determine whether its coronavirus vaccine is safe for infants and young children. this is so important. it's important for school. it's important for getting and keeping the country back to normal. the first participants have already been vaccinated. the plan is to ultimately enroll nearly 7,000 children in the u.s. and canada between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old. >> also the white house drawing up plans to increase the supply of vaccines to emerging hot spots. the vaccination rate in the u.s. is accelerating. now standing at an average 26.4 million shots reported a day. president biden meantime heading to pennsylvania. a bit later. his first stop on the help is here tour where he'll promote the benefits of the coronavirus b relief bill. let's bring in dr. sanjay gupta. obviously, very important because when we talk about getting everyone, all adult americans vaccinated by may 1st or july 1st, we're not even beginning to talk about kids yet. that's why this trial matters so much. >> yeah, it definitely does. we know that kids are far less likely to get sick or require hospitalization. but sometimes that happens. and there's still this concern that kids can be a source of spread of the virus. the vaccines, the data is increasingly showing these vaccines cannot only help keep from from getting sick but decreasing that spread. this will be important data to have. let me show you what's happening. pfizer, as you may know, they finished enrollment for people age 12 to 15 in january. so we're going to have some of that data coming up over the next few months. this is the moderna trial vaccine information on the screen. so between the ages of 6 months to 11 years, close to 7,000 children and 3,000 adolescents up to age 17. what's interesting here is what they are looking at basically is, obviously, is this safe in people this young? but also trying to figure out the right dosing. we know that these are, obviously, typically smaller people. but of the -- do the children metabolize this differently in some way. you want to figure out the dosing. they'll collect this sort of information. what we're hearing from a time table standpoint is that possibly even by fall you may have an authorized vaccine for high school students. depends on how much data they collect and what it shows. but this is rapidly progressing. >> it is really encouraging. also just want to -- help us understand what's happening with the astrazeneca vaccine which they haven't applied for emergency use authorization even here in the u.s. yet, but this is the dominant vaccine that was being used in europe. a number of countries there now halting vaccinations over some concerns about blood clots. a very small number, and as i understand it, sanjay, it hasn't been shown those clots were directly caused by the vaccine. >> right. no, it absolutely has not been shown that that cause and effect. if you look at a general population of people and see what percentage develop problems with clotting and look at the vaccine population, the vaccine population is about the same rate as the sort of normal background level of people developing clotting. so there's really no clear evidence. people's antennas are up. we're releasing a new vaccine around the world so you really want to have these very robust safety monitoring. anybody that has any problem, report it. that's what's happening here. so of some 17 million vaccines that have been administered, around 30 people have had these blood clotting issues. the question is this just an association that we're finding? or is there direct cause and effect here? the world health organization has weighed in on this. they are pretty clear on the fact they don't think this is really due to the vaccine. these blood clotting problems. there's no evidence these are caused by the vaccine. it's important vaccination campaigns continue to save lives and stem severe disease from the virus. the european medical agency is going to meet on thursday. that's going to be a really important meeting. we'll keep an eye on it. hopefully they'll be conclusive in what they say. all evidence points to the fact that this doesn't seem to be related and the vaccination campaigns continue, but we'll see. that's why these meetings happen. the reason the vaccine has not been authorized in the united states as of yet is because there's an independent body called the data monitoring safety board that's saying we now have enough data to present to the fda. we haven't gotten to that point yet. it's not to say there's concerns about the safety but there's not enough data collected in this country. >> obviously, it's a major concern in europe because their cases are surging. and to take one of the main vaccines offline is problematic. we want your take on one other statistic we saw overnight. i want to get this right. the red cross is reporting in their blood donations, 20%, 1 out of 5? >> up to 20 or 21%. >> 21% of blood donations, they've found coronavirus antibodies in the blood. you can see how that number has gone up consistently since last july which means 1 out of 5 people donating blood. these are people who haven't received the vaccine. it turns out it's telling us what, that 1 out of 5 people have had the virus? >> yeah. yeah, so that's basically what it's saying. so this is important, as you mentioned, unvaccinated people. they'd ask people at the time of their blood donations have you been