if it's friday, president biden reacts to a jobs report. what's behind it? what could it mean for the covid recovery and the biden administration? the justice department sends a warning to arizona republicans about their so-called election audit. trump-inspired chaos spreads from the state conventions to the national leadership. a federal grand jury has indicted derek chauvin and three other former minneapolis police

officers charging them with violating george floyd's civil rights during the arrest that caused his death. they charged chauvin for a separate incident. we will have details on that as well. ♪♪ welcome to "meet the press daily." i am chuck todd. we begin with a number of developments inside the republican party as it deals with the consequences of its full embrace of trump and trumpisms and surrenders to its lie that the election was rigged against him. in arizona, officials have told republicans that they have serious concerns about how it's so-called audit of the presidential results is being conducted. this comes as more reports have been surfacing about disorderly, bizarre, biased this audit

process has become. that's just in arizona. in virginia, a state party that's had its share of problems over the last decade, republicans are about to hold one of the strangest and most convoluted conventions -- i put that in quotes, if i could -- you will see. they will choose their nominee for governor in a process that appears to have spun out of control amid the former president's ongoing lies about voting. one of the republican candidates in that race wanted the president to declare martial law in the election. some of this convention's chaos may be the result of republicans so worried that a certain candidate might get the nomination that they have created a bizarre process to avoid that and then calling into question the entire process itself. then you have the texas where republican state lawmakers have advanced new voting restrictions the day after ron desantis signed into law new restrictions in florida. there was no actual impetus for

this other than donald trump's whining. both measures motivated by the embrace of the lie. all of this is happening on the state and local level. on the national level, the republicans in congress are in the process of ousting liz cheney from leadership. they have been showing trump their loyalty. >> i would just say to my republican colleagues, can we move forward without president trump? the answer is no. i have always liked liz cheney. she made a determination that the republican party can't grow with president trump. i have determined we can't grow without him. >> my vision is to run with support from the president and his coalition of voters, which was the highest number of votes ever won by a republican nominee. >> we a pro-america populist party rooted from conservative

principle. >> in terms of president trump, he brings incredible energy to our voters, to our party and to the fight that we are in against this biden administration. i welcome all of that energy. i see that in wyoming every day. >> there's only one leader of the republican party, you heard them say it. it's a party that is embracing their form of cancel culture. if you are not with donald trump, they are cancelling you. we will talk to arizona top election officials about the audit in the state in a moment. let's start with leigh ann caldwell at the villages in florida. a lot of you may know what the villages are. it's following a couple of die-hard trump loyalists, revealing -- reveling in the house republican caucuses to oust cheney. we have mark murray who is keeping tabs on the strange nomination for governor in virginia. we have matt gaetz and marjorie

taylor greene. gaetz is in an investigation involving possible sex with an underage woman. what are you covering today at villages? >> reporter: chuck, i am covering the first stop on marjorie taylor greene and matt gaetz's american first tour. it's a fund-raising tour for their joint political committees for them to raise money. marjorie taylor greene has proven she's an excellent fund-raiser. she spent a lot of money to raise the funds. what they are going to do is they are going to highlight the trump wing of the party. they are expected to, of course, show their deep loyalty to the former president. they are expected to call out the members of the party who they think are not sufficiently loyal enough. representative gaetz wrote an op-ed today in a pro-trump

publication calling out representative cheney, saying that she's a relic of the past. she's no longer part of the current day republican party and that she should not be a member of leadership and that the people of -- she shouldn't be a member of congress, that the people of wyoming do not support her. the divide within the republican party is on clear display today because while you have matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene, while they are not centers of power in washington, they still do have a following. they are also close with the former president still. meanwhile, you have what's happening in washington with liz cheney most likely losing her leadership position because she is talking about what the former president did. meanwhile, republicans are talking -- i'm talking to republicans that say she talks

about the past. we need to move forward and talk about the future. i spoke with a couple republican sources today -- or yesterday and i said, well, the former president continues to talk about the past. he is not talking about the future of the party. they didn't really have an answer to that, chuck. >> look, i guess the other thing is, this is now -- the party apparently only stands for one thing. the reason i ask it this way, the single most important piece of legislation, according to senate republicans, that's been passed in a generation, was the tax cut. elise stefanik voted against that. you have -- you are covering an event the house republican leadership is not disavowing. two people that frankly should be politically radioactive in sort of -- in a decent society. what is happening here? the only common denominator is loyalty to trump versus disloyalty to trump.

