uncomfortable, he's apologized for that it seems like he's trying to move on from it. do you think this is something that he gets through and survives politically >> well, i mean, he seems to be doing the governor ralph northam approach -- remember him from virginia, he had the blackface controversy. and he ignored all the calls for his resignation, and he basically survived maybe it's the donald trump approach people thought he should withdraw from the -- after the "access hollywood" video came out, people said he should withdraw, and he ended up being elected presid

he worked for the clinton administration, he worked for the obama administration and now is working for the biden administration. he was chair during the economic council of the biden administration, and he's someone who is familiar with how government works. one of the things the white house is saying he is tasked with is communicating with people inside the white house as well as across the federal agencies to try to ensure that this money is getting out quickly and that it's getting out in the way it's supposed to, meaning there is no waste or abuse or fraud that's happening as this -- it's a massive amount of money, it's $1.9 trillion, and what we heard the president say is it's one thing to pass the bill, it's quite another to get it out to people, whether it's small businesses or schools or middle income americans. so what gene sperling will be doing is making sure every dollar is spent correctly, and this is something biden many for how this money is disseminated and what tlrl, this is not what we needed, it's not targeted enough. they're working against a couple things at the wh

he was the previous director of the national economic council for the obama and clinton administrations but as you are mentioning before we will see officials all around the country this week including the first lady as well as the vice president and the deck and gentlemen making their way around the country trying to let americans know why they feel as though the american rescue plan will help millions. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: he has tapped gene sperling to oversee the limitation of his $1.9 trillion american rescue plan, shots and arms and money in pockets. he previously served as the director of the national economic council under both the clinton and obama administrations. >> together we are going to make sure that the benefits of the american rescue plan go out quickly, and directly to the american people where they belong. >> monday the white house also kicked off what it is calling to help is here tour with top officials fanning out across the country, selling the key points of the american rescue plan. >> we are going to safely open schools. >> the first lady visited a n

i have not figured it out yet, but i think what he should do is what you did in the clinton administrationto start off with more bipartisan measures so that we don't poison the well's and we can continue to work together. in this case, it would be very easy to get republican support for a covid relief package. host: there is the ideal. what is the reality? guest: if you talk to folks in the white house, they would say that they don't think they can get the 10 republican senators for any kind of bipartisan package for it to pass. the best they could do was kick off a few republican senators take mitt romney or lisa murkowski. ultimately, they would still have to go through reconciliation, it would delay the passage of the bill that it needs to go out to help some of the most disadvantaged, hard-hit workers and americans because of coronavirus. that is the white house argument. that said, biden's campaign message and inauguration message was all about unity and bipartisanship. this is about as bipartisan an opportunity as you can get in trying to get benefits and assistance to people who hav

sperling previously worked with the obama and clinton administrations and will be charged with making sure the aide reaches the right local authorities and businesses. they began promoting that rescue package under the slogan help is here. 100 million americans will be vaccinated in the next 10 days and 100 million stimulus checks distributed in t next 100 days. the law includes an extension of more generous unlimited benefits, the money for state and local government as well as schools and vaccination programs as well as a child tax credit which economists take could have a lasting impact on child poverty. take a listen. president biden: child poverty will be cut in half. it will generate economic growth for the entire nation. by the end of this year, this law will spur our economy to create 7 million new jobs. >> checking in on the day's trading action. wall street managing some new record highs. the dow jones and s&p 500 both with record highs at their close. travel stocks outperforming american and united airlines up seven and 8% respectively. the u.s. on the highest level of air

