good sunday morning. it was on january 1st of last year, that the who announced the discovery of a mysterious coronavirus related case of pneumonia in wuhan, china. we didn't know it at the time but we were about to experience the worst pandemic in history. a year ago this week with total u.s. cases still under a thousand, president trump said this -- >> we are prepared and we are doing a great job with it, and it will go away. just stay calm. >> we were not prepared.

we were not doing a good job. it still hasn't gone waep. away. the next day the w.h.o. declared covid a pandemic. tom hanks announced he and his wife tested positive and a day later the nba player tested positive the league shut down. since then 526,000 deaths and more than 1 million cases in the united states. many lost jobs and schools shut. as the case and death rates have fallen the past two months new variants are to produce a new wave and governors are loosening restrictions prompting spears that spiking the football too early here will lead a new cases. the president and --. with this bill which passed yesterday without any republican

support we have thrown $6 trillion in a year at this crisis. >> this plan puts us on a path to beating the virus. this plan gives those families who are struggling the most, the help and breathing room they need to get through this moment. >> reporter: it's a victory for the new president and for senate democrats. >> this bill as amended is passed. >> the covid relief bill includes new money for testing and contact tracing and education. for state and local governments, an expansion of unemployment benefits. $300 a week through september 6th and child tax credit. 1400 dollar direct payments to many americans. >> the american rescue plan will go down as one of the most sweeping federal recovery efforts in history. >> democrats stripped out a minimum wage increase that passed the house. after seven democrats and one republican who voted with them voted against it. >> no. >> we can no longer tolerate millions of our workers being unable to feed their families

because they are working for starvation wages. >> the covid bill is widely popular.jyb+ñ 70% approve of the president's handling of the republicans and 44% republicans. elected republicans argue against it. >> every republican should vote against it and the reason why? they cut us out of process. >> count me out for this spin fest. >> two more republican governors announced an end to mask mandates and they allowed businessess=(ç to reopen at 100 capacity. >> every texan knows what to do right now. they don't neat a state mandate to tell them what to do. >> he will not use the heavy hand of government when it's no longer justified by the reality we see. >> 17 states in all plan to drop mask mandates or do not require masks now. >> i don't know really what the big rush to get rid of the mask

is because these masks have saved a lot of, a lot of lives. >> joining me now, is jeff zion, the white house coordinator. welcome to "meet the press." >> thank you, chuck. >> i want to promise with a promise that president biden said earlier this week saying we are on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in america by the end of may. now he was careful not to say that meant we would have shots in the arms by the end of may but walk me through that. what does that mean? what should people who don't have vaccines right now take away from that? how soon after the end of may should they expect to be vaccinated? >> well, chuck, let me start with it's really big progress to have enough vaccine supply for all adult americans by the end of may. when we walked into office six, seven weeks ago, there was not enough supply and it was pushed much further out. the actions by the president including using the defense

production act and bringing merck and johnson & johnson together into a historic partnership have accelerated our ability to have enough by the end of may for all american adults. that is progress and that is really important. at the same time, we have ramped up the number of shots per day. when we came into office, the prior week was 900,000 shots on average per day. right now we are averaging 2.2 million shots per day. we have had three record days in a row. in fact, yesterday was 2.9 million shots in a single day. so we are making real progress by increasing the number of vaccinators in the field. national guard is now helping at community vaccination sites and other locations to put needles in arms. and we have increased the number of places where americans can get vaccinated by standing up community vaccination centers. over 500 of them. at the same time, making shots

available at local pharmacies and at community health centers which serve some of the more disadvantaged members of our population. >> what does it mean when he says that? does that mean we expect every adult to be vaccinated, say, two weeks -- >> the first step is to have a supply. the first step is to have the supply. we have made a lot of progress as i just articulated. but a lot road ahead. we need to accelerate the pace of shots per day. the american rescue plan which is now over to the zs0r funding necessary to continue to accelerate. americans, all americans vaccinated as efficiently and as as fast as possible. i want to emphasize equity and fairness is as important as speed and efficiency. >> okay. i understand it sounds like you're hesitant to put a hard date on that of when that comes.

