package and it's this new child tax credit which is really revolutionary. it's very, very popular. 70% popular with the american people. what is the thinking behind this big kickoff this week to promote it nationwide? >> well, look, we are still in the midst of this pandemic, and we know that we can't get out of our economic crisis until we get through the health crisis. so the thinking behind the american rescue plan is that we need to address the problems caused by the pandemic. part of it is is to help get the vaccine eggs and get the shots in people's arms. we recognized since the beginning of the pandemic we've lost 9.5 million jobs and we've got over 4 million people who have been unemployed for at least a year. people are struggling and one in five adult renters are behind in their rent payments and millions of adults and children are struggling to eat and put food on the table. so it's important that the federal government provide the resources that people and businesses need to safely get to the other side of this pandemic. so that is the theory behind the rescue plan, and that is the help that the federal government is providing to get to the other side. >> of course, you've heard the criticism from republicans saying that $ 1.9 trillion is too big and not targeted enough and this was criticism from republican bill cassidy on fox news sunday. >> the money that is there for education will be spent in the out years. that's not related to covid. california is getting $41 billion, and california has had record tax receipts. it includes $1.9 billion to give stimulus checks to inmates. inmates are already paid for by the taxpayer. >> can you rebutt that and give us your arguments against his criticism? >> well, sure. this package is targeted to where the money is needed so state and local governments, for example, have lost 1.4 million jobs since -- the pandemic started and more job loss than we had in the sectors since the great recession. they need to re-open and they need the resources to do so safely and importantly, our children have lost a lot educationally so some of this money will be used to recover learning loss and some of that could be extending the school day, pushing into the summer and also trying to address the social and emotional needs of children who have been so impacted by this pandemic. so this pandemic has affected every corner of our society of our economy and this package is designed to address that. >> as you know, some of the arguments are also coming from the democratic side and admittedly an outliar larry summers that more of the stimulus money should have gone to make the public, long-term investments and the kind that you're considering for the infrastructure bill which will make us more competitive in the long run and not be potentially more inflationary. >> right. so i understand. i understand what larry summers is saying and any economic investment is going to have some risk, but there are risks on both acting too large and of acting too small and right now we perceive the larger risk is not being large enough because the biggest challenge to getting back on path to getting to economic growth is to prevent scarring, to make sure that those workers that have been out of work for so very long can get back into the labor market. to make sure that our businesses can get going again. so, yes, there is a small risk of inflation. we will be monitoring and we will be watching and it is important to recognize that there's great economic slack in our economy right now and -- [ no audio ] >> and i think we're having a problem with our wi-fi there. i am so sorry, please, cecilia rouse, come back soon. we want to complete our conversation and we are sorry for the connection. meanwhile, house minority leader kevin mckarthy is leading a delegation to the southern border today as republicans try to seize on the new surge of unaccompanied surge to the border on the trump border policies. as the biden administration is facing a growing challenge crossing last week alone. including no longer requiring asylum seekers to remain on the mexican side of the border. democrats and immigration activists say that policy is inhumane and had to be changed. now the biden administration is deploying fema to move migrant children from overcrowded border patrol stations that were mostly built to mexican adult men into shelters to get the services they need and housing children at unused school buildings and even a vacant nasa site. garrett hake has the latest from el paso, texas. >> good afternoon. republican leader kevin mccarthy and a dozen or so agents will guest a tour and they will meet with reporters after that to talk about what they say is a crisis at the border brought on by biden administration softening of trump administration era immigration policies, democrats and immigration activists say that those same draconian policies put in place by the trump administration essentially created a time bomb here. they bottled up asylum seekers in mexico waiting to get across the border and now what they have is a surge primarily with unaccompanied minors because those are the only people who can effectively apply for asylum right now based on the biden administration's new rules. so these folks are coming across the border and they're straining resources at border patrol and straining resources at hhs and the federal government is making this larger response and we're strong see now, what, if any, congressional response will there be. do congressional republicans want to make this a biden administration scandal or do they want to propose meaningful solutions on their own and what do they look like in the biden era and those are the questions for leader mccarthy when i get to talk to him later today. andrea? >> thank you for that. we look forward to