yamiche: yeah. well, eugene, kasie, hitting on a key point that there are people that are still hesitant to have the vaccine and what about vaccination rates among lawmakers and how might this announcement change their calculation and of course the calculation of people living in their districts? kasie: that's a very good question because covid has really changed the way business is done on capitol hill, especially in the house of representatives which of course much larger than the u.s. senate. but we already saw the senate leader, mitch mcconnell, the mernt leader, going without -- minority leader, going witht a mask as soon as these guidelines were released. there still are mask requirements on the floor of the house. and that's probably set to become a pretty intense potical debate because nancy pelosi is keeping those rules that way until she says all house members are vaccinated along with the staffers that have access to the floor. and while they say that essentially 100% of democrats have be

yamiche: yeah. another thing that ayesha said and wesley, you were brilliant but i want to think about something else that ayesha said that i need to follow about and that is she -- critical race theory and brought up people getting uncomfortable talking about the history of slavery, the consequences that people live with every day. talk to me a bit about how you see this conversation really this argument that is in some ways very one skied -- one-sidedded and the consequences of racism in this country? >> i don't know if you've ever seen that meme of the twin spidermans pointing at each other and they look exactly the same? i think in america, the more we shine that light into the dark spaces, and reveal, you know, the nature of this country, and what we've seen historically, that i think a lot of white people get very uncomfortable with that because it means you're going to have to confront and have a true reckoning with who you are and how you see yourself. and so if the veneer is cracked at all,

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yamiche: we tried. andrea: i know. and again on north korea, there will be no love letters between joe biden and kim jong un, none of those beautiful letters or overt threats back and forth and rollercoaster of emoonal personal diplomacy. he wants some commitments before they meet. but he is willing to meet but he wants denuclearization which was the same goal as the trump white house but it won't be as personalized. it will be more substantive and this was reassuring to south korea. very important meeting today where president trump, in his first meeting in singapore where i covered that summit with kim jong-un, agreed without telling his defense secretary, jim mattis, that he was going to cancel the joint military exercises with the u.s. and south korea, a bedrock of preparation and readiness and signals to the north and to do that unilaterally without telling his advisers, his cabinet secretaries, was pretty startling and they still have not been resumed. they've been table-top exercises. so this was basically getti

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yamiche: gaslighting, gas lines, and governing.resident biden: if you are fully vaccinated you no longer need to wear a mask. yamiche: in the fight against covid, president biden announces a big step forward. >> i will do everything i can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the oval office. yamiche: and congresswoman liz cheney is purged and replaced for pushing back on election lies. president biden: don't panic number one. i know seeing linest the pumps or gas stations with no gas can be extremely stressful. but this is a temporary situation. yamiche: plus president biden faces new challenges at home and abroad. next.

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yamiche: republicans press forward with more bills to restrict voting as the g.o.p. gets ready for a purge over its embrace of election conspiracy theories. >> we should not be embracing the former president. >> i've lost confidence. yamiche: at the center, foer president trump's lie that the 2020 election was rigged. and the power he still holds. >> trickle down ain't working very well, man. yamiche: meanwhile, president biden sets new goals for fighting covid and hits the road to sell his massive plan to rebuild and invest in america. will virus and vaccine culture wars get in his way? next.

yamiche alcindor, reporting on this day that all of us are marking., thank you. >> reporter: thanks. >> woodruff: members of george floyd's family also met today with congresswoman karen bass of california. she is the house democrats' lead negotiator on police reform legislation named after george floyd. i spoke with her a short time ago. representative karen bass, thank you so much for joining us. let me first ask you about your conversation with the george floyd family. tell us about it. >> this is a very difficult day for the family. anytime there's an anniversary, a birthday, you know, or today, commemorating it was one year ago, it's a painful day for them, and, so, our conversation was just them encouraging congress to finish the job, and also expressing that they thought it was more important that the job be done correctly rather than rushing to have a bill just to meet a deadline. so i was happy to hear that. i was happy to hear, to know that they were not disappointed, but that they were encouraged because our talks have been moving forward.

