i want to bring in our chief white house correspondent kristin welker for a moment.sident biden holding that first news conference on thursday. took a number of questions about the crisis at the border. but he was also asked about this. he was asked about the filibuster debate. he was asked about the legislation signed into law in georgia. what did the president say? >> reporter: i think, craig, that the president was most animated yesterday during his first press conference when he was asked about voting rights. he called efforts to deprive people of their voting rights, quote, sick. he really flashed, i think, anger when he was pressed on this topic. let me just take you behind the scenes here at the white house for a moment. in talking to officials here, i can tell you that we are expecting a written statement from the president sometime soon. we also have a press briefing with the press secretary. that's going to be another chance for her to respond directly to those developments overnight when in the wake of georgia passing those laws which democrats say will st

i have kristin welker and the law professor at university of berkeley. the book is titled "justice, justice thou shalt pursue." kristen, i know you have to run off to an assignment. i want to talk about the voting rights. president biden was clearly passionate when he talked about voting rights. both with the president and senator manchin on changes. he thinks what has passed the house is too broad. right now we don't know of any republican support for it. >> that's right. i think of all of the topics that president biden was asked about during his first press conference here yesterday. we saw him get the most an vated and angriest over voting rights. he called it sick and called on congress to pass voting rights bills and that were passed in the house and the senate will take up. that came hours before stiffer laws were signed in georgia. and then we saw one of those arrested for knocking on the door of the governor as he signed the bill. this white house and president is considering what, if anything, to do about the filibuster. they do not have the 60

kristin welker is there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. also with us is dr. peter hotez, the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. he is the author of a book, "preventing the next pandemic." tell us more about this milestone on the vaccine front? i would imagine the president will take the victory lap. >> reporter: it wouldn't be surprising. this is what we are hearing, that the president is poised to reach that goal that he laid out, 100 million doses in the arms of people within 100 days. we are on his 58th day. he will reach that goal as early as today, possibly tomorrow. think are vaccinated 2 to 2.5 million people every day. we know that president biden is going to make remarks later on this afternoon where he is going to talk about the progress that has been made on vaccines. officials won't say explicitly what he will say. the bottom line though, craig, he will talk about the fact that they are on pace to exceed that initial benchmark that they laid out. it's worth noting that you have some of the president's c

. >> reporter: he can take action on gun control instead of waiting for congress kristin welker has the latest. >> reporter: in the wake of two mass shootings within a week, the biden white house intensifying its calls for new gun legislation after the house passed two bills that would expand background checks vice president harris urging the senate to take action. >> stop with the false choices this is not getting rid of the second amendment, it's about saying we need reasonable gun safety laws. >> reporter: republicans are opposed arguing stiffer gun laws would violate americans' second amendment rights. >> unfortunately when it comes to gun violence we see democrats targeting law abiding citizens. >> reporter: as a candidate mr. biden promised to introduce new gun legislation on day one the white house deflecting criticism. >> this has been a passion of his putting in place gun safety measures throughout his career. >> reporter: a mass shooting followed by calls for new gun laws that go nowhere, including after the sandy hook massacre which claimed the lives of 20 elementary school c

this wasn't only biased in broad daylight, it was activism but kudos to kristin welker, the only reporterre to actually press mr. biden on media access to migrant facilities. he said he will only allow access when his plan is implemented, so then she followed correctly by saying, when is that going to happen, by the way? he said he didn't know. look, peter doocy, i'm sure he would've asked some good questions but otherwise, this was an embarrassment to the press organizers. >> john: kristin welker got almost as many questions and as she did when she was moderating the last debates during the election. i thought it was interesting, interesting counterpoint as you pointed out when cecelia vega got up and said, he said the reason why his mother sent him is because of joe biden. compare that to another correspondent who asked a migrant question, would you have done this under the trump and administration and basically said hell no. why did you do it? because of biden. >> mr. biden give a very interesting answer, he said we are not going to send a young boy to the other side of the mexican bor

you remember president biden in the debate with kristin welker called the policy criminal. he promised a thorough investigation. this is the part of the conversation, when i asked him about that exact thing. the attorney general is a member of the task force, or when he is confirmed will be a member of the task force. will his role be to look into potential criminality of members of the trump administration? >> i think we are focused right now, jacob, on reuniting families and restoring them to the best of our abilities. this is an all of government effort. it's not just the department of homeland security and the department of justice. it's also the department of state working with our international partners, the department of health and human services to bring whatever health relief we can to the families. and we're going to work, as i mentioned, with international organizations. our international partners and the private sector also. this is all of america effort. >> reporter: how is it possible they can issue a report so it never happens again if there's not a holistic

>> it was great to see kristin welker at press conference, joe biden on access to facilities for ther. starting to follow. you can only suppress the problem for so long, jed. good at least some in the media are calling for accountability here. jedediah: thank you, joe. i hope that continues. we're glad to have you here as always. >> no problem. i got a lot of sleep last night. i fell asleep halftime of the ncaa game. jedediah: go get milk for the apple jack. everyone will be happy. >> thanks, jed. jedediah: new york ends qualified immunity for the officers months after slashing the city's police budget by one billion dollars. what does it mean for the men and women in blue? our law enforcement panel reacts to that next. the bonds we build... should never be broken. ♪♪ because it's that strength that finds the courage to make something good, truly great. ♪♪ like you, my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher to do. thought surgery was my only option. turns out i was wrong. so whe