>> reporter: yeah. my sources in washington say, these are not apples to apples comparison. marjorie taylor greene and matt gaetz are not members of leadership like cheney is. it doesn't matter to the voters and to the public who see the message that marjorie taylor greene and matt gaetz are giving, that the leadership in the republican party are embracing. >> look, we're all looking at it. it's just something you can't believe it's playing out this way. when you have an information ecosystem that is as broken and polluted as the one that's on the right, i guess this is where we have gotten. let me turn to mark murray. let's sort of -- the virginia republicans decided they had a problem, that they had one candidate that was extremely supportive of donald trump that was going to win a primary.

with that as their problem, they decided, we can't have that. so we need to design a convention. then it seemed to get really out of hand. i will let you pick it up from there. >> you and i have covered a lot of nominating contest. it is an unassembled convention due to the pandemic. you are going to see delegates drive to about 40 locations across the state of virginia and basically hand in their ballots on who they think should end up being their nominees for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. we will see maybe at most about 50,000 delegates. they applied and were selected by local republican units on who can be a delegate. that 50,000 number is far less than the hundreds of thousands that we would end up seeing participate at a normal primarily like on the democratic

side on june 8th and the 1.9 million virginians who voted for trump in 2020. then here is where it gets really complicated. the ballot is rank choice. seven republicans who are running. delegates get to pick one through seven. then it's determined by waiting by locality. there's a mathematical formula. then finally, they are not going to start kointkoint counting by sunday. it could last to tuesday or thursday. you add it all up, and this sounds a lot like the democratic iowa caucuses of 2020 with the pandemic and drive-by voting mixed in. things could go smoothly on saturday and into next week. things could also turn incredibly chaotic. >> i just want to emphasize something.

obviously, this is about fear of the fairfax county moderate republican. if you are a republican from fairfax county, your vote does not count as much as if you are a republican from a county in southwest virginia. correct? >> that's right, chuck. that's right. it's a combination that virginia republican party has on its spreadsheet on what counties count for what. if you end up having 1,000 people in fairfax county versus 1,000 people in the roanoke area and how they match out, a lot of it is determined by just math math. >> dale: -- mathematical ways. >> when you try to design a system to avoid a result, you are usually going to create a terrible system. congratulations, virginia republicans. good luck with this this weekend. thank you both for getting us

started. joining me now with yet another bizarre event that we are covering inspired by a state republican party, it's the arizona secretary of state. this comes to this sort of -- i don't know what to call it. a sideshow. that's what this looks like from the outside here. this audit, you seem to be concerned about it. it's being paid for in some part by taxpayer money. some with private funds. what is happening with it? why is it still going on? >> well, i think you are spot on for calling it a sideshow. it's not reflective of the electorate in arizona. this is a small group of fringe republicans who are driving this. essentially trying to relitigate the 2020 election, which is over and done. anyone looking at what's happening in this process, it's

fraught with problems in terms of security, chain of custody of the ballots and equipment. it's fraught with problems. quite ironically, the same kind of problems that the conspiracy theorists said without basis and fact happened during the actual election, which we know is not true. that's what we are seeing carried out in this process right now. there's no way that what's going on right now can result in any kind of reliable or valid outcome in terms of a real audit. >> who is in charge of keeping these ballots secure? there's a law that indicates they need to be kept secure. is it your office? are you able to supervise this in any way to make sure they are not messing up ballots, things like that? is there a third party supervisor?

