rand paul who have made headlines for that before. keep it tuned here at "msnbc reports." thank you for watching this hour. you can find us on twitter. right now craig melvin picks up our coverage. i'm craig melvin from msnbc world headquarters in new york city. right now we are following four, yes, four senate meetings that are happening on capitol hill touching on voting rights to guns to cyber security to the pandemic. that hearing on the pandemic has dr. fauci and cdc director walensky testifying right now. the fda giving pfizer the green light for its vaccine on kids between 12 and 15. that's the big highlight from the nation's slipping vaccination rates.

president biden will be talking vaccine strategy with a bipartisan group of governors and will be doing it virtually. also this hour there's another story that we're following that you'll want to stick around for. south carolina is moving closer to passing a law that will add firing squads to its list of execution methods. without the lethal injection drugs have to choose between an electric chair and the firing squad. right now the state doesn't have lethal injection drugs. coming up, the daughter of a death row inmate in south carolina will join me. her father is on track to be one of the next inmates executed. but his lawyers say he actually shouldn't be on death row at all. stay with us for that story coming up in a few minutes. we'll start with new developments in the fight in the pandemic. garrett haake is on capitol hill, sharon pettypiece at the white house. also with us is dr. ebony hilton of critical care medicine at the

university of virginia. doctor, stand by. let me start with you, garrett. walk us through what we've heard so far and what we're hearing now from dr. walensky and dr. fauci. >> reporter: i've been covering these periodic updates for the last year, and the one that started about an hour ago is probably the most hopeful i have heard from the various vaccines on the market to the speed of which they are being deployed. there's a lot of focus trying to get more of those vaccines in to more arms especially younger people. dr. anthony fauci described this as a critical turning point in our battle. here is what he said. >> i believe we are about at that critical turning point. clearly the majority of individuals in the country vaccinated. we will see a sharp turning

point and a marked amount of cases. >> reporter: and key to getting more vaccines into arms, craig, will be getting them to younger people. you heard it perhaps at the end of the last hour, the cdc director saying essentially urging younger people to ask your parents to go get the vaccine. i don't know how many young people are watching the health committee here in the united states senate today, but hopefully some are watching us. you will see a full administration push to get the vaccines into younger people's arms. what i found fascinating he said the real world data on the efficacy of the vaccines is better than what they were seeing in the study. the university of texas of people that have been vaccinated there something like.005% of those people were getting covid. the data from the real world

even more encouraging. >> having to listen to dr. fauci more than a year now that is probably the most hopeful i have heard. the president will be meeting with these governors virtually, talking about their vaccination progress. the white house says they are going to be talking about best practices. what else do we know about this meeting and the governors? >> reporter: we have seen the government come out and say something about covid. you can see it's the white house's effort to keep the president out there, keep showing that he is taking a leadership role and talking about what the administration is doing, a balance of the trump administration struggled to find. holding this bipartisan meeting with governors today, talking about their best practices is an example of this. all of this comes as we are seeing the relationship between what the federal government has to do for states changing. early on the big federally run mass vaccination centers.

there were military personnel, fema personnel being deployed to help get shots into arms. what states need is changing, shifting to more of this hand-to-hand combat where they need mobile clinics to go out, go door-to-door to people. not to a big mass vaccination center but to tens of thousands of doctors offices and pharmacies. the 12 to 15-year-old age group states are going to have to reach and the type of federal support will be needed for that. how they're going to try and get the vaccines to pediatricians. this comes at a crucial time about how the federal government is going to shift to this next stage of the pandemic and work with states when they do that. >> some welcome news.

the fda approving the pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds opening up roughly 17 million more people to get vaccinated. the first shots could happen by thursday we're hearing. how significant is this particular step? >> it's hugely significant. i've said from the very beginning america has been fascinated with and obsessed with the death count. we haven't concentrated on who actually survives and recovers from covid, right? what we know is that upwards of 30% to 50% of persons are reporting these long haul symptoms, this covid long haulers and that's even with our children, 30% of children in studies are showing long, lingering symptoms. what does it do to a developing body? if your heart, your lungs, kidneys as it's developing has this huge inflammatory process, we don't know. protecting our children is paramount and at this point 12% of cases to less than 18 years

