separation, to try to deter people from coming and they still came. so this is a cyclical issue, one that president biden has said is unacceptable to him and he's working quickly to address it. >> he needs to apologize, president biden, to the border patrol agents and their families for putting them through this. we're being overwhelmed at the borders, it's not a crisis, it's a complete loss of sovereignty down there. meantime on capitol hill democrats are turning up the heat on republicans to pass a sweeping elections bill that would expand voting rights. senator raphael warnock says democracy depends on it. >> we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we've got to work on the infrastructure of our country, our roads and our bridges. and we've got to work on the infrastructure of our democracy. and new reaction from the white house on the fate of the filibuster. >> is the filibuster racist? is it wrong?

>> as the president said just last week, chris, it's been abused. he's not eager to move with destroying the filibuster. he's eager to get things done for the american people. but he's also not going to stand by and prevent forward-moving progress from happening. >> in just a few minutes hear the exchange as a congresswoman takes on the head of facebook about the head of vaccine misinformation. she was targeted by anti-vaxxers. new controversy regarding the colorado shooting after what congresswoman lauren boebert said about guns and hammers. and why a trump donor holdover is still in charge of the u.s. postal service. but now let's check in with nbc's monica alba at the white house and amanda golden on capitol hill. ladies, good day to you both. the president is expected to

unveil his infrastructure plan. where does that fall on the priority list now that there are calls for gun control laws and election reform? >> the white house has made clear they're going forward with unveiling the infrastructure plan in pittsburgh on wednesday. we learned today from the white house press secretary that this will be two proposals. first he's going to roll out what he envisions for this infrastructure package. and then later in april, perhaps in that joint session to congress which hasn't taken place yet, then the president will talk about some other priorities as it relates to health care and childcare. but of course this is just a very long list. and this infrastructure plan is one of many that the administration is juggling. you mentioned there gun control, for example, or immigration. right now the president was very frank in that press conference a couple of days ago, saying timing is everything, and that now is not the time, was the bottom line message, on those

issues. but it is clear that there's a lot of political pressure to get something done. that's why the white house is looking potential unilateral executive orders and actions the president could do on some of those topics, although that is still to be determined. but on the southern border in particular, alex, you really have the white house here deflecting blame. that's what we heard from the white house press secretary during one of her appearances this morning on the sunday shows. take a listen. >> our objective is to take a different approach from the last administration. we are not going to send children under the age of 18, kids under the age of 18, back on this treacherous journey. they are fleeing challenging economic circumstances, hurricanes, prosecution in some scenarios. it does not mean they get to stay in the united states. it means their cases are adjudicated. and we want to treat them humanely and make sure they're in a safe place while their cases are adjudicated.

>> she was asked when the white house will grant press access to some of the facilities run by cbp. she said that is not something they have immediately available, they're hoping to do it as soon as possible. so just another example, alex. but up first will be infrastructure week, we saw many iterations of that under the president trump administration, now the biden team will have their crack at it. >> thank you very much. let's go to amanda golden on capitol hill. amanda, what's the likelihood of the for the people bill to expand voting rights getting through the senate? >> it has a very unlikely chance, alex, of getting the additional ten republican senators needed to break the filibuster in order to get this passed through. not only that, democrats don't even have all 50 of their own members on board for this

legislation. they have 49 out of 50 right now. that comes as senate majority leader chuck schumer says he will bring this legislation up for a vote now that it's come over from the house through the committee process. democrats say it will stop racist jim crow style processes in states and will not allow minorities to be discriminated against as they attempt to vote. republicans say this is a power grab by democrats. as i noted, democrats even have all 50 members on board. there is that one outstanding conservative moderate senator, joe manchin of west virginia, who says he's not yet fully supporting this legislation over concerns for how it could be implemented into rural communities as well as wanting a more bipartisan proposal to be a part of this legislation. we heard from president joe biden earlier this week that he would keep an open mind to changing the filibuster rules to be able to push this legislation