yamiche, jonathan, thank you both so much.be watching you tonight, it's friday night. >>> this morning we've got to talk about the colonial pipeline. you know it, it provides much of the gas along the east coast running from texas to new jersey. good news, it is back up and running. and u.s. official confirming to nbc the u.s. paid the hackers who shut down the networks nearly $5 in ransom, using bitcoins to make the payment, making it completely anonymous. the fbi discouraged victims from paying hackers but they don't outright prohibit it. many americans are feeling the effect of the shutdown with long lines and higher prices at gas stations. the company said it could take several days to replenish the supply. remember, they don't just flip the switch back on. it takes 5 miles an hour to get through this thing and it's 5,500 miles long. >>> coming up, many americans are thrilled about the new mask guidance, but what does it mean for businesses? are they now in charge of monitoring who has the vaccine and who doesn't? could yo

yamiche: can president biden balance support for israel with pushback from his own party?- >> are they going to join us in pursuing the truth or are they going to cover for donald trump and his big lie. yamiche: congress tries to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the capitol insurrection. partisan politics gets in the way as the majority of g.o.p. lawmakers refuse to support it. >> i've made the decision to oppose the house democrats' slanted and unbalanced proposal.

yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs "newshour."from the stanford's hoover institute. we're seeing more openness to where you don't have to pay for all of this. where is this realistically heading? are we going for half of what's been proposed on the tax increases at the end of the day and more deficit spending? >> probably. what chuk schumer has to do is work through many, many senators. it's not just joe manchin and kristin cinema. there are others concerned about competitiveness and making sure we target these tax increases for the people who aren't paying their fair share. will it be 28 in terms of a corporate rate? maybe 25, maybe 26, maybe 27. will everything on the wish list get through? no, probably not. but at the end of the day, chuck schumer is going to work through those senators and try to get them all to agree, and then once he gets close to 50, like 49.5, then he starts working on the republicans to get it across the finish line. >> it was interesting. it was notable that janet yellen -- she mentioned the specific per

we also have pbs newshour white house expandand yamiche yamiche alcindor. priscilla, what are you seeing on the ground so far? >> yes, oftentimes in cases like this we see renewed calls for justice and it ignites widespread protest. but that's not one thing we are seeing here. one thing that can do is put pressure on officials to act and release more tape or whatever it is protesters are calling for and activists say there are a couple of things that may be going on. one, someone pointed out to me this was an incident that happened outside of monroe and something that took place between greene and louisiana state troopers, not local law enforcement. so what activists are saying is they're calling on the governor to do more in this situation and to step in and act. the but we did hear from governor john bel edwards late yesterday about this, and he says he's standing by what he said initially about the release of the tapes and what the law enforcement agencies that are investigating this, including the doj and district attorney, have asked him to do as it re

yamiche, do democrats say, you want a culture war in the gop? let's go.do they focus on kitchen table issues? >> based on my conversations with white house officials and democratic lawmakers, they're trying to lean in on the idea that they can deliver things to the american people, services, policies that will impact their lives and better their lives rather than getting involved in the culture wars that the republican party is so focused on. you can see in republicans, that they are really leaning in on strategies that helped president trump win in 2016 but failed in 2020. voting rights, protesting, the transgender laws, they're trying to solve problems that largely don't exist on a large scale. 96% of protests were peaceful. this is where republicans are trying to have their energy be because they're trying to scare their voters in some ways to the polls. >> kasie hunt, i want -- speaking of the culture wars. kevin brady was on "meet the press daily" with me friday. i won't play the clip because we're short on time. i asked him three times to give liz c

our white house corresndent yamich alcindor joins me now to share her reporting. about the viewrom the white house on all of this. 11 days of fighting, a cease-fire, what role did president biden play in getting us to this point? >> i should say president biden is speaking right now at the white house. and what the president is really laying out is th fact there is going to be a cease-fire starting in two hours. and white house officials stress president biden was engaged in increasingly pointed, diplomatic talks behind the scenes, quiet they say, no grandstanding. but he was stressing to prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he expected a deescalation, and that a cease-fire needed to happen. you saw over the week, really, the language from the white house changed. they were still saying that israel has the righto defend itself. but they were also saying this needs to stop, that israel had major military objectives, and they were able to protect their people and that now they needed to seek peace. white house officials here are saying president biden played a maj

yamiche: president biden is speaking right now the white house.e is laying out is the fact there will be a cease-fire starting in two hours. officials stressed president biden was engaged increasingly pointed diplomatic talks behind the scenes. no grandstanng. but he was stressing to prime minister benjamin netanyahu expected a de-escalation and a cease-fire needed to happen. he saw over the week the language from the white house changed. he was still saying israel had the right to defend itself but this needs to stop and israel had major military objectives that they were able to protect their people and now they have to have peace. they were saying president biden played a major role and there were over 80 engagements. also with all sorts of white house officials at all levels talking to their counterparts in israel. amna: we also know the president has been under pressure from his own party. people like senator bernie sanders. saying the u.s. needs to do more to protect the human rights of the occupied palestinians. what has that done, if anyth

