carol lee, we said this was a lifeline politically for the president. you notice a change in the white house posture this week? >> absolutely. chuck, they see this as a moment to reset. if you think about the timing of it, it comes a week after the divisions over the voting rights legislation. so when you talk to white house officials, they cast this as an opportunity to rally the party to kind of take a breath, remind everybody what their goals are and to come together and be unified, and they see two moments where this could be particularly energizing. obviously right now, when they have this opportunity, the president is going to have the moment when they have a name and something the party can really rally around. in terms of politically going forward, they don't see this as something that will define the midterms, it will be a line or two in a speech, but for now it allows them to take breath, talk quietly about how they figure out a path forward on some of the president's legislative agenda and move forward with some names. >> i want to talk about

back with me the white house correspondent carol lee. carol, what stood out to you there?gun violence, infrastructure investment. we heard governor asa hutchinson, the governor of arkansas there about using the national guard at the border. it seemed as if perhaps president biden was responding to him at the end there. anything stand out to you in particular? >> yeah, craig, i thought the president was sort of doing what white house officials had said he would do more of, which is try to focus on what he's gotten done as opposed to what he hasn't gotten done and still needs to be done. he said, hey, i sent you guys a lot of money and more money is coming and he talked about also covid relief in that respect saying they've got money out for schools and expressed the importance of keeping schools going. last week on a zoom call it was said the president is going to talk more about what he has done, not in this way that people demand what are you doing for me now, they want to focus on what he has done already. so you heard him do that here. and you noted this gun violence. t

. >>> let's bring in nbc news national political reporter sahil kapur and nbc reporter carol lee. sahil, what are you hearing in the senate, among democrats, among republicans, about what happens now? >> it's pretty simple, katy. earlier today senator sinema took to the floor of the senate and smashed democrats' hopes of passing these two major voting and election bills, the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. she made clear she supports the two bills on the merits, if it came to an up or down vote, she would vote yes. but she opposes changing senate rules to allow for an up or down vote which means they have no path to get through the senate. democrats need every one of their 50 senators to change the rules of the filibuster to overcome what is overwhelming republican opposition. i want to play some of what senator sinema had to say on the floor. >> while i continue to support these bills, i will not support separate actions that worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country. the debate over the senate's 60-vote threshold shines

joining me now is nbc news white house correspondent carol lee. here's a ton of questions for the president right now. his approval ratings are low, certainly not where the white house wants them to be. what do we expect them to be focusing on today? >> yeah, katy, this is definitely not where the president wanted to be at the year anniversary of him taking office. what we're told is, obviously the president will deliver an opening statement and then take questions. as part of that opening statement, we're told from white house officials that he's going to talk about what he sees as the successes of his first career in office. so not so much leaning into what he hasn't done but what he believes he has done and accomplished for the american people, and that, according to officials, includes things like the number of vaccinations that have occurred since he took office, the unemployment rate going down, as well as legislation that he passed including that infrastructure plan that passed on a bipartisan basis. now, that's what he wants to talk about.

carol lee getting us started from the white house. carol, thank you.>>> i want to bring in somebody from the biden administration, a pretty close confidant of the president, white house senior advisor, former louisiana congressman so somebody who has faced voters, which everything i hear is something that matters a lot to president biden when he seeks your advice, cedric richmond. cedric richmond, welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me, chuck. >> let me start with this, you look at the current situation and polling and the political environment and you look at what you're doing in the white house, do you believe you have a communications problem or do you believe you have a substance problem? >> we don't have a substance problem and the truth s chuck, i think that americans are exhausted just living their daily lives right now. people are focused on making sure that they protect themselves and their families from covid, making sure that there's food on the table, making sure that their kids remain in school. so people have their head down and are

nbc's carole lee at the white house with her reporting on the changes being planned. >> reporter: shep, this is really what the white house is saying is a communications reset. so, senior administration officials have told us that one of the things that they are going to do is not have the president so public about his conversations with members of congress so, not get in the weeds on negotiating and all of those images that we've seen over the past year of the president going up to capitol hill, meeting with lawmakers to hash out the details of legislation instead, they say they are going to put the president in a position where he is talking directly to american -- the american people. now, they don't know what this is going to look like. there is an agreement on the strategy and that this needs to change but they don't know exactly how they are going to do that. whether it's going to mean that the president is out there more, meeting with americans, or traveling or having people at the white house, things like that obviously, there are some covid reasons why that may be a little bit

