if it's monday, johnson & johnson races to get the nation's first single dose covid vaccine distributed to tens of millions of american as the cdc issues a dire new warning as democrats race to get two trillion in covid relief over the finish line. trump takes the stage in his first public remarks since leaving off. teases of 2024 run and threatens to punish disloyal republicans. after a second accuser goes public, andrew cuomo admits to behavior that may have been insensitive. it's now in the hands of the

state's attorney general. welcome to monday. it's "meet the press daily." i'm kacie hunt in for chuck todd. it's a very busy monday. we begin this hour with a round of applause. [ applause ] this morning cameras captures the first shipment of this country's first single dose vaccine coming off the assembly line after the fda granted johnson & johnson's request for emergency use. moments ago the first shipment left the vaccine processing facility as johnson & johnson ceo today reiterated their go to deliver four million doses this week. it can no, ma'am come soon enough because cases have

dropped, those declines this dire warning. >> these data are recent declines to be stalling over 75,000 cases. with these new cases i'm really worried. we stand completely to lose the hard earned ground we have gained. these variants are a threat to our people and our progress. now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know the stop the spread of covid-19 in our communities. not when we're so close. >> after a frustratingly slow start and set backs because of severe weather, meanwhile, on

capitol hill senate democrats have abandoned their plan b to raise the minimum wage after the senate parliamentarian said the measure had to be relieved from the bill. the house passed its version of the bill early saturday narrowly with no republican votes and two democrats defecting. republicans to stand united in their opposition against the relief package despite its incredible popularity in recent

polling. the gop facing an even bigger crisis of conscience following the president's remarks at cpac yesterday. we'll get to that later. we want to start with tangles of breaking news around the pandemic. our team is covering it all. thank you all for being here. i actually want to start garrett, with you on capitol hill to set the stage politically for what is unfolding here. you have this incredible urgency in terms of ramping up this vaccine development but also making sure that people who are standing to lose benefits here in just a couple of weeks don't

suddenly find themselves without any help from the government. democrats are trying to get this done. walk us through what you think the state of play is this week? what are the hurdles as they try to meet this deadline. >> i don't see any obvious land mines between now and the passage of this bill. it's matter of time and in dotting all the eyes and crossing the t's. you have 1.9 trillion dollar in spending. this is something that will have to be gone through the birdbath to make sure that all of it is in compliance with reconciliation rules in the senate and have 20 hours, probably three days worth of debate in the senate side. a ton of amendments to get this thing through and send it back over to the house. it's a lot of the sausage making that has to happen here now that

democrats have decided to strip out what had been their back up plan after losing the minimum wage provision. the bill lacks this big key priority for progressives but the passage prospects look a lot smoother today. >> garrett, let's talk about that because there's this letter that ro speed with other progressives raising concerns about the fact that the minimum wage isn't going to be in here. if they make the changes, it's got to go back to the house. do you sew a world where this becomes a problem with nancy pe -- pelosi's narrow majority. democrats don't have the votes in the senate to get it done. >> reporter: the house progressives can say ha they want but unless every democratic senator is on board and the white house, because you need kamala harris to break tie, the democrats wouldn't have the votes to do any form of a minimum wage provision in this

bill. are house progressives really going to stop that on the edge of a cliff because it doesn't have the minimum wage provision in it. i doubt it but that said, they want to keep the spotlight on this issue now. they really want to try to push this issue ahead because it is such priority for them and there's no other must do bill with the same heft as this package that's moving right now. >> garrett, thank you as always. let's go to kentucky now. it's great to see you. a real pending sense here on the 366th day of march 2020, what

have you seen over the could you rephrase -- course of the last day. >> reporter: it's enormous. look at this parking lot. i know it doesn't seem like much. this is a big moment. it's fitting this is coming at a time when many people first went into a lock doin and this is an enormous leap forward in getting us out of this pandemic. when talking about doses, the fact the johnson & johnson dose is a single dose means that more people can get vaccinated a lot faster and the refrigeration, that potentially means that more people can, more hospitals can