yamiche, back to the biden white house. infrastructure, jobs, american families. how much pressure, how much urgency do they feel? is the sensation sinking in, this will be party line if they can keep their party together? >> in talking to white house officials, my sense is that they're really trying to talk to republicans, to see if there is any sort of bipartisan claim that can be put together, as well as what the other bill hands it. and then talking about education and health care and really helping people survive and thrive in america. that being said, i do get a sense, talking to lawmakers on the hill, as well as talking to some senior white house aides, that they are very clear they cannot just wait around for republicans to try to come up with some sort of compromise. they are really understanding of the calendar, thinking about memorial day as a sort of deadline. i'm hearing from lawmakers deciding whether they'll go it alone. and there is a sense of this new idea, being somewhere out in the country and saying our ideas were very popular with the american

. >> woodruff: we turn now to our lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor. hello to both of if you.to you first, tell us exactly what happened today and w did the republicans explain this decision? >> desjardins: judy, cheney spoke to her colleagues behind closed doors and at the end she offered a prayer for the country and for freedom and then something truly shakespearian happened. her colleagues at the end of remarks, the colleagues who were about to o oust her from leadership, gave her a standing ovation. the vote was very quick, by voice vote, instead of members having to cast ballots expect house leader kevin mccarthy, they did it by voice it was just seconds. i spoke to a couple dozen members afterwards as they flooded out of that chamber. clearly they wanted this to be quick. clearly they wanted to get it behind them. but the truth is, there was a lot of ideas and dynamics in the air. those who ousted cheanl told me repeatedly they felt she went too far and was a distraction. here is one dan bishop of north carolina. >> liz cheney's responsibility is to lead our party in the

our yamiche alcindor joins me now to break down this blueprint of priorities. hello, yamiche, tell us what more do we know about this proposed budget document that the president is expected to unveil tomorrow? >> that's rightwell president biden is expected to unveil a $6 trillion budget and if passed in its form currently it would be the highest federal sustained spending since world war ii. now the white house says this say big budget because we have biproblems and big chal eggs ahead. i want to walk you through what is in this budget based on what white house sources have been telling us all day. there are $8 trillion in total spending by 2031, $6 trillion for fiscal year 2022, 1.512 trm sphor discretionary, education, housing, and climate change and $1 trillion in deficits for at least the next decade, white house press secretary jen psaki was out and said the budget we will see more details tomorrow reflects the priorities of president biden and that is about creating jobs and doing the types of things talked about including having generational investment

yamiche alcindar. and also paw butler is here, the author of "choke hold" and reverend al sharpton is here, president of the national action network. i know you spoke with president biden. tell us what you know. >> i spoke to the president. he called me yesterday, late afternoon. i want to hinge that i wanted to be clear that my position as president of national action network and many of my civil rights colleagues is we were more concerned about a bill with tooth in it, a hard bill, and a soft deadline than a hard deadline of day, and he said he appreciated that. he reminded me that i was in a meeting that he had with the floyd family in houston the day before the funeral that i gave the eulogy, and that he wanted to meet with them to check in with them, as he's done by phone. he would meet with some of the civil rights leadership on a more policy kind of meeting later. but we want to make it clear we want to see this bill. george floyd should not go down in history as a martyr and a victim. he should

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yamiche, carol, sahil, thank you all so much. >>> we've got to move on. breaking overnight, microsoft sounding the alarm that the solarwinds hackers are at it again. this time they're targeting 150 organizations, most of them here in the u.s. they say a russian-backed group launched the attacks after hacking into email marketers used by a u.s. government aid agency calling it, quote, an active incident. nbc's chief white house correspondent kristen welker joins me now. kristen, i'm so happy to see you on your last day before you leave us for maternity leave. good to see you this morning. but we're not talking about good news. explain what's happening here. >> steph, you're so right about that. thank you for having me. it's so good to be with you. thank you for all of the love and support. to this breaking news overnight, this latest hack could not come as a more perilous time at the white house gearing up for that high-profile meeting, steph, you and i have been talking about between president biden and russian president vladimir putin. here's what we kno

we are back with rick, yamiche and david.n the mine was christopher wray who at the end of the summer before the election testified to just that. he said the biggest bucket, the biggest threat is violent extremist and in the bucket is white supremacists and notable that no one said the same thing. not the secretary of homeland security. not then attorney general barr. now at least you see this whole of government approach to fighting the greatist threat to the home land. >> yes. director wray was forthright and candid saying it's the greatest threat to the country and as someone that worked at the state department against foreign terrorism, you can't say this too many times. since 9/11 there have been about 85 attacks on the homeland considered domestic terrorism. 75% of those attacks were by extreme white ring terrorist organizations. not by foreign terrorist groups. this is not a new phenomenon. and as merrick garland said it's worse in the obama administration. i remember when i was at "time" we did a cover story on the ri

