critics ask why is it okay for the biden administration to cut down keystone pipeline but okay for hunteriden to work deals overseas to compete with the u.s. backed by russia and china. parents and students coast to coast poe testing school shutdowns as students face generation -- a shutdown getting more politicized due to push back from democrats and teachers unions but now the biden administration is answering the accusations of broken promises to reopen schools by now setting the bar so low for getting kids back in class that that bar is already being met. and, conservatives now warning that the biden administration may not be strong enough to stand up to china. it recently yanked a trump rule that have blocked china's inroads into u.s. universities as it tries to steal u.s. r&d. new fears over the biden administration weakening border security. that is what border patrol experts are warning. the drug cartel war is getting increasingly militarized. mexican drug cartels now increasingly using uniformed troops, military weapons, armored vehicles and ieds but today, the white house did a

the biden administration has started to pull back on the slack to the trump administration gave to mohamedin solomon. it is not just that they have now named mohamed bin solomon has the murder of jamal khashoggi. but the ban on top officials is an unprecedented step. the u.s. onoises about the war n yemen, i think these are all fairly significant things. but also, as i said, nick is not being totally realistic about saudi arabia. the king of saudi arabia is 85 years old and mohamed bin solomon has spent the last five years gathering up all the threads of power in that country in his hands. you only need to read the book of mr. christof's new york times colleague to get a sense. he's the minister of defense. he's a chairman of the $400 billion public investment fund. the saudi soccer league is named after mohamed bin solomon. so the idea that the americans could pressure the king of saudi arabia who i'm not sure has been coherent for many years into signing some memo that would then cause mohamed bin solomon to slink off the scene i think is unrealistic. >> all right. we are going to have t

elizabeth: you know, now we've got this, is the biden administration going to go along with what five police officers help i.c.e.. catch criminal illegal aliens? that going to happen? >> it better not. think about this for a minute, les. the department of homeland security was created on the heels of 9/11. and the 9/11 commission said many things, one of their main findings was law enforcement should be working with law enforcement. no more stove pipes. the communication and working partnerships need to be there. here's the department of homeland security, created because of 9/11, and they're going to stop law enforcement from working with law enforcement? they're going to put stovepipes back in? if they to that, it's in direct conflict with their mission. it'd be ridiculous. here's the president saying, well, i.c.e. needs to concentrate on the worst criminals. but you can't work with law enforcement? they're speaking out of both sides of their mouth. they're lying to the american people. this is about open borders and letting illegal aliens who are criminals walk our streets. there's

they know the biden administration's not going to be good for jobs, so i'm going to make sure that ine have the next elections we're going to vote on secure borders, job growth, supporting our law enforcement, school choice. that's why we're going to win. that's how i won my elections, you know, each of my elections was an issue election, and that's how you win. that's what we're going to do. it's not what tv is going to be saying about some in-fighting. chris: but this isn't just tv, senator. president trump is expected to stake his claim as the continuing leader of the republican party in his speech today, but you have top republican leaders like liz cheney, like mitch mcconnell, like mitt romney who say that the president forfeited that because of his actions after the november election. so let me ask you, is this still donald trump's party? >> it's the voters' party. it always has been the voters' party. let's go back to 2010 in my primary. hillary clinton and the country endorsed my opponent, and i won. i talked to president trump about a week ago, and i told him this is my job:

what biden administration is doing is creating a public safety nightmare. we won this. one for the good guys. elizabeth: the judge said that what the biden freeze on deportations, violated federal law, put risk and cost on states, can you break down whent it was about. >> t it was about. all criminals that i.c.e. arrested and deported, let's say last year, 90% of those people could not removed with this policy, they could not low think are removed. -- they could not be removed. theft, assault, dui, the argument was, if we stop de--deportations for a hundred , not even the worst of the worst, the argument was, if you stop deportations, i.c.e. is required to release the people back into the public. where they will recommit. releasing criminals to the public is bad public policy, and will create more crime. and the states pay more money for enforcement and jail, the judge agreed with that argument. elizabeth: not immediately clear ifim the biden administration wl appeal the ruling. justice department did not seek a stay of his earlier temporary restraining order. this meant

