a new vaccine gets the go ahead from the u.s. health officials and could be in american arms within days. we will tell what you makes this one different from the others. donald trump is back. for the first time in weeks he will be front and center as he speaks later today to a very friendly crowd at a conservative conference. and the protests against myanmar's military coup turned deadly as police fire tear gas, stun grenades and live gunfire. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta welcome to all of you

watching here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." ♪ >> the u.s. could soon be a powerful new weapon in its fight against coronavirus. on saturday the food and drug administration signed off on emergency use authorization for johnson & johnson's covid vaccine. it still needs to clear the cdc which should happen in the coming days. here is what the process is expected to look like. today is a cdc panel is set to meet to discuss how to best prioritize use of the vaccine and later today or on monday the cdc director is expected to sign off on the recommendations and after that shots of the lifesaving vaccine can start going into arms. now, this is the third vaccine

to get emergency use authorization in the u.s. and it requires just a single dose. cnn's natasha chen reports on why this is such a big deal. >> reporter: a third coronavirus vaccine will likely become available as soon as next week. now that the food and drug administration has authorized johnson & johnson's single-dose vaccine for emergency use. >> significantly the vaccine is highly effective in preventing severe covid-19. >> reporter: the johnson & johnson vaccine requires no complex refrigeration and only one dose. the company says it's ready to begin shipping doses as early as sunday. >> having an additional safe and effective vaccine will help protect more people faster. eager to get one. a kaiser family foundation report on friday showed 55% of surveyed adults in the u.s. had either had at least one vaccine dose or is eager to get one. that's up from early december when only about a third of adults surveyed wanted a

vaccine. there's still more demand than supply, especially after last week's winter storm sweeping through the midwest and texas disrupted the supply chain all over the u.s. vaccination sites like this one outside of atlanta saw none of that severe weather, but are feeling the effects. this afternoon they're seeing all the people whose scheduled second dose appointments were canceled last week due to shipment delays caused by the severe weather. more groups of people like younger adults are underlying health conditions are becoming eligible for the vaccine in some states. >> i think i was actually like shaking because i was like, oh, my gosh, i can go get it. i think i was the youngest one that had been through so far and so they were all like, wait, we don't know what to do ye d hospitalizations continue to say lower than the holiday peak. this relative progress is threatened by rapidly spreading variants. >> we have variants that are in play. we must address these.

>> reporter: and the lifting of covid-19 restrictions in many states. new york nursing homes reopened with restrictions friday to some visitors and tennessee lifts restrictions on visiting its long term care facilities sunday. south carolina will lift restrictions on mass gatherings starting monday. >> i'm worried that people are lifting restrictions saying this is over when the reality is we are not over yet. we are really right now in a race between variants and vaccines and we have to do whatever we can to shut down this virus. >> reporter: and more and more groups of people are becoming eligible to get the vaccine depending on the state. here in georgia in a little more than a week we're going to start seeing teachers, for example, join the group of people eligible to get an appointment for the vaccine. natasha chen, cnn, atlanta. dr. steven brody is the associate executive director of the permanent day medical group at kaiser permanente and he joins me from san francisco. thanks so much for being here. on the ground you have some 4.5 million patients across i think

it's 21 hospitals in california, a state that's seen, you know, plenty of vaccine shortages. is this a game changer? >> i think this new vaccine is a huge game changer. first of all, it's a one-dose vaccine, it requires refrigeration instead of freezers, so it's going to be actually much more mobile, we're going to be able to get this into the communities in a much more ready and fast fashion. it has minimal side effects and it prevents hospitalizations and it prevents deaths and that is really what we've been struggling with in california and in the entire u.s. >> you say it will be deployed fast, so it's expected to roll out next week, you know, possibly as soon as monday. concretely, then, how are you preparing? what are the logistics involved here to actually get those shots in arms quickly? >> that's right. so literally we are hearing that as of monday, you know, we are

