good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington,ic kicking off a difficult two weeks for president biden and congressional democrats trying to get the covid passed before march 14th. and there's good news, johnson & johnson shaping the first doses of their vaccine out to get more shots in arms in the coming days, even ahead of the cdc warning about a potential

fourth surge if states ease up on restrictions too soon. and this hour dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas will be joining press secretary jen psaki in the briefing room. people seeking asylum and to those already separated from their children. joining me now, geoff bennett in the briefing room, julia ainsley, kimberly atkins, columnist for "the boston globe," and teresa maria, founder of latina. julia, you have the breaking news now. >> yes, that's right, and this is good news for people separated under the trump administration, particularly for families who have been deported. up until now those parents had not decided if they will bring their children back into dangerous conditions or leave or stay separated from their children back to the united

states. the biden administration announced they will give them the option of bringing their child back or coming to the united states themselves and that carves out special protection for families separate and parent deported. they can now come back to the united states. on top of that, they're providing mental health services, health care, transportation, legal and career and educational services and none of that cost will be passed down to the families. this was far wider than what we had originally expected from this task force. so far the biden administration had been reluctant to give the specifics on what the task force may do. they also say they may consider siblings of children separated, if there is a humanitarian reason to bring back their families, if they have also been separated. these are a lot of specifics we coming from the segt we had not gotten to this point. >> geoff, the president had been under fire because they planned on reopening soft-sided large

tents for children as they were now being permitted to come in it rather than having to it wa to wait on the mexico side but those were the same ones used by president obama and also used most notably for extended periods of time under president trump. >> that's right, andrea. one of the reasons why the recently confirmed homeland security secretary told me coming into the brief room, i'm told, is the white house is keenly aware of the criticism president biden is facing from some in this party -- as we get the two-minute warning here -- that by returning the chirp he's returning to one of the most inhuman aspects of the trump administration and that was long-term detention of undocumented minors. i will tell you the main focus here at the white house is still on covid relief. we heard from the president briefly on saturday after the house narrowly passed that $1.9

trillion package. with an eye towards passing it swiftly in the senate, they are trying to include in the package the $15 minimum wage hike, andrea. >> of course, when goes to the senate and they expect a floor vote some time this week, maybe wednesday or thursday, things always slide in the senate, but that they're not going to have that plan b, that over the weekend senator bernie sanders and senator schumer talking about some tax penalty on companies who don't pay $15 to try to do a backdoor but apparently that will not meet the reconciliation test to be a budget bill. but they will go without that. there's still concern about paul and aoc and others on the

progressive side they're being abandoned open the minimum wage. >> that's right. but the covid relief is imperative and if the machinations of the minimum wage slows down the covid relief package, that's not good for anyone. and president biden himself said weeks ago to cbs, at the super bowl interview, he said he put it in the bill but didn't think it would survive. turns out, it didn't survive. >> ann marie teresa, what about concerns among policy advocates that the administration has not done enough to reunite separated families? >> andrea, i have to share with you, i had the opportunity to speak with not only vice president harris but a couple of weeks ago just with people talking about family reunification. i have never been in a room where people on one side, the policymakers, the elected and advocates are almost 100% aligned. that almost never happens.

the difference here is you have a lot of advocates now inside the white house providing people with a front-row seat of what the experiences are for a lot of those families. what julia outlined saying they're going to provide mental health talking about reunification, that far exceeded a lot of our expectations. on times it takes a moment to align and this administration is trying to move as fast as possible. i do believe both vice president harris and president biden understand that the trauma that these children are facing, is it perfect, no, but we also recognize he's only been in office less than 30 days and we're trying to provide them with as much lead room so they can do the right thing and they're taking those proposals absolutely seriously. when we talk about the covid relief package, it also includes funding and vaccination for farm workers, many of whom are undocumented, for community who was experiencing ten burials a week, this is not small. it talks again about our

american values, it speaks to the importance of making sure our food doesn't get interrupted and dignity of work. every administration, oftentimes it takes them a moment to get their speed. this administration has been working fast and furious even before they were sworn into office. and it is starting to show. >> it's about 38, 39 days, something close to that. can you imagine turning back to the covid relief indeed, senate progressives won't be getting their plan b on minimum wage. at any moment though, in terms of the vaccinations themselves, we saw the cdc briefing earlier, is that first u.p.s. truck is about ready to roll out with the first of what are going to be 3,900 doses this week. when that rolls, that is a single dose, doesn't require advance refrigeration. it's going to be much more accessible, although the majority of what they have promised will be the last two weeks with in march. this first week they're expected to use all of those 3,900.

