good morning. it is saturday, january 23rd. i'm ali velshi. joe biden is the president of the united states. welcome to the special coverage inside the biden administration. there is a lot to get to this morning. the house of representatives is

delivering the article of impeachment for in incitement o insurrection. it remains unclear how many republicans will vote in favor of impeachment. at least 17 would need to accept reality and join all 50 democrats to convict. josh hawley and ted cruz do not accept reality. having long ago pledged loyalty to the dear leader. senate democrats have filed against cruz and hawley over the insurrection and including if they organized with the insurrectionists. in a giant about face of the

domestic extremistextremists, t administration says this is a national security threat and announced a plan to overhaul the government's approach to domestic terrorism and working with the fbi and homeland security to conduct a national threat assessment. also, in an about face to the former president's loyalty to russia, joe biden has a review into the role of the hack of government and computer networks and seeking a clean five-year extension of the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with russia. we are in a new stage in the country's history. finding our footing. following an insurrectionist presidency which nearly succeeded in destroying american democracy. the last few days have been a winter storm of orders, proclamation and activity. a government taking governing seriously after four years of amateur tom foolery. how nice it would be to have

real policy discussions again instead of talking about a leader threatening the annihilation. the white house is bringing back daily press briefings and will hold public briefings on the pandemic led by scientists. president biden halted funding for the wall at the southern border. he revoked the racist 1776 commission and reversed the former administration's racist policy limiting diversity training. biden has rescinded the muslim ban and the administration says biden will reverse the transgender military ban. on the climate front, biden entered the united states in the

paris accord and reversed roll backs on vehicle emission standards and a temporary moratorium on oil and natural gas in the arctic wildlife refuge. he is strengthening protections for daca and requested the minimum federal wage to $15 an hour. and biden is taking actions to increase food and strengthen worker protections. he is extending the moratorium on student loan payments. biden signed orders mandating masks on federal land and travel. he is reinstating the united states in the world health organization.

the united states now has several straight days where we have seen more than 4,000 covid-19 deaths. we passed 415,000 americans dead since the start of the pandemic, less than a year ago. and the new cdc director says to expect 100,000 more deaths as early as mid-february. here is the president of the united states. joe biden. >> in the past year, we couldn't rely on the federal government to act with the urgency and focus and coordination we needed. we have seen the cost of that failure. it is based on science and not politics and truth. our national plan addresses the supply shortages by ramping up production. we are in a national emergency. it is time we treated it like one. together, the national plan, as

the united states of america. as i said yesterday, in the address, there are moments in history when more is asked of a particular generation and more asked of americans. we are in that moment now. history will measure whether we are up to the task. i believe we are. >> one of the things the biden administration is realizing how unprepared the former administration left the country. especially with vaccine production and distribution. according to the new white house, what we are inheriting is worse than what we imagined. and the cdc director says vaccines will not be widely available by late february which the former administration promised the american people. to meet the challenge, president biden ordered ways to increase the ways to speed production.

and increased the sites and ordered the military and federal agencies to use in assist in rollout. biden issued a memo aimed at keeping schools open by reimburing schools for cleaning and protective equipment and other costs using disaster relief funds from fema. following an unprecedented delay in the then republican held senate, members of the biden team are finally being confirmed. admiral haines, the first woman to hold that position and retired four star general, lloyd austin. joining me now is senior adviser and chiefs spokesperson for kamala harris is symone sanders. symone, that took me eight means to get through that. congratulations. the question i have for you.

how are you dividing what has to be done between undoing the damage of the trump administration and doing what people like you had called for. a real ground up building. >> thank you for having me this morning, ali. good to see you as well. i think it is an important question. since the president and vice president were sworn in, they went immediately to work. you had an eight-minute segment opening that demonstrates that. look, the president and vice president absolutely believe that americans in this country need relief right now. that is why you saw the president layout the american rescue plan. this is a plan to provide relief to americans across the country. folks are standing in food lines right now, ali. people are unable to pay rent or mortgages. we believe america needs recovery. in a few weeks time, the

