normalcy by july 4th weekend. there is light literally now that the lights have sprung forward. we'll have an extra hour of daylight. after the year we had it's hard not to feel a little good about what is on the horizon. however it could be a vastly different reality right now if the insurrection on january 6th had not failed. it has been two months and eight days since that day. the fbi is still working to make sure everyone that stormed the capital is fully prosecuted for their crimes. they are dotting their is and crossing their ts going through mown tapes of evidence but it all started at the top. cleaning up that january 6th mess is a top priority for merick garland. we're learning more about some of the rye jotters that were arrested. sivic is accused of stealing the badge and radio from a dc police officer after a crowd beat him unconscious. he buried it in his backyard in buffalo. he will appear in front of a federal judge on tuesday. also we're learning about a member of the army reserve. military investigators found he was widely known as a white supremacist and regularly talked about his hatred for jewish people. one coworker says he discussed his dislike for jews every day. he had to be reprimanded for wearing a hitler mustache. all of the feel that worked for our failed former president add mid that trump was responsible. >> do you think the president was responsible for what happened on the 6th? >> i don't know, but it seems cause and effect, yeah. the question is would anyone have marched on the capitol and overrun the capitol without the president's speech? i think it is definitive that it wouldn't have happened. so yes. >> with miller speaking out that makes about one quarter of trump's cabinet that have rebuked him. they resigned from their jobs in the days immediately following the insurrection. joining me now is nancy cook. good morning, nancy. >> good morning, ali, great to see you. >> thank you, nancy. now that merick garland is the attorney general. he needs to rebuild the justice department, rebuild the trust that americans have for the justice department, those are big jobs no matter what, but he has the biggest of jobs right in front of him and that is how the justice department and the if, bi will deal with these e 400 people they expect in total to have been charged and how they deal with the things that lead to the insurrection. that has to be job one right now. >> yeah, and he made it area that he would view this grows threat of domestic performance as a very key part of his job as attorney general. he was just sworn in on thursday. he has been in dc for years. he understands the levers of federal government and the power of the department of justice. i think in addition to going after what happened at the capitol and tries to prosecute people for that and hold people accountable, he will look at the growing threat that we saw of domestic terrorism that grew under president trump and his watch. we saw a lot of former trump officials that talked about that threat and i think he he will view that as a very key part of his tenure at the d.o.j. >> and they saw the disappointment, there are people that wonder what these 400 people who get charged what they will face and what will stick. it doesn't seem to be something that joe biden talks a lot about, or the administration talks a lot about. >> that's a great point i think the biden white house has gone out of it's way to turn the page on president trump as much as possible. you don't hear president biden or jen psaki even say trump's name very often. i think they're intent on trying to draw a very sharp contrast with the trump administration. i think they're trying to roll back most of the trump policies in place but they don't hash on him that much and i think they will leave a lot of the prosecution to the doj. the trump administration was trying to run things out of the white house a little more. the challenge of prosecuting these salespeople there is a will the of evidence from social media, from thicks that people posted, the insurrectionists taking things from the capitol hill officers as momentos. that is interesting thanks to twitter, instagram, and the streaming videos. >> and thanks to the fact that so so much of the evidence was provided by the people themselves with posts and selfies and forecasts. joining me now is susan wild of pennsylvania who represents the state's 7th congressional district and is a member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for being with us, good to see you. >> now that congress passed the covid relief bill, one of the next issues you're looking to tackle is immigration. yesterday the department of homeland security announced they would use fema. tell me what you make of this? >> i'm glad to see the administration is treating the immigration situation and the situation at the border with the humanity it deserves. i think it is incredibly important that fema get involved and that we get these children out of detention as soon as possible and families put back together as quickly as possible. so i applaud their efforts to do this. >> let's talk about what things are like in congress right now. one might have thought that it would have resulted in a sheared experience of you and your republican colleagues and brought everyone together in the way that so many other tragedies in american history have done. there was zero republican support in either chamber for the relief act, and we're seeing some around the country taking credit for the effects that it is going to have. >> you would have thought that we would come together andbond over our shared experience. and we saw republicans voting in opposition to certification of the election. so that was a discouraging sign of things to come. what i'm happy to report is that people are bonded and cohesive on the idea of bringing relief to the american people. and we have done that this past week. i heard from my subsequents that some people were already seeing money in their bank accounts which is very great. so we're going to keep working forward. my style is not to pay attention to the division, but to work and try to find where we can find common ground. >> let's talk