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for derek chauvin, the police officer accused of murdering george floyd. welcome to monday. tens of millions of fully vaccinated americans have been grappling with urgent questions about what they and their families can and can't do safely amid this ongoing pandemic. now we're starting to get some answers. this morning for the first time, the cdc released guidance loosening public health restrictions for vaccinated americans in private set settles. there's a lot to break down here. let's start with some of what the cdc director said a little time ago at this morning's briefing by the white house covid response team. watch.

>> fully vaccinated people can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors wut wearing mask or physical distancing. visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk of severe covid 1 disease indoors without wear masks or physical distancing. refrain from quarantine and testing following a known exposure if is vccinated person remains asymptommatic. bottom line is the risks are still very high. >> i want to stress we continue to have high levels of virus around the country. while we work to quickly

vaccinate people more and more each day, we have to see this through. let's stick together. please keep wearing masks and take action we know stop the spread of this virus. >> possibly just as important as what was in the guidance is what's not in it. if you read between the lines, there's a lot of uncertainty weighing on public health officials right now. tom costello has new details on the guidelines. we have geoff bennett at the white house and emergency physician and associate professor of emergency medicine. i think people really want to know what they are able to do safely but also are a little frustrated by the idea that perhaps being vaccinated isn't the solution that they've been looking for. that we all been waiting a year for. help us broke down and

understand what's in the guidelines and why. >> we have about 30 million people fully vaccinated. that's about 9% of the population. 12% of the adult population. how do you know if you're fully vaccinated. if you had the pfizer vaccine or moderna, two weeks after the second dose, you are fully vaccinated. if you've had the johnson & johnson vaccine, that's a single dose vaccine so you're fully vaccinated two weeks after that. you can visit with other fully vaccinated people indoors without masks or social distancing. physical distancing. you can visit with unvaccinated people from a single household who are at low risk without masks or physical distancing.

who is at low risk, somebody who doesn't have comorbid di. you do not have to quarantine after a known expose your. let's talk about what you can do and what you should do. they are encouraging everybody to continue wearing a mask and continue physically distancing in public. to take precautions when visiting these unvaccinated people especially those on higher risk. here is why. they're not yet sure that you who have been fully vaccinated that you won't spread the virus. they don't think that you, as a fully vaccinated person would spread the virus, but the isn't complete yet. there's this factoid. they don't want people goes into grocery stores and drop the mask and you create the social tension of everybody second guessing each other. why aren't you wearing mask and you have high tension and it's better for everybody if we coops to wear the mask in the social settings.

finally, people who are fully vaccinated should get tested if they experience any covid-19 symptoms. follow the guidelines and the travel recommendations and restrictions. they are not changing the travel restrictions right now, recommendations for people who have been fully vaccinated. >> tom, can i ask about the medium and large size gatherings. at what point do we think the cdc may adjust that. is there a point people would prove they have been vaccinated or it's safe to do so. what's the concern there? >> when you get your first dose, you get a card. a cdc card that says where you got that dose and then if you have the follow up dose, where your supposed to get that. it's a cdc card that you hold in your wallet. you can prove in the future, i've been vaccinated. the question is whether that might translate into some sort of a passport, a vaccine

passport. we don't know the answer to that yet. how big is a medium size group? i think that's open to discussion. with the president and the white house saying we're on track to vaccinate every adult who wants to be vaccinated by the end of may, you can socialize in the medium to big size groups. maybe you can get on that plane and go so relatives overseas and do so domestically much more confidently. >> baseball games. it's really the only thing i want to know when we can go to baseball games. there seems to have been delays. there's some decisions that were made about what's in, what's not

in. what do you know about where the administration stands on this and they may update the guidelines further. >> there had been increasing public pressure from governors. governors telling the white house they wanted the guidelines for what fully vaccinated people can do and can't do. the delay has to do with the threat posed by these variants. you heard dr. wollensky saying there are now variants in every state, she said. as tom pointed out the cdc just doesn't know quite enough about whether or not fully vaccinated people can still contract some of these variants or one of them or transmit them. the guide dance that we saw today was drafted to be as beneficial to the greatest number of people based on the science as it's presently known. i can tell you this because i covered in the previous administration a lot of the cdc guidelined. i talked to cdc insider who were

there, career people under the trump administration who talked about the political purchase exerted by trump officials as the guidelines were coming out. i'm thinking about guidelines around churches. because they knew how important evangelicals were to donald trump's base, they put pressure on cdc officials to write the guidelines in a certain way. fast forward to present day, talking to those same cdc insiders, there's been no political pressure from the biden administration on the cdc as they draft the guidelines. ha we saw today even though dr. fauci was telegraphing a couple of weeks ago, what we saw today those guidelines were drafted entirely by cdc officials and public health officials with no interference or input from white house officials. >> as we would have expected in -- under any other different circumstances than the ones we

