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The man hat in district attorney drills down on CFO Allen Weiselberg and his investigation into the Trump organization.

Governor Cuomo faces allegations from a third woman. The Pentagon announces security aid to Ukraine, Texas lifts COVID restrictions and the mask mandate. Biden makes a major announcement regarding COVID vaccines.

And we have an update on the Mary Trump lawsuit. I'm A.G.

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Hey everybody, we have a big show today. This has just come in now. The White House is just withdrawn by the way, the nomination of Nira Tanden. That was not in our introduction. It was not in the original script. But that has just happened. So, mansion strikes again. I'm very upset about this.

I'm going to. It's unfortunate. We've talked about this before in the podcast. There's very good chance that this is tied to retaliation based on her holding his sister or daughter sister. Which one?

Daughter. Daughter. I think daughter accountable for basically an epic pen scandal with price couging. So it is frustrating. It is frustrating indeed. It is. Also frustrating. We couldn't get one Republican. Yeah. To vote for her.

Also, today I'll be talking with Mary Trump. We're going to discuss her lawsuit. She's got an update for us on that. And also I'm going to ask her about Alan Weiselberg. You remember him from the earlier Mueller she wrote days when he had a non prosecution agreement with the Southern District of New York in their investigation into Cohen and individual one.

We'll see how that goes. I think I have an idea and I'll talk to her about that as well. And Biden has made a major announcement today. I'll talk about that. That's the lead story. And of course we have good news. And then Thursday I'll be speaking with the author of the book American Compromot and his KGB source who says Russia had been grooming Trump since the 80s.

And as always, you can join Dana and me on stereo the stereo app, which is a free app to download. And we do that every Thursday at 5 p.m. Pacific time. It's super fun. I am looking forward to it. It's one of my highlights of my week. So we will do it. Yeah. So we have a lot of news to cover today. We're going to get to it all. So let's do it. Let's hit the hot notes hot notes.

All right. Lead story today. Huge friggin news. Biden today gave a statement about the COVID vaccine. You know, the FDA issued the Johnson and Johnson emergency youth authorization.

He said we should all be encouraged. He said when he came into office, Johnson and Johnson was behind in production and their vaccine wasn't coming fast enough. So his team worked hard to accelerate that effort. He didn't go into any details about that.

But he announced a major step forward. Johnson and Johnson and Merck are now going to work together to ramp up production of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Now these are bitter rivals.

But Joe Biden was able to get them to work together. He also is invoking the Defense Production Act to get two of Merck's manufacturing facilities up and running to manufacture the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

Now, like I said, Merck and Johnson and Johnson usually competitors, but they're working together now with the help of this administration to roll out this, you know, to really ramp up this production of this vaccine to help meet the goals that the administration has.

Johnson and Johnson is also taking the additional step on its own of ramping up production by operating its manufacturing facilities 24 seven.

And he also said Biden also said he's invoking the Defense Production Act to manufacture machinery and supplies needed to get these vaccines into arms and that he has employed the Department of Defense to strengthen and support Johnson and Johnson's efforts.

He thanked Johnson and Johnson and Merck for being good corporate citizens. He harkened back to how he used to do this with corporations and the Defense Production Act in World War II.

And then he made a very bold prediction, Dana. He said we will now have enough supply of the vaccine for every American adult by the end of May. And that is just huge.

Yes, that made me very happy to hear very, very happy to hear. Listen, I know that pharmaceutical companies, there's money to be made in this, but in the situation we are in, it is unfortunate that the country itself, like when Moderna and Pfizer, you know, they got this vaccine.

It passed why that recipe was not spread to every single pharmaceutical company that produces vaccine and get this white out for us.

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