>> yes, and that's crucially important. the vaccine distribution rolling out, getting it to people as quickly as possible, isn't just important in order to fight the pandemic itself but as citys and states, including massachusetts and across the country, reopening plans crucial for the economy, they need for people to get back, and get vaccinated, not just the most vulnerable. >> at least we got that much in. here's jen sarky with the details julia ainsley already reported. >> he's led a distinguished 30-year career as law enforcement official and nationally recognized lawyer in the private sector. he served as deputy secretary to the u.s. department of homeland security from 2013 to 2016, and as director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services from 2009 to 2013. during his tenure at dhs, he led the development and implementation of daca,

cybersecurity and homeland security agreements with foreign governments, led the government's response to ebola and azika, helped combat campaigning traaing and followup for the earthquake 2019 in haiti. with that, i will turn it over to you. >> thank you very much, jen. good morning, everyone. i'd like to spend a few minutes and provide you with an overview of what we have done and are continuing to do and what we are dedicated to achieving. we are dedicated to achieving and, quite frankly, working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the pass administration with an orderly, humane, and safe immigration process. it is hard and it will take time. but rest assured we're going to

get it done. let me explain to you why it is hard and why it is going to take time. i think it is important to understand what we have inherited because it defines the situation as it currently stands. entire systems are not rebuilt in a day or in a few weeks. to put it succinctly, the prior administration dismandled our immigration system in its entirety. when i started 27 days ago, i learned we did not have the facilities available or equipped to administer the humanitarian law congress passed years ago. we did not have the personnel policies, procedures or training for those laws. quite frankly, the entire system was gutted. in addition, they tore down the

central american minors program that allowed children to access laws of protection without taking the perilous journey. they cut off funding to guatemala, el salvador and honduras. no planning had been done to protect the frontline personnel of the u.s. customs and border protection, and other frontline personnel that addressed the needs of individuals coming to our border. contracts had been entered that were unlawful for against the interests of the united states department of justice. and that's just the tip of it. and i must tell you that it pains me profoundly to say this today on march 1st, the 18th anniversary of the u.s. department of homeland security, it takes time to rebuild an entire system and to process individuals at the border in a safe and just way.

that is especially true when we're in the midst of a pandemic and are obligated, of course, to adhere to the restrictions and procedures to have been promulgated by the cdc to ensure public safety, including the safety of the individuals who arrive at our border. it takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established. what we are seeing now at the border is the immediate result of the dismantlement of the system and the time that it takes to rebuild it virtually from scratch. we have, though, already begun to design and, in fact, have begun to implement a new innovative way to address the needs of the population that was forced to remain in mexico during the prior administration. that rebuilding, that innovative

solution is but one part of a multi-part strategy to execute on the president's vision. for example, we have also begun to rebuild the process for young people to be able to access avenues of protection without having to take the perilous journey. we have begun to develop and rebuild the program, to reun nigh individuals with their families here in the united states as was once the case. the president set forth his bold vision in his executive orders at the outset of his administration and we are driven to implement them successfully. let me, if i can, take a couple minutes to explain that innovative system to which i referred with respect to how we are addressing the individuals who were forced into the remain in mexico program under the prior administration. working very closely with the

mexican government and international organizations in mexico, we have developed a virtual platform that enables individuals with active cases in the remain in mexico program to actually register for relief using their phones. the international organizations then work with those individuals to test them, process their cases and transport them safely and according to a defined schedule, to the port of entry where we are awaiting them and can process them through the port of entry successfully. we started with one port and 25 individuals a day. we are now at three ports and we have enhanced our processes at one of those three ports to reach 100 individuals a day in processing to address the acute need in the camp at amott