your interview with kevin mckarthy and joining me now is nbc correspondent jacob soboroff. you are at a vacant nasa facility as a prospective place to house the children and as someone who wrote the best-selling book "separated" about the kids during the trump years. what are you learning about the potential, temporary shelters? >> reporter: well, a couple of things, andrea and garrett's question is exactly right for the republicans if this is a humanitarian crisis that indeed it is with the border patrol facilities with the jails with children with overcrowded conditions. what is the solution? is this simply a political crisis or are you going to propose ways to house these children and get them out of those inhumane conditions and into places like the one like health and human services is looking in the san francisco bay area. you might i ask what am i doing in the san francisco bay area when i'm talking about housing children in the united states. the answer is here. nasa aames research center is a potential influx facility that is being considered by both health and human services and other federal agencies. a request for assistance went out and that's the technical term from hhs basically telling other federal departments saying we need additional space to build additional capacity in order to house children who are at the border so they can be placed with child welfare professionals so they can be placed in a situation where they can have education and medical supervision. what's going on in the border as secretary mallorca said is no place for a child. take it from me including the epicenter in mcallen with my own eyes. the facility with the cages is being renovated and any border patrol facility is a jail or a detention center or processing center and where children need to be, if you ask advocates or experts or members of civil societiy is in a refugee shelter where they can be placed with a family member or sponsor and actually be taken care of and because of that capacity, due to the coronavirus, this facility because it's not open yet is effectively the bottleneck. this system is the bottleneck, and so until they can find that child welfare space for children, you will see more of the same along the southwest border which is why it is so urgent that the biden administration is acting, that they brought in fema and that frankly, garrett will ask those questions of republicans to see if this isn't more than political theater. >> exactly right. jacob soboroff, thank you very much. joining me now deputy director of the immigrants rights project at the aclu. what are you seeing and hearing from children and their families and also, is this the right move to bring fema in which arguably is more experienced at sheltering people, families, children than arresting them as the border security people are? >> yeah. so i think it is the right move to start using fema, at least as a temporary solution. there is a humanitarian crisis, as jacob said and it is not a crisis of resources. the federal government has enough resources to deal with these children. you know, as a starting point, we can't go back to the trump administration's policy of sending children back, young children back to danger. it's illegal. it's inhumane, and i think it would leave yet another historic stain on this country, so the question is a practical one. how do we create shelters quickly? the trump administration dismantled everything and the biden administration is working quickly and these children don't need long-term shelter. they have relatives and parents in the u.s. we're just looking for temporary shelter so that they can then go to their parents and relatives. i think we can do that. i hope that the country won't make this a political issue. these are young children, and i think we also need to remember, as you've covered so well, andrea, over the years. the trump administration separated families and those children are still not reunited with their parents. i'd like to see attention from the people complaining about the board or that and what are we going to do to get little children back together with their parents. >> we can't mrit size children. these are young children desperate to come to get out of danger and we just need to deal with it because we legally need to deal with it and as a humane policy we can't go back to what the trump administration did. >> on your last point, approximately how many children are still separated? is it in the 600 range of children still separated from their parents? >> yes. so that's a good question. there are two numbers that are getting conflated and 599 numbers and those are parents that we still haven't located after a couple of years because the trump administration didn't disclose their names or data until very, very late, but we believe many, many more families remain separated. those are families that we have found, found a year or two ago that the trump administration would not allow them to reunite. we believe that there are more than a thousand families ultimately. those we haven't found and those we have found who remain separated and we are looking for the biden administration to take very quick action. we are going into settlement talks in court now, but you know, at some point the biden administration needs to take concrete, quick action to get these children and families back together. >> to the issue and surge of unaccompanied children is this because of the anticipation of the relaxation of the rules and because children are no longer being held on the mexican side? what do you think the impetus is or more violence down in the triangle so they can reinstate some of the programs that the trump state department killed. >> i think it's a combination of those things. what migration experts will tell you is that rarely is