plan to keep him focused, walking americans through one rule of the law each day. and the biden administration is kicking off a new ad campaign to help sell the bill to a politically fractured nation. >> the resources in this plan will be used to expand and speed up manufacturing and distribution of vaccines, set up more vaccination sites to get the country in a place to get back to normal. this plan will get checks out the door starting this month. >> now, the white house says the checks for some americans will land as soon as this weekend. beyond the bill, the president is making some other big promises. in his first prime time address, he vowed enough vaccines to direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults 18 and older eligible for vaccination by may 1st. and he set a goal of july 4th as the first holiday during the pandemic when small groups should be able to celebrate in person together safely. as my cnn colleague put it, the light in the tunnel may be fireworks bursting in air on the fourth of july. there is a lot of gop support for the rescue package, but none of it comes from republicans in congress. not a single republican in the house or senate voted for it, despite much of their party at the local level pushing for its passage, and that includes my next guest. jerry dyer is the republican mayor of fresno, california. he just took office after serving in the fresno police department for 40 years. mayor, tell us why you support this american rescue plan act. >> well, when you look at the impact the pandemic has had on local communities across america, fresno no different, the impact it's had on people losing their jobs, standing in food lines for the very first time in their life, people that are facing evictions and the impact that it's had in terms of safety, the number of shootings we've had in fresno since the pandemic has doubled. when you look at all of that as well as the impact on small businesses and tax revenues generated to local governments that have been impacted, we needed a rescue plan. and this is the plan that i supported because it gave relief to local governments, it allowed us to shore up our budgets to prevent us from being in a deficit and to be able to pass money through to those individuals in need in the community. >> your city is receiving $164 million. how essential is that for the city? >> well, it's actually been upgraded to 177 million. it's critical for us to be able to balance our budget. we were facing, based on our latest revenues, we were facing a $25 million deficit this coming here, which would mean continuing to hold vacancies of police officers and other essential employees, as well as the real reality of having to lay off employees and police officers in the city of fresno. and as i mentioned, with the crime that's escalated over the last year, we need public safety more than anything today. and the other things that have been impacted is our homeless population is double. the number of people on our streets that are out of work and, you know, are sleeping on the side of the roads, these dollars are going to allow us to be able to provide an alternative for those individuals to get them off of the streets. so, you know, all the way through this rescue plan, there are things that benefit people in local communities. as the mayor of fresno, i wasn't elected to serve a party, i was elected to serve the people. and i think at times we allow the party to get in the way of our service to the people. and i refuse to do that here in fresno. >> i wonder about that, because, as you said, it's very clear. you spell out the benefit of this, $177 million to fresno, and the things you're going to use it for. republicans in congress, including, you know, representatives from your state, have not backed this. and i wonder what you make of that, because it's not like they don't know from you and from other mayors what this money is going to be used for and how essential it is to keeping your cities running. >> well, i think in any piece of legislation that passes where there is a dollar tied to it, you're going to see areas in there that are considered to be excessive. you're going to see people that have a difference of opinion in terms of how those dollars are spent based on their constituents. and so i don't doubt whether people on the right or the left and their arguments of why they think they should be passed or not passed or was passed, but i can tell you from a local perspective, as the mayor of this city, we're the number two man in terms of poverty here in fresno. we need the money. we need those dollars in this rescue plan. and i can promise the people that we're going to utilize these dollars in the most fiscally prude manner that we can. i know that's always a concern, is there government waste? are we bailing out cities at the local level because they've not been fiscally proven? i can tell you that in fresno we have that history of being fiscally prudent. we have the number one state title in the region. we're doing what we can to spend the dollars wisely. we're putting out a well-thought-out plan to make sure we're balancing our budget, ensuring public safety, addressing the neighborhood needs, the homeless, people that are hungry and supporting small businesses. that's why, again, i supported the american rescue plan. >> you have a long road to recovery ahead of you, perhaps, but certainly you'll be getting some resources. thank you so much, mayor, for being with us. >> thank you, brianna. i appreciate you having me on the show. >> of course. after a devastating and deadly year, president biden is offering up something that the country hasn't really had in a while: hope. hope that everyone 18 and older will be able to receive the vaccine by may 1st, and hope that the nation will have some kind of normalcy by july 4th. elizabeth cohen is with us now. the big question on everyone's mind is, are these dates achievable, elizabeth, because people are getting tired of all of this. >> we are getting tired, there is no question. and, brianna, if everything goes according to plan, then yes, we've done the math and these dates are achievable. first let's take another look at the dates you mentioned. what the president has talked about is may 1st vaccines will be available for all adults. you don't have to be 65, you don't have to be a teacher, essential worker, et cetera, et cetera, anybody is eligible to get them. then on may 31st, we would have enough