president will layout his recovery plan for the american people. there's lots to do. we believe the administration believes that we have to urgently act right now to confront the converging crises. >> the former president's former economic adviser came out and had complementary words for what joe biden is doing for the economic policy or the economic relief for covid. is there any likelihood of getting republican support given we will need more economic relief? the president has said and dr. fauci said this is going to get worse before it gets better. >> yes, ali, there is a possibility. a strong possibility of getting republican support. the president and vice president believe that relief for small businesses and the money they need is not a partisan issue. reopening the schools safely is

not a partisan issue. relief for american families is not a partisan issue. addressing the hunger crisis is not a partisan issue. democrats and republicans in december came together in congress to pass a stimulus bill. that is what the president and vice president like to call the first step. we believe it can be done. the administration is doing everything that we can to ensure that we are rallying folks and talking to labor and real people across the country. just yesterday, the vice president held a convening of small business owners with national economic chair to hear directly from small business owners across the country who are struggling in the midst of the pandemic. >> we are going to talk during the show about specific policy issues, which i'm excited to talk about. we will talk about climate and immigration and we will talk about social justice.

on those fronts, there is not one democratic view and one republican view. in fact, there are a multitude of views across the political spectrum. how is this administration going to deal with that? some want us to go all-in on climate change or all-in on the remedy of the immigration failures. all-in on social justice. how is your administration going to straddle these lines? >> the president and vice president have clearly laid out their plan. they have talked extensively about the four convering crises that america is experiencing at the same time. the crisis of climate. crisis of racial injustice and public health and economic crises. you saw in the very early hours of the administration, the biden-harris administration, the president sign a number of executive orders and memos and

directives that spoke to each of those four converging crises. >> symone, let's talk about this moment. you work for vice president kamala harris. that's a lot of firsts all in one. >> it's a lot of firsts. ali, i watched the inauguration like everyone else across the country and across the world on wednesday. when the president raised his hand to take the oath of office and the vice president raised her hand to take the oath of office, it was an amazing moment. she spoke on wednesday night. spoke to the american aspiration. the ability to see what can be. there is lots of work to do. the vice president has hit the ground running. she is already gotten to work on behalf of the american people. >> symone, you and i have had spirited conversations in the past few years. i hope we continue to do so. it is still our job to hold you to account.

we wish you the best of luck. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much. >> symone sanders. chief spokesperson for vice president kamala harris. joining me he now is joyce beatty of ohio. the chair of the congressional black caucus. she told the world what it felt like to be you. a black woman watching a black woman sworn in as vice president of the united states. congress member, good to see you. >> good morning, ali. good to be with you. let me just say -- >> are you over it yet? it was a big deal. it was only three days ago. >> it was a huge deal. not only for me, the congressional black caucus, but the nation to be able to witness a black woman. a woman of color, sworn in as

the first female vice president. someone who i served with and watched. more importantly, when you look at what she stands for, all of the things that she has been saying to us, it not only builds hope and opportunity, but it also gives us relief from what we witnessed for the past four years. all of the negative things toward women and people of color. it allows us really to understand what building back better will mean. it will be inclusive. it will give us an opportunity to talk about the issues that face so many of us that we have been discriminated against or we have faced disproportionately. it was a great day. great day of hope, of opportunity. i am still relishing in the pact that vice president kamala harris will be speaking for us and before the nation. >> and there are a lot of people of color and black voices in the

administration. marcia fudge and lloyd austin to name a couple. what change does that bring? the grieve grieving in the blac community is longstanding stuff. what is this change? what is this degree of representation in the highest office of our land change for black people? >> it makes a difference. when you look at the issues we prioritized as well as the president, it speaks to that. they now have racial justice in every agency. you have ambassador susan rice leading that. we talk about criminal justice reform. we talk about strengthening our relationships here and with foreign affairs. we now have the general whom we

look at what we are doing with defense, which we have spoken out and about in the iinjustice. to have a four-star general, general lloyd austin, who i had an opportunity to meet with an hour before he went before the senate for the confirmation. when you have marcia fudge. when we think about the number of individuals who are faced with losing their homes, we are grateful for the executive order that has helped us and what the president has done when you look at some 40 million individuals at risk of losing their homes. when we think about the 15% increase for s.n.a.p. or food stamps and what that will do for a family of three. $100 extra dollars put into their allowances will make a

