good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where president biden is about to hold his first solo news conference since taking office. the white house had planned this as a victory lap with passage of his covid relief act. instead, there have been two mass shootings, one with persistent racism towards asian americans. and at the border, children

being held longer than allowed in facilities. and north korea with two ballistic missiles. and china. joining me now all of our top reporters with the action on capitol hill. i am joined by peter alexandria, garrett haik, and alish who will be participating and bill rucker. there is a new goal announced for shots in arms in the first 100 days. the picture released by the white house of the floor setup for the conference because of covid. >> that is the first look inside

the east room. that's not what these news conferences typically look like. but it demonstrates these times we are living in where covid has defined the era and been the message that the white house is trying to focus on as it sets the table for this news conference. i am told by a white house official that president biden will set a new vaccination goal for americans saying that goal is 200 million shots in his first 100 days. initial goal was 100 million in that many days. they reached that last friday. day 59. they are averaging about 2.5 million a day. it seems like an attainable goal but i am sure they will cast it as ambitious. that's what they would like to focus on, the successes and how they have tried to help with the

covid with delivering checks to americans. it has been eight days since they announced this news conference. all of the other news intruded into this. a pair of shootings, in atlanta and boulder, ballistic missile tests overseas in north korea and illegal border crossings have risen. i am told that president biden has had a pair of prep sessions, they were done one in the east wing and one in the west wing with policy members of his team over the last couple of weeks to help prepare him and synthesize his thoughts. how hard will it be because his whole campaign posture on

the issue was so different from the reality he is facing. we are reporting at nbc news that the trump people did not do what they could have done and should have done to expand these facilities, but how does he defend what is going on and lack of access by reporters. we will get to a tour. the fact is that nobody has been inside to see these customs and border patrol facilities. >> that's right. white house officials say this is a moment for the project that to talk directly to the american people. he expects a number of questions on that issue. we have seen a surge of minors coming to the border in part because president biden turned

back what president trump did in turning back the law and not allowing these kids. the president puts some of these on the to-do list of the vice president. she will be coordinating with northern triangle countries. her goal will be to try to stem regular migration as well as try to stem partnership. immigration is just one of the things they have to deal with. president biden is preparing for questions on the filibuster, and questions on foreign policy, questions on the covid goal, the 200 million shots in arms. part of the things i have been hearing from officials is that as part of that goal equity will be centered on that. how do you have 100 more people and who will they be?

the rural african-americans, some of the gop men who are hesitant to the vaccine? all of that is on the plate as we prepare for that press conference. >> joe manchin is such a key figure in all of this, when you talk about guns, vote rights and filibuster. you just had a conversation with the senator. what did he tell you? >> i did. we spoke on the outside of the building. he just released a letter outlining his feelings about h.r. 1. this is the voting rights bill. manchin praises pieces of it, but says some of it he think is an overreach. he does call for a bipartisan approach to reforming election

laws. he feels it is important that there shall bipartisan buy-in to any changes on how we conduct our election. he points to the fact that many people had questions about reliability of the 2020 election results and makes the argument if one party changes the election system, you will have a bunch of people on the other side who trust elections less. you can't get to a question about filibuster reform, rules requiring to you get to 60 votes if without man chin you can't get to 50. that's where democrats are on this bill now? >> what about guns? what about manchin on guns? >> in our discussion when i asked him about changes to background checks, i said this is key issues for democrats. he said there are a lot of key issues here.

