>> well, jake, these are new images and new video showing the movements of the person who is believed -- the fbi believes placed these two devices outside the rnc and the dnc. it's remarkable that two months after the insurrection, after the attack on the u.s. capitol, they still have very little to go on. but that doesn't mean that they don't have a lot of clues from these videos. for instance, the suspect is seen wearing a nike air max speed turf shoes, yellow, black and gray. you can see in the images, he is wearing -- he or she is wearing a hooded sweatshirt as well as a mask. one of the things that is interesting, jake, is that the fbi says that the devices are believed to have been placed between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. the night before. as you pointed out, prosecutors, the fbi have said that they believe perhaps these bombs were placed as a way, as a diversionary tactic, as a way to draw law enforcement away from the u.s. capitol as the attack began on january 6th. but the question is, you know, the timer that's used here, it's described as a kitchen timer. that suggests that perhaps these devices should have gone off the night before. and if that had been the case, everything would have changed about january 6th. a lot of questions remain about exactly the relationship between the placement of this device on the night before the january 6th insurrection and the events that happened in the attack on the u.s. capitol. whether the persons are connected or whether this was another group that had nothing to do with those -- with the attacks that was trying to do something else. again, a lot of questions remain from the fbi. the fbi says they have a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect. >> that's what i want to ask you about, evan. the release of this new video plus the $100,000 reward would suggest possibly that the fbi is really not necessarily any closer to figuring out who this is than they were two months ago. >> reporter: yeah. no, i think that does tell you that they're kind of at a dead end. they spent a lot of time looking at these devices. they have them at the fbi lab in quantico. they've analyzed the makeup of them. the question is, did the th person know what they were doing? from what the fbi is describing, this looks like homemade black powder that was used. why didn't it work? again, using a kitchen timer tells us that this wasn't some kind of sophisticated device that was set to go off on the day of the attack. ag again, if it was placed between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. the night before, it suggests that this should have gone off on the night before the attack. you can think, if this had gone off on the night before, perhaps the security picture at the capitol would have been far different than what we saw. >> evan perez, thank you. appreciate it. the house of representatives is expected to vote tomorrow on president biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief bill but with zero support expected. only a few defections to pass this bill and get it to the president's desk as phil mattingly now reports for us. >> what hits you the hardest when the pandemic hit? >> reporter: president joe biden stopping by a hardware store to highlight his aid to small businesses devastated by the pandemic. >> 400,000 small businesses went out of business. they couldn't get the help. when we found out that an awful lot of that went to bigger businesses that, in fact, weren't supposed to qualify for this. >> reporter: the house, expected to pass his sweeping $1.9 trillion covid relief plan tomorrow. >> the american rescue plan is transformative. >> reporter: even as all republicans remain opposed. >> the spending of $1.9 trillion spending bill is not focused on covid relief. it's focused on pushing more of the far-left agenda. >> reporter: including democratic priorities like an $86 billion bailout of union pension plans and $5 billion to forgive debt for black, hispanic and indigenous farmers. the white house touting the most significant cash for low and moderate-income americans in decades, the stimulus checks that would provide $5,600 for a typical family of four making $100,000. extensions of emergency unemployment benefits for roughly 11 million americans, unprecedented expansion of the child tax credit which would reach 66 million and is estimated to cut child poverty in half. >> is this a crisis at the border? >> reporter: the white house staring down a different crisis. >> the people who are being let in are unaccompanied children. that is a policy decision, which we made. >> reporter: the surge of child migrants at the border. >> we've been very clear that there is an increase, that there are more children coming across the border than we have facilities for at this point in time. >> reporter: more than 3,400 unaccompanied migrant children in customs and border patrol custody, according to documents reviewed by cnn. biden sent top officials to the border and is expected to receive their report soon but the pressure is growing for solutions, even if the white house refuses to call it a crisis. >> we are challenged at the border. it is a stressful challenge. >> i do agree with the president that it's