huge difference when they get that every other month. you have congress member fudge who will speak truth to power to that. and so many others. the first deputy secretary of treasury. a young black man. i could continue across the list when we look at it. you just talked to symone sanders. someone who worked closely with us. you are bringing also younger folks brought into the fold that allows us to build that team of speaking up and standing with us. hearing our voices. having an opportunity to pick up the phone and call the white house and be listened to and heard and reacted to. that is something that we're looking forward to especially as the congressional black caucus. we have something you will hear a lot, ali. you will hear our power, our message. we have an historic number. two in the senate with cory booker and also with senator

warnock. we're going to have a great partnership. it is almost like we are waking up out of a bad dream or after being sedated because of the four years of harm that we had to deal with. >> congress member, it is great to talk to you. you and i will have conversations in the future. you are on the financial services committee. you brought up the housing issues. a good conversation on financial literacy in this critical time and on housing is upon us. i look forward to talking to you. joyce beatty. thank you. 2021 did not get off to the peaceful start we hoped for. the first three wednesdays in january brought us three "is." a remarkable look back of

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there's no i in january, but there was three this month. insurrection and impeachment and inauguration on three wednesdays. those three weeks proved american democracy will be tested, but not torn. the striking pictures are worth 1,000 words or more each. wednesday, january 6th. thousands of armed insurrectionists breached the capitol building in an attempt to advance a coup by stopping the electoral college vote count. two weeks later, draped in red, white and blue to usher in a new commander in chief. back to january 6th,

insurrectionists swinging from balconies and threatening to murder then vice president mike pence and house speaker nancy pelosi. hours later, pence certifies the election. one week later, pelosi, bangs the gavel to impeach the president for the second time. the first in american history. january 6th, d.c. and capitol police clash with thousands. and two weeks later, defense troops fortify the capitol. january 6th, this man, eugene goodman. lawy lures away rioters. january 20th, that same man promoted to acting dependency sergeant at arms. escorts kamala harris to the inauguration. january 6th, minutes before the

chaos unfolds at the capitol, president trump tells supporters to fight like hell. two weeks later, president joe biden preaches unity. quote, we must end this uncivil war. we can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts. january 6th, rioters with hate. that night, amanda gorman took all in. two weeks later, she reads that poem aloud. there is always light. if only we are brave enough to see it. if only we are brave enough to be it. gorman is inspired by the strong women before her. like kamala harris. she broke barriers as the first woman and black american and first of south asian descent to

be sworn in. flash bangs and tear gas on january 6th as insurrectionists storm the capitol. on january 20th, fireworks display in celebration of a new dawn and new administration. january 20th, 2021. president biden and first lady dr. jill biden. what a difference a few wednesdays can make. what a difference a few wednesdays can make.

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i want to talk about immigration. the corner stone of the former president's racist agenda. it is how he closed his presidency taking a trip this month to tour his signature border wall which was never finished. today, president biden is looking to clean up the four-year mess after sworn this

week, he signed executive orders. key points include halting construction on trump's wall. strengthening the daca program and ending the muslim ban. that looks great on paper, anything is better than the driven policies. he was, after all, number two in the obama administration which had more of the fair share of immigration controversies. more than 5 million people were deported he and obama served together. president biden has an opportunity to make progress on immigration in the coming years. perception is one thing he has to fight. americans have a warped view of immigration. immigrants in the country are vital to the growth of the economy. which not enough children are born to replace those who retire

from the work force. and issues prevail of immigrantss taking from us. one issue is the undocumented people in the united states with a path to citizenship. i have caitlin with me. it is interesting to have this conversation. our conversation about immigration has been about shock at the things going on. this administration needs to fix the last four years, but it has to go back much further than that. we had bad immigration policy in this country for decades. >> it is amazing, ali, when we were staying up all night four years ago and covering chaos playing out not in the u.s., but across the world as president trump hit the ground running with the really harsh