old. these children are largely under tested. there's a large percentage of kids impacted by covid-19. the more we can protect the better for the long haul. >> we're getting this update from the company's senior vp of vaccine clinical research and development. >> i think we'll have some information as early as the end of the summer or early fall in time to make decisions about the potential for offering up a booster. it may well be the case that the vaccine provides more durable protection and a booster may not be needed for up to a year. >> your message for parents who are watching or listening who are hesitant to vaccinate their children to start with. perhaps a booster shot as well. >> my message is, again, to stick with the risk/benefit

versus getting covid infection. again, we don't know the long-term impact of what covid can do to the body. we know that happens with measles, looking at persons, elderly persons who die of natural causes who have been infected. we can still find that virus within the fluid of the brain and what does it do with covid-19? if we're looking at students or the pitcher for the boston red sox, young, healthy people who have inflammation around their heart, we can't play roll the dice with our children. they flutter and when they're 20 or 30 years old are they going to have a chronic respiratory illness because of covid-19, they could have been protected

from and proven to be highly efficacious why risk it? we have boosters with other vaccines, right? we can get through this, but we have to get through this together. truly follow and trust the science behind this. >> like most things in this country, the vaccine has become politicized. vaccinations have become politicized. states all over the country start the conversation surrounding whether they should require kids to have the covid-19 vaccine to attend classes. what would you say to those local health officials who are weighing those decisions. >> republican or libertarian, what i would say is we're from

south carolina. right now only 28% of south carolinians have been fully vaccinated and yet we're lifting the mandates and opening up our communities. that risk is risk of death. we're talking about the fact that we're opening up businesses right now. maybe because those essential workers are the ones that were infected and now they cannot breathe. they have heart failure symptoms and we're asking them to go to work and they cannot do that. this is a health crisis, an economic crisis. it's devastating our system with the opening and closing of schools with the outbreaks and the only way we'll get a grip on this is that herd immunity level of which 28% is not it. it is at least 60% as we see in israel. >> dr. hilton, thanks so much. shannon pettypiece, garrett haake, we will be checking in with you. right now in the race to

vaccinate, new york city is bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase faster than a new york minute. vaccination rates are sinking. the city is now offering the one-shot johnson & johnson vaccine to tourists. and that is where we find chris jansing, at one of the vaccination sites in times square. so tell us about this pop-up site, chris. >> reporter: they're working it in new york city trying to bring back what has been places like this. go to where the tourists want to be. times square, brooklyn bridge park, the places where if you are 16 or older and are a resident of the united states you can walk in and will leave

vaccinated and other enticements, free tickets to the brooklyn bow tannic garden, the zoo, lincoln center. listen to what one tourist center told me. >> kill two birds with one stone, one of the most exciting destinations and, by the way, get vaccinated while you're here and we'll take care of anything. one more thing that can make the trip more appealing. >> reporter: when you look at an economic comeback, tourism is absolutely key. in 2019 it accounted for $70 billion in business, responsible for thousands of jobs and take a look at the numbers, 2019 was another record year for tourism in new york city. it is the number one tourist destination in the united states. that dropped to a third of those

numbers in last year, 2020, and they're hoping this year to get just above half those numbers. they know it's going to be a climb to come back so they are really marketing this they're marketing the idea of the pop-ups. they're even taking, i guess you call it, craig, a lemon and making lemonade. they take tents and putting them on the streets. they are marketing that as a cafe culture, a number one dining destination, much like europe. a lot of people who travel there like the idea of being able to sit out on the streets and enjoy things. it is the cafe culture destination of the united states. really critical to the economy of this city coming back, craig. >> hear-hear. chris jansing for us not far from 30 rock. chris, thank you as always, my friend. and tomorrow be sure to watch our msnbc town hall with president biden.

he'll sit down with lawrence o'donnell on the push to get every american vaccinated. the surgeon general, hhs secretary beccera will be joining us as well. an msnbc town hall tomorrow at 10:00 eastern only on msnbc. happening right now, as you can see, a critical hearing in the senate on voting, money and politics and corruption. the tense showdown that's just getting started in the upper chamber on the for the people act. senator ted cruz speaking now. also, quote, we need to make a change. that's what the top house republican said about booting liz cheney from her leadership position. where things stand ahead of tomorrow's vote, and south carolina poised to allow executions by firing squad if lethal injection drugs are not available. we'll talk to a woman whose father is on death row in that state. how they're trying to appeal the

