including an announcement by cuomo, the subway services will be resuming this month. signs of life heralded by the kentucky derby this weekend, the largest sporting event since the pandemic started. we see the exact opposite in india. new ground zero from the devastation from covid-19. we'll have a lot more on that coming up and the president's -- first, we're following breaking news in north carolina. the funeral services for andrew brown jr. beginning this hour in elizabeth city and that community celebrating his life while continuing to demand answers to why he was shot by police as protesters call for the full release of the body cam video. as you can see, as the procession heads toward the church, those are live pictures right now outside the church. reverend al sharpton, benjamin

crump. reverend al will be giving the eulogy. benjamin crump will be speaking as well as family members. we see this solemn procession into the church, what the family is calling a celebration of life of andrew brown jr., as we say, we are awaiting answers, they are awaiting answers and there are north carolina laws that require them wait. there, of course, is the casket. they have to wait for a judge's order. we do not know the circumstances and the full circumstances, no one does outside of the police, the sheriff and the a judge is supposeded to be reviewing all of this, i believe, within a month. the family's only seen 20 seconds of that video, hardly enough to understand exactly why he was shot and killed. you can see there are some photographers outside as the casket is going in. joining me now, nbc's priscilla thompson, elizabeth city, north carolina and mark morial,

president of the urban league. we expect to hear from benjamin crump and from reverend al sharpton and family members from these proceedings. >> a very solemn scene today as the kavenget makes its way being led in by reverend al sharpton and reverend william barber, ben jam uncrump and those attorneys. we do know there have been people trickling in all day today and we do know reverend al will give the eulogy and we expect to hear remarks from the family and from benjamin crump. i had the opportunity to speak to a few people as they were making their way in. one man, a retired police officer who did not know andrew brown, jr., but told me that these are issues that this community has been facing for a while now and now it feels like the world's attention is on them in this moment, and it will be

interesting to see how the rest of this plays out. the man i spoke to is someone who has been helping to organize some of these demonstrations and marches and while today is largely about the family and their grief and saying their final good-byes, he said his hope for them is that after today is over that the media doesn't go away, the story doesn't go away and that folks continue to follow this as people here continue to call for justice, call for transparency and call for the release of that body cam footage publicly. as you mentioned, some members of the family have seen about 20 seconds of that footage, but a judge ruled last week that it would not be released to the public and many people here say that that is not right and that folks should be allowed to see that video now, and so that conversation is going to continue after today, but today the focus really is on this

family and them being able to say their final good-byes. the reverend al gave -- prayed over the casket before it went inside and actually, we've got some members of the family coming in now, and i want to show you a little bit of that. you see there andrew brown jr.'s adult son who has been very outspoken during this time along with other members of the family. they followed the casket as it made its way from the waterfront park here. now they are going to continue on inside as the services get under way. lots of folks in their white, in shirts paying homage and honor to andrew brown jr., and we know that standing alongside this family are going to be members of george floyd's family. eric gardner's family and other prominent families that have come into the spotlight having lost loved ones at the hands of police, and you know now this

family is going to do that and having to deal with that tragic loss. so today, really an opportunity for them to grieve that and just sort of sit in that, but beyond today still a community, a family that is hurting and still looking for answers about what happened here, andrea? >> priscilla, thank you so much and think, we know as you say that the family will get to see more of that body camera footage possibly this week, but there are activists and representatives who think that a lot more needs to be done. as you've been pointing out, we see the lineup of people and family members and activists and community supporters and priscilla, you'll be standing by as we go back to the funeral proceedings. mark morial, the head of the national urban league it's good to see you at a time like this when we are in such a period of

terrible shootings. this one, as all others, have to be investigated and we have not seen the body camera footage because of those north carolina procedures, but we have no transparency at all unlike daunte wright and others that the family was able to know right away. as this is happening we have stalemates so far and some progress on capitol hill. where do you see the situation in terms of violence against, in many cases, unarmed people, unarmed black people, by police officers? >> andrea, first of all, thank you for having me, and i first want to express the prayers of my family and the national urban league family for andrew brown's family. we can't imagine the pain and the difficulty of this day for each and every one of them. i would also add, andrew brown

