meals. ♪ veggies taste amazing with knorr. >>> president biden's nominee to be budget director, neera tandenr bipartisan opposition in part stemming from tanden's past social media posts. in a statement, president biden said that tanden will serve in the administration in another capacity, a job that does not require confirmation. there is support on capitol hill incluing from some republicans for the white house to replace tanden with the nominee to have been her deputy, scholanda young, who had her hearing for the number two post yesterday. >> do you think you're ready to be director if that job was offered to you? >> senator graham, thank you for the question. i'm here nominated as deputy director. >> you'll get my support maybe for both jobs. >> going on running omb. you may be more than deputy. you may be the sheriff. >> and nbc news chief white house correspondent and "weekend today" co-host kristen welker joins us now. kristen, apparently jen psaki has just announced i guess as you were walking out they won't have an announcement this week. i would assume that in deference to neera ta

. >>> the white house pulls neera tanden's nomination. the first biden cabinet casualty.etails on what happened. good to have you with us. president joe biden is speeding up the covid-19 vaccination time line in the u.s. he now says there will be enough vaccines for every american adult by the end of may. two months earlier than the previous goal. cnn's phil mattingly explains why this is now possible. >> i've always said this is a wartime effort. >> reporter: a white house brokered historic partnership to ramp up vaccine production. >> two of the largest health care and pharmaceutical companies in the world that are usually competitors are working together on the vaccine. johnson & johnson and merck. >> reporter: president joe biden negotiated for pharmaceutical merck merck to help the fiercest competitor johnson & johnson produce its vaccine. >> this is like companies we saw in world war ii. >> reporter: biden underscoring the administration's push for the vaccine in coming months. >> we're now on track to have vaccine supply for every american adult by may. >> reporter

he said he decided he did not like the combative tone of some of neera tanden's past tweets. and the reason this is sticking in everyone's craw, the reason that announcement that he wouldn't support tanden has become sort of a stain on senator manchin's reputation, is not that senators don't have a choice as to which way they're going to vote on every nominee. it's the question of the standard that he's applying here, because of course senator manchin voted to confirm plenty of trump nominees, all men, of course, who had much worse problems with their online tone than neera tanden ever got anywhere near. the reason this is a real problem for senator manchin and his reputation is because for some reason, senator manchin was only bothered by her tone in her online statements. he was not similarly bothered by the much more inflammatory things said by republican male nominees who he happily voted for in the past. again, all senators have a choice to -- you know, they are consulted, right, advise and consent is a real thing, they're supposed to make a real decision on every nominee

he's decided he doesn't like neera tanden's tweets.efore she may not have a job in the administration. he's decided he doesn't like the minimum wage being $15 an hour although there are a lot of poor folks in his state that would like to make the kind of money he and his daughter make. i bet lots of people in his state would like to have it, but he's said, no, you can't have that. he's also raised questions about deb haaland, another woman of color, and men of color as well. he seems to be standing in the way of a lot. do you think at this point democrats like him are as much an issue as republicans? >> well, i don't think so, no. i don't think there's any way you can compare him to republicans and the way they have stopped everything. but i certainly hope that he gets with the program, especially with the $15 minimum wage because i know the wages in west virginia are low, and so it's sad to think that he would stand and block that. >> if the republicans, which i don't think there are ten of them, but let's just say there were ten magi

more breaking news this hour at the white house pulling neera tanden's nomination.den cabinet failure. did it come down to her tweets? let's go outfront. good evening.

we probably have not seen the last of neera tanden.ally not indicated who they might actually be putting forward for this nomination, as least as of this point. >> yeah. and politics not always known for consistency, but some of the republican senators who say they were outraged by this had famously and repeatedly insisted they won't look at twitter, which is why they couldn't comment on the former president's tweets. >> reporter: right, yes. i would say this really came down to senator joe manchin, who is very concerned about budgets. that is one of his priorities. he has disagreed with tanden and her organization on a number of issues going back a number of years. i talked to someone familiar with joe manchin who said this isn't about him playing games or politics in any way. this is about him having fundamental disagreements with tanden on a lot of issues. but without his support and without being able to pick up any republicans, that essentially killed this nomination. now, there are a couple other nominees still out there that, yo