>> no, there's not. honestly, what has been happening here is they are making it up as they go along. the senate issued the subpoena to do this audit and recount without really understanding what they were getting into and ignoring the concerns we brought up to them. we outlined a number of security measures that should be taken into consideration. that was ignored. we offered up election experts to help craft procedures. that was ignored. the subpoena basically turns the custody of these ballots and equipment over to the state senate. they are responsible for it. they seem to have just brushed off the concerns from the department of justice in terms of potential violation of ballot preservation laws for federal elections. it seems they are not taking any of these issues seriously. we know from the comments and concerns we are getting in our

office that voters across the state of arizona are very concerned about what's going on here. >> is there any other legal recourse? you wrote a letter to the justice department. it looks like the state senate isn't -- republicans aren't responding to it. do you have other legal avenues to go to? do you think this should be stopped? >> well, there was a lawsuit. part of the lawsuit was to try to stop this audit. it was brought by the arizona democratic party and my office intervenes. a settlement was reached earlier this week. one of the terms of the settlement is that if we brought concerns to their attention, they had 48 hours to respond to those. as soon as that lawsuit settlement was filed, we issued a six-page letter outlining 13 very broad concerns about security and processes and procedures. from what we have seen so far, it doesn't look like they're taking that seriously. this very well could end up back

in court. >> can you remind viewers how many -- what kind of audits and recounts we have had already in arizona? how many have there been? >> so, before each election, every county does a test to determine the equipment is working the way it's supposed to. there's a lot of things that go into that. i'm just brushing over it. the test assures equipment is working properly. post election there's another test as well as a hand count of a statistically significant enough of randomly selected precincts. they came out clean. they had two independent u.s. election assistant commission

auditing firms come in and do two separate independent forensic audits. that hasn't satisfied the concerns. this is where we are today. >> what does this mean for 2022? what of this experience has you planning alternative ways of conducting the vote in 2022? >> well, you know, what we have seen across the country since the 2020 election is legislatures with majorities who are not satisfied with the election outcome try to change the laws to change how people vote. that is happening in arizona. in fact, i think we led the charge in terms of number of voter restrictive measures that were introduced as bills. that potentially has the potential to change how voting takes place in the 2022 election. in general, what this is doing

is just continuing to undermine people's confidence in the integrity of our elections. that is dangerous for our democracy. that is the end game here that they want to accomplish. >> i don't think that's the flaw. i think that's supposed to be the logical outcome that they want to have and put power of the elections to the state legislatures. secretary of state in arizona, thanks for coming on and sharing your perspective with us. >> thank you. up next, amid new progress in fighting the coronavirus, pfizer applied for full authorization of its vaccine. will it happen? the assumption is yes. when will it happen? will it convince some hesitant people to get vaccinated? we are live in one of the least vaccinated places in the country. later, the biden administration reacts to the disappointing april jobs number. i will have the commerce

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welcome back. we learned that pfizer is applying for full approval from the fda for its coronavirus vaccine, a move that would allow the company to market it and lead businesses to officially mandate it. the approval would make the vaccine the first in the u.s. to gain full fda approval. it's a process that could take months. the u.s. has vaccinated 57% of adults with at least one shot, inching toward president biden's goal of 70% by the 4th of july. the percentages of adults who have received at least one shot in every state, you can see that rates are lower in the southern region. they just are and the rocky mountain area. if you were to look at that as red and blue, it's a lot of red states. one of those is wyoming. that's where cal perry is. it's a state that ranks near the bottom per capita actually

vaccinated adults. joining me is former acting cdc director dr. richard besser. cal, you are out there. the reason we picked wyoming is because it's a state that it's near the bottom. what have you learned on the ground there as to this? how much is just environmental where because of the sparseness of the state, the virus has never been as front and center there as it has in other places? >> reporter: look, i think that's part of it. you are finding that people who don't want a vaccine are looking for a reason not to get one. people who wanted it, have gotten one. officials are focusing on that middle group, people that could be persuaded. there's a group of people here in -- it's not just wyoming, it's around the country -- who don't want the vaccine. take a listen to what tony told us. we visited a feed store here in cheyenne, which is a requirement here in wyoming. here are the reasons he gave. >> so many people we know come in the store, they are getting sick.

