try one a day 50+ multivitamin gummies. with vitamins c, d & zinc for immunity support. plus 8 b-vitamins for brain support. one a day and done. this monday morning, democrats being forced to rework, joe manchin says he will support the voting rights bill. he infurruates progressives saying he will not back a key change that would make it ease your for democrats to get bills through. this morning how chuck schumer plans to motivate this.

they are trying to roll back the violence. we're officially on court watch. we're going to know in a matter of minutes what if any decisions are coming down. our team of reporters and legal experts ready to bring it to you live. we're going to start at the capital. mike memoli is outside of the white house. we talks about senator joe manchin. he is now out with a couple interviews reiterating that he is not down to negotiate if republicans are not on board on a couple key issues, right?

so how does chuck schumer figure this out? it is a huge list of priorities, not just voting rights but the january 6th commission, police reform, tougher gun laws, all of them effectively on hold. joe manchin is making clear that he is not intending to budge. >> it is a huge to-do list that chuck schumer said they were going to tackle in the next three weeks in the month of june alone. so this does create a huge problem for senator schumer. senator joe manchin has said in the last few days that he did you want want to get rid of the filibuster. that is what he has maintained for the last few months since democrats took control of the majority of the senate.

he knows he is getting a lot of pressure from progressives and some of his members. this is him once again saying please stop pressuring me, this is where i stand. he thinks the senate needs to work in a bipartisan way to get some of these priorities done. they say they are instructing, and when they put this on the floor and we see how the vote falls, as you look at what people are thinking around the country, you look at public opinion poles and the public is mostly split on if the phil buster should remain. of course they want to keep it. they mostly want to get rid of it b with but the democrats are

on it. when you look at the ski priorities like gun control legislation it is split. that is where joe manx is coming down. he backed donald trump by nearly 40 points and he thinks this is how he represents his voters and that the phil buster should remain. >> we're going to see her in a moment in guatemala. >> over the course of his campaign i saw him talk about how important it was and how confident he was that he could govern. that is still his stated goal, but there was another what was

looked is how they were doing, and then meeting with legislatures, this is a view in the white house that this is a voting issue itself, the issue voting is an issue that if you look back to the run off elections, they want to get a lot done in congress right now, they have hopes that someone like manchin can be brought over, and that is a preview of what we might be seeing in the mid-term election campaign this is the way the white house views this issue. >> thank you, we're expecting to see vice president harris live

in guatemala next hour as she tries to met with officials. you can see her getting off of the plane. last month alone 25,000 unaccompanied children made the dangerous journey from here to the u.s. kerry sanders is with us. let's start with you the president's agenda here, the real challenges that she is facing. they are trying to solve problems with money and that's what she is again going to try to do in this area. first look at what she is bringing down here as she is trying to address this problem of kids making their way to the united states. it is long term like security

issues. there is a bigger package that will be used for humanitarian aide. hundreds of thousands of packages they are bringing for coronavirus. let me take you to the problem that is ever so present for children. i think if you went to your backyard somewhere and you saw where your children built a fort, it would be more secure than the homes that these people are living in. 50% of the children in this country are malnourished. the infan fant mortality rate is high. listen to what this one immigration expert had to tell us about mothers with babies in

their bellies and what they dream of. >> if the dream is that your children will one day go to college, here the dream is to -- >> leave the country and make a living in the united states. >> leave the country. >> the parents here believe that making it is actually leaving guatemala for the united states. >> i will go to step further, and ily say they want to go to north guatemala which is the united states. >> about 35 states of the united states. >> and we understand that relationships not only from guatemala, but they arrive in the u.s. and so many people over decades made this migration pattern to the united states from the northern triangle.

kamala harris's visit here will be very difficult and really an uphill push. hallie? >> we'll see her in a matter of minutes here, gabe gutierrez, this is a critical moment for this, this is where he is in guatemala city. >> the stakes are high here. you can see why right behind me. this is a group of families, many children, actually. there is about 70 people here, some are within in the last hour put into that bus over there. you heard kerry auk about those desperate conditions, these families made that grueling journey here. we're here in la hoya, texas to talk about how the rio grande is just over there about half a

mile or so there. they were just picked up, the texas national guard is here, too. for those not particular, they're rounded up here in these sweltering conditions, it's supposed to get into the 90 degree temperatures today, heat index in the triple digits, they often wait here several hours while they're processed. loaded into buses. this group right now is being taken to this bus, and then they are taken to a processing facility. potentially a huge one in donna, texas that we have been reporting on. something else i want to show you is we have been noticing more and more here on the ground and throughout the region these are wristbands. more and more we're finding have these on them. what they are is they're given these wristbands, different colors, by smugglers. it represents those that paid money to be able to get here. in roma, texas over the weekend we met many that say look, the

smugglers charge them about $400 to cross the river, but to get to guatemala, a trip that takes weeks or months, can cost thousands of dollars even upwards of $10,000. many have relative that's are fronting them the money, but human smuggling is a very tough situation. sometimes they lose that money and they're put in very dangerous conditions. this is the end result, again this is something that happened for years and decades. they have received threats, and also there is a great deal of confusion after the policies of the biden administration.