bush administration had the bill clinton administration hand but the administration wants to hide what is going on here. there's been a lot of discussion some folks would say controversy over the conditions at the border. we need to be clear about something. president biden inherited a situation where the previous administration had sought to dismantle the infrastructure for processing asylum seekers and settling asylum seekers in the united states. and it's true yes donald trump did dismantle the system of asylum in the u.s. at the southern border but it's also true contrary to that republican narrative the joe biden has retained the most draconian parts off that flouting of domestic and international humanitarian law when it comes to dealing with asylum joe biden is not allowing the vast majority of asylum seekers to get into the system he's not allowing them due process only unaccompanied children and now apparently reluctantly by the decision is allowing in families as mothers and fathers with children under the age of 7 but only because mexico is refusing to take those families i'

bush administration had the bill clinton administration hand but the administration wants to hide what is going on here. and so we're here today to find solutions. we're here today to go back to washington and offer recommendations for how this process can be improved how the asylum process can be improved and people's human rights can be respected. once you have a chance he has been monitoring those visits for us from macallan in texas neither party ever seems to accept the fact that the reason why there is such instability in central america is in large part due to the success of democrat and republican administrations who have destabilized central america through their foreign policy but yesterday we've had the republicans say that the over crowding out the border is because of a bite that the ministration gone they flung open the frontage to disease written migrants the coyote's were trafficking them whereas the democrats are saying no this is a system that was broken by trump and now they're here as the cavalry to fix the system and it's true yes donald trump did dismantle the sys

i don't think, -- was a gingrich revolution, and the clinton administration achieve many, many of the things, maybe not on purpose, maybe begrudgingly, but if you're looking at polls, but nonetheless the clinton administration they ultimately get the welfare reform, they get the balanced budget, etc. and you can view the 1980s as a triumph of conservatism. and for many many conservatives, that's they did not see the 1980s as a triumph of conservatism -- at least in the 1980s. so finally the book examines the interconnectedness of politics, memories and mid building, among the many conservatives, and tends to explain the creation of the reagan legacy and the evolution of the legacy and the creation of the reagan myth. so, i've got this slide here who tells you where the sources come from, i was lucky enough to visit a vast number of archives, including ronald reagan's presidential library, which is a great place to do research for two weeks. fly out to california. it was excellent, going to sydney valley, and you know if anyone has any questions about that and where the sources came fr

as reed had mentioned i served in the clinton administration for indian affairs, and i got into indian law through my work at the native american rights fund fund back in alam i've grown up in northern minnesota, and i was part of the minnesota triple what tribe near the canadian border, and i was interested in indian affairs, as i observed the affairs that bobbie was involved in when i was in the white house on which is young kid. and when i met charles will concern in law school, he encouraged me to go to school, and i went there is a law clerk, and i met tom doug anderson, who is here tonight, and then we opened and alaska office. and we talked about what a good settlement that was in terms of land and money but the shortcomings that had been revealed in the modern era. there is always more work to be done them and so, after six years working for the secretary abbott, who i found myself teaching at the university of washington, and then now every year i traipse up to harvard for one term to teach indian law. so i find i'm teaching a couple of times a year, and i'm looking at it a ne

committee hearing on income inequality on the union influence the testimony from the former clinton administrationert reisch and other economic policy experts it included testimony from an amazon employee from alabama who is part of an effort at a fulfillment center. watch entire hearing tonight starting at eight eastern on c-span. >> book tv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend saturday at 6:55 p.m. eastern he talks about his book unmasked inside antifa radical plan to destroy democracy and at 9:00 p.m. eastern actor in healthcare advocate michael j fox talks about his life with parkinson's disease in no time like the future and considers mortality and on sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words" georgetown law firm university experiences policing as an armed reserve police officer in washington, d.c. in her book tangled up in blue policing the american city she was interviewed by houston police chief and major city association president, watching the tv this weekend on c-span2. cohost of the history chicks podcast susan and becca talk about the podcast origin an

