the president will visit a small local business that s benefited from the paycheck protection program loans as millions of americans eagerly await another round of direct payments to ease the financial burden of a year battling covid. joining me now to kick things off, my fellow chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host, peter alexander, who s live at the white house. associated press white house reporter, jonathan la mir, and erin haynes, editor at large at the 91. peter, i have to start with you and this messaging strategy that we are seeing from president biden. talk about it, what is the goal here and what can americans expect from this bill? because that s the big question on everyone s minds. yeah, first of all, kristen, you look nice at that desk here this morning. let s walk you through what s going on. we expect president biden to leave here shortly to head to that local business that s benefiting from ppp, that loan like so many other businesses ac
have much of a future, in donald trump s republican party. welcome to tuesday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. president biden approaches the halfway mark in his first 100 days in office. facing a prior of different crises that s going to test his presidency in different ways, facing tremendous pressure to keep the momentum going on what is clearly an improving covid outlook. to hold the positive trends that we re seeing. cases going down, deaths going down, hospitalizations down, and most importantly vaccinations up, up, up. but health officials continue to urge caution and there s already a bit of brewing confusion over the cdc s recent guidance, which okays a fully vaccinated americans to potentially see their families but discourages the kind of travel required for many to actually see their families, diving into that coming up. and there s biden s signature piece of covid legislation, $2 trillion in relief that he is expect today sign into law this week a
they could immediately send them back into mexico. if that happens, border processing facilities could over fill, they would have to release more migrants to shelters and if the shelters can t hold them all, they ll be released under the streets, as you already see, it s already happening. because of the surge early in the week, here in el paso, like these migrants behind me, many of them did sleep on the streets overnight. well, okay. let s turn to you here at the airport. tell us what you are seeing? what is happening to these people once they do get across the border? lindsey, those that are allowed to remain in the u.s. and continue their asylum seeking process will be turned over to shelters, the san diego area has eight different shelters, we ve been a communication with catholic charities, they have one of the larger ones, three different ones in the area. one of the larger ones that has been receiving a lot of these asylum seekers. last number they gave me yesterday, they g
they re going to do interesting there, too, guad. mike, you know thid. secretary mayorkas put in a pitch for comprehension new reforms. talk about the number of people that need to be processed through the immigration system. these are thousands of people. what s the plan? reporter: one of the most interesting things we heard from the secretary, for those who have not been evacuated. 17 evacuation flights back to haiti. he said the u.s. will continue to play a role helping that haitian government to deal with them. right. reporter: i believe it was 2,000 individuals of the 30,000 who have surged to the border now back in haiti. a number who voluntarily went back to mexico, but then the vast majority of these individuals are now being scattered throughout different border processing facilities. right. reporter: at the border. what the secretary made clear, most of them are in fact going to be turned away.
put a little love in your heart - david ruffin my bad, my bad. good race! -you too! you were tough out there. thank you, i m getting you next time though. oh i got you, i got you. hamblin goes down. d agostino helps hamblin back up. are you okay? -yeah. we have breaking news tonight on immigration at the southern border. nbc news has learned that i.c.e. is planning to transfer migrant families to their custody and out of border patrol facilities that are amazingly overcrowded. i.c.e. will give the families covid tests and court dates, ankle monitors will track the parents until a court determines whether they may stay in the u.s.