i think t biden administration is making this seem a lot more complicated than it is. le to reunify dozens of family under the trump administration, and the biden demonstration can do the same for hundreds, even 1000 by jus issuing visas for the parents to come back. i am hopeful that families will be reunified, but i am afraid this is a bit of a stall tactic by the biden administration. laura: the biden administration is also keeping some of the trump rder controls, apparently because they are concerned about a new wave of migration, fueled by the pandemic. but do make of that move? >> by not releasing any information about a plan for orderly and legal asylum processing, i am afraid the biden administrations creating a surge. right now there are tens of thousands of asylum-seekers stuck at the border, and they have been stuck for the last few years of the trump administration. as advocates, we have been communicating with them to wait for a by demonstration plan for processing. new asylum-seekers are arriving every day. the more we go without information, the less migr

those are things that bother people and then all the biden administration is knocking to be good for i'm going to make sure that in '22, when we have our elections, next elections, we are going to vote on job growth, secure borders, where going to vote on supporting our law enforcement, school choice. that's where we're going to win. that's why one make my election. each of my elections with an issue election and that's a win. it's not going to be what tv is staying about some infighting. >> chris: but this isn't just tv, senator. president trump is expected to stake his claim as the continuing leader of the republican party in a speech today, but you have top republican leaders like liz cheney, like mitch mcconnell, like mitt romney who say the president forfeited that because of his actions after the november election, so let me ask you, is this still donald trump party? >> senator scott: it's the voters party. it always has been the voters party. let's go back to 2010 and my primary. every republican i think in the country endorsed my opponent and i won. i talked to president trum

what the biden administration is creating a public safety nightmare. at is what my affidavit said. we won this one. one for the good guys. elizabeth: the judge said biden deportation violated federal law and put risks and costs to the states. can you break down to the viewer what this was all about? >> the texas lawsuit is about, with no exaggeration, all the criminals i.c.e. arrested and deported say for last year, 90% of those people could not be removed under this new policy. so 90% of the criminals i.c.e. removed last year could no longer be removed under this policy committed theft, assault, dui. i.c.e. could no longer remove them. the argument if you stop deportation 100 days, not deporting worse of the worse, because the memorandum, only carved out for those terrorism and recent border thefts but didn't carve out anybody was a rapist or murder he. what the argument was, you stop deportations i.c.e. is required to release the people back into the public where they will recommit. the recidivism rate is 50, 75% depending how far out it is. releasing

now the threat is to sue the biden administration?by the biden administration, it's a leadership issue. go ahead, vince. >> fascinating about this vaccine distribution issue is "the new york times" report that you just referenced a moment ago about how nine different workers, top level workers in the health department in new york have quit during the duration of pandemic because of cuomo's leadership, one of the things they were upset about, he was distributing vaccines through the state hospital association not through the hired state workers who trained for this. 6,000 workers were peeped to do this. they were training for years to distribute a vaccine during a pandemic. he gave the distribution to the hospital system. the reason implied in "the new york times" because the hospital system is gigantic donor to andrew cuomo. if you're wondering why this is a complete disaster, vaccine distribution, especially last early days in new york. part of it seems to be he is rewarding donors rather than using systems in place to take care of h

question and the answer was different during the trump administration than it is during the biden administration. during the trump administration the answer was it was a manmade disaster because, as you said, children were rendered unaccompanied when they were stolen away from their parents that created this overcrowding condition not only in the border patrol stations but also in the permanent health and human services shelters, which is where by law children are going so that they are not trafficked as has happened during previous administrations, during the obama administration. the reason why the temporary influx shelters are being opened today is several reasons. number one, there's always an uptick around this time during presidential transitions of people arriving at the southwest border. that includes children. they were preparing for this before the biden administration came in. number two, hhs tells us the weather. you couldn't discharge children in texas fast enough because of the weather over the course of the last couple weeks in the texas area. number three and perhaps most importa