we were just in mexico yesterday, several of the migrants yesterday asked if it was true that was border was opening. they were told this by smugglers. it is a misinterpretation of the biden administration's policies in a sense that unaccompanied minors can stay. that is also causing parents on that side of the border to make the agonizing decision to send some of their children over the border without them in essence a kind of self separation. vice president harris is going to guatemala and mexico to try to sort out -- we have not been able to speak to this group specifically. we did speak with some unaccompanied minors yesterday. a 12-year-old told us they were trying to reach relatives in boston. their parents september them -- sent them here and they're trying to make the journey

alone. very difficult here, something that we have seen for decades. we have seen increases in migrations and surges throughout the years. now 178,000 migrants apprehended at the border and we're expecting new numbers soon. a lot of children still coming here at the texas border, hallie. >> thank you to both of you. i so appreciate your important reporting. we have breaking news on the supreme court now. i want to bring in spieth williams. first, do we know what court is doing for the day, the cases, and second of all talk to us about the specific case that they are deciding to not take up. >> yes, just one opinion today, an immigration indication on someone that is on temporary protection and if they can apply for a green card, they said no. this draft case, when i turned 18 i had to register for the

draft. we had an all-volunteer force since 1973, but the draft is still on the books if it is needed. all young men when they turn 18 have to register. they could face penalties and have a hard time getting student loans, and the question is is it constitutional to exclude women. the supreme court turned it down and they don't usually give their reasons. three of the justices said congress is actively considering this issue. appointed a commission that recommended against keeping the all-male draft and making it for men and women both. and already the senate armed services committee held hearings on this. the three justices say giving the long standing deference on military issues, now is not the time for the supreme court to step in. but the supreme court in 1981 upheld this all-male

registration system, but women are in all combat roles in the military. they're in all of the military can academies. they make up 17% of the force which is about the same as the number of women in the police department. so many were urging the court to strike down this all-mail system. >> pete williams, live for us there in washington. when is the next day that we can expect a decision from the court? >> thursday. >> we're keeping an eye on this hearing, secretary state blinken testifying virtually in front of the committee. plus here on this show as joe manchin infuriates

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. it may not be a surprise that former president trump is still spreading lies about the previous election. but he is getting into dangerous territory. and that's why we thought was important to hear some of what he is saying. some of his supporters are embracing it. >> defeated by definal. >> it will go down as the crime of the century. clinging to the lie that the election that he lost was stolen. >> i'm not trying to undermine democracy, i'm trying to save it. >> none of it is true, and mr. trump's first public speech in

months largely rehashed his remarks lashing out at president biden and china the time has come for america and the world to demand reparations and account ability from the commune is party of china. that was after he praised president xi jinping as the virus was ravaging america. >> he is a friend of mine. i believe we're dealing in good faith. >> the backdrop now is the newly announced two year suspension from facebook. and the criminal investigation into his bids dealings. with that background we bring

annie. as you put it in the "times" this weekend, the former president is diminished and dominating. he is out of office, his blog is shuttered. and yet he is still the leader of the republican party at this point whether he wants to admit it or not. >> and his world around him is very small. he has about six advisors on his payroll. he is working out of trump tower in manhattan multiple days a week. i don't think anyone really notices that he is quietly coming in and out of the city. the world around him shrunk, but as you know it is hard to know how to cover him right now. republican leaders in washington can't really ignore him. we saw what happens to liz

cheney. she lost a leadership post, even leaders like mitch mcconnell that are trying their best to ignore him said if he is the party nominee in '24 they will vote for him. it's hard to cover the republican party without paying attention to him and he is about to come out of his shell a little more. it was previewed to us as kind of the beginning of a new season for him. he will be out a lot doing rallies all summer. so this rhetoric about the election being rigged is not going away. i went to the event on saturday night and this ballroom of people, this was the gop convention, these were not people that stormed the capital on january 6th, but every line about the election being corrupt was an applause line.