i can't afford it. it's my wife and i that work here. this is our livelihood. i have worked here 43 years. i can't lose it over getting the shot. >> reporter: county health official told us there's an easy way to reach herd immunity and the hard way. the easy way is to get vaccinated. the hard way is to get sick. people looking for an excuse are finding it in media. fox news is providing them reasons to not get a vaccine. it's something we hear out here time and time again. >> cal perry in wyoming with what is a familiar story now. that's where we bring in dr. besser. this is the story you hear. we have a two-pronged issue. the hesitancy that would be there, but there's an information stream that is feeding this hesitancy. it's actually -- some people

might say it's encouraging the hesitancy. what do we do? >> i think one thing is to not look at all people who are hesitant as being in the same bucket. there's a lot of reasons that people are -- have not gotten vaccinated. the biggest reason is that for some people it hasn't been easy. as we see states make it easier and easier for people to get vaccinated, we are going to see the numbers moving up. we're not going to see the 3 and 4 million dose days we saw before, because that was really based on built up demand that hadn't been met. we will see slow increase. the point you made earlier about a vaccine getting approved, that could change things in a big way. one is that there are people who have been on the fence, wanting more safety information. to get approved by the fda, the company will have to present more safety information, more data on the effectiveness.

for people who had concerns the emergency use process wasn't rigorous enough, that should meet those concerns and bring those people forward. the other way that it may change things is that there's some people who may not want to get a vaccine but they are not opposed to. if they are required to get vaccinated to do some things they want to do, like go to work, like go to certain events, get on planes -- we have seen this in children. they may say, it's just not worth the effort to push back on getting vaccinated. i will just do it so i can do the things i want to do. >> i was going to say, is that ultimately what we have to do here, which is have -- it's an all of the above solution, so, yes, getting -- i could tell you my kid school, they can't require everybody to have it. if you want to go to prom, you have to have it. if you want to go to the student

section for game x, you have to have it. is that really probably our best way to sort of encourage that kind of -- don't call it a mandate mandate encouragement? what do you think of financial incentives? >> i think it's a wide range. when you look at the groups that haven't gotten vaccinated so far, younger people -- a lot of young people have just been granted access to the vaccine. a lot of younger people are like, well, if it's really easy, i will get vaccinated. i want to wait a little while. when you look at black americans, we are seeing an increasing number of black americans who want to get vaccinated. but we have to make sure that barriers aren't there. bring it to communities. when you look at political conservatives, it's important to recognize the vast majority of political conservatives want to get vaccinated. it's a smaller sliver that say

absolutely no way. i wouldn't spend a lot of time on the people who are absolutely no way. maybe some will be moved by some of the requirements and mandates. there's a group that have questions and hopefully the safety information from approval will move some of that group. we have to remember that there aren't vaccines for children. i'm a pediatrician and parent. children are only protected by what we do as adults. if we take those steps, follow public health guidance and get vaccinated, we are protecting our kids. that's an important thing that res natu resonates with people across the political spectrum. >> what is the process now with the formal application by pfizer? the estimate is months. what is months? is it two to three or six to 12? >> i'm hoping it's not six to 12, that it's shorter than that.

the fda does their internal review. they will pull together the committee that reviewed the vaccines for emergency use and they will look at this and make their consideration. we will see the same kind of meeting we saw before. then we will see the decision by fda. i hope it doesn't go that long. there's a lot of familiarity. the companies have been submitting rolling data, ongoing data as studies come in. there's a lot of interest at all levels of government and all levels of society for the fda to do their work as speedily as they can. also, not to cut corners so that we are sure that if these vaccines are approved, that they are safe. >> you can't have mandates or the semi-requirements until you have full authorization from the fda. dr. richard besser, good to have your expertise. thank you. >> thanks, chuck. have a good weekend.

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following george floyd's death. this morning, the doj unsealed a grand jury indictment of the four former police officers involved in floyd's arrest and death on charges they violated floyd's civil rights. all four former officers were charged. chauvin, who was found guilty for floyd's death, was also charged with violating his right to reasonable seizure, which includes the right to reasonable use of force by a police officer. two of the three other officers were also charged under the statute for failing to intervene. this morning indictments revealed a disturbing new charge against chauvin alleging abuse of force separate from floyd's death. he was indicted on two more civil rights violations, this time for an action against a 14-year-old during an arrest in 2017. for more, i'm joined by pete williams.

