Biden & Dems tout $1.9T American Rescue Plan: “Help is here”; CDC: More than 100M vaccine doses administered in U.S.; Covid deaths, hospitalizations, daily cases all down almost 50% in one month; Seventh juror chosen in trial of former officer Derek Chauvin; Gov. Cuomo: “I’m not going to resign”; LA lags behind other major cities in reopening schools;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Biden: People will get stimulus checks as soon as this weekend; Biden on Covid relief: Now we have to implement it; After Covid relief, what’s next on Biden’s legislative agenda?; Emotional reunions as more Americans get vaccinated; Biden’s new goals: All adults eligible for vaccine by May 1, small gatherings with friends & family on July 4; Capacity limits eased to 75% in New Orleans today; Spring break hot spots brace for crowds despite Covid warnings; Biden admin to decide by March 15 if masks will be required in the workplace nationwide; CDC Dir: Childhood immunizations for other diseases down 11M doses during pandemic; Neighbors worry Floyd memorial site is becoming a battlefield; Activists demanding justice &accountability from police before reopening Floyd memorial site; Breonna Taylor’s mother: Lack of justice is “still unbelievable”; Breonna Taylor’s mother asks Biden to create a national policy to hold police accountable; Cuomo blames “cancel culture” amid increased calls for resignation from fellow Democrats; NY lawmakers launch impeachment inquiry into Gov. Cuomo; LA parents worry the delay in returning to in-person schooling has caused irreparable harm to their kids; Georgia county commissioner dies of Covid-19;

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0:00.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with the politics lead last hour
0:05.3	President Joe Biden celebrated the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill called the American Rescue
0:10.7	Plan. That is now law. Assuring that millions of suffering Americans help has arrived, he
0:16.4	said.
0:17.4	I think that the millions of people going to sleep at night stare at the silly thing
0:21.6	in my god. What am I going to do tomorrow? I've lost my health care. Don't have a job.
0:28.4	Employment runs out. I'm behind in my mortgage. What are we going to do? Well, guess what?
0:35.1	They're going to be getting that quite that check soon.
0:39.7	That $1,400 check could land in your bank account as soon as this weekend. President
0:45.3	Biden said Democratic congressional leaders were also present to tout the plan, though not
0:50.0	a single Republican was there, given that not one Republican voted for the legislation.
0:54.9	Right now President Biden is going to try to boost public support for the laws. He marks
0:58.9	two new dates on every American's calendar. May 1st, that's when he says every adult
1:04.5	will be eligible to get a COVID vaccine. And July 4th, to mark something of a new independence
1:10.5	from coronavirus with small gatherings with friends and family, though we should note
1:15.7	many Americans did that last 4th of July. Right now about 66 million Americans have
1:21.0	gotten at least one vaccine dose with an average of 2.2 million doses being administered
1:25.5	a day. Now, as CNN's Caitlin Collins reports, President Biden wants to maintain and speed
1:31.1	up that pace.
1:32.6	Wish I could come out and shake hands with every one of you.
1:36.5	Moment ago, a Rose Garden victory dance for President Biden as he touted his first major
1:41.8	piece of legislation. It's one thing to pass the American Rescue Plan. It's going to
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