manchin was central to the manchin-toomey bill that was defeated some years ago. he said he might put out his own proposals. but the same math rules apply. without getting to 50, getting to 60 or filibuster become less relevant. i think senators may think there is middle ground. chuck schumer had his weekly press conference and he said there may be a path forward. and so does the senator who has been out front on gun rights and reform issues. there may be a path, but i think it will be a long and winding one, andrea. >> phil, let's talk about guns. the president sent a clear message that he supports not just background checks but the

ban on assault weapons and he is considering executive orders. what if he does something that is not enough for advocates of real gun reform. there was an assault weapon ban and after ten years congress let it expire. >> president biden knows as well as anybody how difficult it is to get changes to gun laws passed through congress. he was the point person as the vice president eight years ago in the wake of the connecticut massacre, to try to limit high capacity magazines and ammunition and couldn't get that through even as democrats controlled the majority. it does not appear that there is a consensus among the majority of senators to take actions on guns. we will see if those

negotiations find some middle ground. biden is going to have to use executive action if he wants immediate action. and the question is how much political muscle will he put behind gun legislation and will that come at the expense of other items on the agenda including infrastructure, the big package he has been trying to put together. >> this doesn't reach the foreign policy questions. north korea reaching a un resolution that you can't fire short-range ballistic missiles. president biden said it is the long-range missiles we have to worry about. this is a new administration and they are testing it and they are trying to downplay it. they don't want to raise the

stakes. but they are clearly being tested by russia and china. >> and that doesn't mention iran which they hope to revisit to revisit diplomacy on that issue. across the board on foreign policy i think the president will be careful in the language he uses here. it is these unscripted moments, these news conferences, this being the first of his presidency, they can be defining moments in a presidency. what will be interesting to watch is how the president conducts himself. aides say they want him to be clear and direct, not to necessarily spar with the reporters in the room who will ask tough questions. this president in the past has bristled at tough questions. he is trying to speak to the american audience at home on

those issues. it is not just an american audience, it is a worldwide audience that will be paying attention to the comments as well. >> there are covid regulations, but it strikes me, they set it up in the wrong way, the length it seems rather than the width. so you don't have a long front row. a lot of those will be hard to hear, hard to have eye contact. not going to be a teleprompter there for an opening statement. >> this is the longest he will go unscripted since becoming president. he has taken questions on occasion over his presidency. that will create an interesting dynamic in that room. there is not the same tension

that sometimes exist when a room is packed and reporters are raising their hands at one time. covering president trump over the last four years, when he would hold these conferences, you would be separated by the president by many of his aides, often in bilateral meetings with foreign ministers as well. you want to be in the front row so you can make eye contact. he has not understood questions from those further back, i assume most will be wearing masks and will complicate this. >> kristen welker will be in the room. thanks, peter. and more charges are expected today against the alleged shooter in boulder, colorado. after the 21-year-old had his initial court appearance. it is said more charges will

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the suspected gunman had his first court appearance. there may be new charges filed in the coming weeks. he is held without bail. steve patterson joins us have boulder, colorado. >> reporter: this was the first court appearance that lasted all of five minutes. the defendant in court physically. 21-year-old facing ten counts of first degree murder. wheelchair bound in white cloth. the judge asked if he understood the charges. he said yes.

the defense said they needed more time to judge the mental capacity. the judge granted that. there will be 60 days before there is more movement in the trial. we are learning more heartbreaking trials. one i told you about yesterday, the 23-year-old from serbia refugee. they came over fleeing a war-torn country and now sad to learn their son was killed in a family grocery store. i spoke with a preacher about the tight-knit community. when someone dies, they don't hold back in grief. he was there when they learned that their son died. here is what he told me. >> very difficult. it's disaster for them. they came here to have a new life, new beginning, fleeing

from the war. and to have this happen to them is just devastating. by the time when they received the news that everyone else was in their home that their son is not coming back home. >> reporter: back to the trial here outside of court. i caught up with the public defender in this case. he is the same public defender that was on the planned parenthood shooting, the same public defender on the aurora massacre shooting so used to handling high profile cases. >> steve, so sad. this family surviving a civil war and coming to the united states and losing their child in this fashion. thanks so much. an inside look at one of the government facilities housing children who crossed the border. the congressman who toured the