according to the autopsy was shot in the back of the head. this seems to be another case of unwarranted use of force against an unarmed black man in connection with an effort to serve him with an arrest warrant for quote, unquote, for sale of illegal narcotics. now, a few things people should know. the tension between the black community and that county and that county sheriff's department is a longstanding, if you will, breach of trust by that department and the community to be distinguished from the relationship that residents of the community in elizabeth city appear to have with the city government. you have a predominantly black city inside of a predominantly white county and the sheriff's

department and the county district attorney are the law enforcement officials that we are focused on. i join with the lawyers in saying that the d.a. should recuse himself in favor of an independent prosecutor that the governor has certainly joined in saying is necessary in this case. what else, i think, needs to happen in these cases is that the department of justice should initiate a pattern and practice in investigation for a sheriff's department in that county and go full speed ahead with an independent investigation, with respect to the killing. it is so important that federal law enforcement be there right now to ensure that no evidence is spoiled, altered, deleted, withheld or abused. it is so critical, but people

are more likely to trust this department of justice under joe biden and merrick garland and their leadership than they are to trust that cherrive and that district attorney and that county, but the larger question is this continuing scourge of killing of unarmed black people and over the weekend, an unarmed latino man. this is something that this country has got to confront. i am certainly encouraging, pushing that the congress of the united states not allow this moment to escape where the george floyd justice and policing act, a strong version of it, a version with teeth, would be the best step that the congress and the federal government can take at this time to demonstrate that they are on the side of constitutional policing and that they are going

to do their part to rebuild trust between communities and police, but the george floyd bill would be a building block, andrea because every single city and all county and every s state police and agency in this country. change is necessary in terms of the system of policing, with systems of accountability along the lines and so this work that has to be done at the national level is just a component of this, but we will not rest and we will not lower our voices and i am confident that peaceful protests and activism will continue because this equates -- this equates to a modern-day system of lynching and we have got to end it. >> mark morial, thank you so much for your perspective, and i know we'll be talking to you as

the funeral proceeds and thanks to you and priscilla thompson, as well. here in washington as mark morial just said there are glimmers of hope after the recent tragedies in elizabeth city and this as president biden focused on a week on selling his $2 trillion infrastructure plan with the signals from the white house and senate republicans that both sides are looking for a, promyself. joining me is jeff bennett, kasie hunt and robert gibbs former white house press secretary in the obama administration. first, the president in virginia today will head to lake charles louisiana after this week to promote those plans while the team keeps lines of communication with republican lawmakers open. i want to talk about the police reform bill and the george floyd bill and whether there is a chance now given what tim scott has said and what karen bass has said that they're talking, that

this is actually going to happen. >> potentially, it looks that way. i think the big question now is whether or not lawmakers are able to meet the sort of imposed deadline that president biden offered up, may 25th, a year after the police killing of george floyd. i have tim scott and karen bass, both of whom are saying the other is working on good faith. tim scott still sounds optimistic that both sides will be able to find common ground, andrea, but beyond that the white house is leaving it up to lawmakers to work this out and president biden will get behind whatever democrats and republicans on the hill agree to. >> kasie hunt, let's talk about infrastructure and what we've heard from the maine republican senator, susan collins yesterday about a potential deal, cutting it up and doing it piece by piece. let's play a little bit of what she had to say. >> at this point, i think now that the republicans have put

forth a reasonable offer, it's up to the president to do a counteroffer to us. this is an enormous package when you take the traditional core infrastructure part and it is advocated. >> kasie, you heard what mitch mcconnell said that he wouldn't go for any change in the 2017 tax bill. >> i think the question overall, andrea, what will it take to get all 50 democrats onboard to do the reconciliation package and part of that, there is pressure inside the democratic caucus to show americans that democrats, president biden is trying to work with the other party, is trying to do what in their view they see as a campaign promise that he made. there are even some democrats that are concerned about the tax

hikes that are included in the president's plan even if they don't necessarily want to say so publicly. that's where the tension is. it does seem as though there are more republicans that are interested in participating in this in a serious way and the white house has a feeling like they are being listened to in a credible way. there is a possibility that becomes bipartisan and that said, we are a pretty long way from that, and there are many who want the ney gosch yagdzs to go through memorial day before they call it and say we really can't come to a deal and there are a few weeks to sort out how this will proceed, andrea. >> speaking about republicans and on that, senator capito is the key player who will talk to the president and back and forth, but robert gibb, what about liz cheney and mitt