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nbc news senior congressional correspondent garrett haake and nbc news white house correspondent carol leerol, we're talking about the speech from the president and how direct it was, and where he laid the blame. it was forceful, he said the former president wasn't just a former president, he was a defeated president, which not very many presidents in our history can say, most of them get a second term and then go off. he was a defeated president, and he made that point very strongly. what is the goal from this speech, of this speech, from this white house? >> well, generally, katy, the goal from the president's perspective is to not let history be rewritten. and this was a speech that frankly these were things that the president has been thinking for a year now, and that he's had -- seems like he had a lot to get off his chest because he hasn't really talked about this very much. he doesn't talk about former president trump extensively, and that's very intentional. this was a siege, and the point of what he was trying to do today was to talk about truth. you heard him mention that word 16

carol lee reporting from the white house for us. carol, thank you. >>> still with us, as i previewed, professor hoffman. and also joining me is president and ceo of one of the hard hit hospitals where federal medical teams are headed. he joins me from the university hospital in newark, new jersey. professor hoffman, let me start with the mandate rulings. we're not going to have the legal argument about the one they did. based on what they said was constitutional, are there other areas the federal government could go sort of using the health care mandate as a model? >> i don't think that's the direction they're going to go in. they will enforce the mandate that passed. the mandate regarding health care workers. but i think they will try to get the more traditional routes for these kinds of vaccine orders from the states, from local governments, and from businesses themselves. so it's important to understand that the supreme court didn't say nobody could ask employees to get vaccinated. it is simply that osha could not do that. >> is t

with me now is our own carol lee outside the white house. ken is outside the supreme court. the hearings are still going on. we have professor of bio ethics and a co-director of case western's law medicine center. carol, i want to start with you, because you know, another day and a sort of i don't want to call it mixed messages, but sort of -- it does seem the white house and the president is trying to straddle a fence of they're going to pivot to a learn to live with covid strategy, but he doesn't want to sound like he's totally given up on ending this pandemic. >> well, chuck, from the president's perspective, or the white house's perspective politically, that pivot is a little hard to do given that he had declared our independence from the virus earlier last summer, and so this is a bit of a crisis for the white house, for the administration in terms of public confidence in their messaging and their ability to handle the virus, and look, this was a president who said that he would come in and he and his team would fix all of this. and what we've seen is repeatedly these mi

. >> with me now, nbc news white house correspondent, carol lee.hn hillyard in senator joe manchin's home state of west virginia and ana palmer, founder of punch bowl news and an msnbc contributor. ana, democrats are trying to use all the tools at their disposal to get something done on voting rights. you have new reporting this morning on a kind of unusual method that democrats may be trying to use here. >> yes. they are looking at potentially taking a house bill on something that has nothing to do with voting rights and filling it with this voting rights package, passing that in the house, moving it to the senate. it's just a legislative tactic that will still not result in voting rights legislation being able to be passed, because the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, would still have to get passed that filibuster threshold when he files for closure, and he's not so far been able to do that. he's not convinced senator joe mannix or senator kyrsten sinema that now is the time to change the filibuster. we'll see this process play out. but unl