vaccinated or not? they looked at the data from people who have not been vaccinated and 20% have these antibodies. this has long been a question. what percentage of the people have actually been exposed to this virus and have antibodies? we've never had a good answer for that because we don't have adequate testing. i could talk the entire hour about that whole issue. nevertheless, so it's always been sort of trying to guess a little bit as to what percentage. you do hear varying numbers. the cdc said the number could be as high as 25%. ihme says 20%. regardless, you -- the reason this is important is if 20% of the country already has antibodies you add in the 11% now vaccinated. what is your overall sort of immunity level? closer to one-third. so that's potentially good news in this quest for herd immunity. we've got to see how this plays out, but i would look at that study and say, it's interesting. it means probably a lot more exposure than people have realized. but we can use that to build towards herd immunity. >> definitely interesting. fascinating as well. especially how quickly it jumped. >> we adore you, as you know, sanjay gupta. it's not just us. sometimes you venture beyond the little cnn box. including -- i know -- >> and he still takes our calls, most of the time. >> so you went to visit another friend last night. just want to play a little clip from that. >> okay. >> i think there's three types. there are people who have no idea. they don't ever watch television. they just don't know. the second type are people who will actually seek you out because you're on television, which i always thought was strange. i think i'm really good at what i do, but i don't think i'm any better because i'm on television. somehow that's the perception. and then the third type which i would be, i get that you're on television. i want you thinking of nothing else but me when you're taking care of me. >> that's why i go to dr. phil for all my marriage counseling. >> i did have a brain question. you'd be the guy i call. >> i appreciate that, yes. keep me on your speed dial. it was fun. he asked a funny question. how do patients respond? i've been doing this bifurcated career for 20 years now. you get all sorts of different s responses from parents during these last couple of decades. it was a fun interview. >> we don't mine if you need to moonlight a little. you deserve it. sanjay, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. of course. joining us now, political analyst margaret talev, managing editor of axios. great to see you and especially this morning. i'm learning a little more about what the last several weeks have been like for you on a personal level, and they have been challenging, to put it mildly because you had coronavirus. before we get into the politics of what's happening right now in the country, we are just hoping that you can walk us through your experience because i think it's so telling for so many of us to hear it firsthand. >> well, thanks, erica. it's great to be here. please forgive my raspy voice. this is the best i've sounded in a month. it was exactly a month ago that i found out that i was positive for coronavirus. it was an accidental discovery. i got a pcr test from work before an interview and needless to say the interview never happened. i was completely asymptomatic. the symptoms came the next day. my partner john was in another state when i found out. i called him. he got tested. we both had it. thank god my daughter did not. and after about two days of, you know, waiting to see what would happen, i descended in an absolute intense sickness. i have viral pneumonia right now. i had a fever of 102 for two weeks solid. i have a great doctor. i have insurance. i have all of the benefits that you would want to help get care, and even so, i was incredibly sick. i have asthma. so a major pre-existing condition, a concern for respiratory illness. i had to get i.v. therapy. i was on antivirals, antibiotics, steroids, vitamins, baby aspirin against clotting. we threw the book at this thing and i still was a zombie for two weeks and had a very -- even in week three, a very difficult recovery. if not for all of the early medical intervention and testing, i'm not sure i'd be here at all. i had a really bad case. thank god for the support of my work, my family, my friends, my doctors. everything we've learned over the course of the last year. but guess what? i took the precautions. i wear a mask when i go out. we wash our hands. try to keep social distance. all of that has probably staved off getting it for 11 months. but this thing is not over. and i know we're talking about getting vaccinated. recovery trying to return to normal. i can't wait for all those things to happen. we're not there yet, and this is still a deadly virus. >> i can't tell you how glad i am to see you because i know how tough this has been. and it's a lesson. it just is. and i wonder now when you are covering this, you know, when you hear the cdc director rochelle walensky warn we've got to keep our guard up for a little while longer, i wonder how that might color your views on this going forward. >> it's a great point because that's 100% been my experience. look, i bought into this a year ago. i've been very engaged in polling and public research on how people are experiencing coronavirus. no one had to convince me the vaccine is a great thing, that we all have to take precautions