letting us dive into your hour, and thanks to all of you for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times, i ll see you tomorrow for deadline white house. rachel we turn it over to you. got bless you, nicole. it has been a remarkable hour on msnbc. i m so grateful for my colleagues and for colleagues in particular like nicole who can handle the emotional weight of what she just did there. that was just what a service. tomorrow night here is going to be a very big deal as well, which nicole alluded to at the end of her hour there. as you know, president biden is going to be giving his first prime time address to the nation on the issue of covid on the one-year anniversary of the declaration of the worldwide pandemic. we re going to have chris hayes at the lincoln memorial tomorrow coming out of that speech doing a special hour of his own. looking back at what we ve been through the past year but also looking ahead towards us being back together again
members of congress and child tax credits. and call it a presidential booster shot. all four living presidents, except for drunk, just out with a new psa encouraging vaccinations. this vaccine means hope. i am getting vaccinates because we want this pandemic to end as soon as possible. we are all doing our part. this is our shot. our reporters are spread out for our special coverage of covid one year later. i am hallie jackson. monica alba is outside the white house. gabe gutierrez is in new york and dr. john torres. we have many reporters we want to get to for our special coverage. monica, let me start with you and what we expect to hear from president biden tonight, a day before he signs the coronavirus bill into law. reporter: the president is going to acknowledge everything that this country has been through over the last year, while also trying to talk about and hint at the hope that on the horizon, more vaccine become available, we will talk about his americ
you know, donald trump is 74 years old and my theory is he is going to be a defendant for the rest of his life. there are civil lawsuits out there now. there will be appeals, and there is eric swalwell, and that lawsuit is available to hundreds of members of congress who could each individually file one of those lawsuits against donald trump. there could be no end. the when benny thompson filed the first civil lawsuit against trump, and eric swalwell filed a different one what i thought was going to happen, is benny thompson would go first, and other members of the congress would decide they wanted to join in. i didn t realize, if anyone had slightly different approaches to the same problem, it could be a parade that lasts until the end of his life. i spend the day studying eric swalwell s lawsuit. we are going to be juned by the harvard constitutional law. fp he tells us this is a real lawsuit and it won t be dismissed. it will get to a jury. it will get to a washingto
despite republican efforts to slow down the final vote with a flurry of last-minute objections on the house floor. the bill would create a massive surge of new funding that will send $1,400 checks to tens of millions of americans, provide billions in aid for schools, small businesses, state governments, and the vaccine distribution effort and slash health care premiums for many obamacare recipients. joining me now is nbc s garrett haake on dpl xl. nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander. former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards. and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it s not terribly surprisin
at the border. the number of unaccompanied minors taken into custody has tripled to more than 3,200 in just the past two weeks. former customs and border patrol commissioner mark morgan is sounding the alarm. trust me, if we had over 1,000 apprehensions in a single day it was a bad day. we re looking at now getting close to 5,000 apprehensions a day and they still refuse to say it s a crisis. the mandate has been to release them and process them and release them as fast as possible. on the back end prevent ice from deporting them. reception centers on the front end, sanctuary country on the back end. that s where we re at right now. harris: from a crisis to what you might call a national emergency. republican congressman andy biggs is here to talk about it. he led a delegation to the southern border and he will join me in just a few minutes. let s begin, though, with white house correspondent peter doocy. peter. good morning. it has been a week since president biden sai