not a crisis yet. >> we don't need to sit here and put new labels on what we already conveyed is challenging. >> reporter: jake, the biggest question for tens of millions of americans is when will those stimulus payments go out? president biden said by the end of the month. i'm told that timeline is likely to move up a little bit, the irs working on speeding those payments, particularly for those individuals who already have bank accounts on file. two payments have gone out throughout the course of the pandemic. one thing that won't be on those checks, the president's name. jen psaki, the white press secretary, saying it wasn't a priority for the president to have his name on the checks. the president's predecessor, donald trump, put his name on the checks, making clear he thought americans would appreciate his name on a big, fat check. jake? >> phil mattingly, thank you. alyssa slotkin of minnesota, thank you very much. i want to start with new videos from the fbi of the suspect who planted pipe bombs outside the republican national committee and the democratic national committee the night before the insurrection. you're on the house homeland security committee. does it surprise you that the suspect still has not been identified? >> i am a little surprised to see that it took two months two see video. i'm glad we put out the search for whoever this individual is. i think the fact that we're unclear about, you know, were the bombs supposed to go off that night? was it supposed to be a diversionary tactic the next day just highlights the need for a 9/11 style commission, something that really has the time and sort of wherewithal to go through what happened, what led to that day in a bipartisan way. i am surprised it took this long to get that feed out. >> i know a lot of democrats and republicans have been concerned about their security in light of what happened on january 6th. and since then, we've interviewed members of congress who ask that we not even say where they are in the interview because of death threats. have things abated at all? i saw last week there was this concern about march 4th, about what might happen with the qanon conspiracy theory, et cetera. that seemed like it was kind of a dud. has it dialed down at all? >> so, you know, we got a briefing, all house members were eligible to get a briefing yesterday from general honore, the general who did that quick, initial review of what happened on january 6th. a and, you know, the report out on how many sort of threats there are to members of congress, both here in washington and in their districts. i mean, it's up precipitously from a year ago, to the point that the capitol police aren't able to handle all the reports they're getting. most members of congress, i know, are getting additional security at their homes back in the district. people are worried about their security when they're here in congress. particularly after the national guard leaves. i don't think it's abated in any way. and certainly in my own experience, you know, we just had an indictment against someone who has been threatening my team. so, it isn't -- it hasn't gone down for those of us who are members of congress. certainly not. >> that's bad news. okay. thank you about that. i want to ask you about the massive covid relief bill, $1.9 trillion. we know no house republicans are supporting the bill and house democrats, you are all going to need near unity to get this passed. your fellow michigan democrat, rashida talib said last week she might not vote for the bill if the final one, the final version does not include the $15 federal minimum wage increase, and it does not. are you confident that democrats have the votes to pass this? >> i do. i am confident. i mean, i think that we don't tend to put bills on the floor where it's a nail biter of the we tend to know what the votes are. and i know the whip team, folks who are counting all the votes are very busy today. listen, i think in a perfect world, we would have been able to do this in a bipartisan way. that's always, for me, a better way to do things. but we had to act. i think this will provide significant relief to particularly a lot of businesses i'm hearing from. we've been pushing for relief for restaurants for almost a year now and finally we have $25 billion in grant money for restaurants, small businesses. so, you know, it isn't a perfect package. no package ever is. but i think on net, it's a positive to help momentum in recovery. >> all right. democratic congresswoman elissa slotkin of michigan, thanks for your time today. i appreciate it. >> thanks, jake. >> a day after releasing new guidance for vaccinated americans, the cdc is getting major pushback. why, next. two nominees face ing especially tough scrutiny from republicans. critics say they see a pattern. next. smooth driving pays off. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate. click or call for a quote today. feeling sluggish or weighed down? 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>> yeah. it's funny, jake. we've been doing this a year, right? you and i text back and forth all the time, figuring out our lives in all of this. i'm happy for you. it sounds like this is going to happen. i know your kids have been wanting this to happen and it can now, which is an amazing thing. caveats? 