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i'm jeff bennet in for katy tur.start its briefing any minute now, and we expect the director of the cdc to make guidance. fully vaccinated americans no longer need to wear masks or social distance indoors or outdoors. we also learned president biden will speak from the rose garden at 4:35 eastern on the pandemic response. we'll, of course, bring you those remarks when they happen, but first this new guidance. there are caveats to this new mask-free guidance including health care centers, public transportation and businesses that have their own mask rules. but obviously this is huge news after a year of masks. joining me now for more on this are nbc news correspondent monica alba, nbc correspondent miguel brewster

i'm jeff bennet in for my friend katy tur.y. a major new development today in the house of republican reckoning, liz cheney doing battle over the big lie. >>> also the expected boom that was a bust. we have a new jobs report that many economists are describing as shocking. jobs added but far, far fewer than expected. what exactly is going on? well, part of the explanation ties directly into what is now more than just a worrying trend. first the good news. pfizer today has started the process of applying for full fda approval of its covid vaccine beyond the emergency authorization it was granted back in december. but here's the bad news. far fewer people are getting vaccinated every day than even just a couple weeks ago. president biden's goal is 70% of americans with at least

i'm jeff bennet. to see president biden on the air any moment where he'll sweep the hate crimes bill. senate republicans now appear poit

i'm jeff bennet in for my friend katy tur, and we begin today on capitol hill where senate republicans have narrowly blocked a bill to create a bipartisan commission for the insurrection on capitol hill. only seven republicans voted in favor of the bill after minority leader mitch mcconnell signaled he would not vote for it. that was a message for others to do the same. pat toomey said he would be the seventh one in favor, but he did not vote for the commission. 30 voted for the commission over in the house. mitch mcconnell said a commission would be inherently partisan and would only continue from president trump's second impeachment trial. senator cassidy said he supported the bill to prevent a partisan issue. >> are they more likely to trust a commission hand-picked by speaker pelosi or one picked by a bipartisan vote? >> after the vote today, majority leader chuck schumer took republicans to task about what he framed as fear of donald trump. >> i'm just terribly disappointed that so many republicans refuse to even look at a bipartisan, down the middle look at it because they're afr

i'm jeff bennet in for my friend katy tur. as we come on the air this afternoon, the state of the nation is turning into a state of confusion for some. let's underline at the top this great news, the surprise announcement from the cdc giving the green light for vaccinated people to finally rip off their masks indoor and out. it was a watershed moment in this pandemic. remember this graphic from the cdc that caught some flak for being confusing? that right side is now updated for vaccinated folks. go anywhere you want, do anything you want, reclaim your lives. and there's more good news today. pfizer's ceo says evidence shows the vaccine protects against all variants so far, and 12 to 15-year-olds are now getting the shot, giving the overall percentage of americans vaccinated a shot in the arm. but what about kids who are still too young for the vaccine? and here's another issue. the cdc issues guidance and recommendations, but it's state and local governments who issue those mask mandates and some are lifting restrictions whil

i'm jeff bennet, and as we come on the air, america's secretary of state has just departed washington for a high stakes diplomatic trip to the mideast where a ceasefire appears to be holding. he will visit israel and jordan. now, blinken's mission is to reinforce the ceasefire, get desperately needed relief to gaza and lay the foundation for future peace talks. none of those are small tasks. now, over the weekend, secretary blinken defended the biden white house's quiet diplomacy behind the scenes of the conflict. >> it was critical to get to the ceasefire. president biden's focus on relentless, determined, but quiet diplomacy is what got us to where we needed to be, which is to get the violence ended as quickly as possible, to stop more human suffering and to at least put ourselves in position to make a turn, to make a pivot to building something more positive. >> again, that fragile ceasefire is still holding with both sides declaring victory. over the weekend we saw a rare show of strength from hamas when hundreds of masked and armed militants paraded through the streets of gaza ci

i'm jeff bennet for president biden. it's a high stakes diplomacy friday. in north korea the world leader is the second leader to meet with president biden. south korea and japan are two of the most critical allies in combatting the rise of china in a nuclear armed north korea. the other act of diplomacy, a ceasefire that seems to be holding now between israel and hamas are hoping they can possibly end the 12-day air war. and police are surrounding the monument. thousands of israelis came out today marching the streets. the ruler of hamas today declared victory on television. listen to the sound of gaza when that ceasefire first went into effect. >> no more war! >> richard engel is in gaza and we'll join us in a moment. president biden had been fiercely working the phones, taking a harder line with netanyahu, and biden and his top aides made more than 80 contacts by person or by phone from tel aviv to cairo. neither the u.s. nor israel want to negotiate directly with hamas. it was quiet and relentless diplomacy that got the job done rather than provoking ei

i'm jeff bennet. as we come on the air, we're expecting to see president biden on the air any moment where he'll sweep the hate crimes bill. senate republicans now appear poised to filibuster a 9/11 commission to get to the truth of what happened on capitol hill. what went wrong with police security, the military response, and what donald trump was doing as it all unfolded. 35 republicans broke ranks and joined democrats to support it, and today majority leader chuck schumer took to the floor of the senate to dare senate republicans. >> i was within 20 feet of these hooligans. it was one of the darkest moments in american democracy. and yet not five months later, many on the republican side are trying to whitewash what happened. my senate republican colleagues must now ask themselves, are they going to join us in pursuing the truth, or are they going to cover for donald trump and his big lie? >> over the last 48 hours, we've heard many republicans, including senate leader mitch mcconnell say there are