have access to this. we reported after the pfizer vaccine first came out and started being distributed at a rural hospital in northwest michigan. one of the things we saw was how challenge it is for other smaller rural communities, particularly to handle something that needs to be kept at sub zero temperatures like the pfizer vaccine or super, super cold like the moderna vaccine. in a lot of smaller communities they do not have access to the necessary freezers that you need for the vaccines and some community, some hospitals, some pharmaies can't afford that. that goes away with this vaccine. it can be kept at a normal refrigeration temperature. most hospitals, most pharmacies have that. some people might be looking at this vaccine and saying, hold on for a second. we're not really sure. we're look at the efficacy and overall the efficacy for this vaccine isn't as high as the 90

plus percent efficacy rates we saw with moderna and pfizer. they say context matters around that. >> the ones that are most important is it works 85% of the time against severe disease and it kept all the patients out of the hospital and from dying even against these new and really challenging variants. >> reporter: one of the health professionals have said could be impacting numbers here and they need more research and data too definitively make that link. it is possible that because the johnson & johnson trials were happening at the height of seeing really contagious strains, widespread, south africa, uk, that could have pacted the numbers.

those weren't around with pfizer and moderna. >> all right. thank you very much for that reporting. as one who works in health care field, what is this vaccine, the availability of the johnson & johnson vaccine gets us to the situation where we feel a little more normal. >> it's a great tool to get us there. it's a single dose vaccine. you're one and done. it's something you can position to the population. we wish there were more doses available immediately.

we will get there and the other vaccines out there. i think this is another reason to be optimistic about the trajectory of this pandemic. >> doctor, there's been some confusion among people about the efficacy numbers for this vaccine. we saw dr. fauci talking with chuck over the weekend reassuring americans that this is something that will protect them. it's very important that people take the shot that's available to them. how much concern do you have about people being worried about which one of these brands they're getting and how do you address the communications challenge of breaking through that? >> i'm worried people will get hung up on numbers without looking at full context.

when you look at the efficacy numbers and say 66 is less than 90%, you have to remember that these trials were done at different time periods, different countries and not head to head. you can't really take a number like this and compare them kind of apples to apples. i think if you offer the johnson & johnson vaccine, take it. >> can i ask about pregnant women? governor murphy was on this morning and he referenced they are struggling to get women of childbearing age to take this vaccine. what would your advice be to someone considering wa to do under the circumstances and it

doesn't matter if you're a pregnant woman, which vaccine you get. >> we're trying to get more data on the vaccines and how they work in pregnant women. i've told pregnant women, do not hesitate, get the vaccine. you're at higher risk for severe disease, higher risk for preterm labor so get this vaccine. with johnson & johnson, it's a different technology but the same risk benefit ratio. we want pregnant women to get vaccinated. we'll have a more data driven approach. we will know which vaccine may work best and which is most likely to lead to antibodies. for pregnant women, the risk benefit ratio falls on getting this vaccine, any of the ones you can get. >> very, very important message.

very quickly, this is a bit of a personal question but asking it for every one who is wondering when we'll get back to normal. when will i be able to take my 2-year-old son who can't wear mask to his first baseball game? when will i feel safe enough to do that in crowd? >> the mass gatherings will be difficult. it's likely to be when we get more of our vulnerable populations vaccinated. there's no chance that a hospital could be put in a situation where the capacity might be threatened. that's the tricky part. that will lakely be something possible. they may ask for vaccine certificates. they may have testing done the way they have done at football games. there may be some alterations but as we get into summer, you should feel comfortable about that. >> i don't know. i don't know about you or every

one out there watching but i feel like baseball is one of those things that might make us feel better after such a rough year. thank you so much for joining us on this march 1st of 2021. still ahead, the latest on the fight among democrats over the minimum wage hike. it's not going be in covid relief plan. what happens now? it's getting worse for governor cuomo who is now apologizing after two former aides have accused him of sexual harassment. we'll get the latest on where the investigation stands. we are going to head to the white house where they just announced a new effort to reunite families separated at the border during the trump administration. stay with us. er during the trum administration stayit wh us