restrictions during his first week. what we're seeing now is the biden administration doing the opposite. as you pointed out, i think when president obama was in office and joe biden was his vice president, we saw a measured approach. democrats really trying to pursue immigration reform, but doing it in a way that require prioritized concessions and the desire to collaborate and negotiate with republicans. this is hitting the ground running with the aggressive proposal in a comprehensive way from offering a path of citizenship for dreamers which is important and americans have agreed upon for a long time. going further than that. we see provisions that are providing more access to legal status in the united states from farm workers to foreign students and people waiting for years and

in cases decades for family visas as well. >> we talk about students or talk about daca recipients. we talked about this. if you would pick a group of people, you would pick the daca people. muslim ban affected students at universities. that affected our universities. there are conservatives from agriculture states who want rights for the workers who come in and do the work that we need them to do. is there some space for agreement with conservatives that allows us to move away from immigrants from criminals and immigrant as a necessary resource in the country? >> i think there is space for agreement with conservatives, ali. you pointed out in the lead-in to our discussion about the economic realities and the ideas of the american citizenry should

look like. that is important to the discuss of the people. you never hear politicians talk about immigration policy in a straight and rational and economic way. you don't tend to have immigration policies that are rational that is based on economics. it is based on other things. i think that in order to reach agreement, there is a reckoning and acknowledgment of the role that race has played or a role of ideas of what americans should look like and what language should they speak and how their voices should sound. we have to be honest with ourselves as a country of how that plays a role to reach agreement on the economic questions which you point out whether we're talking about low paying farm work jobs or meat plant jobs or whether we're talking about high field specific engineers or academics

or entrepreneurs. some of the questions are simple to answer. there is clear need in sectors for immigration. we should be able to find agreement across the aisle between democrats and republicans on those questions. >> there's a lot of detail to discuss on this one. i am looking forward to talking to you over the months and getting into the thin slices of immigration. caitlin dickerson. covering immigration. thanks for being with us. we have sad breaking news. tv host larry king has died. he was 87. larry king passed away at cedars sinai in los angeles. his career spanned 63 years in radio and television. he earned respect for being an unbiased presenter of the news. he was recently hospitalized for covid. his cause of death is not certain at this time. kevin tibbles takes a look back

at king's life and legacy. >> good evening. >> reporter: for more than 50 years on television and radio. >> indianapolis, hello. >> reporter: the famous and the infamous. >> it was a very traumatic experience. >> reporter: they all opened up to larry king. >> good-bye. >> my motto. i never learned anything when i was taught. >> reporter: born in brooklyn in 1933, young larry ziiger dreamed of a career in radio. he chose king after an ad after moving to miami. >> did the radio show. bobby darren walked in. >> reporter: arrested in 1971 for larceny. king was acquitted and returned to radio. broadcasting his call-in show nationwide. >> welcome to larry king live. >> reporter: in 1985, ted turner lured him to the cnn.

>> any personal regrets? >> reporter: he became the network's biggest draw. reaching more than 1 million people each night. >> we can stop it without nafta. >> how do you stop that without nafta? >> reporter: his 1993 nafta debate was viewed by 11 million. setting a new record for a cable broadcast. king said his secret was not to overprepare. >> i was the number one show in television, larry. do you know who i am? >> reporter: and bragged he never read the books his guests promoted. >> what i worry about is if i think i know too much. the day i go in the studio and say i heard all of the answers. that's the day i quit. >> reporter: he was replaced with pier morgan amid falling ratings. >> it is time to hang up the suspenders. >> reporter: he took his show to the internet. >> i want to make sure the

election is 100% fair. >> reporter: a life long dodgers fan. he survived a heart attack in 1987. he was married eight times to seven different women. >> i never thought this was strange. >> reporter: larry king said he hoped to be remembered as a good father and interviewer who added to the knowledge of the world. kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> larry and i worked together for a while at cnn. we appeared on each others shows. i asked to fill in for him one time sitting with the mic in front of me. what it felt like to be in larry king's seat. larry king is dead at the age of 87. rest in peace, my friend. president biden pledged to deliver 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days. since the vaccine has been available, 19 million have been

administered. now shortages of vaccines making it more difficult to achieve the goal. making sure the states have the doses is a tough task for the biden administration. i want to play sound for you from the black doctors consortium. >> 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 go fund me. right now, we're the answer for every need in the community. every need. we're the answer. latinx? homeless? us. black? it's us.