it the change in u.s. policy because people do not want to get up and leave their country. a 14-year-old boy does not want to travel all by himself all of the way to the united states and leave his home and it's mault ultimately danger and the trump administration didn't deal with root causes and there's a lot of misinformation from coyotes. ultimately, this will be a cyclical increase in the number of minors coming. we will deal with it and then we'll have to build a process back up that the trump administration dismantled, but things will always be dictated by conditions on the ground in central america. if there's too much danger people will come and when i talk to families who had their children taken away and i asked them would you have come anyway and they throw up their hands and say i couldn't stayle, but they'll come if the choice is stay or have their child killed. >> one of the big changes is that roberta jacobs is back, the veteran state department official who helped institute those aid programs in the triangle and they were all canceled during the trump state department years. thank you so much for everything you're doing. >> thank you. coming up, a crisis of confidence. presidented bien and house speaker nancy pelosi weighing in on whether new york governor andrew cuomo should step aside, but are there any signs he's ready to give up? 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moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo we are following breaking news from the justice department where federal authorities have now arrested and charged two men and accused them of assaulting u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick with some type of bear spray. joining me is national security and justice correspondent ken delaney on the details that came on the fatal day of january 6th. what do we know? >> federal authorities have arrested two men, julian cater, 32, of pennsylvania and george thanios of west virginia, and they were arrested yesterday and are expected to make initial appearances in court today. they were identified by tipster who saw their photos in a fbi flyer and the fbi later pieced together evidence that put them at the location of the capitol including surveillance footage and officer body camera footage and in some of that footage, andry a cater is shown saying give me that bear blank referring to bear spray and nine minutes later according to the documents he sprays this chemical irritant into the face of officer brian sicknick and two other officers and this was really powerful spray, andrea. some of the officers say it was the most powerful that they had ever felt. one female officer suffered facial injuries that were sustained for weeks afterwards. brian sicknick collapsed and later died. importantly, authorities have not yet ruled on the cause of death. they're not saying that this bear spray causes a death and they say it was a homicide and they've charged these men with assaulting sicknick and charged them with nine other counts, andrea and facing up to 20 years in prison and this is a reminder that 140 capitol police officers were injured in that assault including serious injuries and brian sicknick obviously collapsed and died and these two men are now charged with assaulting him, andrea, and they face a courtroom today. >> thanks for that update, ken delaney. meanwhile, republican state legislators are mounting what critics are counting the largest rollback since the jim crow era. with 250 voting laws to limit mail-in voting and sunday voting and election day voting and on "meet the press" stacy abrams called for congress to step in and overturn the state laws. >> they're nothing, but a pretext for returning to jim crow and stopping voters that they don't want to hear from and my belief is that voters across this country when they see that their right to vote are being thwarted are doing what they can to push back. that's why we have a elected to congress and that's why there is a constitution and they should be held to account for defending our democracy. >> joining me now is former congresswoman donna edwards. what are they doing? they have hr-1 and they have to do something to fight these voter restrictions and what's at play here? what about get anything kind of republican support? >> well, i think, as you can see, because the voting rights are being attempts to roll back voting rights all across the states and a lot of them by republican-controlled legislatures that i think it's incumbent on democrats and not just, you know, they passed the for the people act out of house of representatives and it now sits in the senate. it is really clear that it's not going to get through unless there is a rollback of the filibuster, and really supporting voting rights and the access to our democracy should be a really strong argument for using, for removing the filibuster in order to get these measures through and to standardize across the country, you know, rolling back these restrictive voting measures designed to suppress minority voters and voters who haven't always had access to the ballot, and i think democrats have to, you know, stand up and use this as an important moment to return access, give access to the ballot for voters and republicans have become the party of i don't want anyone to vote instead of a party of ideas and that just has to be stopped and i think democrats have an opportunity to do that with the for the people act and they better get on it because these legislatures are acting right now and they're not holding back. >> well, the republican strategy seems to be pretty lockstep right now, but first, david jolly, i want to get both of your reactions to senator ron johnson's controversial remarks claiming that the insurrectionists on january 6th were not violent, but the black