and as you point out, he seems to cross the legal line repeatedly in these phone calls. and it also fills in some of the pieces about who was involved in this campaign and what the pattern of corrupting events were. again, this may be a racketeering investigation in georgia based on actions and statements from the district attorney s office. but the white house chief of staff really did turn up bodily in person, surprise, at the audit in georgia when they were auditing the absentee ballots in cobb county. he showed up in person. then the next day he apparently told the president to call the investigator leading that audit while he told her what answer he wanted and how much she d be praised when she produced that correct answer, which was that he mysteriously won the election. i mean, that s just it s starting to read like an elmore leonard book. and you hear on the phone call something you d otherwise never hear in a phone call with the president of the united states.
americans. this more than, there s reason for hope. more than 95 million vaccine doses have been administered. more vaccines are being delivered. despite this, the message from our nation s top health experts remains the same. we can t let our guard down. we are covering this historic day from every corn are of the united states, because there s no place the virus hasn t touched. we start this hour with nbc kerry sanders in fort lauderdale beach, florida. dr. gupta is in seattle. godi, i will start with you. one story line is how much more deadly and vicious this virus has been for minority communities, especially. what s california doing to fight that part of it? reporter: it s the minority communities that are often the essential workers. some of the disparities we have seen here in los angeles have really spurned authorities to try to make sure that those underserved communities and the essential workers are getting vaccinated first. what we have seen in the past is a li
the country remains divided in terms of its willingness to stay the course on mask wearing and social distancing for the final month before the vaccine has been distributed. president biden is expected to preview what a return to normal will look like here. he ll also address the grief of a nation consumed for one whole year. the anniversary marks the day for many americans, the grim reality, from the washington post, quote for most people march 11th was when the crisis first became real. it was the day of a high-profile diagnosis, and official decidingation of pandemic. schools closed, streets emptied and commuters stayed home. we didn t know it then, but the virus had already infected thousands. over the next 12 months, leaders bungled opportunities to quell its spread. case levels rose, fell, rose again. hope endured and more than 525,000 people lost their lives. dr. anthony fauci, who has become a household name, first for his beleaguered attempts, acknowledged today
set to make an announcement at the white house. we re waiting for him to walk out and make a statement and talk about a new vaccine push. we re going to watch to see if he response to any questions from the room. he s answered very few and has not had a single formal press back and forth since he became. . this president is in a tough spot when it comes to the border policy. he had a few questions that were shouted at him yesterday. he remains silent. there s an intersection here over the question of what is going on with the massive border crossings and the lack of testing for covid that is happening. where they are testing, the people coming in, there s a 6% positivity rate in that area. that was shut down any school across the country. sheriff mark daniels from arizona covers 83 miles of the border says zero cdc guy lines are being followed where he is. and chad wolf is here. he says the administration is actively importing coronavirus cases into the country. we ll speak t
sweeping pieces of legislation in most recent history, set to impact american life on many, many levels. by now you probably heard about the $1,400 stimulus checks, which could start going out via direct deposit next week but the bill is also expected to add 7 million jobs to the economy. it s designed to cut child poverty in half, specifically helping black and hispanic families through the tax credits and family aid and it will fund nationwide vaccine distribution that should help bring an end to this covid pandemic. to underscore that, we just learned in the last hour, the biden administration will announce plans to buy 100 million additional vaccines from johnson & johnson. we should make it clear, that while there is a lot of hope and a lot of potential surrounding the new covid bill, we will not be sure how effective it s going to actually be until it s put into action. i want to bring in garrett haake on capitol hill. also with us, chief white house correspondent for n