to then turn to a story of course you know remember back in 2000 when when the end of the clinton administration they were hoping to get china into debbi cio and they got to compete you know they got to add tariffs but the u.s. can't and china and joe biden at that time who is a senator what he said was that you know to anybody who said well you know china is going to eat our lunch he said. china's going to eat our alliance come on man. now well you know cut to today and here is the headline from i guess it's called cashen and dan collins refers to it china has 70 percent of the world's 5 g. base stations meanwhile in the us are all about believe telecom providers continue to run commercials gaslighting the public that they also have 5 g. so the headline read from caption says west looks honest china dominates global 5 g. market so no matter how much like sanctions were applying to weigh in the way no matter how many tariffs and and like arresting their executives they're still apparently dominating because there was a building spree in particular in 2020 and by the chinese government putting up

but then he of the bill clinton administration and i prosecuted the johnny chung case that led us to the director of chinese intelligence and china aerospace putting money in his hong kong bank account to fund the clinton campaign. to interfere in our federal elections, presidential elections, they wanted to influence this technology transfer, particularly satellite technology at that time. that was out of a young prosecutor in 1997 and that opened my eyes back then but, to your point, the american people are now waking up and you have the humans houston consulate shut down in my home state because they were stealing so much intellectual property and biomedical research including the vaccine and they stole information from nasa and out of that we were retrieved so much documentation that you will see further prosecutions and it was good to see the administration trying to take china head-on and prosecute legitimate espionage cases which they been doing for years. they stole 23 million security clearances from the federal government, including my own with no consequences. i think ther

former clinton administration labor secretary robert and other economic policy experts testify about addressing income inequality. also testifying was a amazon employee from alabama was part of an effort to unionize workers at a fulfillment center there. what's the entire hearing tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. ♪ c-span washington's journal. every day we take your calls and we discussed policy issues that impact you, coming up saturday morning, pediatrician of the children's national hospital in washington, tdc, discussed covid on children. he will talk about the state of national parks in the pandemic. watch c-span washington journal saturday morning and be sure to join in discussing phone calls, facebook comments. ♪ cohost of the history chicks podcast, susan and becca graham talk about the podcast origins and growing popularity over the year, discovered -- >> women are hungry for role models. we keep hearing representation is important and that really is so true. the about of emails and other messages that we get from very, very young girls and or their mothers, saying either t

the george w bush administration had, the clinton administration had. but the biden administration wants to hide what is going on here. knowledge that, but a number of us took pictures and video since the american people have the right to know what is happening here. the biden administration cents down political handlers to try to keep silent, to try to keep the american people not knowing what is going on. the facility is a giant tent city. there was a capacity of 250, as nearly 4000 people in it. we saw cages after cages after cages. of little girls, of little boys. side-by-side, touching each other. covered with reflective emergency blankets. there was no six-foot space. there was no three-foot space. there was on a three inch space between the children lined up one after the other after the other. children as young as infants. we saw play pens. infants and toddlers playing. we also saw a group of children who just today positive for covid-19. the facility reports roughly 10% of the individuals be held there are testing positive for covid-19. race dra

now is jean landrieu ^ who was an intellectual ^ for started working on healthcare with the clinton administration with the think tank ideas joining the obama administration if you don't pay attention to policy you have never heard of her. she had the encyclopedic knowledge of every know can cranny ^ that were so experienced and were so dedicated that's a big part of the story. if you want to know why it became law, because people like that was so dedicated and careful but why weren't republicans able to get across the line? they didn't have enough people like that. thought the staff level and elected officials. >> one of the things that is great about the book this isn't simply obama and clinton that all the way through those that were in the trenches coming alive in the book. >> i like how you went sequentially with the passage of medicare but we will stick with your people theme. i wrote down for names. i wrote on a fifth name clinton, romney, pelosi and obama and trump. in your account is how much the failure of clinton's efforts to get across the line caused everything on the advocates of uni