until then. but i did think, okay, we've learned how to deal with this. all you have to do is wear a mask and keep your distance from people and wash your hands and you can do whatever. that's really not true. the doctors have been telling us that but you trick yourself into believing that you understand how this thing works. and the truth is all those things are really important and they reduce your exposure. but they don't remove your exposure. and my experience is that we are so close now. so close. many of our parents, friends who have pre-existing conditions have been able to get the vaccine but for folks who can't yet, you'll be able to in a month or two. just be really careful between now and then. and for folks who don't believe this is real or say, oh, it's just like getting a cold. like, it is for a lot of people. but for me it wasn't. and you don't know. you may not get a very strong case but you can pass it to someone else and they could have a very bad case. it also just made me understand how lucky i am and how lucky many people tor have good doctors, medical insurance, companies that allow you to take time off to get better. for so many people, none of that is the experience. to have what i experienced and underlying health and economic concerns and no idea where you safety net is going to come from. we need regular testing. we need to support our friends and neighbors much more. and i thought i got it. i get it at a whole new level now. >> one of the ways to support our friends and neighbors going forward is to get vaccinated which is the message the administration is trying to get out there. one of the things they are finding is there's hesitancy particularly among republicans -- excuse me, republican men. nearly half of republican men don't plan to get the vaccine. president biden is talking about the former president to get him to join in on the vaccination campaign. so for he's resisted. he was vaccinated himself but one scant message in february but other than that, no promotion of the vaccine. this is what president biden says about that. >> they say the thing that has more impact than anything trump would say to the maga folks is what the local doctor, what the local preachers, what the local people in the community say. so i urge -- i urge all local docs and ministers and priests to talk about why. why it's important to get that vaccine. >> i mean, i do wonder if it may not be essential, but it certainly couldn't hurt to get the former president on board with the message, right? >> yeah, and you know, we heard dr. fauci say that over the weekend that he thinks it would be very helpful if trump would do that. i think what you're seeing going on here with president biden is twofold. there is a political aspect to this. look at where president biden is going just this week. a couple of really important swing states that were pivotal in last year's election and will be pivotal again in midterms and next presidential. pennsylvania and georgia. biden doesn't want to make the messaging about president trump. how only trump can save the day. but if you set the politics aside, beyond that, donald trump has been a pretty unlere liable partner about this. he got the vaccine but didn't tell anybody for two months. he's allowed a lot of mixed messaging to go on. for republicans in america, particularly republican men, there is a distrust, a disconnect or just kind of diminishment of an understanding of how vital the vaccine is, not just to your own health but to protecting the people around you, your loved ones in your community and what biden is looking at is polling that says in addition to donald trump, not republicans do trust their doctors, their preachers and local officials. and so we're seeing like, francis collins of nih and dr. fauci do work with evangelical leaders. biden doing some of this messaging. looks like he said out loud what some of his internal conversations are which is, we can't count on trump to be our partner on this. it's not like president bush or president clinton coming out and leading a campaign with us. counting on donald trump for your vaccination strategy is a different strategic proposition. >> margaret talev, rest up. chicken soup. get well. we're so glad to see you. we're so sorry you had to go through this but we're glad to see you coming out the other side. >> thanks. it's great to be back. two arrests now in the fbi's investigation into the death of a capitol police officer. but no murder charges. the former deputy director of the fbi joins us next. i'm a verizon engineer. we built our 5g nationwide so millions of people 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. how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for 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is they'll need to determine exactly who was responsible for it. so there's still a lot of work to be done there with a chaotic kind of long-term attack like we saw on january 6th. that's going to be hard to do. what they can do right now is charge these two men, tanios and khater in a strong case of assault which is proved by the video that i'm sure you saw yesterday of those two men essentially committing the assault. >> we look, as you point out, we don't have the information from the medical examiner yet. at least not publicly. when do you think we can expect that? i think that's something a lot of people are looking at trying to better understand