office. and in the midst of all of this, president biden will meet with stacey abrams, the woman widely credited helping flip the state of georgia and hand democrats control of the house. it comes at a critical time for voting rights in the peach state. sweeping new voting restrictions could be voted on as soon as monday. more on all of that coming up but first i want to bring in my colleague kelly o donnell at the white house and blayne alexander in atlanta. kelly, this trip has taken a whole different meeting since the shooting. what is the focus going to be? there are definitely dimensions to this day. it s the first time the president and vice president are traveling together. given the tragedy that unfolded in atlanta and wider reaction, especially in the u.s. asian american community, the white house decided to add a component to speak to those issues and the president and vice president will have a private leader with the leaders of the asian community and be makin
the courthouse. three big decisions just came down from the judge, what are they and how do they affect the trial? these are major decisions. the judge in this trial ruled that he was going to deny a motion from chauvin s attorney to delay the trial. the defense complained about the pretrial publicity and asked the judge to for this relief bill. they say it will just not be able to be avoided. and two he says he doesn t believe anywhere in the state of minnesota that the tension of this has not reached. the impact has been too wide spread. this involves an arrest, a prior arrest of george floyd. a year before he died. that involves evidence to be admitted in that. the judge did partially rule with the defense to admit some evidence and some democrat. he says the fact pattern where he is approached in a similar matter, accused of ingesting drugs. he says some of that is. that is the day he died and that is what is leading up to the trooifl they are trying to get to get it de
and that should make it easier for schools to meet the requirements. president biden will leave for atlanta, georgia. the president will be visiting the cdc just after this new guidance came out. there s a live look at joint base andrews. they say that they are about to hit the vaccination goal of 100 million doses a day. they will do it today, i should say, the original plan was for the president and vice president to promote that package. but the shooting changed those plans. now the first joint trip will also include a meeting with asian american community leaders in georgia. the top concern, rising anti-asian rhetoric and violence this past year. a hearing on discrimination got heated on the hill, got personal as well. we will talk to georgia congressman hank johnson who sits on that committee. what he wants to hear from the president and vice president today in atlanta. we start with that breaking news from the centers for disease control, the cdc now saying, three
congresswoman told my colleague stephanie ruhle what happened in atlanta is a day that we saw coming. two senior administration officials are telling nbc news president biden and vice president harris will be meeting with asian american community leaders when they visit atlanta, georgia, tomorrow. in washington, the house just did something we don t see very often when it comes to major legislation. it passed a bill with pretty broad bipartisan support. we are talking about the violence against women act that expired two years ago. one of the bill s most vocal supporters, congresswoman debby dingell will share her experience with domestic violence right before that vote and she s going to join me ahead to talk about it. we got a big headline from the biden administration. according to a senior administration official, the president is set to meet his goal of 100 million shots in arms in his first 100 days and he is set do it as early as today. more than 40 days early. w
at our southwest border now. the homeland security department out with this dire warning. at this rate we could encounter more people there than we have in the last 20 years. we re going to dig into what s being done to deal with it including a total transformation of a major city s convention center. but we start on this tuesday with our reporters following the biden administration s push to sell that covid relief package. nbc s chief white house correspondent kristen welker is there at the white house, and priscilla thompson is in delaware county, where president biden will be visiting today. she is in chester, which is a suburb of philadelphia. kristen, let me start with you. help us understand why president biden is focusing on pennsylvania s small businesses today with promoting this covid relief deal. reporter: he s doing two things, craig. one, president biden trying to now sell and explain that sweeping $1.9 trillion covid relief package. so he s going to talk about