At this point in time in this nation, we need to go big. We need to quit counting the egg sucking

legs on the cows and count the cows and just move and move forward and move right now.

We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, well, we waste some money. But absolutely,

we've got too many people hurting, and the economy

is going to sputter, and we've got to get ourselves out of this mess, and it's the way we need

to go right now. Let me tell you something. That man has a future in Northwest Florida politics.

I think so. Or West Virginia. He might even call him the Betty Rooster if he comes, Northwest Florida. Yeah, Mika, that's interesting.

That's from a Republican governor in his state that Donald Trump got 69 percent out.

Yeah. Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia, urging Congress to go big on COVID-19 relief. Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Tuesday,

February 2nd, along with Joe, Willie and me. We have columnist and associate editor for the Washington

Post, David Ignatius. Also back with us, NBC News, Capitol Hill correspondent and host of way too early Casey Hunt.

And it seems more and more likely that Democrats will push through the Biden administration's

nearly $2 trillion economic relief package with or without Republicans.

The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two

hours in the Oval Office yesterday to pitch their much smaller $600 billion package. But the

message from the White House is that it doesn't meet the moment. Senator Susan Collins said

the meeting was very productive and cordial. But when it comes to striking a compromise, the sides are far apart. And the White House says the president will not delay aid to try and win Republican support. Democrats on the Hill have already started the process that would allow a bill to pass without Republican support. Yesterday, before the meeting, White House Press

Secretary Jen Saki was asked exactly what the president considers bipartisan.

Would you consider a bill bipartisan if it doesn't have any Republican support in Congress,

but it has support among Republican voters?

Well, I think you touched on an interesting point, which is that 74% of the public,

according to recent polls, supports this package and the key components of this package.

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