Thank you very much, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. A year ago this week,

everything changed. COVID came. And common sense and leadership left. Denial of the reality made us sick.

Literally, people got sick, often really sick all over the country, schools and businesses closed.

You know the story. You've lived the pain, jobs lost, often we had more people die,

then should have ever happened all over this country, half a million and counting. And why? You know and I

because of COVID, period. Right now, we have more hungry kids and adults than at any time in this country

since the great depression. Why? Because of COVID, millions thrown into poverty, perhaps the first time in their lives.

Millions of others already struggling thrown into deeper desperation. I know that many of you watching are among them.

And you know the reason for your pain. COVID, the problem is so huge and so persistent.

President Biden says the fix should be too. Not so fast. Say the right side of the aisle.

A lot of this help for the poor, for the hungry, the desperate, not really about COVID.

So let's not do it. You think I'm making it up? Listen to the leader of the opposition.

Only 9% addresses the fight against the virus itself. You get this massive bill with only 1%,

1% for vaccinations that's stuffed with non-COVID-related spending that even top liberal economists say

is wrong for the recovery. What caused the loss of the jobs and the wages and the businesses then?

Our economy still has 9.5 million fewer jobs than at this time last year. At the rate that we're

growing right now because the recovery is so great, at the rate that he calls so great,

it will take us two years to get back to where we were. You think McConnell would go give that speech

in Kentucky with the people who are broke and hungry there? You don't need this much help.

It's not really about COVID. Then what is it about? Tell them that that's why you delayed this process

despite the fast-coming deadlines affecting millions because you just don't think people need this much help.

That is why the Democrats had to muscle this through with zero Republican support.

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