what did lead specifically to officer sicknick's death. what else do we know there? >> you know, erica, usually it takes a few weeks. we generally, in the business, would think about at least a month to get a coroner's report or medical examiner's report back on a homicide. if there's more challenging investigative and determative work to be done like intoxicant levels and all sorts of chemical tests to determine what might have affected the -- or caused the death, those things can make the analysis take a bit longer. the laboratory work takes a longer time and the report needs to be written and released. so it is getting on the long side for this one. but i wouldn't throw in the towel just yet. i'm sure we'll see a conclusive medical examiner's report at some point in the near future. >> one of the outstanding questions until yesterday was when would the people be charged in connection with what happened with officer sicknick. another question open, when will authorities find the person who planted the pipe bombs at the republican and democratic national headquarters. we've seen this surveillance video where at least the novice eye like mine, it's hard to identify who exactly that person is. but give us some insight about why they are having problems finding this person and what fears about what might happen in the interim. >> sure. so the fact that the bureau is essentially crowd sourcing the identification of the bomber by releasing all the video that they have in these very distinctive elements from the video like the brand and style of sneaker that the individual is wearing, things that might jump out to someone who actually knows him, tells us that they don't really have any viable leads about who that individual in the video is right now. if they had those sort of leads they'd be much less likely to reach out to the public for help. if you know who you are looking for, what you want to do at that point is conduct a covert investigation. you want to conduct extensive physical surveillance. you want to maybe send inf informants or undercover agents to bump up against that person. collect as much information and evidence about not just what they did but what they might be doing in the future and who they might be working with before you do something overt like an arrest and bring someone to court. the fact they are so -- making so many public appeals in an effort to identify this person tells us that they probably don't have a lot of very viable leads at this point. this is a process that could take some time but i think we can look historically to see that they are going to figure out who this is. there's not a doubt in my mind that someone who knows this person, some piece of physical evidence, something is going to trip somebody's recollection and we'll find out who that man is. >> we'll be watching for that. andrew mccabe, always great to have you with us. >> thanks. president biden promising to reverse the trump administration's hard-line immigration policies. but is that promise backfiring? we'll take a closer look, next. idolizing them. mimicking their every move. and if she counts on the advanced hydration of pedialyte when it matters most... so do we. hydrate like our heroes. ♪ still your best friend. and now your co-pilot. still a father. but now a friend. still 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not open. >> the biden administration's coordinator for the southern border on "new day" talking about the new surge of migrants, especially unaccompanied minors. joining us, fareed zakaria and the author of "ten lessons for a post-pandemic world." good to see you this morning. you wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" talking about where we stand with immigration, with what is happening at the southern border. when we just heard there from the ambassador, what is missing, do you think, from the messaging from the biden administration? i mean, is there a way to cut through that, in her words, more pervasive messaging from smugglers? >> the problem is not the messaging. it's the policy. the biden administration has reversed large parts of trump's immigration policy, which is exactly the right thing. trump's immigration policies are terrible. they're ruinous, but there's one piece of them, the asylum policy, which was working. after a while. after they finished with the cages and the separation of children and all that. they had come to a somewhat practical policy. there's no good answer. but it was somewhat practical. biden reversed all of that. one of the reasons you're getting unaccompanied children is because he made an exception that allowed unaccompanied children to come in. they have to confront the fundamental reality. the asylum system is being gamed. it is being gamed by these smugglers, gamed by gangs and you are getting large numbers of people who are not really asylum seekers in the traditional sense of the word. and you have got to have a somewhat hard-line approach to it otherwise the border will get overwhelmed. you already have twice as many people in the last two months coming to the southern border as you had last year. that number is going to double at least once the weather gets warm. the biden administration has to realize this is not a messaging problem. it's a policy problem. >> the clock is ticking as we're seeing just the sheer numbers. and as our reporters are seeing down there on the border as well. to your