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good day. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. president biden is saying he will slash greenhouse gas by 50% by 2030. china and russia joining dozens of others for the event. countries looking skeptcally at the u.s. after they pulled south of the paris climate accord. >> all of us, particularly those of us who represent the world's largest economy, we have to step up. scientists tell us that this is the decisive decade. this is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of a climate crisis. >> the challenge now of course
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is how the president plans to meet the goal of emissions by 2050. the pandemic did slow down global emissions, but not enough. according to a new u.n. report, it shows that the climate crisis intensified in 2020. this morning greta thunberry said the u.s. needs to cut emission boos 50%. >> we need to cut emissions by lots. you may say we are naive, and that's fine, but we are not so naive that companies will make distant targets without pressure from the general media and public. how long do you believe that people in power like you will get away with it it. you still have time to do the
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right thing and save your legacy. >> i am joined by the peter alexander from the white house. this is an ambitious goal. despite criticism. it is ambitious considering where we were in the previous administration and the smaller nations have been calling out the larger polluter nations. >> you are right. the fact that the u.s. is back in a position of leadership on the topic of climate. the president calling on these world leaders, more than 40 today, to pick up the pace to accelerate the pace of reducing greenhouse gases. and saying the last four years was an aberration. with president trump gone they will return to the paris climate accord. president biden says their
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target is a 50% decrease in emissions by the 2030 mark. in 2018 there had only been a 13% decrease. president obama had been calling for 26% decrease. president biden believes it is significant and necessary and believes it is a job creating mechanism. there are some saying the president should be going further, but a lot of republicans -- we are already hearing pushback -- saying this will put the u.s. at a global disadvantage when countries like china and russia are not nearly as ambitious in their goals. other countries have come out in
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support of president biden's leadership on this issue. canada saying it will hit 40 to 45% by 2030. japan saying it will be shy of just 50%. nation who is have not said anything are set to set a new target by the climate accord in scotland. >> they have been working this hard to try to get commitments. it is very much much in the interests of china and putin to put on a good show. one bright spot for the biden team, is a lot of the auto dealers, general electric, are going electric. >> i think we will see john kerry in the briefing room. i will be in the front row.
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at the the end of the day the definitely is in the details, what this will mean for americans. as the president said, the science is undeniable and the costs of inaction are mounting. >> peter alexander in the front row. we will be watching. the coronavirus pandemic and race to vaccinate americans. more than half of u.s. adults have been vaccinated. that sparks the question whether americans still need to be wearing masks outdoors where the risk of spread of covid is lower. we are in florida and they talk to experts who take a hard look at what the evidence is. >> good day to you. 26 states have some sort of mask mandate. but florida has none. individual jurisdictions may
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require them, and some businesses require them. but do you need a mask when you are outdoors walking the dog. we heard firsthand here in florida. >> there is a growing national debate, sometimes great about the need to mask up when you are doing activities outside. >> we know that the virus largely spreads indoors. very little outdoors. >> researchers at oxford says why the data is limited, indoor transmission is nearly 19 times as outdoors. but northwestern says keeping the mask on is a courtesy and a model for kids.
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we went to the port canaveral, florida, where the own versus their own rule even though the state doesn't. >> we ask they wear a mask inside the building walking around. when they are outside, they don't need it. >> guests are divided. >> it is not that hard to wear a mask. >> do you wear a mask when you are out for a walk? >> no. no. >> but you have it ready? >> always. >> this family from iowa doesn't believe in the science behind the vaccine or masks. >> nobody tells us what to do. >> as far as the mandate goes, burn the masks, get rid of them. >> an emergency physician in texas, one of the first states to lift their mask mandates. >> hospital admissions did not rise. icu admissions did not rise. overall the consequences of the mask mandate have not been increase in cases as some people
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were concerned about. >> the doctor says whether you are required to wear one or not, everyone should wear one out in public. >> i put a mask on when i am out in public and in contact with people. >> after the mask mandate, hospitalizations dropped nearly 50 percent. experts say the the weather is nice, more people are outside, more people have had covid and have the antibodies, more people have been vaccinated, and people are wearing masks into businesses when required. that culture of wearing mask have paid off. so it is not one thing, it is multiple factors that have paid off. >> i am joined by dr. patel.
