right now though the $1,400 relief checks are making their way to millions of americans. up to 85% of eligible households can expect those payments to hit their bank accounts as soon as this weekend. it comes as president biden marks three key dates in the vaccination effort and when the country may take a big step towards life after lockdown. meantime, the president and vice president gearing up for victory lap across the country after signing the relief package into law. new reaction this morning from congresswoman ayanna pressley, who said the bill is a major lifeline for americans hit hardest by the pandemic. >> for those who have been having sleepless nights worried about how they will remain safely housed, how they will pay for life-saving education, how they will pay for diapers, for groceries, for businesses worried they may be permanently shuttered, help is on the way. the american rescue plan, this is a massive step forward providing critical relief to millions of families and workers

who have been crushed by this pandemic. >> also new today the department of justice dubbing the investigation into the capitol hill riots, one of the largest in u.s. history. so far more than 300 people have been charged and prosecutors are expecting at least 100 more. and the city of louisville is gearing up for a rally marking one year since the fating police shooting of breonna taylor. her mother speaking out this morning in an emotional interview with msnbc, talking about the hurt she still feels one year after the loss of her daughter. >> her life was taken away if her for no reason and it still don't make sense. there will still be no justice for that. >> i'm sure those sentiments are felt every single day. for all of you, we're going to take you to a live briefing by breonna taylor's family. that will happen about an hour for now.

you see the other things over the next three hours, remarks by senator ron johnson over black lives matter protesters versus capitol hill rioters and what he said that's sparking calls of racism. in the 1:00 hour, donald trump's mar-a-lago saga. an interview i did one one guest caught fire around the world and that guest is back to tell me why and what happened. at 2:00 p.m. eastern i will talk with congressman ro khanna about the one thing he thinks is most important in the covid relief bill. and from washington to wilmington, covering the white house for us. we go to the big question on everybody's mind, when am i getting my money? let's go to amanda goldman on capitol hill. i'm hoping you have the answer for that because everybody wants to know, when is this going to hit my bank account? >> that's true, alex, i have been getting texts all morning as people are receiving their

stimulus and eagerly refreshing their bank statement to see if it's come in. but it's part of the $1.9 trillion relief package president biden signed into law thursday. it will be welcome news across the country. to breakdown what we are seeing, it will be $1,400 direct payments to individuals making up to $75,000 with $2,800 for those jointly filing and making up to $150,000, and an additional $1,400 for dependent children as part of their budget. looking ahead, various people are trying to see how this will roll out. the irs is saying they will determine people's eligibility and the range of their price for these checks based on their 2020 tax filings and if they haven't yet filed for 2020, they look back to 2019. but we saw just yesterday congressional democrats joining victory at the white house to talk about what this means for americans. here's what senate majority

leader chuck schumer said yesterday. >> what do we say to america? we say to america, help is on the way! help is on the way. you will receive your $1,400 checks in a few weeks. help is on the way. people are being vaccinated more quickly and more effectively than we ever imagined. help is on the way. half the children in america will no longer be in poverty. and help is on the way, our schools will open more quickly and more safely than anyone has ever thought. >> alex, you hear the victory lap there a just to think about this in a larger context as we saw play out over the last several weeks, the stimulus component of this check was largely popular, it was still a hurdle to get congressional democrats in line, both progressive and moderates who support this and there was no republican support for this package. it's not boding well as an omen for future legislative

priorities to are this white house and how things will play out on the hill, alex. >> amanda, thank you very much for that. right now the biden administration is preparing for a nationwide tour to promote the new covid relief plan. let's go to monica alba, joining us from wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the weekend. monica, appreciate what chuck schumer was doing there. i think president biden could actually cross the country with his wife and with his vice president at his side and say help is on the way and that would certainly get the message across but i imagine there's a bit more to it than that. >> they're branding it the help is here tour, alex. they're trying to send the message we were able to deliver for the american people and white house senior officials are really trying to cast this less as victory lap and more as an educational tour. that's why you're going to see all of these stops. but, of course, they're in critical states as well, places where democrats will have to fight hard to keep their seats and certain elections certainly in the senate next year. this is all by design and by