let's talk about the biden administration's boost for covid tests.ing needed the most, congressman? >> well, we certainly need it across the board. if you're going to open schools, you're going to have to have a good testing program under way. you're also going to have to have the vaccinations. you've got to understand where the virus is raging and then take certain protocols there. that may include not opening the school. but if you don't have that kind of a problem, then let's get on with opening the schools. >> yesterday the house armed services committee held a hearing on the defense department's response to the covid-19 pandemic. with this current vaccine shortage, what's being done and what needs to be done to get the shots available to all americans? >> well, first of all, we have a different administration with a different policy. the biden administration wants to use the full power of the federal government, from purchasing the vaccines to get distributing them and also making available in the various distribution points, wherever that might

and now that the biden administration is in power, we're seeing a bit of a shift towards more democrats being in top positions of power at these companies. under the trump administration, there were still some pretty powerful democrats, but there's definitely a shift into putting republicans in putting -- in top positions. facebook has a new head of u.s. policy -- i'm going to go ahead and assume that's going to be a democrat. google just announced new policy that had worked with the obama administration. so, these companies, not only do they spent a lot on lobbying through their own companies and through third-party groups that they pay to lobby for them, they also see where the puck is going and they are going to cozy up to biden and his administration officials. they have to do a bit of a flip-flop depending on the administration. peter: one of the companies that has a pretty robust presence here in washington is microsoft. their experience in the 1990's with antitrust. emily birnbaum, brad smith, the president of microsoft, is in town testifying again this week. let's going on? -- w

this is the biden administration. ji: between the court and the american administration, the american administration is not the court. the judges are icc judges. we have had a clear-cut position since day one of the icc. refuse to be part of the icc. they cannot join it. israel did not join the icc from day one. that is why it is very hard to b ring a case from the american administration argument. trump's administration made an executive order. those who are functioning in the icc and the american lawyers who can help in bringing any accountability by imprisoning them and by finding them. what i want to say in this regard that the biden administration, if they do not cancel the executive order of trump, they will make a great mistake. we understand why this american position like this committed crimes in afghanistan, iraq, syria, and different parts of the world. for the same reasons, israel will be held accountable for. amy: we are speaking to raji sourani. we are joined by catherine gallagher, legal representative f

the biden administration is aware of all of the snubs that came towards the obama administration, byegard to the jcpoa, the speech netanyahu gave before congress. poor the way in which the saudi's were so close and allied with eric ocean or on a whole range of issues. including the normalization, green lit. all of this is part of a reset. i think it is less about diplomatic snubs and messaging, and more about diplomatic priorities. the biden administration wants to make its priorities clear to everyone, that is about renewing a multilateral, u.s. european democracy to a whole range of issue, including all of these middle eastern issues. emphasis on human rights. human rights bring us together. yemen, domestic saudi activists. this is about signaling priorities more than anything else. anchor: you say that the crown prince bet pretty heavily on trump. is this shift now under biden likely to have domestic implications for the crown prince and his power base within saudi arabia? reporter: there is a lot of speculation about that. i don't think we are seeing the downfall or a crisis. i d

his threat is to sue the biden administration. he was not hired by the biden administration.nating with this vaccine distribution issue. just reference a moment ago, about how nine different top level workers in the health department in new york have quit during the duration of the pandemic because of cuomo's leadership. he was distributing the vaccines through the state hospital association and not through the hired state workers who had trained for this. 6000 workers prepared to do this. train for years to do this. he gave the vaccine distribution to the hospital since -- why has this been a complete disaster? especially in these early days of new york. he has been rewarding his donors rather than using the systems in place to take care of his constituents. there is so much to unpack here. i hope the justice department gets into it. elizabeth: we will get you back on, then spared you been terrific. appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you so much. elizabeth: brad blakeman. this battle is big. it is now reopening. michigan student athletes taking the governor to court. why? sh

at the biden administration.nk it was not -- it was what you would expect is what i would describe it as. at the same time, not disclosing that you have a relationship with the person who works for the biden administration, that's the problem. as you mention, people can assess. the problem is when it's all completely in the dark and the reaction that the white house does to another reporter -- a great reporter who is trying to bring this to light, which is a story. it's not watergate, but this is absolutely a story the public has a right to know about and the media should cover. the one i wonder, when you say, "i will destroy you." obviously, you got higher testosterone levels than your average -- that's good. it's also a cliche stolen directly from a mafia movies. it does anyone in washington come up with their own phrases ever? >> [laughs] it's pretty cliche. i will say -- yeah, it's pretty disgusting the way that ducklo goes. i'm disturbed about the timeline. if this happens on january 20th, as you mentioned.