going to see up to 4 million doses being released in the united states and we expect about 10% of that to be coming to california. so we've been ramping up both our internal operations in hospitals, in our clinics, but also mass vaccination sites that we've been having our personnel deployed in these facilities at the mass vaccination sites. and in addition to that we've been actually getting out into the community. so we've actually stood up community centers in churches or pop up clinics in particular counties that have asked for our assistance. >> now, because the johnson & johnson vaccine has a lower efficacy rate some people, you know, they might see it as a second-class vaccine, you know, the consistent message we've been hearing from health experts s of course, the best vaccine is the one you can actually get, but how do you convince people of that? and you mentioned, you know,

marginalized communities, how do you approach it with many of them who might be suspicious that, you know, the rich or white people are getting the good vaccine and they're getting the bad one? >> well, i will tell you i had this conversation with my patients actually and have been talking about this for the last couple of weeks in anticipation of j & j coming out and the key thing here is that this vaccine prevents death, it prevents hospitalizations, it's going to prevent you from getting into an icu and quite frankly it acts faster than even the moderna and pfizer vaccines. so it gets you up to really the immunity that i'm talking about in terms of preventing you from dying within four weeks where it takes about six weeks when it comes to the other two vaccines. so i think there's a lack of, you know, difference here in terms of when it comes to protecting you from what matters most, which is preventing death. >> now, we're still going to

have to take, you know, all the measures that we've been taking for months now, masks, social distancing, things won't open up obviously for a while. unfortunately as we see politics and covid are inextricably intertwined and we saw more cpac, one of the biggest applause lines was when south dakota's governor touted her state's record on covid then bashed dr. fauci. i want you to listen to this. >> we never focused on the case numbers, instead we kept our eye on hospital capacity. now, dr. fauci, he told me that on my worst day i would have 10,000 patients in the hospital. on our worst day we had a little over 600. i don't know if you agree with me, but dr. fauci is wrong a lot. >> and we didn't play it but there was a huge applause after she said that.

so i'm playing that not because it was an exception or an outlier, all throughout the weekend all the big name republicans have been mocking mask mandates, the crowd booed reminders to wear masks, you know, that anti-expertise, anti-science attitudes, they are persistent and prevalent. how much harder does that make your job as we still have to go through all these -- go through these measures? >> you know, it's been such a complicated messaging campaign when it comes to the disparate messages that are out there. let me just tell you that i stand with dr. fauci and when it comes to the science we know that the way you protect yourself is by wearing a mask, washing your hands and keeping your distance and getting those vaccines into arms. and we know it works, by the way. you see the contrast between the behavior that occurred with the thanksgiving day travel and then what happened at christmas and new year's where people actually stayed home. and what we're seeing now is

actually the benefits of that. we're seeing massive decreases when it comes to hospitalizations and i think that's a combination of both the vaccination effort but most importantly that people have taken it to heart that we need to protect each other by following the good public health measures we know will work. >> important message. i hope people are watching. thanks so much, doctor. i appreciate it. >> thank you, kim. police in myanmar have shot and killed at least four protesters today in what has become the deadliest day of anti-coup demonstrations so far. this is new video in from yangon. protests against the military's power grab have been g their crackdown with hundreds reportedly detained just this

weekend. here with more details a kristie lu stout joining us from hong kong. horrific scenes in that lockdown. what's the latest? >> reporter: kim, a horrific and brutal crackdown today as police across myanmar opened fire using live a.m. anything on anti-coup protesters. this took place across the country. according to local news reports in a town in the south of myanmar at least three protesters were shot and killed, in yangon at least one protester shot and killed n mandalay reports of at least an additional protester there shot and killed. this grim talley making today the deadliest day of protests since the coup took place on february 1st. additional local media reports say that at least five student protesters have been arrested. we've been monitoring all day social media coming in from myanmar, which we see police in full riot gear taking on

protesters, using live ammu ammunition. we hear shots, with he hear gunfire, we hear the onlookers screaming and crying in terror. myanmar's ambassador to the united nations, he defied the military after he gave that impassioned plea to the u.n. general assembly on friday in which he asked for immediate international action in order to reverse the coup. in that plea he used that three finger salute we've seen protesters use all along including this day inside myanmar. after that plea was made he received a rare round of applause from his u.n. colleagues. we are also monitoring the fate and future of the deposed leading aung san suu kyi. on monday she is expected to appear in court via video link, she faces two charges, one for illegally importing six walkie-talkie radios, the other charge for violating a national disaster management law. the military ousted her, seized