romney? two republicans who are getting criticism from fellow lawmakers and people back home over their stand against donald trump, most notably this past saturday in utah, watch what happened to senator romney from republicans who were gathered there. >> a person who says what he thinks and i wasn't a fan of the last president's character issues. [ audience booing ] >> i'm also a fan -- [ audience booing ] >> aren't you embarrassed? >> robert gibb, how do you read what happened to mitt romney? >> i read how much the republican has changed in a short period of time. that's the standard bearer and the republican party's presidential nominee in 2012. it's not his republican party

anymore. it's donald trump's republican party and that's where the energy in the party remains. look, in a special election in texas this weekend, a never trumper republican that was endorsed by several republican members of congress that are opposed to trump's role in the party got 3% of the vote. so there's just not any energy in the never trump part of the republican party and that's something that the rest of the republican party will have to navigate throughout the remainder of this year and into some very important elections in 2022. >> and liz cheney who easily kept her position in republican leadership fight in a secret ballot vote just a couple of weeks ago and now detractors within the party continue to criticize her at every turn, she stood up on twitter against donald trump today. kasie, let me ask you about that. she responded to a brief

statement from donald trump. the 2020 presidential election was want stolen and anyone who claims it was is spreading the big lie and turning their back on the rule of law and the democratic system after he gave a speech last thursday repeating those same lies about the election. >> liz cheney has made clear where she stands, and she has insisted that she is not going to move from that position, and i think you are starting to see some frustration from more of her colleagues from within the gop republican conference and we've heard this bubbling up and they, of course, were down in orlando for their retreat and the concern there is obviously, none of them likes being in the minority and they want to be running the show in the house and there are many who may have been willing to be supportive of liz cheney and were on the last ballot who are now suddenly concerned that that could put the majority in jeopardy, but cheney, i think, has been very clear and when you talk to

people who are familiar with her thinking and those whom she speaks with and adam kinzinger has stepped out on some of these issues. this is not something that she's going to back down from and we obviously know what her father was like in politics. he was a mentor to her, and i think you can expect her to continue this even if it means that it puts her leadership position on the line, andrea. >> she's no mitch mcconnell in terms of her stance on donald trump. it's a stance of conscience and conviction. jeff bennett, kasie hunt, robert gibb, thank you all. the biden administration set to reunite four migrant families separated under trump's zero-tolerance policies and critics say that's not enough and there are more than a thousand families yet to be united. as troops start leaving afghanistan what the future holds for afghan women and

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as the u.s. begins withdrawing troops from afghanistan ending america's longest war there are real concerns about taliban attacks, civil war, a potential collapse of the afghan government which would be disastrous for many afghans especially women and girls. nbc richard correspondent richard engel spoke to girls in a school in kabul about their concerns. >> at the school in kabul, the new afghanistan is on full display. girls and boys together in the same school. for the last 20 years under american protection, education has been transformed in this country especially for girls. the taliban banned education for girls and women. now that american troops are leaving, the taliban may return and put a stop to this in the name of islam. in geography class, 17-year-old

najla safi is one of the school's top students. she wants to be a gynecologist when she grows up and wants to treat women and girls for free. she and others work on reading comprehension in english. >> if america goes taliban are people that don't understand about the future. >> two decades ago, the taliban ruled afghanistan. the islamic fanatics and misogynists ordered women to stay home and cover up with burqas if they had to go out. defiance was met with beatings or even death by stoning. now u.s. troops are leaving and the withdrawal could mean the days are numbered for the afghan music institute. >> the taliban banned nearly all music especially for women. girls could be whipped just for this. ♪♪ ♪♪

16-year-old mina carimi is determined not to give in. she composed this work called "dawn" dedicated to the struggle of afghan women. >> i will never let anyone to stop me or other girls from playing music. >> here, they'll try to resist the darker days that are coming through will and music. >> and joining me now is nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel from kabul. richard, that was so beautiful, and you've seen this whole transition. i was there back in 1998 when the women were wearing burqas and could not come out and couldn't go to school. this is just so heartbreaking for those women and for the girls and for other people in afghanistan. >> reporter: it is -- it is, and it depends also on what you've