let me ask you what happened to the mayor of detroit. he appeared to turn down johnson & johnson vaccine and noted the efficacy as johnson & johnson was not as good as the pfizer and moderna vaccines and said i want the best for my city. the "detroit free press" op sed essentially say he misspoke. how much of a problem is this? are you concerned that people will be hesitant to take the johnson & johnson vaccine? >> let me start with the fda, the cdc, dr. fauci all have said the same thing, which is we now have three safe and very effective vaccines and americans should take the first vaccine that they are offered. at the same time, we are working across all of our federal channels, pharmacies, the community health centers, the community vaccination centers, and with the state governors to ensure that there is even

distribution of all three vaccines across all of those channels. i spoke to mayor dugan yesterday and he emphasized just what you said, chuck, that it was a miscommunication, that he had, at the time, enough moderna and pfizer vaccine for the following period of time, week or so, and he looks forward to deploying the j&j vaccine the next week or two so detroiters have accident to all three effective and safe vaccines. >> is there going to be -- what is your understanding of johnson & johnson and a second shot? are they working on one? and is that something we should expect in the next six months? >> right now, the fda has approved johnson & johnson and the cdc has remedy johnson & johnson as a one-dose vaccine. there is a clinical trial that looks at a second dose and we will have to see the results of that is second trial. right now the carbon dioxide has

-- cdc recommended that johnson & johnson is a one-dose vaccine. >> just right here, jeff, in the city where we live in washington, d.c., we are seeing this problem between -- i'm going local here. wards three versus ward eight. ward three is getting the most vaccinations. ward eight has the most deaths. and they are not getting the most vaccinations. they look like they have fallen behind. it also happens to be the most african-american community in ward eight and they are not getting enough vaccine. why is that? and are you going to intervene? this is washington, d.c. this is the backyard. >> chuck, unfortunately, what you're showing of washington, d.c. exists in too many parts of the country and that is unacceptable. communities of color have been hit disproportionately hard by this disease and suffering death

rates twice the average so it's really, really important that when we come to vaccine distribution, that we do it in a fair and equitable way. the situation you're describing is not fair and equitable. we need to bring vaccines to people where they are which is why community health centers are so important. they serve over 30 million americans. two-thirds of those that use community health centers live below the poverty line. 60% come from communities of color. that is why the president established a program to send vaccine directly to community health centers. we are using mobile units to reach people where they are. the pharmacy program is set up in a way where the pharmacies are focused on areas that are disadvantaged and the most hard hit. the new federal programs are all established and run with equity first and foremost in mind. we are holding states and governors accountable for fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine. >> the results have not been good. we are talking in cities, you

know, you assume there wouldn't be this kind of political problems with it. it's chicago, it's washington, d.c. is this because of access to computers? has this been the issue? >> there has been difficulty with access for too many americans. people of color and other americans. we need to make that better. the first thing to do is to increase supply so there is access to the vaccine but, at the same time, you're right, too many websites are confusing and don't work. there are enough call centers or other ways to schedule a vaccine. we are working with states to make that situation better. many governors and states have improved their access. but we need equal access across the board and fix this process and hold ourselves accountable to speed and efficiency and fair and equity in the distribution of the vaccine. >> i think what a lot of folks will be doing. jeff zients, the white house

coronavirus coordinator, thank you for coming on. i appreciate it. >> chuck, can i say one thing before we break? >> yes, sir. >> we are on a path. we are on a path. we need to make sure that we do not let down our guard. people do need to meet the president's challenge of masking up and people do need to take the vaccine when it's their turn. we need to stay on this path and beat this pandemic. >> jeffzient s, words i think everybody can agree to. thanks very much. joining me now, is former epidemiology is a director for the disease research and policy for university of minnesota. doctor, you and i were talking earlier this week. it does feel as if we are at a fork in the road here. the vaccines are there. the supply is coming. we are so close. we are seeing this lifting of restrictions. you're concerned about these variants, coupled with spring break. how vulnerable are we?

