against our country and then be permitted to resign so as to avoid accountability and evoke to disbar them from future office. it makes no sense. >> republicans want another week for president trump, former president trump to prepare the trial and are blocking the democrats' ability to even start committee hearings and regular senate business, although the democrats know technically they have the majority. garrett haake has all the details. a busy morning and a lot of news as mitch mcconnell is objecting to even the organizing of the senate, which means that committee hearings can't take place. where do we stand on that? >> reporter: well, it's still an ongoing negotiation. chuck schumer and republicans want to reach a bipartisan agreement on this organizing resolution, which sounds technical and dry, but it's the reason many of these changes haven't changed over to democratic control yet.

those things don't happen on auto pilot in the senate. they need to be voted on and that's getting bogged down. but that hasn't stopped the confirmation of some of biden's cabinet appointees. so these things are moving, but, again, this is largely bogged down in what amounts to a philosophical debate about the future of the filibuster. democrats don't want to take off the table the option to get rid of the legislative filibuster later. mcconnell essentially wants them to make a promise not to break a rule that's a rule anyway. so we're pretty well stuck in terms of organizing resolution because democrats say they're not going to tie their own hands. >> what about the start of the impeachment trial? no agreement on that. is that automatic it has to start within a day, 24 hours of the article going over orb is there some minority ability to maneuver on it? >> reporter: in fact, it is supposed to be automatic that it

starts the very next day that the senate is in session so that the article gets delivered monday, they're supposed to start tuesday. but so much of what happens in the senate can operate on consent. if all 100 senators agree they want to start it later, they can do so. i think it's probably likely that that happens. there are logistical things that need to happen to turn the senate chamber back into a courtroom. you'll remember that setup from a the a year ago. there's the president's defense, all those things, both parties want all those set in order before they get down to brass tacks. i would be surprised if they start on tuesday, but it is possible. certainly the way the rules are written. >> and i want to talk to you about this bipartisan outrage over the capitol police expelling thousands of national guard troops from where they had been resting overnight in the capitol building in the visitors' center underground the past week, forcing them instead to sleep last night on a

concrete floor in a nearby garbage with no bathroom facilities and fluorescent lights keeping them up. tammy duckworth and others were outraged. veterans as well as others. what did chuck schumer have to say about that? >> reporter: the whole capitol hill community was outraged. these national guards men and women who have been protecting us. chuck schumer said this issue was handled overnight and as of this morning all of the remaining members of the guard here have places to rest when they're on duty here at the capitol. they are properly indoors and will be better taken care of. this is another ugly mark for the capitol police who denied they sort of forced this issue here. there's been finger-pointing on how the guardsmen and women got forced out of the building itself, but the official word is that everyone has been taken care of. i don't think we've heard the last of this, andrea. >> indeed.

before i let you go, garrett, on the confirmations, we had a big vote, 93-2, approving lloyd austin, the retired four-star general, as the next secretary of defense. he is official. a delay on secretary of state for the floor vote. tony blinken, that will be monday. we have a new defense secretary and he's the first black defense secretary in american history. >> reporter: that's right. a historic posting for lloyd austin becoming the first african-american defense secretary. the opposition to him as best i can tell wasn't about him. it was about the question of civilian control of the military, of course, austin retired for a few years here, a debate about the waiver necessary to put him in charge of the pentagon. the biden nominations are actually moving at a pretty reasonable speed. the reason there are so few nominees confirmed at this point is simply because they started so late with the awkward transition from president trump refusing to concede, to not

knowing who was going to be in charge of the senate until a few weeks ago with the georgia runoffs. a lit start but a reasonable clip at getting these nominees in place. >> garrett haake, thank you so very much. the senate logjam, though, that we were just talking about potentially affecting president biden's big focus today, the devastating economic fallout from the pandemic, fallout on workers and their families, the president with a dire forecast last night that the u.s. total death toll from the pandemic could hit as many as 500,000 people by next month. he's signing executive orders today to speed stimulus checks to those who are still waiting and to expand federal food benefits and school meal plans. >> we will level with you when we make a mistake. we'll straight-up say what happened. and i said at the outset, the honest truth is we're still in a dark winter of this pandemic.