through only if he gets all 50 democratic senators on board which democrats do not have right now within their caucus. senator raphael warnock was asked whether president biden should have called for an outright abolition of the filibuster. >> the filibuster at the end of the day is about minority rights in the senate. how are you going to insist on protecting minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society? >> so is that a yes? >> look, the ball is in their court. they could vote the bill up. if they don't, we have to pass voting rights no matter what. >> alex, it's a pit of a tbd on timing, because as we know, the senate is out for the next few weeks, as is the house on recess. we don't know when these imminent moves will take place. keep in mind, it's not just georgia experiencing restrictive voting styles that we're seeing

pop up. there are estimates of over 250 restrictive voting laws popping up in 43 states across the country according to the brennan center. experts do say this house bill if passed into law by the senate would thwart a number of those restrictions popping up. >> yep, 100%. thank you very much, amanda golden. joining me now, peter baker, white house correspondent for "the new york times" and a sunday regular, i'm glad to say. good news for president biden, 72% approve of his vaccine handling. 60% approve of biden's economic handling. these two issues, is it the number one issue on american minds? if so, is that a good sign for the president? >> it certainly has been for the last year. we're now of course heading into a new era, a new phase of this crisis, where it's also going to be supplanted to some extent by

other issues like immigration, like guns, like foreign policy issues. but i think americans obviously have been living with this crisis, this pandemic, for a full year and they're happy to finally be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. there are still some warning signs, there are variants out there. you see spikes and infections in some states. we're still having 60,000 cases a day, still a thousand deaths a day. that's a rather extraordinary thing, lower than it was during the worst of it in the winter. so president biden obviously made a point of saying it last week, that he's going to make sure that 200 million doses of the vaccine are in arms by the end of 100 days. there are still big issues to be addressed on covid. >> but that 200 million, it is a conceivable number, given where we stand right there, so hopefully we get there. tougher numbers on immigration and guns, on both fronts, for the biden administration. how do you think they'll sort through them, and can the good news on the covid and economic fronts be leveraged against, you

know, lesser approved items like these? >> well, you know, in the old days, if the president had pretty good approval ratings, he could leverage that, as you say, into votes in congress on various items of his agenda. that has been less true in recent times. we're so polarized, we're in such a tribal moment that, you know, when you're in the other party, you don't see a lot of benefit for going along with the incumbent president even if he happens to be doing pretty well in the polls. so i don't know if it helps him that much. it doesn't hurt him, obviously, he can try to use it. but he said last week his approach to government was about timing and the art of the possible. he seemed to be indicating that when it comes to immigration legislation, he's not going to be picking that up first thing. infrastructure, as we were just talking about a few minutes ago, is his first priority for the next stage, he's going to be unveiling that in pittsburgh on when he found guns he doesn't see as a likely priority on the legislative front in the next few weeks, obviously he doesn't have the votes there either.

as a senate veteran of 36 years and a vice president for eight years, he's focused on where he thinks he has votes. infrastructure is one area that theoretically that could be possible. >> curious about the diplomatic hay the democrats could make if they remain focused on the voting rights bill. will republicans regret their stance, yes, the media, we're focusing on it, but as individuals, american citizens feel thwarted going to polls to vote, aren't the republicans going to regret it? >> yeah, it's a good question. a lot of americans would agree with republicans that, you know, showing an i.d. at the polls may not be that big a deal, but if it means they're actually going to pull back on other, you know, reforms in voting like mail-in voting, like dropboxes, things that have made it easier and certainly safer in the covid era for people to vote, that affects republicans as well as democrats, obviously. and i think that you're right, that's something that a lot of

voters might look askance at if democrats make it an issue in the fall and next year. >> when you look at the president's first news conference, what's the thinking from the administration, are they wondering why they waited so long, and do you expect more news conference opportunities? >> i think they want to parcel it out. they don't have a great desire to do as many as some previous presidents have, for a varieties of reasons. one is he gets his message out in other ways, a press conference is not the only way the president talks to the american people. >> jen psaki talks to reporters almost everyday. >> she does. and the previous administration got rid of the daily briefing as a institution. he is still new at the presidency, not necessarily at