power in a coup on february 1st, ever since then, it's been a month now, ever day there have been daily strikes, anti-coup pro-democracy protests taking place despite the fact that the military and police are using everything from tear gas, rubber bullets, stun grenades and live a.m. mission. protesters are risking their lives in order to ask for the restoration of democracy. >> we will keep following this developing story. thanks so much, kristie lu stout in hong kong. the nearly year old pandemic has caused untold economic hardship for millions of americans. now the house has passed a massive covid relief bill, president biden is urging senators to approve the measure as quickly as possible. we will have that story just ahead. plus, donald trump is just hours away from his first public appearance since leaving office. we will preview what his faithful supporters are expecting from his speech. stay with us. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. so you can enjoy it even if you're sensitive. yet some say it isn't real milk.

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u.s. president joe biden is urging the senate to pass his covid relief package as soon as possible. he said that just hours after house democrats narrowly passed the $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. republicans have been dead set against it, so bipartisan

support in the 50/50 senate isn't likely, but the president says too many americans are hurting and counting on congress to act. >> we have no time to waste. if we act now, decisively, quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus, we can finally get our economy moving again and the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long. we need to relieve that suffering. the american rescue plan does just that. it relieves the suffering. meanwhile, former president trump is set to tighten his grip on the republican party. less than six weeks after leaving office trump will return to the spotlight this afternoon with a speech to conservatives at the annual cpac meeting in florida. it will be his first time addressing his supporters directly since his social media accounts were shut down. you can see the enthusiasm of trump's supporters reflected in the props and merchandise at this year's convention and

there's even a gold statue of trump there as you can see. cnn's jim acosta is in orlando. >> reporter: even though donald trump is a defeated ex-president this is a trump lovefest at cpac. when you walk around the corridors of cpac and talk to people inside this conference you will run into trump world figures like the long time adviser to the former president roger stone. we even caught up with former secretary of state mike pompeo, tried to ask pompeo whether or not he still stands by the statement that he made after the election that there would be a continuation or a transition to another trump presidency. he declined to talk to us. but all day long, in fact, throughout this conference you will see speaker after speaker making the case that the future of the republican party depends on donald trump. here is one example earlier in the day. >> the most popular republican figure in congress today is kevin mccarthy. let me tell you who the least popular republicans in the party are today, they're those few,

very few, matt -- >> there's at this timering out there, i just want you to know. >> there's very few republicans, the last popular in outhe ones donald trump and donald trump supporters from our party. let me tell you, if that happens we won't win back the majority in 2022, we definitely won't win back the white house in 2024 if we erase donald trump. you have a leader right here, i'm the conservative leader and you and i both know, matt, for decades the conservative leader fights with the republican leader. not anymore because kevin mccarthy is the right leader for the right time to win back the majority. he will be the best speaker of the house we have had in a generation. >> reporter: when you try to talk to cpac attendees and ask them whether or not donald trump lost the election or whether he had anything to do with the violence that took place on january 6 at the capitol you are often met with hostility, irate attendees who don't want to take those kinds of questions. as for the former president as he is preparing for this speech on sunday, he is down at

mar-a-lago feegt with former advisers. tonight he is having dinner with rick grin nell. jim acosta, cnn, orlando. many if not all hard core trump followers are in flat out denial that he lost to biden and the ex-president's ban from social media hasn't cooled the enthusiasm of his base. many believe he will regain the presidency and they are eager to help him don it. >> reporter: what are you hoping to hear from trump tomorrow? >> it will just be good to hear him and see him in person, you know, see him out in public again. i think we all need it. we need the energy -- we feed off each other. he feeds off our energy, we feed off his energy. >> reporter: what do you think of the republicans who voted to impeach trump? >> they all need to go. every single one of them. >> reporter: who is going to replace them? >> i don't know, but it's got to be people that are behind this