yamiche? >> well, in my mind, what you see in lindsey graham is somebody who is in some ways really following the direction of the party, whatever that may be. after january 6th, directly after it, you saw a number of republicans come out and really be forceful against president trump. you had nikki haley and even kevin mccarthy and so many others. then lindsey graham put his finger in the air andry liesed the party was still blowing in the direction of donald trump and that's why you see him saying our party cannot go forward without president trump. i have been talking to local republicans, not just the ones in washington, d.c. but in states, and they still see the republican party as very connected to president trump. most of those leaders were elected in the last two, three years. they see republicanism as trumpism and that's what you see lindsey graham doing. that's why you see him really having this stance and going against liz cheney in this unique way. >> yamiche alcindor, thank you. >

yamiche, congrats again. i want to go back to you on their outreach.resident and the senior staff working the phones this week with republicans and democrats alike to. the senate and house leadership are coming to the white house next week in what we expect a week full of meetings, republicans and democrats, coming to the oval office, meeting with the president. what are you hearing in terms of what their pitch is, both to republicans to try to get them on board and we know part of it is saying, hey, your voters like this. but also to the democrats, like man chin and kyrsten sinema. >> that's a great question. thank you for that con congratulationlations. what the white house pitch is saying, one what you just said, that these bills and when you look at it as a whole, the $6 trillion worth of spending they want to do, the president wants to do on of course, covid relief bill that has been passed as well as infrastructure that he's trying to get passed, this is really something when you look at pols and look at local republicans and city leaders and sta

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. >>> joining us now to continue the conversation is a white house correspondent yamiche.have 14 states that passed new restrictive voting measures. we know that many other republican-led states are looking at new voting restrictions. what are republicans trying to achieve with these measures? how are they using the cover of trump's big lie about the election that he lost to do it? >> republicans, they continue to insist that this is about voter integrity. i interviewed brian hughs, one of the people who co-authored the texas bill. i said, what do you say that this is you trying to block african-americans and people of color to vote and making it harder to vote, he said, it's about making the case that the election should be more secure. when i pressed him and said, in texas, house republicans and republicans overall did very well, he said, that's true. we did do very well. he couldn't give me an answer -- a clear answer on where the voting fraud was in texas in particular. that echos the stance of so many republicans. they say it's about voter integrity. when you say, sho

it must stop. >> yamiche, in addition to hr-8 there is new legislation that's been introduced i wantead some nbc reporting to you and get your reaction because we have senator john cornyn and chris murphy, they want to clarify who is required to register as a federal firearms licensee and that's conduct fbi checks on a buyer before selling a gun. the senators say an ambiguity in the law has enabled unlicensed sellers to transfer weapons to dangerous people who skirt the background check system. this is something that's small and targeted and chris murphy, you have somebody from connecticut who represents the nu town families and cornyn you have somebody from texas who represents one of the most permissive states when it comes to gun ownership. on this specific bill based on your reporting do you think this is the kind of thing that can get 60 votes in the senate? >> small and targeted means that maybe it would have a better chance than the gun reform that the president and democrats have been pushing for for a long time, but even with that being said it's still every time you bring u

joining me now white house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche elcindor. also with me former u.s. attorney joyce vance, an nbc contributor and the co-hosts of "the sisters-in-law" podcast. i hope you have a lot of time because we have a lot to talk about. joyce, let me start with you and the last topic of discussions going on about what happens if trump gets charged with something in manhattan. what is your read on that? >> there's an interstate compact that allows states to easily transfer people who are indicted in one state but who are present in another state back to the state that's charged them. that's something that happens in most cases almost automatically and no one ever gives it a whole lot of thought other than simply executing it. it is a ministerial function. so, of course, as with all things trump this routine process of our laws gets called into question. although governor desantis can make some noise here, perhaps he can even take a little time to make sure that the president trump in florida is the same former president trump who is indic