his prime at all times, and i think he did show he can handle a press conference, maybe that will reassure them. i think they also want to not flood the zone the way president trump did. there was a sense that president trump exhausted the public, even people who supported him, by constantly being out there, being a nonstop, 24-hour presence in our lives. and one of the theories in this white house is, president biden should pull back a little bit from that and only take, you know, the public's attention when it matters. so i think they'll be more strategic in when they schedule press conferences. >> i guess that begs the question, was it more the media than the public that needed to see a presidential news conference, you know, given the fact that we had a president who weighed in nearly hourly on twitter if nothing else, with his thoughts on things? was it the media that really needed it? >> well, look, obviously the media will always push for press conferences, that's what we do, that's our job.

it was notable that president biden waited longer to give a press conference than any president since calvin coolidge, that goes back a long way. i think the press conference is an important institution. it's a time when the president meets the press for a sustained amount of time on issues that he chooses to talk about. it's a moment in our democracy when the president is not surrounded by people who tell him yes, and has to answer off-the-cuff issues he may not want to talk about, that's true for every president, democrat or republican. i think the press conference remains an important institution in our american democracy. >> i'll agree with you there, i usually agree with you on just about everything, my friend. in question a couple of hours, opening statements will get under way in the trial of minneapolis police officer derek chauvin, charged with murder and manslaughter in the killing of

george floyd. it's making headlines and around the world. our colleague shaquille brewster is standing by for us in minneapolis. shaq, talk about the makeup of the jury. >> reporter: what we know, it's 15 jurors who were selected through jury selection. 14 of them will be in the courtroom for the beginning of opening statements. nine are women, the others are men. when you look at the 14 who will be in the room, eight are white, four are black, and two identify as mixed race. they'll remain anonymous through the process but we learned a lot about them through jury selection. let's meet a few of them. the first person seated, juror number 2, a white man in his 20s who works as a chemist. during questioning he said he's into ultimate frisbee and

backpacking and hasn't seen the video that ignited a social justice movement. >> you have not seen any of the social media videos or news stories with clips of the video or anything? >> no. i've seen the still -- there's a still image that was pretty common. that's the most i've seen. >> reporter: then there's juror 55, a while single mother of two in her 50s. she's an executive assistant at a health clinic. >> i strongly believe all lives matter, they all matter. >> reporter: juror 27 is one of three black men on the panel, an immigrant who has been in the united states for at least 14 years, he works in i.t. and once lived in the area where floyd was killed. he said the aftermath of george floyd's death was something he viewed as both positive and negative because people exercise their right to protest but businesses also suffer. juror 19 has served on a juror

before. a white man in his 30s, he is an auditor who says he may have to catch up on work at night after court. despite pledging to give chauvin the presumption of innocence at the start of the trial, many expressed slightly negative views toward the ex-officer. >> i feel like he took a different role in the situation versus the other officers. >> what you wrote about mr. chauvin is, the media paints derek chauvin as an aggressive cop with tax problems. >> that's what i heard. >> understood. >> reporter: similar feeling from juror 131, the 15th selected, who will be dismissed on monday if the 14 are seated as planned. and there were strong opinions of law enforcement and black lives matter during questioning. >> and with respect to black lives matter, you had a very favorable response and you wrote, i am black and my life matters.

>> it does. >> absolutely. >> when the police stop you, you stop. >> reporter: in the 11 days of jury questioning, two jurors were seated and later dismissed, once the news of the record settlement for the floyd family was announced, they said that altered their ability to be impartial. the judge said the jury will not be sequestered before the trial but he says that could change with no notice. >> that gives us an idea of where people stand going in, shaq, thank you very much. watch a special edition of "politicsnation," and then tomorrow watch msnbc's live

