hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you so much for sharing another very busy news day with us. today a new threat to america's political survival. 13 democrats in the congress say andrew cuomo must resign. the governor also faces an impeachment investigation from the general assembly. they will now have the power and the authority to interview witnesses, both about the covid-19 nursing home deaths and the claims of sexual harrassment. on the other hand, president biden holds out new hope about

backyard barbecues, saying vaccines will be available to everyone on may 1st. >> i need you. i need every american to do their part. if we do this together, by july 4th, there is a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. >> empathy is a singular biden strength, and his prime time address underlined the great american sorrow. ha hate, the president says, must stop. the truth offers the country forward, a light in darkness. the president said that cookout in july is dependent on americans keeping their distance and their masks on in the meantime. travel now, the cdc worries,

rivals the track back on thanksgiving. that, we recall, was the gateway to the horrific winter surge. an update from the coronavirus team highlights new steps to make sure every american will soon get a shot in the arm. >> we need to make it easier for every american to get vaccinated. the administration will launch a federally supported website that will show the locations near them that have available vaccines. >> with today's announcement, up to 700 new community health centers coming on line, a doubling of pharmacy locations and a surge in vaccinators, we're ensuring that he caequity remains at the center of our response. >> you heard president biden, a new normal is back as everyone returns to a near normal. he said friends and family can

gather in backyards on july 4th. we started to go up with a painful summer surge. the winter surge dramaad dramatically eclipsed it. we're way down from the winter surge, but still at a high level. the worry is if people let down their guard, you can go back up. but the president's optimism based on the fact, in part, that americans are getting vaccinated. 20 million have been vaccinated. we're 10%, double digits of people fully vaccinated. alaska leading the pack, 16% of a alaskans have been fully vaccinated, pennsylvania at 9%. you see the single digits. the darker green the better your state is doing if you live in the united states.

the vaccination rate has upped dramatically from when the biden administration took power. 2.2 million is the average. no doubt about it, the president says by may 1st, everyone, everyone, go on line and get your appointment. the united states is vaccinating people under the age of 65. you see four states, the lighter yellow, vaccinating people 55 and older. the united states 55 is the guideline right now. and if you're in alaska, you can line up to get your vaccine. the question is can the administration pull this off? dr. jau is at the university health. when you hear that all adults can line up to get a vaccine.

when you hear them say they can get the supply out there, do you believe they have all the pieces in place? >> i believe those are all achievable but it's going to be hard. there is a lot of work for that to be pulled off, but do i think we have all the supplies, the vaccines? i do. we have to make sure we're doing it equitably so large swaths of our population is not left behind. i think it's doable, there's just a lot of hard work ahead. >> one of the questions is the supply of doses right now. this week just shy of 16 million. remember, there were johnson & johnson vaccines, the single-dose vaccines, they went out, and now they're waiting for more supplies. by the end of march of these two of the three vaccines, 22 million doses. dr. jau, the coordinator of this task force says he believes how

the president can make this promise is because they have the commitments for the supply chain. >> if you take 200 million by the end of may of moderna, plus 200 million of pfizer, plus the first 20 million of the johnson & johnson contract, that is more than enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all adult americans by the end of may. now we need to ramp up the number of vaccinators, as we've been talking about, and the number of places where americans can get vaccinated, so when all americans are eligible on may 1st, we can accelerate and move very quickly. >> if they're right about the first part, the supply chain, that they have that problem solved and they have the numbers and they believe they can do this, i want focus on the last two parts of that. more vaccinators and getting the vaccine to other places, if you will. more white americans are getting

fully vaccinated ahead of their place in the population, if you will. one of the concerns is if everyone can sign up on may 1st, people with access to technology, the internet, people with access to travel are going to sign up and get in line. are you convinced with the health center moves, with the doses pharmacies, that they will reach the people of color that are getting shortchanged? >> if we should be setting up vaccination sites, we should set them up in communities where people more disadvantaged can access them easier. the default always privileges those who already have advantages. we've got to make sure we are very deliberate about this. one of the things that still bothers me is we're not even collecting data on race and ethnicity for at least a dozen states, if not more, and until we're really tracking this stuff, it's going to be hard for us to know if we're achieving

equity or not. this is not going to happen naturally. i like the biden plan but i want to see more of that actually getting carried out. >> help me -- this is the wrong term, i'm sure, but on the psychology of this, if you will. if the president says i want you in your backyard or community somewhere having a picnic on july 4th. you should be able to see your family and friends but i want you to hang in there with me through april, through may to get there. if you look now at some of the new data, this is from ihme about mobility. 10% of americans are at the pre-covid baseline, meaning they're out and interacting. some states like texas and mississippi have dropped the mask mandates. are you worried that if you tell people by july 4th we should get back to close to normal, but will they list en to the part that says, only if you behave in the meantime? >> on this one i was feeling like the biden administration

