good morning. it's sunday, march 21st, day 61 of the biden presidency. i'm ali velshi. yesterday thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of atlanta to demand justice for the eight people killed in last week's killing spree. and they made clear that the hate must end. drawing attention to the increase in the anti-asian hate was the focus of president biden's trip to the area. >> hate and violence often met with silence. that's been true throughout our history. but that has to change. because our silence is complicity. we cannot be complicit. we have to speak out. we have to act. >> the other focus of biden and harris' trip was to praise

american scientists and health care workers and to highlight the increasing success that the country is having with vaccinations. their efforts continue to be hampered by states that are relaxes or eliminating health restrictions which has mainly been happening in republican-led states. right now new cases of covid-19 continue to be stuck above 50,000 a day and there are still about 1500 deaths a day. more than 544,000 americans have died from the disease. in idaho, a state that has never had a statewide mask mandate, the legislature has voted to shut down until at least april 6th due to an outbreak that may be one of the new variant strains of covid-19. at least half a dozen members in the statehouse tested positive for the disease in the last week. at least five of whom are republican. 58 of the house's 70 members are republicans who rarely if ever wear masks.

in florida, things have gotten so out of hand that miami beach is under a state of emergency and is enacting curfews. this video shows police breaking up a group of maskless revelers last night. >> we have three problems going on at the same time, the first is an enormous number of people are coming here. second problem is, too many of those people who are coming are really exercising bad judgment and maybe they've been pent up, maybe they're coming here with bad intentions. the third problem is, we're in the middle of a pandemic. dade county has 50 to 100 people checking into the hospital and dozens of deaths in a single day. >> even the failed president -- former president's haven,

mar-a-lago, is partially shut down due to a new outbreak. a disease which one year the former president said would magically disappear. on this show one year ago today, we dove into what we believe our new pandemic world would look like. none of us could have predicted the future that was to come let alone it would include an insurrection to overthrow the united states government and there continue to be new developments into that investigation including the arrest of four alleged leaders of the proud boys, two of whom are seen in this picture, one of whom is carrying a megaphone and a beer, what better time to crack open a cold when while trying to overthrow your government. those four domestic extremists have been hit with a wide range of charges including conspiracy.

two other domestic terrorists have been arrested and charged with using bear spray against brian sicknick who later died. all of this comes as a new threat assessment issued by the justice department, homeland security department and the department of national -- the director of national intelligence warns of future violence at the hands of the same type of domestic extremists who attacked the capitol in the name of donald trump on january 6th. it warns that white supremacists, militias and other extremists are the, quote, most lethal of the threats facing the homeland right now. joining me now is msnbc contributor carol leonning. the co-author of the best seller "a very stable genius". he's working on a new book on the president's final year in office.

thank you for being with us. >> it's nice to be with you. >> we hear less from the president because he doesn't have twitter. he's been sitting down for interviews with reporters, including you to sort of get his message out there, a message that's been tarnished by january 6th. what are you hearing that the president's got on his mind these days, the former president. >> the former president is pretty frustrated about not being on twitter. you've got that exactly right, ali, and one of the things that he really wants to make clear is, he's still a force to be reckoned with and he's going to plan, at least, we'll see what happens, he's going to plan to be a centerpiece of the republican party going forward. of course, there are a lot of critics who say that he's essentially redefined the republican party as the party of trump. and we'll see about his success in this regard. but he really wants to be a kingmaker, a decisionmaker,

influence policy and there's good reason to think he's going to be successful. he continues to drive the narrative for a very large number of americans, including those who stormed the capitol january 6th and believed his claims that the election was rigged. >> how does this square with a republican party that is licking its wounds and trying to figure out what its future looks like. every day we seem to see mainstream republicans making a choice between the old traditions of the gop and this new reality of being in trump's favor or at least being in the favor of trump supporters? >> that's right. remember, donald trump has vowed to return to a series of states and make sure that every republican who crossed him or didn't support him loyally enough, that he goes out and, quote/unquote, primaries them. he's vowed that he will help get those folks unelected and