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to shortage of goods like coffee and electronics, so stock up if you can. a new claim from former white house coronavirus coordinator deborah birx. >> the first time we have an excuse, there were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. all of the rest of them in my mind could have been mitigated or decreased substantially. >> sobering right there. joining me now, washington congresswoman kim schweier. congresswoman, welcome back to the broadcast. i'm curious your comments -- rather, your reaction to the comments there from dr. birx. >> first, it's great to see you, alex. my comments are, i think we could have done much better in this country. the numbers are hard to say,

right? we saw really good responses and strong shutdowns in spain and italy and they still ended up with surges later. so there's a lot of blame to go around, much of it is as former trump for sure. there are other tools, if we had had the ability to do rapid testing at home, which i am still pushing for, we could have broken the chain of transmission and really prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths. >> again, so sobering. so as experts, and that would include cdc director rochelle walensky, are warning of a possible fourth covid surge, how concerned are you about that possibility? >> i am always very concerned. i believe that we will cut down on the number of deaths, but the reality is, we're kind of in a

race. as long as this virus is circulating, we have the risk of more variants. and to date, the variants that we have are prevented to some degree by the vaccines we're getting. but if we get a variant that's not prevented by vaccines, we could have another surge, we have human behavior of course that's always questionable and people not wanting to limit their behavior. and then we have this issue where we still don't have an abundant supply, the ability to test at home, so people can just take themselves out of circulation when they are asymptomatic and potentially spreading this virus. that's the trickiest part, i believe, about this particular coronavirus, is that the people who spread it don't have symptoms. >> so about a third of u.s. adults have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. but the effort to vaccinate americans, that's still running against the misinformation, it's running against human behavior that you just said as well. and you had an exchange with

mark zuckerberg, of facebook, of course, during a hearing this past week where you discussed misinformation that's been directed at you. let's take a look and listen to that. >> well, the overt threats are unsettling, particularly after january 6. i think the whole ecosystem, your ecosystem that directs a hostile sliver of society en masse to my official facebook page. these are not my constituents. can you tell me what contact review means and how many of those 30,000 are dedicated to conflicts? >> if the ai itself can't determine that something violates or doesn't, it gets flagged for human review and judgment and the 35,000 people go through all those different cues focused on all the different types of harms we've discussed today. >> two questions out of the bad. are you confident that facebook

and other social media companies can and will do enough to combat misinformation and how debilitating is misinformation towards vaccinating america? >> i have spent my entire career as a pediatrician, so 20 plus years, really addressing this issue of misinformation that comes primarily from social media. and it's not always -- really, historically, the number of parents who i would see who flat out said absolutely no vaccines, it was like 1%. it's a really tiny sliver. but this has been amplified on social media. and so, you know, there's where it starts, and then there's all of the questions that then come up because they saw something on facebook and then it goes to cousin suzy and then it goes to a mom who comes to my office. it's make whack-a-mole to address every single post. they could do something in at least suppressing the handful of

big spreaders of misinformation, i'll call out robert kennedy as being one of them, because when they get the information out, it just falls into more people's hands and creates more questions. the other issue is that questioning vaccines, saying gosh, are they tested, oh, i heard this thing, you know, that is creating hesitancy but it's not overt misinformation. and so it's a very hard thing to do. but there absolutely are things that facebook and twitter, they all can do. >> it seems to me like a lot of this has been in the ether, if you will, since the prospect of autism being caused by vaccinations, that was out there so profoundly for quite some time. let me ask you about the sort of threats that you got. i understand you were overwhelmed with anti-vaxxers and the like talking with you. what did they say to you? >> they're really angry. things to came to me, i'm a

pretty disarming, friendly person. things that came in my direction were just angry vitriol, things like "if you continue this tyranny be prepared for consequences, be prepared for a riot." in retrospect, you think about what happened on january 6. but i'll tell you, some of it was just, hey, these things haven't been tested, and of course they have. claiming people have died, that's not the case. the disinformation amplifies. and these were not my constituents for the most part. this was being promoted by an outside site directing their angry users to my facebook page. >> so interesting. and did you express that to mark zuckerberg, just really the emotional assault for you from all this misinformation and the anger, did he know about that and did he express any remorse or sympathy for that?

