President Biden says admin's national pandemic plan launches a 'wartime' effort: "When I say 'wartime,' people kind of look at me like, 'wartime'? As I said last night, 400,000 Americans have died. That's more than have died in all of World War II...This is a wartime undertaking"
President Biden says executive actions aim to extend masking requirements to interstate travel, testing and quarantine requirements for those flying to U.S.
President Biden discusses steps for vaccine distribution in latest executive actions:
"Our plan starts with mounting an aggressive, safe, and effective vaccination campaign to meet our goal of administering 100 million shots in our first hundred days in office"
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President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris participate in a memorial to remember Covid-19 victims msnbc.com/live
"To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation," President-elect Biden says at the Covid-19 memorial.
“Though we may be physically separated, we the American people are united in spirit,” VP-elect Harris says at the Covid-19 memorial.
Speaker Pelosi opens House debate on impeachment of President Trump:
"We know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country. He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”
Rep. Joaquin Castro: "If inciting a deadly insurrection is not enough to get a president impeached, then what is?"
VP Pence: "We condemn the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms ... To those who wreaked havoc in our Capitol today: you did not win. Violence never wins. Freedom wins. And this is still the people's house."
Senate Majority Leader McConnell: "The U.S. Senate will not be intimidated. We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs or threats. We will not bow to lawlessness or intimidation. We are back at our posts, we will discharge our duty under the Constitution"
Senate Minority Leader Schumer: "This will be a stain on our country not so easily washed away. The final, terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States. Undoubtedly our worst."