>> it is also creating, i think, real concern among republicans who are looking at this. is it better to ignore the things that donald trump says that are based on things that are conspiracies or is it better to call him out? how do those in the gop not down with what he is throwing out there thinking about this? >> they want to look forward, not backwards, but they know that trump won't allow them to do so. that is why they never should a made the deal four or five years ago at this point. and it is cicada season in washington dc. they are coming out of shells and making a lot of noise. what we saw this weekend was described at trump hitting his greatest hits, and in those rooms they sure our his greatest

hits. people don't like those songs and that is a problem for trump moving forward. he won by 75,000 votes. about 5.4 million cast. there is not a lot of room for error in north carolina. >> in the former weeks in office, mark meadows was pushing the justice department to investigate conspiracy theories, including one that had people in italy using satellites to try to change votes remotely. really out there fantastical nonsense stuff bhap are the broader implications of this annie? >> it shows how the justice department was under control of the white house. it was not just being fed to him

by outside who people were trying to keep him away from. the white house chief of staff was pushing this stuff himself. and it just shows that this was, you know, a real attempt to hold on to power when his own, you know, that his own department of homeland security deemed this election the most secure in the history of america. >> it is an important opponent. quickly les cheney is out comparing the president's former rhetoric to trump. >> i hate to say it is, but that is a reality. a dear glorious leader to all things trump. that is why they're stuck where

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. breaking overnight the california highway patrol arrested two people believed to be connected to a fatal shooting. adian was shot and killed while in a booster seat on the way to kindergarten. the arrests now happening just a day after his memorial service. what else do we know about this? do we know anything about the two people in custody at this point? >> chp related a statement saying they were arrested in their home. a couple. we know it's a few miles south of where the shooting happened. it is a 23 year old man, a

23-year-old won, and they gave details about the tips they received. that increased up to half a million dollars and that might be a reason why they received hundreds of tips that lead them to the arrest of the two individuals. they will be released more was. the release that was issued by the highway patrol says they expect to charge them with murder. >> this is coming on a day that relates to gun violence as well, what can you tell us? >> a judge in take overturned a ban and creating a lot of controversy. there was a lot of negative

reaction. they have 30 days to appeal the decision. here in san diego where the gun advocates are from there has been reaction from community leaders. >> thank you, don't think we have that sound, but great reporting from here in california. thank you for watching today. thank you. >> coming up, democrats brand new report out just in the past hour, a kind of postmortem on 2020. why they believe the party is at risk of losing voters in the next election. next election. (vo) jack was one of six million pets in animal shelters in need of a home. he found it in a boy with special needs, who also needed him. as part of our love promise, subaru and our retailers host adoption events and have donated 28 million dollars to support local animal shelters. we're proud to have helped over 230,000 pets so far...

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commerce, but this new postmortem warns real trouble for the midterms. i know you had a chance to look over the report. >> yes, it was done by this democratic organization the third way along with latino usa and the collective. one of the biggest decisions was that they should be treated as persuadable voters. when in the 2020 election at the presidential level, but donald trump made gains with african-americans, latinos, and asian american voters. democrats still ended up with overwhelm majorities, but they found that police and socialism

tax on democrats ended up having an impact. a final ultimate was that covid did have a big influence on the entire election from some of the polling misses to some of the normal organizing that the democrats do. so there are many other findings from the postpostmortem, but th are the major conclusions. >> mark murray breaking it down for us. thank you. a couple other weather headlines this morning. deputy whip for the congressional caucus. thank you for being back on the show. >> good morning and thank you for having me. >> sure, we'll talk about that report that mark murray just laid out in a second, but let me start with the other headline of the morning, or should i say headlines plural. progressive concern over the way that senator manchin and president biden are handling the

discussion on infrastructure with republicans across the aisle. let me start with senator manchin. let me get overall your reaction to that. >> it ises with as i said yesterday, an unserious on-ed. he does not grapple with the existential threat by the voter suppression being enacted by republican state legislatures throughout the country. we know in texas democracy only narrowly survived, and we know he is comfortable with the status quo. it is our job to educate him on a number of things. first that the "for the people" act is necessary for saving our democracy. also that the filibuster itself was accidental in origin. and it has been used to racist

effect. i have to believe that when he is educated he will understand that we will never get republicans to vote for the "for the people act" or the john lewis voting act that he says he prefers but has not don't yet. a bipartisan commission to investigate the events of january 6th. >> you say that, and you make this comparison to jim crowe almost. why is he calling to preserve jim crowe if you will. do you consider them to be racist. >> look, you know, i think words like that mean nothing if the result is that we are upholding a jim crowe vote ere disenfranchise status, right? whether or not you want to call someone racist. it is supportive of the

environment where large numbers are disenfranchised it. it should be acceptable and he should not be known as the senate near blocked voting rights and undermined miles per hour democracy when we only have a few months left. one of your colleagues congresswoman paired joe-- compared joe manchin. >> it is, enough information has been shared with the senator, they just presented a few weeks ago to the senate contract caucus and explained the importance of the bill. he is the only senator that did not sponsor the "for the people act.