morass, which we have all heard so much about. this is all, by the way, at a time we're also addressing the personnel. soon after i took office february 2, we launched operation vow, vaccinate our workforce, where we have surged resources and capabilities, according to the paradigm that's been established by the covid-19 task force, to address the needs of frontline personnel throughout the federal government. in februaryrted 2% of that frontline workforce vaccinated at the end of february. we were able to reach frontline personnel. i have to take this country at the same time to reiterate a message that we have communicated repeatedly throughout, which is a message to those individuals who are

thinking of coming to our border. they need to wait. it takes time to rebuild the system from scratch. if they come, if families come, if single adults come to the border, we are obligated to in the service of public health, including the health of the very people who are thinking of coming, to impose the travel restrictions under the cdc's title 42 authorities, and return them. and we have done that. we need individuals to wait, and i will say that they will wait with a goal in mind, and that is our ability to rebuild as quickly as possible a system so they don't have take the dangerous journey and we can enable them to access

humanitarian relief from their countries of origin. the fact of the matter is that families and single adults are indeed being returned on to the covid-19 restrictions. let me then turn to the issue and challenge of unaccompanied children, because i know much has been reported about the handling of unaccompanied children. let me just explain the process, if i may. when an unaccompanied child reaches the border, and comes in between the ports of entry, u.s. customs and border protection personnel, specifically the united states border patrol, brings that child to a border patrol station for processing. the border patrol is only a pass-through. we are obligated to turn that child over to the department of health and human services within 72 hours.

we are a pass-true. and health an human services, hhs as commonly referred to, addresses the needs of that child as hhs is identifying and vetting sponsors, in chose trust whose trust the child can be placed while the child is in immigration proceedings. so we have the child for a maximum of 72 hours and, of course, given the pandemic and its restrictions, given the extreme weather conditions in texas, a critical part, that 72-hour time frame is certainly under stress as we all know and we can all understand. and children are in hhs custody for an average about 31 or 32 days. finally, let me turn to i think the most powerful and

heartbreaking example of the cruelty that preceded this administration and that is the intentional separation of children from their parents. i am the chairman. i have the privilege of serving at the president's designation as the chairman of the family reunification task force. the first lady has driven us to action through her personal commitment to this moral imperative and that is to reunite the families and restore them to the fullest capacity that we as the united states can do. i should say, we're not doing it alone. we're working closely with counsel for the separated family members. we're doing it along with the countries of el salvador, guatemala and hon dearous. i spoke to the foreign minister of each of those countries this

past friday. we're doing it with nongovernmental organizations, and we intend to and will shortly harness the capabilities, resources and desire of the private sector. this is not only an all of government but all of society effort to do what is right. we are hoping to reunite the families either here or in the country of origin. we hope to be in a position to give them the election, and if in fact they seek to reunite here in the united states, we will explore lawful pathways for them to remain in the united states and to address the family needs so we are acting as restoratively as possible. i am very proud and excited to announce that we have hired michelle grenadier as the executive director of the family reunification task force. she began late last week.

most recently she served as senior director of the migrant rights and justice program of the women's refugee commission. she's dedicated her entire career to human rights and she's an extraordinary talent that will bring justice and results to this effort, along with the resources of the department of homeland security, the department of justice, the department of health and human services, and every other member of the federal government that has resources to bring to bear. it is because of the men and women of the department of homeland security and across the federal enterprise that we will dig out of the cruelty of the past administration and we will rebuild our nation's asylum system and all of our humanitarian programs of which we have been historically so

prud as a leader in the world. with that, jen, i'm pleased to take questions. >> as you just heard, the director of homeland security announcing his changes to the add r what he described as humanitarian conditions of the last administration. first of all, julia ainsley, let's talk about what he said. he said the system was gutted, that they had to rebuild it from scratch. >> yeah, that's something i heard a lot and we heard during the transition. they just didn't have the people working these cases. they didn't have the legal capabilities, dhs had literally transformed into an entire immigration reinforcement agency under the trump administration and that's the defense they used for a while on why they didn't