was being too pessimistic when they said it won't be until christmas that things are back to normal. i feel like this timeline is more realistic. it gives people something to hold onto. it says you don't have to do this for many more months. we're really talking about four to six weeks. that's the critical time period. if we hold on until then, all the high-risk people should have gotten vaccinated by then, we should have a better feel for these variants. i feel like may and june will be good months and july will be terrific, but we do have to get through the next six weeks. if you explain it that way, my hope is most americans will see that and follow through. >> it's great to hear the optimism in your voice because we had so many conversations in the past year where you're telling people to slow down. dr. jha, grateful for your time and insights. the prime time speech gives way to the biden covid relief roadshow. nd healthy.

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president biden's prime time message last night that his rescue plan is the road map to get the country vaccinated, the economy back to full speed and your children back to school. now the president plans to play traveling salesman. new jersey, nevada, colorado, new mexico and georgia all on planned stops that the biden administration is branding its help is here tour. >> in the coming weeks and months, i'll be traveling along with the first lady, members of my cabinet to speak to you directly, to tell you the truth about how the rescue plan meets the moment. if it fails in anyplace, i will acknowledge that it has failed, but it will not. >> with us to share their insights, manu raju and julie pace of the associated press. julie, let me start with you. you and your cabinet hit the

road, you tried to make the case for your plan. the plan has passed. he has signed it into law. the pieces of the plan, most of them, tend to be pretty popular out there. what is challenge one for the new president right now? >> i think the challenge is to keep up that level of popularity. we now go into a space where this plan is going to be dissected for the impact, and from the republican standpoint, for the need. that is part of what republicans are arguing here, that the economy at a macrolevel isn't in as bad of shape that a lot of people had expected. for a lot of people the economy is actually doing pretty well. so biden wants to inoculate himself against the public attempts to really try to downplay the necessity for doing this in the first place place, and he's talked quite openly about this. he's taken a lesson from his experience in the obama administration after they passed the big economic stimulus, and really didn't spend as much time trying to sell it, trying to convince people after passage of why it was necessary and why it was impacting their lives, and

so he wants to do this differently and spend the next couple of weeks, and probably couple of months, arguing the political case for why he took this step early in his administration. >> well, let's look at some numbers to back up the key points you make, because the polarized political environment is still with us, even though pieces of the biden plan, most of them, are quite popular. the family tax credits, for example, 85%. they're off the charts. but manu, look at this, most of the country says they feel better at where we are. is the worst behind us of the coronavirus pandemic? 66% said in january, now 84%. democrats were 38% back in january, 75% now. so the country is in a much better mood and that coincides with biden's first 100 days in office, there is no doubt about it. but look at the economy. even the economy is viewed now through an economic polarization.

back when donald trump fwas president, 9% said that. now 26% says that. the republicans when trump was president, 58% said that and now 27% say that. >> to argue that the relief bill that was just enacted has nothing to do with that. you saw the seeds of their argument take place this week. mitch mcconnell told reporters, he said, the reason why this is improving has nothing to do with this relief bill. of course, the relief bill has not even been implemented yet, it just was enacted and there is money that is going to be spent in this economy, but it also presents a challenge for the administration. they have to make sure the implementation of this goes smoothly. $1.9 trillion is a ton of money. it does take a lot of time for that to be spent. it is very complicated. so getting that into the economy beyond the immediate infusion of

cash, beyond people's pockets, that's going to be a challenge for them. but one big difference from this package in the obama years is people will see an immediate impact. they will get those stimulus checks right away. that's different from last time where it was mostly infrastructure projects. that took a lot of time to spend and it gave republicans an opportunity to really define what that bill was. >> julie, as i note, it's the first prime time address for this president, and you get to obviously make the comparison to the prior president. number one, biden said, i'm going to make government work. number two, he said, you can trust the president. also president trump many times -- i'm not going to repeat them -- used racist terms, baiting terms when he described the virus and its origins. president biden last night taking his time to say, look, there is some hate out there in america and it has to stop. >> too often we've turned against one another. a mask.