and amid opposition from key senators, the white house has pulled neera tanden's nomination . in a statement biden writes i have the utmost respect for her record of accomplishment, her experience and her counsel and i look forward to having her serve in a role in my administration. she will bring valuable perspective and insight to our work. tanden had requested that her name be withdrawn after fwasing bipartisan opposition stemming from past comments on twitter. and joe manchin had announced that he would oppose her nomination so she would have needed one republican to vote for her. on the flip side, murkowski had been weighing whether to support tanden. and they met this week. and murkowski said that she remained undecided. so tanden is expected to get a white house position that doesn't require senate confirmation. >>> and the senate confirmed two key economic advisers to president biden yesterday. rhode island governor raimondo will be commerce secretary and senators voted 95-4 to conceal a roos temperature [ and joining us now, reporter for the "washington post," eugene

the white house officially withdrawing neera tanden's nomination to lead the office of management and budget after there was bipartisan opposition in the senate. joining us now to discuss kristen welker, chief white house correspondent for nbc news and garrett haake on capitol hill, peter baker reporter for "the new york times" also with us. explain this vote and how we could see this play out over the next few days. how much could the bill change? >> reporter: well, this is the first procedural vote, you're absolutely right about that, and there are going to be negotiations around the edges into this week with some moderate democrats and republicans calling for a more targeted approach to covid relief, particularly as it relates to those $1,400 direct payments as well as those enhanced unemployment insurance benefits which run out on march 14th. so, steph, there could be some tweaks around the edges, but the message from leadership, from president biden, is that this bill has to get passed, that this has to get done by that march 14th deadline. this is not only a major first test of

the former nominee, neera tanden, nominee for the office of management and budget director, is also aapi. for those who are wondering why having someone from that community in those positions at the cabinet level, why does that not count, from your perspective? on top of that, who would you like to see considered for those high-level positions within the administration? rep. chu: for the last 20 years, there has been an aapi that has served as a cabinet secretary. both democratic and republican administrations. in this administration, every single constituency group is represented among the 15 cabinet secretaries, and that is black, hispanic, native american, lgbt, women, but not aapi. so that leads us to believe that we are in a second-class-citizen position. we do have gratitude for the cabinet level positions. actually, now, it is even only one, which is katherine tai. i think the frustration that you see coming out of senator hirono and senator duckworth is the fact that now we only have one cabinet-level position, now that neera tanden's nomination has been withdrawn. so we know tha

those nominees include deb holland, biden's pick to lead the interior department, neera tanden his nominee to head the office of budget and van ita gupta. in each case it is said republicans are trying to paint these women as extreme or a threat to the country, senator scott calling tanneden a radica liberal. >> i am troubled by many of representative holland's views, that many in my home state of wyoming would consider as radical. >> biden promised unity but this is a dangerous appointee at a dangerous time. >> dangerous they argue. former democratic senator from holland's home state of new mexico, they took issue with the radical label on holland writing in "usa today" this. that her record is in line with main stream conservation priorities thus the exceptional criticism of representative holland and the threatened holds on her nomination must be motivated by something other than her record. whatever the reason, there is plenty of opposition which is of course nothing new in washington but what is new is a senator opposing every single major nominee a president puts forward. republican

minus neera tanden, basically everyone in the cabinet is going to be confirmed, it appears, and thisave to make some serious sacrifices, limiting the number of people who get these checks, the minimum wage hike being taken out by the parliamentarian, they look at this bill and they say, it's historic. $1.9 trillion alone is amazing. but the amount of money that it will throw at schools, at states and municipalities is massive. and then on top of that, there's provisions that could cut child poverty in half. now the execution part comes. you get the money out there. you have to actually get it appropriated and spent, and you have to sell the package, which only the obama people can do. but i think if you're in the biden world, you're pretty happen with the way things have gone at this point in time and you're content to keep going at this pace while everyone else on the right rages over dr. seuss books. >> sam, one more for you. you recapped eloquently what the biden team has done so far. the next piece, we believe, or after covid relief, is going to be infrastructure, which is under