movement. that are for america. for america. this is not -- this is not even about trump anymore, this is about saving our country. >> the america first agenda has hijacked the republican party. we don't want any more rye knows that are going to go against them. >> what do you think about liz chain gee. >> she's a rhino. >> she is a loser. >> what is it that you want to hear from trump tomorrow? >> what do we want to hear from him? >> we're waiting to hear the next step. we're all looking for guidance. scott jennings is a cnn political commentator and joins me from louisville, kentucky. thanks for being here. you know, all that ink spilled about how the republican party was looking to move past donald trump seems, you know, quaint, almost comical now. it's easy to make fun of the trump statue and all of that, but are you surprised at how united they are behind him? how much friendly fire that was

aimed at the republicans who had been critical of him? >> no, i'm not surprised. i mean, donald trump is the most popular figure in the republican party. he has signaled that he wants to hang around for the next four years or more, he may even run for president again. and there's really no counterbalance to him of equal stature in the party at least as it relates to the republican grassroots. so i'm not really surprised about all of this. we will see how it plays out in the '22 and '24 primaries but i suspect donald trump will be around as long as he wants to be in the republican party. >> that's exactly it. normally this conference is sort of a platform for future presidential candidates but as you say it seems hard to escape trump's gravitational pull, but given that did anyone kind of stand out to you? >> well, i think governor ron desantis of florida is a rising star, governor neom of south

dakota. there are always people at their conferences that make great speeches, in this particular iteration, though, donald trump will be the republican nominee if he chooses to go. that's just a fact. and the rest of these folks are kind of playing to see if he decides not to run. and that's just the way it is for them. they don't have any choice but to play along, but their fate is not in their own hands, it's in donald trump's hands. >> so, you know, if some of the more moderate republicans had been there, assuming they wouldn't have been booed off the stage, what are a few of the actual issues beyond, you know, the big lie, cancel culture, things like that, real issues that you would have liked them to bring up? >> well, we are not really running on much of a platform right now as republicans. you know, trump didn't have a platform, the republican national committee at the convention didn't write a platform in 2020. trump's issues were really nonexistent. right now the republicans are mostly just positioning themselves against things, against the media which i actually think they treat more

like the opposition party than the democrats, they are against cancel culture, they are even against some republicans. ted cruz gave a speech at this conference basically trying to lob off everybody that wears a tie and works in a cubical from the republican party. so we're sort of anti or against things, but i'm not sure what we're for. and i think that will carry you some distance in politics, but in order to be competitive in a presidential campaign i think you actually have to be for something. you have to tell people how you're going to move the country forward. we didn't have it in '20, we don't have it right now, but for the party to be nationally competitive i think it needs it by '24. >> you touched on cancel done tour. it's something i hear all the time from my republican friends but i'm wondering with the economy, with covid, with so many actual problems why is that such an issue that resonates with so many republicans? >> well, i think it's because, number one, republicans hate the media more than anything.

and i'm just telling you. they think the media at large is a bigger problem than liberal democrats and they think the media goes around trying to cancel republicans. they think big tech companies goes around trying to cancel republicans. so they see this huge left leaning ecosystem out there that is trying to silence republican and conservative voices. so it is a huge deal on the right and it's a legitimate concern. i think the question is, though, is that enough to make you a nationally viable party in a presidential election. it might make you regionally viable or in a certain jurisdiction, but republicans just lost the presidential election by 7 million votes and so it's been a long time really since we won the national popular vote and i think the core question is is something like cancel culture going to be enough. i think it could be a component of a winning campaign but i'm not sure it's enough to make up your entire strategy or whole

platform. >> the main event donald trump speaking tonight. we will see what he has to say. thank you so much, scott jennings, we really appreciate you coming on. >> thanks a lot. a second former aide to new york governor andrew cuomo is accusing him of sexual harassment that's according to the "new york times." the former executive assistant and health policy adviser for cuomo claims, among other things, the governor asked her approximate her sex life and if she had ever had sex with older men. she says this happened last year. in a statement saturday cuomo denied the allegation saying he's requested an outside review of the matter. cuomo also denies similar allegations by another former aide. she described her interactions with the governor in a post on the medium platform. still ahead on cnn, why french officials are raising the alarm about students' mental health during the pandemic. i made a business out of my passion. i mean, who doesn't love obsessing over network security? all our techs are pros.