10% of the country is vaccinated, 90% is not. that's the basic thing. your mom is -- she's protected, right? largely protected because these vaccines. it's really more about her obligation to others, if she's traveling to see you, whatever it might be. could she still be a carrier and transmit it to somebody who is vulnerable? perhaps. i think it's very unluikely. as we start to see various data around the world we'll find that the vaccine dramatically not only reduces illness but transmission. >> americans are still be discouraged from traveling but we have learned that the cdc did consider changing that guidance. do you expect that to change going forward? if you're fully vaccinated, you could get tested and if you're not a carrier, why not travel? >> yeah. i think it will change. and i think that it may change, you know, within a couple of weeks even. andy slavitt i was talking to him. he basically said they're tying these recommendations drems directly to the percentage of people who are vaccinated, doing 2 to 2.5 million vaccines a day means another 10% of the country will be vaccinated in the next two weeks. 30% of the country could be vaccinated by the end of this month. i think it will change. the reason they put the travel thing on there had nothing to do in this case with the vaccines as much as they don't want people traveling. one could make the argument that vaccinated people could be safer to travel because they would be less likely to transmit the virus. we talked about this a lot. we haven't seen huge outbreaks related to airline travel. maybe the outbreaks are related to large gatherings after people travel, but right now the airplanes don't seem to be the issue. >> it's significant progress, given that 65 and older is one of the most vulnerable populations. >> yeah. and so we talk about the 10% number of people who have been vaccinated, but we're largely and more so now vaccinating the right people in the sense that people who are most -- this prevents illness. the vaccine should go to people who are at most risk of getting sick. so, you know, i think we showed the numbers earlier. if you're starting to get to 30% of people over 65 who are vaccinated, you keep in mind that they are far more likely to get sick, to be hospitalized than people 5 to 17, for example. 35 times higher. 85 years old are 80 times higher to be hospitalized. you have to vaccinate the right people. in the beginning of this pandemic, about a third of the deaths were occurring in long-term care facilities. those residents have now largely been vaccinated. 75 to 80% have been vaccinated. that makes a difference. you have to vaccinate and vaccinate the right people first. >> it started with operation warp speed under trump and continued in earnest under president biden and the scientists, obviously, get most of the credit. one year ago today, sanjay, we went back and looked, one year ago this week -- today, rather, you began calling this a pandemic even though the world health organization and the cdc were not using that term yet. one year since you accurately labeled this as a pandemic, what do you make of where we stand in the fight against this pandemic now? >> you know, jake, right now, there's positive signs. but this has been a terrible year and it should not feel like normal in any way. people see the numbers on the right side of the screen. we remind people of this every day. at that time acres year ago today, i anticipated that things were going to get bad. that's why we went ahead after looking at it and doing our analysis, we said this is turning into a pandemic. there's that adage, prepare for the worst, hope for the best. even in the worst models, i didn't think it would be what we're seeing now. >> dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. appreciate it. join me and sanjay. we'll have a live cnn special about how to get kids back into the classroom safely. we'll hear from parents, students, teachers, unions about the daily challenges of education during the pandemic. the secretary of education, miguel cardona will be there, the head of the teachers union and sanjay as well. join me, back to school, covid and the fight to reopen only on cnn at 9:00 p.m. friday. the first royal reaction to the harry and meghan interview has come out. it's from the queen herself. that's next. here's another cleaning tip from mr. clean. cleaning tough bathroom and kitchen messes with sprays and wipes can be a struggle. there's an easier way. try mr. clean magic eraser. just wet, squeeze and erase tough messes like bathtub soap scum... and caked-on grease from oven doors. now mr. clean magic eraser comes in disposable sheets. they're perfect for icky messes on stovetops... in microwaves... and all over the house. for an amazing clean, try mr. clean magic eraser, and mr. clean magic eraser sheets. ♪ (car horn) ♪ turn today's dreams into tomorrow's trips... with millions of flexible booking options. all in one place. expedia. in a recent clinical study, patients using salonpas patch reported reductions in pain severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life. ask your doctor about salonpas. it's good medicine. to be honest...a little dust? 