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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 it takes to rebuild it virtually from scratch. >> welcome back. the biden administration today said it's devoting the full resourcings of the white house and the department of homeland security to reunite families separated by the trump ard line immigration policyings. jen psaki and dhs secretary announced the task force that's in charge of that effort as well as how they will support the families affected. one thing that to do out to me from this afternoon's briefing was this idea that they may be willing to let some of the

parents of the separated children return here to the united states to try and make things right. what stood out to you and where do we go from here? >> later this afternoon president biden will have another one of those virtual bilateral meetings with the mexican president. he was there to announce the task force that was a key promise that president biden made during the campaign. he called the separation and inabout to find the parents of the children criminal. you can't separate the briefing room appearance from the very difficult job the administration is doing in balancing the very tough criticism they are getting from the right including from former president trump, a major part of his speech at cpac yesterday was attacking the biden administration for their immigration policies. reopening the border and the

criticism from immigration advocates that putting people back into a detention center, the homestead facility in florida. the administration cited protocols the reason they had to do that. among many reasons they are facing criticism from the left. the sound bite he used cruelty. he used cruel or cruelty several other times during his remarks sort of reminding the country of the situation they are inheriting. he blamed the situation at the administration prior to this one. also asking immigration advocates and his own party to give us more time. saying we have to rebuild this immigration system from scratch. it was also interesting as we hear republicans on capitol hill talk about ha is a real crisis at the border now. he was asked directly if he believes that we have slight up tick at the border represents a crisis. he said it's not that the

department homeland security is working to address this in realtime. they are doing everything to prepare for the ain additional surge that's been forecast to come by may. also those from central america and mexico which is do not come no this country. we tried to find a new way to balance the need to secure the border and have a more humane immigration policy. >> mike, how are they thinking about the politics of it in terms of what they may or may not be able to get done on capitol? many advocates for so frustrated with the obama administration and how far down the priority list they put some of these questions compared to other big issues like health care, et cetera. this seems designed to send

message we're not putting you last in line. >> putting forward an immigration bill he announced the principals for and saw the legislation introduced on capitol hill in last week was a clear signal and president biden intended to follow through which was to make this a year one, month one, week one, priority. also certainly they dodged the questions on whether they would use the reconciliation process. you know that the big hurdle on capitol hill. >> it is indeed as for so many other hot button and important issues. thank you very much for being here with us today. really appreciate it. we do want to bring you some breaking news just in from capitol hill. the snats judiciary committee has voted 15-7 to send judge merrick garland's nomination to the full senate. he's expected to be confirmed with bipartisan support. don't go anywhere.

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after she accused cuomo of harassing her for years. cuomo denies touching anybody inappropriately but he did apologize for comments misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. he says i now understand my interactions may have been too personal and some of my comments given my position made others feel in ways i never intended. to the extent anyone felt that way, i'm truly sorry about that. he agreed to give leticia james complete authority over an independent investigation. that came after james rejected his national parameters for that investigation. i'm joined by tom winter who covers investigations for nbc news. it's always great to see you. walk us through the difference here. what was cuomo first suggesting.

he had to be pushed my many new york democrats over weekend and said this investigation needed to be independent. >> over the weekend there was a lot of push back from democratic state lawmakers here in new york about the governor's proposal. it was i'm going to select somebody and appoint somebody to look into this and obviously everybody who has been investigated as wanted to pick the person investigating them. they didn't go over well. the second choice was to have the chief judge and the state of new york work with the attorney general to identify something to then conduct this inquiry. that didn't go over well. as you pointed out not something that went over well with the attorney general. there's a process here in new york that is written into law for these investigations to be conducted, for them to be kicked off and have subpoena power. that's new york executive law 63

paragraph 8 that details the whole process. there was something in place. we got the point we're under new york state law. if somebody discloses who are the witnesses in this, they could be found guilty of a misdemeanor. one curious section of this law, it says the person will make a weekly report in detail to the attorney general and said upon its receipt by the attorney general transmitted by him to the governor. i've asked her office whether a copy of that report will be passed along to andrew cuomo. i would imagine the people who made the allegations in this case would have an issue with that information being passed to the person who is the subject of the inquiry.