the easiest thing to do to save lives. sometimes it divides us. states pitted against one another instead of working with each other. vicious hate crimes against asian americans who have been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated. it's wrong, it's unamerican, and it must stop. >> it is his dna, but it was interesting, you link a fight over masks to this hatred against asian americans, bringing them together under the theme of, hey, we've got to do this together. >> and that rhetoric was so intentional on biden's part, particularly his condemnation of these escalating attacks we've seen on asian americans. it's such a sea change from the rhetoric we heard from the previous president and the previous administration. he wanted to make that point very clearly in that address. and i think broadly what he's really trying to do is just try to take the temperature down, trying to make the administration's response to the

pandemic about public health, not about politics. not about how democrats view an issue like mask wearing versus how a republican would view an issue like mask wearing and just simply saying, hey, this isn't about your political affiliation, this is about protecting yourself and your fellow americans from this virus. i think so far he's had some success on that front just trying to remove the raw politics out of this debate. certainly not completely. but that has been, again, a very intentional effort by his administration. >> and i think the critical piece of that is outside of washington, people are having different conversations, republican governors and republican mayors for the most part, republican voters. it's such a different conversation than we have here in washington. the question now, manu, republicans voted no on this. they see this trying to recreate 2010, if you will. they don't want what barack obama did, they're going to say everything joe biden did, they're going to try to win in elections.

the question is what to do next. you have a great question today about how americans are divided. the aclu jumping in today saying get rid of the filibuster. it's an artifact of jim crow, a creature of supremacy but has turned into an instrument of government paralysis. that's richard trumka saying, oh, my god, we don't have 60 votes. let's figure out a way to do it. richard trumka can say that. will they do it? >> no, because they don't have the votes. i talked to joe manchin about this yesterday, the senator from west virginia, someone who says the 60-vote threshold needs to stay in the united states senate. the progressives are saying very clearly the bills you guys are trying to push is not going to pass because of the 60-vote threshold, expanding background checks, dealing with voting rights, legislation helping labor unions organize.

things that pass in the house have no chance of getting 60 votes. he said tell them what goes around comes around. that's the message he wanted to send to progressives, saying we changed the rules now, it's going to come back and bite us when we are in the minority. that's not going to change any time soon. there will be a lot of frustration because those bills will pile up in the democratic senate. meanwhile, the big ticket items like infrastructure will take some time to play out. there are still divisions about how to fund such a massive package. immigration another key issue, divisions about how to pursue that. the next phase of the biden agenda will be messier, it will be complicated, there will be internal feuds, much different than the quick passage of this bill. >> they need to sell it to the country, but number two, the president wants to celebrate this first big win. down the road it's a little dicier. coming up, new troubles for

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big new problems for the new york governor andrew cuomo. some say the governor should

resign, this after mishandling of nursing home death data and sexual harrassment allegations. it comes down to cortez, jones. new york state lawmakers have now launched an impeachment inquiry with the power to call witnesses. more than 50 state lawmakers called on cuomo to resign. they say, he has lost confidence with the public, rendering him ineffective in this time of most urgent need. cuomo must go. not a good day for the governor.

shi mon prokupecz and manu raju with us. shimon, people are saying no more. >> state democrats are calling on him to resign. he is continually losing members of his own party, certainly in this state. like you said, there is an impeachment proceeding that is going to take place by members of the assembly. they're putting together the impeachment hearing that's going to be members of the assembly that have a committee that will be looking at different information that's coming out. as you said, they have subpoena power, they have other capabilities to call witnesses. this is going to all come out of the judiciary committee of the state assembly. for the first time in all of this, the impeachment and its growing list of democrats calling for the governor to resign, for the first time we are going to hear from the governor today at around 1:00 in a press call. this is his normal press call with reporters about covid, and

they say that is where he is going to potentially take some questions, talk about covid, but in a lot of these calls, john, these kinds of questions have come up, and that is where he insists, he has insisted previously that he has had, he has no intention on resigning. we'll see at 1:00 how the governor responds to what the state assembly wants to do in terms of starting their investigation, but also the growing calls from the governor, from members of his own party, to resign. >> democrats saying that as well with that impeachment inquiry. once you start getting impeachment calls for witnesses. manu raju is here with me in washington. manu, you see this is a big delegation. a new york delegation, a lot of powerful people. 14 members of the congressional delegation now saying the governor has to go, and it ranges in the party, if you will.