point, what i'm hearing is the biden administration needs to say very clearly, here's what constitutes, you know, asylum if you're seeking asylum. here's what we can talk about. if you're not. follow the proper channels or normal channels, i should say. the other thing that came up and john brought this up as well in his interview earlier today is the fact that these policies were reversed, but it doesn't seem that there was really a plan in place to deal with what most had expected would come. that, too, is a major issue. now you're playing catch up on simply not being ready. >> you are exactly right. the policies were reversed largely because, you know, the idea was everything that trump did on immigration is bad. which is true. the problem is this asylum policy is a very specific problem. it was -- there is a crisis. you have had that -- you have now ten times as many people coming to the southern border applying for asylum as you did a decade ago. people are gaming the system. the asylum process is broken. so before you overturn trump's policies, which had somewhat controlled the problem, you need a plan in place. there wasn't one. there was a hope by taking a more generous or humane approach, you know, somehow magically things would get solved. but hope is not a policy. i think that one of the tragedies here is that this asylum issue is going to overwhelm the immigration issue. biden has a lot of very good policies on immigration that are going to be difficult to implement because they are going to get tarnished by this issue of asylum at the southern border which is a small piece here. asylum seekers make up a small part of the overall immigrants to the united states but the problems with asylum is going to make it harder to get something like comprehensive immigration reform passed because people look at the images and say, you know, we don't want to do anything with immigration. immigration becomes the hot-button issue that the right is able to mobilize its base around. >> is there a way -- i think i know the answer, but do you think there is a way to start to have that conversation and remove the politics from it? >> oh, very hard. this was the last great attempt at compromise in american politics. you know, the immigration bill that ted kennedy from the left supported. that john mccain from the right supported. george w. bush the president supported and it got eaten up by the extremes of both parties. i hope that biden can do something. but certainly this makes it much harder. he has to resolve asylum if he wants to solve immigration. >> one other issue you point out in your piece which is really interesting is there's a separate crisis that also isn't being talked about. and that is, you know, what is not happening in terms of immigration and celebrating all of the wonderful contributions that immigrants can make as they become citizens of this country. talk to us about that. >> the single most distinctive feature of american society compared to other rich countries these days is that we take in lots of immigrants and assimilate them well. that's what adds to our gdp, our innovation, that's what adds to our dynamism. it means we don't have a social security problem because we have young workers paying into the system. all that is in jeopardy because since trump, immigration numbers have plummeted. the pandemic, of course, has meant they've cratered, but even before that, trump made it so that the united states was very hostile to immigration. more hostile than at any point since 1965. that's the crisis we've got to solve because, i mean, this country was built on immigration. it's going to be built on immigration if we want to remain dynamic. if we want to remain innovative. i'm not talking about illegal immigration. i'm talking about legal, skill-based immigration, family reunification, the kind of things that built america and nobody seems to notice. a lot of smart people are going to australia, to new zealand, to britain, to canada where the environment is right now much more hospitable. >> fareed, always great to see you. thank you. >> pleasure. north korea with a warning for the new biden administration. but it didn't come from kim jong-un. we'll have more on that and how the biden administration is responding this morning. next. ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa mom and dad left costa rica, 1971. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. dad was a bus driver at the chicago transit authority. mom expressed herself through her food. that was her passion. and on august 20th, 1990, they opened irazu. last year business was great. and then the pandemic hit. we had to reset. the city had said that pick up and delivery was still viable. that kept us afloat. in the 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share their mutual values throughout the day as they work towards a better future here in the indo pacific. the denuclearization of the korean peninsula is a top priority and that was discussed throughout the course of the day. antony blinken went on to talk about the alliances and the allies in this region, japan and south korea, as key tools in order to combat the threat of north korea. at the same time, the united states has reached out to north korea to try to communicate th. those efforts have been met with silence. >> to reduce the risks of escalation, we reached out to the north korean government through several