anna: good evening. i'm anna palmer, a founder of punch bowl news. i'm joined by cofounder jake sherman at we are pleased to take part in a three-part virtual series focused on joe biden's first 100 days. a big sponsor to edelman for sponsoring these events and making them possible. we want to bring you closer to a key decision-maker in joe biden's washington and tonight we are joined by white house chief of staff ron klain to discuss the covid relief package, what is next on the agenda, and more. after our conversation with ron klain, lisa ross will join us for a fireside chat. a reminder, we would love you to share insights on twitter and we will take your question, so feel free to tweet us @punchbowl news. jake: thank you for joining us. congress is about to pass in the next 24 hours the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan, arp, trying to set the tone for the recovery. would have you learned about congress in these last less that 90 days since you have taken office? ron: we have learned congress can do big things to help this country. that is what

anna palmer, is this real? they believe they're onto something like with deplorables when hillary clinton said that. >> it's a sideshow, right. anybody who is serious is not really taking up the issue and starting to cut attack ads against joe bidenor democrats. they're going to be focused on vaccines, getting the economy pack going. there's not a lot of things where they are pushing alignment on post trump era. >> we will move on here. the senate is moving forward on debate with president biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief. that vote came after democrats made changes to the house passed version of the bill, including lowering the cutoff for $1,400 relief checks and excluding a $1,500 minimum wage. they could pass the bill as soon as this weekend. but they appear to be setting up a long debate. as soon as the senate voted to proceed with the bill, wisconsin senator ron johnson insisted the entire 628-page bill be read out loud. he argued because of its price tag, we should know what's in the bill. majorit

joining us now, co-founder of punch bowl news anna palmer. anna, good morning! thank you so much for being up early with us. it's great to see you. pelosi's comments are interesting to me because she seems to suggest that, okay, republicans could get on board with this. and you know, in previous iterations of congress, although maybe you have to go back decades at this point, this is the kind of bill you could have gotten enormous bipartisan majorities because it would likely have something in it for everybody, something that they could all go home and sell to their districts, but that's simply not the world we're living in. how likely is it, do you think, we actually might see bipartisanship on a bill like this, if this is, in fact, what they're going to do next? >> to your point, right, every single district, every single state has crumbling roads, bridges, need for funding to kind of help the infrastructure of this country. however, just the way that the politics are right now, i think you're going to see democrats try to go down some kind of a bipartisan pat

. >>> joining us now is anna palmer, the founder of punchbowl news. anna, sounds like spiking that $15 minimum wage proposal from the bill did not fully mullfy the objectors like senator m manchin. he still wants more. so now where are we? >> listen, senators never love to take a bill that democrats in the house have passed and just pass it themselves. i see we'll see belly aching and negotiates but at the end of the day the white house is going to push democrats to vote for this. they still seem to be on track for that very aggressive march 13th deadline. this next week will be super crucial. they have to draft a substitute bill see if all the provisions make it through the rules, the bird rules, reconciliation that are kind of arcane in whether or not it can be attached or not but you'll see the friction with the moderates and the progressives that is really going to be part of joe biden's entire administration. >> go deeper into this if you can. some of the changes that joe manchin and others want number one jeremy said reducing 400 to 300, targeti

anna palmer, veteran d.c. journalist, founder and ceo of punch bowl news, a d.c. based news service she created with jake sherman. and general barry mcaffry, former battlefield commander in the gulf and a former cabinet member, member of the national security council. he retired as a four-star general in the u.s. army. and indeed, general, i'd like to begin with you tonight given the subject of that hearing today. why do you reckon there was a delay of 3 hours and 19 minutes to get our ready guard and reserve up to the hill? why do you reckon the secretary of the army was unavailable that day when called? >> well, first of all, the shameful failure of security in an obviously threatening situation, and it's astonishing to me the guard wasn't called up days prior. you know, eventually we ended up with 25,000 guardsmen in washington coming as far away as hawaii. this is the most competent disciplined national guard in the country's history. they should have been on site in significant numbers much prior to the day of the trump inspired and summoned mob that sacked t

anna palmer, veteran d.c. journalist, founder and ceo of punch bowl news, a d.c. based news service she created with jake sherman. and general barry mccaffrey, former battlefield commander in the gulf and a former cabinet member, member of the national security council. he retired as a four-star general in the u.s. army. and indeed, general, i'd like to begin with you tonight given the subject of that hearing today. why do you reckon there was a delay of 3 hours and 19 minutes to get our ready guard and reserve up to the hill? why do you reckon the secretary of the army was unavailable that day when called? >> well, first of all, the shameful failure of security in an obviously threatening situation, and it's astonishing to me the guard wasn't called up days prior. you know, eventually we ended up with 25,000 guardsmen in washington coming as far away as hawaii. this is the most competent disciplined national guard in the country's history. they should have been on site in significant numbers much prior to the day of the trump inspired and summoned mob that sacked