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>> first of all, it's a statement from the queen, not buckingham palace, making sure she's in charge. everyone, sit down and listen to this. when you say she was saddened to learn how challenging the last few years have been, saying that is we didn't know a lot of this. when meghan and harry say that the palace did know about it and she is saying we didn't know the full extent of what you're describing here, presumably the mental health issues there. she also talked about how recollections may vary. so i think what she's talking about there is this conversation about the skin tone of archie. there's a recollection that harry had. there's a very different recollection in terms of the other person that was in the room, a family member. we know it wasn't the queen or prince philip. the other line, harry, meghan and archie will always be much-loved family members. they'll be taking this seriously and addressed by the family privately. they're saying let's deal with this family issue privately and not on tv. let's calm this down. we can deal with this. we are a family. it can be sorted out. so, it's quite a loaded statement. but they're not conceding anything that harry and meghan said here. they're challenging a lot of it, but they do want to make progress and deal with this privately. >> of course, that's what the queen put out in a statement. there have been a whole bunch of other leaks from buckingham palace, painting meghan in a bad li light, et cetera. where do you think this goes from here? >> if they can agree to do this privately, hopefully, they can. it's very hard to see, isn't it? when you look to that interview, there's a very bad relationship between harry and charles and harry and william haven't spoken for a very long time. he does speak to the queen but will have to speak to those other two to resolve this. we'll have to see how it goes. at the moment, they're trying to draw a line on this. the briefings that you're talking about, i've received them as well last week. they've all stopped. there's a massive effort on this side of the water to end this. it looks like they're making some progress here. ultimately, they're a family and they need to deal with it. >> max foster, thank you so much. appreciate that report. in the politics lead, 49 days in office now, president biden has fewer cabinet nominees confirmed than any of his predecessors. he has more nominees on the deputy and assistant level who need confirmation but some republicans seem to be laying the groundwork to stop him from getting them confirmed by resorting to what critics see as a decades-long process republicans use from the civil rights community, misleading attacks. abby philip now reports. >> reporter: two of president biden's picks for president biden's top post are now on the receiving end of attacks. >> she supports defunding the police. led a group who wants to reduce punishments on white supremacists and even terrorists. >> reporter: in false and misleading multimillion dollar aids like this, vanita gupta and kristin clark are being painted as radical choices. >> your record is one of an extreme partisan advocate. your record is an idealog. >> reporter: associate attorney general, gupta defended herself. >> as a lifelong civil rights leader i have committed my career to making sure that the promises in the constitution are kept and our federal laws are fairly and impartially applied. i do not support defunding the police. >> reporter: republicans have accused kristen clark, tapped to lead the doj's civil rights division, of reverse racism and anti-semitism, even using her words against nominee merrick garland. >> in the hearing and in response to questions he advocated for both vanita gupta and kristen clarke, both of whom he barely knows. >> reporter: their supporters see a pattern. >> there has almost been a barrier that has been erected by the right that you have to go through a gauntlet if you have devoted your life to civil rights legal practice. >> reporter: for decades, republicans have worked to stop the civil rights nominees of democratic presidents using a similar playbook, conjuring fears that they'll implement preferential treatment for minorities. >> when i saw the ad, it was so ridiculous, so prepost erous, s every word, so untrue with the exception of and and the. >> reporter: drawn support from unlikely quarters, grover nor quist, the fraternal order of police, the national sheriff's association and nearly a dozen other police organizations have all put their support behind her. gupta and clarke are two nominees of color who have faced difficult paths to nomination in a narrowly divided senate, leading to accusations they're being targeted because of their race or gender. senator tom cotton, a republican, pushed back on that suggestion today. >> oppose the nomination of a woman or a racial minority on the merits without being racist or sexist? >> yes. >> whether it's president bill clinton, president obama or president biden, this phenomenon of blocking these nominees dates back some 30 years. many of them have ties to the naacp's legal defense fund, an organization, as you know, founded by thoroughgood marshall, former supreme court