start unifying families on day one. but like we reported and confirmed here, they're going to start bringing these parents back. that's a huge step forward. we're starting to get more specifics and with the announcements of michelle brenier from the women's referee commission as executive director of the task force, you can see like maria pointed out, what advocates have been calling for, for a long time are actually becoming the realities here for these separated families. >> in and maria teresa, it was exactly what you were talking about, the advocacy groups are working with this white house, with common goals, if perhaps not the same timetable. >> exactly right. these conversations were happening the moment that it was announced that biden won the election. so this was months ahead of time. but what's also interesting is he's talking about the importance of getting buy-in from the local countries, from guatemala. he talks about how a lot of the stuff that these children had to go to the border were completely

unnecessary but they were done purposefully by the trump administration. when he says that he is inheriting an agency that was completely gutted, not only do i believe it, but we see it in their inability from the trump administration to allow individual minors to go to their local embassy to seek for help, to seek for shelter. it's not going to be overnight but it is definitely a step in the right direction and we also see a lot of relief coming from the immigrant families themselves. >> and kim, i know from the state department when all of the money to the northern triangles was canceled, both the law enforcement and fbi said, not just the people working on social services, were working, trying to work, and, of course, that was a big factor of people beginning to come north. >> yes, that's absolutely true. we are seeing here what was accepted, the biden administration is using all of

their executive power, everything they can do within their power to change a lot of these trump administration policies in order to bring kids back with their families, reunite families, try to do it responsibly. you heard the messaging there, telling, warning against a mass rush towards the border to people who are seeking to come to the united states seeking asylum, giving them a chance to set it up. the congressional task, president biden's immigration plan, that will be a lot tougher. what we expect in the months and weeks ahead, this is executive approach to immigration reform. >> kimberly atkins and julia ainsley, maria teresa kumar, thank you very much and our thanks to geoff bennett on the job in the briefing room. coming up -- acknowledging his actions, governor cuomo facing allegations. what did he say about the

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u.s. government andrew cuomo once again finding himself having to defend his actions after a second aide came forward with accusations of sexual harassment. in a statement cuomo is apologizing for what he calls

insensitive comments but denies he propositioned nink. he is now reversing course and has agreed to refer the matter to the state attorney general's office to appoint an independent lead investigator. nbc's anne thompson has the latest. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo is under new scrutiny, after a second former staff member is alleging sexual harassment. the new accuser, 25-year-old charlotte bennett, former cuomo executive assistant and health policy adviser, saying the government verbally harassed her last spring with questions about her relationships and her sex life. he asked me if i believed age made a difference in relationships and asked if i had ever been with an older man. bennett telling "the new york times" and confirmed by nbc. bennett did not allege the governor ever touched her. after denying the allegations late sunday, the governor stating, i acknowledge some of the things i have said may have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation, to the

extent anyone felt that way, i'm truly sorry about that. it follows allegations by another former aide, lindsey boylan. in an essay on medium last week, boylan detailing pervasive harassment, describing two separate interactions with the governor. she says he asked her to play strip poker in 2017 and gave her an uninvited kiss in his office a year later. cuomo rejecting these allegations as quite simply false. >> the white house weighed in on sunday with jen psaki. let me show this to you. >> president biden has been consistent that he believes that every woman should be heard, should be treated with respect and dignity. charlotte should be treated with respect and dignity. so should lindsey. there should be an independent review looking into these allegations. >> joining me now is nbc's anne thompson, who's been covering

this. anne, i just want to share with anyone what you have just seen as well. a new statement from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, which is really stunning in its directness. she says the women who have come forward with serious and credible charges against governor cuomo deserve to be heard and to be treated with dignity. the independent investigation must have due process and respect for everyone involved. so far gillibrand and others in new york state and now speaker of the house, anne, have a lot to unpack here. first, the apology was really an acknowledgment that he could have said things that, as he said, misinterpreted as flirtation. >> andrea, this is all about perception. we're getting down, that's what the independent investigator will look at. did governor cuomo cross a line? did he do something illegal in what he said and did with those two former aides? charlotte bennett alleges it was just verbal harassment but