a little about the relief act. we talk about the $1400, some of it is going into accounts as we speak. we talk about federal unemployment benefits, but through is a lot in that bill. some argue that some of the provisions that many people don't know much about including abover it alleviation is going to be more important, it caused the stock market to be royaled last week. they're saying we might finally see some inflation. >> i don't think that is going to happen. i think we're going to see a great jump start to the economy. and there is a lot of really wonderful things in this bill and i hope that people will take time to read the bill. they need to talk about what will really jump start our economy. there is money for small independent restaurant that's have been struggling for so long. there is, as you pointed out, an increase to the child tax credit making it fully refundable. $7,000 per child, than will have an immediate impact. and refundable tax credit, that means if they don't owe or don't owe as much they will still get a refund of $3,000 per child. this will have the effect of lifting families out of poverty. almost immediately. there is lots of money in this for schools and very importantly for our local municipalities. i'm hearing from the may yofrs in my district, they were facing layoffs of key blows that had been there for a long time and basically because of the rediction in tax revenue and now they don't have to lay off those people. we're going to save millions of jobs. there is also wonderful subsidies on health insurance for the aca and for people that lost their insurance as a result of losing their job in the pandemic. the open period has been expanded. there are additional subsidies so they can get back on their health insurance or afford it. i think a bill that brings those benefits to the american people is where we need to be right now. >> representative susan wild, good to talk to you. a democrat from pennsylvania. her name is angea chen, and she diagnosed the first united states coronavirus case. she had to miss her son's first steps just to make sure that her son stayed safe. we'll have her story, next, on velshi. velshi designed our 5g to make the things you do every day better. with 5g nationwide, millions of people can now work, listen, and stream in verizon 5g quality. and in parts of many cities where people can use massive capacity, we have ultra wideband, the fastest 5g in the world. this is the 5g that's built for you. this is 5g built right. only from verizon. did you know that 70% of the soils on your clothes are invisible? 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>> yes, so it was actually the results took a little time to come back. it was a leap year that day we saw the patient on february 29th, and it is just really hard to reflect on what a year has been. when they first showed up, we really -- i have to commend our triage nurses, they flagged this patient as being high risk for being possible covid case and really did everything that could to make sure that we safely take care of this patient in a way that protects the patient and everyone else in the emergency department that day. >> last week i spoke to some of the staff and the employees of the new york beth israel hospital. three had little children at the time. you had a 1-year-old son at the time. what happened? how did that all go down? you realized you had been exposed to a covid patient and you realized you would see more of this, what did you do with your son? >> so we were incredibly fortunate. my parents live in new jersey, we had a safe place to send him away. we were hearing the cases coming out of china, and we realized that it would be inevitable that i would bring the virus home by becoming infected myself or bringing the particles home on my clothing or shoes. so it was a very challenging decision and in order to keep him safe we decided we would have to not live with him for awhile. we we're so thankful to have a place to send him where he could be taken care of and be safe. >> what contact did you have with him over the course of the year? >> it was very, very hard. over about four-and-a-half months we saw him mainly through facetime, phone calls, and when we could we saw him behind a pane of glass. it was incredibly hard. it is challenging to tell a 14 month-year-old that he can't come running through the door and give mommy a hug. they just don't understand and everything was limited through a screen or a physical barrier separating us. >> what do you take from that? this is, at the earlier part of your career, what has this remarkable life changing experience and the way you had to deal with not being near your son, what has it taught you? >> you know, i think that for a lot of us in the health care profession we went into it because we felt a calling to help people in need and never has that been felt than during this pandemic. even though it was difficult i think children are remarkably resilient. i think this is an important thing. that i'm able to tell him when he is older, that if he is able to do good when the world is in disarray. and make a small impact, that you should do it and i hope that's the lesson that he takes away from this. the other thing i think that is truly tumultuous is that at the base of it, you know, how important it was for all of us to stick together. i know i would not have made it through the year without the effort of everybody that works in the emergency departments. my colleagues, the residents, the pas, to the business associates that work with us, the nurses, even housekeeping staff, we could not have functioned and got through the year without the efforts of everyone on the team. >> well said. thank you for everything you did and one day we will thank your son because he gave up stuff so you could keep people safe. she diagnosed the first case of coronavirus in new york city. according to the brandon center for justice, around the country, we'll go to one of the states with the toughest fights, next. t ) off-road trip. 