more breaking news this hour at the white house pulling neera tanden's nomination. the first biden cabinet failure. did it come down to her tweets? let's go outfront. good evening. i'm erin burnett out front this evening. the fbi director takes down trump. today christopher wray testifying before congress driving a stake through the heart of the conspiracy theories that trump and his allies continued to push about the deadly insurrection. conspiracy theory number one, you know, which trump even said that day, it wasn't actually trump supporters who were behind the attack. >> based on your investigation so far do you have any evidence the capitol attack was organized by, quote, fake trump protesters? >> we have not seen evidence of that. >> we have not seen evidence of that. no evidence that there were fake protesters, meaning that what you are about to hear from a sitting u.s. senator from the michigan senate majority leader and from right wing media is all a known lie. >> a very few didn't share the jovial friendly ernest demeanor of the great majority. some obviou

the waiting about neera tanden came to an end when she had to withdraw her nomination.y will put her in a job that does not require senate confirmation. there is uncle certainty in terms of how the biden cabinet will look in the end. merrick garland seems to be moving forward very smoothly to become the next attorney general of the united states. although somewhat along the same lines, perhaps. it should also be noted two women of color named by president biden to be other senior officials in the justice department working under the attorney general designate merrick garland. two women that have attracted rabid attacks from republicans at this point. we will see what happens to their nominations as merrick garland seems to be moving forward. we will see if joe manchin decides he does not like them for some reason. at the justice department we will have more on the burning wreckage that all of the biden appointees will be walking into at the justice department and the challenge ahead with the prosecutions related to the capitol attack. an interesting and surprise announc

neera tanden is going to meet with a republican senator today that could be the key, right, is that lisa murkowski. >> that's exactly right, poppy. it's remarkable. it's been more than a week since joe manchin, the moderate democrat from west virginia said he would not support tan den. that meant the white house was in a race to find a single republican willing to vote for her. we know this meeting happening today between murkowski and tanden, and murkowski is aware of past statements against her colleagues and tweets against her personally. those items could come up in today's meeting. look, this is a member, a moderate republican from the state of alaska, who is going to be looking for some kind of concession for her state. that is how lisa murkowski has always operated up here on capitol hill. she is sophisticate asked a thoughtful member when it comes to making sure that if she's gs to vote for something, there's going to be something she's likely getting in return. keep your eye on what that could be, of course. a critical meeting today on capitol hill that will likely seal the fate

. >> senator murkowski and neera tanden had a meeting.d other folks she would need to be confirmed. what's your take on this? is murkowski still a holdout? is there a chance she might vote for tanden despite everything. >> i mean, this is an easy one. if you just look at politics and you want to remove neera tanden and mean tweets, i can just tell you this is an easy one. at least in my day people will be lining up around the white house going, yeah, i'll vote for her. by the way, the hurricanes really messed up some small businesses in northwest florida. i'm worried about that. but we can talk about that later. but let's talk about neera tanden. why is this -- i mean, this is so easy for her. oh, you said a mean tweet about me? great. can i get something for alaska? can i get something to help my state? can i get something that the people of alaska need for a vote, for a woman who is qualified but -- yeah. gene robinson, this is easy. i understand tweets upset a lot of people. i wouldn't know about anybody tweeting bad things about me. i

neera tanden,'s -- neera tanden's nomination has been pulled. will she have an official role in the biden administration? ron: yes, she will. we are looking at a spot for her. she will not be in the cabinet, but the president thinks nee ra is incredibly talented and we will find a role for her in the administration to bring those talents to bear. we nominated shalonda young to be deputy omb director and hope the senate will confirm her lien got her in the chair so she can be acting omb director. and the president will pick someone to fill the seat left vacant by the withdrawal. anna: how's democratic leaders publicly pushed for shalonda young to be permanent omb director. so far, no dice. are you not moved by that request by democrats? i have never seen democratic leaders in unison pushed somebody for a position like this. ron: we are definitely moved by it, but even more, the president himself picked shalonda for the number to post at the omb. that is a sign of the great respect we have for her, she is certainly a very serious candidate for the

reporter: and on this hearing today, i know the white house pulled neera tanden to be o.m.b. director. there has been push by some democratic leadership in the house to have ms. young be the new nominee for o.m.b. director for the biden administration. is she somebody you could support based on what you heard? senator johnson: she has come with good recommendations from senators i respect. o.m.b. director is incredibly important position, especially for myself, another accountant. numbers matter. and we need information. that's the main thing i'll be looking for from the nominees is to make sure i get a commitment from them they'll provide congress, particularly this senate, with the information we need. right now i don't know how much that $1 trillion or how much that $4 trillion isn't unspent. that we've been told it's close to $1 trillion. it would be nice to have that information real time every day of the week but we don't have that information. reporter: you haven't heard anything yet from ms. young? senator johnson: the process has just begun. reporter: ok, thank you.