strategy. you will see the president in a very important state in delaware on tuesday. the first lady in new jersey and vice president harris and her husband, doug emhoff, will head out west. they will be in las vegas and then in denver. so they're really, really trying to map all across the country what's in this relief bill and try to tell people how they will be able to benefit from it. you have president biden speaking to this exact kind of thinking and decision making for building these trips during his remarks in the roads garden yesterday. take a listen. >> we're going to be traveling the country to speak directly to the american people about how this law is going to make a real difference in their lives. we are showing it's possible to get big, important things done. for the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this nation first. >> the first event we're going to see alex, is monday at the

white house where they're further going to explain some of the key pieces of the american rescue plan. but you see there the president talking about why he wants to speak to americans directly. they feel because of the polling, this is such a popular piece of legislation. it's less, again, about selling it and more about keeping it but then they also want to keep the pressure up in places where republican senators, obviously none of them supported this, came out against it because they're going to try to test the popularity of this over time, making a bet it will continue to be that popular but it depends over the next couple months how that pays. but as you see money hit the checks and income statements, likely this will be something quite popular among a large percentage of the americans. >> absolutely. monica quick, are you by a motor speedway or something, because there's a lot of noise in the background. sounds like cars. is that where you are? >> we are up on a highway here in wilmington, so that's right, a little bit of the ambience here. >> ambience, that's the right

word. appreciate it, my friend. see you next hour. joining me now, a mechanic of the budget armed services transportation and structure committees. welcome back, matt. good to see you. so we were just talking about what president biden's going to do, gearing up now to sell his coronavirus relief package. what kind of reception do you think he's going to get across the country, and let's start with your constituents. >> he's going to get an amazing reception and it's not just going to come from democrats, it's going to come from americans of all political stripes. this bill gets shots in people's arms, money in people's pockets and kids back in school. it's what we need to beat this pandemic and every american knows that. >> all right. let's talk about what happened this week on thursday, president biden in his first primetime address, he really struck a hopeful tone, suggesting that our independence day, fourth of july, would also coincide with a sense of independence from the

coronavirus. that timeline, congressman, do you agree with him? >> well, the president knows best here. he can make it happen. and i'm confident president biden will, because he's a leader who gets the job done. many and he's also a leader who calls out the best in americans. he said all of the right things in that speech. he talked about the timeline. he talked about how we were going to get this done. he talked about the ongoing risks and what we can all do to make our community safer. but what was more important than what he said was how he said it. he showed the best parts of the joe biden i know, which is he's an empathetic leader. he's a moral leader. he's someone who calls us to come together to do great things. and that's exactly what we're doing under his administration. >> all right, amen to all of that. we'll switch gears and take a look at the numbers from the department of justice and capitol hill riot investigation. you have 900 search warrants

that have been executed in nearly all 50 states, as well as washington, d.c. 320 people facing charges and charges are expected against about 100 more. how alarming is the scope of this for you? >> well, it's not surprising because i was there and i saw just how -- how violent it was, how widespread it was. and this is exactly what needs to happen. of course it's shopping in the light of american history. we never had a president organize a mob against our own government. we can't forget that's exactly what happened. so pursuing justice here is exactly what we need to do. we need to make sure this never happens again. we need to make sure that every future president gets the message, that you don't organize against the government of the people of the united states of america. >> yeah, in terms of trying to make sure this doesn't happen again certainly in the short term, you've got thoughts persisting and defense secretary

lloyd austin has extended the national guard's presence in d.c. through much of the spring. let's take a listen to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's reaction. >> i'm extremely uncomfortable to the fact my constituents can't come to the capitol with all of this razor wire around the complex. reminds me of my last visit to kabul. now, i think we are continuing to overreact based on current threat levels to wlas needed here at the capitol. it looks terrible to have the beacon of our democracy surrounded by razor wire and national guard troops. >> so as you know, the top democrat and republican of the house armed services committee that you serve on, they want to reduce the number of national guard troops at the capitol. how about you, where do youp stadd on stand on this.

>> we need to protect just like baghdad against terrorism and we're the un marine corps. but the threat is real and we need to protect the capitol. until we can reform the capitol police and deliver the kind of protection the capitol needs against these ongoing threats, we're going to have to have continued presence of national guard and even razor wire where it's necessary. i hate the fence too. i want to see it come down. but let's also take a second here, alex, and be honest about the senate majority leader. what a joke. he's saying we're overestimating the threat. this is a guy who underestimated donald trump, who coward before him, unwilling to stand up to him for years and that's why this happened. that's why there are militias are that are threatening the capitol because donald trump is calling him to do it and mitch mcconnell and his republican cronies are too afraid to stop that threat. let's be honest here about what's really going on, and i