vaccine for all those people. so you may notice at least in the beginning, you may want a vaccine but can't get a vaccinement by may 31st, the president says there will be enough vaccines for all adults. we'll get into those numbers in a minute. and on july 4th, celebrate independence day in small groups, that there will be enough immunity that we'll be able to do that. so this hinges on that middle date, having enough vaccines for all adults. legalit let's take a look at what those numbers look like. moe moderna, 200 million doses, pfizer, 200 million. j&j 100 million. if those doses come through, if moderna, pfizer and johnson & johnson can do what they say they can do, then yes, we should have plenty of doses for americans at that time. brianna? >> covid numbers have dropped, obviously, since our last surge, and several states have rolled back restrictions, and this includes mask mandates. do americans have a false sense right now of, oh, you know, the worst is behind us, this pandemic is actually almost over? >> absolutely. because there are two things going on here. first of all, you know, we can always have a surge. we have been in this movie before, things are coming down, but then people get lax and they go back up. another point we really need to think about is we can look back at the horror of january when things were spreading like wildfire. it's better now, but it is still bad. we still have a lot of sick and dying people in this country because of covid, and we all need to do what we can do to save lives. i want to look at these numbers, because i think they are so important. these are daily numbers, brianna, that when you look at the daily numbers, we have more than 45,000 people in the hospital with covid every day, and nearly 1,400 deaths. nearly 1,400 americans are dying every day of covid. that is not good. that is not the time that you say, oh, let's sit back, the worst is over. try to save lives. wear masks, do social distancing, avoid crowds. brianna? >> all good advice. as always, elizabeth cohen, thank you. a dam breaks open as a majority of democrats like o'o' ocasio cortez call on andrew cuomo to resign. plus the rant is putting the focus on his true enablers, the local empire. we'll roll the tape. and hear why the time trump spent in washington may have benefited investigators. impressive. but will it last the whole trip? you'll have battery all day. and then more. this is different. told you. ♪ ♪ ♪ the minute you are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, you should have a dexcom. knowing where your numbers are going before they get there-- it's a superpower. i've had other systems and i'm on because it's the best. and, because it works. it's easy to wear. it's easy to put on. you can see it right on your i can't imagine anything simpler. no fingersticks. i can't say that enough. i think that's an incredible advancemen this is the cgm technology you've been waiting for. hi sabrina! >>hi jen! so this aveeno® moisturizer goes beyond just soothing sensitive skin? 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that's why they are called serious. as i told new yorkers many times, there are facts and then there are opinions. and i've always separated the two. when i do briefings, i put out the facts and then i offer my opinions. but they are two different concepts. politicians who don't know a single fact but yet form a conclusion and an opinion are, in my opinion, reckless and dangerous. the people of new york should not have confidence in a politician who takes a position without knowing any facts or substance. that, my friends, is politics at its worst. politicians take positions for all sorts of reasons, including political expediency and bowing to pressure. but people know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth. >> cnn's shimon prokupecz it in new york where this is happening, and dana bash is joining us. shimon, tell us what happened on this call. >> i think what's happening here is he's attacking members of his own party, the growing number of democrats coming out saying he should resign, calling them basically reckless and dangerous and that they have formed these opinions without knowing the facts, that somehow he knows better than them as to what happened here. of course, he's also saying that this investigation now, two reviews. you have the state assembly members who are looking into this, but then also the attorney general's office, exaand he's saying that that needs to go on because we need to learn the facts, and essentially saying this is all politics, that what's happening here is a bunch of politicians, that he's not part of some political club and that he is proud of. also what's very interesting is he's speaking to new yorkers. let's not forget what we all went through here in new york during the height of the pandemic in new york city, in new york and how outspoken he was and how out front he was during those times, and many new yorkers do not forget that time. it's very clear that he's trying to hit a certain note with many of those new yorkers, and essentially saying, you need me here. you need me to finish this job. he's talking about finishing the budget, getting vaccines done, saying he's going to continue to do his job. but basically, in essence, what's going on here now is that he's going after members of his own party. >> yeah, and look, he's facing sexual harrassment allegations, he's also facing major questions of his judgment as to how he handled nursing home deaths in his state, and how those were counted or undercounted as his attorney general found it. dana, he mentions counterculture. really? >> that was remarkable. it doesn't really matter where you sit on the political spectrum now if you feel that you are under attack and under pressure, counterculture is kind of f3 and f4 on the computer right now. you can make an argument and there is a real debate to be had about what -- the core of what cancel culture is and whether it's run amok in this country. the question of it is being used by politicians. we've seen it on the house floor, on the senate floor from republicans and now we're hearing it from governor andrew cuomo. the other thing, which is related to this that really struck me, in addition to what shimon just described, is the motivation, was questioning the motivation. saying, i'm not questioning the motivation of people coming forward, he said, we have to find out what the motivation is of the people who have made