lindsey boylan said the governor gave her an unwanted kiss. and those are the two allegations the independent investigator will look at. that investigator is expected to be named in the next few days. just this morning the attorney general's office got the referral from the governor asking for that independent investigation. andrea? >> and at the same time there's political context because people are demanding his resignation and the politics of this are, you know, we've seen in the past, some would say -- some in the democratic party have said very publicly, they think they jumped too frankly with al franken the senator but not quickly enough with bill clinton back in the day. and they're trying to get this right, whether it's not in the second case a question of physical abuse or assault, anything like that, but it is workplace harassment if it is as alleged that she has credible information, as people pointed out, contemporaneous, she told

her mother, other people, went to the governor's office, told two women in the governor's office, asked for another assignment. she did everything by the book. >> she did, that's charlotte bennett. and talking to a prominent democrat in albany today, there's an acknowledgment governor cuomo is in trouble here. is it enough to make him resign? this one democrat thinks they're not quite there yet. it still hasn't reached, if you will, critical mass. the but there are conversations going on about how can andrew cuomo continue to govern when it's not just the sexual harassment allegations hang over his head. remember, the investigation into the whole question of did the cuomo administration undercount nursing home deaths and were any laws broken in that? you take those two incidents, plus the bullying allegations from state lawmakers ron kim

earlier this month about those nursing home allegations, he is facing a whole lot of trouble. >> anne thompson, thank you very much. thank you for being out there for us today. and meanwhile, the first shots of johnson & johnson's coronavirus vaccine could be in american arms starting tomorrow, as doses of the newly approved vaccine left kentucky just moments ago. the company said it will be shipping out a million doses. you can see the first part of those doses on that u.p.s. truck heading to the airport in kentucky. all good news for the administration, and 20 million would be out by the end of march. at a critical time with growing news over variants. savannah guthrie said today, the vaccine offers stronger protection to what matters both, the south african variant notably and serious illness and

hospitalization. >> 40% of our patients were from latin america and about 15% were in south africa, where over 90% of those patients were infected with the south african variant that we really didn't even fully understand or appreciate earlier in the year. so when you look at the numbers around the vaccine, the ones that are most important is it works 85% of the time kept all the patients out of the hospital and from dyeing even against these new and really variants. >> nbc's ellison barber is in shepherdsville, kentucky, outside the mckesson facility, help me there, allison, where they're packing and shipping out the j.j. vaccine. >> yes, andrea, we just watched not long ago the truck leaving the facility. you see 115, that is the m.c. area where the truck was and

spent all morning loaded boxes back into the truck and inside it behind it going through the process of packaging everything to get the vaccine ready to go. and this is a really big deal and you touched on it, a single-dose vaccine here is considered by many to be a game-changer. when we're talking about some 20 million doses being distributed by the end of march, 3.9 roughly this first week, if we were talking about moderna and pfizer, we would have to cut that number in half in terms of how many people are vaccinated. here when we say 4 million, that means 4 million americans can be vaccinated. this is considered to be a game-changer by many people and historic significance of this day was not lost on the people here from the workers inside who cheered and wrote messages of good health and warm wishes and the first boxes and u.p.s. driver who made that first drive from this facility to the u.p.s. airport down the road. listen here.