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quote, it is clear that we need to make a change. that is house minority leader kevin mccarthy's message to his fellow republicans this morning. it was part of a letter he september to his caucus on monday ahead of the vote whether liz cheney will keep her leadership position. leigh ann caldwell has been following this back and forth for us. last check it seemed as if mccarthy had the votes to remove liz cheney. is that still the case? >> reporter: it seems to be the case, craig, because leader mccarthy sent a pretty extraordinary letter to his colleagues encouraging them to remove a member of his leadership team, liz cheney. so if mccarthy didn't have the votes before, he is likely to have them now because he is essentially telling his members that there does need to be a change at the top.

and so liz cheney should no longer be in that position. so what's going to happen is the house is going to meet -- house republicans will meet behind closed doors tomorrow morning. leader mccarthy in the same letter said that they should anticipate a vote to recall cheney from the conference chair position. now what happens next is unclear. of course there needs to be a replacement and the likely replacement is representative stefanik of new york. we don't know if that vote is going to take place tomorrow. i'm told by sources it's likely to happen later in the week or perhaps early next week. there has to be some sort of committee forum where she has to make her case to the entire conference. but, craig, as far as liz cheney is concerned, she is very likely to lose her leadership position even though her allies and her supporters say that it is leader mccarthy who is making the wrong move by embracing the former president over what they think is the future of the party

moving away from donald trump. they think that is going to be more beneficial in the midterms and more beneficial in the suburban districts necessary to win back the house for house republicans. craig? >> leigh ann caldwell there on the lower chamber, here is a live look at what's happening in the upper chamber. the hearing under way right now on the for the people act, which would change the way we vote and finance campaigns in this country. and in just the last couple of minutes republican senator ted cruz called this bill, i'm quoting here, jim crow, 2.0. the stakes are so high both the majority and minority leader are taking part in this particular hearing. according to the associated press mitch mcconnell is, quote, so determined to stop democrats that he will personally argue against the measure.

a rare role for a party leader that shows the extent to which republicans are prepared to fight. here is what the senate leaders from both parties just said in the last hour. >> the democratic party on its own wants to rewrite the ground rules of american politics for their benefit. we all know that's what this is about. >> in democracy when you lose an election, you try to persuade more voters to vote for you. you don't try to ban the other side from voting. >> where do things stand right now on this particular bill? do democrats have the votes? >> reporter: craig, democrats are expected to have the votes in committee to advance this bill to the floor. it's obviously a 50/50 split senate, a 9 to 9 tie on the committee, and every democrat on the rules committee, which we're watching now, is a co-sponsor of the s-1 bill so no real doubt in

the end they will have the votes to move this from committee to the floor. now democrats insist they are not giving up on bipartisan support but they're not counting on it either and nobody should expect any republican to support this bill. once it gets to the floor things get much more complicated because democrats have 49 co-sponsors to this bill. the lone holeout is senator joe manchin of west virginia who our viewers have been hearing a lot about lately. he has insisted that republican support is necessary to keep voters keep the faith in elections for american voters, and there's no real overlap between what democrats want and what republicans want. they want to move in opposite directions even if, let's suppose for a minute, democrats get joe manchin onboard with the series of revisions to the bill they're trying to get states more flexibility, there's still a 60 vote threshold there, to force a 60-vote threshold to advance the bill and manchin,

along with the senator of arizona who is a supporter of this bill both say they will not vote to abolish the filibuster. this is a tough path ahead if democrats want to try to get the bill passed into law. >> and we just mentioned that the comments from senator cruz. you don't have to take my word for it. here is the senator from texas. >> worth remembering that those jim crow laws were drafted by democrats. they were implemented by democrats, and they kept democrats in power. now today's talking point repeated in the media is that was the democrats of yesterday not today. well, today the democrats are doing it again. this legislation, to use a phrase that has been popularized on the media recently, is jim crow 2.0. this legislation would disenfranchise millions of americans. >> so, again, sahil, that coming

from senator cruz moments ago. what's he talking about? how would the bill disenfranchise millions of americans? >> reporter: that just gives you a sense of how contentious this is, craig. i have not heard any republican use that talking point before that this is jim crow, an argument democrats had made to push back on republican-led states like georgia and texas passing restrictions but what ted cruz is essentially saying is a sharper version of what republicans have been saying which is that this bill if passed as is would make it easier for people to cheat in elections and, in their view, enhance the likelihood of voter fraud. the presence of voter fraud is extremely rare in american elections, but what the republicans are arguing is this would open the doors for that. that's a sense of where he's going. sahil kapur, keep us posted. thank you so much. one part of the infrastructure

