Countdown to Covid Relief
Velshi
MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's been dubbed the MAGA Meltdown, the Capitol rioter who famously posed for photos while he was lounging in Nancy Pelosi's desk gets his comeuppance in court, and he's not happy about it. |
| 0:13.8 | Plus, one election's expert says we're experiencing the greatest rollback of voting rights since the notorious Jim Crow era of legalized racial segregation. |
| 0:23.6 | Go and guess who's behind it. You can check your answers at the bottom of the show. |
| 0:28.6 | And one of the drugs that can help us get out of this year-long COVID nightmare is getting a bad rap. |
| 0:33.6 | Listen up for what you need to know about the vaccine landscape. |
| 0:36.6 | Coming up, Velshi starts now. |
| 0:46.3 | Good morning. It's Saturday, March the 6th. I'm Ali Velshi, and this is the United States Senate right now, which remains in session after debating and making changes to President Joe Biden's |
| 0:55.3 | $1.9 trillion relief package through the night. Lawmakers are still going at this moment. However, |
| 1:01.9 | a final vote is expected, and it could happen as soon as this morning. An overnight deal was |
| 1:06.8 | struck among Senate Democrats, or really Senate Democrats and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, |
| 1:12.3 | who is pushing for less aid. The deal on unemployment insurance extends insurance until September, |
| 1:19.3 | but it lowers the amount to $300 a week compared to the House bills $400 a week. It extends |
| 1:26.0 | what people are getting right now, which is $300 a week. |
| 1:29.2 | We're going to bring you that historic vote again, which could happen at any moment when it happens. |
| 1:34.4 | The Senate had already stripped out a phased increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. |
| 1:40.2 | Earning a fair wage is something that is very important to me. |
| 1:43.0 | I wrote about the need for us all to be able to earn a fair wage in my new piece on MSNBC.com. |
| 1:48.8 | There's also another urgent need for Biden's package. |
| 1:51.9 | Around 2,000 people continue to die every day from COVID-19. |
| 1:56.3 | More than 525,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19 in total, and last night the country surpassed |
| 2:03.1 | 29 million total cases, with tens of thousands of new cases still showing up every day. |
| 2:10.3 | Now, despite those truths, and despite the fact that we still live in an extremely deadly |
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