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very good evening i'm richard louis at
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nbc news headquarters in new york city
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we have some breaking news for you this
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hour 14 minutes after 8
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at the white house in washington d.c
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president trump
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signing congress's stimulus bill
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releasing 900 billion dollars for covert
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relief in averting a monday night
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government shutdown
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the president was at one of his resorts
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golfing today let's go straight to nbc's
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josh
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letterman who was with the president
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this weekend and josh what is the news
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we're getting
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president trump has now signed into law
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the covid relief bill
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as well as the government spending
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measure richard meaning that the
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government
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shutdown that we had been awaiting
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possibly happening
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when we start tuesday has now been
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averted and that covid relief
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some 900 billion dollars of relief
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measures passed
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overwhelmingly by both chambers of
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congress will now be headed to the
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american people
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this came after many days of delays
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after the president suggested
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he was not going to sign it because
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after the deal was done
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and negotiated by his own brokers in
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congress the president decided he
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actually wanted something different
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two thousand dollar payments as opposed
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to 600 payments
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to americans that was included in that
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bill but now tonight
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a spokesman for the president judd dear
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says that he has signed it and is also
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passing along
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a statement from president donald trump
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that reads
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as president i have told congress that i
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want far less wasteful spending
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and more money going to the american
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people in the form of two thousand
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dollar checks per adult
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and six hundred dollars per child the
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president uh going on
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in this message to say he's sending a
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strong message
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that makes clear to congress wasteful
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items need to be removed
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he is sending back to congress a red
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line version
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item by item uh in basically telling
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congress things that he wants
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removed from the bill so we're going to
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have to see how that is
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actually going to work out because once
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this bill is signed into law
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you know it's law and that money is
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going to be going out the door but there
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has been a lot of speculation
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today and over the last few days that
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the president might
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ultimately cave from this threat not to
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move forward with this relief
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in exchange for some promise from
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leaders in congress that they would
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uh take up a measure to add more money
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to these direct payments
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and these other demands that the
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president has uh been
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making over the last few days we'll have
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to see whether the president has
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actually extracted some
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type of commitment from senate majority
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leader mitch mcconnell for example to
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perhaps put on the floor of the senate
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uh the bill that we expect to pass the
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house early this week
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you know authorizing those payments at a
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two thousand dollar level but for now
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the president has signed this measure
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into law that will restore these
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unemployment benefits
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stop that eviction uh the evictions that
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we're going to be facing americans
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starting on january 1st
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but we should say the president's gambit
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over the last several days is not
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without real pain
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for americans across the country richard
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because the fact that the president
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waited until now means
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a full week of those unemployment
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benefits that americans have been
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counting on
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they will no longer have so josh
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uh folks listening are thinking what
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is the red lines right are they big line
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red lines are they small red lines
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any indication in terms of what those
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caveats might be and i know it's way
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very very early way early if you will in
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terms of getting those details
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so it sounds like what the president is
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doing and literally his spokesman is
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tweeting out
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this statement sentence by sentence as
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we are speaking right now but it looks
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like what the president is going to do
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is sign this bill but then send congress
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basically a list of things
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that he wants them to remove and
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congress could try to
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pass another law uh if they chose to do
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so that would
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meet the president's uh demands what
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this appears to be is basically
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a way out for the president who got
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himself into this mess
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apparently not totally understanding the
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full ramifications
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of not signing this measure and is now
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looking for a way to back out of it
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allow that funding to go forward but
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without looking like he lost a fight
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or simply caving and so this is what
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seems to be a kind of
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fig leaf or the president could say uh
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he's still going to be able to work with
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congress to get what he's demanding
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but in the meantime that relief so badly
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needed by
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millions and millions of americans will
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not be held back hey there i'm chris
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