found ourselves in for the last four years. dr. randy, read us into how you see these guidelines. people are looking for hope. they are looking for some version is possible. >> i think this is correct for this moment in time. i think it gives people the answers to one of the biggest questions i keep getting asked is when you have a senior vaccinated and completed the second dose, is it okay to hug my grand kids? this says it is okay to hug your grand kids if their parents haven't been vaccinated yet, you probably don't want to get together with them for a long

period of time indoors. the other thing this says that's really important is that this is not the moment to lyft all of the restrictions, particularly around masking that we have been following for the past year. well worn masks protect us just as much as vaccinations do. right now while those are spreading quickly across the united states, we do need to mask out in public. our current level of covid-19 is similar to what we had during the surges last summer. i think this guidance walks that line very well and i'm hopeful that in the week and months to come as more people get vaccinated we're going to start seeing lifting of mask restrictions in public. we're going to start seeing opening of indoor gatherings because most of us will be vaccinated rather than small group. >> to that point, they're clearly right now we're still in the phase where getting the supply out the door is the main problem in front of us. we still have more people who want to take this vaccine than we have vaccine available.

that's changing pretty rapid lay and people are refusing to get vaccinated. how does the cdc account for that hen they are thinking about is it safe to have concerts in indoor arena if 25% of the population doesn't want to take the vaccine? can we ever do that? how does the cdc make decisions about that. do that with the vaccinated group in mind or the unvaccinated group once it's an option for every one? >> it's a bit of both. how many people are infected in your community. that take into account the type of activity. is it indoors or out doors? is it singing or just sitting still and take into account mask and we're starting to add in vaccination.

we saw everything from the blue level to the red level to tell schools how they can reopen. i'd like to see similar guidance for governors and other health officials to guide them as to when and how to safely reopen. it will serve as the carrot for people who may be holding out on getting vaccinated saying if i gets vaccinated that moves me toward saying baseball games that i deeply want to go back to. what o. >> what is your take on exact lip how, at this point rkts we move from where we are to where we're potentially going to be this summer in terms of the

science around whether or not people who have been vaccinat transmit the virus. when do you think we're learn more definitively about whether vaccinated people do spread it? >> every week that passes we learn a little bit more. it was a couple of weeks ago we had a number of preprints that came out that led the cdc to say you don't have to quarantine if you've been fully vaccinated and exposed the covid. anyone who has been fully vaccinated and gotten covid, that's reportable to the cdc. they are collecting the data from our states and guam and puerto rico as well. every week we're getting more and more data to reassure us that it's occurring only rarely.

we need to have a smoky the bear that's appropriate for each community. we need credible communities. a person that appeals to me in the northeast will be different from folks in detroit or mississippi or alaska. we need a few smoky the bears. >> we don't have an elvis like what happened request the polio vaccine. thank you very much for starting us off today. really appreciate it. still ahead, keeping the capitol secure. lawmakers are getting their first briefing from the capitol security review task force following the january 6th riots. harry and meghan accusing buckingham palace over flagrant racism including the color of their children's skin. color of their children's skin.

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wblg back. a busy week under way on capitol hill. a bipartisan group of lawmakers is getting their first briefing from the capital security review task force led by retired lieutenant general about security recommendations following the january 6th attack on capitol hill. nbc news has learned those recommendations include higher more capitol police officers, increasing capitol police intelligence operations, establishing a quick reaction force and developing mobile fencing that can replace the current fence. at the same time the stage may be set on the hill for tomorrow's house vote on the 1.9 trillion dollar covid relief package that made it through the senate on party lines. the bill contains another round of stimulus checks for most americans, expanded unemployment, benefits through early september. a sweepings expansion of the child tax credit and $14 billion

to help with vaccine distribution. walk us through where things stand. i know there's a bit of flux in terms of timing for when they're going to move forward with this passing this bill in the house. do we expect any significant hurdles for it. >> in addition to the timing we are watching who is going to vote for this bill. we know when some of the changes were happening in the senate, on a newer income cap, some of the progressives took to twitter to say they weren't okay with those changes. they were made to appeal to some of the more moderate democrats like john manchin of west virginia. what was really telling is congressional progressive caucus put out a statement over the weekend that called this piece

of legislation bold and really forward looking and called the concessions, they say, very minor. that was a sign to me that it looks like speaker pelosi is going to have the progressive wing of the party, the one most likely to defect on it bauds of these changes that they are most likely going to be on board. we know it's a slim majority democrats have in congress and they can't afford to lose more than a handful of democrats but it looks like people are pretty optimistic. this is going to pass and get to the president's desk at some point this week. >> it would take a lot to stand in the way of the democratic president's first major proposal like this one after the work they have done to get it this far. let's talk about the capitol security recommendations. anything in here that particular stood out to you? anything they are not recommending that stood out to you in terms of how to move forward after the riot?