we'll see where that goes from here. bottom line is somebody will look into these allegations as you out laid and a lot of people have expressed deep concern over. >> i'm sure we are going to be talking about this in coming weeks and months. tom winter, thank you very much for your reporting. i really appreciate it. >> he clearly had to be pushed into having this didn't investigation started as opposed to having some influence over who was going to do it and how it might play out. when will democrats demand that

he resign or say that he doesn't plan on running for re-election. do you pi we're at that point already? >> i don't think we're there yet but i do think it's good on attorney general james for really pushing for the independence of an investigation at arms length from governor cuomo. these are really serious alleges. i want the attorney general to get to the bottom of it. what is called for at the end of the investigation is for andrew cuomo to resign or not to run for office again then that will be a decision. i think this is just very problematic. it's a reminder of how difficult it is for women to come forward and speak their truth and to be

taken seriously. we're at this stage right now where it appears there's going to be an independent investigation achd we're going to get to the bottom of something. >> how important is it for democrats to be consistent in how they address these kinds of allegations? there was a lot of focus on what happened with brett kavanaugh and the push to make sure people who belief women aren't putting a partisan test on that. >> i think it's important for women to be heard when the allegations are made. as we're seeing here to go through a process where they are herd, taken seriously, they are investigated and then whatever the outcome is, that's the outcome. i feel like i've bp really consistent in all of these matters because i think it comes from a perspective that it's

really tough for women to come forward and make stheez these k allegations. the opportunity for them to be taken seriously is really important. whether you're democrat or republican, you have to draw the line. this is not appropriate behavior for any workplace even in a governor's office. >> republicans would you tell us their own political and moral challenges especially after we heard from the former president at cpac where he continued to push this lie that he won the election even after the insurrection that we saw on january 6th where we lost officer brian sicknick. others lost their lives later. just an incredibly horrible moment for our democracy. what did you take away from the

former president's speech and in some ways, i'm also interested in whether you think there is a faded quality here. we also saw in the cpac straw poll that as many as 30% of the -- what we would assume to be very pro-trump republican who is were there, seem to think it might be okay or they would prefer he not run again. >> yeah, i think that was a really interesting development from the weekend is that it's clear trump is still the most well known republican out there. he's got universal name identification. obviously, he's going to win straw poll like this but the margin with he won, nearly half the attendees wanted a different candidate in 2024, the fact that ron desantis garnered almost 20% of those in that straw poll who participated suggest that trump support may not be as deep as people expect.

he is beloved by those who went to the conference. he has a lot of equity but doesn't mean people want him to run for president. i think his speech speaks to part to the reason why. it's rehashing of what he believes happened in 2020 even if that's been discredited. it's a view he continues to take. i think he believes for consistency take and the character he's putting out there, who he is that he needs to to keep repeating the lie. i'm not sure republicans are convinced hooets the right answer going forward. i think the next couple of month will be telling in term of whether his support continues where it is or if it slips.

>> she was the only one in her cpac speech that was forward looking talking about whether republican party needs to go, articulating a vision, et cetera. i think she'll have a lot of support in that conversation. ron desantis, i think he is someone who will pick up part of that trump mantle. interestingly enough people who weren't at cpac. nikki haley. she wasn't there. mike pence. haley and pence who could pick up that trump mantle going forward weren't there. i think that speaks also to the way they are playing the next couple of months and years. this is a contest that's just getting started but filled with intrigue already. >> with four years of loyalty behind him, mike pence just 1% in that straw poll. thank you both very much for being here today. really appreciate it. as democrats work to get covid relief done before those unemployment benefits reason out, a fight over increasing the

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we're going to raise wages. i'm not going to negotiate on "meet the press." we're going the find way. it's just too important not to. >> there is a long history of negotiating these things on "meet the press." welcome back. that was ohio senator sherrod brown committing to raising the minimum wage somehow. it's great to see you.