remember this terrorist group that the biden administration with dr. n regime and hezbollah which is a terrorist organization that we the trump administration designated in iraq. we clearly laid out our strategy which is a maximum economic pressure campaign against the regime in iran and we were holding them accountable any time they went american troops or american diplomats in iraq. so, what is the biden administration's ultimate strategy? i'm glad they are doing everything they can to protect americans and i support that but if this is just a way to backslide and go back into the jcpoa then that's a losing strategy. >> katie: david, what about that because we know already that the biden administration campaign with iran and their strategy has really nothing to do with maximum pressure considering they are already talking about taking off sanctions. i also agree it's a good thing to respond to attacks on americans especially in the region and elsewhere. when it comes to the ledge of strategy, what are we thinking about? >> first of all, it's nice to b

the biden administration. look, i think -- it was what would you expect, is what i would describe it as but at the same time, not disclosing that you have a relationship with a person who works for the biden administration, that's a problem. people can assess. the problem is when it's all completely in the dark, and the reaction that the white house does to another reporter, a great reporter who is trying to just bring this to light which is a story. it's not watergate but it's a story that the public has a right to know about. >> tucker: when you say i will destroy you, obviously, you've got higher testosterone levels, so i nod my head at that, that's good but it's also a cliche stolen directly from a series of mafia movies. does anyone in washington ever come up with their own phrases, ever? >> yes. it's pretty cliche, attack there, although i will say -- >> tucker: i will destroy you. >> it's pretty disgusting, the route that ducklo goes. but i'm most absurd about the timeline. this happened on january 20.

the biden administration has reversed. cerned with making a headline rather than fixing the problem on immigration. take a listen. >> reporter: what is going on is unwillingness of the biden administration to admit that there are problems with our immigration policy that trump highlighted and i say this as someone who largely disagreed with donald trump on immigration but he did do, i said consistently he did point out flaws particularly in our refugee policy, people showing up on the border claiming they want asylum from persecution and really fake, they crowd out the real a siamese. these are fundamental problems and joe biden is more interested in headline saying i reversed a trump policy, rather than addressing the underlying problem. todd: president biden has stopped construction on the border wall. shannon: taught's favorite story, a grandmother in australia caught on camera tackling a man who tried to steal her bag. video shows the man snatching her purse and trying to get away but she rushes behind him, grabbing him

at this point there is not another option until the biden administration either decides to take a pass at the trafficking protections act that governs some of this, the florida settlement agreement. the list goes on and on. it is very early in the administration and they have not said if they will chart a new course away from these types of facilities. >> i guess the big question we have had essentially the border frozen for a year by the trump administration using essentially covid as both reason and excuse. at some point that will end. there's a whole bunch of different complicated pieces they're going to have to undo with that. we'll have to see what that brings. there are a whole host of new challenges that will present themselves when that happens. jacob soboroff doing great reporting on this for years now, thank you for being with me. i appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. >> that is "all in" on this thursday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> admit it, you would rather do this than tweet for a living. >> it was a joke. i joked about tweeting for a living and you said, ch

when i push biden administration officials on that point, they told me what biden wanted to do today say the last four years were not a reflection of american values and he wants to do some long term things that will last past his presidency. when you move to the republicans this is party that is much more a party of trump. talking to state and local officials for a story i'm doing tonight for pbs news hour. you can hear president trump and his agenda is the north star for the majority of republicans around this country. there's the mitch mcconnell and others who have been critical of president trump but for the vast majority of the party, 74 million people even in the aftermath of january 6th they are still sticking with trump. it's clear they are not only angry at washington republicans but they are happy to krshlgs -- censure. >> sometimes those leaks are intentional and sometimes they aren't. was that an intentional leak to send the message to the hill or not? >> it's off the thing to ask. what leaked is what president biden said himself. they didn't minimum wage would make it in