i know neera tanden. she's a friend of mine. here we are at one a birthday party, precovid. roll. neera did use her twitter feed to critique people in politics. here is senator rob portman of whining about that during her confirmation hearings. >> you wrote that susan collins, quote, the worst, that tom cotton is a fraud, that vampires have more heart that ted cruz, you called mitch mcconnell voldemort. >> acting intelligence director richard grennel or policy cruelty and degradation and let's not even start on the supreme court justices whose hearings cried about beer and sexual assault. all were just fine with republicans apparently and not at all disqualifying. senator bernie sanders, who leads the budget commission was coy about how he would have voted on neera's nomination. his supporters, let's remember, were rather famous for twitter troling and combat use of style of twitter themselves were high fiving her withdrawal last night. we never found out how krysten sinema would vote on the nomination. neera tanden, a woman of color, was made to apologize on television for t

overnight neera tanden withdrew. she's the president's nominee to be budget director.because of the math. some tweets she had sent in her prior life at a democratic thinktank had angered some democrats and republicans. just moments ago, it's a very critical job office of management and budget. moments ago the white house press secretary says we need a few days. listen. >> all right. the computer ate our homework there. this is what jen psaki said at the briefing. given neera tanden withdrew her nomination just last night, you should not expect an announcement on a future nominee this week. so they want to reboot here they have a favorite but they also have incoming from democratic interest groups who have different choices than you will. beyond the who, how big of a setback is this? >> look, obviously the white house is willing to fight for it. the white house lost that fight. and so when you're looking at an administration that hasn't had really anything catastrophic occur over its first six weeks, this would be considered a loss. in the grand scheme of things when yo

we are hearing that president biden is withdrawing neera tanden's nomination after we really are seeingtion being derailed by some of the twitter comments that neera tanden had made on her twitter account. people speaking anonymously to the post saying that this sort of bipartisan opposition is not going to come down. a republican for alaska is still undecided on whether she would support tandon if she does need that one support from a republican in order to get that and it does look like the white house is planning to withdraw the nomination for neera tanden as a director of the office of management and budget. we are expecting that on tuesday evening. we do have lots more to come. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i would suspect there is a pretty good chance you will see rates going up and people are starting to worry about that. >> the moves, my eye. >> i think we honestly have control of the yield curve at the short end. when it moves, it depends a lot on the driver. >> are seeing a multiyear stimulus unfolding in the u.s. as a justified rise in real yields that central banks should not be t

president biden's pick to head a key economic position neera tanden has withdrawn her nomination to head the office of management and budget she faced strong opposition from republican senators for some controversial tweets she had sent in the past. us pharma giant meric will help make rival johnson and johnson's covert 19 vaccine in order to boost production of the one doe shot partnership will allow the company to accelerate delivery of 100000000 vaccine doses by around a month. spain's unemployment has passed the $4000000.00 mark in february jobless claims rose for the 5th consecutive month as pandemic restrictions gutted the country's tourism depended economy the official unemployment rate is now above 17 percent. from spain we go to the netherlands where we talk about lock downs in germany let's look at that country since october shops cafes and restaurants in the netherlands have been close to the lockdown laws there now that spring is on its way people are longing for a return to normality. cafe and bar owners in the dutch city of breda not far from the belgian border enough is en

the white house has dropped its nomination of neera tanden. to head the office of management and budget. senators in both parties opposed confirming her, largely because of her mean tweets in the past. tonight, biden signaled there will be a place for her in the administration, just not a job that hinges on senate confirmation. amid all of this, the ongoing investigation into the january 6th riot and looting of our capitol building. it's moved on to what the fbi knew about the attack, and when they knew it. the fbi director, chris wray, a trump appointee, went before the judiciary committee to answer questions about their handling of intelligence, including a report the day before the riot warned of appeals for violence, including a call for war. >> the information was raw, unverified. in a perfect world, we would have taken longer to figure out whether it was reliable. i didn't see the report myself until after the 6th. but the way in which it was handled, as i understand it, strikes me as consistent with our normal process. that raw unverifi