these allegations against me, and that is the job of the attorney general who is going through and doing this investigation. really noteworthy to me. the last thing i will say just to add to shimon's very astute political analysis of this is we have to remind our viewers of the very big, dramatic developments of today, and that is that we have 14 out of 19 democratic members of the house, democratic mebmbers, fellow democrats of andrew cuomo who say he must resign. they run the political spectrum within the democratic party from alexandria ocasio cortez all the way to the new guard of the democratic party, more progressive to someone like jerry nadler who is a veteran democratic chairman of the judicial committee. >> this thing he's talking about, let this play out, he says, don't rush this, let the investigation move forward. it's a courtesy that at times -- look, i'm not going to apples to apples the things he's weighed in on ahead of an investigation on, because they're not always the same thing, but that's something he hasn't always abided by when it comes to allegations of sexual harrassment or sexual assault involving other politicians, dana. >> no, that's right. and, look, to suggest that there isn't always politics playing out in addition to doing what is right, what is appropriate, is just impossible to believe. these are politicians. politics are playing out. and just to kind of add another layer of that, what we don't know yet is what the democratic senators from new york feel given the developments. still nothing from chuck schumer, the majority leader, although this morning before we heard from aoc, he did say the investigation should play out. same goes for kirsten gillibrand, and again, back on the politics, i would be remiss if i didn't say that a subplot here, a very important one going on in new york, is some concern in chuck schumer's world that somebody like aoc, alexandria ocasio cortez, could launch a primary bid against chuck schumer. that is what a lot of people in the senate say is guiding decisions he's made in terms of messaging and things on the floor, and there is no doubt there is a discussion being had about what his position is now versus what aoc's is on governor cuomo. >> i'm glad you bring up that subplot. dana bash, shimon prokupecz, thank you so much. donald trump's secretary now blaming him for the insurrection. plus vaccinators giving people an empty syringe instead of one with a shot in it. i'll talk to a woman who got that empty shot. did you know prilosec otc can stop frequent heartburn before it begins? 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what did they say to you? >> they said unfortunately a mistake was made and that we had received saline only in our injections, there was no vaccine or anything in them, so we needed to come back at our convenience to get the actual vaccine. >> i mean, thank goodness, right, they caught it, right? >> right. absolutely. >> i mean, thank goodness. they've since apologized, i want to be clear on this, for the error and they said this in a statement. quote, one of our tlc locations made a mistake and administered empty syringes instead of the covid-19 vaccine. all impacted customers were contacted and have now received the covid-19 vaccine. the shot that you got was just -- was a one and done johnson & johnson vaccine. did you have any reaction to it once you got the real one? >> it did feel different the second time, i will admit to that. >> really. do tell. tell us. >> so the first time it didn't feel like much at all, just maybe a small needle prick which is normal for some vaccines, you don't really notice much. this one you could feel it kind of spread through your arm a little bit, kind of burned a little. nothing unmanageable. and my arm was definitely sore that day, and then the next day, i woke up and felt a little crummy, just tired. nothing unimaginable, nothing you couldn't deal with and far better than the alternative in my book. it was worth it. i definitely felt it when it was injected. it felt different. >> not a lot of people would have that comparison, i would say. carrie hawes, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. coming up, how former president trump's time in the white house could actually help prosecutors who are investigating his finances. plus a fox propaganda host says there is a pentagon conspiracy against him. we'll roll the tape. but i've seen centuries of this. with one companion that hedges the risks you choose and those that choose you. the physical seam of a digital world, traded with a touch. my strongest and closest asset. the gold standard, so to speak ;) people call my future uncertain. but there's one thing i am sure of... did you know that every single flush flings odors onto your soft surfaces? 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>> brianna, former acting defense secretary christopher miller says president trump's january 6th remarks did incite rioters to go to capitol hill, and he with saw the violent insurrection that resulted from that. miller stopped short of saying that president trump knew his remarks would enrage the violence, but he does say that president trump's remarks did play a role in what happened that day here in washington. the former acting defense secretary's interview is with vice, and is set to air this weekend on the showtime network. brianna. >> barbara starr, thank you. trump's time in the white house which was once a legal shield could end up hurting him. investigating trump's finances have discussed using a legal maneuver that could extend the statute of limitations of potential crimes. joining you now is cnn's cara skinnell. tell us what impact this could have on trump. >> reporter: the district attorney's office are discussing using a provision in new york law that could allow them to look a little further back into the former president's conduct because of the time that he was in office. this all has to do with the statute of limitations, the time they have to bring a case. right now the statute of limitations is five years. they're looking at a code that says they don't need to count the number of days that a defendant is continuously out of state. so even though the former president, his business is here and he's a lifelong new yorker, since january 17, he's been living outside new york. he's been at the white house or spending time in bedminster, his property in new jersey, and then he relocated to mar-a-lago permanently