when you started this route, did you ever think you would one day be the person taking the thing that could really be a big step ending the global pandemic? >> absolutely not. thought i would be just another driver. i'm excited, definitely excited. called my mom, i'm going to be taking the vaccination. she's excited too. >> you have thought about that, what it will be like when you actually put it in drive and start going. >> >> when you think about it, making history. so history in the making. this is something that's going to be helping a lot of shipment and boxes we saw leave here today will head to ohio and indiana. johnson & johnson says they will keep ramping up their doses as ey ahead. andrea? p. >> allison, that was very cool. good for her, good for all of us. thank you very much for being there. joining me now is dr. kavita patel, former health care policy director in the obama administration and on the

frontlines administering doses and seeing how people react. dr. patel, there's been a long wait for this, long, of course, not in the terms of the way vaccines usually come online but this is what we've been waiting for, a single shot, doesn't require great refrigeration, can get into rural areas. you see that u.p.s. truck is already at the airport. >> i know, andrea, it's a great sight to see. i'm so happy allison is there to cover it. i think something that's also important, because of one shot, we know immunity starts, andrea, two weeks after that dose is administered, which is huge when we're up against this race with the variants, which are more transmissible, possibly more deadly. >> and the fact that 15% of the trials were done in south avg, so they've got a pretty good handle on its efficacy against that variant. >> yes, that's right. we believe all three currently authorized vaccines, pfizer, moderna and now johnson & johnson offer protection, even

if it's a little lower than the protection against the variants that were found in the united states, but these are moving targets. these trials were done for all three manufacturers across different continents, different points in time as you heard the ceo say. i do think it's important to note if all of the other manufacturers were trying to reproduce numbers now, we probably would see similar efficacy numbers. bottom line though, this efficacy threshold, 66%, 72%, still exceeds what the fda was looking for. these are still very powerful and effective vaccines. >> do you think with more coming online now, they can finally start their public relations campaign to try to reach resistant communities? >> yes, andrea, it's never too early to have clear messaging, no matter who the audience. i think we have a lot of people who are not necessarily, quote, hesitant but my patients who want it but they have a lot of

questions. do i don't think it's too early. i think we need to get out several key messages, whatever vaccine you're offered, the soon you are can get it, the better. i think americans you, i were frustrated we can't get them. those who trust means it will be a little easier, not a lot and then in april, a lot easier. now is the time, and i would say, i wish we had done this months ago, gotten people ready to understand what these vaccines are and what they are not. and giving people some hope if you are vaccinated, you are going to be able to get together with other people who are vaccinated soon and that's important to know, even before we get to herd immunity. >> indeed. now we've got to get those websites fixed. thank you very much, dr. patel. thank you. former president trump providing familiar falsehoods in his first ushl pushl speech since leaving the white house. what he said and how the republican party views him now. that's coming up. stay with us. this is msnbc.

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political action conference, meeting in orlando. trump took swipes at president biden, lied about the election and called out republicans who voted to impeach him for special criticism, invoking images of biblical idol worshippers, trump supporters also lined up for a selfie of a golden life-size statue of the former president. >> do you miss me yet? do you miss me? they kept saying, he's going to start a brand-new party. we have the republican party. it's going to unite and be stronger than ever before. i may even decide to beat them for a third time, okay. >> joining me now are former republican national committee communications director, doug high and phil rutger, "the washington post" senior correspondent and quo author of "a very stable genius" out in

paper bac, new and expanded. first of all, to doug, that was a very warm reception. we should point out the kre pac straw poll, 55% for trump and ron desantis, former florida governor, 21%, christy noam 4%, nikki haley 3%, ted cruz 2%. but 68%, and some say only 68%, want to see him run. where does this put the party? >> it puts the party squarely in trump's corner. there are people who you want to move on. some of those people are self-interested because they want to be the people who do the moving on and work for ted cruz and nikki haley or mike pompeo. but by and large, this is donald trump's party and it's why watching these remarks, it remind me of an old frank sinatra tune, "i've heard this song before." this is exactly what we heard from donald trump for more than four years now and it's exactly what we're going to hear for the next few years. he's not going to announce

anything that's he's going to run or not going to run because he wants everybody in a reality show way to tune in tomorrow. it just means the rest of the republican field remains on ice. >> certainly freedoms in place still. republican congressman adam kizinger, one of the dissidents the anti-trump factions minority, perhaps 10% of the party, said he's glad to be on trump's enemy list. this is on "morning joe" today. of. >> not a bad enemy list to be on. quite honestly, i think what you can see at that speech yesterday was recycling old talking points. you know, just stream of consciousness and i think it's obvious there is no vision from donald trump. there's no desire to paint a vision. all he really desires is to stand in front of a crowd and be adored. >> and, so, phil, he's not talking about policies per day per se other than to blast biden's policies dismandling