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after weeks of protests from media, we get a look at housing

centers. 76 teenage boys are waiting to be placed with a relative or sponsor in the u.s. dave gutierrez was the only reporter permitted inside and joins us now. gabe, tell us what you saw. i want to make the distinction, this is hhs, not the custom and border protection. we saw from the congressman's photos, severe overcrowding with mattresses on the floor crowded in one room. >> a lot to unpack and i will walk you through it. we have new information from administration officials. this is an hhs facility, department of health and human services. when these unaccompanied migrant children are picked up at the border, they are taken to border

facilities to be processed within 72 hours, but some children are spending much longer than that in those facilities. those are the images we saw earlier this week, leaked photos from the congressman. we saw the overcrowded facilities. we just learned a short time ago from administration officials, that those unaccompanied migrant children inside those border patrol facilities are not being tested for covid-19. that is significant because when i went through this tour yesterday we were told that 108 children of the 766 that are in this facility have tested positive so that suggests they picked up covid at some point before they got here, potentially inside those border patrol facilities, and according to officials they are not being tested. they are tested by ice before

they are transferred to some of the fema facilities or hhs facilities, but that is a significant development that they are not being tested inside these border patrol facilities. we went inside along with a congressional delegation and white house officials. we saw an intake center where these kids were given duffel bags with clothes. we saw dormitories where they sleep four to a room. we saw kids outside playing soccer under the texas sun. we weren't able to talk to them, but said hi to them. there is a scramble across the southern border in multiple places across the country. they are scrambling to open new facilities in places like san diego, midland, texas, dallas, texas. this is a huge undertaking to

get the bed space to move those migrant children from border patrol facilities to hhs facilities. >> if you are not taking them at the point of intake and separating them and treating them, you are not only spreading it, but the risk these children will get sicker as they move down the chain. >> there are a lot of follow-up questions on this. we just learned this from administration officials, that these migrant children are not being tested inside the border patrol facilities. if you look at the pictures, that would seem to be the place you would need to test them the most because they are the most overcrowded. we have been talking to border patrol agents in the rio grande valley. they put the blame on hhs.

they said they can't have the bed space to transfer the migrant children to these facilities. and this is where kids wait until they are placed with an extended family member or sponsor in other parts of the country. we spoke with an hhs official yesterday who said the reason they haven't expanded it yet, because they had a 40% reduction in bed spate due to covid-19 and they placed some of the blame on the trump administration. they said at the tail end there was a hiring freeze so there was a reduction. the biden administration said they are trying to ramp up shelters, including another that is to house several hundred here in carizzo springs.

there may be 108 positive kids at this facility. we are learning that covid testing is not happening inside border patrol facilities before they arrive here. >> that's a heck of a headline. keith, all of your reporting has been terrific and great work. joining us now is someone who can get answers. the congressman toured the facility. i know you have said -- that the administration has to cut through the bureaucracy. but first, we are not testing these children for covid, the other children there, the workers there. how is that defensible? >> it is not. they should be tested at those

border patrol facilities. as was said by mr. gutierrez, they were very crowded. mr. trump did not prepare hhs for covid. it is impacting our ability to respond to all of this right now and we are looking for additional bed space across the country to house these young people. we must test them at the border. they are being tested at the sites. they are not the way the sites were run by the trump administration. there is a level of hue manlt. i saw child care as well as medical services and mental health services and class services. lots are being given to these young people, but we must get to the root causes of the migration dynamic.

if we don't do that, it's going to happen. the biden administration has people on the ground in those countries discussing how to get to the root causes of migration. >> i understand. i covered the state department canceling those programs. i know those are the real issues, but right now we have an emergency at the border, whether a seasonal surge or response to joe biden, it's existing. if you have thousands of kids coming in -- and hundreds -- the numbers being kept for more than the 72 hours permitted by the court. how do you get some agency in there to test these kids -- i shouldn't talk about vaccines. to test these children and to be able to separate them and treat them with what they need for

their own care and stop the spread. >> that should happen immediately today. that we should get the personnel there to provide the testing immediately to ensure it is not spread further amongst the children at these sites. again, we need additional resources. i met a young man there who told me his relatives were here in new york. i want to be able to help that young man connect with his parents. we have to create that possibility for them, to reunite with their families and relatives as quickly as possible. that requires more resources. it requires perhaps states to step in and provide that opportunity so that these children are housed in states where their relatives or parents are, rather than texas or just california. i think 23% of them had

relatives or parents in the northeast region, so why not house them there, close to their parents. perhaps they could visit them as they transition. these are all measures that must be taken immediately. i believe strongly, being an immigrant myself, that unless we get to the root causes, it will show up in three, four, six months down the road and we have to get resources to honduras, salvador, the countries -- there was a volcano eruption in guatemala recently. there are many reasons why folks are seeking to my great. we must try to resolve that dynamic immediately as well. >> congressman espalit, thank