>> good morning, chuck. let me just say we are in the eye of the hurricane right now. it appears that things are going very well and we see blue skies but we have been through a terrible, terrible year. what we know is about to come upon us is the situation with this b 11-variant a virus in united kingdom and wrecking havoc and 21 countries seeing significant cases with this hitting hard. many countries have in lockdown now two months to try to control this virus. last time i was on your show four weeks ago the variant made up to 1% to 4% of the viruses we were seeing in communities across the country. today it's up to 30% to 40%. you'll see cases surge when we hit the 50% mark. we have to keep america as safe as we can from this virus but not letting up in any of the public health measures we have taken and we need to get people

vaccinated as quickly as we can. >> vaccinations are moving pretty quickly. you heard we got 2.9 shots in yesterday. this surge you're worried about, have we at least prepared ourselves for less death this time because of our vaccine strategy or are we just in a race that will lose in this moment? >> well, i have to congratulate this administration for what they have done to move forward forward on the vaccine issue. i think they have brought as much oversight, support, and vision as any administration could with vaccine. but about we also have to tell the story of what is still ahead of us and at 2.9 to 3 million doses of vaccine a day over the next six to 14 weeks, when this surge is likely to happen, is not going to really take care of the problem at all. right now, over half of our seniors in this country either have not been vaccinated or have

just started their first dose. that means that we are 80% of the deaths typically occur which is in that age group, they are highly vulnerable going into the next four to six weeks. now i have to tell you i'm very grateful that we have vaccinated the 1.4 million people in long-term care facilities but we still have a lot of high-risk people out there that when this surge comes, basically they are going to be highly vulnerable. the other thing we see right now is every governor wants to open schools. and i understand that. as a grandfather of five children, i -- grandchildren, i get it. the problem if you look at europe right now, the challenge we are seeing is a lot of transmission in schools with this new variant. in my home state of minnesota, we just announced on friday outbreak of over 68 individuals in high school community wide sports. so we are going to have some tough days ahead in the older and younger population with this new variant virus. >> we have not gotten any cdc guidance on what vaccinated

people should do. wear your mask, don't wear a mask? where would you go in big groups? what guidance would you give people who have been vaccinated? >> we have to acknowledge that what is the public likely to do with any guidance that we give them? if we just tell people that they have got to stay cocooned and that they have got to stay in their homes and wear their mask even though they are fully vaccinated, they will not do and disregard the public recommendation. we have to get real and say what does it mean? if i've now seen my grandchildren the last year and i'm vaccinated and my spouse is vaccinated can i see those kids or not? they are not likely to have a vaccine next fall or next winter. we have to be practical. i worry a little bit we will basically stay with this idea we have all along do this or else. and so i hope that the cdc

guidance acknowledges that people are not going to do the extreme of staying masked for 2022. it's just not going to happen. what can we provide them reasonable information that gives them the best case for protecting themselves like you know what? you wouldn't catch me tonight in a crowded restaurant somewhere even with my vaccination. i think that is what we have to concentrate on and let them do the kinds of things that are really much safer. >> dr. michael osterholm. it's nice to have your expertise on the show. thank you. >> thank you. >> when we come back, the covid relief bill. we will talk to west virginia senator joe manchin. stay with us. these are the people who work on the front lines. they need a network that's built right. that's why we created verizon frontline. the advanced network and technology for first responders. built on america's most reliable network.