. >> carol lee, a lot of the president's supporters today loved his energy, loved his pointedness.hink on twitter it trended as angry biden and that was a compliment. as excited as that base was about president biden's remarks, is as disappointed as that base was in the attorney general merrick garland's remarks yesterday. i'm curious, what did the white house think of the attorney general's remarks? >> reporter: look, chuck, i think this is a white house that does not want to put its finger on the scale or thumb on the scale when it comes to the justice department. their point of view is they're letting him handle his business and they are not going to meddle in the way that they saw former president trump do, however, the president has a bit of a problem with his own party in the sense that there is a pent up demand for some sort of accountability, particularly up high. and to that's where you see the white house try to walk that line of not intervening and not putting pressure on the justice department, but also at the same time trying to say that they want to get to where the f

this is carol lee kamma calling these homes can run about 850 to a mill. not because of the houses in the way they look because of the location of the house is. is that affordable for a can not go moly, no, not even if you're working 3 jobs with 2 incomes in the household. so that way can come only have a lot of multi generational homes where you have 23, possibly even 4 generations. living in one household, just so that we can survive and live here at home. so jesus documentary is very short. it's like a mini document. he's only 8 minutes long. i'm gonna show you here on youtube where you can see it because then you get the full story. it's cord. why can't hawaiians afford to live in hawaii? why can't hawaiians afford to live in hawaii? there are solutions there, all solutions from local authorities who are working out. how do we give land to indigenous hawaiians? that is a nist, but that list takes a really long time to get on that list. i want to bring in somebody that we talked to earlier to get a better idea of how the so if this problem, her name is

. >> carol lee is at the white house for us. i know we got a preview of the president's remarks that he'll be making in atlanta. walk us through what we know. >> the white house says the president will make a forceful case for this voting rights legislation. one of the things he'll say is this is a real turning point for the country when the senate takes up that vote. he'll also endorse a change to the senate rules for the filibuster. now, the president has in the past said he would support a sort of carve-out exception with the filibuster when it comes to voting rights legislation. but this really marks the first time he's expected to lean into that and not only put forward his words about it, but also his time and his political capital to try to change the dynamics in the senate. it's a real heavy lift for him. the votes just aren't there as of now. in that sense, the president is taking a political risk. you heard our own kelly o'donnell ask him about that. he said the risk is he wouldn't say what he thinks at this point in t

>> nbc news is now reporting, myself and my colleague carol lee that president biden's list of potential nominees has now grown to more than a dozen and that the president has not yet called a short list of candidates. he's in the part of the process looking at their resumÉs and backgrounds and will talk to lawyers about whether these people get confirmed among a smaller list of nominees. they are trying to undermine this budding republican narrative that there's something unseemly about the president creating a race and gender litmus test for a nominee saying we're going to nominate a black woman somehow suggests he's lowering the bar. they want to make it clear the president has an extremely long list of qualified black women, most who have resumÉs that look like sitting supreme court justices that he can choose from. it play as big role in the lives and careers of these people just to be pensioned. it doesn't cost the white house at this point to keep a really broad view, a wide search, make sure that people know the kinds of people they're looking at before the president ahead of thi

let's bring in carol lee, one of the reporters on that reporting.ibutor. your knowledge of this white house is far deeper than mine, but my sense is when you point out something that isn't working for them, they're very aware of the problems and it seems that this reset is an acknowledgment that it's time to make a pivot or a change. talk about your reporting. >> yeah, it is. and they're acknowledging that things haven't been working as everyone's been talking about and the president's been criticized by that even about that even from allies and what they're saying is that they want to essentially reposition him how the public sees him. so they spent a lot of time, there was some early momentum, he got some good victories, then he just got bogged down in the legislative process and they don't want him to be seen as that with the public. if you're negotiating it, you own it. whether it's a success or failure. and he's seen some failures recently and that's not helping them in their view in terms of his standing with the public. so they're reaching fo

