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[ applause ] >> that's what it sounds like. today president biden back out at work touring a medical center distributing vaccines to veterans. the landmark bill is the first major legislative victory of the biden era. about $2 trillion. the house expected to vote on wednesday. they are racing so it will get president biden's signature before any unemployment benefits would expire in mid-march. it includes $1400 stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, another $50 billion for loans for small businesss around the nation, $14 billion for vaccine distribution, a large program that supports children, more on that part tonight. and these checks are slated to be in the mail by the end of the month. that's what they call news you can use. relief coming amidst new progress. 31 million americans as of tonight fully vccinated. the rate increasing as a third vaccine comes into play. the u.s. hit a record 2.9 million vaccines in a single day just right here on saturday. the results can be seen as well in what is now a precipitous fall since the peak of covid in early january when the u.s. was hitting about a quarter million cases a day. now cases falling over 10% the last two weeks. the same with the grim death rate. it's now down 10% over the last two weeks. then this part is key. a number of hospitalizations over the last two weeks. 29%. president biden has drawn many different contrasts with the last president including a willingness to deal directly with the deaths with the tough news regardless of how it might play politically. the last president would have lied about this kind of bad news. and now biden aids say he will summit if ongoing credibility he's building for what they see as a partially good news address that's coming thursday night. president biden will mix some of that encouraging data i just shared with you along with his argument that americans need to have resolve in the next phase going forward. thursday will be america's one year anniversary of when this pandemic was declared a national emergency. let's get right into it right now. we are joined by cornell belcher, and welcoming back joan walsh, national affairs correspondent for "the nation." good to have you both here. cornell, i want your view on this split aspect. no matter how good the news is, we all know what we're living through. we know hospitalization and deaths continue. so does no way a leader spike a football and yet you want people to get around the corner by saying help is on the way. money is on the way. if you keep doing the right things, the end of the pandemic may be on the way. >> despite a lot of history, americans want to be optimistic about the future. and i think the president gives them the real, but also a sense that we're beginning to turn the corner on this. and all they did is that americans want to get back to normal. they want their lives back. and it seems we have a professional adult in the white house who is just simply doing the work. it's not tweeting. he's not picking fights. hooeps not calling names. hooeps doing the work of government and making government government competent again. joe biden is making government competent and working for the american people. there's a sense we are beginning to turn the corner and americans are getting more optimistic. we have to tap that down because americans could get out of control. but there's a sense that it's going to be morning in america again. >> you also just said something that is straight forward but is worth reflecting on. when the work is good, you don't need to tweet as much. it makes me think of a jamaican saying that others have used. which is good work doesn't have to advertise. when the work is good enough, it doesn't even need to advertise itself. i'm wondering as a pollster and you have a advised obama and biden white house, now we're in the biden/harris white house, what does it mean when you see $2 trillion coming that they are not having to promote negative nestly if people are going to get the checks and get the reality? >> i think you can bring politics in it because i'm your resident political hack. but when government is impacting millions of americans in a real i way, the government doesn't really impact millions of americans in a daily way, but when you're getting a stimulus they can check that you need from the government, when you're getting rent assistance that so many unemployed working families need, when you're getting an tension of unemployment, these are concrete actions that "morning joe" is delivering in a way we haven't seen a president deliver since perhaps fdr. fpz. >> i agree. i think this is the momentous. i don't think we have seen anything like this since the great society. it might go back to fdr. it relates to fdr because what biden and democrats have done is begin to rebuild the opportunity structure that the new deal put in place in the '30s and '40s that built middle class consciously left out a lot of black people, people of color, but these are the building blocks of new ladders of opportunity for working people, low income people, middle class people. and i think it's a big deal. i don't think they should spike the football, but i agree with cornell. people really enjoy good news and they want to be optimistic. so i think there's a balancing act, but so far biden has played it really well. he learned from the obama administration in some way that you do have to blow your own horn, you have to explain to people what you're doing and why it's making a difference. you can combine that realism about, hey, we saw the doctor today. we're not out of of the woods yet. don't go to bars. last thing on this. i think that that message actually, in some ways, helps people postpone gratification. i'm not going to take off my mask because we are getting chorus. so i think you can give some good news and still have realism. you add them together, and i think you have a recipe to continue doing the things we need to do. >> yeah, i want to bring you in on something you had written about in multiple forms, books and articles. progressive social policy, which is sometimes treated in washington as either obviously unaffordable or just some sort of, quote, unquote, liberal pipe dream. joe biden was not known as a leader on some of this stuff, but he's committed to support ing and signing it, which means it's going to be real. i want to get your analysis for viewers and something you know a bit about, which is the long-term push for better family support including working and families in the stimulus bill. they call in the times a a policy revolution in aid for children. guaranteed income for families of children. children's allowances that are common in center left democracies. more than 93% of children, 69 million people in america would receive these benefits ushd