they celebrated their 50th vaccination during the biden administration this week. they're going at about 1.4 million vaccinations aday sand as the president is waiting for the house this evening we expect to approve on a party line vote that $1.9 trillion covid relief bill that is the linchpin of his agenda and then go on to the senate. >> john, you have new reported on the omb nominee, neera tanden. she will meet with lisa murkowski, republican, could this rescue the nomination. is there a quid pro quo going on here potentially? >> don't know what will come out of the meeting. but it could rescue the nominee. with a 50 member senate, one defection -- 50 member democratic caucus, one defection could sink a nominee. joe manchin announced that he was going to oppose neara tenden. that mean her nominee was sunk unless you could get one republican vote. most ruled themselves out except for lisa murkowski of alaska who voted to convict president trump on those impeachment charges some weeks ago. so she'll meet with neera tanden on monday. it emerged that one of the mean

speak with the biden administration is right. the trump administration was right.period of time and tom cotton with china, the current manipulator even in the face of democrats and many republicans over the years. gluck, one of the things the biden administration should give serious thought to if we remain in the w.h.o. is the building out much like george h.w. bush did a coalition like we did against kuwait in china. if there is serious thinking about boy cutting in the olympics, like you mention in the lead into it, perhaps we are able to come with a global coalition and across the board on health care matters and even trade matters. i have set for a long time and i thought president trump was right on china. he brought more democrats and republicans around. one of the reasons he was elected, immigration and his position on foreign affairs mainly china pushed him forward. democrats and republicans alike would be right to follow him ind follow it up with poesy with great results. >> bret: mike wallace with that resolution. we will talk about that and other element

also the biden administration is now saying the president will be tough on china. behind the scenes, the administration's actions tell a whole different story. that has got republican senator chuck grassley really furious. plus new questions over alleged conflicts of interest in the biden family. we have the story for you. tonight, major fallout for jeep and bruce springsteen. jeep pulls its super bowl ad featuring spring teen from youtube after news of springsteen's bwi ace. this is not about social media and people lecturing finger wagging america in the soaper bowl ad, anonymous leaks topspinning the story. we have the police report on springsteen's dwi arrest. it conflicts with what anonymous sources from springsteen's team are now leaking to the media. critics are saying this an effort to topspin the story. to this story, republicans fighting back against the white house for canceling the emergency order for the border. house homeland security republicans out with a new letter saying president biden, you are weakening the border. you are creating a new crisis.

well, the biden administration is doing two related things here on yemen. isions of of the trump administration, one of the last decisions of the trump administration, and removing that terrorist designation from the houthi rebels. now, the biden administration says they're doing that simply because they want to make it easier to get food and aid to the people living under the control of the houthi rebels. that's about 24 million people, and they are in a humanitarian crisis that is often described as the worst in the world. in fact, the u.n. says yemen is in imminent danger of slipping into one of the worst famines the world has seen in decades. so the goal is to help civilians, not the fighters who are backed by iran in what is essentially a proxy conflict between iran on the one side and the saudis on the other. now, i said the biden administration is doing two things. the second -- and this came friday -- is that the u.s. has declared a halt to u.s. support for the saudis' military campaign in yemen. both these actions are aimed at the same thing, lessen

it's good to have you on board or authorities increasingly warning the biden administration is settingale illegal immigration crisis at the border but president biden's attorney general nominee merrick garland said i have not thought about whether illegal border crossing should be a crime, what was your reaction when you heard that. >> lives it represents how radical the far left open border advocates have become the would-be attorney general stuttered and stammered and said he thought about what are the most significant issues facing the country and it was a central theme in the election. it's unbelievable he cannot clearly say illegal immigration is a crime and appropriate consequences should be applied in accordance with the law. it really was disturbing to watch today. elizabeth: let's watch judge garland on that. let's take a listen. >> do you believe illegal entry at america's borders should remain a crime? >> i am not thought about that question, i just haven't thought about the question. i think the president has been clear that we are country with borders and concern about nat