>> grim picture. new york city has temporarily closed down 15 vaccination sites due to shortages. mayor de blasio says they will hold off on more doses. joining me now is the representative for the housing in new york city. she is volunteering with the city to vaccinate hundreds of new yorkers. this weekend her shift was canceled. libby, help us understand this. i don't know how this is going on. >> good morning, ali. you know i'm happy to talk to you. you are right. the only reason i was able to talk to you today is because my shift at one of the new york city vaccine hubs was canceled. you saw the image of me with d. chui. we are all doctors who volunteer with the medical reserve corps

to vaccinate as many workers and elderly and other eligible new yorkers. headline this week that 23,000 vaccine appointments were canceled because of insufficient supply. i'll tell you what is promising. in new york, we have plenty of volunteers and public health work workers able to help out in the effort. ali without the vaccine, every city and county and state in the united states, we are not going to fight this pandemic. >> i want to look at some of the things. a lot of stuff that the biden administration has unveiled or unrolled or announced in the last couple days. a few invoking the defense production act. part of that is enabling the vaccine and supplies required to get the vaccine to people.

requiring companies to manufacture that. do you see that helping? >> yes. i know you and i have been talking about this pandemic before it was called covid-19. coronavirus back in march and april. back then, you heard people like me and my fellow public health advocates talking about act vast activation of the defense production act for gloves and masks which we are still short of. and testing kits. that is not where it needs to be. now with vaccines. i have five words. this is why leadership matters. already in the first 72 hours of his presidency, joe biden has talked about the defense production act. he has been talking about 100 days of masking. he is clearly listening to evidence based public health experts and medical experts.

you can tell by his team and advisers, he is surrounded by the best. it will take time, but activation of the dpa is a move in the right direction, ali. >> what do you make of this plan that they have to get 100 million doss out? you know about dr. stanford. you know about the actual stuff that happens on the ground. you said we have the resources for it and the people to do it. does this plan look like it will get us there? >> you know, i'm extremely fortunate to be living in a city that has one of the oldest and well reputable public health departments in the country. however, other rural communities that simply need more resources, that's where we need to pay attention. communities of color where they don't have the staffing or support. that's where we need to focus attention. as you know, ali, it is not just

the actual medication of the vaccine. it is the swabs and gauze and alcohol. it is all of these other little steps. the organization. they had an algorithm for each pod. the vaccination pod. the greeter. it is a considerable amount of organization from the federal to the state to the local level. that needs to happen. i'm hopeful with this administration that it will happen. >> i enjoy talking to you. i hope i don't get the opportunity to talk to you because your shifts were canceled again. let's hope that gets back on the road. lipi roy is the medical director for housing works in new york city joining us because she cannot vaccinate people. happening right now in russia, protests over the arrest of putin opposition leader alexei navalny.

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breaking news. protests ongoing in russia after the afternoon of the pro democracy and putin opposition leader alexei navalny. vladimir putin promised to crackdown on protests in the streets. many have been rounded up in the streets. thousands are protesting to show support for the imprisoned opposition leader. navalny was arrested upon

reentering russia after being poisoned with a nerve agent abroad. navalny reentered the homeland knowing he would be arrested. he called for the protests from behind bars. i'm joined by matthew in moscow. matthew, what is the situation? >> reporter: this is certainly the largest protest we have seen here in moscow in many years. probably since 2013. certainly the largest in my time here. it is really from that perspective an astounding show of deiance from the navalny supporters. there were questions this week after navalny around and being arrested. he started making calls for the protest. it wasn't clear how much will was up for him. tuesday night, he released a two-hour video. one of the longest ever investigations aimed at vladimir putin. his alleging details of the personal wealth and corruption

schemes. none of which we confirmed. in 48 hours, more than 50 million people and according to navalny's team. 70 million were in russia. from that perspective, today is a big turnout. that question loom over until this morning. we were on the square two hours ago where they were protesting. at 2:00 p.m., thousands flocking into the square. they have been continuing to come all afternoon. we retreated 500 yards away from the square. the latest reports we have seen estimate that more than 40,000 people in moscow showed up for this today. surprisingly, as you said, we have seen thousands of arrests and this is not just in moscow, but nationwide. the cops did not come down as hard as past protests.