removed from their jobs. that's weighing heavily on a lot of folks. i'll also add that one thing in that choice that republicans are making, i kind of feel sorry for some of them because there's a sort of hostage quality to their situation. voters who supported donald trump look to him as a beacon, a leader that was this incredible hero for the things they cared about. stopping immigrants at the border, going -- rejecting political correctness, and those voters are not caring about anybody else but donald trump. so if you want that pocket of voters, he's the person you have to sort of kowtow to, whether it's in line of your policies or the traditional gop or not and that is the key issue for so many who are making that choice

now. >> we're going to continue discussing in the next segment. thank you. carol leonning is a reporter for "the washington post." she's got a new book coming out in may. and there appears to be another situation looming at the southern border which republicans are not really trying to solve and are exploiting for their political gain. it's the latest example showing that right now we don't have two working political parties. one is infested, overrun by racist far-right extremists, conspiracy peddlers and people who don't believe in having a working government or american democracy and this isn't a civil war within the gop that is over and done with. it's not a warning anymore, but an announcement. the birth of a new post-trump republican party shadowed entirely in his image with his racist and antidemocratic messages in mind. chip roy of texas promoting

lynching during an antihate hearing. senator ron johnson defending the domestic terrorists who attacked capitol police by claiming they love law enforcement and are law-abiding because they're white and not black. representatives marjorie taylor greene, doing whatever she does on a daily basis. these are the new mainstream gop. there isn't a reason or incentive not to be even more extreme or more ridiculous because if you view yourself as a moderate conservative, you are now officially outside the party's mainstream. and there are maybe only a handful left in all of congress. that's important for democracy to have two functioning political parties. i would like to see more. but right now we don't. not in the traditional sense. this is serious. it needs solving because it does effect us all. don't think if you're not a republican that this isn't your problem, that the republican party is disintegrating.

joining me now, opinion writer for "the washington post," jennifer rubin. 12 of her recent pieces dive right into this, develop propaganda, and stop giving racists the benefit of the doubt. and joining me now is rina shah. thank you to both of you for joining us. jennifer, i want to underscore what carol leonning was talking about, that there's a choice that all republicans need to make right now, particularly those who are elected who are dealing with an electorate about what kind of republican they're going to be and it does seem that more of them are choosing to follow donald trump and attract donald trump supporters. those who don't want to, in some cases, are just deciding that they're leaving politics. >> that's right, we've had five resignations or retirement announcements from the senate

and i think there are very few mitt romneys in the republican party. there are a lot of the characters that you just listed and people like me who used to consider themselves moderate or mainstream republicans, we have nothing in common with these people. they're rolling back democracy as your previous guest said, they're engaged in jim crow election -- advocacy, they are certainly not being constructive in terms of the pandemic. they really are antagonistic towards the fundamentals of democracy which are truth-telling, accountability, and elections. and those are the fundamentals of democracy which they no longer really buy into. it's kind of become a cult. unless you're part of the cult, you have to look elsewhere. that's why there are very, very few mitt romneys who are willing to take a stance and cross these

people. that's a problem because they're also the worst of the worst in terms of who joe biden has to deal with in congress. who is he going to make deals with? they want bipartisanship. it takes two to tango and these people are not deal makers. >> and what is this -- i had a great conversation with a friend of mine the other day, a republican, who said -- he named these moderate candidates who will probably be the next republican presidential candidate and things will go back to normal and regular people can make a choice between whether they would like to vote for a republican or democratic candidate. i think he was a little out of touch. the people he named as potential candidates have no likelihood of being able to win the republican base right now. i'm not sure there's a civil war going on within the republican party. it seems to have been won by the extremists. what do moderate, normal republicans who are not racist and obstructionists do right now? do they form another party? >> they have to make a choice. and it's people like me who are saying, i'll stick around. i want to be an agent of change

because i've seen that we need a healthy two-party system. we don't have a multiparty system here. i did the third party thing. i was out in utah, wyoming, idaho, there's not an appetite for a third party or at least there wasn't back then. i still think there's not a real appetite. unfortunately we're in this moment where, still, there's more to come and it's like, how much more do you need when the texas gop chair is telling chip roy to cool it, to change his language, to watch his words, to think before he speaks. these republicans, i thought for the longest time, had to be faced with real repercussions. this had to be a problem that came right to their face for them to really correct course. we've now seen that that's not possible. so these moderate republicans who hope to be a presidential nominee from the party, i'm chuckling. they don't have a chance anymore. this is a party right now so uninterested in governing.