a former clinton administration, nfc officials say the world health organization's probe into the originsthe coronavirus have been dreadfully inadequate. jamie mansell made this comment during the "60 minutes" interview. >> i wouldn't really call what happened now an investigation. it's essentially a highly chaperoned highly curated study tour. everybody around the world is imagining that this is some kind of a full. this group of experts only saw with the chinese government wanted them to see. >> john: a draft copy of the w.h.o. study suggests the virus was likely transmitted to humans from animals and it is it "extremely unlikely" that it was leaked from a lab. and here we have the irony sandra, during the trump administration, the president and everyone on down was criticized for not believing in the w.h.o. and now, it turns out that they really look like they are in the pocket of the chinese. a >> sandra: this takes you back into last thursday as well, there was quick criticism that there was no questions by the press and the first solo news conference for the president on this, what

administration, eight years of the bush administration all the way back to eight years of the clinton administration further and you will see a very interesting data point. the description of the person who's most likely to rob you, rape you, or violate your property rights in a dangerous way is not a white male. as you point out, we do not focus on the group itself. but it's the media that says that they can pick a racial narrative to explain things have ignored for 25 years that the poor family schools, the poor employment options that are presented, and the way that they have preferred elites in america over the mainstream have contributed to a very, very toxic circumstance that's easily exploited by groups like black lives matter, and others that are promoting their intersectional rivalry. it is toxic, it's dangerous, and unfortunately for us, the mainstream media things this story is so good, we just need to repeat it even when it falls apart right in front of our eyes. >> tucker: there really playing with fire, they really are, they're creating -- i often think as i watch it, they're creating

he will be mentioning gene sperling, a former clinton administration official who served as a top treasuryent back during the obama administration, he will be leading the implementation of this massive relief bit. a senior official telling me it is his experience how government works better than gene sperling. that's why the president will be appointing him to lead that effort today. >> some of those shown up in direct deposits over the weekend. thanks very much. >>> also this morning, the push to get children fully back in school has hit a critical milestone, teachers and educators in all 50 states and the districts of colombia are eligible. this is crucial to get the covid-19 vaccine. >> this is a big deal. it comes as eligible is opening up across the country. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is with us this morning. good morning. i know it's different state by state, but it seems like a big deal. >> reporter: good morning, poppy. it is a big deal. in the beginning, the rules were so strict about who could get a big deal that has changed in many states. here's a matterin

he is the secretary of transportation during the clinton administration. rodney, you had some experience trying to sell transportation spending to congress. joe biden reference to this idea that republicans want these types of infrastructure plans just as much as democrats do but nobody really wants to pay for it. how do you get to the point we can get people to agree on how to pay for these things? >> i think today's presentation was a good start. clearly, the president was talking about this, even as a candidate and when he selected his team, his cabinet putting it together, he made the point that it was going to be a cabinet that looked like america because we want it to serve all americans. this is at the core of the build back better plan. he made a strong case for is important. all we have to do is look at the situation in the suez canal. we need to make sure that our infrastructure system here is good enough to get us to those markets and beyond. that is with the president was talking about today. romaine: it is easy enough for congress to pass a bi

when i served in the clinton administration in 1990s, i had a chance to make the most of that opportunity. in fact when i became secretary of state, in 1997, i quickly began referring to myself as the last secretary of state of the 20th century. and the first of the 24 century. the only problem was i started saying it a few months after president clinton had namely. which is presumptuous that he would keep me all four years. he did and so i am. at the dawn of the 21st century, our overriding goal was to bring nations coal closer together, around some of the ideas that churchill had talked about in his speech. shared economic principles, a commitment to peace and the rule of law. we were to strengthen our nato alliance, and erase any trace of the iron curtain. by adding qualified new members, and newly-to the newly democrat east. and iran never forget welcoming the foreign ministers from hungary and poland and czechoslovakia, where we signed the documents admitting them to nato, on the table harry truman used, to authorize the marshall plan. our starting point was a trans atlantic partners