thinking of summer of 2017 with violent images. it makes you wonder if the kremlin is paying close attention to the way that large-scale protests are being handled by belarus. they have had ongoing protests started and have had several large-scale crackdowns. >> i'm glad you brought that up, matthew. the belarus protests have been going through the winter almost daily. matthew bodner for us in moscow. thank you. i want to bring in vladimir caramusa, president of the free russia foundation. similarly to navalny he was also mysteriously poisoned not once, but twice. good to see you. i want to pick up on a point that matthew made. the protests are in many cases around corruption in the putin regime. your argument is not that there's corruption in the putin regime, that much everybody knows it's that it is tacitly

approved up and i don't know if you want to call it encouraged by the west. >> good morning, ali. it is always good to be on your program. yes, we've known for many years the biggest export from vladimir's putin to the west ms. not been oil, it's corruption. it's the system that putin has built up and that is a two-way street as you correctly pointed out and for someone to export corruption someone has to be willing to import it. in four years we've seen no shortage of western governments, western politicians and western banks and financial institutions and others who have been willing to accept this dirty money and the people who are behind it. by various estimates there's around a trillion u.s. dollars in private russian assets stashed abroad in the u.s. and allied jurisdictions. much of this wealth undoubtedly linked to putin personally, and i think the most important thing

the free world, the democratic world can do is to finally start targeting this money that is being looted from the people of russia and stashed away and hidden away in the west and that is what alexey navalny went back to finally target this dirty money around the kremlin. >> you wrote in "the washington post" that joe biden is the president who tried to deal with vladimir putin and they tried to solidify authoritarian control at home. george w. bush tried to get a sense of putin's soul. donald trump maneuvered to bring putin back into the group of eight among other things. what do you think, vladimir, has to change and change now under the biden administration to stop placating a strong man. >> to say the obvious it's only up to russians to effect political change and it's inspiring to see the protests and there is a clear shift over

the last few years where we've seeing the young generation turn decisively against putin regime. the propaganda television machine is people like myself and russian opposition leaders and opposition activists ask foreigners supposedly to give us money or give us political support or regime change in russia and the nonsense and we want nothing of the sort again. it's only for russians to change russia. the only thing we do ask of the western world is that it stay true to its western values and the corruption of the putin regime. for the past two decades that putin has been in power many presidents of parties tried to placate putin in way or another. the biden administration has a chance to begin anew and to make

a fresh start and a principle start on russia and learning the lessons the hard way from the previous administrations drawing from the high levels of expertise and drawing less important on the instincts and the views of the new president himself. i want to remind you that back in the spring of 2011 when joe biden was in moscow as vice president he made a very pointed gesture by immediately after his meeting with putin coming to meet the leader of the russian opposition including the late boris nemtsov, very reaganesque in the best sense of the world, reagan met with soviet disdents just after he met with the soviet leadership and it is very important to take that gesture and those words and translate them into action and into policy. among the most important directions that i would name would be, as we already discussed, finally going after that dirty money and enacting

those targeted, sanks on key oligarchs like putin that enable. >> you're talking about the magnitsky act. >> not sanctions against the russian people and targeted sanks against the cronies and the oligarchs and the high-ranking human rights abusers that have made it a habit from stealing in russia for our people and going and spending and stashing away that stolen money in the west. that would be a very important step to make, and i mention this so-called golden trillion, the 1 trillion u.s. dollars in private assets stashed in western jurisdictions. there are several precedents for this one. assets of dictatorial regimes to be handed back to those countries and to those peoples once they have democratically elected countries, and that's what should happen here, too. the most important test of the biden administration will be the

parliamentary election this september. there's no question that it will be just as unfair and unrigged, and it is important for other democracies to take the principle and not to recognize the fraudulent election and in 2024 when vladimir putin will remain in the kremlin, last year he essentially waived the presidential term limit on himself. this is an illegal power grab and it should be accepted as such and the west, leading with the united states, should take a non-recognition for put to inillegally remain in power past 2024. >> vladimir, thank you as always for joining us and giving us clarity. he is a russian politician and president of the free russia foundation. i will talk to valerie jaret about her take on the first days

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