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they are kicking somebody out for telling the truth. >> and yamiche, i'm curious, yamiche, what the whiteover every single day about this the building behind you because today, as a matter of fact, kevin mccarthy will be one of the so-called big four meeting with president biden. so on the very day that he's leading the charge to expel liz cheney because she says joe biden is the free and fair president of the united states of america, he will be sitting down trying to do some business with that president. >> well, willie, all of this is happening 126 days after the capitol insurrection where a mob stormed into the capitol and where now liz cheney is taking this defiant last stand to say i am not going to be going down the path of calling into question the rule of law and undermining democracy. when i talk to white house officials about this civil war inside the gop where the side of truth is losing it seems this morning, they say that the president, president biden, feels very, very like -- very, very wetted to the idea that he was elected to try his best to work with republicans. so eve

mike barnicle has a question for you, a yamiche. mike?lie just mentioned, how to pay for infrastructure, which has been mentioned all day and everyday. then end game all you hear is joe manchin, joe manchin, joe manchin but isn't the real impediment to any of this happening mitch mcconnell? >> well, it's an important question, mike. it really is this idea that joe -- that it's this idea that senator man chin -- i'm sorry. it's this idea that mitch mcconnell, the senate minority leader is still in some ways acting like the majority leader that he is wielding this veto power. this idea you can't get 60 votes in the senate that mitch mcconnell will come out essentially and make a big deal about it. will oppose it very vocally, will use it as an ax to grind against democrats. i should say joe manchin, though, is still someone to watch, especially kyrsten sinema as well. these are democrats who are in some ways really wielding power in washington, wielding power in the way that democrats can move forward. there's this democratic majority in th

i want bring in chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell and yamiche alsindor is here. andrea, your phone rings on days like this. what are you hearing? >> they're working on arrangements. egypt is the intermediary with hamas. israel considers a terror organization and does the united states. secretary blinken is in greenland about to fly back after a week long arctic conference primarily in iceland and in greenland today he was looking at effects of climate change, in fact and meeting with officials there and did call the foreign ministry the counterpart in israel to get word -- first, preliminarily to emphasize and to repeat what president biden said yesterday which was the strongest thing that the president said directly to prime minister netanyahu to see signs of substantial signs of de-escalation yesterday meaning today and then the prime minister was adamant in comments to ambassadors who were in israel saying that they had more to do, they would not stop before they were finished and more military goals to achieve. as were many spokesman. i spoke to a lieutenant

earlier this month, yamiche alcindor spoke with brown's father, michael brown senior, about what has since his son's killing and george floyd's murder. >> thank you for sitting down and talking. it has been seven years since her son was killed. i wonder how you are doing. how you are navigating this time . >> every day is different. sadly, this thing with community police is still continuing. it definitely does bring back up old feelings, open wounds. , brings that anger, that madness or whatever back. >> so much has changed and so much hasn't changed since the death of your son // i wonder if you can talk to me a bit about when you learned about george floyd, if you saw the video and what that moment was like for you as a black man and as a father who had lost his son. >> i was at home when it was at home when it was going live on the internet. we all went to minnesota to support and be down on the ground roots with the rest of the community. the energy, the energy reminded me of 2014. it was so much anger, pain. i met with the family. gave them words of encouragement and i told the

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yamiche alcindor focuses tonight on questions over race and medicine. >> alcindor: the amerin medical associatiois one of thcountry's oldest, largest and best known associationof doctors, its voice has long been influential, but now the a.m.a. is finally beginning to come to terms with racism in its own past. it recently issued an 83 page report that found that the organization is, "rooted in white patriarchy and affluent supremacy." the report outlines a number of examples, including the group's past support of excluding physicians of color. and it notes that in the 19th century, a president of the group once practiced vaginal surgeries on enslaved black women without anesthesia. the a.m.a. is vowing to take action on racial justice and health equity. dr. aletha maybank is the a.m.a.'s chief health equity officer. she started work on the report two years ago. thank you so much for joining us, dr. maybank. i want to start by saying you did work on this report. tell me a little bit about what was most troubling to yowhen you look at what was uncovered and what the report says? >> you k

shaw, dean of brown university school of public health and yamiche is still with us. what is the sort of prospect of letting the results speak to the sort of folks on the receiving end of the disinformation? it seems like when this was all an experiment maybe people were more susceptible. do you think they'll look and maybe not be as susceptible to the disinformation? >> yes. first of all, thank you for having me on. when i -- >> thank you. >> look at this whole pandemic, the bottom line has been misinformation and disinformation has been a source that harmed us. i believe americans are looking at people vaccinated, people have been on the fence and seeing that people are vaccinated are safe, that they can go about the daily business and do so saferly and i think poo helps people jump off the fence and i don't think the misinformation is as effective as it was early in the pandemic. >> i ask because the disinformation is getting really so much more over the top. and if you're on the fence then you don't have the other proof points in society it's just -- it's hard to