him. but he really needs the attention and he doesn't have social media. >> that's exactly right, andrea. trump had been essentially in exile the last couple weeks not on twitter or social media, weighing in occasionally to news events, such as the tiger woods accident, but other not chiming in about the news of the day the way he used to for so many years. so this was a release for him to come cpac and get that off his chest. but it really puts republican leaders in difficult positions because trump was continuing with the lie he won the election, when in fact he didn't. he's continuing to tell supporters there which means there's no space in the republican party for elected officials to be honest and factual and rational about the outcome of the 2020 election as long as the former president is insisting it was rigged and stolen from him. >> and there's a lot of reporting, phil, he was being advised for a number of days, had dinner the night before with

his former acting dni. they had to be careful of what he said because of the investigations into the i i citement issues. >> that's exactly right. and there's an investigation in atlanta as well regarding his personal finances. he had a lot of advisers wanted him trump is one to nurse those grievances. he want back to the lie that the election and back to his hit list of republicans to go after starting with liz chaney. >> briefly, doug, we saw people in the party, still mitch nk con -- mcconnell, nikki haley

twisting themselves into pretzels to get back on his good side. >> it was a hard decision and will remain a hard decision for him. the republican party, they have realized this is still donald trump's party. mitch mcconnell wants to put donald trump in the rear view mirror, it's going to be hard for him or anybody else to do so. >> thanks to both of you. now to vladmir putin in russia where anti-putin opposition leader has been sent to a prison labor camp to serve out the remainder of his two and a half year prison sentence for breaking probation terms when he left to went treatment for the near fatal poisoning. the u.s. and the eu could be sanctioning russia as early as later this week as country continues to target his allies and crack down on protests

against the russian leader ahead of parliamentary elections to come. bill, the kremlin is using navalny as a example to try to squash dissent. >> reporter: yes. if the reports are true of where he has been sent, that's the case. this is one of the harshest penl colonies of the700 or so such institutions in russia. it's east of moscow, three or four hours drive. former prisoners have been talk about their experience of serving in that colony. they say it is perfect if you want to isolate someone, to cut them off from the world. he will not be allowed any calls out. communication will be by letters. many of the prisoners have been telling human rights

organization in the years nay spent in that colony, they never got any of the letters that were addressed to them. they say prisoners are egged onto provoke other prisoners to get a rea actionreaction. a man jailed for ten years and spent that time in a siberian labor camp. he said he will have a tough time and he said vladmir putin can keep navalny in jail well after the two and a half years he's been sentenced for because that's what happened to him. he was charged again while he was in prison and served a longer sentence. he says putin can keep him in jail for a very, very long time. it's interesting he had some advice for joe biden. first of all, you need targeted sanctions against vladmir putin but he said here is how you

should treat vladmir putin, not as an ordinary leader. let's take a listen. >> his interests are the interest of the mafia group who he represents and who support him. his interests are not russia's interest. if people are not ready to use force, they cannot hope for the change of the regime and if they want to change the regime, they should be prepared to go the whole way. they should be prepared to use force. >> reporter: it does look like the u.s. within the last couple of hours we learned the u.s. will impose more sanctions as early as this week against russia. >> bill, thank you so much. it's terrible news for navalny and the movement. back here in the u.s., it was a sea of red shirts and

black pants sunday as pga and lgpa wore tiger's trademark colors in show of support for the injured super star. all taking to the tee in red polos. even the maintenance staff and some of the fans showing their support. tiger woods was moved to cedar sinai in l.a. for more surgery after the horrific roll over crash. doctors fought to need to prevent to amputate. woods tweeted his appreciation writing it's hard to explain how touching today was when i turned on the tv and saw the red shirts. to every golfer and fan you are truly helping me get through the tough time. it's great to here he's on the road to recovery out of surgery. that does it for us. remember, follow the show online, on facebook and on twitter at mitchell reports.

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