lived through. so when the taliban came to power here and this country had gone through -- and people died. people had little expectation and they were coming out of the rule of the mujahadin where women and girls had no rights to begin with and then the taliban came in and it was a more extreme flavor of something that was already there. now you've had 20 years living under the american umbrella. this country has had serious problems, but it has developed significantly. the life span for the average afghan has increased by ten years. there is medical care here. there is school access for everyone, boys and girls in the same schools. sometimes in the same classrooms and people have ambitions. they want to travel. the girl they spoke to today, the first one in that spot, she's studying rocket

engineering and she wants to study abroad and to have that torn away from you is even more painful than going from a terrible situation to one under the taliban. this generation here never lived under the taliban. they've lived having different kinds of dreams and hoping for a different kind of future and now they're watching american troops packing up and leaving and they're very worried that the taliban could come back and roll this country back into the stone age and lock them back into their houses, reimpose the burqa and take the schools away and destroy their future. that movement, "dawn," that the young woman was playing. she's 16 years old and it was dedicated to the plight of afghan women and it starts -- the movement starts with a very sad motion where it's almost like women are crying, she described it to me and then it

has a moment of uplifting and she hasn't finished the piece. she's deliberately waiting for this next chapter and she doesn't know how she's going to end that particular piece of music. >> what a metaphor. >> that's part of the uncertainty people are feeling here. >> very briefly, richard, the military -- the u.s. military says the pace of afghan -- of taliban attacks against afghans are increasing and not against u.s. forces, but against afghans. are you seeing that on the ground and hearing about it? >> oh, absolutely. it might change against u.s. forces, too. there's a lot of strategy here that the taliban has been trying to figure out how to wants to play this next chapter and it feels like it is playing a winning hand. it feels like it has been victorious. so the trump administration made a deal with the taliban and the trump administration said all u.s. forces will be out by may 1st. obviously, that didn't happen. all u.s. troops are out by

september 11th, and it extended it unilat rlly against september eleventh and they might attack u.s. forces between may 1st and september 11th, because they know if they do that, they'll face an enormous reprisal. so they might or might not, but what they're doing is going after the softer targets and going after of a gaps and going after educators and going after journalists and going after women. >> richard engel, there in kabul where he's spent so much time over the years. thank you very much. tragedy off the coast of san diego after a boat carrying migrants capsized killing four people as the biden administration takes the first steps to reunite families separated by the trump administration. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. mitchell reports" on msnbc

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near san diego, a boat believed to have capsized and broke apart, injuring two dozen. it is under pressure to reunite

more than a thousand children separated from their families by the trump administration. four of those families will be reunited this week. joining me now is julia ainsley, just four of about 1,000 set to be reunited. first of all, what do we know about these families and how this is all happening, julia? >> that's right, andrea. just four out of what we now know to be over 1,000 families. we understand that from the department of homeland security alejandro mayorkas. they will be reunited this week, as early as material. they're keeping the details private for their own privacy reason, but we do understand that in at least one case one of the children separated from his mother was 3 years old at the time. we also understand one of the mothers is from mexico, the other from honduras and it seems that with most of these families the parents were actually waiting in mexico to be able to come back to the united states and reunite with their children here, but it took a lot of negotiating with the mexican

govern chlt trying to get their travel documents and trying to see what they can get from the united states and we understand that they will get humanitarian parole for these families and they're doing it on a case by case basis and they have not said what they will give to the more than 1,000 families and many of whom were deported by their home countries and want some guarantee that if they come to the united states they'll be allowed to legally enter and possibly claim asylum and even be able to live and work here. they want those special protections because of the trauma that they endured from being separated from their children in 2017 and 2018. and the families and a lot of the advocates are a drop in the bucket and what they want from the biden administration is a promise that more families can come back and be protected under u.s. law. >> thanks so much, julia, that sets it out. joining us now is one of those advocate, the lawyer

representing families and the deputy director of the aclu's immigrants rights project. lee, good to see you again. four out of a thousand? you've done the first four, but where do we go from here? >> right. as julia said, this is no time to take a victory lap. we are thrilled for these families and what we are trying to negotiate with the biden administration is that the more than a thousand families remain separate or reunited in the united states. 5500 children were separated including babies and toddlers and we think they deserve the treatment they received from the united states government is permanent status in this country, and mental health services which is critical. i just came back from el salvador last week and met with a father who came here with his 8-year-old boy and got here. the day they got here they took away his 8-year-old boy and he