after he lost the election. this gives prosecutors several more years they could look back into because of this law. they've been successful using it before. they used it in the harvey weinstein case. brianna? >> and the new york prosecutor that's actually leading the investigation into trump announced he's not going to seek re-election next year. is that going to have any impact on this investigation? >> reporter: sources tell me that the district attorney, cyrus vance, who did announce he's not going up torr for re-election, they started this investigation before his term ends at the end of the year, they really ramped this up, brought in a former prosecutor that specializes in crimes, and they got the president's tax returns. they're working very diligently and they still have about nine and a half months to go. but if vance can't make that interpretation, there will be others in the office, and it's led by experienced prosecutors as well. there are certainly those working on it even after vance is gone. brianna? >> kara scannell, thank you so much. he'll soon be taking a victory walk releasing the covid relief plan. and the propaganda host that falsely claimed the pentagon conspiracy against him. the murdochs. this is different. told you. - [narrator] grubhub perks give you deals on all the food that makes you boogie. told you. 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maybe he doesn't realize his comments are weakeningal military. after all he wouldn't no a deployment from a trip to nantucket but that's what he's doing, maligning service members. >> the flight suits. never heard of them. >> most americans have, fair. most don't use maternity flight suits as a springboard for a sexist attack. uniforms and body armor that fit women whether pregnant or not an issue long documented. the air force introduced maternity flight suits before biden came to the white house. if tucker carlson had bothered a basic search online for stories about it pus when he first made his asinine comments about pregnant women in the u.s. military who would have seen that, but he's not about the facts. >> that phrase stuck out. not because of hateful bias against pregnant women flying military jets. pro-pregnancy, we're also open minded. pregnant women may maybe the best pilots. the department of defense measures everything. got to be extensive research on this question. if the pentagon can show pregnant pilots are the best we will be the first to demand an entire air force of pregnant pilots. >> what is he talking about? pregnant pilots are just pilots who are pregnant. they aren't worse or better because they are pregnant. they are just highly qualified women, and an all-volunteer force in a country where most wouldn't qualify to join the military needs highly qualified women. it's not surprising tucker carlson doesn't understand that or that fox doesn't. the network has a double standard. they have used their platform to effectively lobby for the pardons of male service members and military contractors convicted or accused of war crimes. the case was successfully made to then president trump he should intervene on behalf of a navy s.e.a.l. accused are war crimes and pardoned service members convicted of war crimes as women as four military contractor opened fire in baghdad in a square in heavy traffic and killed four unarmed iraqi civilians. >> i would note also that blackwater contractors, look at that story in 23 how it was misconstrued against those guys, god bless the president for having courage a lot of presidents wouldn't do to pardon those men. >> tucker carlson's predictable play to make this about free speech. he is free to say whatever the hell he wants. free to wake up in the morning figure who he wants to insult and what nutso thing to rant about to get the tenattention h seems to need. highest rated show is carlson's. he is fox. as fox tries to right itship, murdoch said out loud his network the loyal opposition to the biden administration. cool top-rated host acting like this to the rank and file of the u.s. military the network says it's champions. what say you, fox? you come to the aid of convicted war criminals but denigrate honorable female service members? tried to find out more about this contradiction from fox. they've had more than 24 hours to respond to our questions and they have not. tucker carlson's comments stand out because of the two women who just became four-star generals. you don't get four-star female generals unless you can keep women in the military. and you can't do that in big enough numbers unless you make it positive possible for them to have a family. and the things that come along with having kids. like child care, and uniforms and body armor that fits. next we have breaking news. new york governor andrew cuomo responded to growing calls for him to resign, which include him blaming cancel culture, and president biden gets ready to hit the road to push his relief plan as he make as pledge to get plan as he make as pledge to get back to pre-pandemic life. ventd car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way at carvana. people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine ♪ ♪ my only sunshine... ♪ rybelsus® works differently than any other diabetes pill to lower blood sugar in all 3 of these ways... increases insulin... decreases sugar... and slows food. the majority of people taking rybelsus® lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7. people taking rybelsus® lost up to 8 pounds. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop rybelsus® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. tell your provider about vision problems or changes. taking rybelsus® with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases low blood sugar risk. side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration which may worsen kidney problems. wake up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ please don't take my sunshine away ♪ you may pay as little as $10 per prescription. ask your healthcare provider about rybelsus® today. hello. i'm brianna keilar. thank you for joining me. moments from in our, president biden and vice president harris take a victory lap in the rose garden for one of the most expensive and consequential government packages in u.s. history. biden signed it just a day ago. the democratic committee isic kicking off a plan to help a crippled nation. >> over 85% of american households will get direct payments of $1,400 p