Biden scores major win with passage of $1.9T economic relief bill; Deaths and hospitalizations continue downward trend as states gamble with pandemic progress; CNN investigation finds U.S.-backed Saudi blockade is leading to deadly fuel & food shortages in Yemen
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Biden: Covid relief bill a “historic victory for the American people”; Texas opens “100 percent” despite health officials warning against it; Alaska first state to open vaccine to all people 16 and older; Starving, dying children pack Yemen hospitals amid civil war; Right now: jury selection happening in trial of ex-cop
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News and welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. |
| 0:06.2 | We begin with this breaking news that massive $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill is about to |
| 0:12.7 | become law. |
| 0:13.7 | Just a moment ago, at an event where President Biden announced a plan for the U.S. |
| 0:17.9 | government to buy 100 million more vaccine doses from Johnson and Johnson in a partnership |
| 0:23.9 | with Merck. |
| 0:24.9 | President Biden called the bill, the legislative legislation critical, to getting the U.S. |
| 0:29.3 | economy back on track and a historic victory for the country. |
| 0:34.3 | Tomorrow night, I'm going to prime time address the American people and talk about what we've |
| 0:40.2 | been through as a nation this past year. |
| 0:42.9 | But more importantly, I'm going to talk about what comes next. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm going to launch the next phase of the COVID response and explain what we will do as |
| 0:51.8 | a government and what we will ask of the American people. |
| 0:56.1 | There is light at the end of this dark tunnel in the past year, but we cannot let our |
| 1:01.4 | guard down now. |
| 1:04.3 | The COVID relief bill is part of the light at the end of the tunnel. |
| 1:07.8 | Biden said this afternoon, the House of Representatives passed that legislation 220 to 211 on an almost |
| 1:16.1 | strictly party line vote. |
| 1:18.1 | Minutes ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer heralded |
| 1:21.7 | this achievement outside the Capitol, they called it a momentous day. |
| 1:26.5 | This is the most consequential legislation that many of us will ever be a party too. |
| 1:32.8 | Who knows what the future may bring, but nonetheless, on this day, we celebrate. |
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