>> reporter: first they are talking about this capitol police board. this board that's inside washington here. a board made of different entities of capitol security that could be propmatic and a big block in making decisions. it's very political. they did not recommend to get rid of that board. it says the board needs to give capitol police a lot more leniency in making decisions especially during an emergency. there's a couple of things i noticed including the fact that there's not enough staff on capitol police. there's 233 openings. they are saying to fill those positions because capitol police in the past year have worked 720,000 hours of overtime. i know some of them like some of that overtime.

that is a lot of hours to fill the security need. >> for sure. thank you very much. >> joining me now is minnesota democratic senator tina smith. she came out in fair ov aboishling the filibuster. thank you for being with us today. i want to set the stage here for our viewers as to why this is so important. this is an arcane senate procedure that's really led to quite a bit of -- -

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the idea is minority in the senate could block all legislation from moving forward is just undemocratic to me and especially when you think about this, there are 50 republican senators and they represent only about 44% of the american public. since the late 1990s, republicans have never won the majority of the votes and yet they have controlled the senate about half the time. we cannot afford this obstruction from the republican party. there's too many important things we got to get done. >> to that point, to play devil's advocate here, it does protect the minority party and it is true this pendulum swings back and forth. are you concerned doing this would mean that a minority, if

you're going to craft the republicans as a minority in the country, may regain control of the senate and be able to do anything they wanted? >> i thought a lot about that as i was coming to my decision around the filibuster. i thought about what would happen when republicans and the majority could have gotten rid of the aca or the damage to women's reproductive rights. at the end of the day you have to be able to have a senate that's responsive to what it is the people want. what is it the people need. there's this false narrative around the filibuster that if you get rid of the filibuster that the minority doesn't have any rights. there's not going to be a need to have bipartisan work done. that's just not true. right now with the filibuster does is it protects the right of a handful of people to stop all progress on the floor of the senate and completely obstruct. i don't think that will get us to where we need to get

especially when our country is facing so many struggles. >> your colleague senator joe manchin had some interesting comments to chuck todd about making changes to the way the filibuster works. is the idea of reforming the filibuster a distraction from the ultimate goal that you've set of getting rid of it. >> conversations that had a reform the filibuster, i've been a part of those conversations in the senate for the last few months. they have been led by my colleague. i think it's a very important conversation to have. the end of the day we need a majority of democrats to support whatever rule changes, a majority of the senate to support whatever rule changes we make. senator manchin is talking about, i think makes sense. right now you can be a senator, you can say i refuse to allow the senate to proceed to a final vote.

you can brace that challenge and go home to dinner. you don't have to talk about it. the idea we have debate happening in the senate as a filibuster is just not the way it goes. those days of mr. smith goes to washington where senators have the floor haven't been in place for many years. i think it would help to make the filibuster kind of the pain of it felt by those deploying it. >> much to the chagrin of jimmy stewart and company. what do you think the next priority, how should the biden administration approach who is their next priority which is infrastructure. we have been reporting they are considering do we try to do that as a legitimate bipartisan bill and move it forward or do we have to use the budget process again, put everything into something that can pass with 50 votes. which option do you think can be successful? >> my view is we need to keep all options on the table. i don't think we should take anything away. the idea, the need to pass a

significant infrastructure package that includes real progress on addressing climate, i'm the lead senator working on a clean electricity standard that would get the electric power sector to net zero carbon emissions. that's something that's powerful and popular amongst labor unions and environmentalists and approved by utilities. i think it was once a bipartisan idea. >> do you think it's realistic to think republicans will join with democrats to vote in favor of a major piece of legislation or not? >> i try to be optimistic but i'm realist. this republican party seems devoted to obstruction. the fact this covid relief

package, the american rescue act passed with no republican support even though it's broadly popular out in america, certainly in minnesota it's broadly popular is a sign of how committed they are to this obstruct ifr policy. where that will go as we move on a discussion of infrastructure remains to be seen. that's why we have to keep all option ons the table. clean electricity standard is broadly popular in the country. it ought to be able to get republican support. >> all right. senator tina smith, thanks. we really appreciate it. we want to turn now to minneapolis where demonstrators are gathered as the trial of derek chauvin, charged in the killing of george floyd got under way. trial already facing a delay. the judge put the jury selection on hold until a minnesota appeals court resolves whether a third-degree murder charge will be added to the proceedings. motions not related to that charge will be allowed to