thank you for being here. i want to start off with this question about minimum wage. >> our ability is one where we'll have to deal with the fact that the parliamentarian made that decision. our effort will not stop by that decision by the parliamentarian. a minimum wage is something which is essential to millions of americans and we have to make sure we do the job. harry truman used say the republican believer in the minimum wage. the lower the minimum, the better. the democrats know that $15 an hour will be essential to ensuring that families get what they need in order to provide for those family. we'll do whatever it is we can do in order to increase the

minimum wage and we'll take each opportunity to make sure that we do our asbestos luts best in order to establish it, including by the way, voting to remove the filibuster because the filibuster is not just -- >> that's exactly what i wanted follow up with you about. if one of the two people have concerned about the minimum wage, manchin said he doesn't want to vote to get rid of the filibuster. you need every single democrat in a 50/50 senate to do it. how do you get that done? >> well, i think it's going to unfold as a story. not just of the minimum wage but gun safety rights, voting laws. issue after issue where the republicans are opposing any progress being made on any of

those issues even though the democrats control the house, senate and the presidency. in my opinion, we will reach a point where we will have the votes to repeal the filibuster. it may not happen next week but as time goes on, we saw at cpac yesterday with republicans pounding the palms of their hands so hard that they were bruising themselves, that the republicans are not going to be cooperating on many of these huge issues that joe biden ran on and the only way to do something will be to repeal the filibuster. >> how hard do you think senator schumer's job is now? he's got to keep joe manchin happy on the one hand on these

kinds of issues. got to keep people like you happy as well in the senate. bernie sanders. you have made climate change a signature part of what you're focused on. that doesn't necessarily play well in west virginia. how is he handling that balancing act. >> honestly, he is doing a great job in keeping our caucus together. we're in constant communication. we take each issue. that way chuck is actually working on a daily basis to keep our party donald trump is a uniter. he opposes has done.

it will keep our caucus united because we're going to casting. sgla speaking of big initiatives and what you have focussed on climate change. do you expect the administration to put forward a stand alone climate bill in the course of these first two years of their administration or are you going to have to settle for policies embedded in other big projects? >> we can do a lot of it in a big infrastructure bill. we can do a lot of the green new deal. we can do a lot of the fundamental changes that are necessary in order to save in creation by massive million job union job creation. i think a lot can be done in next reconciliation package. big green infrastructure bill. joe biden has proposed a $2

trillion green infrastructure package. again, if republicans block part of it or the parliamentarian blocks part of it, it's going to further advance the need for us to repeal the filibuster to get there done. the planet is running a fever. there are no emergency rooms for planets. we have to engage in urgent action now. from my perspective, we can get a lot done using next reconciliation package but if not then filibuster must go. it's an obstacle to the fundamental capacity of the senate to respond to this global crisis and health care crisis we're facing in our country. >> very quickly before lit you go. i do have to ask about the democratic governor of new york, andrew cuomo facing two allegations of harassment and an independent investigation.

do you think it's time for cuomo to announce or say he will not run for re-election of governor of new york? >> these are obviously serious, credible charges that's been made. i believe there has to be an independent investigation in order to ensure that all facts are out on the table so that the voters of new york -- >> that's going to happen. do you think it's concerning enough that he should say he's not going to run again? >> again, i think there should be an independent investigation. it should be conducted quickly and all of the findings should be made public. >> all right. thank you very much. really appreciate your insights as always. coming up next, the biden administration gets ready to crack down on russia over the treatment of opposition leader alexi navalny.

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declined to take action back in august. we sat down today with the nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> what is your impression so far of relations with the biden administration, president biden, and what is on going. >> he moves forward as expected in moscow in terms of positioning in the u.s. russia continues to be looked at as a subject for u.s. policy. this policy is keeply rooted in bipartisan conclusion that russian is a kind of guide in the classroom and russia should be ordered to follow what the u.s. believes it s right or wrong. this would never happen.

>> and richard joins me now from london. what else did you learn in your conversation and what are you taking away from the biden administration policies in terms of how they're policies will be different toward russia. >> russia seems to be accepting to a degree that it will be classified as the bad guy in the room. and he is not showing any interest on the issue. he was recently transferred to a penal colony. he was poisoned and was in a medly induced coma in germany. it is a previous court order in russia. that's what he was supposed to

do. he has long been an anticorruption campaigner. previous charges against him. in a medically induced coma after being poisoned and that's why he has been imprisoned and sent to this penal colony. and said that this is strictive an issue that russia does not want to be lectured about. they know that sanctions are coming and they said let the chips fall where they may, particularly when it comes to naval. >> all right, richard engle. i'm sure we'll be hearing more from you as our policies unfold here in the early days of the

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