lives matter protesters and antifa are. this was local radio or podcast. >> those were people that love this you country and truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, and so i wasn't concerned. now had the tables been turned, joe, this could get me in trouble, had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters i might have been a little concerned. >> so david jolly, how are you describing this? how can you interpret this as being anything other than racist if he's saying that the insurrectionist, the thousands of people who stormed the capitol with weapons and using other things, bear spray, fire extinguishers, flag poles to beat police were not violent and black lives matter protesters last summer were violent. >> he says if they're white republicans he's fine with it and he has a fear of people of color engaging in protests and i won't say similar protests because the use of violence used on january 6th far outweighed protests of last summer. let's call it what it is. it was a despicable statement from ron johnson not befitting of someone with the public trust. he should be condemned by republican colleagues and they should call out his language as being racist and the voters in wisconsin should send a swift verdict to ron johnson if he appears on the ballot again and here's the most critical thing. when ron johnson acknowledged by a radio host, this might get me in trouble. it wasn't followed by a joke, a racist joke. it was followed by his actual beliefs and he shared what he believed about an issue of race and let's accept that as his belief and let's cast a verdict when he's on the ballot the next time. >> and he is, of course, until just this january, the chair -- the chairman of the homeland security committee. donna, i haven't heard any republican speaking out against it. >> you haven't. here's what we've seen, andrea, over the last four or five years is that the racism that i know has always existed among some members of congress is actually on full display. it's not hidden anymore, and i think that's what you saw in ron johnson's remarks and the reality is that we heard from ken delaney. 140 police officers, law enforcement were not loved by those insurrectionists. they were injured and killed by them and so for ron johnson to make these claims and not only are they racist, but they completely defy what happened on january 6th, and you know, republicans can decide. they want to stand by, you know, the racism displayed by ron johnson and other members of congress or you know, they want to come out and speak out and reclaim their party as the party of lincoln? unfortunately, i think it's the former. >> donna edwards, david jolly, thanks to both of you. shot of hope. vaccinations across the country reaching an all-time high and are they getting to the people and the communities that really need them most? stay with us for answers for that. you are watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. a mitchell reports only on msnbc. ugh, there's that cute guy from 12c. -go talk to him. -yeah, no. plus it's not even like he'd be into me or whatever. ♪♪ ♪ this could be ♪ hi. you just moved in, right? i would love to tell you about all the great savings you can get for bundling your renter's and car insurance with progressive. -oh, i was 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you can tell and your community about the racial inequities because of lack of access, because of some resistance, understandable resistance in some communities and also just the way the vaccine is being distributed and perhaps the way wealthier people with greater access to the internet are piling on and taking those spots? >> thank you so much for having me. the first thing i'll say is that we've seen the inequities of this pandemic front and center in the community we serve since the beginning i just remember walking around my hospital and couldn't help, but notice when i was supporting the front line heroes here that almost every american in the hospital room and the mid-april surge last year was a person of color, and everything from testing access to the ability to receive care in a timely way to now vaccination access is worse for people of color throughout this country. we are proceeding with vaccinations here in a big way. we serve a majority minority community. we for day five of administering all three including johnson & johnson and it's going well, but we also have to keep in mind that access to the vaccination centers themselves is a really important concept that we have across this country. it's not enough to put a vaccination center in a minority community and you have to make sure it's accessible and are able to schedule an appointment if you're a person of color knowing that there are barriers to doing that from the technical standpoint and the digital divide. we are seeing that front and center and we know it's an issue and doing everything we can to improve access in our community. >> it is also a partisan divide, not surprisingly, unfortunately to who is willing to get vaccinated with polls showing that republicans are more reluctant than democrats. the question is whether donald trump should be telling voters to get the vaccine. >> i hope he does because the numbers that you gave are so disturbing how such a large proportion of a group of people would not want to get vaccinated mainly because of political consideration. it makes absolutely no sense. >> this is more of a problem in some red states and perhaps not in newark, new jersey, but it's really an unfortunate outcome of the way this issue became so divisive in the last year. i think it speaks to the fact that everybody getting vaccinated should be a priority for every american. it's not just saying hey, my community will be vaccinated or i just need to get