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welcome back to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. let's get you up to speed on our top story. a major development for the u.s. in the fight against the coronavirus. the food and drug administration has approved an emergency use authorization for johnson & johnson's covid vaccine. it does have two more hurdles to clear with the cdc, that process will begin later today. after that johnson & johnson says it's ready to begin shipping doses immediately. this is the third vaccine to receive an emergency use authorization in the u.s. president joe biden praised the authorization of the vaccine, he says the more people that get vaccinated the faster

the country will overcome the coronavirus, but he also warned that the fight is far from over. cnn's arlette saenz traveled with the president and filed this report. >> reporter: president biden praised the fda's emergency authorization of the johnson & johnson vaccine as this vaccine really adds another tool to the country's toolbox in defeating the coronavirus pandemic. the president released a statement saying this is exciting news for all americans, and an encouraging development in our efforts to bring an end to the crisis. the president went on to thank the scientists who developed this vaccine and talked about the importance of vaccinations. also, maintaining social distancing and hand washing during this pandemic. he added at the end there is light at the end of the tunnel, but we cannot let our guard down now or assume that victory is inevitable. we must continue to remain vigilant, act fast and aggressively and look out for one another. that is how we are going to

reach that light, together. now, the white house had been working for quite some time on the rollout of this vaccine once it is approved. they are planning to ship out 3 to 4 million doses over the course of the next week and the president has said that he wants to ramp up manufacturing of this vaccine as there are now three vaccines that will be available to americans in the coming months as this pandemic continues to rage in the country. arlette saenz, cnn, traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware. new zealand's most populous city is going into lockdown after the emergence of two new covid cases. prime minister ardern made the announcement on saturday. >> we are in the unfortunate but necessary position of needing to protect aucklanders once again. that is why cabinet met this evening and made the decision that auckland will need to move to a level 3 for a period of

seven days. the rest of new zealand will move to level 2. >> the health minister says they don't know how the first patient known as case m contracted the virus, the second person is someone from their household. the ministry warns m visited several public places while potentially infectious. anti-lockdown demonstrations turned violent in dublin on saturday. police arrested 23 people in clashes with protesters on a main shopping street. three officers were injured. video posted on social media shows a protester launching what appears to be a fireworks in the direction of the police and police officers rushed forward using batons to disburse the crowd. ireland's lockdown is one of the stricters in the world. earlier this week the prime minister announced restrictions would be extended until at least the 5th. the prime minister warns of a looming mental health crisis.

the country has been under lockdown on and off for nearly a year now and it's taking a huge toll on students. melissa bell reports. >> reporter: for 23-year-old yasmin it was last autumn that her dream of studying in paris hit the reality of the pandemic. >> translator: so i was starting my studies and thinking i'm going to arrive, make loads of friends, join lots of student societies, try lots of activities and then, boom, i'm stuck in a house all alone between its four walls. >> reporter: so yasmin took up painting instead but the pandemic has also cost her her peace of mind. before she was able to teach arabic classes to make ends meet. >> translator: in the end the two difficult things to deal with are the financial side and then the psychological side. so for the financial side there is help from authorities, from associations, there are food distributions, but for the psychological side we're really on our own.

>> reporter: after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions, french authorities are warning of a third wave, not of covid but of mental health issues including among the countries's more than a million and a half university students. a recent poll carried out by a mental health charity amongst 18 to 24 year olds in france showed three out of ten had considered suicide or self-harming. >> you are building your life, you are projecting down the road, you want to become this, you want to do this and that and then you cannot do anything, you're stuck. so we have to let them know that right now we are in the middle of the storm but we have still to visualize where we want to go. otherwise we're going to be stuck in the storm with no vision that creates despair. >> reporter: but despair is not necessarily the only difficulty. for some the time of their lives meant to be the most foot loose and fancy free has become a matter of survival. the line here is for a food bank set up in the heart of paris by students who realize that some

of their classmates were no longer able to eat. >> translator: we have the sacrificed generation, not only can we not have a social life or go to class or get a great quality education, on top of that we find ourselves in extremely precarious situation. >> reporter: he said that many students who had been able to turn to their parents in time of need could no longer do so, their parents, too, he says, have lost their jobs. the students coming in here aren't just offered food but also psychological support. this good distribution center can help 500 students each week, but the organizers say that the demand is, in fact, at least ten times that. melissa bell, cnn, paris. donald trump's claim that he won the 2020 election has found fertile ground in state houses across the country. ahead, republican lawmakers are now intent on fixing a problem, large scale voter fraud, that doesn't exist. stay with us. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins?

