and the $15 minimum wage that the house voted to include in the covid relief bill. but even with democrats in control, the possibility of any of this becoming law is nowhere near guaranteed. and without a change to the filibuster, much of this progressive to-do list will die. joining me now is senate majority leader chuck schumer of the great state of new york. leader schumer, thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. good to be with you, jonathan. the old days back in gotham. so, listen, you were able to get the senate to pass the covid relief package, and as a result it became law. how do you hold your razor-thin majority? how did you hold it in order for all of these progressive to-do list items to get through passage? well, first, it s such a major piece of legislation. it s the most significant change for middle-class people, for poor people, people trying to get into the middle class in decades in a very long time. and it has amazing things in it. the c
there in the white house where the border situation is boiling. a bipartisan compare of lawmakers, senator cornyn and congressman henry cuellar toured a detention facilities. the dhs denied their request to have cameras. we did hear a lot about the border from the president just moments ago. also today a victim of cancel culture? new york governor andrew cuomo says he s not going anywhere after an avalanche of calls for his resignation and a brand new explosive allegation. you have aoc calling for him to step down. how judiciary chairman jerry nadler and other new york democrats in congress all saying step down. people know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth. let the review proceed. i m not going to resign. martha: so a republican congresswoman said that his day us are finished. attorney leo terrell joins us in minutes. first, bryan llenas who is covering this story live in new york. lots of breaking news on the cuomo story tod
president biden, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, taking a victory lap after the nearly $2 trillion pandemic relief package officially became law. what you shepherded through the congress, not only meets the moment. it does even more. it is historical and they call it transformational. and it really is. all right. so in just a moment, we ll be speaking with andy, the white house senior adviser for covid response to talk about where things stand, what comes next, of course. the other major breaking news story that is developing this hour. we will be hearing from the family of george floyd, reacting to the minneapolis city council s approval of a $27 million settlement over his death as the client for floyd s murder continues. we want to begin this hour and this conversation with minnesota democratic senator tina smith. thank you. so for your time. we greatly appreciate you joining us on these two very important stories that we re dealing with. we ll start with what we just saw
the surge and are encouraging smugglers to be bolder than ever. we ve seen surges before. surges the end to respond to hope and there was a significant hope for a more humane policy after four years of pent up demand. so i don t know whether i would call that a coincidence but i certainly think that the idea that a more humane policy would be in place may have driven people to make that decision. harris: well, here is how many are coming. more than 100,000 migrants were encountered at the border in february. that s a 97% jump from the same month of last year. nearly 30,000 unaccompanied children were encountered. some 3,000 of them 12 years old or younger. arrests and deportations plunged as president biden tightened the rules how ice agents can operate. there were more than 2300 arrests in february. that s down 66% from the average number over october, november, on december. and only about half the number of deportations if in february compared to the month before. fewer
sandra: kristin fisher has more. president biden will be delivering his first prime time address hours after signing his biggest first legislative accomplishment in to law. this american rescue plan 1.9 trillion. now, remember, this was supposed to be a bipartisan package. in the end, it had zero republican support. now the white house is proudly calling this the most progressive bill in american history. that is not sitting well with republican senator john kennedy. listen here from this morning. we tried with president biden. he said look, i ll meet you halfway. we said okay. well then he just ignored us. if he was meeting us halfway, he s a damn poor judge of distance. in terms of what to expect tonight, the white house says the president will mark the one-year anniversary of the country shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. he will be talking about the sacrifices that the american people have made over the last year and what they have to look forward to