think if we do that, we can understand, yes, we all want the fence to come down but we have to make sure we're ready to secure the capitol first. >> to that point i'm curious how long all of this stays in place. is there new intelligence, sir, that would lead into the extending of the national guard there? >> i mean, i can't discuss intelligence on the air, but i can tell you that there are certainly an ongoing threat and all of us, certainly all of us on the house armed services committee want to see the truth only used when it is absolutely necessary. sadly right now it's still necessary. but i certainly hope we can reduce the number and do so soon and my constituents, along with mitch mcconnell's constituents, can come to this beacon of democracy in washington, d.c. and visit it like normal people. it does feel like baghdad or kabul now and that's wrong, but it's also because of these right wing extremists who were

energized by donald trump and refused to be put down by mitch mcconnell and republicans who just can't be honest about this threat to american peace and security. >> so the pentagon keeps very busy but as you know, tucker carlson, fox news host, got the pentagon's attention this week after mocking recent changes made by the military to be more accommodating for women. let's take a look at that. >> so we've got new hair styles and maternity flight suits. pregnant women are going to fight our wars. it's a mockery of the u.s. military. >> okay. then you have pentagon spokesman john kirby responding. take a listen to this. >> what we absolutely won't do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the chinese military. >> you are a veteran. i'm curious to your reaction to all of this, do you think the dod should have even bothered to respond to a tv personality? >> first of all, can you just clarify for me, did tucker

carlson, does he know anything about serving the country? has he ever put on the uniform? has he ever risked his life to america? the answer is no to all three. he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. it's offensive not just to women in the military but to men in the military too. it's offensive to leaders in the military. it's offensive to everyone who's willing to put on a uniform to defend our basic values. and by the way, it's also offensive to women in the workplace all over america. these views would be extreme for the 1950s and that seems to be more of an appropriate place for tucker carlson to have his talk show. but i think given the audience that he commands, it was appropriate for the pentagon to respond. when i served in iraq on my third and fourth tours, i served with one of the best marines i have ever met in my life, one of the toughest combat leaders that i know, someone who was able to work more closely with the iraqi

military and iraqi police than anyone else i had experience with, and she was a woman. and she was extraordinary. and ann fox is still a great friend of mine, was a model marine in every sense of the word. she was more combat effective than a lot of her male counterparts i could have chosen to work with me on this mission. and i would like to ask her what she thinks of tucker carlson in a bow tie talking about what's right for the military. and ultimately, john kirby's right, what tucker carlson is doing not just offensive to women or those who wear or have worn the uniform, it's helpful to the chinese, helpful to our adversaries to create division in america and amongst our rank. he was mocking the military and that's not something we should accept. >> here's something i think is also extraordinary, in addition to everything you just said, the fact you are someone who has served so valiantly this

country, so many tours in iraq, for which i thank you and so do the rest of us, frankly. anyway, we're going to talk about structure next time. i know you have a $2.5 billion bill that's there 0 to support high-speed rail across this country. that's something i'm interested in so we will have you back that to talk about that as well. seth moulton, thank you very much. the concept of going maskless might appeal to some republican governors who say it's okay to go out but a new judge's ruling may stop that in the tracks. marking tragedy. one year ago today, a memorial honoring breonna taylor set to start soon. we will take you there live. o e. and more of the entertainment you love like apple music. and the beautiful iphone 12 on us when you buy one. only from verizon. ♪

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a big milestone topping coronavirus he headlines, 100 million doses of the vaccine have been administered with 10% of adults now fully vaccinated. it brings president biden closer to his goal of getting 100 million shots into arms in his

first 100 days in office. and with people desperate to get back to normal, new legal feis are emerging as states drop mask mandates. nbc's morgan chesky has more. >> reporter: the signs of life pre-covid beginning to show. state as cross the country lifting mask mandates and loosening restrictions, as vaccine availability increases. >> there will be no statewide restrictions on events or oklahomans. >> reporter: in texas the city of austin temporarily winning a legal battle with the state, the city now keeping their mask mandate in place at least the next two weeks. >> people need to wake up and realize the mask mandate, it's not a big deal. you don't get upset when you have to wear seat belts. >> reporter: and health experts agree. now is not the time to give up all precautions. >> but the key is hospitalizations and deaths remain high and we've been fooled before being too lax so