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on the "today" show today -- >> do you think if you are outside and not close to people you still need to wear a mask? >> we still have hot spots in this country and we will be looking at the outdoor masking question. >> what is the incentive? isn't this a reward thing? do the right thing and you will be rewarded. do you balance that at all when making the decisions about the guidance you give? >> we do. and as we look at this guidance as to what you do once vaccinated, that will be easier to do once vaccinated. >> doctor, what should the cdc be recommending? >> i am smiling because this is putting all of us in the hot seat. i am getting asked this all of the time. the cdc should do what we are telling real people to do. if you are outdoors you do not
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need to wear a mask. if you are anywhere near people who you do not know their vaccine status or people out of your household status, you should wear a mask. i do not fault the cdc. they will take a conservative approach because they are looking at numbers across the world and our country. but practically, outdoors, no mask. outdoors where you may be close with people you don't know, wear a mask. >> we are seeing encouraging statistics. nearly half the nation has received at least one dose. the next half will be harder. we are seeing a slowdown. michael carney is saying this --
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will we be able to vaccinate enough people to reach herd immunity? lack of access in states you serve but also reservation in young people. >> we have a shift at the federal and state and local levels, we have to go person to person. i have already seen the shift from a week ago where people were begging to get vaccine slots to this week where we have open slots almost every day. we need to take it to people individually because it is not just one reason or another. i think america can get to that level of at least 65 to 70% of us being vaccinated, but my bigger concern is when i look at countries like india. other countries, when they don't get the surge under control, when we open up it travel, we
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will see patterns go around globally. i want to give people hope. we will get to a point where things get better and better, but what will happen 9 to 12 months from now will depend on the world's action. . >> it is reported that we are about to role out a campaign using celebrities. is that the right approach? or is it people who are at work and can't get appointments? which is the bigger problem? >> it is both. we need people like you who are trusted and people listen to, to make these recommendations and we need regular people to dispel myths like it will hurt your fertility. and that it is safe. why is it safe?
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because it prevents you from dying. hopefully you will be out there spreading the word as you always do. >> my favorite flower is peonies. thanks for being with us and brightening the day. lawmakers debating national police reform in the wake of the derek chauvin verdict. derek chauvin verdict. tide pods ultra oxi one ups the cleaning power of liquid. can it one up whatever they're doing? for sure. seriously? one up the power of liquid,
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the debate over police reform continues today on capitol hill as communities are struggling with a fallout from a string of police shootings. this afternoon in minneapolis just 15 minutes from where george floyd was murdered, funeral services will be held for daunte wright moves shot ten days ago. and authorities looking into the death of a 16-year-old, bryant who was fatally shot by an officer. i am joined by shaq and maura, and the naacp legal defense fund. shaq, first to you. communities have been through so much in the past few weeks in minneapolis. tell us what you are seeing
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today. >> the range of emotions. earlier we talked about celebrations with the verdict and conviction of derek chauvin. now it's a somber day. you have family members arriving for the funeral of daunte wright. he was killed about 11 days ago when an officer yelled taser, taser, taser before firing a bullet into him. the family will close the cass -- casket for the final time before laying him to rest. we will see his brothers and sisters and 2-year-old son. reverend al sharpton will deliver the eulogy for the family. remember, he did the same thing for the family of george floyd. we know that benjamin crump will deliver what is called a plea
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for justice and we will hear from amy klobuchar according to the flier out now. we are expecting the family at any minute. to underscore the point you were making in the introduction, we also expect to see the family of george floyd. they stayed in town and are planning to attend the memorial service of daunte wright. >> symbolized by these families who is have come together in a coalition of victims. victims and their survivors. there are some protests overnight from a frustrated community. we are hearing more in the policing community about how training may have played a central role in how that incident unfolded. >> that's what you are seeing