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unnecessary blockages to votes. nearly a third of those votes came from nonwhite residents. the voter suppression effort is an attack on voter access and an existential crisis for democracy. tomorrow a bill ending automatic voting registration will be considered. to put that number in perspective georgia had 7.6 in 2020. she wrote in 2019 that republicans yearn for a white republic. allowing it to grow weaker so they can grow stronger. . and the republicans have made their choice. joining me now is dr. carol anderson. how voter suppression is destroying democracy and white rage. also the study of studies in atlanta, also joined by the editor at large for the 19th. she is also an nbc contributor. welcome to both of you and thank you for being with us. let me ask you about your comments and the things you said about what republicans are doing. is there no way in which republicans feel their ideology is different and strong from that of democrats and that you know after the 2012 election i think they had a post mortum where they said if you just grad likeability you will gain many more voters. and the southern democrats soul reason for being anti-civil rights. and that core is absolutely immutable. you can't get throw it. they had time and time again an opportunity to change their policies. so be more responsive and reflective of an increaingly diverse america. what they decided to do was the co-founder of the heritage foundation where he said "i don't want everybody to vote because quite frankly our leverage goes up as the voting populous goes down. that's the republican way. >> there is zero connection between. they are in georgia, for instance, limiting people to the polls, and people go vote after church, their pastors encouraged them to go vote, zero evidence that it has anything to do with fraud. the reduction, the amount of time that you can vote in iowa. if voter fraud were an issue, these things still would not be solved. >> good morning and thank you for letting me share a screen here. we talk about these issues quite frequently especially in the wake of her book one person one vote, which she wrote with a great sense of urgency after the last election. we have seen this emerging solution that continues to be in search of a problem and what we know is that the big lie that we now see, the former president continuing to perpetuate, is a lie that has been cold by legislatures in quite some time. and i have seen these bills that have always targeted communities of color and even in the 2020 election you have the federal governmenting that the election was the most secure in u.s. history. we know what these bills are a response to the expanded elector rate lead by black organizers. it was in the midst of a pandemic to get more people participating in an election they felt was existential. in response you have g.o.p. control legislatures across the country trying to curtail a lot of those measures that white republicans have been using for years when you suddenly have new constituencies using those methods. >> you make an interesting point that the people that you named, largely in georgia, they did treat with the urgency that you treated it with. there is a lot of people that won. people have seen it in the democratic house, but the things happening right now could have a direct effect on some of those things, so how do you translate this into what people need to do to understand that democracy itself is in peril. >> one of the ways that we do that is through television shows like this where we're getting the world out about what is at stake, it's where you saw black voters matter. the coca-cola, world of coca-cola where you have industries providing funding to the legislatures that are backing voter suppression laws. it's where you have celebrities like lebron james really setting up the importance of the right to vote and what is at stake. when is at stake is really our democracy. it really is. the kinds of cuts that the republicans are making, the way they're limiting access to the ballot box. they shut down over 200 places. so when you limit access to in-person voting, the long lines that we would see, those were primarily voting communities, and when you limit ak sen tee ballots, it is shutting off access to american citizens. this is what we have to make clear. >> thank you to both of you. i appreciate this is an important issue that we will continue to discuss and continue to convey the urgency of. you can be against voter fraud and for people voting. they're not opposites. thanks to both of you, things are getting worse very quickly for andrew cuomo. he is still refusing to resign, that's ahead. resign, that's ahead didn't waste any ti. she filed a claim on her usaa app and said, “that was easy.” usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa. you may have many reasons for waiting to go to your doctor right now. but if you're experiencing leg pain, swelling, or redness, don't wait to see 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positive. not one single republican votes for it. joining me now is bernie sanders. you said it is the most consequential plan. >> it looks at the unprecedented crisis and in a significant way addresses those crisises nap is what this legislation does. second of all we have to address the economic distress that millions of families are experiencing. this legislation does that. extending benefits through september and what it also does it is makes sure that our kids and families in america do not go hungry. we want to make shurd people don't get thrown out of their houses. putting huge amounts of money into education from childcare and graduate cool. this country faces enormous crisis. democrats took a lard look and we have gun to address them. >> they say they're going to lower health care costs. it's not medicare for all, but it's baby steps in the right direction. >> what has to happen -- this is, ali, let us not forget an emergency bill. it says we're not going to let people get evicted from their ohms, and they do a couple structural homes in our economy. that means we have to raise the minimum wage in this country. it means that we're going to have to create millions of good paying jobs. roads, bridges, and millions of munts of affordable and low income housing. it means that we