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well, donald trump's big lie is that he actually won the 2020 election, even though he obviously didn't. he has repeat it had for months and many of his supporters believe him, but the big lie is having a more insidious effect closer to home. it's given state republican legislatures the cover to propose ways to discourage democratic voters under the pretext of fixing voter fraud, even when it doesn't exist. cnn's dianne gallagher explains. >> reporter: the 2020 election is over, but republicans in dozens of states are still using the baseless claims surrounding it, spread by former president trump and his allies, to push new restrictive election bills. experts say the link is clear. >> it's just as much about keeping people who will not vote for hem away from the polls as it is energizing their own base

and getting them to be angry about election security, which is exactly the playbook that trump used in the last year. >> reporter: the brennan center for justice says it's tracking at least 253 restrictive voting bills in 43 states. that's roughly six times the number from this time last year. in iowa both republican-controlled chambers passed a bill that would reduce early voting days, election day poll hours and make it harder to absentee vote. that now awaits the governor's signature. >> the bill carries and it's on it's way to rule. >> reporter: in georgia the house and senate are advancing bills that would drastically change election laws and restrict access to mail-in voting, even eliminating early voting on sundays. in arizona voting rights activists are sounding alarms. >> there are bills that would really harm access to voting, particularly for people of color, for low income families, for native americans and they are rushing through because we

have to fix a problem that doesn't exist. >> reporter: most of the voting-related bills proposed in the grand canyon state focus on the mail-in voting process. popular for decades in the sprawling scenic state more than 80% of arizonans voted by mail in 2020. one bill would require them to be note surprise rised, another let's voters request a ballot by mail but you have to be to turn it in person. >> if you are not voting then you're not going to notice being removed. >> it's not just one bill, it's 50 or more bills, right, and so it's the cumulative effect of all of them. will they all get through? probably not. will a coalition of scrappy advocates be able to stop all of them? probably not. >> reporter: now, some republicans are skeptical of the more extreme proposals. >> some of them i think are

valid. we need to clean voter rolls and make sure the people are here to vote. that's pretty standard stuff. but other things are not as acceptable to me. >> reporter: dianne gallagher, nate personally is a professor of law at stanford university. thank you so much for joining us. many republicans have acknowledged essentially that, you know, the fewer people that vote the better republicans do, but now there's new cover for this strategy, right? the big lie. so how central is that to this large scale national move to restrict voting? >> well, we're seeing several laws, in fact, over 100 -- actually, over 200 bills that have been proposed in different state legislatures trying to make it more difficult for people to vote, many of them

are, as we say, trying to deal with the vote fraud problem that was given a lot of amplification but without a lot of evidence over the last three months, but that is the strategy here which is to use an anti-fraud rationale to try to make it harder for people to vote. >> right, but they're trying to stop something that never actually happened, right? i mean, this is not borne out by any research. >> that's right. as you say, it is the big lie, but it is a pervasive one and it's one that close to 30 or 40 percent of americans believe, that there is, you know, a widespread belief that the election was illegitimate and it's taken hold unfortunately in a large sector of the american population and then now politicians are feeding on that lie in order to pass some of these vote suppressive bills. >> and many of them seem to be targeting minorities almost

specifically. i mean, here in georgia, right, how, you know, high turnout among minorities we saw in the election and, you know, african-americans particularly they can be so instrumental and now we're seeing those republican attempts to, for example, cut sunday voting, which, you know, which is is when many churches hold those souls to the polls events to get people to vote after church. so how is the minority vote being targeted specifically with these laws? >> i think that is a critical component to this which is that while they are articulating an anti-fraud rationale, you cannot justify these laws based on a fight against fraud. so as you mentioned, the restriction on sunday voting, which has been traditionally used particularly in black churches, that's in-person voting. this is not -- you can't sort of say that this is a way of stopping mail voter fraud or the other kinds of fraud that were