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when you look at the body cam videos released in the last 24 hours, just a day after bryant was shot and killed tuesday afternoon. police were responding to an apparent knife fight. as the officers pull up to the scene and you see her holding a knife before the officer fires four times. we haven't heard back from the medical examiner's office about where the shots hit her body, but there are a lot of conversations at this vigil and demonstrations overnight about the use of force. why didn't the officer use a taser or shoot at a different part of the body. the officer said that is not how they are trained. they are trained to shoot at a central part of the body because a deadly force action was involved. you can see her holding a knife in the video. this adds to the overall
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conversation about police reform across the country. with this latest event, the governor of ohio saying they need accountability and transparency. >> republican senator tim scott, which you have learned from the point person on the house side, karen bass. >> it takes two to have a discussion or negotiation. you have tim scott leading the republican senate side of this and karen bass. she said it would require leadership in both parties signing off, including her and senator scott and cory booker, to sit down and have a
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conversation on a compromised reform bill. the speaker said, yes, she would support them having these negotiations. she trusts karen bass to get something done that will matter, but also that can pass. police reform is the kind of thing that cannot be done to reconciliation. as long as the filibuster is a thing in the senate, it will take 60 votes to overcome it. >> and from the legal defense funneled perspective, should qualified immunity be something the democrats and progressives should be willing to compromise on or is that central to any police bill? >> thank you, andrea. my condolences to daunte
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wright's family. what is central to this moment is accountability. qualified immunity has been the most significant barrier to the communities of colors that suffers with police using excessive force and violence. we cannot support a piece of legislation that does not make as its core accountability of police officers central to what that legislation can accomplish. and the reforms that tim scott offered last year fell so far short of that. this is not an issue that can be negotiated or litigated in the press. it absolutely requires for parties on both sides to come
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together and negotiate and expect this will be a hard and difficult process. but what is absolutely necessary is a mechanism for accountability for individual officers, for police departments, something that will deter the loss of black life that we are seeing on a constant basis. we are seeing a body count unrelenting, seeing deaths piling up. in the first three months of this year alone there were 213 shoot boogs police. -- shootings by police. that must stop. the only way is to ensure that officers engaged in that conduct are held accountable. that's what a policing act does and it must remain true to that admission of accountability. >> on a different subject, some
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states in response to mostly peaceful protests, it is reported that iowa and oklahoma have granted immunity to drivers who strike and injure protesters. is this another trend you find worrying? >> i find it deeply dismaying that there are so many legislatures across the country willing to compromise the first amendment and constitutional right to the freedom of assembly and constitutional right to protest in what they see as an effort to ultimately achieve police reform. what we were talking about is not disconnective from an effort to stifle voices. we see that there is a targeting
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against the american people to silence their voices, not only at the ballot box, but also in the streets of america. it is protests that have enabled our democracy to achieve the civil rights it has today. without protests the civil rights movement of the 1960s would never have achieved the momentum or legislation, the transformation that it did. we cannot afford to lose the right to protest in reaction to the concerns people have about reforming public safety in this country. it is absolutely necessary. protest is a constitutional right that must be protected at all cost. i believe these bills in state legislatures are unconstitutional and violate the first amendment and they will be challenged on that basis should they pass. >> thanks for that. shaq, let me get back to you for a moment. apparently some of our viewers
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saw something behind you that alarmed them. clarify? >> around the funeral area you are seeing long guns. the group who has come to protect the funeral are the minnesota freedom fighters. we have seen them before in the days after george floyd's death. they came out to protect businesses from being looted and burned down. they consider themselves an elite tactical group which is legal. they have permits and have the presence here at the funeral to help protect the family. >> shaq brewster, thank you very much. thanks to all. vaccine hesitancy as the number of americans getting covid shots drops off dramatically. what are officials doing to get more people to vaccination slights? james clyburn joins me next. stay with us. s me next.