>> so i did express it to him, i made it very personalized, because i'm a pediatrician, as is his wife, by the way, so i was sure he could relate. i'm not sure he understood how much this filters out to individuals. he also probably doesn't understand how many just regular, everyday doctors go home at night and take it on as like their own personal mission to combat misinformation. but of course that does not get amplified, that doesn't go viral. the misinformation does because of the ecosystem he created. >> very quickly, given that you are a pediatrician, what are your thoughts on pfizer starting clinical trials on 6-month-old to 11-year-old children? >> i'm just delighted, i think it's great. they're going in the right direction, adults first. millions have been vaccinated. we know it's safe. then they go to the teenagers and the younger children and then the infants. kids make up 23% of our population.

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and keep the public safe. what's sick is hr 1. federalizing state elections. in our constitution, states are supposed to run elections. hr 1 is the biggest power grab in the history of the country. any time a republican does anything, we're a racist. if you're a white conservative,

you're a racist. if you're a black republican, you're a prop or uncle tom. they use the racist card to advance a liberal agenda and we're tired of it. hr 1 is sick, not what they're doing in georgia. >> so there's some reaction today from senator lindsey graham on the sweeping elections bill making its way through congress. that legislation part of a renewed push for voting rights after georgia passed a slew of new voter restrictions into law. joining me now, susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. don callaway, democratic strategist. and david jolly, former congressman from florida and an msnbc political contributor. hey, guys, always good to get into these issues with you. we're going to start with you, don. i want to get your reaction to what senator graham said there. >> it's sunday, so i won't say everything that i want to say. but i think that the republicans are just, you know -- they say the opposite. what's sick is what's happening in georgia by my warning to

friends and family across the world is that it's not just georgia. it is 43 states that we've seen these sweeping anti-democratic, antidemocracy provisions that are aimed at restricting people who are likely to vote democratic. they're aimed at restricting young votes, aimed at restricting black and brown people's votes, unprecedented responses to democrats' mobilizing. the next phase is in the courtroom, we have to donate to the lawyers committee for civil rights and the naacp. that's part of the strategy, to exhaust democratic resources and democratic mobilization. the preacher said this morning do not give up, it's time to be vigilant in every state, not just georgia. >> i'm going to take one of lindsey graham's words and put it into your mouth as to how you

feel about this, i'm going to say, sick. he said that one twice. so i'm just going to take the liberty of doing that. david, what about you, with the republican logic, what is it for not wanting this legislation? is there any legitimacy to it? >> well, look, alex, i'm a little hesitant to come down anywhere on the side of lindsey graham. what i will say is i agree with don, all of these state measures are designed to dampen turnout of democratic leaning voters, including voters of color. it is wrong that the states are doing this. where republicans have a traditional foothold is that we do have a system of federalism that empowers our states to set election laws. what states are not allowed to do is set those laws in a way that have a disparate impact on communities of color. that violates constitutional protections. and so to don's point, when he alluded to the courtrooms, look, one of the areas that this is going to be fought, whether hr 1 passes or not, is in federal court, where advocates who are trying to overturn these new

state laws have to prove there's been a disparate impact. but the posture that don speaks to of lindsey graham and republicans i think is what offends so many people's senses across the country today. this is not a republican party who have trying to draw out more voters, appeal to different voters like young voters and voters of color. they don't want these voters to turn out. >> why? because they don't think they can win if they don't offer some level of suppression of those voters you just described? >> it is, unfortunately. alex, you can go back about every ten years and see republicans get a drubbing at the ballot box because their ideology and their policies are out of step with the direction the country wants to go. and instead of reconsidering and reflecting on republican ideology, they double down on it and they try to restrict access to the voting box for people who are trying to vote out republicans. >> susan, let's take a listen together to something that senator warnock said this morning. here it is.