being alleged. this is simply a way to make it harder for certain categories of people to vote and african-americans and latinos in particular. >> now, democrats on the other hand they are trying to expand access to voting but in congress if they want to get anything done they have to get rid of the filibuster and in terms of local and state control, which is obviously, you know, so vital on this issue specifically, do democrats have a shot to stop this wave? who has the upper hand here? >> well, it really does depend on the state. so there are democratic governors in many of the battleground states, places like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin and north carolina, they are able to veto laws like this that may come out of those legislatures, but arizona and georgia, as you mentioned, the two tightest battleground states have unified republican control so it's possible that if the republicans all vote as a block on these bills that they might

pass. but, you know, these are legislators who are looking over their shoulders as well and they know what criticism that they're going to get. so these are still bills in the hopper, they haven't been passed, so we need to make sure that, you know, they understand what the implications are if they were to pass these bills. >> yeah, and then the supreme court next week going to hear a voting rights act case. so should democrats kind of prepare themselves for disappointment given that the court has a recent history on this issue and now with the new balance of power in the supreme court that will further enforce that? >> yeah, i think there's a good chance that the democrats or the plaintiffs in the original case are going to lose at the u.s. supreme court, but you can lose badly or you can lose in a better way and i think they're hoping that this doesn't gut section 2 of the voting rights act which is a way of trying to get at laws that have dis any tore impact, whether they be voter id laws, some of these

sunday poll closing laws or restrictions on absentee balloting. so we'll see whether the core issues an expansive ruling on those issues. >> we will be following. thank you so much for your expertise on that. nate persily, we really appreciate it. new yorkers turned out saturday to protest hate crimes against asian-americans. these incidents have spiked dramatically since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and many asian-americans say they don't feel safe. the new york police department says it's investigated at least four potential hate crimes against people of asian descent in the last week. the nypd recorded 29 such racially motivated crimes in 2020 compared to just three in 2019. britain is is a lugt one of its heroes. when we return we will show you how captain sir tom moore is being remembered. in a recent clinical study, patients using salonpas patch

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britain a honoring a man who spent his life helping others. when coronavirus hit captain sir tom moore walked straight into the history books. he raised millions of dollars

for charity and grabbed the world's attention with his hopeful message. he died earlier this month. now his family and his nation are giving him a loving sendoff. scott mclean joins us from london to tell us about it. scott, impossible not to be moved by his story and this tribute. >> reporter: yeah, captain tom moore was a man who set out only to help his country at the beginning of the pandemic. this was a 99-year-old man who wanted to raise a modest 1,000 ponds by his 100th birthday. he ended up raising millions by as his daughter said at his funeral yesterday walking into the nation's hearts. before he died he wrote that not that long ago his funeral might have only been marked with a single line in a local newspaper, but yesterday it was watched by people across the country. this is the last lap for captain tom moore, with his casket draped in the union jack it was a final farewell for the

100-year-old national hero who died on february 2nd after testing positive for the coronavirus. he was a father, grandfather, military veteran, but he is remembered most for walking the lengths of his garden 100 times with the aid of a walker, a challenge for him to mark his 100th birthday, an inn operation for the rest of us during some of the darkest days of the pandemic. he raised nearly $45 million from donors in 163 countries for national health service charities. he earned international fame and a knighthood for his efforts. members of the yorkshire regimen the modern version of the unit he served in world war ii carried his coffin. a firing party performed a salute. and a plane from the world war ii era did a fly past. only his immediate family could attend the funeral because of coronavirus restrictions, the quiet service for a man whose

small act of service resonated around the world. >> daddy, i am so proud of you. what you achieved your whole life and especially in the last year, you may be gone, but your message and your spirit lives on. >> reporter: now, captain tom said that he wanted a simple white military headstone with the inn corruption "i told you i was old." hoping that it might make people smile. what really makes me smile, kim, is the last pieces of advice that he had which is don't put off important things in life. forgive people. and when it comes to living a long time, well, he didn't have any advice because he said that he never paid much attention to health advice and he ate pretty much whatever he wanted. those are words to live by, kim. >> yeah, absolutely. a touching and inspiring note to end the show on. thanks so much for that. that wraps this hour of "cnn

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