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chuck, thank you for having me. always great to be you. what happened next a provision added i guess they worked on the night before i had no idea. i thought we were going one

direction and came out another direction. these things happen when a mammoth piece of legislation is put together. i said that is not something i can agree with. i don't think it's where we are going and what we are needing to put this package together in a very responsible way. we started talking and all of a sudden can came to a halt because they realized i would not vote for the procedure or process in place at that time. there is never a hill to die on. we can fix everything if we talk to each other and negotiate. that's what it's about and what we did. took a little longer than necessary but it got to the. >> i know you talked with president biden. what was that conversation? did you get a promise out of him? >> no. i've never done that. i don't ask for this for that and i don't trade off that way. is there no need to. i've always said if my country does well, my state of west virginia, my beautiful state of west virginia will do well, chuck. we try to do that. so i've always had great

conversation. i had utmost admiration for president biden. he has been my friend. he's our president. i want him to succeed and i'm doing everything i can. i'm just trying to bring balance, just some balance. the responsible middle, we are still there. we are still there. >> how come you couldn't get two people that you normally can work with, susan collins and lisa murkowski to vote for this bill is in the three of you usually see relief bills like this, you guys usually see things the same. >> let me say this. a lot of the things that i supported and a lot of the changes i was asking for and a lot of the changes in this bill came because of our gatherings and us working together. we have been working together over a month on this. an awful lot of the things that i was able to, because of the position i'm in right now, was able to bring that forward of what they believe in too. this piece of legislation has

far reaching -- i think, assets for the american public. no one is missed in this piece of legislation and i'm proud of it. also on this legislation, this is the first time we were able to put absolute direct targets on what needed to be fixed in america. every city in america every county in america, every municipality, every incorporated town is going to have a chance to control their own destiny because we put infrastructure in this also. in the state and the state municipal and cities. it's going to be wonderful. they can fix sewers and water projects. everything. >> let me ask you this. i know where you stand on the filibuster but the election reform proposals the house passed. you know chuck schumer is in support of this. do you believe in the idea of a car -- where you can pass

election-related bills with 50 votes rather than 60? are you open to a concept like that? >> let me give you this concept, chuck. what you saw happened at 50-vote swing in one vote no matter who it can be could make a big difference in a tied senate, can you imagine doing date-to-day operations this way? can you imagine not having to sit down where there is no reason for you to sit down with your colleagues on both sides and have their input? the national is the most unique governing body in the world. it's deliberate. it's basically designed to make sure -- have input. you want to make it more painful and make them stand there and talk, i'm willing to look at in any way we can but i'm not willing to take away the involvement of all the minority. i've been in the minority. i've been in the majority. and i can tell you the respect i have on both sides when i've been there should be i got something to say. listen to me. and i want that to happen.

>> senator, the filibuster was never an idea of the founding fathers. a senate rule created by senators later in fairness. it's not a founding father idea. >> no, but, chuck. >> you didn't directly answer my question would you be willing to go a reconciliation route for bills like hr-1? >> i'm not willing to do that until we work together or allow the senate to do its job. just by assuming they will never work us. that is the other side. i don't buy into that. there is need for us to go to reconciliation until the other process has failed. that means the normal process of a committee, a hearing, amendments and where many. >> -- where i am. >> if you're saying republicans continue to be unified in

opposition and don't have an open mind, then you may change your mind? >> i'm not going to change my mind on the filibuster. i will change my mind if we need to go to a reconciliation to where we have but i'm not going to go there until my republican friends have their ability to say their say also. i hope they get involved we have 10 of them work with 50 of us or 15 of them work with 45 of us. whatever it takes the majority and moving it through normal process i'm for that. you said something about the foundsing fathers. why do you want two bodies? one was supposed to be the cooling saucer as you will. it takes deliberation. it takes listening to the minority to make sure that the majority is getting it right. >> senator manchin, a democrat from west virginia, i really appreciate having you on, sir. thanks for sharing your perspective with us. >> chuck, always good to be with