mike memoli, anna palmer with us. mike, i have a question for you, as well. beautiful exuberance is the way it's described. the most consequential legislation passed in decades as both the speaker and the senate majority leader said there. your reaction to those descriptions, anna? >> clearly democrats taking a victory lap here. this is a most consequential legislation the speaker has been a part of since obamacare. legacy making piece of legislation and for chuck schumer, he called out bernie sanders, the budget committee chairman, who could have settled this for democrats once the $15 minimum wage was taken out but each leaders thanking the members that stuck in line and leaders on this bill. democrats very excited that they were able to deliver on such a short timeline. >> mike, two parts for you. they pay tribute to joe biden for the vision and determination. how hands on was he in this process? republicans early on didn't meet him halfway. he had to work with the party and the caucus and senators like joe manchin come to mind and why wait until friday to

., sam stein and anna palmer is joining us this morning. the house is expected to vote today on president biden's coronavirus relief package. debate on the bill is scheduled to begin just after 9:00 a.m. timing of the vote is fluid given that republicans may try to slow the process with procedural delays. house democrats aim to get the bill to president biden's desk so he can sign it before key unemployment aid programs expire this sunday, joe. >> sam stein, you brought some more polls with you showing again just how wildly popular this bill is. >> yeah. we have a new poll out just now, politico morning consult poll you rarely see legislation this popular, 75% support for the legislation, 18% opposition. but you break it down by party affiliation. you have 59% of republicans, self identified republicans, saying they support this bill. only 35% of the republicans oppose. the independent numbers are even better than that. 45% say it's the right amount. 24% wish this bill was bigger, that it covers too little support. you have seen president b

also joining is anna palmer the founder of punchbowl news. anna, all of us -- obviously john and i, you guys spent far too many mornings like this in the aftermath of a horrible mass shooting again in the united states. is there any reason to believe that this time would be different when after sandy hook congress didn't act, when after parkland they had to do it on a state level. i could go through the whole sad list. is there any reason that today would be different? >> yeah. it's hard to see what is going to change it this time, unfortunately. the senate's work is tragically well timed. today the senate judiciary committee is hosting on constitutional and common sense steps to reduce gun violence. this was obviously planned before any of this happened. but i think it also just underscores the fact that this is the national crisis that continues to happen. senate democrats are trying to push forward with this, but the way that congress works, there's a majority in the house that would support moving forward with gun control of some kind, bu

and anna palmer. jon, i got to start with you, i talked to senator manchin as you saw earlier, he was at the center of it all, paralyzing the senate for hours, we know the president personally lobbied him more than once this day, joe biden is the president, joe manchin -- >> looked like the most powerful man in washington, he was able to tie up the senate, get the changes that he wanted, look, a 50/50 senate, any member of the majority party to talk to the minority, he's willing to talk to republicans, takes the majority with him if he does, so but, no, martha, the most powerful person in washington is joe biden. because of joe biden got a $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. they don't win those seats, mitch mccon mel is the co-author of the bill, it's $1.9 trillion, doesn't have the priorities that biden dictated. it's co-written by mitch mcconnell. thanks to those senate races, joe biden is very much the most powerful person in washington whatever joe manchin does. >> anna, senate democrats have a majo

joining us now, cnn's chief business correspondent christine romans and anna palmer the founder of punchbowl news. ladies, great to see you. >> good morning. >> christine, what can americans expect? >> this is life changing especially for low income working americans here. by some analysis the tax policy center says people who make 30 to $40,000 a year are going to see a 20% after-tax pay increase. i did back of the envelope math for you here. you look at say a family of two, two parents, two kids, they're going to get $5,600 in stimulus checks and get $6,000 in this child tax credit. that's going to be sort of the top line return for this family of two. look at a single mom. when you add in the stimulus check and you add in money for $3,000 for the year for her kid, that's $5,800, that's not even counting in reform to the earned income tax more money to the lowest working americans. this is really a historic, life changing event for especially a low income worker here. it really is using covid legislation to try to address income inequality in a way that we have never really even seen befor

anna palmer, thank you so much for joining us. and with me now is democratic congressman tim ryan of ohio. congressman, welcome, always good to have you. >> thank you. >> covid relief, let's all say it's going to get passed tomorrow and signed into law. and you tell me if there's anything that we're missing here. but -- >> i think you got it. >> what's the next big agenda item that the house is going to tackle? >> well, we're doing the worker act, the pro act now, which is a very big pro-worker act. but i think the next big piece of budgetary or appropriations is going to be around the transportation bill. and it sounds like everyone's in agreement that it needs to be big, it needs to be far reaching, it needs to invest into those communities that have been left behind. the smaller mid-sized communities that need a shot in the arm that have been left behind from globalization and automation. but also big enough to take care of the big transportation needs around transit, around bridges. so we're going to go big. and if the republi