>> politicians focused on their own political ambition is what's gotten us here in the first place. you have legislators who are running scared. and so rather than having the people select their politicians, the politicians trying to cherry pick their voters. >> as in what i was asking david jolly, do you think republicans can't win without restrictions like this? >> first, let's just say senator reverend warnock, what a breath of fresh air, he obviously hasn't been in washington too long. but he's absolutely right. david talked about ideology and policies of the republican party. the republican party has no policies anymore. they literally are for nothing. they may be against a few things. but every piece of legislation we talk about, whether it's hr

1, immigration, gun control, they don't offer a solution because they don't want to, because they don't have one that will win. they don't have winning ideas. so what they have to do is cherry pick their voters. and that's what they're trying to do here. it's plain and simple. the republicans cannot win based on their ideas. so they need to keep as many people at home as possible because they'll lose otherwise. >> so don, with this law that just passed in georgia, i'm curious what concerns you the most about the laundry list of things that are going to be changed because of this law. what worries you most about it? >> i think that the most heinous element is the empowering states to take over local election boards, because that's a very clear recognition that republicans very likely will control the governor's mansion for years to come. but they will not be able to control these counties that have

majority black elected officials and ergo, majority black election boards. so it is the racist trope that we see time and time again that leads to substantial inequalities and injustice. it's why you have poisoned water in flint. it's why you have so many environmental injustices all over the country, because the governor's mansion, likely controlled by the gop, can take over the resources and political machinations in areas, political subdivisions, that are very likely to be controlled by minority groups or democratic groups. so that's the part that i find most troubling. but all of it is troubling. the part about not being able to give food or water to 90-year-old people standing in line, that's just evil. but politically, the state take over of county election offices is pretty heinous. >> it's amazing that georgia

lawmakers are taking the time to outlaw water. donald trump called into fox news last night. on that call he was asked about visiting the border. let's take a listen to what he said about that. >> a lot of people want me to -- the border patrols and all of the people, vice, if they want me there, they've asked me to go and i really sort of feel i owe it to them. the border patrol wants me to go, uh, probably over the next couple of weeks. i don't think there's a rush for me to go. >> uh, yeah, so does donald trump care about what's going on at the border or is this a pr stunt? shouldn't a former president stay out of this stuff? how often does a former president get involved in stuff like this? >> alex, a terrible move by donald trump should he do it, and unprecedented in an historical lens. the only time foreign presidents get involved in national policy or a national emergency is at

the direction of the sitting president when they're trying to build goodwill or trying to solve a complex crisis. that's not this case, this is donald trump trying to elevate himself as a former capacity. he has no official capacity, there is no reason official resources should be moved from the cries to donald trump's visit. if he's there, it's only as a candidate that i suppose we could view this as. at the end of the day, what donald trump will do is more harm than good. and my concern is, if he begins to do this, there was this theory that when donald trump left office, he would kind of serve as a president in exile, and unfortunately our politics are so divided in the country that he could bring that republican constituency with him for the next four years and really undermine joe biden in a historical way. >> that's sobering right there. susan, donald trump also called into fox news last week and here's what he said about the riots on capitol hill on january 6. take a listen. >> it was a zero threat, right from the start, it was zero

threat. look, they went in, they shouldn't have done it. some of them went in, and they're hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships, a lot of the people were waved in and then they walked in and walked out. >> pretty simple question, is donald trump living in an alternate reality, susan? >> he's delusional if he believes what he's saying and if he doesn't believe what he's saying, he's just evil, to play on don's word of the day. the big lie is the big lie because of donald trump. and there is no bigger liar than the former president. >> so can i ask, do you think he's trying to rewrite history, to change what happened and potential involvement, at least those minds who think he might have been involved on january 6? >> no, i think once again this is all about donald trump. he craves two things, attention and money. and keeping in the public eye as

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good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters in new york. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." we're getting a new look at how americans are viewing the new challenges talked by the biden administration. according to a new poll, a clear majority approve of president biden's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as well as the economy. when it comes to gun violence and the migrant surge at the border, a slight majority disapprove of how the president is handling with those issues. the border is a contentious issue.