you. let's do more of this. >> you got it. thank you, sir. >> okay. joining me now, is senator john baraso. before i get into politics when i have on you, you're a medical doctor as well. i want you to respond on to something governor jim justice said. we had it earlier in the show but let me play it for our viewers and your ears. >> i don't really know what really what the big rush to get of the mask is because these masks have saved a lot of, a lot of lives. >> your home state, you guys aren't getting rid of it yet. and so i know that there is quite a few have thought, you can open business and have a mask mandate. why is that so difficult, do you think, for some members of your party, particularly the governor of texas, that, hey, let's open up but let's wear a mask. >> as a doctor, i will tell you

i am very optimistic about where we are with operation warp speed. three vaccines, that we are vaccinating 2 million a day and. this is dramatic and impressive from a medical standpoint. also from a medical standpoint, we know these lockdowns have been terrible for people around the country in terms of depression, suicide. we need the country open. we need kids back in school every day with a mask, without a mask. we know how to stay safe. we know what we need to do. get vaccinated. it's time to get america fully open again. >> are you worried when you get rid of a mask mandate it sends the wrong message? one thing to open up. i get open up businesses. just wear a mask. if you tell people don't wear a mask, then they will not take any precautions. >> people need to take precautions. i have my mask here and i think

people will use good judgment to do so. >> let's talk about the covid relief bill. your party was in unified opposition. according to polling anywhere from 30% to 40% of republicans like many of the proposes in this bill have been in favor of this bill but doesn't match opposition. i understand you want unity there. are you looking you're out of touch with some of your voters? no. when people find out what is in this bill, they are going to lose a lot of any enthusiasm they may have for it right now. this was really not about coronavirus in terms of the spending. this was a liberal wish list of liberal spending just basically filled with pork. it didn't need to be this way. we passed five bipartisan coronavirus relief bills already. every republican voted against it. but also some democrats voted against it. joe biden in his inaugural

address said i want to work together with you, we can work together. ten republicans went to the white house and said let's work toged. instead the white house chief of said this is the most progressive piece of domestic this was never about getting peoind us. that is where it should have been focused. >> i want to be curious about one thing. the former president donald trump argued this week that if senate republicans had gone ahead and agreed to make bigger stimulus checks, there would be a republican senate and you wouldn't have lost those georgia senate seats. do you agree with him? >> you know, i voted for the 600 checks that were in the bill that president trump approved right around christmastime. >> -- you know which they were higher at the time? >> not to the level that people are getting them now. with this bill, they are going to people in prison, they are going to people who are illegal

immigrants. they are going to people who make much money than you would expect, people that actually need relief or help at this point. so i think this is a mistake what is happening in the bill that just passed the senate. >> let me talk about what could come next. president biden reportedly is turning to infrastructure. we don't have a lot of details. what are the deal breakers you would tell him he should avoid as he puts together a proposal that attempts to have bipartisan support? >> if he is truly interested in bipartisan support as he said he was on the coronavirus relief and then he ignored that, what we need to do is take a look at the bill that passed the senate environments and public works committee on highways, infrastructure last congress. i was chair of that committee. worked closely with tom carper, the democrat. it passed unanimously.

bernie sanders voted for it. i talked to mayor buttigieg the other day about it. when it passed through our committee we had it in the house and they threw it out, a bipartisan supported bill and replaced it with the green new deal and raises energy costs and all kinds of mandates in place and i think would be very bad for the economy. if they want to work with us, take up what bernie sanders and john barrasso agreed to last year in the environment and public works committee. that is the blueprint for infrastructure. >> two quick campaign-related questions for you. number one, lisa murkowski, donald trump said he doesn't support her re-election. do you? and liz cheney, do you support her re-election? >> a couple of things. one is president trump has already endorsed a number of senators who are running again for re-election. that is helpful. the president's endorsement matters. in terms of alaska, i want to always make sure we nominate

somebody who can win in november. lisa murkowski knows alaska better than anybody and she is an incredible fighter for american energy. she hasn't made an announcement if she is even going to run again. if she does, i'm going to support her. with regard to liz cheney in wyoming, we worked closely fighting the biden administration. this is an administration which policies on energy are devastating. wyoming and our economy and the rocky mountain west. gas up 60 cents a gallon since the beginning of the year. we need to work together every day. i support with her but disagree with her completely on the issue of impeachment. she voted one way and i voted the other. >> but you do support her re-election. thank you. with your phrase when bernie sanders and john barrasso agree on something, i wonder if that will pay dividends down the road. thanks for coming on and sharing