continue. this third-degree murder charge would be in addition to second-degree murder and manslaughter charges he face for his role in george floyd's death. kneeling on his neck for nine minutes as floyd cried out he couldn't breathe. he's be protesters near the courthouse. with us the criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst danny savallos. shaq, let me start with you. what have we seen from the court today and how is this being received by those where you are in minneapolis who are focused on these proceedings, focused on justice here? >> reporter: we saw pretty sizable demonstration on the first day of this trial. it started at the courthouse. it remaped peaceful. it was a coalition of group. you had students, religious leaders all trying to put support behind george floyd and

when you talk to people in the crowd, the people coming out to demonstrate, you get a big sense of nervousness about what is going to happen with the proceedings. they say it was the protest they believe led to the charges for derek chauvin and the three other minneapolis police officers, now ex-police officers and they believe it's their demonstration that will keep the pressure as the trial continues. there's pause right now on the trial. we expected today to be the start of jury selection. all the potential jurors have been sent home already for the day. the judge is saying that process should resume tomorrow but there's some uncertainty about whether that will resume at the time there. it goads as you plain that potential third-degree murder charge that the state is trying to add to the charges against mr. chauvin. they are appealing a decision to the supreme court and now the prosecution is saying let that process play out before the trial resumes. the judge says he wants to go

forward with this process until another court tells him to stop. it's pause now. court is in recess. in about an hour or so when the court comes back into session the judge will start to hear more motions and we may get clarity on the future of this trial. outside the courthouse you get the sense people want to keep the pressure on what's going on and the proceedings inside the courthouse. >> danny, to that point, can you help us explain what's going on here from the legal perspective in term of the charge that they are proposing to add in here because there had been some back and forth about it whether it was the right one making sure that he wasn't appropriate level of potential crime but now seems thing to have shifted. the you help us understand why? >> it's third-degree murder charge. as the minnesota statutue requires someone can be convicted of murder if a death

occurred while someone is doing something dangerous to other persons. that's the magic words, other persons, plural. the court of appeals, the issue was there whether or not the statute requires the person do something dangerous to one person or you must have pult million people that are in danger. there was no one else at issue of being injured. if they proceed without that third-degree murder charge or with it when the law is unsettled in minnesota, that could create a lot of appeals issues if convicted. >> shaq, let me go back to you to talk about jury selection here. i want to get danny to weigh in on this as well. shaq, this is obviously incredibly charged and jury

selection is a very sensitive piece of the process. making sure the jury reflects the make up of the population, the make up of people who have a stake here. when you're talking to protesters, how is that showing up in your reporting. >> there's a lot of distrust among protesters. they were only going to interview about eight potential jurors each day. four in the morning. four in the afternoon.

they have an idea of whether or not they protest or how they feel about law enforcement or the black lives matter movement. that process was going to go on. it was set and scheduled to happen for about three weeks at a time until jury of 12 and 4 alternates are seated. we were going to be in this process for a bit of time. opening statements won't start until later this month on march 29th. >> who gets more say in the jury selection process and how do you think it will affect this trial? >> the final say is the judge. each side has their role kind of inverted. normally the folks the defense would want on their side are flipped because the defendant is a member or was a member of law enforcement.

it's not a reliable science. the best practice is to go with the people you have a connection with there in the courtroom. if you talk to people who tried a lot of cases, unfortunately a lot of biases and discrimination filters into the process and who knows if it even has a beneficial affect. that's the bottom line. it's really a lot of making a snap decision about people based on seeing them for an hour. in life, we would not tolerate that behavior. when it comes to jury selection, prejudice away. >> all right. thank you both very much. coming up next, new york governor andrew cuomo says he won't step down and again denies wrong doing after more women come forward to accuse him of inappropriate behavior.

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welcome back. the number of state lawmakers calling for new york governor andrew cuomo resignation has more than doubled. it included the state senate majority leader. they are urging him to step down. the total number of accusers is brought to five. cuomo has apologized for acting in way that made others feel

uncomfortable but denies touching anybody inappropriately. he said he will not resign and urged all new yorkers not to draw any conclusion until an independent investigation is finished. >> i was elected by the people of the state. i wasn't elected by politicians. i'm not going resign because of allegations. no. there's no way i resign. let's do the attorney general investigation. let's get the findings and we'll go from there. >> kathy park has been covering this story and she joins me now the kathy pressure clearly building on the governor but he seems to be digging in. >> reporter: that's right. there's mounting pressure for him to step down but he says he is not going anywhere. this comes as two more women have come forward this weekend alleging inappropriate behavior by the governor. one of those women includes karen henton. she was a former aide of his while sering she was serving as