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more than 200 million americans have had at least one dose of vaccine and a full 87 million are fully vaccinated. supply is beginning to surpass demand in areas across the country and there is fear that the u.s. may not reach herd
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immunity necessary to curb the virus. congressman james clyburn joins me now. initially johnson & johnson were under suspicion after having to destroy 15 million vaccine doses. >> we are looking how this could be connected with the trump administration. they pushed through a $26 million contract. we are now questioning whether or not there was some insider deal that took place irrespective of the fact of the record the merchant has of
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raising prices and not being able to meet requirements. now we know from reports this morning that this recent inspection of the merchant plant seemed to be telling us that they are not meeting the standards that are required to produce this vaccine. so that's what we are looking into. i have invited the two principals to the agency to a hearing. and we hope we can get to the bottom of all of this. >> that's an invitation. are you able to use a subpoena if you need to? >> well, i have that authority to do so. if i need to, i will.
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>> thanks to our friends who brought this to our attention. >> you are against the bill, right? >> certain provisions of it, yes. >> i think you called it a racist bill. >> certain provisions of it. >> give me a list of the provisions you on to. >> to the provisions that remove access to the right to vote, that shorten the federal runoff period from nine weeks to four
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weeks -- >> slow down for me because our audio is not real good here. >> it bans nearly all out of precinct votes. >> bans what? >> nearly all out of precinct votes meaning if you get to a precinct and are in line for four hours and get to the end of the line and you are not there between 5 and 7 p.m., you have to start over. >> what else? is that snfrg. >> -- everything? >> it is not. it restricts time. it makes it optional for counties that may not want to see expanded access right to vote, they can now limit it. instead of 7 to 7, they are now 9 to 5 which may have an effect on voters who can't vote during
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regular hours. >> okay. i get the idea. >> congressman, if you are going to ask a witness a question at a hearing and try to show off how smart you are, maybe you should get the facts first. >> that's exactly right. mr. kennedy is known for this. but i think he got a good example of what it is all about. he is always showing off his degrees. better watch it. >> congressman james clyburn, always a pleasure to have you. once you know more about a merchant, please come back. and protests across russia
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in russia police arrested more than 1800 protesters who took to the streets courageously across the country in support of navalny who has been on a hunger strike and has not been seen by his doctors and is believed to be near death. and his wife was kept at homes and later jailed for ten days for inciting people to protest. i am joined by a former bureau chief in moscow.
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navalny's doctors say he is near health. what is going on? >> this has been a dark story to report on day in and day out. it is my pleasure to bring something resembling good news. navalny's team is now saying he was sent to a civilian hospital tuesday where he received what sounds like a rather comprehensive set of medical examinations by an independent team of civilian doctors. these tests are many of the tests that his team has been begging the prison hospital to conduct. we don't know yet what they found, but it is said all of those test results were transferred via lawyers to his personal physicians. they are conducting their own analysis and say tomorrow they will present their conclusions and recommendations for treatment. in the meantime they are begging
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alex navalny to end his hunger strike. they say if he waits one more day he is at risk of death. he did not receive treatment from his personal doctors as he is entitled to and campaigning for, but nonetheless it was an independent civilian team of doctors. this is more than a fair compromise and urging this is a critical compromise because he doesn't have too much more time. >> that is big news. peter, you were moscow bureau chief. first, it seems like someone has blinked that putin allowed him to see doctors and what would be a confrontation had he sadly passed away.
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>> this has been a sticking point with a domestic audience, but also with european and american audiences. if he was to die in prison through neglect of moscow, president biden would hold them accountable. it appears they may be pulling back from the border dispute near ukraine. the defense minister says he is ordering troops to pull back. they have accumulated about 100,000 troops there in what they said was a military exercise, but was feared as a prelude to military action. however, he is hedging bets saying they should leave their armored vehicles there. a concession with navalny and concession with military
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concerns in ukraine. where is president putin heading with this. >> putin did participate in the earth day summit on climate so he is trying to show the community, and hedging his bets. >> president bind has held out a one-on-one summit with him sometime this summer that would put putin back on stage in a parallel to american president which is something he looks forward to. i think that made him realize he needs to make some concessions if he is going to play that role. you can never tell with putin. his rhetoric yesterday we heard in a speech, it's typical putin but showing he is trying to play
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the nationalist argument at home feeling pressure domestically and feeling pressure. >> russia punching above its weight internationally with threats in the black sea as well as the defense minister showing up there. what he can do in terms of being helpful with the u.s. towards iran, so he plays part of that as part of the jcopa. but they have had a bad covid rollout and are a one industry economy. >> that's right. they have always punched above their weight since the end of the cold war. they still see themselves as an equivalent super power to the united states even though economically they are not and in many ways they are not. but they play a role in many parts of the world where they could be destructive or counter productive. i ran is one.