the vaccine for myself and my family. it depends on the person of color getting the vaccine, a migrant worker who is getting a vaccine and supports donald trump. it doesn't matter who you are and it's in our interest to get vaccinated and every persuasion politically should be talking about this. we've been doing so mere in newark and have taken best practices from across this country to improve vaccine hesitancy and we improved to from 40% and by going, and answering their questions from everything from conspiracy theories to legitimate questions about side effects and all of that needs to be done in every community, including red states. >> are you finding any resistance to the johnson & johnson vaccine as initially at least it was from the mayor of detroit that it's kind of a second-class vaccine, not as efficacious even though it's a misinterpretation of the data and that it's, you know, sort of being -- excuse the expression, ghetto-ized that people are not getting access to moderna or pfizer. >> it comes from generations of systemic racism against communities of color and folks are right to question whether they're getting what's adequate to protect them, but what i'll say is that just isn't true. the johnson & johnson vaccine is 100% effective at preventing hospitalization and death just as much as moderna and pfizer vaccines are. we say the most important goal of vaccination is to prevent those two negative outcomes and so it's a single shot which is more convenient and it gets 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>> well, this afternoon he is defending himself telling our affiliate wnbc that he was want trying to gauge loyalty when he made these calls. instead, he characterizes it as taking the temperature of the democratic county execs throughout the state of new york to see what their reaction is to the attorney general's investigation and to see if they were willing to wait that out. he says he did not try to tie vaccine distribution with these calls. that's what's so upset that one county executive who filed the ethics complaint because he said he got a call from another official about vaccine distribution and then got the call from schwartz about politics and he got very worried. andrea? >> and lisa, there's a new sienna poll out today saying 50% of the voters say that governor cuomo should not resign compared to 35% who say he should. that's one poll that is in his favor and almost all congress members are calling for him to step down. what do you make of the politics so far? >> there is a real split between where officials in the democratic party are and where voters are. the striking number in the poll you put up is that only 25% of democrats think he should resign and there is a strong base of support among liberals and older voters in new york and new york city so that's the reason why i think governor cuomo himself doesn't feel much pressure to resign. he feels he can ride out this storm because he still has the support of the voters, but for the democratic party, this puts the party in a difficult spot. the party, of course, has taken this no-tolerance stand towards sexual misconduct and it's really hard for them to say based on how they campaigned during the trump administration that they should wait for the investigation even though that is the position president biden is taking. i suspect we will see more pressure on the president and the white house to get more involved in this and i think we will see the governor remain fairly dug in unless we start to see the numbers among voters start to change. >> and is he seeking advice from anyone, lisa, do you know? he seems to be taking a page from virginia governor northam and it is a far more serious accusation and there was no visible proof about it and it turns out he claims that it was not even he in that awful picture. the yearbook picture. so who is giving him advice, if anyone, about what to do, lisa? >> i think he's pretty dug in with his inner circle there in new york. really, there's very few people who could really -- in the democratic, who could force governor cuomo to resign. the only person who has that level of clout in the party and the relationship with governor cuomo is president biden and he feels no need to weigh in here in part because there is this investigation that we will be digging into. it's one of several investigations, i should say, by state and federal officials into his conduct and not only the behavior of his office and charges of sexual misconduct and his potential concealing of nursing home deaths and other issues. he's being investigated on multiple fronts and this is a really fluid situation. we'll have to see what else comes out as the days and weeks progress, but right now it really seems like president biden is the only one in the party who could give cuomo that kind of a push. >> and briefly, what about the seventh accuser. what do we know about that? >> her name is jessica bakeman, andrea. she is a journalist and covered the governor here in albany in 2014 and in a very powerful first-person account in "new york" magazine she describes how the governor touched her, physically touched her while she covered him and she writes this, she says he uses touching and sexual innuendo to stoke fear in us and that's the textbook definition of sexual harassment. andrea? andrea? >> thanks to both of you. give me a break. despite pleas to stay home, vacationers flooding florida's beaches for spring break 2021. will it be a big setback in the fight against covid? i'm pleading with you for the sake of our nation's health, these should be warning signs for all of us. so you only pay for what you need. thank you! hey, hey, no, no limu, no limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. 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