that was a long time coming. i've seen that too. but truly people like me, under 40, young mothers who have had the challenge of this entire past year with no real action, no real leadership until we got biden in office, and i don't say that to toast my -- tip my hat to the democrats just because. the reality was, the trump administration did the bare minimum and i saw moderate conservatives still make excuses and say that was good. this is where we're at as the republican party today and to correct course, we're going to need the reformers to be people who felt pain. minorities, young people, the working class. that's where you'll see the reform for the republican party come from. >> jennifer, in the past, has been a real thing. this collapse of the republican party might be good for the democratic party. it's not good for society. so what do you actually see happening? is there something on the horizon when you speak to republicans or conservatives who don't identify as republicans anymore but don't identify with

the far-right extremist, racist, conspiracy theory wing of what is now the republican party. what do they see as a viable future about who they will put their checkmark next to in the next election? >> some of them have said, so long as joe biden is running the democratic party and they're a center party, maybe i'll go along with them. others are hoping against hope that they can run a primary challenge against some of these really radical republicans and others are simply just biding their time. we are in this destructive loop where anyone who steps out of line by trump gets crushed. the party gets worse and worse, not better and better. the moderates retire, the moderates lose in primaries. what you're getting is this distilled quagmire of toxic behavior, toxic thought.

i think most republicans who have really been appalled by this are considering their options. some of them have reregistered either as independents or democrats. others, like myself, are mission-oriented in term of defending the right to vote, taking republicans to task for their racist language, their racist conduct, seeking government reform, including executive branch reform. so there are lots of activities that former republicans are engaged in. but i don't think anyone at this point has a recipe to change the republican party. that's going to come when they're defeated again and again. that's going to come when they decide that it's no longer viable to cling to donald trump. >> yeah, i don't know what this looks like. i appreciate the input of both of you because you're closer to it than i am. jennifer rubin, rina shah,

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♪♪ why did you decide to come now? what made you decide to take the journey? >> translator: take advantage of the opportunity that the president has given to the people coming from central america, to come with their families. >> some taking journeys. this video from a texas police department shows a smuggler throwing people from a moving car while being pursued. >> the biden administration is struggling to contain the biggest spike in border crossings in 20 years. the exact outcome that president biden said he wanted to avoid in december. on friday, border control encountered 2,000 more people than the daily average.

we've seen a record-breaking backlog of these kids held in detention centers with 4500 in total and more than 500 of them have been in border patrol custody for more than ten days. a full week longer than the 72-hour limit. despite the policy of sending families back to mexico, border patrol is releasing more of them in the united states because there are too many to process. homeland security alejandro mayorkas brought a group of senators to the border on friday. one of the senators, chris murphy, said he fought back tears as a girl says she got separated from her grandmother. here's what he had to say about the condition at the facilities. >> this is better than what we saw in 2019. these are not kids in so-called cages. they're not being separated from their family at the border. but these are facilities you wouldn't want your child in for more than ten minutes.

>> there may be a point in here, what's happening at the border right now is not the deliberate cruelty of the trump era, but does that matter to the person in detention? there's no reason we shouldn't be able to make conditions better. the biden administration is working on it, agreeing to send more covid vaccines to mexico and biden officials are thinking about flying migrants to states near the canadian border for processing. republicans are focusing on the politics of the situation without offering any solutions. the question remains, what needs to be done right now, what can be done right now, to protect migrant kids while this all gets sorted out? i want to bring in dara lind, immigration reporter, co-host of "in the weeds" podcast. you've been covering this topic since the bush administration. can you explain to our viewers what's different right now? what has happened since the