and neera tanden is probably the most qualified omb director in our lifetime so the white house will fight for it until the white house affairs team looks at the votes and say we don't have it. they have got to continue to fight. in the middle of an economic crisis and a pandemic, you want to an omb director who knows what the heck they're doing. >> and any time quite frankly. she's meeting with lisa murkowski today and murkowski has emerged as this is the vote you're talking about, whether you have the votes or not is going to come down to lisa murkowski and john cornyn has teased up when asked why are they meeting that murkowski is looking to raise drilling on public lands and anwar with the administration. is this worth it? >> well this is what happens when you have 50/50 senate. every senators is the most important if they decide to make a deal. and the white house has to decide whether or not the deals are worth it. the question is what does she want. but this is a kind of horse trading that typically happens in some of these things. and we'll see what she said. but with a 50/50

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and also people talked about neera tanden being a real policy long.r america, but there was nothing about her nomination that screams that she has to be director of omb and i'm sure that she will be in some important nonsenate confirmed job in the future, so i think what bill says is correct. it shows for purposes of this nomination joe manchin is the most powerful man in the world. >> just moments ago, to withdraw the nomination from the director of office management budget, most respect for her record and accomplishment and her experience and her counsel, look forward to having her serve a role in my administration, she will bring valuable perspective to her work. and we'll get a job in the white house no matter what. the issue of immigration, take a listen. >> they are a leading undocumented people in, that concerns me and my community leaders down there. >> we have more than 7,000 unaccompanied kids who have come into the united states, and that is certainly a lot of children that we are trying to treat humanely and safely in a process through the

as of now, president biden says that neera tanden will have a different job in the administration. he's still not named a new nominee for the office of management and budget. one of the people who had been described as potentially in contention for that was a long democratic policy expert named gene sperling. today, gene sperling was instead named to be the point person for the implementation of the big covid relief bill, the $1.9 trillion rescue plan. gene sperling will not be put forward as the nominee. instead, he'll be in charge of accountable to make sure the bill is put in effect efficiently and without bottlenecks. there has been a lot going on in the administration in the past week, a lot of stuff from here on out, i think, is going to continue to focus on the covid relief bill. today, the biden administration set sail on what they're calling the help is here tour. president biden, environment harris, their spouses, are going to be going out all over the country to promote the covid relief bill they just shepherded into law. dr. jill biden was in new jersey today at an elem

. >> scott mcgrew you said it here on "today in the bay" that neera tanden would probably not make itess. >> well, i thought, marcus, this was going to happen a lot faster than it ended up happening. tanden couldn't get enough democrats to support her. she didn't have the 50% she needed even with her own party controlling 50% of the senate. tanden as you may recall is well qualified for the job, but has a history of calling senators names on twitter. last night she told president biden she was a distraction and withdrew her name from consideration. >>> i've shown you these op-ed headlines before. they do a good job showing the two schools of thought among democrats. some like the columnist karen tumulty writing "those concerned about tanden's incivility sure didn't seem to mind the trump era's." others like matt lewis pointing out "if you want civility, you got to be civil. neera tanden's nomination has to do we fight for what we want being civil and following long-established rules or do what the other side did? in the case of the $15 an hour minimum wage, the senate parliamentarian

. >>> meanwhile, president biden featuring his first cabinet defeat, the white house pulling neera tanden'sn as budget chief when it became clear they did not have the votes. jeremy diamond is live at the white house. >> reporter: last night, the white house pulling that nomination of neera tanden to be head of the office of management and budget, amid bipartisan opposition to her nomination, because of some tweets she issued attacking both democratic and republican lawmakers. that was the primary reason for much of the optposition on capitol hill. this comes nearly two weeks after joe manchin, a democrat from west virginia, announced that he would vote against her confirmation. and really, that made very clear that she was going to face a narrow, if not impossible path to actually being confirmed. but over those two weeks, the white house vowing to fight for that nomination, trying to find support among some of the moderate republicans in the senate. but that support never came. and by yesterday, it became very clear to white house officials that she was not going to be able to be confirme