joining me is garrett haake and "punchbowl news" founder anna palmer. garrett, tell us what's been happening in this hearing. >> reporter: the irony is it was scheduled before either this or the atlanta shooting, but the reality in this country means wherever you plot the hearing on gun violence on the calendar, there's going to be gun violence around it. and although we have seen hearings like this before, i think the tenor here was indicative of just how emotional this issue is and why it is so challenging for the senate to address. take a look at some of what we heard earlier today. . >> these victims and their loved ones are worthy of our thoughts and our prayers. but there's more that's required. we face a pandemic of coronavirus. we have another epidemic in america called guns. >> what happens in this committee after every mass shooting is democrats propose taking away guns from law-abiding citizens because that's their political objective. but what they propose, not only does it not reduce crime, it makes it worse. >> the cruz remarks indicate ho

i want to bring in a superb group her to discuss, anna palmer, the founder of punch bowl news, and kara lee, and claire mccaskill who served 12 years as a democratic senator from the state of missouri. carol, when are people going to tart to see these benefits. >> as quickly as possible. now, that's not going to be immediate. this isn't like a light switch that turns on and suddenly people find checks in their mailboxes but the expectation that they're setting is that this is -- these benefits are something that americans are going to feel in the coming weeks. on saturday we heard president biden say that americans should expect to see those $1,400 checks for instance sometime this month. we also know that the congress and the white house were working against this march 14th deadline because that's when some unemployment benefits are set to expire so they're getting ahead of that so that there's no lapse in those benefits so there shouldn't be a gap there. but, look, this is an ambitious timeline, and in the meantime the president, while he's expected to sign this sometime this week, is

and co founder of punch bowl news, anna palmer. joe and mika have the morning off. mike says for the second time in a year he is wearing pants, which is very exciting. . >> yes, it is. an exciting morning. >> good way to start the morning. let's go io

and anna palmer. there is a lot in the report about alcohol and drugs and sex. walk us through it. and what does it say about how female subordinates interpreted jackson and certainly she believes he came on to her coming to her room in the middle of the night with the description i read earlier. >> there were many damning details relayed by dozens and dozens of who either worked under him or with him at the white house. it was a litany of accusations, and they painted this really toxic work environment. then there's this one inns didn't i have cited with this female southbound order gnat who gets a knock on her door, he's clearly intoxicated, she says, and he says i need you and wants her to come to his room to see something. she had told the investigators that she felt this was totally inappropriate, that your mind goes to something very bad when a drunken man knocks on your room and said, i need you. now, he's denying this, but again the report is not just this one incident, but dozens of people describing a really, really intimidating work environment. >> to that point, anna, t

they feel good about where they are. >> anna palmer, the president does, as jonathan said -- his people feel like he has wind at his back, especially as it pertains to covid and it helps him push democrats forward and maybe unite them a little more as he moves forward to whether it's infrastructure or voting rights. >> absolutely. i think basically, joe biden is in the strongest position he possibly could be. a lot of people were skeptical he was going to be able to move as aggressively to get covid relief done. that's been a success. the rollout has been a success. the question is wednesday, build back better. do democrats coalesce around infrastructure, a more complicated, probably more divisive in terms of what the priorities should be, whether it's clean jobs or other things. can he continue that momentum? republicans are concerned about those poll numbers. they are not talking about covid relief. they are talking about the border. that's because if you look at those polls, joe biden is in a very strong position. >> when it comes to the president's handling of the border crisis, 57%

. >> good evening, i'm anna palmer. i'm joined by jake sherman. and we are thrilled to kick off a three-part virtual event series focused on joe biden's first 100 days. a big thank you to edelman for making these events possible. we want to bring you closer to a key decision-maker in washington. tonight, we will be joined by ron klain to discuss the president's relief package, what is next, and much more. after our conversation, lisa ross will join us for a fireside chat. we would love you to share insight or big moments on twitter. we will also take questions, so feel free to tweet us with any questions. let's welcome ron klain. ron: thank you for having me. jake: thank you for joining us, mr. chief of staff. we will give you a quick 15 seconds, or more, if we are feeling generous. the congress is about to pass the $1.9 trillion american relief or rescue plan. trying to set the tone for recovery. what have you learned about congress in these less than 90 days that the president has taken office? ron: it can do big things to help the country. that