said, why are they taking me away? he said i don't know. for months he didn't speak to his child and they got the child back, the first thing the child said to him when he got off the plane is papa, why did you let them do that to me? the father broke down in tears before me. it is so clear that these families have been so traumatized including the parents who feel so guilty because their children are just too young to understand that the parents could not have stopped this. so we have to do everything possible to help these families and we hope the biden administration will do it. we will never make them whole and any chance to help them lead a safe, productive life depends on us giving them a permanent place in the united states and mental health insurances and other social services to get them on their feet and we expect the biden administration to be here for the long haul and not to stop at reunification, but go well beyond that. >> it's not good enough to say

we didn't have a transition and this surge happened and it is not on our watch. this is the united states of america that did this to these families so what are you hearing from the biden white house as to whether to make these people, not whole, but try to make up for what happened? >> the aclu is in negotiations, very intense negotiations with the biden administration and we believe they're going well and we certainly are not going to assume that it will happen without a lot of pressure and we appreciate how much they stayed on this story and ultimately, it has to be shining a light so people don't forget it. the administration -- it is so easy to forget these little children. we are hopeful that these negotiations are happening all of the time and i remain hopeful that the biden administration will come through and we ultimately see it beyond these

families, we'll just keep pushing and holding out hope. >> i know you're staying on it. julia certainly is and so are we, so let's hope that these negotiations are going somewhere, thank you, very, very much. in the global fight against the coronavirus, india's covid crisis is only worsening. the u.s. is sending more help and banning travel as people scramble to come back from india before travel restrictions take effect. u.s. citizens are exempt from those restrictions. we'll have more on that coming up. stay with us. you are watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. >> i think, my perspective, a lot of people are coming in today because there is a ban tomorrow. it is hard to leave them, to be honest. it is hard to leave them, but basically i work here so i have to come back so there is no option. work here so i have to come back so there is no option

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india's being ravaged by the coronavirus. country now reporting more than 300,000 new cases for the 12th straight day. medical experts say the real number may be ten times higher. desperately needed supplies of oxygen, drugs and masks from the u.s. and other countries have started arriving in india. this as starting tomorrow most travel from india to the u.s. will be banned with the exception of u.s. citizens. nbc's matt bradley joins us now from london. matt, the world is responding, it seems to me, rather slowly. these supplies are just beginning to move and vaccines are really not going to help at this point. they need the therapeutics. they need oxygen. >> reporter: yeah. really, it's an entire subcontinent that's strangling to death and that's what we're seeing there. we're seeing patients who have been turned away from hospitals and patients who are dying in the streets in front of hospitals because they weren't given medical care. you mentioned, andrea, that a lot of countries seem slow to

respond. they haven't. they've only just now sending supplies and they are sending quite a few supplies, but a lot of indians are looking to the rest of the world for help and they're going on social media begging the rest of the world for help, but they're blaming their government. they're blaming prime minister narendra modi who is a controversial character even in the best of times. modi, only a couple of months ago, was boasting publicly about how india had saved humanity from the coronavirus. again, this was just in january and now it seems the tide has really turned for the worst. many here -- many in india are blaming modi, blaming his bjp party and they've already put to them and they've already rebuked the government modi just lost in the state of west bengal in an election he had hoped to win and it looks like voters are repudiating him because of his handling of the coronavirus. andrea? >> what about vaccines, even though vaccines once they get

there won't take effect and won't be fully in effect for several weeks, if not a month plus two weeks, but what are you hearing about vaccines coming to india? >> that's a really tough one. of course, as you mentioned, what do you do with vaccines in the medium term and long term vaccines will be hugely helpful in india, and vaccines are only good for those who have not contracted the disease yet. as we're seeing record breaking numbers of new cases every single day now going on nearly two week, that's not necessarily going to help. now what a lot of indians are saying they want the u.s. and the biden administration to release intellectual property right restrictions on some of the manufacture of the vaccines and as you mentioned, india produces by far more vaccines than any other country, a huge amount of vaccines for the entire world and not just for indians and that's why they're saying if the world trade organization under leadership from the biden administration

would just release some of those intellectual property rights restrictions on those vehicleses they can rush to producing them in huge quantities they already have that capacity and they're just waiting for the biden administration to flip a switch policy wise, andrea? >> that's a big dispute inside the white house between the health advocates and the business side and the trade reps on the other. so this is not going to happen very easily. thank you so much, matt bradley. rid now, in elizabeth city, first, we're seeing joe biden inside a classroom in the tidewater community college in northern virginia. he and the first lady are there today. this is an hvac work shop, we're told? he's getting briefed. this, of course, is part of his sales pitch. >> -- given these controls to