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welcome back. thezç+ yamiche alcindor from pbs news app. former homeland security secretary, jeh johnson. nbc political reporter jonathan allen, co-author of the new become "lucky: how joe biden barely won the presidency." yamiche, let me start with this. they got the covid relief bill. is this the beginning of momentum of legislation, or are we going to look back at the end of the year and say, well, he got his one big one, but

everything else is stalled? >> well, it is true that the bottom line is that president biden was able to push through and is about to get this $1.9 trillion covid relief bill, but it took so much. just look at joe manchin, he's someone saying he wants to be the responsible middle, wants to be balanced. that's not the words that the democratic base wants to hear especially when they think of bigger bills and more ambitious issues like immigration and infrastructure. this bill on covid is happening while one in three people in america knows someone who died of covid. senator barrasso is very clear that he's very open to saying this was a mistake still, that republicans are not going to be the party that's going to just say, yes, we want to be bipartisan and want to sit down and work with this president and do some things that are on the democratic agenda. i think there really is a sense that, if this was the easy bill, the bill where the pandemic was top of mind for so many americans, it just seems like things are going to get even

harder when you look at infrastructure and especially when you look at immigration,h$ issue that republicans have seized on. >> i want to get to immigration. john allen, it's interesting, throughout the campaign, and in the book you cover, he was a guy talking about being able to restore normalcy to washington. he didn't get the bipartisanship on this bill. how hard to you expect president biden to fight for bipartisan snip. >> i think president biden will fight for bipartisanship where he can find it. there's an unevenness in what we've seen with the covid relief bills. last year republicans covid relief bills with a republican flavor. you saw the democrats vote for them. now with democrats in the majority, they wrote a democratic-flavored relief bill and none of the republicans voted for it even after the democrats got rid of things like minimum wage that their progressive base were arguing for. >> danielle pletka, this is the same strategy republicans picked in '09, right?

basically stay together, stay unified. the economy was still getting worse in '09. this economy is going to get better. while there may be a debate, did it help boost the economy or not? if the economy is getting better, this bill will look good in the rear view mirror. are republicans risking something here? >> i don't think republicans are risking something. look, there's a question we don't want to answer, don't want to talk about. you mentioned the number 6 trillion. not 6 billion, 60 billion. $6 trillion has been spent on this. when we say the economy is going to get better, what we're going to be doing is digging ourselves out of a hole. the real question for i think a lot of people in the united states is how in the end are we going to pay for this. it's not going to be easy. congress doesn't want to seem to want to take on that question at all. >> it's a fair point. i think there's even some philosophical splits now on the

right on some of this spending stuff. jeh johnson, there's going to be a heated debate amongst democrats about getting rid of this filibuster or going different reconciliation rate, to create maybe a new carve-out for election bills. i know you think there should be more caution on this. why? >> chuck, i would urge my democratic friends and colleagues to take the long view on this. my name was actually on the hill in 2013 for secretary of homeland security when harry reid changed the rule to go to 50 votes to get us confirmed. i actually believe we could have clawed our way to 60, because i ultimately got 78. but that change led to the change for the supreme court which is how donald trump was able to remake the federal judiciary during his four years and how he was able to replace ruth bader ginsburg just days before the election. so whatever democrats think they need to do for good government, to achieve good democracy, republicans will exploit with

shameless impunity. i urge us to take the long view. this depends entirely on where you sit at the moment. >> i want to pivot to immigration here. jeh, let me start with you. my inboxes have been flooded from republicans who don't want to talk about the covid relief bill anymore. they want to talk about the border. former president trump, kevin mccarthy, several more. this is where republicans are going. is the biden administration ready. is this dhs ready for what's coming at the border? >> yes, i believe they are. ali buy or cass was my secretary. i see administration trying to do the right thing, trying to do the right thing in a humane way. the reality is americans want us to treat those here fairly, but they also want border security. ultimately the answer is what i