biden administration that has resulted in this surge of people at the southern border? >> so when we're talking about current border crossing levels, it's good to distinguish between the total numbers which are a little bit misleading right now and the capacity problems. overall, we're still in the pandemic-induced situation in which most people who come to the southern border all single adults and plenty of families as well are being expelled to mexico or back to their home countries without any chance to seek asylum. they aren't in government custody for very long. when we're talking about the 2 million number, a lot of the people are being pushed back and that's not necessarily a concern about people getting into the u.s. or people being held in conditions. where we are seeing the kind of capacity crunch is as you said, ali, in terms of unaccompanied children and in some regions, families. there's it's a question about

the unaccompanied kids side, the pipeline issue that is causing kids to get backlogged in border patrol facility which is is worse than we have seen in the past for reasons that have something to do with the pandemic and something to do with what appears to have been a ball-dropping between the trump and biden administrations, depending on who you talk to in terms of lack of preparation for the hhs system which is responsible for taking care of unaccompanied children wild they're in the u.s. families, it involves the biden administration's efforts to expel as many of them as possible which isn't necessarily better than keeping them in u.s. custody. when families are expelled back to mexico, they don't understand where they are or how they're supposed to get anywhere. but it create an out of sight, out of mind, there's much less domestic political backlash when people are outside of the united

states than when they're being held inside the u.s. >> what is this vaccine for help for mexico. what help are we looking for mexico on this front? >> generally, we're looking -- the u.s. is looking for mexico to do more enforcement on its southern border to prevent central americans from entering mexico. that's generally been part of the u.s.'s response to any increase in migration numbers. we saw it in 2014, we saw it in 2019 where getting mexico to agree to allow more people to be sent back to mexico to wait for court hearings was a very important part of the u.s.'s strategy. it's something that doesn't -- again, it doesn't necessarily result in better conditions for migrants. there are been lots of reports of people being disappeared in southern mexico by authorities but that does create this deterrent effect the u.s. is seeking in terms of keeping people who might be coming from

central america from deciding to leave at all. >> so what -- let's talk about the answer to that root problem. we're dealing with the accommodation of unaccompanied minors and there's talk that i.c.e. is going to get hotel rooms which will make people be able to stick around in greater comfort. there's a root issue here. is there any shift between the trump administration and the biden administration in how to deal with the root issue of people who are looking to escape horrible lives in central america and relocate somewhere where life is better. >> absolutely. and the biden administration consistently with what joe biden was saying as vice president under obama believes it's worth putting a lot of money into central america to deal with these causes. there's been a bit of a pivot. the obama administration's effort was to work with central america governments. the biden administration appears to believe that's not the way to

move forward given their concern to democracy and human rights right now. they want to be partnering with nongovernmental organizations. but everyone acknowledges that that is a long-term solution, that does not help the people who are leaving now or the people who might want to leave tomorrow. and there is something of a midrange gap. the biden administration wants to restart a program to allow some children to apply in their home countries to come. but that's a very partial solution and there is a big question about -- at what point the biden administration is going to say, we're working to address the long-term issues, but current levels of migration are unacceptable and so we really do need to crack down more than we already are. >> i could speak to you all day. i appreciate that you spent a lot of time on this and understand it really well. thanks for joining us. dara lind is an immigration reporter and co-host of the "in

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the pandemic we've been struggling through as a country for the last year, believe it or not, it's still happening. can't tell that to some people, including the hundreds of thousands of travelers who descended on miami beach for spring break. all of those spring breakers earned themselves an 8:00 p.m. curfew after a state of emergency was declared yesterday. city officials said the crowd resembled a rock concert and you couldn't see the grass or pavement due to the sheer volume of people. the coronavirus is alive and well. look at idaho. the state legislature voted friday to shut down for several weeks after discovering a covid outbreak in the capitol. around 10% of the lawmakers tested positive. they're afraid someone could have one of the highly contagious new variants. that outbreak makes sense as idaho has seen case increases between 10% to 25% over the last

