first meeting with secretary of interior deb haaland, the first native american cabinet secretary in us the history. opening day in the snow? baseball's back and, by the looks of it, so is winter. a girl scout record -- guess how many cookies this eight-year-old sold? it's pretty impressive. and the covid journals, recording memories through a year of pain, sorrow and hope. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin tonight with dramatic video from inside the ambulance as paramedics struggled to revive george floyd last year. the footage was shown in the testimony of murder trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. the 19-year police veteran is charged with killing floyd by kneeling on his neck for nine and a half minutes, and in court paramedics described arriving on the scene last memorial day to find floyd unresponsive and apparently dead. one first responder telling jurors today floyd later flat lined inside the

i think that deb haaland is a big advocate for that. telson joining us from the pine ridge indian reservation, thank you for sharing your perspective. nick: absolutely, thank you for having me on. ♪ it is a week marked by a moment of reckoning for racial justice by new calls to hold accountable those behind january 6 and surette in, and by president biden's ambitious push to combat climate change. to help make sense of it, the analysis of brooks and capeheart, that's new york times columnist david brooks and jonathan capeheart, columnist for the washington post. hello to both of you, so good to see you. >> thank you, judy. judy: let's start with the climate summit. david, president biden laying out ambitious goals saying the u.s. needs to deeply cut carbon emissions. is it realistic and is like going to have to change in this country to get there? david: it is noble, i am not sure how realistic it is. it is a policy where we will have a new power grid, and if all these things go through, will we cut emissions by 50%? at the height of co

i've actually been spending quite a bit of time writing about deb haaland and impacting that questiondible amount of hope with the appointment of secretary haaland, first native person to ever hold a cabinet position, particularly of the department of interior whose storied pass has been so abusive and detrimental to indigenous people. there is an incredible amount of pressure on her, of which she is not unaware. in fact, in her first interview to native journalists she mentioned that she knows that indian country is watching her and i think that in her first few weeks at the helm of the interior she has made i think intentional approaches in some of her actions, particularly with her visit to baird here. your mention about land lock. that is just so symbolic for a couple of reasons. one, it is -- i was in a pueblo as well, it's our ancestral homeland. returning to that is symbolic. it sits with what the conversation is, returning those lands. restoring the treaties. it's not a national park but it is a mon umass and it does represent, i think, that kind of indigenous stewardship that

interior secretary deb haaland talked about the demonstrations commitment to addressing climate change press secretary jen psaki also took questions and announced plans president biden

>>> interior secretary deb haaland testified before a house appropriation subcommittee on president biden's fiscal year 2022 interior department budget request. she also addressed violence against indigenous women and issues facing native-american communities. this runs 2 hours. >> this hearing will now come to order. as the hearing is fully virtual we must address a few house keeping matters. for today's hearing the chair and staff may mute participants microphones when they are not under recognition for the purposes of eliminating inadadvertentant background noise. members are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. if you notice you've not unmuted yourself, i would ask you if you'd like to staff the unmute you. if you indicated by nodding the staff will unmute your microphone. if there's a technology issue we'll move to the next member until the issue is resolved and you'll retain the balance of your time. you'll notice a clock on your screen that will show how much time is remaining. at one minute remaining the clock will return to yellow. at 30 seconds remaining i'll gently tap

transportation sector, but i'm hanging out with jennifer green home at -- i'm hanging out with deb haalandm hanging out with tom bill sack in agriculture, i'm hanging out with michael regan, every one of these cabinet agencies really have a lot to offer about how we reduce our emissions. but equally important how we just rejuvenate ourselves as a country and start investing in the kind of future we want to hand to our kids. >> how much of that big old announced by the president this week, this idea of cutting our national carbon emissions in half by the end of this decade, how much of that -- how much toward that goal do we get by the infrastructure bill? i know the infrastructure bill is a big priority for the administration and i know that the legislative effort to pass that is well underway. i believe that some version of the infrastructure bill ultimately will pass, thanks to the budget reconciliation process even if republicans don't come along. but how much is that overall goal dependent on that one bill? >> i think president biden was really interested in moving that bill regardless

andrew just today or yesterday the new interior secretary deb haaland, she revoked this publicly sheplan with a bunch of bullet points and apparently revoked the permitting executive order engines also revoked energy independence. to me that spells big trouble and anything to do with energy and fossil fuel. you know as much aboutmi this as anybody in the world nepa and permitting, what is your take on this stuff. >> first of all is great to see you again and great to see theod success of the show, nobody deserves a better than you. what is going on today, really surprising, really what's going to happen with you administration pitted on nepa the national environmental act the statue that they are looking to him then under your leadership the dnieper rules were revised and came up with a deadline of two years for making permitting decisions, procedural statute that requires agencies to determine the environmental consequences and other actions. and unfortunately the courts have gone in and interpreted the statute in such a way the imposed burden and time-consuming procedure that mean

