opened up in an emotional interview on msnbc this morning about a settlement with the city. the money means absolutely nothing. it doesn t help me get over the fact of what happened. breonna doesn t benefit from that. it does nothing for us. just today the louisville fbi said they made significant process in the investigation and their team is actively investigating all aspects of her death. let s go to my colleague msnbc s antonia hylton. a big welcome to you. sounds like they re getting ready there. what s going on? hi, alex, that s right, it is a somber and also at times angry mood here. people very been streaming in, getting ready to pay respects to breonna taylor s family and honor her memory. her mother, tamika palmer, actually just arrived here a few moments ago. we re hearing from people who plan to speak, recite potentials and ultimately march around. you will hear calls for accountability and transparency. her mother is calling on the attorney general here i
kind, mental relief. not everyone is able to breathe easier as questions over whether americans who needed help, the most will get it. we ll already know that black americans are not getting the vaccine in a way that s proportionate. coming up, we ll talk to a doctor who says it s not just fear widening that gap but lack of communities having access that they never had it to begin with. i also get into a gap in priorities in washington because even with his response getting high marks from the american people is already clear that just as when biden was last in the white house, republicans will have no qualms about extending american suffering if it means shortening a democrat s reach. double that if he s black or at least black adjacent. but this time they have two obsessions, biden and our former president, who is in no legal position to lead them to electoral redemption right now and may not ever be. as the tentacles of various civil and criminal investigations tighten aro
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
u.s. history. we are also live in texas now officially 100% open, during this covid crisis the state s mask mandate gone. the move being celebrated by some, slammed by others. and in minneapolis day two of jury selection in derek chauvin s murder trial now getting started. what we know about the three jurors already seated and what it might mean for the trial s outcome. i m hallie jackson in washington with you this morning, and we are live from both ends of pennsylvania avenue with nbc s leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill and carol lee at the white house. we ve been talking about this bill for months, it is set to pass within a matter of hours but may be a few hours longer. at this point we had expected debate to have begin, that is not the case at least as of 10:01 eastern time this morning. that s right, hallie. house speaker nancy pelosi and democratic leadership are so convinced that this bill is going to pass that they held a press conference yesterday touting the
moment. we re going to begin this hour with the search for the pipe bomb suspect. pete williams joins us now. this released in the last few minutes. how does this advance our understanding of what the fbi is looking for? what the fbi is hoping is that somebody will see this video and think they recognize some characteristic of the person in the video. they have not said whether this is a man or a woman but there are several scenes here. this is walking down an alley between the republican national committee and the capitol hill club. the republican club near the house side. then you ll see separate video that i guess, that s on a loop there. the person walking back and forth. the second video and the longest one is the one you started out with. the person on the sidewalk. walking along in a residential neighborhood. this is south capitol street, as the name implies, the street to the south of the u.s. capitol building. the person enters the frame here and then after a time,