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this afternoon the family of andrew brown jr. could finally see about 20 minutes worth of the police body cam footage from the day he died. brown was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies executing a warrant last month. the family was previously only shown 20 seconds of that video. nbc's kerry sanders is back in elizabeth city, north carolina, for us ahead of the viewing. kerry, why is the family still not going to see all of the body camera footage? >> reporter: that's a really good question here. the judge has decided when he was going to disclose the video. that means that they can watch it but they can't take a copy of it and walk out of the pasquotank sheriff's office with it. when they get it, they will only be allowed to see 20 minutes of the two hours of video pertaining to the moments that andrew brown was shot and killed and engaged with officers.

that means that the deputies doing their planning, which would be recorded as they arrived in the back of a pickup truck, and the aftermath when they were discussing what went down, that video and that audio will be excluded. now the lawyers representing andrew brown hope that they will be able to, by looking at four body camera videos and one dash cam video, have a better understanding of what actually happened that day. they've been told, even though they saw this 20 seconds of video, they've been told that andrew brown used his car in a deadly way, as if it was a weapon, driving and hitting some of the officers. and that's why the officers began firing their weapons. andrew brown was hit four times in the right arm and there was a single shot to the back of his head. the attorneys and the family representing andrew brown say, wait a second, be if he was shot in the back of the head going away from the officers why do they feel the need to use deadly force? it's possible some questions will be answered today with that

video, but the fact it's not being released to the community, it's all open here to interpretation. also on another front the civil rights attorneys that are representing the brown family have issued a letter to the district attorney asking him to recuse himself saying in part there is no doubt all seven officers involved, including the three shooters, have worked directly with you and your office for years. the conflict is well defined. the district attorney has not responded to that request to recuse himself, and we reached out to his office and he did not even return our call here on msnbc to say whether he even received the letter and read it. so it will be a couple hours. they'll go in, they'll see it, and we'll hear what their interpretation is of what they see of this 20 minutes plus of video. >> kerry sanders for us there in elizabeth city. keep us posted. we'll check in with you once the family has viewed that video. meanwhile this week the white

house ramping up its push to get president biden's infrastructure bill passed. and today we're getting a closer look at how that bill could impact black communities specifically. specifically how it could right decades old wrongs that impacted generations. for years highway projects that essentially demolished many thriving communities. now part of the president's plan would set aside some $20 billion in funds to revitalize these areas. maura barrett is in a community that was directly targeted by the government to build the i-94 highway. so what are you hearing from folks there about president biden's infrastructure plan and how it could impact that community? >> reporter: craig, we're standing just adjacent to the i-94 freeway. you can see behind me everything that is now freeway used to be rondo avenue. it was the heart of the black

community here in st. paul. homes, businesses, grocery stores all decimated as part of this highway project and rondo wasn't alone across the country. if you look at the map it happened in chicago, detroit, new orleans, los angeles, the list goes on and on. and this was in an effort to add 40,000 miles to our cross-country interstate but in doing so it displaced nearly 500,000 people, a majority of them black. and this highway project didn't just separate black communities and displace them, it further segregated black communities as it was built with one-ways at the intersections of white and black communities, sidewalks in those communities limiting transportation as well as low clearance bridges where public buses couldn't go under. and so this is something the country has been grappling with, black communities across the country, grappling with and president biden looking to increase transportation, revitalize those communities. i spoke with some community members here in st. paul, one of which including the mayor, their families were displaced in the

1950s. i asked about their reaction to president biden's plan. here is some of our conversation. >> the harm that that did, in many ways, is irreparable. you can't go back and give our family the last 50 years or our neighborhood the last 50 years. >> here is a president who understands just how important and valuable if the federal government can make a mistake the federal government can change that. >> reporter: here in rondo, in st. paul, they proposed building a land bridge over the highway, 22 acres of space for new housing, community centers and amphitheater to revitalize the community, something they can use the national funding for. as we watch the infrastructure bill go back and forth, increasing the fund to mass transportation and highways but they've removed the specific section when it comes to recorrecting those historically divided black communities.