two weeks. michigan and minnesota are even worse. cases surpassing 25%. infections are picking up. rising as we speak. experts warn another surge could be on the horizon. 544,000 americans have died in the last year. the situation is gravely serious and yet we still got some people in some states balking at wearing a mask. joining me now dr. lipi roy, coordinated one of the largest vaccine sites in the city at the jacob javits convention center. good to see you again. you're in new york city. new york state, new jersey, connecticut are all states that have either this weekend or in the last couple of days reduced -- or increased capacity that you can have at restaurants. in new york city, it's gyms, in connecticut, you can fill as many people into your restaurants or establishments as

you want now. does this strike you as premature? >> it's always good to see you. you know, i have some mixed feelings. the images that you showed in florida of those mass gatherings, that's deeply concerning. what i am seeing happening here in new york state where, yes, restaurants are slowly opening up as well as movie theaters and i'll share my own personal experience. i have dined with a small number of friends indoors in restaurants and i have attended movies, a couple of movies indoors at amc theaters. the reason i felt safe is because i felt that those establishments really practiced evidence-based public health measures. the people that were indoors were very distanced, well over six feet, people were wearing the masks when they needed to in the movie theaters and in the restaurants removed only while they were eating. they had ventilation, open doors, windows, as much as possible. i felt they took good measures that were driven by new york

city and state public health guidelines. so i think that was an appropriate measure. but what you're seeing with the mass congregation outdoors, there's no distancing, not everyone was wearing masks. that's what's concerning in terms of spreading the infection, ali. >> and, look, by last summer, the end of last summer, as we got into the fall, people understood this is going to go on longer than they expected and they managed to hibernate indoors over the winter. with the idea that there are vaccines, we've vaccinated 12% of the population fully now. there is a real danger of people dropping their guard. at the same time, we've got some new variants including one in new york that may be more contagious. what is your best advice for people right now? >> short answer, ali, this pandemic is not over. it really isn't. we are now at 540,000 lives lost in this country. we are still averaging -- even though cases had been coming

down nicely in january, even up to early february, they've now plateaued. we're averaging 50 to 60,000 new infections every day. to your point, these new variants, the uk variant now accounts for 20% to 30% of cases in the united states -- covid cases in the united states. this is concerning because the uk variant is more transmissible, it's been associated with higher disease severity and death. so -- but the good news, though, ali is that we are vaccinating. we have really ramped up vaccination rates and so i do feel that cases will go down. but not without people behaving in a way that's conducive to health guidelines. we need people to help out and follow these guidelines for a little bit longer. >> always good to see you. thank you so much for joining us. dr. lipi roy is the medical director of covid isolation and covid sites in new york city and

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♪♪ two police officers in maryland have proved it's possible to de-escalate a situation without making it worse. officers edgar andrickson-franco and mancini gaskill of the hyattsville police department responded to a call about an angry man at a gas station. when they arrived, he appeared incoherent and then this happened. officer edgar andrickson-franco got down to the man's level and engaged him. he built a level of trust with the distraught man. the man handed over his phone

allowing the officers to call his family so they could come and pick him up. in the end, everyone was better off because of that outcome, but the situation could have ended differently and it often does end differently. it was almost a year ago when daniel prude was having an episode in new york. police responded by putting a mesh bag over his head. prude did not survive the encounter. thanks to a new mental health and wellness training program that was just launched this week. we talk a lot about cops and bad policing on this show. but many of them have a lot to learn and after the break i'm going to talk to officer edgar andrickson-franco about what he's learned and what tips he would like to pass onto his fellow police. o pass onto his fellow police.

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as i mentioned before the break, police officers are generally the first line of defense in most troubling situations involving people. they are simply not equipped or trained to handle some of the calls to which they respond. then there are times when police are exactly the right people to call. i'm joined by one of the officers in the photo you just saw. ro edgar andrickson franco. he safely de-escalated a situation with a man at a gas station and everyone leaving in one piece. officer franco, thank you for being with us. thank you for what you did. we don't typically get a chance

to talk to rank and file police officers about the encounters they have. tell me what was going through your mind when you got the call and you get to this gas station and you know that you're dealing with an agitated man. and at that point, i don't know how much information you had, but what was going through your mind? >> first of all, good morning, ali. thank you for having me. so the information we have before arriving to the scene was that he might be agitated or that he was agitated or under the influence. that's all we had. when i first arrived on scene, i did see that he was very agitated. but he also looked distraught and confused. when asked questions, he barely answered them and either had nothing to say or he was just very confused where he was at or what he was doing. >> you had -- your police