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morning in california surrounded by people drinking coffee out and about. when you think back to how dark things looked at the beginning of the pandemic, especially in california, it's amazing to hear what the director of health for the city and county of san francisco has to say now about where things are at. take a listen. >> the message of hope is that these vaccines are incredible. they are our ticket out. i think from what we have learned is giving people options, these low barrier options, meeting people where they are and ensuring that community is guiing and leading the vaccine efforts is key. that's what we have seen in san francisco. that's, i think, one of the key reasons we're at this 70% rate. >> reporter: it's easy to dismiss san francisco, a city of less than 1 million people, with its 70% number. if you look across the state, the numbers are extraordinary. one number is one that the cdc has been arriving at. it's been doing a national

survey to find out how hesitant americans are about taking the vaccine. look at california, where the vaccine hesitancy rate for a state of 40 million people, is about 11%, as compared to, for instance, neighboring oregon, where that same number is between 13% and 19%. to see the incredible enthusiasm that so many people in a state as large as this have for getting the vaccine may, on tog efforts, the hard work of public health officials, be an explanation why california is doing well and has so much to enjoy going into the summer in the midst of coming out of this crisis. >> jacob ward, it's a beautiful day and a great time in san francisco. model for the country. thank you. joining us how is the president and ceo of the university hospital in newark, new jersey. do you think you see signs of life returning to normal in

places where enough people are getting vaccinated could encourage other people who are still hesitant? >> thank you so much for having me. i sure hope it does. unfortunately, we're not seeing the success that san francisco has had right here in newark, new jersey. as a hospital leader over a majority of minority community here, particularly black and brown residents, we have nowhere near the rates of full vaccination. less than 30%. the issue is, we're seeing declines in vaccination demand similar to the rest of the country. 15% week on week decline. if that's the case, we're not going to hit 50% or surpass 50%, let alone herd immunity. you will continue to get a covid outbreak as we move forward. i hope that these stories do encourage more folks to get vaccinated. we're trying our best to do so right here in newark. >> what can you do on the ground

there to persuade people who -- you are reaching people who are hard core, the people who really do not want the vaccine or got turned off by how difficult it was to get originally. >> we kicked off efforts to address that just on saturday. we did a full walk-in event, heavily advertised it with community leaders. we did get a good number of folks coming in to get their shot. we are discouraged by all but 13 people refusing the johnson & johnson vaccine in particular in the wake of the pause that happened. we have to get more into the community and we are launching three mobile vans that are going do that over the next several weeks to go closer to where people are to make it more convenient to access the shot. we are trying everything we can. we're not yet seeing the increases in vaccination rates that we would hope to see. >> i want to also ask you about reports that there has been waste by walgreens and cvs in particular.

there have been hundreds of thousands of wasted doses. that's a small number relative to the large number that have been administered. how could this be prevented? >> it's concerning because i think it reflects an overall reduction in demand. we are now seeing reports from experts across the country about doubt that we will reach that 70% herd immunity threshold. no one intends to waste vaccine. we have vaccine stock that we track very closely with a strong desire to get shots in arms. i think this is a function of demotivation and hesitancy. we have to do everything we can to get every demographic group, regardless of demographics, political speaker situation, -- political persuasion, what have you, to get the shot. without more creative solutions, like we are doing with mobile vans, we are concerned we may not get there as soon as we hope. >> thank you so very much for

everything you are doing. please stay in touch on this critical area. we appreciate your being with us. that does it for "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show online on facebook and twitter. kasie hunt is in for chuck todd up next with "mtp daily" only on msnbc.

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welcome to monday. it's "meet the press daily." i'm kasie hunt in for chuck todd on a busy monday afternoon. the funeral service for andrew brown, junior, the black man shot and killed by police while they were trying to serve an arrest warrant is underway as family, friends and activists have gathered to mouth his death amid the escalating debate in america about policing. president biden is scheduled to deliver remarks in virginia on education and infrastructure as the white house ramps up talks on capitol hill for trillions of dollars in new federal programs. we will take you to the president's remarks as soon as they begin. we will begin today with the fallout happening inside the republican party as its embrace of former president trump's lies about the election