All right, thank you, John. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. You know, today is the winter solstice.

Days are only supposed to get brighter from here. That's a nice fact as metaphor, isn't it?

But it is also the darkest day of the year. And that is a fact as well, and it is too true for too

many and for too many reasons. As a vote going on right now, that's what John and Mono were just

talking about, the relief bill will finally become a law, but it is barely a visible shaft of light

in the pandemic darkness. In fact, it's more about who's getting the shaft than it is any kind of

ray of light. This is an economic crisis in the middle of a pandemic. Help should have come in days,

not months. $600 checks for struggling individuals. Another 600 per child, 1500 per couple,

making less than 150. So look, if you net it up, if you're a family of four and you make less than

150 grand together, you get $2,400. Is that something? Yeah, that's something. But after months,

after months, doesn't really mean as much as it would have. Maybe you would have gotten too

done in this time. Everything is worse than it was the first time they gave us relief. Why did it

take so much longer in the richest country in the world? But here's the real indignation. And you

should be indignant. In fact, I argue to you, my brothers and sisters, you must be indignant

because you must be angered by what is unfair in all of this. If you want anything to change,

you have to include that kind of response. The indignation here is not just the delay,

but why it was delayed and what was bargained for. Tax breaks for CEOs, this so-called three-martini

lunch thing. Reigning in federal reserve's ability to boost an economy. Protection for companies

from lawsuits by sick workers. That was the reason for the delay. Democrats were forced to give in on

some of it. GOB demand, demand, so big business can write off some hoity-toity lunch. That's the three-martini

thing. That likely will cost more than 600 bucks a pop. Those big lunches. Republicans used the

three-martini lunches leverage against tax credits for needy families. Seriously, you don't get

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