have to leave the world by combatting climate change. so this is an important step forward. because this is indicating that this is legislation for working people, not for the realitiy campaign contributors, this is a start. now we have to continue that progress and create a government that works for all, not just few. >> you touched on something that i think people are really an ho wage. i want to talk to you more about how we get wages higher and how you get to that goal of $15 an hour minimum wage. independent senator bernie sanders of vermont, you're watching "velshi." we'll be right back. hing "velsh" we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ when it comes to your financial health, just a few 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what does the immigration policy look like to you now? >> well, it's clearly, in my view, after decades and decades of talk, we have got to move to comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship for the 11 million people in this country who are undocumented. many of those people, by the way, have kept this economy going in this terrible moment by doing the essential work that has to be done including agriculture. so this is an issue that congress is going to have to deal with as soon as possible, and we can not afford to continue all this demagoguery from my republican colleagues. >> what do you think should happen with folks -- >> but i do want to say that i know there are a lot of people who are disappointed that we were unable to raise the minimum wage in this american rescue plan. and i want to assure everybody out there that that fight continues. and at the end of the day, we are going to raise that minimum wage to a living wage of at least $15 an hour. and the other point, ali, which is very important, when we talk about growing our economy, is that workers must be able to join unions. this wednesday as chairman of the budget committee, i'm holding a hearing. and we're going to ask a simple question, among other things. how does it happen that jeff bezos, the wealthiest person in america, worth $180 billion, is spending millions of dollars trying to prevent his workers in alabama from forming a union? so we need to make it easier for workers to form a union. we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage if we're going to create an economy where half of all people are not working paycheck to paycheck. >> let me just put on the screen a graph that shows union membership over time in the united states going back to the '80s where 20% of american workers were members of unions. we're at a low now, almost 11% of members of the workforce are in unions. you've asked jeff bezos to show up before a hearing. he said he's not going to. so if you say something to him now on this show, someone will get it to him. what is it you want to say to people like jeff bezos? >> this is what i want to say. it's the same message that i say to the owners of walmart, the walton family, the wealthth family in america. we are living in an economy where the very, very rich are doing phenomenally well, working families are struggling. so i say to jeff bezos, jeff, you're worth $182 billion. that's a lot of money. what is your problem with allowing workers in alabama to organize for better wages and for better working conditions? you can afford to pay them more. and to the walton family that owns walmart, you're the richest family in america. why are you having a starting wage of $11 an hour so that your workers have to go on public assistance supplemented by the taxpayers of this country? we are going to deal with this issue, ali, of income and wealth inequality. it is a very dangerous issue, it is worse now than at any time it has been in the last hundred years. we can not have a moral society or a strong economy when so few have so much and so many have so little. that's the struggle we're engaging in right now. >> senator, we're going to watch these hearings in this week to follow up on this. you don't fortunately have to convince americans that a higher minimum wage is required. but you're going to have some efforts getting it through congress. because we saw that happen when this bill went through. but we'll continue this conversation. senator bernie sanders of vermont is the chair of the senate budget committee. he is holding hearings on wages this coming week. a quick note. if you have some extra time this morning, check out the column that i wrote that's relevant to this discussion about paying this country's hourly wage workers more fairly. as the senator said, we relied on them so heavily during this pandemic. they should be able to afford to earn a living wage. you can find the column on msnbc.com. that does it for me. thanks for watching "velshi." catch me from 8 to 10:00 a.m. saturdays and sundays. you can catch me device on any platform. don't go anywhere. jonathan capehart has senate majority leader chuck schumer lined up. "the sunday show" begins right now. president biden hits the road to sell his historic covid relief package. but the filibuster could spell doom for the rest of his agenda. senate majority leader chuck schumer joins me for an exclusive interview on what's next. will that package even be enough to save the economy? the new chair of the white house council of economic advisers is here to make the case. and with democrats focused on governing, what exactly are republicans doing? i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." ♪♪ good morning this sunday. while millions of americans await their third stimulus check and as president biden crosses the halfway point for his -- of his first hundred days, the answer to just how much of the democrats' progressive agenda will come to fruition lies in the united states senate. biden has promised sweeping legislation on immigration, climate change, infrastructure, and the house has been passing bill after progressive bill. there is the for the people act to protect and expand voting rights. the george floyd justice in policing act which would ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants. a pro-union bill that would make it easier for workers to organize. a pair of gun control bills that