the plan. the one-year cost is big. $100 billion with democrats, especially liberal democrats saying the goal is to get this done now, which they are and then make it permanent so there's long-term support for families in america. a huge deal. your thoughts? >> a huge deal. $3,000 a year if you have small kids. i think it's huge. you're right to say this is fundamental in other advanced western, rich, wealthy countries. but it does feel like the covid nightmare has made americans see what government can do. the trump administration made us all see what it can can do in a bad way. tearing apart families at the border. and also the total incompetence and lying about handling this challenge. so it's a great opportunity for joe biden. i think it's also important that he said we'd rather go big than go too small. so i think that times piece was mind blowing. that number is hugely important. i think we continue it. it's only for one year so it's possible it will be clawed back. but as long as republicans are debating, dr. seuss, think don't have appetite for policy. they have racism and resentment. there's not a lot of pushback. but there will over time. i hope as well as pushback, there's real excitement about what this is doing for families. it's innovative and really important. >> i think that you make really key points here. and for all of us viewers, stand alone program just to help working families and low-income families, who are struggling in the pandemic. we know politically that stand alone might be harder to pass or get a floor vote in both chambers. and yet here as part of this fast action with 51 votes needed, it's now passing, which means, yes, it's democracy. it's a huge deal for working families. cornell, i did want to bring in something we talk about policy. lindsey graham to give credit where it's due, he's stepped up and engaging in a serious way about the policy issues. just kidding. that doesn't happen. but i will as our political expert, i will have you take a swing on the republican side where lindsey graham has been talking about trump magic and the dark side john mccain's widow has been pushing back. >> there's something about trump. there's a dark side and there's some magic there. what i'm trying to do is harness the magic. >> i just don't believe that our party can survive by appealing to the dark side of humanity. >> cornell, there's so many ways to go, but i give you the floor for the magic. tell us about the magic. >> the magic is racism, i guess. the magic is the republican brand is worse off now than it was when george bush left it. certainly, a bigger party than it is right now. you have someone who is defeated as a sitting president. joe biden garnered more votes than anyone has in defeating him. they lost the senate. they lost the house. the kind of magic that they sprinkle around, if you're a democrat, you to like it. the more in the face of the republican party, i think the harder it becomes for them to win back those suburban women and desperately need to win back. >> all very good points. 12k3w4r. >> i think donald trump harnessed lindsey graham a long time ago. i agree, it's going to be very hard. all they really got is voter suppression and gerrymandering. i'm afraid of both those things. we can't be comply sant. in terms of appealing to the electorate now, they are going the wrong way. a lot of them know it. >> the magic of racism. >> this you go. cornell giving us phrases. i do think when someone speaks for a living, lindsey graham may pretend to be something else. he's fine with his words. this many years in when everything corr net just said, the old lindsey fwra ham used to say. he called donald trump a bigt bigot. he then was a able to stand up to it. now he's reduced to words. defending someone you used to call a bigot is giving magic that you can't explain what's so great about it. it speaks for itself. i want to thank you both. we'll be seeing more of you. we have our shortest break. later tonight we have a gop mayor that will, main why one thing biden is doing. the bill so bad a republican is boycotting the debate and why is racketeering coming off in a new trump case. back in just 30 seconds. case back in just 30 seconds. from...tony's tex mex...in... katy. 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>> i can't speak for them, but i can say that so many of our mayors have come out on both sides of the aisle because this is just the right thing to do. invest this it's not a red or blue issue. it's an american issue that we've gt to address. we're still hurting. and hopefully we'll be able to come out of this pandemic stronger than we were before. definitely we need help. just like we would there in any other natural disaster. >> mr. mayor, i don't know if you met cornell, but i'll go out on a limb and say he is less diplomatic than you. although i appreciate all the relationships you have to keep for your city. so cornell, i'll put the same question to you. there's a bit of a tension here. i'm wondering your thoughts. >> first, hats off to the mayor. i think what the mayor symbolizes is the challenges we face at the local level where the real work is getting done. the mayor actually has to deliver for the people. our members of congress, i know the mayor can't say this, but they just talk a lot. the mayor is going to get his hat handed to him if he's not delivering to the people. you have to make common sense and make things happen. when i sit over the last five or six years, americans talk about why washington is broken. washington doesn't work. this will encapsulate when they say washington is broken and doesn't work. they are turning to local leaders like the mayor here and state government to solve problems because the word looking for, it's a political strategy. and we saw mitch mcconnell and congressional republicans do this under obama. they said basically we want obama to be a failed president. he said what you're not supposed to say out loud. so while they played politics in washington, even with things that most americans want, their primary calculation here unlike the mayor isn't solving problems. it is politics and what's in a better position for power. the may your has to solve problems. congress, they basically spend their time playing politics and trying to hold on to power. that explains a lot of the difference. >> we're dpoing to be tracking this. i'm running over on time. we're going to track what people have to say when they go back to their district and say we voted against these checks. find word, may your? >> our citizens are crying out for it, no doubt. and need help. and it's time. we also have seen ur economists on both sides and i'll just quote the united states federal reserve chairman who said it is the right thing to give direct assistance to our cities. it will shorten the economic recovery. so we are looking forward to that and being a major help in american cities for this recovery. >> i appreciate you coming on. i hope you'll come back. it's not our fan expert that gets the last word. it's not another member of the media. thanks to both of you for the dialogue. we have a lot coming up in the hour. including a new legal action against some republican leaders and a money spat that wrour going to have to hear to believe. going to have to hear to believe. well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at $79 a year. well, we're new friends. to be fair. eh, still. starting today, nobody has to settle for less than the very best. because only verizon gives you 5g from america's most reliable network at no extra cost. and more of the entertainment you love like apple music. and the beautiful iphone 12 on us when you buy one. only from verizon. want to brain better? 