know biden believes in, which is dealing with the problem in central america through aid and assistance to eradicate the poverty and violence there. >> yamiche, the politics of immigration have never gone well for democrats recently. are they ready for this? >> only time will tell if democrats are ready for this. you have a white house that is wanting to say there's not a crisis at the border, but the numbers don't lie. you have a number of unaccompanied minors coming to the border, that are being held in facilities that even progressive democrats are pointing to saying that's what we call human, then there's a problem there. you also have a democratic conference that has been really stuck on the issue of immigration. time and time again they've tried to do this. this big bill sitting in the senate, sitting in congress. it seems as though it's going to have to be broken up. there's a lot of different unanswered questions on this. there's a big problem at the border continuing to brew.

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welcome back. it's been a rough week for andrew his first set of apologi. take a listen. >> i now understand that i acted

in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. it was unintentional, and i truly and deeply apologize for it. i never touched anyone inappropriately. >> danielle pletka, here is charlotte bennett in an interview with norah o'donnell. >> i thought, he's trying to sleep with me. the governor is trying to sleep with me, and i'm deeply uncomfortable and i have to get out of this room as soon as possible. >> it would seem this is not a matter of the, but when he resigns. this is andrew cuomo. >> look, these women coming forward should be a wake-up call

for everybody. i've never understood why andrew cuomo was viewed as the emperor of new york after he sent thousands of elderly people to their death last year in nursing homes. now the chickens are coming home to roost, not only on that, but on the fact that he's another man who believes he should have impunity because of who he is in the world of politics. it's utterly disgusting. >> john allen, in your book, you chronicle, we're at a point where there were all sorts of andrew kwum mow rumors du jour in the summer of '20, quite the fall. >> absolutely. andrew cuomo was looked at somebody who might be viewed as moving up. we wrote about him taping a message for the democratic convention, angering the biden people, it was a five-minute message of which the last eight seconds was an endorsement of joe biden. the other part was for cuomo for a future presidential run. he was asked to recut the video

and refused to do it. this ties into the attitude of him acting, as andrew cuomo doe have a lot of defenders today. he's not been an easy person to deal with over the years. >> that's right. part of the reason why andrew cuomo was in some ways rising in the summer of '20 was because of that brash attitude, that attitude where he felt like he could be in charge. we could tell he was someone who would be tough. but that same style created a toxic work fiermt. it's going to be harder and harder for democrats to be silent or defend him. now white house sources i've been talking to, they continue to stick to the fact that they want to see an investigation happen. but again, let's remember it was vice president harris and senator gillibrand and a number of other women in the democratic

caucus cause that said democrats had to be on a higher moral ground. it's going to being even harder. >> jeh johnson, the al franken resignation slingers in this one, how slow the calls are right now. >> i'll make a comment about new york politics. the george washington bridge is behind me here. there are some iconic politicians from new york with their names on bridges who overreached in trying to get a fourth term. ed koch was defeated for a fourth term by david dinkins in the fourth term. and andrew's father mario was defeated. i think andrew needs to think about that. >> dani, are we going to get to a point where, it does feel as if political par es seem to matter in how fast you call for

a resignation? >> there's no question about that. we all remember what justice kavanaugh went through. people believe in due process for members of their own party, they don't believe in due process for members of the or party. this shouldn't be a partisan issue. what we should want for everybody is absolutely due process, absolutely investigate the kraem, make sure they're credible. but no tolerance, but no tolerance for sex pests and pigs. >> that's one way to end the segment. universal agreement that we're tired of seeing this bad behavior from people who are supposed to be role models. thank you, panel. that's all we have for today. thank you for watching. we'll be back next week, because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press."

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