now is the time to double down and see this through. >> and that was morgan chesky reporting there. we're going to bring in dr. natalie azar. always good to see you. thank you for joining me. this week we saw the president touting the success of the vaccine rollout and he said by may 1, every adult will be eligible to take a vaccine. by may 31, there will be another vaccines for all adults and by july 4th, there can be small gatherings to celebrate independence day, of course, taking on double meaning, the word independence. independence from the virus, right? what are your thoughts on this timeline? >> you know what, i think for the first time i can say i think it's ambitious but also realistic. we have from each pfizer and moderna, we have 200 million doses pledged for each of those, which equals 200 million people total. of course, it's a two-shot series and now we have up to 200 million doses of the j&j vaccine. so that gets us to 400 million. and we have 250 million adults

to vaccine. so, yeah, alex, i think it is actually happening. really for the first time in a year i'm feeling incredibly optimistic we're getting to the finish line. >> that's a sense i feel everywhere, talking with people, there's positive in the air, which is great. but yet "the washington post" reporting biden's strategy is not without risks for manufacturing setbacks and logistical breakdowns as states seek to scale their programs to the rapid spread of new and more transmissible variants of the virus that can sicken people before they get vaccinated. so are there problems that could crop up? >> well, here's the thing, alex, and i always describe it like this, there are three levers, the vaccine, the variant and the behavior. regarding the variant, this is very, very real. the predominant one, of course, now in the country that is starting to rise is a uk variant. it's doubling every ten days. it's absolute employer

transmissible. in just this past week, we had more data that is probably also deadlier. regarding the vaccine, we talked about that but, of course, there's always potential hiccups and snafus there. if everything goes well, we'll get to that benchmark. and now that brings us to the behavior, which is why for all of us in either public health or medicine, we're scratching our heads, not at all understanding why now we are suddenly pulling back in all of these states. at a minimum, the mask mandate needs to stay in place. you can't do both. you can't just loosen restrictions and get rid of mask mandates. it goes against all of the science, alex. >> i'm going to go with the mask mandate discussion in a second but in terms of efficacy of the vaccine against variants, where do we stand on that? people ask me that all of the time. >> the good news is that the vaccines, all of them, j&j, pfizer and moderna, all three are thought to be as efficacious against the uk variant as they

are to the original wild type,ing thank goodness, regarding the brazilian and south african strain, which are far, far less common in the u.s. right now, perhaps now as efficacious but definitely still effective as preventing severe disease and death. i always want to re-emphasize the point even though we have the variant, the only way to offset those and combat those is to be vaccinated. the virus will continue to mutate as long as it finds a host, and that host will be someone who isn't vaccinated. >> quickly, even though leadership, politicians, lifting mask mandates, nobody should be shamed into not wearing a mask. if they want to wear them, wear your mask. >> the thing is, alex, they like to say people will make the right decision and give that kind of control over and frankly, that just doesn't jive with the science. the mmwr from last week show the

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new today we have senator ron johnson facing backlash for his explanation why he did not feel threatened by the capitol rioters on january 6th. >> i'm also criticized because i made the comment on january 6th i never felt threatened, because i didn't, and mainly because i knew even though those thousands of people marching the capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, i knew those were people who loved this country and truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law so i wasn't certain.

had the tables been turned, and this will get me in trouble, had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been a little concerned. >> i think that entire statement will get you in trouble. joining me is arlenia maxwell, director of sirius x and host of "zerlina" on peacock. and former aide in the george w. bush white house and msnbc political analyst, kurt bar della, "usa today" contributor and spokesman for the house oversight committee. i mean, what? what's your reaction to that, zerlina? p. >> i mean, it's a false equivalent obviously but important to establish as fact that black lives matter is a movement that comes out to protest police killings, right? so the police killed a black person and black people and all lies come outside and say that's wrong, there should be accountant. to equate that with the folks who stormed the capitol and beat

police officers with fire extinguishers, resulting in death, is not the same thing. i don't think i have to say that but i think ron johnson, he likes to play into this myth that there is somehow an equivalence between the black lives matter protests that are for reforming police departments and changing funding allocations and insurrection that happened at the capitol on january 6th. there is no equivalent. >> so, kurt, we're going to detail in what he said. he said the crowd that stormed the capitol to overturn a democratic election would, quote, never do anything to break a law. then they respect law enforcement even though a capitol police officer died, even though we saw flags, we saw guns, we saw zerlina talking about the fire extinguishers, all of those thrown at officers. and they were injured, many of them. can you make sense of that for me? >> i think the true answer is