federal charges mean what? where do we go from here with that legal fight? when would that trial begin? >> well, let me answer the second one first. it's the easiest. whenever the government does this, whenever it comes into a state case that's proceeding, it usually stays in the background and waits to see what the outcome is in the state case to see whether or not there should be a second subsequent federal trial or whether the interest the federal government has been vindicated by the state conviction. chauvin has been convicted and will be sentences. the other three will go on trial soon. my guess here -- the government hasn't said. but my guess is the justice department will wait to see what happens on the state charges. it's a separate matter on the incident involving the 14-year-old in 2017 when the government says that he struck this child with his flashlight and state court documents said

chauvin put his knee on young man's back for 17 minutes. that's a separate case. the government could go ahead with that if it wanted to now. although, obviously, it's a hard thing to get somebody who is already serving time and is being detained to come into federal court to face the charges. could be done but it's a complicated thing. my guess is that they will wait to let the state cases play out before they proceed with any federal charges. the first thing is, why? i think the reason is that the government wants to show that it's going to be really tough on police violations of people's civil rights. excessive use of force, this is an interest of the justice department under president biden and garland. you have seen two pattern of practice investigations launched and two federal investigations. my guess is that's the point they're trying to make here, that they want to get tough on police misconduct. >> are these safety net charges

then? if the justice department feels as if these officers weren't -- weren't -- didn't go through a fair process with the state, however they determine it, then they will decide whether to take this to trial? >> that's typically the way it goes. there's a federal policy that says the government shouldn't intervene unless the state cases go off the rails or if the state process is in play, should not intervene, unless there's a federal interest to be vindicated. the essence of the state charge was not a civil rights violation. the state charge was assault and excessive use of force. this is a different case, a different theory. that's what the government is trying to protect here. >> in theory, this could add more prison time for all of them. if they do end up getting charged, you don't expect them to push forward?

>> i don't know whether the government will go ahead if all four are convicted, whether they would go ahead with a trial on the george floyd matter. they could go ahead with a trial on the other involving the teenager, because that was never charged by the state. or hasn't been so far that i know of. the maximum penalty under the federal law -- here is the duality here. the maximum penalty is life. that's more than what it would be to the state charges. on the other hand, the federal law has a higher evidentiary standard to meet. >> pete williams with the latest on these indictments of chauvin and those former police officers. pete williams, thank you. >> you bet. up next, our look at how the republican party evolved from a party that championed immigration to one calling for building a wall. the commerce secretary will be here in a few minutes. stay with us. stay with us my... ...best for my family.

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added just 266,000 new jobs last month. it's far below what was expected. that used to be a good jobs number. but this is not what folks expected. the unemployment rate ticked up slightly. the economy needs to create 8.2 million jobs at a minimum to put us back where we were before covid hit. some argue we need 10 million more jobs to stay in the trajectory we were on. president biden called for patience with our economic recovery a short time ago. >> it's going to continue to improve. today's report makes clear, thank goodness we passed the american rescue plan. help is here. more help is on the way. more help is needed. the american rescue plan was for the whole year. it plays out over a year. it's working. but we can't let up. this jobs report makes that clear. >> i'm joined by white house

correspondent mike memoli. mike, we have seen partisans from both sides spin this report in order to make a point about the president's various spending proposals. proposals. look, the white house, are they disappointed that these numbers are as anemic as many have described? >> well, chuck, if there was any doubt about whether this president skumz cable news coverage just like the last one did, i think it was put to rest when we heard the president come to the cameras today because there was some sensitivity i heard in terms of the coverage he was watching about how dismal this was, he tried to set the record straight and, in fact, try to push back on some of the criticism, for example, saying those who were worried that the trillions of dollars he's spending will overheat the economy, this is an economy that very much needs that federal

assistance. we had the plain-spoken president talking about families are more than a paycheck. then we heard janet yellen talking about, yes, we still have a country that's dealing with a pandemic, and the caregiving needs is what she attributed a lot of the criticism from republicans about whether unemployment assistance is too much if it's deterring people from going back to the work force. she made a push for the family plan which has a push for increased daycare, free kindergarten, things like that. that's what this data showed to her. >> mike memoli at the white house for us. mike, thank you very much. i'm now joined by the commerce secretary jean remundo. i think it's my first time to interview a cabinet secretary, so it's good to be doing that. there is a lot of analysis out