so why can't' see the same people that would not vote for the bipartisan commission will not vote to disenfranchise large numbers of the voting elector rate. >> i think he would be offended that you think he is like senator mcconnell at this point. >> but it seems that he is relishing being the person to block bidens agenda. it is unclear why he relishes that. i don't think he needs to be

seen as this where he can get reelected with idea that's are so deeply popular. so if something is happening here and we need to understand it. and is that your assessment? >> i think when you speak to the folks on the hill there is a sense that he is loving it. they won't have the majority if people are disenfranchised. people will draw more conspiracier this resists. >> i hear what you're saying, but i also point out as you know that democrats would not have the majority if it was not right for joe manchin. it is likely that another democrat could get elected in that particular state. is there any part of you that

thinks perhaps senator schumer should bring some of that to the floor. is that something in a you would support? >> i have been supportive of it and i have been encouraging it and i am deeply grateful for the senate ma yourty leaders leadership to expose this lie that somehow 10 republican senator wills do anything construed as helpful. let me also say this. we must deliver for the american people. we need something to run on and this is regardless of whether or not he is elected in 2024 from wednesday or not. this bears on what happened in pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, ohio, you name it. we have a job to do and it is no answer to the american people that delivered democrats unifying control of the federal government to say that this jim

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a couple dualing healines for the coronavirus levels are . here is what's going down, demand for the vaccine, particularly in people under 40. that's threatening president biden's goal of getting shots into the arms of at least 70% of adults by july 4th. "the washington post" reporting the u.s. is averaging fewer than a million shots per day. that's down more than two-thirds from what we were seeing in april. a big push is on by the cdc asking parents to vaccinate their kids if they are eligible, before summer gets here, after more teens have been hospitalized with problems related to covid. a third of them admitted to the icu. that's the backdrop to what we see in alabama. another issue affecting teens there and across the country. how to bridge the learning gap in this pandemic, with a record

number of students set to return to in-person learning at summer school. ellison barber is outside one of the schools welcoming students back. talk about the turnout that you expect to see or that school system expects to see and why it means so much. >> reporter: yeah. we were at an elementary school all morning. the line, it just seemed like it would never end. people kept coming, parents kept coming bringing their children. some showing up last minute hoping they could enroll their students in the summer school program. the superintendent sees this as an indication that parents, despite the craziness of the last year, that parents are determined to make sure their children don't miss a beat academically. this is not like a normal summer school program. it's not just for students who struggled or who need to make up a credit. it's open to anyone who was enrolled in the school system last year. the goal is to help bridge any gaps that may have come by nature of, again, the craziness of last year, bouncing between

virtual learning to in-person. students who didn't have great access to wi-fi. to make sure this is as accessible as it can be to as many students as possible, they are also running buses, which they don't typically do in a summer school program. they are offering meals, breakfast and lunch, in a normal summer school program in this school district, montgomerie public schools, they typically have 2,000 students enrolled. this year they have had accomplishes from 13,000 students. they say this first week they will get a better since how many people show up. that's close to half of the total student body population for this school district. parents, they are excited about this. they see this as a positive for any student at any age. >> the students are smart. they know what they're doing. when you have that gap in between regardless who you are, it's going to hurt you a little

bit. this will bridge that gap a lot. >> reporter: montgomerie is an area that dealt with a digital divide. a lot of students not having access to laptops and having limit order unreliable access to wi-fi. they are hoping this program can help, especially those students, as well as anyone else who had trouble focusing while they were doing it on their own at home. >> ellison barber live in alabama. great to see you. thank you. we have been talking about infrastructure these days, with the focus on things like bridges that are in disrepair, roads that are busy, broken railways. one of the biggest problems is something that a lot of people don't talk about. it's in all 50 states. upwards of 10 million homes. 400,000 schools and childcare facilities. that's lead in drinking water. which experts say is a threat to kids, especially children of color. chris jansing is in newark to get rid of the pipes. how much work is left to do?