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die by firing squad if lethal injection drugs are not available. the reason? south carolina is facing a shortage of the drugs. drug makers have been reluctant to sell those drugs for executions. south carolina has no such law. now if this bill does become law this man could be one of the first to have to make this impossible choice. shooting and killing a store clerk. he was found guilty and sentenced to death. moore's attorneys argued before the state's supreme court that the death penalty is too harsh in his case. they say he didn't go into the store looking to kill anyone and, in fact, he didn't even walk in with the murder weapon.

it was only a struggle the clerk pulled several weapons from behind the counter. moore got hold of one of those weapons and they both shot each other. james mahoney did not. this state relied on circumstantial evidence to persuade the jury that more intended to commit a robbery. although moore did not have a gun on him the sentencing jury heard evidence of his violent robberies who were unable to defend against violent assaults. his sister said, quote, our family has suffered for over 20 plus years.

it is pastime that the state carries out a sentence. moore's family says he's a loving father and has been supportive. here is what he said to a group called justice 360. >> i wish i could go back and change it. there are a lot of things i wish i could change. the most -- definitely a part of my life i wish i could change. i took a life, someone's life. >> i want to bring in two people close to richard moore, his daughter, alexandria moore and his attorney. let me start with you.

help us understand your father from your perspective. who is he and what does he mean to you? >> my father is like any other father who is always supportive and shown immense love. i've never felt him as anything less than a father figure. i was always a daddy's girl. i still am. >> what has the relationship with your father been like while he's been in prison these years and on death row? >> honestly i can say that our relationship has been strong and i'm sure it will continue. i have a granddaughter. i have not been without even though i've had to visit him in

prison. the distance between us he doesn't let it affect his parenting at all. it's incredible the effort he puts in to make sure i know he loves me. >> what did you think when you heard south carolina was trying to pass this new bill that brings backfiring squads? >> it was a big shock, i could say to want to put in so much effort to put a man to death is just wild to me. the urge to kill someone when he didn't have his fair -- a fair jury, i would say. >> what has your father said about this impossible choice? or has he? >> for the most part my

father -- we don't talk too intimately about the details of his case and the circumstances. he just lets me know no matter what happens he has always loved me and my brother and his granddaughter and son-in-law. he doesn't really delve too deep into the details. he keeps it positive and it's always a happy time with him. >> let me bring you into the conversation now. you were not trying to prove that moore didn't commit a crime. we've just heard from mr. moore admit to the crime. walk us through how you are making that argument. why do you have a strong case? >> we are not challenging whether richard moore is guilty of offense that he was convicted of. this is a question whether south

carolina's ultimate punishment of the death penalty is appropriate in this particular case. because he entered the store without a weapon, without any real understanding that harm could be committed once he entered the store. this doesn't rise to the worst of the worst cases that the death penalty is appropriate for and we've researched the cases and haven't found where a person was threatened by someone else and received the death penalty for the crime. >> the state was going to execute moore this december. he would have been the first to be put to death since 2011. can you help us what's next in the process? >> they took up the case to take another look whether the death penalty is appropriate in this particular case. again, because this is the

ultimate punishment there are procedural protections to make sure the state gets it right. there were arguments last week and we're waiting for the court's decision on whether the death sentence will stand or not. >> your father has a notable ally here. it's the former head of the south carolina department of corrections, john osmitt, a republican, a lifelong republican, but he said to justice 360 that your father should be able to live out his life. this would not be a death penalty case. what does it say to you that a person with his background is in your father's corner? >> it says to me it's pretty clear my father deserves a chance to continue his life to

know that someone so -- with a differing opinion on the death penalty is supportive of my father. i think everyone needs to know that this man has a life and he should continue to live with his family. >> what would your message be to lawmakers who are considering this firing squad bill? >> what would my message be? i'm not sure i have an answer to that. i just know the amount of effort to put my dad -- to execute my dad is baffling and i think the work that justice 360 is doing right now to help support my father is something they could learn from and to prevent more

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>> these cultural flash points we have seen at the national level are permeating local politics and igniting a lot of individuals and groups who have never been involved before but who are interested in reshaping the future of education in america. in delaware, these elections, these school board elections are usually apolitical, candidates don't usually affiliate with a party, but the executive director here tells me this is the most politicized and partisan he has ever seen these races. a lot of heated debate around issues of covid-19 restrictions and whether or not schools should reopen completely and whether or not what those restrictions should be. and how diversity should be taught in the classroom. in the blue state there has been an influx of conservative

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