serve as a u.s. cabinet secretary. speaking to the president of the navajo nation about the great hope and turmoil for america s indigenous people. welcome to tuesday. it is mpt daily, and i m chuck todd. in a lengthy statement, the new dhs secretary said as a nation we re on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in 20 years. think about that. that s quite a statement. he noted border patrol facilities have become crowded with children and hhs does not have the capacity to intake the number of accompanied children they ve been encountering and that number of migrant children continues to go up. nbc news learned as of sunday border patrol had 4,300 unaccompanied children in its custody. it s a record number. last week was a record number. this is a 30% spike, by the way, in just a week. nearly 3,000 of the migrant children were being held beyond the current three-day limit. nbc news is also reporting from the associated press that fema pla
border. a crisis at the border starting to take shape. a surge of migrants crossing. fema stepping in to help with the more than 3,200 migrant children being housed in customs and border facilities as of last week. that figure is a new record. republicans are seizing on it. in a matter of hours, kevin mckathy and other congressional republicans will be at the border in texas. they are calling it a crisis. democrats are calling it a challenge that they inherited from the previous administration. that s where we start. garrett haake in el paso, texas, where a group of house republicans, including minority leader mccarthy, making the border visit. i want to bring in the former white house deputy chief of staff for operations under president obama. jacob is with us in california. we know that part of fema s role we don t have jacob yet. garrett is in el paso. congressional republicans making a visit to the border in a matter of hours. this visit coming as congress preparing to
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 business
address. and in that speech, the president cast a vision of a post-pandemic summer. i set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. i said i intended to get 100 million shots in people s arms in my first 100 days in office. tonight i can say not only are we going to meet that goal, we re going to beat that goal because we re actually on track to reach this goal 1060 million shots in arms. tonight i will direct allstate®s, prescribes and territories to maybe all adults eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. if this pandemic is nearing its end, what is next on the administration s agenda. unity and bipartisanship were driving forces of his campaign. no republican in the house or the senate voted for the covid relief bill. that did not stop the bill because democrats used the budget reconciliation process to pass it, as long as they kept every single democrat in the senate onboard, they could pass a more sweeping, more progressive bill. but that tac
something about it. super spreader affairs as spring breakers are flocking to the beaches in florida despite warnings to stay away. and the shocking attack on police officers trying to enforce pandemic. covid relief. some receiving checks totaling thousands of dollars. to have a little bit of weight lifted off our shoulders. to not have to worry as much as maybe what the next months will hold. i have some bills that are behind, obviously. so those are all already caught up. i got all of those caught up this morning. a lot of people needing that morning. good morning, it s sunday, march 14th. i m lindsey reiser. i m kendis gibson. we have a team of correspondents and analysts standing by with the latest for you on the stories we re covering. we begin with cathy park in new york with more on that new york times report surrounding governor cuomo. good morning. more than two dozen people were interviewed for the piece. who are they? what are some of the bombshells