it's going to get worse before it gets better. despite the best intentions, we're going to face setbacks, which i will always explain to you. but i also -- but i also know we can do this if we come together. >> back in the briefing room for the first time yesterday in months, an under the circumstances unfettered dr. anthony fauci telling kristen welker when he believes the country will start to resemble life before the pandemic. >> you said most people will be vaccinated by the middle of 2021. is that still your expectation? >> yes, test. i mean, i believe that the goal that was set by the president of getting 100 million people vaccinated in the first 100 days is quite a reasonable goal. if we get 70% to 85% of the country vaccinated say by the end of the summer, middle of the summer, i believe by the time we get to the fall we will be approaching a degree of normality. it won't be perfectly normal but

one that i think will take a lot of pressure off the american public. >> joining me now nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander and gabe gutierrez at the jav its center in manhattan. let's talk about the vaccine and all the changes on covid. peter, another big change has been the regular press briefings with jen psaki daily, as it used to be, as was called the first nonweird press secretary in four years. we'll see her this hour with the council of economic advisers brian deese. but clearly unfettered in the briefing room yesterday, dr. anthony fauci. >> reporter: you're right. first on the policy of this day, the focus from this white house is not specific to the pandemic medically but economically, the economic toll it's had on so many americans specifically focusing among other things on this growing hunger crisis right now where they're going to

expand food assistance programs including for those children that used to rely on free food at their schools to get more money to those families who are no longer able to have their children rely on getting food at schools. 13.7% of american adults say last week they did not have enough to eat. that's one of the things they're hoping to address with one of two of today's executive orders. enhanced working protections, collective bargaining agreement for federal workers and beginning the process of making sure that federal workers and contractors get $15 as a minimum wage. it's what joe biden has said. it needs to be a livable wage for so many americans who are struggling in this time of crisis. of course, you can't do everything by executive order and that's why this president has already unveiled this nearly $2 trillion massive covid relief bill, certainly already some republicans saying that's way too much money, some democrats saying it may be too much money

as well. but as we heard from brian deese, one of the president's top economic advisers who we'll har from in the next hour, he says these economic orders are not substitutes for that congressional action they need. they are just basically a lifeline, a critical lifeline for those who need action now. >> and gabe gutierrez in new york, there are major vaccine problems throughout the country but in particular new york state. first responders firing police who have gotten the vaccines initially and spent on the year on the front lines, running into roadblocks and running out o andrea. ems workers having to suspend their first doses here in new york. we're awaiting updated numbers from governor cuomo, but yesterday he said new york state would run out of the vaccine by today. as of yesterday he said that 93% of all the vaccine doses that had been delivered had been administered. now we're here in front of the

javits center, a statewide vaccination site. new york city has shut down 15 other sites throughout the five boroughs. i spoke with mayor bill de blasio, and he says the situation is dire and painful and wants the federal government to advise states that stop holding back, stop reserving that second dose because in his view he feels it's better to get all those doses out and to get people with 50% or 60% efficacy with that first dose and give the government using the defense production act to ramp up production. it's not just facing new york city and state. a dozen states are reporting vaccine shortages, rolling back eligibility requirements. california, san francisco. florida has issued a public health advisory because it is limiting vaccines to state

residents. a lot of frustration here. public officials now say that after weeks of not having enough infrastructure perhaps to get the vaccine out, now they have the people, they have the space, they just don't have the actual doses. andrea? >> another underlying hidden element of course, not so hidden, is the ongoing political rivalry there between the mayor of new york and the governor of the state, both democrats but opposite sides on a lot of things. peter, i also want to note, one response from dr. fauci today, energized, and he even used the word liberated in this answer when asked, he was prompted but answered publicly about the difference between administrations. let's watch. >> i can tell you i take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contra diblgtdistr the president so it was something you didn't feel you could say something and there wouldn't be any repercussions. the idea you can get up here and

talk about what you know, what evidence, what the science is and know that's it, let the science speak, it is somewhat of a liberating feeling. >> and peter, he also said one of the big differences is if you don't know something i'll just say i don't know it rather than making up an answer. >> reporter: that's exactly right, andrea. he said something else today that i thought was striking on a cable network. he said the lack of facts and candor by the last president, the last administration may have contributed to deaths. he said it very likely did. he was saying among other things when they were releasing information that wasn't scientifically or medically accurate, not that he was, but that perhaps some members of the administration, notably the president, that that was in his words not helpful. andrea? >> particularly on hydroxychloroquine and other so-called cures. peter alexander, gabe gutierrez, thank you both. joining me now two doctors who were members of president