lee and jake sherman. thank you both for being with me. carol, local voting rights groups are planning to skip the president's speech, because they say they want concrete action and not empty gestures. how is the white house pushing back on this? >> reporter: look, jose, they hope that this speech is part of the beginning of pushing back on that and saying -- the president is going to say that this is a turning point for the country and the white house is saying, this is just the beginning of a big push for the president to try to get this done. as part of that, he's going to throw his weight behind changing senate rules, the filibuster rules, to allow for passage of voting rights legislation. now, the president has said that he supports a carveout in that rule for voting rights legislation in the past, but now, he's going to put his time and his political capital into trying to change the minds of democratic senators to get that done. and really, this is an intra-party fight that he's now decided he's going to insert himself in to try to get so

nbc news correspondent carol lee has more on that story for us. >> where the president didn't make votinghts a central part of his remarks on january 6th, instead he's decided to deliver a speech solely focusing on the issue on tuesday in atlanta. white house officials say that he'll make a very passioned case for why the senate needs to pass this legislation. it's legislation that democrats say would outlaw rules, voting rules, that discriminate against people based on race or ethnicity, among other measures they say would provide protections for americans who are just trying to exercise their right to vote. now, senate majority leader chuck schumer has said that he wants this legislation to be on the floor, and come up for a vote in the coming weeks. but in order to do that, there has to be some rules changes to senate -- the senate process because the legislation has been held up by republicans using the filibuster. the majority leader is say he'll have to work with democrats to see if they can come to an agreement on changing the rules in the senate to allow this voting rights legisla

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carol lee joins us from washington, matt bod ner and admiral james stavridis and gary kaspiroff.t, the u.s. and russia did not sound optimistic on either side even going into these talks. tell us where we are now. >> reporter: so the case for optimism appears to be getting harder to make. russia is bringing a very, very hard line to these negotiations and essentially they published a list of demands just before the holidays that demanded a lot of nato, of the united states and the collective west, and to summarize those points they essentially want a partial dismantling of the alliance back to the 1997 status quo, that 1997 date was actually invoked directly by deputy foreign minister sergei ran could have just over the weekend as they walked into these talks and he said something essentially to the extent of rufgts has been giving on the nato issue for 30 years and it's time for the united states ornate toe to give something in return. so we're now just kind of waiting to see is russia serious about that demand? that's a very hard line to ride and one that we know to be unpalata

. >> carol lee, thank you. pete williams. dr. michaels.. >>> new details on the big changes, taking over nights as the select committee gets set to take testimony from 300 witnesses public. that's what bennie thompson is telling "the washington post" in a new interview where he talks about a big potential move being considered, subpoenas from too -- two cooperating figures. >> if we can get the authorities and assurances that go with it, we'll do it. >> i want to bring in now republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, a member of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. it's good to have you. >> thank you. >> can you give us any names or the soechbs the type of witnesses you're expecting to bring in? do you think it will include any white house staffers? give us a sense of that? >> i wish i could given you more details. i don't want to get ahead of the committee. i'll give you a layer, what is the role and what do we want to do. we want to take the information we know and we want to be able to paint a pict

. >> vaughn hillyard, eugene daniels, carol lee, thank you all for your tame this morning. our viewers what is in these bills. that's what matters. the freedom to vote act would expand voter registration and election day access, provide universal mail-in voting, make election day a national holiday and ban partisan redistricting. the john lewis voting rights act would reinstall federal oversight in cities and states with histories of voter discrimination. amazing all those who call themselves patriots, why wouldn't they want to make election day a national holiday. >>> as lawmakers are battling it over, it is important not to overlook what is going on at a state level. a lot. we are checking in on the state of election security and inviting all 50 secretaries of state to come right here, put their money where their mouth is to tell us what they are doing tooverturn the election results in 2020. secretary benson thanks for coming this morning. yo wrote an op-ed saying the 2020 election was the most secure and accessible in your state's history, why? >> number one, first, tha