hud secretary. she broke her silence telling the washington post as well as wnbc saying there was an incident in 2000 when cuomo crossed the line and made a pass on her. he came out yesterday in call with reporters saying this didn't happen and he also added that henton is a long time adversary of his and criticized him for many years. the other woman who shared her story is ana. she as a former aide to the governor. she served from 2013 to 2015. she said on more than one occasion the governor made her feel uncomfortable. she said there was an vent she attended where he was there and right before a photo he placed his hand on her lower back and in response to that allegation, the governor said if he did not mean to make anyone feel uncomfortable. right now, there are five accusers alleging inappropriate

behavior. the attorney general is over seeing an independent review. this is still very much in the early stages right now. the ag is planning to hire an outside investigator to move forward as these claims continue to keep piling up on the governor. thank you. on the other side of the country, a development for another embattled governor. gavin newsom is facing a republican backed recall effort to move ahead. leaders say they surpassed the number of needed signatures to trigger a recall election. they still have to verify the signatures. the recall movement grew out of discontent including the hoonds hands ling of the pandemic including the tightest business restrictions in the country. the recall effort also arguably

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interview with oprah winfrey, which included meghan saying before their son, archie, was born there were conversations about his status in the royal family and concerns expressed about the color of his skin. >> in those months when i was pregnant, all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title. and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born. >> what? there's a conversation with you -- >> with harry. >> about how dark your baby is going to be? >> potentially and what that would mean or look like. >> meghan shared with us that there was a conversation with you about archie's skin tone. >> mm-hmm. >> what was that conversation?

>> that conversation i'm never going to share. but at the time -- at the time it was awkward, i was a bit shocked. >> can you tell us what the question was? >> no. i'm not comfortable with sharing that. >> this morning oprah said that harry said it wasn't queen elizabeth or prince philip who were part of the conversations about the color of baby archie's skin. nbc news senior international correspondent keir simmons joins me now from london. keir, i have so many questions. i hardly even know where to start. i'd like to hear from you about why you think the palace has yet to say anything officially. and i think the question on everyone's mind, if it wasn't queen elizabeth, if it wasn't prince philip, there's a very short list of senior officials including a couple of future potential kings who might have been the people in this conversation. >> yeah, look, we don't know is the reality because it's difficult to speculate. i think that's part of the reason that we're not hearing

from the palace behind me because how do you answer an allegation with no names attached? and at the same time, look, the reality is we do know that there are members of the royal family who have made racist comments in the past. so how do you come out and simply say this just isn't true? it's very, very difficult for the palace. this is not an allegation that they faced like this in recent history. they have faced many, many criticisms. another thing i would say about the lack of a response, is just remember these aren't lawmakers fighting to hold on to their positions, this is a constitutional monarchy. put it this way, george, prince william's son, may well be king after you and i are gone. this is the kind of long game, if you like, it's not a game but this is the kind of long view that they take. >> and they have the luxury of being able to take that kind of long view because of how it's set up. keir, one other question i had.

they repeatedly referred to the institution in their interview, that there were these actors that were sort of amorphous, not necessarily a person. can you help us understand what that means? i know that you work with, quote unquote, the institution sometimes in your job as a journalist. >> yeah, that's right. look, there is a difference. another way to put it, and this goes to the heart of one of the challenges that meghan faced, is that this isn't a job joining the royal family, it's a role. and so there's the constitutional institution of the royal family with actual legal responsibilities here in the uk and then there's the family itself. those are -- that position, that's where there is often contradictions, that's where there's often challenges and tensions. that's why it can be, and when you see it, when you watch "the crown" why it can be so incredibly difficult to be a member of this family and certainly to join the family. >> and the other thing that meghan said is that she pled for help because she was having

thoughts of suicide and they said no. that's particularly, i think, shocking, especially to anyone who's really struggled. do you think they're going to have to answer, explain that? >> reporter: i think they're going to have to explain some of that, yeah. look, here's the thing, it's stunning, isn't it? when you think decades ago princess diana made the same kinds of claims about life in the royal family and what it did to her mental health. when you think that harry and william who both espoused mental health charities, for there to be a situation where she was that desperate, according to her account, and still was not able to get help, that has to raise some questions. >> all right, keir simmons, thank you very much for your reporting. really appreciate you staying up late london time for us. of course if you or a loved one needs help, please reach out, know that you are not alone. call or text the number on your screen. help is only a phone call away. thanks to all of you for being with us this hour, we

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