biden's covid advisory board during the transition. an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist in new york and another from the university of pennsylvania. let's talk about the reality check on how different it is now and the latest on why we're having such a problem on the distribution, the supply lines. where is the hang-up or are there multiple hang-ups as we now see the biden team trying to federalize as much as they can of what had previously been left up to the states? >> andrea, the biden administration is inheriting a black box. there's not enough visibility into how many vaccine doses have been manufactured and where they are. do you have vaccine doses coming off the production line, some sitting in pharmaceutical company warehouses, others that have been allocated to the

states so they have the state's name on it but maybe the state hasn't ordered it yet, and then you have doses ordered to the states. we are confused about how many doses there are and where they are. that makes it difficult to plan on the ground. if you don't know how many doses are coming to your clinic, how many appointments to be scheduling. that's something that needs to be straightened out soon here. >> zeke, talk about dr. fauci's concern. he said something about unused vaccine doses. >> i think that is something that we need to really take a close look at because that is sort of an inconsistent discrepancy. one of the things we want to do is to find out why that's the case, and if this is the case, particularly the thing that would be most disturbing if there's vaccine laying around and people are not using it when others would need it. but i don't know the answer to that question, but we need to look into it. >> zeke, what about that?

how are there unused doses of something as precious as these first two vaccines? >> well, part of that problem, dr. fauci said, we don't know. part of what celine said is there are a lot of things we don't know. we were left with lots of gaps in information. where exactly are the vaccines, why aren't they getting to people? i can give you one good example. a friend in illinois' wife is a health care provider, went down to get vaccinated, scheduled, went down. there were eight stations for vaccination and she was the only person there. that's one reason why you might have unused doses. no one was scheduled properly. so i think the biden administration is taking a very coordinated look at this. one is to get resources to state and local health departments to coordinate better and efficiently. another as celine said to get

predictability not just a few days ahead of time but weeks ahead of time so health departments can plan for it. and increase the channels to make sure every community has access to the vaccine. massive sites, mobile units, federally qualified health centers, just increase the channels so we're not having any vaccines sitting around. all of that is in the president's plan. it's well thought out. and i think it will make a big difference to the experience of people to get vaccine. >> not leaving the states on their own, using fema, in fact, is one of the new changes. zeke, i also wanted to ask you about something boris johnson just said. i'm hitting you with something that just occurred. in the uk, there is new evidence that the new variant is not only more contagious and communicable but the mortality rate is

higher. is there any medical information that you've heard from your colleagues over there? >> no. i haven't seen that report. but i think as dr. fauci said yesterday and many of us have been saying for a long time, even if it's not more deadly, if you have more infections, that's going to translate to more hospitalizations and more rates. if it's more deadly, two,thin one, you have to distribute vaccine as fast as possible and the others is to use the therapeutics we have. they're not perfect but to use them, dexamethasone, antibodies and rapidly develop other therapeutics to intervene and treat people. very urgent, and again, the president's rescue plan has $3 billion for developing therapeutics so it's been thought about and put in that

plan, and the advisory committee made serious recommendations to that effect. >> in fact, we had nbc investigative reporting on the monoclonal antibodies not being used. i'll put that online on my account and repeat what was on the news the other night. outstanding fact. our colleague was working on that. celine gounder, let me ask you about dr. fauci and president biden, both saying that oar still feeling confident about that goal of 100 doses in 100 days. do you think they can ramp up that quickly? >> i think much of this is going to hinge on whether congress approves biden's america rescue plan, this $1.9 trillion with a "t" dollar plan to rescue the american economy and rescue the american people from the coronavirus pandemic. this pandemic is costing the country $16 trillion it's

estimated, almost ten times as much as the package that biden has proposed. but without that money, without those resources, we cannot do the work that we want to do. so congress really needs to cooperate, to collaborate, so we can work together on this. >> well, thanks, as always, to both of you, dr. celine gounder, dr. zeke emanuel. thank you and have a good healthy weekend. we are waiting for white house press secretary jen psaki to told the daily briefing, daily, which didn't used to happen. a year without briefings. that's in about 15 minutes. we'll bring that to you live when it happens. stay tuned at 2:00 today when katy tur talks with environmental activist greta thunberg. do we really need a sign to live, laugh, and love? -yes. -the answer is no. i can help new homeowners not become their parents. -kee-on-oh... -nope. -co-ee-noah. -no.