. >> give us a sense of how the world and particularly europe is reacting to the new biden administrationthey made some nice statements. but take us behind the scenes. what is really happening? what is europe's reaction to biden? >> i think it depends on which europe you are looking at. if you are looking at the european union, there were nice words. but basically they are not jumping for joy. it's a strikingly restrained reaction. president macron on friday at the same conference talked about the importance of strategic autonomy for europe. even angela merkel said that our interests will not always converge. so while they were polite, they were not sort of embracing with all arms open a huge, huge enthusiasm. that was left for somebody else. that was left to our prime minister boris johnson who said america is unreservedly back as the leader of the free world, and that is a fantastic thing. you know that fantastic is one of his favorite words, so one can discard it a bit. but it is certainly true the unreserved enthusiasm for this is very much a british thing right now. and that's partly

how would you advice the biden administration to change it?the private sector be taking more of a role in every part of this? >> i think the private sector is more experienced with these scheduling tools and registration tools, which are very much stressed right now. and so i always think that the private sector, who build these tools and scale these tools in the cloud, from a technology perspective, would be the best people to help in this regard, as well as with the call centers. i know that the governors are doing a wonderful job, as best they can. for example, the governor of new jersey putting their on-call centers together and trying to do as much of this as they can. but the demand is so high, i do think the private sector can play a role here. we have built our over schedule tool. >> brennan: dr. margaret smith, who leads the task force for the white house, has talked about trying to get the vaccines in vulnerable areas. c.v.s.'s c.e.o. they had they could use mobile vans. do you have plans like that? >> we are prepared to do everythin

and the question is, what does this first military action by the biden administration tell us about the biden foreign policy. there are a few things here. it was a strike in syria just over the border, not in iraq. the president reportedly offered more options that would have been more severe, chose a limited action. and finally, the way that the biden administration has announced is there isn't necessarily the chest thumping that we saw during the trump administration. how do you read this? >> well, i think that's an excellent point, john. this is not an administration for whom hashtag swagger is the foreign policy motto, as it was in just a few weeks ago really here in washington. i do think that it's important to note that very calibrated and sort of targeted nature of this response. the last thing that the biden administration wants a few weeks into its tenure is to be socked into an all-consuming focus on the middle east. many presidents have tried to pivot away from the middle east, however, and i think it is notable and striking that that just isn't possible given the geopolitica

it is a difficult thing because president biden, the biden administration want to show a new willingnessn saudi arabia when it comes to human rights abuses. that was a big part of what mr. biden set of saudi arabia when he was a candidate, so calling the saudis out on this issue is one of those measures, and actually putting it publicly into a u.s. government document is quite an extraordinary rebuke , but they have not so far sanctioned the man himself, mohammed bin salman. they sanctioned some people around him, a former intelligence official, his own personal protective detail, and someone. i think they -- and some others. i think they want to walk the fine line and preserve the relationship in the middle east. laura: let's talk more about that. where does this leave the saudi crown prince, the heir apparent? barbara: he is no longer the main interlocutor with the u.s. president trump left the relationship to the personal interactions between mohammed bin salman and jared kushner, mr. trump's aid and son-in-law. those days are over. mr. biden is dealing directly with king salman, not

the biden administration is doing the same damn thing.look at the trump policies that worked, reimplement them, and make sensible for republicans like me. and checks the thing. >> katie: where they have been, where they are now, where they have been in the past. tweeting about the exact thing with the media is not an exaggeration, i see more news articles in the last 48 hours discussing how complex difficult challenges of vexing with other miners and immigrants at the border than i did in the prior four years combined. i wonder why. this reminds me of 2014 when town hall where i worked, where i write and report on a lot of issues, we publish some of the first photos from the initial crisis when it came to unaccompanied minors. so why is it that it that all of a sudden the media is changing the narrative? >> because trump is gone. trump found a way to work with mexico to help everybody. mexico said, we will take care of these asylum-seekers so that they don't over run your country. he actually had agreements with northern triangle nations