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pfizer has just announced it has begun its first vaccine trials on children. the first were diagnosed yesterday at duke. the trial will test different doses in three age groups. lester holt got an exclusive interview. >> tell me about your big announcement. you are going to be doing vaccine trials with kids as young as six months old. how will that work? >> it's great news because we are very eager to move forward

with our vaccine into the younger age groups. as you probably know, we already have data we are accumulating in 12 to 15-year-olds, but starting today we have started to vaccinate in a phase one trial, children 5 to 11 years of age and we plan to move down progressively to children as young as 6 months of age. >> joining me now is dr. papel. to me this is a big deal to test children this young. >> absolutely. this is incredible and just the beginning. other manufacturers including moderna, johnson & johnson have also announced their own pediatric trials and are in fair jous stages.

6 months set sites on most children being vaccinated by the end of this year, but it could be the beginning of next year, 2022. that's inkred tbl. -- incredible. we have an authorize the vaccine 12 to 15 in pfizer. this announcement combined with other announcements about trials is incredible hope for families out there. >> how do you calibrate a dose for these younger children? by age, size, weight? >> we like to say that children aren't just little adults. it means we try to take all of those things into consideration. they are, as you mentioned, doing three doses. this very first study was about 144 participants across the world 6 months and older will help us calibrate what type of doses in the various age groups.

there is a lot of research so we know the lower doses do tend to work in smaller children by weight. it also usually corresponds to age. and phase two will look at safety as well as immune response. these are not new vaccines. these are just doses currently being used by those 16 and above. so there is safety data already and they are looking at those for the younger population. >> they are finding that vaccinated pregnant women are producing antibodies at high levels and that that can be passed on to newborns. >> building on research we saw earlier in the pandemic where we

saw that pregnant mothers who had the coronavirus infection were able to pass on antibodies they developed through the placenta to the children. it stands to reason that a vaccine could be passed on. this further emphasizes that none of the trials were designed in vaccines in covid to look at pregnant women initially. it has always been a cautious area where you talk to your doctor. this is a compelling case for any woman out there who have greater benefits than risk including your newborn. currently there is no newborn vaccine for coronavirus. and the study pointed out there were no adverse effects to the

antibodies being passed along the placenta. i can't believe we are here a year and have these breakthroughs in fro gre -- progress. it should leave everyone optimistic for a bright summer and fall ahead of us. >> we just heard that they are not testing children at the border on intake. and there is covid. it seems like testing them is an easy thing to do. >> andrea, that's my hometown. i work on the border. these are not just issues around covid. there are many infectious diseases we see and children who have been mentally traumatized as well as physically enduring what is happening at the border.

there is no excuse. this is something we should be able to do. this is a consequence of nobody taking responsibility. by the time they get to hhs, enough hands and human contact have passed that they cannot only put themselves at risk but others. they need to be tested and tested frequently. >> dr. patel, thank you so much. you can watch lester holt's full interview tonight on "nbc nightly news." and coming up, friends and family benefits. governor andrew comeau under fresh scrutiny surrounding the coronavirus. and president biden's first news conference is set to begin soon. . and rescued his nose. with up to 50% more lotion puffs bring soothing softness and relief.