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hearing from white house press secretary jen psaki and economiced a vier brian deese on the economic relief orders. her first comments on the senate impeachment trial. let's talk about how that trial will impact the president's agenda. michael steele joins me and jeremy peters as well. michael, first to you. the exact timing of the start of an impeachment trial yet to be determined, but growing number of republicans are arguing you can't impeach trump since he's already out of office. that's a constitutional issue, welles the holdup on organizing the senate. what about the impeachment trial and the biden agenda? >> well, in once sense, andrea, it's sort of a drama that the new administration really doesn't want. you can already sort of sense from the president's remarks and jen psaki's remarks, they're trying to do a little bit of a heisman move. that's over on that senate side.

we're doing the executive-level work of the presidency. but it's a drama that's going to unfold regardless. and they're going to be having to deal with that. so the reality remains that the senate wants to complete the action as a result of that and the consequences from january 6th. the president needs to be held accountable for that. his involvement, his role, all of that has to get vetted publicly. but it is certainly not something that the administration would like to see starting out of the gate, but it is part of the reality now in light of current events. it reminds me, real quick, of the catholic pope who put his predecessor on trial, dug up the body and drug it into the vatican to hold him accountable for his actions during his time as pope. so it's not like this is an unprecedented history here. this is something that happens

from time to time. just unfortunately for the biden administration it's happening on their doorstep as they're beginning a new term. >> jeremy, how does this lack of organizing the senate and the impeachment trial affect any chance of bipartisanship on the agenda? >> well, i think already, andrea, the prospects for grand bipartisan agreement were pretty thin. you have a senate about as divided as it could be at 50/50 with kamala harris, the vice president, as the tiebreaking vote. i think introducing impeachment as necessary as democrats will argue that it is to, you know, cleanse the stain of trumpism from the country, at the moment there are an awful lot of republican voters who think that this is just another illegitimate impeachment sham and that's because that's what they've been listening to on talk radio, cable news, what they've been seeing in their social media feeds. and the political will i think

isn't going to be there among enough republicans to actually convict donald trump as sorry as that may seem to a lot of people who wanted to see him held accountable, the politically expedient course is often the one republicans choose and it will be most publicly expead yenlt to acquit him. >> jeremy and michael, stand by. we'll bring in senate majority leader -- former senate majority leader tom daschle, senate majority leader chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell still at loggerheads over power sharing in this 50/50 divided chamber. the democrats control the majority because of the georgia elections, but technically there is so so-called organizing resolution to let them take charge of the committees while the legislative work the done, and both leaders are disagreeing on the power sharing. the last time there was that situation, there was tom daschle

as a democrat and former minority leader trent lott. leader daschle, senator daschle, it was something else back in the day. how do you describe the difference then and now? i used to cover you guys, daschle and lott would come up, jointly explain what was going to happen. you were partisan rivals but agreed on how to make the senate work. what has happened in the succeeding two decades? >> a lot has happened. partly is social media. we didn't have to contend with the social media that exists today. truth is now just an option, and there are so many different conspiracy theories out there that i think forbade a lot of the debate. i also think we created a situation where the primaries now become more common as part of the election process. because primaries are more dominant, the bases matter more. the bases have far more power than they had 20 and 30 years ago.

bases dictate deportment often time, and that has also changed. the chemistry in the senate has changed a lot. we have to raise way too much money. we spent more than $14 billion on the last election cycle. that's way too much money. sometimes senators spend as much as 75% of their time raising money. that means they can't legislate. so all those factors i think are a big reason why things have changed so much. >> how are the democrats and republicans ever going to reach any kind of compromise given all the bad blood and the way they view mitch mcconnell because of the way he treated president obama? >> i think it starts with a real effort. everybody has to try. when i look at the three leaders -- president biden of course, chuck schumer, and mitch mcconnell -- they have almost a century of senate service, a century. that's 100 years of working together in various ways. if a century of service in the senate doesn't serve as a factor