became governor ten years ago to his years as attorney general, back to when he worked in the clinton administration, andrew cuomo has never been part of the political club. and if you disagree, you can drive your ass out of new york on the bridge they named after his governor dad. but yes, andrew cuomo thinks that holding him to account for his actions is cancel culture. which is obviously making people pretty angry, especially nursing home residents. they're like bitch, you cancelled gladys. and i have to be honest, if this is cancel culture, well then i have no idea what cancel culture means any more. i guess it's about letting dr. seuss' books be racist but also not letting politicians get away with sexual harassment. cancel culture feels a lot like watching wandavision, every time i think i get what st about, the next scene is now it is about a purple witch who is only pretend possessed. but this is a new play book for all these scandals. you just refuse to step aside and hope that things eventually blow ever over. it worked for donald trump, for ralph northam and andrew cuomo hopes it will wor

when i served in the clinton administration in the 1990s, i had a chance to make the most of that opportunity. in fact, when i became secretary of state in 1997, i quickly began referring to myself as the last secretary of state of the 20th century and the first of the 21st. the only problem was i started saying it a few months after president clinton had named me, which was fairly presumptuous that he would keep me all four years. at the dawn of the 21st century, our goal was to bring nations closer together around some of the ideas that churchill had talked about in his speech, shared economic principles, a commitment to peace and a support of the rule of law. we worked to strengthen our nato alliance and erase any trace of the iron curtain by adding qualified new members from europe's newly democratic east, and i'll never forget becoming the foreign ministers of the czech republic to independence, missouri, where we signed the documents admitting them to nato. while our starting point was the transatlantic partnership, we also had key allies in asia and were able to create a community of d

jamie mitzel served in the clinton administration and the w.h.o.can't be described as a right winger. the report was too much and he said so. >> i wouldn't call what has happened now an investigation. it's essentially a highly chaperoned highly curated studyo tour. everybody around the world is imagining this is some kind of full investigation.. it'ser not. this group of experts only saw what the chinese government wanted them to see. it was agreed at first that china would have veto power over who even got to be on the mission during >> and w.h.o. agree to that. >> w.h.o. agreed to that, imagine if we had asked the soviet union to do a coinvestigation of chernobyl, it doesn't make sense. >> tucker: where so many people in positions of authority including the scientific community so adamant that there is nothing to see here. here is one suggestion, last year microbiologist with rutgers setne for an interview with bosn magazine, he explained why the scientific community might want to hide the origin of a pandemic like this. nfor substantial virologi

the story i tell in the book it involves the attempt by the clinton administration to nominate her toe the u.s. ambassador to the vatican. there is a back story to this that i was simply summarize by saying the administration had floated two other names the vatican found unacceptable, so the administration said you do not like what we are going to send you. how about this? i think she was 81, and 81-year-old former member of congress, it was a bit of payback. she was not going to accept. she had just retired from congress. she was looking forward to getting back to new orleans and relaxing a bit, so she told cokie, her daughter, that she was going to turn this down, and cokie said, come on, mom, it is the two things you like most of the world, going to mass and going to parties. i do not know whether that did the trick but she accepted and did a fantastic job of repairing broken lines of munication between the vatican and government in washington. she was a woman of great charm, but also great consequence. she had real ideas. as i mentioned in the profile of her, she invited me to see

. >> they have not seemed to move much on gun control since the clinton administration. there's a lot of issues out there that are proving very difficult to move on. in terms of the u.s.-china relationship. that's when the previous administration moved on a lot. do we expect president biden to continue the aggressive stance that the trump administration had? >> in terms of policy, yes. this is one area where there is a lot of agreement on the left, the middle, even on the far lines of the party. there is widespread agreement that the u.s. has to take a much more stronger economic approach than communist china? the first tip, what we saw from president biden, was the executive order calling on congress to investigate how to diversify the u.s.-china supply chain and whether it's rare earth minerals, the intel $20 million investment made in arizona which intel says that lawmakers will help boost manufacturing jobs, in addition to addressing the semiconductor shortage. the chip shortage with china that i think you will see support from. but we should not there's a hundred bil