justice. a lot of people watching this say it seems to indicate that speaking frankly about race will be held against you if you're up for one of these civil rights posts and it calls into question whether things have changed very much since last year's supposed racial reckoning on race and criminal justice after those protests last summer. jake? >> abby philip, thank you for that report. former president trump may still control republican politics but why he's in a fight with the party itself. stay with us. eople could do what they love in verizon 5g quality. and in parts of many cities, we have ultra wideband, the fastest 5g in the world. this is 5g built right. only from verizon. if you smell gas, you're too close. leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. if you see wires down, treat them all as if they're hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. in our politics lead, the latest chapter and saga in president trump, former president trump, the latest is about money and power. rnc is ignoring a cease and desist letter from trump, demanding they stop using his name and picture to fund raise. he's taking matters into his own hands and urging supporters to his save america pac instead of the republican national committee writing, quote, no more money for rinos, standing for republicans in name only. they do nothing but hurt the republican party and our great voting base. they will never lead to us greatness. so let's discuss. ayesha, what does he want here? >> influence and whoever controls the purse strings is the one who has the influence over the party. president trump, former president trump, let's be clear, trump has always been one who didn't want others making money off of his name. and he's also someone who is always, you know, looking at everything in a very transactional way. ie, he -- if you use his name, you owe him. he doesn't want anyone to be able to profit off of the trump name who is not sufficiently loyal to him. but if you are running the republican party or some of these republican committees, you may be looking at things other than just loyalty to former president trump, and trump wants payback for those who voted against him when it came to impeachment. >> gloria, if you're one of the heads of either the rnc or the nrcc, which elects house republicans, or the nrsc, which elects house senate republicans and you see this message from trump, don't give money to repub republicans, give it to me, i mean, i know that they're afraid of standing up to him but like isn't there like a certain amount of self preservation here? you would think they would push back. >> one would think so. i think what the self preservation they're thinking about is what happens to them if they cross him? look, it's absurd. it's ridiculous that you have a president, former president and saying to the republican party don't fund raise off of my name. and another reason he's doing this, of course, is because he's afraid that they'll fund the wrong people, that he won't have ultimate control. and he really cares about vengeance and power above all else. for vengeance, he wants to make sure that they don't send the money off to those so-called rinos he's talking about. he wants to make sure that the money goes to the people who pass his personal litmus test. and he wants to be in control of it and potentially use it, as he cares to. >> ayesha, what i don't fully understand here is the trump presidency, they lost the senate. >> yeah. >> they've not won back the house. they lost the white house. it's very infrequent that an incumbent president is not re-elected. this doesn't seem to be a winning direction for them. i thought there was a moment there where it looked like they were going to try to distance themselves from him but, ayesha, i guess not. >> senator lindsey graham has said publicly that, yes, trump is a lot of trouble, but we can't win without him. and so i think that they -- what republicans seem to be betting is that, yes, this is troublesome and, you know, even listening to cpac a few days ago, you wouldn't know that they had lost the senate and lost the presidency. they were saying this was the best presidency that ever happened. so there's a bit of revisionist history going on as well. but this is where their base is. and that's the problem. they're worried that if they try to cut trump off or separate themselves from trump that they will also be separating themselves from their voters. and so they're trying to do this dance with him. as always, trump is not making that easy. >> gloria, one of the most vocal republican critics is congressman adam kinzinger. he told jeff zeleny it's time to give an alternative to the trump vision. >> any time in the republican party there's been competing visions. except for now. it's trump's vision. we have a right and responsibility to offer competing visions. >> he acknowledges his effort might not be successful. what do you think of this all? >> look, i think adam kinzinger is a man of some courage. he potentially is sacrificing his political career. he said as much publicly. he knows that this could cost him a loss, but he has decided that he has to take a stand, as he puts it, for the truth. and he has decided to do that in a big