in coming together, i don't know what will. i think it's really important for the president to invite the leadership down. i'd love the see them come down once a week on tuesday mornings and say, look, what can we accomplish together this week? we'll have our separate agendas. what can we do this week? george bush did that after world -- after 9/11 and it made a huge difference for a while and we got a lot done. i think that kind of thing, inclusion, making sure you come to camp david from time to time, talk about what we can do together in the longer term, those kinds of things. how about a joint caucus where republicans and democrats got together at least once a month to talk about things they could do? we did that and that had a big effect as well. there are things you can do to re-create a new climate, and that's essential if we're going to get any success in this congress going forward. >> senator, you said tuesday mornings. that's important because that's the key. tuesday morning before the weekly senate lunches where each

caucus goes into their own rooms, decide on how they're going to approach things, speak privately, and give the marching orders and hear the opposition. this way they could come and say -- each one could say the president has just said to me at breakfast, he's made this promise on what he'll give or won't give, that's what you're talking about, that kind of communication. >> it takes leadership. i've often said that the best way to persuade is with your ears. you have to listen. and you can't possibly persuade if you haven't listened to the other side. we've got to see more persuasion through better listening. and better listening starts with better communication. better communication starts with a real effort to come together in settings like that to accommodate it. >> you have worked with all of these men, but you have works do importantly with joe biden. you know all the pluses and the minuses over the decades u how he vovlvolved as a leader.

what are you seeing with him now at the speech for the inaugural and this democratic crisis that bodes ill or well for his success, especially with mitch mcconnell? >> you know, andrea, if i could use one word it was sincerity. i've never heard joe biden sound more sincere about his determination to put his heart and soul into reaching out and creating a new climate for good governance. that to me said it all. i thought the inaugural itself was about as goo as it could possibly be. it inspired me, almost brought me to tears a couple times. i really feel that sincerity came through. joe biden is determined to change the tone, to really make a difference with regard to this climate, this poisonous, toxic confrontational climate that exists today. he can do that. and i'm confident knowing him as well as i do that he'll do everything he can to make it happen. >> what advice would you give to

him as to how to handle impeachment and prevent that from becoming a complete impediment to his agenda, especially on stimulus? >> well, they have a couple options. they could bifurcate the schedule to do the impeachment trial in the morning, do legislative and nomination schedules in the afternoon. trent lott and i did that with the clinton impeachment way back in the '90s. that's one way to do it. you could bifurcate the day. the second way is to do what mitch mcconnell has offered yesterday, and that is to postpone it for a while to accommodate some of the early important decisions that have to be made around nominations and maybe some of the biden agenda. regardless, i don't think it ought to be dragged out. i think you could accommodate this trial in a week, maybe a little bit longer. but it's got to be done. there has to be a way to accommodate both the schedule for impeachment as well as the pressing agenda that we as a country have to face and the

congress is responsible for addressing. >> now, contrary to what you experienced back when you were in the leadership and were advising president obama so importantly on health care in particular, there's a completely different stance by the business community on stimulus and debt and that relationship. you heard it certainly from janet yellin in her confirmation hearing but also heard it from the business roundtable, from the chamber of commerce, all these business groups, wall street, importantly, saying spend the money now, we need it to avoid a second recession, spend the money, get it out there, forget about the debt when interest rates are so low. does that bode well for changing the senate's opposition to the $1.9 billion or whatever it will be and for some of the components that are typically labeled as democratic socialism by the opposition? >> i don't think the country has any choice, andrea, but to put this economy back on track. that means addressing covid

successfully, which we have yet to do, and it means finding ways to stimulate the economy. i think joe biden's emphasis on infrastructure is a good example of what we could do to really make a difference with the economy. the fed is right. across the board, almost unanimous point of view from every economic expert is let's get this economy rolling again. we have to deal with the deficit, and some day not too distant future that is going to be a critical priority. we've now exceeded the gdp in terms of our overall debt, and that isn't going to go away. we have low interest rates right now for a low debt service. by and large, we have to get this economy on track and deal with the deficit as we know we must. >> former senator, former majority leader tom daschle, thank you so much. what a treat it is to talk to you today and think back to the days when i was covering the senate and things were so very

different. thanks again. >> thank you. back with us now, former republican chairman michael steele, "new york times" political reporter jeremy peters and joining me, an assistant dean at the lbj school of public affairs. victoria, such a breath of fresh air to think back to those days. there were real security problems. this was post 9/11, but boy they got stuff done. what are the chances of recovering some of that? >> well, i do believe that president biden is going go over to congress on a regular basis and have these bipartisan meetings. speaking to what former speaker daschle said, i do think we see biden willing to do a lot of what george w. bush did and other presidents in terms of finding common space. but andrea, we also need the white house to do diplomatic work with the state.

