Deal Reached to Move Forward on Covid-19 Relief Bill

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🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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First, Chris discusses the deal reached for a Covid-19 relief bill with Manu Raju and Michael Smerconish. Then, Chris continues that conversation with Sen. Tim Kaine. Chris wraps up the show with Dr. Lena Wen on the most up-to-date vaccination guidelines. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's good that you bled over into my show because I'm going to pick up on that point.
0:03.4	Hold my program for a second.
0:05.4	Ed is exactly right.
0:07.0	What Governor Abbott in Texas has been saying is really poisonous.
0:12.3	Yes, it's true.
0:13.7	Biden overturning and reversing the Trump programs about how to control flow and how quickly
0:19.7	to send somebody back without due process in many cases is a factor in sending a message
0:26.4	that is going to increase flow over the border.
0:28.5	That's true.
0:29.5	You have to find ways to handle that flow and find programs to deal with it.
0:33.4	You could argue that they did it all too quickly, but that's a political discussion.
0:37.7	When it comes to COVID, it is a trickle, the number of people they have coming over.
0:42.5	They're getting false positives on the tests.
0:44.6	And more importantly, Abbott won't receive the funds from the federal government to do
0:50.0	the testing.
0:51.3	If you're going to complain that there is some kind of plague coming across, this is just
0:55.7	an extension of the Trumpery of the Brown Menace, but you won't test them, but you care
1:00.2	about them having COVID, it is a poison ploy.
1:04.7	The reality is we need to do better, but it would be very hard for Biden to do worse.
1:09.6	John, have a great weekend.
1:10.6	Thank you very much.
1:11.6	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
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