carol lee and allie join us. interesting things from the lawmakers over the weekend.cess itself, what can you tell us? all of these voices chiming in, it's amazing when you compare it to republicans who just steamrolled their way through and had success at it. >> we're hearing conversation about the politics behind this process else is the process that governors it. we've heard from republicans like roger wicker who have likened biden's promise to nominate a black woman to the supreme court saying it's akin to affirmative action. several of his republican colleagues took to sunday shows this weekend to rebut that kind of statement, specifically lindsey graham speaking not a u.s. about not just the process in general but one woman in south carolina who may end up getting this nomination. let's listen. >> i don't see michelle childs as affirmative action. i do see putting a black woman on the court making the court more like america. >> the way the president has handled this nomination has been clumsy at best. it adds to the further perception that the court so a politi

our nbc news team, carol lee at the white house. leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill. is our senior political editor. j ling kent, yamiche alcindor, and an msnbc political contributor. a few more joining us in a couple of minutes. thank you all for being here. i have to start with you. you are in that position, right in front of the white house. we're 20 minutes away from this news conference. help us set the tone, set the stage here. >> the president will try to set the tone and talk about initially what he would like to discuss. and according to white house officials, that's what he sees as progress over the past year on his agenda. those things that you just noted. he'll talk about legislation that he's passed, including that bipartisan infrastructure bill. he'll talk about the economy and focus on the good parts of the economy, where the unemployment rate is going down. he'll talk about how overall, over the past year, they've created new jobs and they feel good about that. and at the same time, say that there are things that he still wants to get done that he beli

carol, any other members? >> clerk: member jeremy lee is awaiting recognition. >> chairman: member lee. >> member: i want to just echo the comments from member cooper and vice chair reiner. that would be very much appreciated. i wanted to talk -- first off, i'm glad to see that e-mails are going out, so that's a good positive sign and i just want to -- i'm curious, so these e-mails, are they purely informational at this point? >> right now, i would say they're kind of similar to -- well, we have two types. we have the ones that are handwritten and going directly to legislative aids and say here are the flyers, please put this in your newsletter and for the larger list, it's e-mail marketing. design. it has basic information. right now, we have it in a form that's really flexible so we can add in some things and push specific things. whatever it may be. we have a lot of flexibility there and we'd like to be included. >> member: all right. let's see. so the recipients of these e-mails, do you have any strategies to really incentivize them

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carole. >> clerk: on the motion offered by member cooper and seconds by member caseel lee to special a meeting on february 16th, 2022. to begin at 5:30 a wednesday and schedule a special meeting on march 14th, 2022 to begin at 5:30, as a monday and amend our meeting schedule on april 6th, 2022, at 5:30 instead of at 10:00 and then to accept the proposed end times. those end times documented in the paperwork in our task force packet, that's the summary on that motion. [roll call vote] >> clerk: mr. chair, there are nine ayes once again. >> thank you. now we can move to item 3. i believe our mapping update. >> clerk: that's right. hang on just a moment, mr. chair. just catching up. a mapping update and this is a discussion and possible action item. we'll take public comment on this. we are joined this afternoon by karin macdonald and seth neil, i believe is here as well from q2 consulting. members of the public, who wish to provide public comment call (415)655-0001 and enter the meeting id. press the pound symbol twice and press star followed by the number 3 if you wish to be entered to the queu

carole. >> clerk: on the motion offered by member cooper and seconds by member caseel lee to special a meetingmeeting schedule on april 6th, 2022, at 5:30 instead of at 10:00 and then to accept the proposed end times. those end times documented in the paperwork in our task force packet, that's the summary on that motion. [roll call vote] >> clerk: mr. chair, there are nine ayes once again. >> thank you. now we can move to item 3. i believe our mapping update. >> clerk: that's right. hang on just a moment, mr. chair. just catching up. a mapping update and this is a discussion and possible action item. we'll take public comment on this. we are joined this afternoon by karin macdonald and seth neil, i believe is here as well from q2 consulting. members of the public, who wish to provide public comment call (415)655-0001 and enter the meeting id. press the pound symbol twice and press star followed by the number 3 if you wish to be entered to the queue to speak and please wait then until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may then begin your comments. for those interested memb