department hyattsville, launched a multiyear health and wellness plan this year involving training mental health, first aid training, mental health training 101, crisis intervention training and a quarterly mental wellness check-in program. you just finished -- i think you've done -- all the officers have done a mental health first aid for law enforcement class. you'll be one to receive crisis intervention training some time after april. what train having you received so far with respect to responding to patients who might be having a mental health episode? >> so a lot of it goes back to my academy days, which was approximately three years ago. but the hyattsville city police department has put all its efforts into implementing more programs that will help us, you know, figure things out when dealing with individuals facing a behavioral health crisis. >> so what -- we see you sitting down in front of this man. do you have -- is that

procedure? is that something you were trained to do or you just figured out to do when you realized what you were dealing with? >> honestly, it's a mixture of everything. i did understand that this gentleman was, again, facing a behavioral health crisis. and i said, i need to understand him better. and how else, you know, besides getting to his level. and that's exactly what i did. and it worked out beautifully. >> how do you -- how do you think this is going to influence you or your fellow officers in dealing with this more often? because i fully understand not being a police officer that if you don't know what you're dealing with, you can be frightened for your life, for those around you. how will this experience inform how you deal with similar things in the future? >> well, yes, it can be frightening, and -- but to be completely honest, this is something we face day in, day out. unfortunately, we just don't get or receive the light or a lot of

this doesn't really go out to the public. but i'll be proud to say that this does happen often, and we're often, or we're able most of the time to give the individual the help he deserves or needs at the moment to better help the situation and better de-escalate the situation as well. >> we appreciate it. we love the opportunity to be able to tell stories of good outcomes that involve policing and people who are having behavioral issues or mental health issues. thank you, sir, for the way you handled that. officer edgar andrickson-franco, thanks for being with us. next sunday, just ahead of the opening arguments in the derek chauvin trial, we'll bring you a special broadcast called "velshi 8:46, justice for george

floyd." the numbers reflecting the time chauvin knelt is floyd's neck. racism comes in many forms. some more overt. some harder to measure. please send me your personal firsthand experience of a racially motivated encounter that had an impact on you. send the email to velshi at mystory.com. republican senator ron johnson, i would say doubling down but probably tripling down on racist comments that related to the january 6th intersection where heed so he'd be afraid of blm protesters if they were there that day. at an event in wisconsin yesterday he told the crowd he's just pushing back against this false narrative and that he didn't feel threatened by the white domestic terrorists because he attended trump rallies and knows those people well and they federal reservently -- fervently love america. they're not terrorists or rioters. they love law enforcement, end quote. imagine that. enough said about ron johnson. that does it for me.

thanks for watching "velshi." velshi is now available as a podcast. watch the show any time. download and subscribe for free anywhere you get your podcasts. i'll catch you here next weekend from 8:00 to 10:00. alejandro mayorkas is about to join my colleague jonathan capehart on "the sunday show" which starts right now. a surge of migrants grows every day on our southern border, but what's the biden administration doing to stem the tide? i ask homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. the nationwide outcry against anti-asian hate grows in the wake of the atlanta killings. mayor keisha lance bottoms joins me with the latest. and rethinking police reform. what if we could make neighborhoods safer just by changing the environment? we can. i'm jonathan capehart. and this is "the sunday show."

this sunday, with thousands of migrants crossing the u.s./mexico border every day, the biden administration is struggling to house unaccompanied children and families that officials say they don't want to turn away. there are currently more than 5,000 children in border patrol custody. on saturday, the administration announced it will open another 500-bed temporary facility for children in texas. for migrants of all ages at the border, the staggering numbers lay bare the scope of the problem. in one texas tent facility, more than 3,300 migrants were being held in a space meant for just 250 people. this morning, department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is making the rounds to explain president biden's plans to deal with the burgeoning humanitarian crisis. i had a chance to speak with secretary