that we clearly have an issue on the supply side when it comes to labor. and i guess the question i have for you is what is the driver here in what you've been looking at so far in your opinion? is the driver benefits? is the driver the fact that not so many schools and day cares are open? is the driver all of it? >> good afternoon and it's good to be with you. i think the driver is the fact that we're still in a pandemic. people are still afraid to go back to work. some schools are still closed in many places, people are struggling with child care, people are afraid to go back to work particularly in close in-contact service industries. there is really no evidence to suggest that this has to do with the increase in unemployment insurance payments. in fact, people are still looking for work last month and the month before and still not finding jobs. you saw a small dip in

manufacturing jobs available. we can't make too much out of one month, but the point is we better pass this jobs package so we can get people back to work, because basically what this nets out to is the american people are still struggling and we have to be there for them to help them get through the pandemic and get back to work. >> i'm curious on the manufacturing number. i've seen some analysis that indicates how much of this is a supply chain issue? for instance, you know, we know there is high demand for cars, but right now there is not enough computer chips to make those cars. >> i do think that is a factor. again, there is a lot of noise in the data of just one month. it's certainly a factor. obviously auto workers have had to close some furlough lines. we're working very hard to get

the president's plan passed in congress to fund the semiconductor fund. the fact of the matter is we need to get back in the business of making more chips in america, and the supply chain vulnerabilities are very real, exactly as you say, chuck. >> when i go back to the issue of the unemployment benefits, do you expect -- do you think that is particularly what's making it harder for lower wage jobs to get filled, particularly in the restaurant industry? do you accept that maybe that's a factor there? >> i don't really. you hear it anecdotally, certainly, but there is no evidence to suggest that that is what is driving this. you know, there is greater evidence to suggest that people are afraid to go back to work, or that they can't, you know, their kids are still out of school and they can't get child care. so you hear it anecdotally,

certainly, but i do not think that's what's driving it. >> we've heard the president yesterday, going back to the plan. we've heard two things this week, that he's ready to negotiate even on the scope but particularly the tax cuts. he has also said he's not going to deficit spend. so, you know, how much should lawmakers take that to the bank? should we expect he is not going to support any deal that adds to the deficit if he would really turn down his signature proposals if it was deficit spending? >> i think the president is very serious. we should take him at his word. he wants to compromise. he absolutely wants to find bipartisan agreement. as a member of his jobs cabinet, that's certainly the direction he's given us in our conversations with capitol hill. find common ground where we can. but i'll tell you this, he

strongly believes, we all do, that doing nothing is not an option, and so we're all working as hard as we can to drive towards consensus and, you know, compromise will be part of that, but it's time for action and it's time for bold action. >> when it comes to this bipartisan deal, perhaps, for infrastructure, we heard senator capito say they didn't make their final offer, either. how optimistic are you that the lion's share of this bill gets passed in a bipartisan way? >> i am optimistic. i am optimistic, and i am working towards that. we're all working towards that. we have a meeting later this afternoon with the president to talk about that. i think we have to stay optimistic and we have to work to make it a reality. >> secretary gina raimondo. i know i'm up to the end of my

hour. i appreciate you coming on. a jobs number coming on friday. i hope it's a better jobs number we can talk about. secretary raimondo, thank you for coming on. >> thank you. before we go, i want to share some pretty good news from inside our house here. "meet the press daily" diane sherman, her husband ryan and big sisters laurel and vivian, they welcomed joseph ryan gorman this morning. a big congratulations to the whole gorman family from their "meet the press" family. how about that? two older sisters. you will someday be glad about that. my son swears having an older sister is not good, but he'll come around. that does it for us today. we'll be back monday with more "meet the press daily." msnbc conditions with jeff

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it's good to see you. i'm jeff bennet in for my friend katy tur. as we come on the air, we're following a lot of breaking news this friday. a major new development today in the house of republican reckoning, liz cheney doing battle over the big lie. also the expected boom that was a bust. we have a new jobs report that many economists are describing as shocking. jobs added but far, far fewer than expected. what exactly is going on? well, part of the explanation ties directly into what is now more than just a worrying trend. first the good news. pfizer today has started the process of applying for full fda approval of its covid vaccine beyond the emergency authorization it was granted back in december. but here's the bad news. far fewer people are getting vaccinated every day than even just a couple weeks ago. president biden's goal is 70% of americans with at least