the obvious one, ron johnson is a racist. he is a white nationalist sympathizer. in fact with statements like that, he's probably going to be considered one of the leaders now of white nationalism in the united states of america. the only reason to make a statement like that, to openly concede that when a group of white people with violent intentions, you don't feel unsafe versus when black people congregate to peacefully protest injustice, you do feel unsafe, the only reason to say something like that is because you are a racist. and we need to start calling these people what they are and not tiptoe around it, not look to be politically correct, not try to say there are both sides who need to be equally heard and debated. no, there's right and wrong. ron johnson is a racist. he just broadcast that volunteerly, even conceding, gee, maybe i shouldn't say this, maybe i'll get in trouble for saying it, well, don't say it. but it doesn't change the fact

that by their actions people like ron johnson or josh hawley for ted cruz or any of the number of people in the republican party who continue to look the other way and try to rewrite history about what happened on january 6th to try to make apologies to try to call these people freedom loving, united states loving patriots, look at the videotape. look at the pictures. look at the caskets. that tells the story of january 6th and i'm so sick and tired of these white senators and white republicans trying to whitewash all of these events. it's disgrateful and disgusting. >> do you, elise, expect republicans to condemn ron johnson's remarks or do you think it's part of the picture to paint the january 6th attacks as not as bad as they were and getting people to move on? >> i think republicans definitely don't want to talk about what happens january 6th. they would rather ignore it, just like they're going to try to ignore what ron johnson said. i just want to add to what kurt

said that we do need to call ron johnson a racist for this racially charged statement. what was the most jaw-dropping part of it for me is that he recognizes he should not have said what he was going to say. joe, this could get me in trouble. and this is something you would hear a lot throughout the trump era when you were talking to trump voters, how they liked donald trump could just tell it like it is and say things you weren't supposed to say. maybe we aren't supposed to say them because they're racist estimates. >> but elise, to your point, the fact he said this may get me in trouble, do you really think there are no republicans who will jump on board and say, yeah, this got you in trouble. you shouldn't have said that? >> i'm sure that someone like senator romney will condemn. i'm sure there are plenty of republican senators who will say oh, he shouldn't have said that, but i think they're going to just adopt their m.o. when it

comes to january 6th and try to ignore what actually happened and it was a white nationalist insurrection where you have the symbol of it, a man waving a confederate flag in the u.s. capitol, in the hallowed halls of democracy, and they're just trying to ignore at the end of the day, what it was, what caused violence, what was behind the impetus to overthrow the democratically elected free and fair government, was white nationalism. and that's at the core of this and it can't be ignored. >> let's switch gears. we're going to talk about the president's first primetime address. we heard something we haven't heard from a president in years, empathy. so, elise, i would like you to contrast that with what we heard from donald trump, how badly was empathy needed? how much of a difference does it make to the american public? by the way, i want to know biden's first primetime address got bigger ratings than trump's,

just for the record. >> alex, i think that address was the reason joe biden's managed to persevere in a crowded democratic field where very few political professionals, myself included, thought he was ever going to win the democratic nomination. he was a candidate of grief. he understand the grieving that the country was undergoing, because he's been there and he's so skilled at letting people know that gets it, he understands there pain and that was what we saw from joe biden in his address. and it's desperately lacking and so needed and so welcome and refreshing just to have this colossal loss of so many americans recognized by our leader. >> and here's something else, actually, i'm going to ask you, kurt, about something but i want to ask you, zerlina, to comment on the president and tone of everything and really the need

for that tone now in this country. >> well, i think we have been having a debate about national unity and trying to come together as a country in this frame of partisanship, you know, republicans and democrats coming together and doing something bipartisan. but i think what president biden did this week almost redefined what it means to have a common purpose and to be unified as a country, as americans in the common goal of defeating covid. and that we aren't at war against each other. we can work together to defeat the virus. much and i really -- what stood out to me is when he leaned on the podium, alex, and he almost leveled with the american people and said, this is the return of the truth. and i'm going to tell you the truth even if it's hard to hear, even if it's something that makes me look bad, i'm going to tell you the truth because you deserve to know what is going on and how you can keep your families safe. so i think, yes, it's a return