challenging the biden administration, texas attorney general ken paxton on why he says president biden's' executive orders violate the law. voting on joe biden's 2 trillion-dollar stimulus, senator ron johnson is here on covid relief and why he's not getting any answer to his query on capitol hill breach, who knew who, when on january 6th siege and what was done about it. what does the intelligence say now that warrants barb wire, 8 feet fencing, protecting for capitol at least for another month. hunter biden's new book, pete navarro on china, bipartisanna and the 2021 economy. all that ant a lot more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. maria: all that coming up but first biden agenda, president biden has signed 45 executive actions and orders, pushed through a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan and managed to cancel several key trump policies on immigration, energy and foreign policy. all seemingly in the name of unity. joining us right now with reaction to the new administration and its policies, former white house chief of staff mark meadows. mark, great to have you this morning, wel

he wants to do that in a safe w way. >> reporter: the biden administration announced plans to make 60 million covid-19 at-home tests available this summer, and sending face masks directly to all americans. >> we want to get this back on track. >> reporter: and not wearing a mask when traveling, that could get you a $250 fine according to the tsa. new today, british researchers releasing a report that found the use of convalescent plasma made from the blood of coronavirus patients who have recovered, that might have helped fuel the spread of dangerous mutations of the virus. coincidently, the fda announced its scaling back its authorization of that treatment because of confusing data of its efficiency. >> lucy kafanov, thank you very much. >>> when it comes to the debate that schools need to be open as soon as possible with mitigation efforts in place, of course, there seems to be no daylight between the biden white house and teachers unions, who are pushing back, demanding that they all get vaccinated first. some teachers unions demanding all the students also get vaccinated first. th

then, challenging the biden administration.ttorney general ken paxton on why he says president biden's executive orders violate the law. then an early friday morning in the senate's this weekend as democrats went at it alone voting on joe biden's $2 trillion stimulus bonanza. senator ron johnson is here on covid relief and why he's not getting any answers to his queries ino the capitol hill breach. who knew what when about the january w 6th siege, and what ws done about it? plus, what does the intelligence say now that warrants barbed wire, 8-feet fencing protecting the capitol at least for another month? and then there's hunter biden's new book, new comments about his investments in china. former white house trade adviser peter navarro e on china, biden and the 2021 economy. all that ahead and more as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: all that coming up. but first, the biden agenda. in his first two weeks in office, president biden has signed 45 executive actions and pushed through a $1.9 trillion stimulus

well, the biden administration is in a tough - administration is in a tough spot, and i would even arguee trump administration had, not only because of cyber but because north korea has been working on the nuclear and metal programme, they have advanced both programmes in the last several years, since the summit, and they are at an impasse. we have not made a single step towards denuclearisation efforts, so it is going to be tough, and a cyber attack like this is just one component of many problems we are facing with north korea. they have a nuclear missile threat that we are facing, that has not gone away, in fact it is worth today than even several years ago, so i think the biden administration is going to be in a tough spot to figure out what to do in the coming months.— figure out what to do in the coming months. thank you very much for talking _ coming months. thank you very much for talking to _ coming months. thank you very much for talking to us. - coming months. thank you very much for talking to us. thank. much for talking to us. thank ou. stay with us on bbc news. still to com

is facing tonight. >> reporter: the biden administration'sinee for the ep acting with a sense of urgency on climate change and to pursue, quote, environmental justice the white house is working to elevate its human rights posture even if that means strong disagreements with allies and foes alike. >> there is no place, this country's nationalist and moral, we walk into the future with these values. >> as the leader of turkey claims there is no such thing as lgbt the biden administration announced it will work to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people worldwide. >> they are not working to promote the rights of those individuals included by combating criminalization and protecting lgbt q repudiate -- refugees and asylum-seekers. >> reporter: this and went mirrors the trump administration's posture on the subject. >> this is a good opportunity to listen and discuss ideas about how the united states can advance decriminalization of homosexuality around the world. >> reporter: the budding diplomatic row with tur