>> well, chris, we remain committed to fighting our hearts out for neera tanden.is the right person. she's qualified, she's experienced to lead the budget department. she brings unique experience as somebody who's lived through benefiting from a number of these programs, and she's worked on these issues for decades across the aisle. so we're going to keep fighting for it. we knew that some of these fights would be difficult, and this is certainly one of them, but she's going to have a number of continued engagements this week, and we're certainly hopeful we can get it across the finish line. chris: jen, there was lots to talk to you about. you guys made a lot of news this week. thank you. >> i know, we tried. thanks, chris. chris: up next, president biden takes his first action as commander in chief in syria and releases that report on the saudi crown prince. we'll talk with the chair of the ♪ ♪ the chevy silverado trail boss. when you have a two-inch lift. when you have goodyear duratrac tires. when you have rancho shocks and an integrated dual exhaust. when you

neera tanden's nomination has to die so decency can live again.entral argument for the democrats, do we fight by being civil and following long established rules or do we do what the other side did? in the case of the $15 an hour says it can't be passed under reconciliation but the democrats could just break the rule, do what they want, do what they did to us, they say. here's congressman roh khanna talking to raj mathai. >> if you get the aca appeal as part of reconciliation, drilling is reconciliation, the minimum wage increase should be part of reconciliation. >>> president biden announced there will be a vaccine available for every adult by the end of may. our kris sanchez has been telling us about texas how it's already pretending like the pandemic is over, despite the fact that 1,443 americans died just yesterday. that's like eight 737 max 8s crashing in a single day, but texas and that idea that the pandemic is over may convince some people to doubt the need for a massive, new stimulus. >> the bottom line is, we need the american rescue pla

let's talk about neera tanden, mike, who could replace her and where might she land? eporter: the fact that even before we knew where senator murkowski was going to vote, the white house decided to withdraw tanden's nomination tells you that the white house wasn't sure one republican vote would get her over the finish line. joe manchin the democrat from west virginia stated his opposition to the nomination but there were other democrats we haven't heard from yet. clearly a concern there. it's a setback for what has been a success story for the white house in terms of its nominations. 13 cabinet or cabinet level officials confirmed, six more on the runway ready to go. i will be waiting the same committee we are waiting to see in terms of one of those joint committees today, the homeland security and government affairs committee, they are set to hold a hearing tomorrow for shalanda young, she's been nominated to be the deputy omb director and there's strong support our nbc team is reporting from capitol hill democrats for the white house to now change course and put her

peter, what do we know >> reporter: lester, after days defending neera tanden's nomination for budget director late tonigh president biden announced he had accepted her request to withdraw it it's the first setback for the president's effort to fill his cabinet. tanden had faced bipartisan opposition from senators due to her past incendiary tweets about some republican and democratic lawmakers tonight president biden says he has the utmost respect for tanden and looks forward to her joining his administration in a different role that does not require senate approval. lester >> peter alexander in the white house. thanks >>> now to the state of emergency from record floods in kentucky, a dam breach forcing about 1,000 people to evacuate in eastern kentucky, and from one crisis to another, in texas more than 200,000 still under boil water notices after the storm there two weeks ago. >>> a 5-year-old is in the fight of her life nearly a month after a crash involving the son of an nfl head coach. gabe gutierrez on her family's attorney speaking out for the first time about her condition. >

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neera tanden was under fire for previous tweets attacking republicans.sident biden says tanden will now join his administration in a different role. >>> fbi director christopher wray says the attack on the u.s. capitol in january was an october of domestic terrorism. in his first appearance before congress since the attack, wray said the fbi is focusing on the growing threat of homegrown extremists and he denied claims that the antifa movement was behind the attack. >> we have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribing to antifa in connection with the 6th. that doesn't mean we're not looking and we'll continue loo look but at the moment we have not seen that. a large and growing number of the people that we have arrested so far in the -- in connection with the 6th are what we would call militia violent extremism. >> wray defended how the fbi handled intelligence before the capitol attack saying it was shared with capitol police and other law enforcement. >>> hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes

as it relates to neera tanden, she's somebody who has decades of experience. she is qualified. she is prepared to lead the budget team, and we're continuing, of course, to fight for the confirmation of every nominee that the president puts forward. we'll see if we have 50 votes. that's part of the journey. that's part of democracy in action. go ahead. reporter: on voting rights, the supreme court is set to hear a major voting rights case this week. you have by some estimates some 43 states, republican-led states that are set to -- envision a change to election laws and want to make it harder, put in place more restrictions on voting. the house is set to vote on the john lewis voting rights act. that is running head-long into a senate filibuster. will they nix the filibuster? if not, how will he leverage his political capital to make sure this democratic priority becomes law? jen: first, the president's committed to protecting the fundamental right to vote, making it easier for all eligible americans to vote. his campaign was about fighting for democracy and remember' going to -

neera tanden has withdrawn as the office of management and budget director nominee after it became clear she didn't have the streets for confirmation. she didn't even have the support of all the democrats in the senate dau to her old tweets that are seen as hostile. what's your reaction? >> well, i -- i'm looking forward to the new appointee. and i -- there are a number of good names out there. i think overall the president has done a very good job in nominating people. and i think neera made the right decision when she saw there were not the votes there. but there are a lot of great talents of people being mentioned as omb director. and i'm sure we will have them serving soon. >> that is the hope. but she would have been the first age willing american in that role. and the biden administration has not nominated many other asian-americans to cabinet positions or even cabinet level positions, kathryn tye for trade. but tell me if i missed somebody. but as part of the asian-american and pacific islander caucus, are you concerned. >> well we have kamala harris our own californian as vice-pr

neera tanden, the president's pick for the director of office of management and budget hast a withdrawnation. tanden faced bipartisan opposition from senators because of her past comments on twitter, including mean tweets about lawmakers. well, today is "read across "res america" day. it's a date originally chosen to honor the birthday of dr. seuss. but tonight, mentions of the late children's author have been removed from many of this year's celebrations, and his publisher says it will no longer sellwi several of his books after concerns were raised about his portrayals of race. we get more now from cbs' adriana diaz. >> reporter: tonight, six of dr. seuss' books, including "and to think that i saw it on mulberry street," and "if i ran a zoo," will no longer be published. dr. seuss enterprises said these books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong after consulting with a panel of scholars and educators. theodore "seuss" geisel wrote and illustrated more than 45 children's books. coained racist stereotypes, like this 1937 image described as "chinaman with a cone-shaped hat,

neera tanden had been put forward to head the office of management and budget — but she had faced oppositionn a statement — the president said she would serve in his administration in some capacity. the brazilian health ministry says it's registered more than 1600 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours — the highest daily number since the pandemic began. in total nearly 260,000 brazilians have died. several states have run out of intensive care beds and most report almost full hospital capacity as the situation deteriorates. germany's lockdown appears to have worked — case numbers have fallen and angela merkel�*s under pressure to reopen society. but new variants are spreading and many experts warn a third wave of infection has already begun. today mrs merkel will meet regional leaders to decide how and when restrictions can be lifted. jenny hill reports. after a winter in lockdown, this country has had enough. the dortmund philharmonic has thrown itself into rehearsals for opening night. but it is germany's politicians who will set a date to if you ask me what would i open first, i would t

neera tanden was opposed by key senators due to comments she made on social media.statement, biden said he looked forward to having her serve in the administration in a different role. gina raimondo one convert -- won confirmation as commerce secretary. in afghanistan, three media workers, all women, were shot dead today by gun men. they were walking home from a radio and tv station where they changed the soundtrack of programs into afghan languages. women have increasingly begun targets. hundreds of girls kidnapped from a school in nigeria are free again. regional officials said they offered amnesty to the captors. the 270 nine girls packed into a government building awaiting medical checks. some told harrowing tales of their mass kidnapping last week. >> we were sleeping when suddenly we started hearing gunshots. everybody fled, and there were just two of us left. the other girl is from my town. she said, i swear i will not leave the bed. they were pointing guns at our heads. stephanie: at least 13 people died in a highway crash in rural southern california. a tra