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>> i think ultimately it's about both. one thing that was really important for us, you know, so many people across the globe, but especially, i think, within the united states have been just in the propaganda. they were labeled terroriststery thinkers, philosophers, doers. >> the film takes us into moments we necessarily wouldn't have video of. i want to go to the part of fred hampton that we do have. take look. >> they can do anything they want to to us. i may be black, i may be in jail, i might be anywhere. but the last words on my lips, i am a revolutionary, and you're going to have to keep on saying that. you can deal with a revolutionary but you can't deal with a revolution. >> h.e.r., many people know your music deals with civil rilts today but are built on some of these legacies. what does fred hampton, the person, mean to you? >> it's kind of crazy. when i watched this movie, i learned that he was young. he was like 21 years old when he died, and that is such a powerful message to people my age of my generation because oftentimes we feel voiceless and we feel like our voice doesn't matter and that we can't do much. and there is the racism that quiets our voices and it makes us feel like we cannot create change, and i think 2020 has taught us a lot. but his story in watching this film has taught us that it doesn't matter how old you are, it doesn't matter where you come from, we all have so much power just within our voices, and i think people were definitely starting to speak out in 2020, but this film is a continuation of that fight, and this film is a continuation of just what we -- it's putting that fire, you know, it's bringing that fire back into us, especially as youth to really create change, and that's what i appreciated so much. but, you know, for me writing that song was a message to people like we need to continue the work of fred hampton, because clearly not much has changed since he was speaking out against these things. not much has really changed. so, you know, it's just very powerful looking at how young he was, and it's our responsibility now to continue his work. >> when you look, h.e.r., at the language, because this is language we get from culture. barack obama was speaking about how the slurs are so bad not because of the first order but the way they dehumanize people and make treatment of them seem okay. when you say to someone, don't tell me you're color blind, this is kind of the way people unhook themselves from a system in which they benefit. i'm sure people watching shaka's film might look at that era and say, when they lived in latin america, they were working hard and going to school and taking care of their children. that doesn't involve them. shaka, how important is it these stories are told accurately and deeply in a way that, of course, you're involved. you can't unhook yourself from what other people do if you're in the system. >> i believe in recognizing privilege and recognizing not only where things lack but where things are full, and when you realize what's been given, then you can understand -- when you realize what you've been given, then it's easier to empathize with people who have had things taken away from them, if that makes sense. >> shaka? >> it's damn near impossible to sacrifice the white privilege. i don't quite know what it looks like to do that, and so i think that you can take steps to mitigate it, but i think first you have to own it, which i think a lot of people -- a lot of white people don't have a propensity to do because they haven't been forced to. >> yeah. all really good points and particularly the portrayal in the film gives people that window as well into the law enforcement side. h.e.r., we're speaking on international women's day. we have some great footage we dug up of when you were actually on the "today" show as a girl yourself, ten years old. take a look. >> we've got an amazing talent with us. >> where did you get this voice? >> it just came out of nowhere, i guess. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> i had no idea. i had no idea you did that. >> oh, man. >> you're an inspiration to a lot of people around the world, including young women and girls. what do you say to girls and other young people out there who look at someone like you and everything you're doing now and think, wow, i wouldn't even know where to begin. >> oh, man, well, first of all, as you can see, everything that's happening now didn't just happen overnight. i've been, you know, doing music since i could talk, and i've always loved it. it's always been a given, and the main thing that i think golt -- got me to the point i'm at now was leading with passion and always moving with passion and my heart and what i love, and that is music. music is the foundation of everything that i do, and any time anybody would discourage me from playing an instrument, you know, or doing my hair a certain way or, you know, saying the things that i want to say, i always said no to that, and i continue to stick to who it is i wanted to be. yeah, it took me far, so never give up. always trust the process. but, man, that clip brings back memories. see, if i never learned "boogie oogey oogey," i never would have been able to learn that fight. it comes from somewhere. >> i love what you're telling people today. don't dim your light. happy international women's day and thank you, h.e.r. and shaka. >> thank you very much. >> you can always speak to us on twitter or facebook. if there are themes or issues you think we should cover, you can always reach us there, @arimelber. thank you for watching, as always. joy reid is up next. ♪♪ good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" tonight that elections have consequences. the house is about to send the covid relief package to millions of americans and make good on their promise. if democrats hadn't won those two senate seats in georgia in

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