you see the biden administration taking -- the opposite tack of the trump administration and sort of underpromising and hoping to overdeliver. so the goals they set out may not seem, you know, incredibly ambitious on their face. but i think, you know, they're reluctant to attach too many dates to when these things might happen because so much is dependent on how quickly they can get vaccines into arms, not just have doses manufactured. and then of course these changes in individual behavior and whether he's going to be able to pass his relief package. weijia: right. and so much actually depends on when those shots actually get into arms and the debate over when teachers should get the shots is ongoing with the c.d.c. sing that it shouldn't be a prerequisite to open schools. ayesha, i want to ask you about what we just saw which is really a muddled message from the administration about reopening schools. what do you think happened there? ayeshait seemed like they were trying to please everybody and didn't want to risk upsetting parents who are, you know, desperate to get their kids ba

how is the biden administration doing anything different than what you did under the trump administrationterms of keeping kids that isn't doing anything differently. the one thing that they are doing is effectively inviting tons more into the country but the one thing you cannot do, they've got this open borders policy now, catch and release all over. but the one type of person you cannot release is children and so they're having to open up all as they invite thousands of illegal aliens. the smugglers know it and the parents know it and they take advantage. jillian: the smugglers and the parents. take a look at this, washington post reporter reporting to fox news and other outlets claims hypocrisy. headline, quote, biden's new border move isn't like trump in cages. i want to get to the last line of it. you can see on your screen. it was controversial meaning trump administration policy because it forced children to be separated from their parents. were the kids always with their parents? ken: yeah, so kids were kept with at least one parent in the facilities that we had operating. well, s

sending a letter to the biden administration thing is concerning that your administration sees the border that open borders. and endangering the lives of migrants and law enforcement officers at the hands of violent cartels that your administration has further empowered. we ask that you instruct secretary mayorkas to provide immediate briefings to all numbers of the u.s. house on the matter. these are from border republicans, most of them, 51 of them. we are back with our panel. what about this issue, it seems like it's gaining esteem with a change of dynamics down there on the border. >> i think the republican position, just out of curiosity and asking for a friend, what is the rationale behind they broke the law coming here and that broke the law while they were here, sometimes a serious one, to remain in the country. what's the rationale for someone who broke the law twice remaining in the united states? just out of curiosity. >> well i can't answer that question, it doesn't seem right. remember barack obama was called the day porter in chief by a lot of immigration reform advocates an

as house speaker nancy pelosi tries to reassure the nation that the biden administration is working to pick up the pace good evening, everybody thanks for joining us on this thursday night at 6 i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis as we know supply has been a real issue in getting the bay area vaccinated. >>up to now it's been a just about not enough doses being manufactured and the supply issue kron four's dan kerman joins us. >>live with the details and now the delays dan where do things stand. well the reason now that we're having delays is because of that bad weather, those shipments that are due here in california to many bay area counties are just not arriving because they can't make it through that winter storm. well the bay area basks in beautiful february whether much of the rest of the country is getting pummeled. >>and now those winter storms are hampering the bay area's effort to vaccinate people for covid-19 former in county approximately 3500 moderna doses that were planned to arrive this week were delayed by the storms. >>as a result, some 300 warren county residents w

the biden administration is doing a wonderful job. this is not going to happen overnight. erybody has got opinions, but that is what killing this country. division. that's what it boils down to, division. the previous administration and all, it's just a lot of things going on. everybody needs to bury the hatchet and come together. host: mary in wolf point, montana. caller: first of all, somebody else stole my thunder. right now, we are only talking about the moderna and pfizer vaccinations, which require two shots. so, if you get 600 million, you get to shots -- two shots, that 600 million. the other part is when you do not arrange the proper storage and do not arrange the proper appointment schedule, you have things that expire in usefulness. so they have to be thrown away. they are nothing but garbage when they have been out too long. i get my shot today at 10:30 a.m. i do not know about other people, but i spoke to ups guy yesterday, and he said they have been delivering boxes of vaccines around this area all the time. so, it depends on who your state is listing as impor