of empathy but it's also the return of truth. >> to your point, i agree. here's something though that was difficult to hear, and that was the president calling out the anti-asian racism that's really surged since the start of this pandemic. it's another huge contrast from trump, right, to zerlina's point, who certainly used racist terminology to talk about the coronavirus. kurt, i know you've been outspoken on this issue. of how significant is what the president said? >> you know, we can't begin to heal in this country unless we first acknowledge at the high levels what each person is facing. for the better part of the year we had the largest person in the world use the microphone to advance racist terms to americans, china virus and kung flu has prompted people to use

hey and violence against asian americans. we've seen in the past year and a half 150% rise in crimes against the asian community, and to watch this speech from the president and not have to worry he's going to say something that will put a larger target on my back and backs of people who looked like me. it was so refreshing to have a president acknowledge that our community is under siege right now. elderly asians are being attacked in the streets. college asians are being spit at in the streets. you can't worry about whether you're walking through a grocery store on the streets, riding mass transit. right now we're being attacked and people who do so yell things like china virus and kong flew flu and go back to china. every time i come on, my social

media gets ridiculed with that type of rhetoric and hate. it's rare we can come on television and talk about something our community is facing and be met with hate and hostility and open violence. the only way we can get past it and address it is if we're honest and have open discussions about it. it was really heartening to hear the president of the united states help lead that conversation. and it was more heartening in a few days the house judiciary committee on civil rights is going to have a hearing about the rising violence and hate crimes against asian americans. >> how historic is it in thanking the three of you, because i love all three of you and want you to come back next week as well, i have to thank you for your bravery. i don't know what that says, but it's all good. i do thank you for that, very much. and be sure to catch "zerlina" at 6:00 p.m. eastern on peacock,

the streaming channel for choice. many. and also coming up, the long list of new york lawmakers calling on cuomo to step down. let's go to my colleague lindsey reiser joining me now from new york city. what are you hearing on this front today, lindsey? >> alex, seven women have come forward accusing governor cuomo of misconduct. and the allegation has been transferred to the police. that allegation citing direct knowledge of the story said the governor groped a young female staffer at the mansion when he asked her to help fix his phone. more accusations were levied yesterday in "new york" magazine, a journalist saying cuomo's hands were on her arms, shoulders, small of her back and waist. cuomo vehemently denies all of these allegations. i was on a press call yesterday,

this was before senators schumer and gillibrand had released their joint statement. but cuomo was defiant. he said he wasn't going to bow down to cancel culture and he also said that sometimes there are different motivations for making an allegation and that's why you need to know the facts. to that point one of the cuomo's accusers, lindsey boylan, she was a former staffer who said the governor made many inappropriate comments to her, even kissed her on the lips, she tweeted this, i will read it to you, "he's calling up hate and speculation to be directed at his accusers. all harm and hate directed at the women sit squarely on new york governor cuomo." nbc news heard from various sources here the reason why we heard from so many democratic lawmakers yesterday is they had reached a tipping point. they had been taking the temperature the past few weeks and they really felt like the governor didn't have the gravity to continue leading the state. not on that list is new york congressman tom swazi. i spoke with him this morning

and he said it's up to the governor to decide whether he can execute his duties. let's listen. >> it's going to be very intense scrutiny of every single thing that he does. and the pressure will continue to mount. it's not going to stop. it's not going to stop with senators gillibrand or schumer. there will be more and more calls for investigations and this process we have to go through. and the governor has to decide whether he can get the state budget done, whether he can do the vaccines, whether he can do all of the important things that need to happen in our state right now while he's under this mounting pressure that exists. but i think knowing the governor after all of these years, he's going to fight it, fight it, fight it. that's why you have to go through this process. >> and the governor was photographed yesterday walking the grounds of the governor's mansion. alex, in addition to the state duties we heard the congressman mention, we have the investigation from letitia james into inappropriate conduct and now, of course, a federal investigation into allegations

of undercounting nursing home deaths. alex? >> lindsey reiser, thank you very much, from new york city. it's been called a national craze. if you don't pay attention to it, it could cause you the right to vote. the headline we will show you is alarming and we're showing it to you next. showing it to you next ♪ hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid ♪ ♪ and all that glitters is gold ♪ get 5 boneless wings for $1 with any handcrafted burger. only at applebee's. (vo) ideas exist inside you, electrify you. with any handcrafted burger. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back. they want to be set free. to make the world more responsible, and even more incredible. ideas start the future, just like that.