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h amp mptons. joking on the show. >> this is a normal swab. is this the swab that the nurse was going to people's homes. adding that among those we assisted were members of the general public including legislators, reporters, state workers and their families who feared they had contracted the virus. cnn also claiming, "it's not surprising that in the earliest once of a once in a century global pandemic, when chris was showing symptoms and was concerned about possible spread, he turned to advice from anyone he could for advice and assistance, as any human being

would." you've been covering this issue, others and the nursing homes and sexual harassment allegations. >> it is. it adds to that. you know, it raises possible more legal trouble for the governor. here in the state of new york officials are not allowed to receive or provide privileges as a result of their position and there are already a number of investigations going on connected to the governor. you had the fbi preliminary investigation into his handling of the nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. and the way he handled the data related to deaths from those nursing homes. you have letitia james, the state attorney general, investigating the sexual harassment charges and then you have the state assembly here looking into possible impeachment of the governor. they're looking at all of these issues so these latest accusations just piling up for governor cuomo. andrea? >> and you were reporting, of course, on covid during all of

this period. when tests were really hard to get at the time in new york state. >> you may remember, they were telling people not to go get tested at first f you're asymptomatic, don't go. if you had mild symptoms, they were saying don't get tested. it was really only the people with significant symptoms getting tested. it was difficult to get tests then. it's still not particularly easy to be perfectly honest. the mayor of new york city, and there's no love lost between the mayor of new york city and love lost between the governor, who was asked about this today, in the scope of the other allegations the governor is facing, these accusations seem less significant. andrea? interesting indeed. a.b. stoddard, how does this story play politically, given the impeachment the legislature is considering?

>> it's sort of stunning to find myself agreeing with bill de blasio but i think if we had a crystal ball, we would have learned what a lot of state and political officials around the country last spring were doing to help their friends and family members. i think doctoring nursing home data on covid home deaths is probably the most impeach offense, separate from the sexual harassment allegations, that are also separate as an impeachable offense as well. so i think his political fortunes are very fraught and fragile. he doesn't seem to think so. he obviously is very defiant. he went from apologetic, though not shameful, to defiant and he thinks he can dig in. i imagine when the investigations are over and nursing home deaths are under federal investigations, he will find himself unable to continue to serve as governor. when a new revelation like this one comes out today, it gives us smoky effects that there might

be more fire than we know of because he was treating his perch, you know, like a real narcissist who could do what he wanted. i think he's in terrible shape, but i don't think the governor knows it himself. >> stephanie, what about the length of the investigation? i guess letitia james would be the most important one facing him because whatever the case is, it would take a lot longer. >> we're not really sure. we know it certainly has momentum. a number of the accusers have been brought in and they've been asked questions. it's interesting what you were just discussing, there have been a lot of state democrats that called on governor cuomo to resign. you did hear the president give him a little bit of room, president biden saying let's wait until we hear what the investigation reveals. he then said after that, let's watch and if it does reveal something, the governor should step down. andrea? >> ab, the political fallout for

him, it would make it very difficult for him to seek re-election, would it not? although politically he still has the popularity of the voters behind him, according to most polls. >> and i wonder what those approval ratings, andrea, would look like over time with the results of these investigations and actions to impeach him. yes, he's certainly planning to run next year, hoping that the public attention span will be really small and we will move on to other things. you can tell that's why he's digging in that way. i just think you look at what he's facing in terms of these very severe accusations and, again, doctoring nursing home data about pandemic deaths is likely to do him in before he can run again. >> again, about another year i guess in office, hoping to hang on. stephanie goss, thank you so very much. you've been all over this story. ab stoddard as well, thank you

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>> hello, good day. brian williams here with you as we come on the air for live coverage of president biden's first formal news conference, 65 days into his administration. we're scheduled to get under way in about 15 minutes in the east room of the white house. our chief white house correspondent peter alexander is standing by to start off our live coverage. peter, a casual list i put together of potential topics today, pandemic and vaccines, economy, filibuster, gun control, southern border, russia, china, north korea, voting rights, oh, and there's a vote blocking the suez canal. other than that, nothing going on. >> brian, you're exactly right, that's what happens when you're president 65 days. the issues on your plate begin to pile up. one when you're president and

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