if it were just ocasio cortez, if it were just bowman, you could say it's just the new crowd. but it's yvette clark, velasquez, almost all of them. >> and jamaal bowman has a lot of sway. he's been in politics for a long time. but what we have heard from also is silence coming from chuck schumer, the senate majority leader. i've reached out to his office this morning. they are not responding to questions in the wake of all these members coming out calling for his resignation. schumer has said that these are serious allegations that need to be investigated. he said that this morning as well, but he has been saying that for days. he has refused to go beyond

that. also kirsten gillibrand, remember, the democratic senator, she was calling for al franken's ouster from the allegations leading to al franken's resignation from the senate. she has not done so in this situation. i asked her this week, how is cuomo different from al franken? she refused to answer that question. her statement said, serious allegations need to be investigated. do they shift the rhetoric? if they do shift the rhetoric and call on him to resign, that changes the governor's rhetoric, too. >> we now know reporting from our gregory creek, house members coordinated this yesterday. they decided if they act as a group, it gives them more power, and it also puts pressure on any fellow house delegations who have not followed on it yet. the majority leader, chuck

schumer, would carry even more weight. here's what he said before this letter came up. >> i have always felt that sexual harrassment is not tolerable. you can't tolerate it, you can't accept it. earlier on i called for a thorough, complete investigation. it's now being undertaken by tish james. she is an independent and strong woman, and she has full subpoena power for both documents and individuals. she will turn over every stone. >> that is what i'm going to call a safe answer in politics. the state attorney general has picked an outside law firm, there is an investigation. however, he also ignores there in the answer, we knew about the impeachment inquiry last night. so he's being very, very careful there. the question is can he stay there? >> i don't know if he can, because you're seeing with all these people coming out, he has his own re-election to worry about as well next year. will that affect his thinking? he knows if he gets out in front of this, that could change the

dynamics here. the challenge for these democrats is becoming a big distraction. they want to be talking about their big legislative accomplishment. now they're facing these questions everywhere they go, and it is not going to stop. the longer the governor hangs on, the longer these government leaders will face questions. humphreys is also a democratic leadership in the house not going so far as to call on him to resign, but those questions will continue for as long as cuomo decides he wants to hang on. >> and it does raise consistency issues. you memntioned the al franken case. the question is are they consistent now with how they handled things then? thank you for your reporting. trump in places across america trying to roll back your voting rights. uh, i-i'm actually just going to get an iced coffee.

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you see behind me here a familiar map. this is the 2020 election. joe biden won and he won convincingly. but some new poll numbers show us today, sadly, that donald trump's big lie is taking deep root among republicans around the country. let's start with georgia. what's the bigger problem in u.s. elections? this is a question asked of republicans. 6% of republicans say it's too hard to cast your ballot. 92% of republicans say the rules aren't strict enough to prevent illegal votes. that is the legacy of the big lie. 92% of republicans say the problem is too many illegal votes. we know that is not the case. again, we know it's a lie. there is no evidence of major fraud in the 2020 election.

but we also know that in 43 states, right now republicans are pushing to roll back voting access using the lie of massive fraud of one of their main reasons. new numbers shed some light on that, too. let's go out to the state of arizona, one of the states you do have republican efforts to roll back voting. look at this poll. this is among republicans. they're still loyal to president trump. many of them still believe or back the big lie. 66% in our new poll say donald trump was good for the republican party. only 16% of republicans say he was bad for the republican party. on that point, let's bring in our next guest. else the former republican senator from the state of arizona, now a cnn contributor, jeff flake. senator, in your state there is an effort to roll back voting rights. in 43 states in the country, an effort to roll back voting rights. many republicans pushing this saying, you need to do this because there was so much fraud. how do we get truth back in the discussion? let's have a legitimate discussion about voting, but

let's do it with facts. >> it will be difficult given those numbers. right around the time of the election, i think 77%, or after the election, felt that president trump had be robbed of the election. so it's going to be difficult, but it has to be done, and these efforts across the country to basically make it harder for people to vote are just -- it's the wrong direction for republicans to go. there is plenty of things republicans can do without trying to, you know, make it more difficult for people to vote. that's just the wrong direction. >> part of this is what role does president trump have in future conversations? when he continues, he wants to dominate republican fundraising. he wants to get republicans to dominate the idea that the election was stolen from him. i don't think you were here when josh hawley was here, but senator rubio said he brought new voters into the party that we want to keep. he's the most influential republican in america. he's not going to ride off into the sunset.

roy blunt is retiring, so there will be a big election in missouri. i expect you'll see it reflected in the primary field. do you see enough voices stepping forward to make the point you make, that in your view of the long-term future of the republican party, trump has to be pushed to the side? >> certainly not. i do think the president will lose influence as we go along, but he still has tremendous influence particularly in states like missouri where there will be a primary to replace roy blunt. but in states like arizona, no republican is going to win by really queuing to the trump line. that's been tried in the last two cycles and we have two democrats representing arizona and the united states senate for the first time in 72 years. it has to change, but there aren't enough people yet coming forward and saying we need to chart a different path, partly because in many states, you

know, hewing close to the trump line will win you a primary. that's certainly not the case in many states. >> good to talk to you, jeff, because i wanted your insight. the president gave a prime time address last night. if you look at the policy proposals in his covid relief fact, most of them polled quite well. 85%, for example, for family tax credits. you see a polarization. i want to walk through some numbers here. first, do you ever a lot of confidence in the president's ability to lead us out of a pandemic? 51.3% said, yes, we do. you're just past the 52-day mark, and only 56% of americans have confidence in the president's ability. does the president have a clear plan for restoring the economy?