i am in deep red texas and the day of inauguration our attorney general tweeted out that he is ready to fight the unconstitutional and illegal policies of the biden administration at every turn. so just as importantly as mending and unifying across the branches, it's also going to be critically important to do that at the state level because we know that in many of our states the republican party still is institutionally entrenched, as a very high approva rating. we have to move the needle with a wider communication strategy than just focused in d.c. >> michael steele, you were a lieutenant governor as well as being of course the national republican chairman. and you know maryland so well. there was a house republican member who was stopped trying to

bring a gun into the chamber yesterday, objecting to the magnetometers at the chamber, obviously trying to reach out to his own, you know, right-wing constituents. but how does that happen just two weeks after the people were afraid for their lives as they were huddled and there were invaders trying to crash through those doors? >> it's an unfortunate episode, andrea. it really is. and it just goes to the broader point not just about january 6th but all of the machinations and politics and the nastiness to prove a point, endangering the lives of others, to prove a point. it's just unfortunate. we know and certainly, you know, congressman harris, who i've known a long time, knows what the rules are. but so what's the point?

to show you can do it? that you can get away with it? this is the unfortunate break in our politics right now. and it goes to the point that was just made about, you know, here we are on the day of the inauguration, you have these government officials at the state level tweeting out, you know, we're going to fight these unconstitutional illegal policies. so, yeah, when joe biden does an illegal policy, then the fight. but right now we're dealing with covid, a collapse in the economy for middle america. so what's your solution there? and so whether it's we're going to fight unconstitutional policies that haven't been put forward or we're going to go take a gun to the house floor to prove a point, it shows just how out of step the republican party is, not become, is at this moment in time with what the country needs in order for us to pull ourselves together and move forward in whatever spirit,

bipartisanship, i want to be your friend, whatever spirit you want to bring to the table. that's what the country needs right now. and we don't need the kind of leadership that we're seeing and hearing from a lot within my own party at this moment. >> victoria, the president has said that immigration is one of his top priorities. he proposed legislation already. but i'm told that such a divisive, eschew, what they really expect is to try to have an expanded daca agreement. they can't get sweeping reform. there is a lot of criticism. why is he proposing immigration, which has been such a tough issue for other presidents? doesn't he risk jeopardizing a whole lot more? what are you seeing from texas? >> it is. drae, going back to the '90s we were just talking about with speaker daschle, there was a moment in time up until the early 2000s when immigration had bipartisan support.

but what we've seen over the years has become more and more polar. even though there's nothing more that i would like than comprehensive immigration reform, i think that because of where we are as a nation and our frayed political capital, we'll see a patchwork regarding legislation. so some executive orders, some legislative fixes maybe to high-skilled visas or temporary farm worker visas. the border wall has stopped, but i think it is going to be a patchwork because there is no way we can get a comprehensive gang of eight-tile bill going. the other thing is that the clock is ticking, because we only have two years until the next election where we might see a surge. that's what happened to bama in his first administration. so immigration advocates are watching closely and watching the clock. >> jeremy, what is your take on

that? >> i think that victor is exactly right. it's usually something we've seen presidents do in their second terms. this is what george w. bush did when they tried and failed to get a comprehensive immigration reform bill through congress. obama did it during his second term, got through the senate but didn't get any further than that. it is a curious choice as a first out there right out of the gate from biden. i think that in itself reveals that he and his administration are under a lot of pressure from the activist part of the party. the issue is getting immigrations some form of legal recognition if not citizenship. he is signaling he will not ignore the advocates. >> jeremy peters, michael

steele, victoria soto, than you all so very much. we have breaking news, very sad news from the world of baseball, from the world of really national history. home run legend hank aaron has passed away, hailing from humble beginnings in mobile, alabama, becoming one of the most important sports figures of the 21st century playing for the braves. he entered the history books in 1974, breaking the home run record of the great babe ruth. after his career on the field, he went on to become the first african-american to join major league baseball management at his beloved braves. in july of 2002, president george w. bush awarded hank aaron the presidential medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. just a little over two weeks ago, hank aaron was still serving his community working to lessen the stigma in black communities about vaccines by getting his first covid vaccine at moorehouse school of medicine and publicizing it online.