way. not just with a vote, but with talking to people around the country, trying to raise money to reform the republican party. and he may not be successful, but he wants to be a part of history that says, at least i tried to do it. i think that's an important point that he's making. he may lose his seat as a result. >> or he may not. >> or he may not. >> he ran ahead of trump in his district. ayesha and gloria, thank you. appreciate it, as always. genocide happening right now. first independent report showing china's intent to destroy a particular ethnic group. cnn talks to the sister of someone caught in the middle. stay with us. we didn't stop at computers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your business, you know we'll stop at nothing. in our world lead today, a damning report out today finds that the government of china is responsible for a genocide, an attempt to, quote, destroy uyghurs. war crimes and international law concludes that the chinese government violated every single provision in the united nations' genocide convention. 2 million uyghurs and other minorities have been placed in internment camps in china. cnn sat down with one sister of a detainee who says he's been so abused he's unrecognizable. >> reporter: she hasn't seen her brother in almost five years. after he returned home to china and disappeared. now in a rare interview with cnn, the chinese national living in the united states says recent images of him are shocking. she hasn't seen them herself, but says he was described as -- >> absolutely unrecognizable. he lost tremendous weight. he looks like a bone with a human face except the face is absolutely unrecognizable. >> reporter: asat, a successful chinese entrepreneur, went missing after arriving back in china in a state department program in the u.s. >> years have gone by and i'm still looking for answers. >> reporter: she says the chinese government without evidence or trial sentenced him to 15 years in prison on charges of incitement of ethnic hatred. the 35-year-old never criticized chinese leadership, his sister says, and believes he's one of up to 32 uyghurs and other minorities sentenced by the chinese government and put in concentration camps. >> only in january 2019 he was transferred to prison. >> reporter: the chinese government says it's a policy of re-education. the u.s. government has called it genocide. the chinese dispute those claims. >> translator: the claim that there is genocide in xinxhuan couldn't be more false. it's a lie through and through. >> reporter: after years of staying silent, asat has started speaking out. a great risk, she says, to her and her families' lives. what do you think would happen to you if you went back to china? >> i think i would also disappear into the shadows of these internment camps. >> reporter: your parents are still in china? >> they are. >> reporter: do you fear for their safety? >> i do. every time i speak out, i do. >> reporter: now, asat is turning her attention to the new biden administration, which is facing mounting pressure from human rights advocates to hold china accountable for these camps. former detainees tell cnn inmates are subject to rape and forced sterilization, which the chinese government denies. president biden voiced concern about these alleged human rights abuses in china during his first phone call with president xi. his administration has yet to offer specifics as to the repercussions he says they will face. >> what collectively can we do? >> reporter: for her part, she believes the biden administration must put this genocide above everything else when dealing with china. >> i would love to have an opportunity to make a case for president biden and secretary blinken that any future engagement with china has to have some form of conditions, one of which to release my brother. >> reporter: jake, a state department spokesperson told me they continue to raise asat's case in meetings with u.s. and cha chinese government officials and they continue to call for his immediate and unconditional release. >> kylie atwood, an important report of the thank you very much. something great from mr. clean. stop struggling to clean tough messes with sprays. try clean freak! it has three times the cleaning power of the leading spray to dissolve kitchen grease on contact. and it's great for bathrooms! just keep pumping the power nozzle to release a continuous burst of mist and make quick work of big jobs. it even works on stainless steel. it cuts through 100% of dirt, grease and grime. available with easy-to-swap refills. to get three times the cleaning power, try clean freak from mr. clean. my hygienist cleans with a round head, so does my oral-b. my hygienist personalizes my cleaning, so does my oral-b. my hygienist uses just the right pressure, and so does my oral-b. oral-b combines a dentist-inspired brush head with the gentle energy of micro-vibrations for the wow of a professional clean feel every day. my mouth says wow and so does my oral-b. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo honestly, i thought i was getting my floors cleaned. then i learned, my mop could be loaded with bacteria. that means i gotta clean my mop too? 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