channels starting in mid-february. including in new york. to date, we have not received a response from pyongyang. >> now just as those meetings are set to take place and at the same time the u.s. and south korea are conducting joint military drills in south korea, albeit scaled back, north korean leader kim jong-un's sister issued a warning to the biden administration. she said, quote, we take the opportunity to warn this new u.s. administration trying hard to give off powder smell in our land. she said if it wants to sleep in peace for the upcoming four years it had better refrain from causing a stink at its first step. blinken was asked about that statement later today. and while he said he was aware of it, he said he preferred to focus on the comments made by allies. secretary of state blinken and secretary of defense austin lloyd will now head to south korea where they'll meet with their counterparts in seoul. and erica, you better believe that north korea will be high on the agenda. >> it certainly will. blake, thank you. breaking news out of the uk. prince phillip released from a hospital in central london. in a statement, buckingham palace said the 99-year-old royal has returned to windsor castle and is in good spirits. he was taken to the hospital a month ago after feeling unwell. he underwent a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart 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criticize the lifting of coronavirus restrictions. the harassment has not let up. the owner had to leave town. joining us is mike nguyen, chef and owner of noodle tree restaurant in san antonio, texas. we appreciate you being with us. we're so sorry you're going through this. the graffiti on the windows, racist and directly threatening. one window had "hope you die" written on it. are police involved, and how concerned are you for your own safety? >> the police are actively investigating this. i talked to a detective yesterday and we're going through some leads and we're looking through cameras to see if we can potentially find the identities of the people who have done this. and, you know, with the threats, they've been ramping up since yesterday and, you know, it makes me believe there might be another secondary attack on the restaurant and, you know, that my safety is maybe at risk or it might escalate. and the thing is, the more i speak about it, the more it seems the threats of ramping up but that's not going to stop me. i'm going to bring awareness to this situation because, you know, we're not going to let the hate and ignorance prevail. we're going to bring awareness to this and stop this. >> i was reading what your initial reaction was when you first saw the graffiti. i have to save, it would have been mine, too. you were pissed. >> yeah, absolutely. i was enraged. and to have something hit so close to home and such a direct message, you know, over what, something senseless. over someone's opinion, someone's belief? last i checked we lived in a country where we had the freedom of speech and the fact that someone would make such a direct personal attack just because they don't agree with my views or my opinions is -- it's -- like, for me, it's just very -- it doesn't make sense to me. i don't understand why it would escalate to this point. >> you are battling cancer for a second time. your grandmother lost to coronavirus. this is, when you're saying you want people in your restaurant to wear masks, this is life and death for you. >> correct. this is -- i've been compromised. i've seen how deadly this virus can be. our family has been grieving for the past year and i'm deal with my personal distress of that and then the stress of owning a restaurant and trying to make it survive and when we lost our grandma last year, that was hard. that was tough on us. we're trying to make sense of it and, you know, my thing is, i don't want other people in the community to have to go through that. a lot of us are going through that. if i can prevent it that's what i'm trying to do. that's why i'm so passionate and strong about having these masks, having the community protected. this is a serious thing. and whether you believe or not that it's been blown out of proportion doesn't matter. people are dying at the end of the day. >> we've been talking about the bad. some of the bad things you've experienced but also a good side to this. sunday morning, a lot of people from the community came up and helped clean the graffiti off your restaurant. we're seeing pictures of that right here. what did that mean to you? >> that means a lot to me. that's a true representation of us texans and us san antonians. by the end of the day, there was nothing but love and support. that's an important message. that's who we are. when texans are in need, texans will be there for each other and that's what we do. this is not a representation, you know, of texans or san antonio ns. this is a couple of bad seeds or misguided people. and i will say this. sunday, our windows were filled with hate and ignorance. but by monday, it was filled with love and support because people started drawing these paper hearts, writing positive messages and sticking it on our window. that's a powerful thing. that shows that we're not going to accept or allow ignorance, hate or racism in our town, in our city, in our state. >> mike nguyen, we appreciate you speaking out. we 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