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ukraine is one. syria. israelis and palestinians. even if they don't wield the same sort of economic and political might, they want to be seen as a country that matters. putin wants to be taken seriously on the stage. >> if navalny would die, he would have europe and the u.s. against him. the family of daunte wright has just arrived. the unexpected tragedy.
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speaker of the house nancy pelosi has offered new concessions to republicans in an effort to create a commission to investigate the january 6th attack on the capitol. nbc news learned pelosi agreed to make the panel evenly split between democrats and republicans and change the way subpoenas would be issued requiring a joint decision by the chair and vice chair or after a majority vote. joining me now is susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa today." congratulations, covered seven white house administrations, 11 presidential elections and her new book "madam speaker: nancy pelosi and lessons of power." congratulations. this is after your award-winning, best-selling book on barbara bush. speaker pelosi, she's saying on today's news regarding the commission, that is where the 9/11 commission was run and handled brilliantly with
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lieutenant tom cade and i'm wondering why she didn't mention that in the first place? >> you might want to start with the deal you may think you have to negotiate to end up with, keep in mind. >> right. >> these are big concessions on her part, which sharpens democrats and republicans on the issue, the scope of the inquiry, whether it's just focused january 6th or takes in other things like black lives matter protests, which is what some republicans have supported. this doesn't get them to a deal but it sharpens the differences that makes it harder for republicans to make the case they will not participate. >> you have a chapter called pelosi care. and that gets exactly to the point it would not have become -- the affordable care act would never have passed without pelosi. >> that's right. i interviewed hillary clinton for this book. she was traveling when the affordable care act passed. she called president obama to say congratulations and president obama said to her, the
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real person you should be congratulating is nancy pelosi, because the affordable care act would not have passed without barack obama, of course, but also would not have passed without the muscle that nancy pelosi showed in pushing that final bill through the house, really a remarkable display of legislative mastery. >> you reveal more about the rocky relationship between pelosi and the squad, especially congresswoman alexandria oscasio-cortez, at one point pelosi adopted a child-like voice discussing the representative and aoc and offer, you're not a one-person show, this is the congress of the united states. she schooled her but she had a warm relationship with omar, who was worried about wearing head gear on the house floor. many times the staff, many times in fact you write, they referred
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to her as auntie nancy. tell us about that. >> she was concerned that she would win her race safely with the democratic history but they wouldn't let her on the house floor because there was a long-standing rule from the 19th century you could not wear head gear on the house floor. and pelosi told her the morning after the primary there, don't worry about it, i will take care of it. but it was great concern to only har. and nancy pelosi understood that, called her repeatedly, even though that district wasn't in contention and they have a close relationship that persists to this day. >> briefly, of course, the trump relationship. oh, my gosh watching the state of the union when she tour up the speech and dramatic exit caught in a wonderful still frame there from -- i think that's the last cabinet room meeting they ever had. >> it's the last time they
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spoke, the last conversation they had, where she stood up and jabbed her finger at him and she stood up and said, you're a third rate politician. >> wow, look who survived that. the book is "madam speaker." again, congratulations, susan. i don't know how you do it, plus your day job. you're day and night and weekend job. we are very excited. great cover, great book. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we will be back tomorrow. remember to follow us online on facebook and twitter. up next, chuck todd speaks with francis collins, director of the national institute of health on "mpt daily" only on msnbc. ly" o.
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