what's going on? >> reporter: it's busy, because they have been working on this for two years. they are trying to get it done. think about the numbers. millions of lead pipes across the country. here alone, more than 19,000 lead pipes have been replaced already. take a look at the work these guys continue to do. pressured from community groups, from environmental groups, because of the impact it has on children. on their brains, their ability to learn, on their kidneys. i spoke with the head of one of the groups who pushed for this to happen, the newark water coalition. do you think it's coincidental that many of these major problems that we are seeing happen to be in poor communities, black and brown communities? >> absolutely, it's not coincidental. it's systematic. when you look at what happens in black and brown communities, it's like, we have crime issues, food deserts, and now we have --

environmental justice issues run rampant. when you look at the water, it's one extra thing in our community. that's what's unfortunate about this. >> reporter: like many of the cities that have this problem, in huge numbers, it is a majority/minority community. of course, equity is one piece of what joe biden says he wants to do with this infrastructure bill. the other is jobs. when you talk to some of the crews here, they will tell you, many of them were not working before this project got started a couple of years ago. i talked to a union official who told me there are a lot when this finishes up in the coming months, they are willing to move to another state to continue to get these relatively good paying jobs that they know will be there over a period of years. obviously, you are looking at folks behind me who are big supporters of the infrastructure bill. >> chris jansing, thank you. to pennsylvania now where there's growing anger over

something a district attorney there has done seen by retaliation -- seen as retaliation, i should say, against this accusation of systemic racism in his office. here is the deal. that district attorney banning any kind of plea deal to be made to the defense attorney who made those accusations of systemic racist towards his clients. now he is defending that order, even with concerns from legal experts, from the mayor, from the state's attorney general. one law professor saying it's wrong on so many levels and potentially sanctionable. the order issued after what he called unprofessional conduct, although he made clear he was not accusing the prosecutors who handled the particular case being heard at the time of acting inappropriately. he insists his office strives to carry out its mission with the integrity and respect that the residents deserve. with me is the defense attorney who practices in pittsburgh and worked in the same d.a.'s office

in the '80s. thank you for being on the show. >> good morning to you. god bless you today. >> thank you. i have to start by noting nbc news reached out to the district attorney here for comment. did not get a reply. he did say in a statement his directions to deputy d.a.s on withholding plea orders, which includes an order to memorialize any plea discussions with you, are about, quote, ensuring the office makes consistent evidence based decisions on avoiding false claims of racism. he says he took seriously your stated desire not to accept plea offers. what do you make of all of this? >> whenever you have the head of the police, the district attorney who was sworn to represent all the residents of pittsburgh and allegheny county, i just don't think he understands that when talking about systemic racism, the spark of the systemic racism happens on the street. it happens at night.

it happens out of the sight of the judges. it happens out of the sight from the courts. it happens when they pull over a young african-american male pretextually. he will say he failed to signal out of a parking spot, accidentally slowed down, didn't completely stop at the stop sign. that's what happens when a young black man gets out of the car and sits in a car with two friends who happen to be black already and then in pittsburgh what happens in neighborhoods of color, which are over policed, that's when it starts. he has a rule -- he has to reel in the police. the evidence that they collect, they don't write the police reports while they're on the scene. they write them once they get back to their office and try to figure out how they -- how these reports and how their conduct

passes constitutional muster. because of the -- we have extreme cases like in george floyd. but we have more than enough cases. black motorists are stopped in pittsburgh at a six times at a greater rate than white motorists, even though we are a fraction of the population. only 23% of the city population. most of those stops are in neighborhoods of color. >> how do you want to see this resolved? it does seem there's potentially an impasse between you, between the d.a.'s office. what would be a good resolution? i should tell you, i have 40 seconds left. i'm sorry. >> i think that all people should be treated the same. i don't think -- all people should -- i think the police need to be reeled in. when you get the police to the point where they can just do anything on judges on the street. what would happen if lebron

james and the players that protested for two or three days, what if they take the season off? what if they took this and not played? it's a power game. the poor black people don't have power. people think power is money. if a whole pie is made out of rotten apples and you take one slice of that pie, how -- you can get sick by any slice. a little will spoil it all. we have to stop playing the game. you can't play the game and expect there to be justice inside of it. >> thank you for your time this morning. thank you for being with us. thanks to you for watching. we will have highlights on twitter. right now, craig melvin picks up our coverage. good monday morning to you. craig melvin here. a little more than