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health care system. and the black doctors' covid-19 consortium has been working on the ground to eliminate some of those barriers. as you can see, there are shots here that are going into the arms of black people. we've seen a steady stream of folks through here all day. they're able to do around 500 vaccines per clinic when they host them. and already more than 16,000 people have signed up to receive those vaccines. so you see there it's happening live here in front of us. and what the black doctors' covid consortium did was they came to the community and you'll notice the practitioners that are administering these vaccines are black people, people who look like these patients. and the woman who runs this clinic says that is very important. but these are also folks who have other jobs during the day they go to. this isn't their full-time work. so the doctor says more support

is needed at clinks like this one. take a listen. >> i need more vaccine. i need more personnel. and i need sustainable financial support. because right now everything we're doing is based on my bank account, donations from a gofundme. right now, we're the answer for every need in the community. every need. we're the answer. latinx community, it's us. homeless, it's us. black, it's us. >> reporter: i think this is going to be a big part of the next conversation around vaccines. it's about speed versus equity. yes it's possible to stand up a site that can vaccinate 10,000 people a day but are they going

to help the people most impacted like this one. andrea. >> priscilla, what about the black nurses, the black front line workers, many of the health care workers have been reluctant to take the vaccine? >> reporter: right. when we look at that data, it showed among vaccine eligible groups like the doctors, like the nurses, that there is still that disparity and where that comes from, it's a number of issues. one is that, yes, there's distrust there. questions around how this might impact them and the important thing that dr. stanford really stressed is about the need to take the time to listen and have conversations for many people these sort of conversations and this distrust has been for decades. it's something they were raised to be taught only go to the doctor if it's an emergency if you're think you're going to die. trying to change the

conversation around that, it's not just enough to say here is a vaccine go and take it. you have to change a conversation and the biden administration has promised to unveil public education campaign to help get the word out about the safety and efficacy in hopes of changing that the andrea. >> thanks so much. great report. thanks for being there. 22-year-old amanda gorman stole the show at wednesday's inauguration. she captivated the country with her poetry about our divided nation. lester holt speak to hear more about her path to getting on the inauguration podium in this report that aired on "nightly news." >> somehow we have weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished. >> her poem is called "the hill

we climb." the first youth poet laureate. >> being american is more than a pride we inherit. it's the past we step into. >> her story too. >> you had passage in there, you said we the successors of a country in a time where a skinny black girl descended from slaves. >> only to find herself reciting for one. >> i'm amanda gorman, 22 years old and getting here took a village. it took me getting over a speech impediment. i took me having a strong, single mother who raised me and i'm black and i'm female and i'm proud of it. >> she was asked to read at the inauguration by first lady dr. jill biden who heard h young

harvard grad read before. >> we wanted the theme of the poem to reflect the larger theme of the inauguration which was america united. >> as she was writing, the capitol was suddenly attacked. >> there's this moment of just horror and disgust but i also felt an enormous responsibility to say, okay, this is a current. what am i going to do about it? >> one of my favorite passages, let the glow of nothing else say this is true. >> an with ae grieved, we grew. even as we hurt, we hoped. even as we tired we try that we'll forever be tied together, victorious. not because we will never again know defeat but because we will never again sow division. >> was that written after or before the 6th? >> that was written during that day. i had this understanding that the world is watching us. that we have the eyes of history and the future upon us.

>> your twitter followers have blown up. are there any tweets that stand out in your mind? >> once i saved are the photos of children watching the inauguration and seeing me on screen. children of all colors and backgrounds and that just really makes my heart explode to know that the next generation is witnessing that moment and getting to see themselves represented as being the change makers and being the way that is going to redefine our country. >> one of the most extraordinary wonderful tweets was from malala and the fact of amanda gorman, her presence and poetry and wonderful instincts is such an inspiration to children of all colors, to all of us. her presence was such an important part and the fact that it was inspired by dr. jill biden, a teacher who had heard

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