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back-to-back historic elections in georgia and they're upset about it. in a marketplace of ideas fewer and fewer people are buying what they're selling and the only way for them to hold their outside script on power is if they cheat and take a sledgehammer to georgia's election's infrastructure so that's what we are seeing. >> joining me now, latasha, welcome back to the broadcast. what do you think about what's happening in georgia this week? >> republicans are mad they're not able to build a base because they want to build ideas inclusive to people. they have got to marginalize the power of voters to actually become anti-democratic and that's what we are seeing, the most egregious bills being

introduced or passed out of different legislative houses in georgia right now. and so we are committed to stop this at all costs. we will protect our rights. this is not just about black voters, this is about the right to vote. >> i'm not familiar with georgia but am with soul to the polls and how effective that is for church goers. they have these rallies and get people to vote. it's extraordinary they're trying to specifically do away with that. it's not just georgia, there's iowa getting attention on this front. stay republicans want to cut early voting, tighten absentee voting rules, strip authority of county auditors and also close polls an hour earlier on election day. you have the des moines register editorial board writing, iowa cannot get enough gop suppression, it's a national craze and congress needs to intervene. the white house is certainly behind hr-1 for the people act but it has little chance in the

senate. so what else can be done good this national craze? >> i mean, first of all, we have to end the filibuster. when we go to hear what they say about black voters, we wanted to make sure we had representation in the white house to literally fight to restore voting rights. so we elected president biden and then to make sure he has the best possible chance to govern, that is what happened in georgia. voters in georgia gave him the best circumstances for governing. so we need the senate to end the filibuster because you and i know it's very, very unlikely we'll have republican senators that will minimumly support voting rights and serve as obstructionists. so we have to put pressure on corporate interests and give them what it takes to fight against voter oppression. we need to make sure we put

pressure on the senate and democratic leadership in the senate to end the filibuster and we can actually call on support the immediate restoration of the voting rights act immediately. >> real quick as we look at numbers, republicans have 253 bills introduced in 43 states making it harder to vote. in most cases it's happening in states where elections ran smoothly. what is the perception republicans are trying to convey because it doesn't seem to reflect reality? >> it's not at all, it's predicated on this notion of trump, to win favor with trump, that literally there was a deep office election, and there's no evidence of that. and they're falling into that because they lack courage and they lack insight, and they have an inability to be able to deal their base because they've been very, very simple and tunnel

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vaccinating america now. the cdc says about 35 million people have been fully vaccinated against covid-19 and that's a little more than 10% of the population. getting access to vaccines has been a struggle for homebound americans but that's starting to say. msnbc's been following a home vaccination program in connecticut. eissa is in manchester with more on that. big welcome to you. and residents you're talking to are thrilled i might imagine? >> alex, they're not just thrilled but relieved and so grateful. a lot of these homebound folks

were feeling desperate, they've been at home for months and didn't think it would be possible to get the vaccine during this important time. i spoke to a the head of a program just starting out in hartford connecticut, hartford health care program, who was ahead of the game. they've been planning since january when we were not hearing about this issue very much. they already vaccinated hundreds of people in this area. they're planning to expand to the rest of the state and tell me currently they have 4,300 patients who are homebound who are eligible for the vaccine and want their services. one of those people is rita fuller. she's 83 years old, and she got her second dose of the moderna vaccine in her living room yesterday. this is her house behind me. i was in there with her. take a listen. >> i had no means of going, unless i had an aide take me,

and i'm limited with electronics. i only have the jitterbug flip phone, so i don't have any electronics in the house. so this is wonderful really, it really is. >> it's really, really challenging to pull these programs off. mine, these nurses are really in a rate against the clock every single day because these vaccines can only be unrefrigerated so long so they're getting from home to home across the region to make this possible. alex? >> i love this story. go rita. that was a great reaction. we appreciate her being so appreciative of all of it. thank you, issa. good to see you. s this an anniversary of a tragedy, one year later we remember breonna taylor. her family and friends are calling for justice. g for justi.

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a very good day to all of you here from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we've rounded the top of the hour, 1:00 p.m. out east and 10:00 a.m. out west. we're glad you're with us and we begin this hour with breaking news. this is from louisville where family and activists are marking one year since the tragic death of that woman right there, breonna taylor. there's a march set to begin at any moment. a year ago today taylor was shot and killed during a botched police raid at her apartment. no officers were charged. certainly that sparked nationwide protests. taylor's mom, tamika