i'm joined by jeff bennet at the white house. he is not making just a public pitch, but also a private one behind closed doors this week. >> that's a great way to think about it. you have the public sales pitch, they are conducting on whether or not republicans can be brought along in this process. on the republic side of things, the infrastructure road show rolls on to coastal virginia with how the president's spending proposals will benefit. he will speak at a community college. you have the vice president and cabinet secretaries getting in on the act later this week. lawmakers on capitol hill and add my straights here say this week will be pivotal while they have more negotiations to see if republicans can work with democrats on the physical infrastructure part of the president's proposal. all of that money aimed at revitaliing roads, railways, and more. they are going to reassess the approach of trying to bring along republicans. i'm told the president views action as being more important than bipartisanship when it comes to

i'm jeff bennet in for my friend katy tur who is starting her maternity leave. no baby yet. we'll keep you posted on that. >>> as we come on the air, we are waiting for mr. biden to speak from st. charles, louisiana. he will be talking about the american jobs plan, hopefully with an infrastructure plan. >>> mitch mcconnell said this. >> 100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration. what we have in the united states senate is total unity from susan collins to ted cruz in opposition to what the new biden administration is trying to do to this country. >> 100% of his focus, he says, is on stopping the president's plans. it's hard to see where there is room for compromise in that. perhaps just as important is what mcconnell was asked about when he gave those answers. >> 100% of our focus is on stopping this new administration. >> isn't there a concern that a sizeable chunk of the republican base doesn't believe this election was real? >> 100% of my focus is on standing up to this administration. >> the questions he got was about liz cheney and pushing back on the lie

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>>> i'm jeff bennet in for katy tur. we're waiting for nancy pelosi to speak in minutes responding to house minority leader kevin mccarthy's decision to vote against a commission on the investigation on the insurrection at the capitol. he, too, opposes the commission. >> i can't imagine what yet another commission could lay on existing law enforcement and congress. the facts have come out and they'll continue to come out. >> the january riot followed months of trump's big lie that he continues to push to this day that the election was a big fraud, which we know is not the case. it has been proposed that maybe he pushed it to cover a legal exposure. the new york attorney general wrote, we ever informed the trump organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. we are now actively investigating the trump organization in a criminal capacity, along with the manhattan da. we have no additional comment at this time. it could result in criminal charges, and the former president is f

i'm jeff bennet in for my friend katy tur. we begin with breaking news from president biden just minutes ago on a big milestone in the race to vaccinate america. >> today, for the first time since the pandemic began, cases, pandemic cases are down in all 50 states for the first time. we're not done fighting these fires. we still have tens of millions left to vaccinate. but we are making significant progress. in fact, when tomorrow's vaccination numbers come out, they'll show that 60% -- 60% of americans have received at least one shot. every day the light at the end of that tunnel has grown brighter. >> 60% of adults with at least one dose, he says. it marks a big step toward the president's goal of 70% of americans with at least one dose by independence day. and toward our symbolic independence from this plague. but that's still months away. in the meantime we're left with state by state, store by store and sometimes customer by customer patchworks or rules about masks. after that surprise new guidance from the cdc last week,

i'm joined by jeff bennet at the white house.also a private one behind closed doors this week. >> that's a great way to think about it. you have the public

i'm jeff bennet in for my friend katy tur. as we come on the air, we're following a lot of breaking news this friday. a major new development today in the house of republican reckoning, liz cheney doing battle over the big lie. >>> also the expected boom that was a bust. we have a new jobs report that many economists are describing as shocking. jobs added but far, far fewer than expected. what exactly is going on? well, part of the explanation ties directly into what is now more than just a worrying trend. first the good news. pfizer today has started the process of applying for full fda approval of its covid vaccine beyond the emergency authorization it was granted back in december. but here's the bad news. far fewer people are getting vaccinated every day than even just a couple weeks ago. president biden's goal is 70% of americans with at least one shot by july 4th. look, if we can't get shots into arms, we can't get back to normal. that means not only a disruption to our daily lives, it also means fewer kids in school, few

i'm jeff bennet in for katy tur. breaking news just in from the white house, the covid vaccine and the cdc. the cdc is ready to start its briefing any minute now, and we expect the director of the cdc to make guidance. fully vaccinated americans no longer need to wear masks or social distance indoors or outdoors. we also learned president biden will speak from the rose garden at 4:35 eastern on the pandemic response. we'll, of course, bring you those remarks when they happen, but first this new guidance. there are caveats to this new mask-free guidance including health care centers, public transportation and businesses that have their own mask rules. but obviously this is huge news after a year of masks. joining me now for more on this are nbc news correspondent monica alba, nbc correspondent miguel brewster in chicago, dr. vin gupta. thank you all for being here. i may have to cut you off if the briefing comes. give us a sense of what you expect dr. walensky to say, monica. >> this is quite different from the mask w

i'm jeff bennet. you have been watching an update from officials in san jose, california about another mass shooting in america. authorities say at least eight people are dead after a gunman opened fire in a railyard in san jose. police say the gunman is also dead. authorities say it was a man but they will not say how he died, if he shot himself or was killed in a shootout with deputies. we just learned a lot about that gunman, including his possible relations to the victims. he'll join us in a minute. we're also learning that more victims are being treated in hospitals, and santa clara medical center tells nbc news there is a patient there in critical condition. take a look at this. this shooting happened at the vta light rail facility, and you'll notice it's right next door to the santa clara sheriff's office. this whole thing happened just after 6:30 in the morning local time. authorities say that the deputies rushed into action. >> there was a rescue operation, so pretty much immediate action and