55% say no, he doesn't have a clear plan to restore the economy. similarly on another big question facing the country, does he have a clear plan for putting kids back in school? 53% say no, 44% say yes. i ask you in the context of this. one of the conversations in washington now is very familiar to me from back in 2009. republicans are voting no, and so many people in washington say, wait, the president is pretty popular, he's new, why won't republicans give him a chance? out in the country, some of this is popular. this is 2008. this is the house map. barack obama was president. democrats had a big majority. they thought he should be popular. they thought, why are all these republicans voting no? republicans kept voting no. a lot of people in this town said that was wacky, and in 2010 republicans won 60 seats and took back the house of representatives. do you see people making the calculation, if we just say no, we can do this again? >> certainly, they look back in

2009 and see the big stimulus package that was passed. democrats will say it's different today and it is a different package in that the money will flow much more quickly than with the last one. i think it was easier to de demagogue the last one. this is more difficult to do, and it is doable for republicans and they're certainly making that bet. just because it polls popular now, that it will be popular two years from now may be miscalc la miscalculated. the president's polling always takes a hit. there are 20 republicans up, only 14 democrats, but there are a number of seats where republicans could gain an advantage if they'll get off this kick about trying to make it more difficult for people to

vote and spouting the old trump line and go back to traditional conservatism. limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility, lower regulation. those are things i think some republicans think will sell, but it's difficult to get beyond the trump era. >> it's fascinating in the sense that you outline there how complicated things are in the republican family and the numbers show you how complicated things are in the democratic family as well, and the sales pitch the president has now, especially with republicans as he gets out in the country. senator, thank you so much. a new frustration in dealing with shelters along the border in hope more people will claim the thousands of unaccompanied children. they're actually a quality insurance company. so, i'm giving you the primo desk. for a great low rate, and nearly 60 years of quality coverage, go with the general.

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a big new change from the biden administration announced just this hour that the administration hopes will ease the crush of unaccompanied minor children in shelters along the u.s.-mexico border. the change involves reversing a trump administration policy that the new white house believes discouraged parents from coming forward to try to claim their children. let's go to national correspondent ed lavandera. he's live for us in texas. ed? >> this agreement was between

the health and human services that cares for unaccompanied children after they've been apprehended by border patrol agents on the southern border. the security of immigrations custom enforcement was in on the agreement, and it allowed them to share about the sponsors that were coming forward to care for unaccompanied children in hhs care. as you can imagine, for years that sent a chilling effect in the number of sponsors who were coming forward to claim the unaccompanied children in hhs custody, because many of these families either undocumented or come from mixed status homes where you have u.s. citizens living with undocumented family members, and that information sharing was a cause of concern. biden administration officials said this afternoon they're hoping this sends a clear signal that hhs is not in the immigration enforcement business, essentially, that they are in the business of child

welfare, and this comes as the numbers of unaccompanied children, john, arriving at the u.s. southern border is escalating. right now there are about 3,700 unaccompanied children in border patrol custody. they are supposed to be moved within 72 hours to the care of hhs, but those numbers for that agency have also escalated dramatically in recent weeks, nearly 9,000 children in hhs care right now. that number has jumped by almost a thousand in just the last week. so the biden administration is scrambling to make room at the hhs level for these unaccompanied children, even looking at a site, a nasa site in california, to open up more bed space for these children. and all accounts are and every indication is that these numbers will continue to escalate here on the u.s. southern border. critics of the biden administration say they're not moving fast enough to handle this surge of migrants. even some of the president's supporters are saying that as

well, but biden administration officials say they are trying to balance a more humanitarian approach to immigration, at the same time trying to unravel what they described as the build out of the depths of chaos by the trump administration for years. john? >> we'll see if this change does anything to help with those numbers. next, because it's such a big topic here in washington, members of congress now heading to the u.s.-mexico border. ♪ and all that glitters is gold ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. they said it couldn't be done... but you managed to pack a record 1.1 trillion transistors into this chip. whoo! yeah! oh, hi. i invested in invesco qqq.

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