interior secretary deb haaland talked about the demonstrations commitment to addressing climate change press secretary jen psaki also took questions and announced plans president biden n many hats. throughout her career she served as a tribal administrator and was the first person -- first woman elected to the board of administrators. she also became the first native american woman to be elected to lead a state party. in 2018 she became one of the first native american woman -- women to serve in congress. she joins us today on the second debbie climate summit to underscore our commitment to collecting -- two protecting public lands. happy to take a couple of questions because she has a part out. >> thank you so much, jen. good morning everyone. thank you so much. thank you for inviting me to be here today. i want to start off by wishing everyone happy national park. i hope you had a chance to get out and experience your public lands this week. the white house is national park , so technically we are celebrating right now. i always wanted to be a national park ranger, and while i did no

i am so excited to welcome secretary deb haaland to her first hearing since being confirmed as the 54th secretary of the interior and the first ever native-american to serve as a cabinet secretary. we are all very happy to congratulate our former colleague, and we're really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the fiscal year 2022 budget request for the department of interior and other initiatives that the president has introduced. i want to mention that joining the secretary of state and so deputy assistant secretary of policy, management and budget. just to note for our colleagues on the committee she was the senate appropriations clerk for the subcommittee. and we think that was an excellent move interior appointed her to this important position. so thank you so much and welcome, rachel. today's hearing will primarily focus on the president's fiscal budget request for department of interior. this budget blueprint makes it clear that president biden is committed to long overdue investments in being good stewards of our planet and fighting the climate crisis. i'm very encouraged

big story interior secretary deb haaland is in utah to consider whether to increase or decrease the size of national monuments in the state. the trump administration decided to down size two national monuments in southern utah. ha land is expected to give a report to president biden after she meets at bear's ears national monument. that's a live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ this land is your land ♪ this land is my land ♪ from california ♪ to the new york island ♪ from the redwood forest ♪ to the gulf stream waters ♪ this land was made for you and me ♪ y how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ the lexus es, now available with all-wheel drive. this rain is bananas. lease the 2021 es 250 all-wheel drive for $339 a month for 39 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. i'm searching for info on options trading, and look, it feels like i'm just wasting time. that's why td

is a topic that has become much bigger under this administration, and with your former colleague deb haalandribal communities and indians in america look like? >> i mean, certainly we have seen a huge leap forward with the confirmation and appointment of now secretary haaland to the department of interior. it's important to note when the federal government used to interact with tribal governments, it was through the department of war. now, what we are seeing with the department of interior is having a person who not only understands it from a legal perspective, but also from a lived experience. having congresswoman haaland, secretary hollered there is -- i missing her out of the house. having her there is historic, and for so many different reasons. certainly having a biden administration weather talking about president biden or the first lady paying attention, learning the issues, showing up, listening, and trying to be as engaged as possible tribal communities is going to go a really long way to helping address some of the disparities we have seen over centuries, really. >> i want to talk

part of the mq-9 architecture is the mission at nevada's -- air force base speedy new secretary deb haaland who made history when she became the first native american to serve as cabinet secretary. she is a member of the parable of the gounod and a 30 fifth-generation new mexican. she has worn many hats throughout her career. she ran a small business can serve as a tribal administrator and became the first woman elected to the laguna development corporation board of directors overseeing the business operations of the second largest tribal gaming enterprise in new mexico. she became the first native american woman to be elected to lead a state party pick in 2010 she became one of the first native american women to serve in congress and to focus on environmental justice, climate change, family friendly policy. she joins us today on the second at the climate summit to underscore our commitment to protecting public lands and strengthening tribal sovereignty. she's happy to take up the question because she has a hard out and please welcome, thank you again for joining. >> and queue. -- thank you

ranking member joyce for this hearing, and it's an honor to be with my colleague, former colleague, deb haaland as the secretary of the interior. it's great to see you again, and thank you and ms. taylor for being here today. as you know, over 80% of my home state of nevada is federal lands. this is the highest proportion in the nation. and of that land the vast majority of it is managed by the bureau of land management. the budget request submitted today mentions rebuilding the core functions in the capacity at the department of the interior as a top priority. but more specifically, the prior administrations move to move the blm headquarters in washington, d.c. to grand junction resulted in the loss of 287 out of 328 headquarters employees. that is an 87% loss of staff, significant loss of institutional memory and experience of the bureau. secretary haaland, are you able to provide an update on the curate number of vacancies both that the blm headquarters and that field offices around the country? >> thank you very much, congresswoman, and so yes. close to three positions were impacted during

we have had so many women on the podcast now deb haaland, ayanna pressley, and they have talked about discrimination and the fact is they say " i remember my why." you have to remember your why -- why you chose to run, what you want to accomplish into the good you will be able to do. now they head back because they do not have to take the -- hit back because they do not have to take the lies. it is something women have to deal with but they deal with it well and that is why you are seeing more women in elected office. host: we will start with joseph calling from fort pierce, florida on the democratic line. caller: good morning, sir. i feel like black democratic women -- they do not support black folk. they'll surround the congress. [indiscernible] host: i think we lost him, but part of what his statement was is he does not believe black women are strong enough to serving congressional offices. would you agree? guest: no, i disagree. the fact is there are amazing black women serving in congressional office. i think maxine waters would disagree. i think ayanna pressley would disagree. i