hill he s facing a grilling from republican about the origins of covid-19. also today for the first time in history, the son of the sitting president of the united states is on trial. jury hey, selection now underway in hunter biden s federal gun case and history is being made. mexico elected its first female president claudia sheinbaum. we ll have a live report. hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening. now up, i m capitol hill republican lawmakers are turning up the heat on the man who led the us government s response to the covid pandemic dr. anthony fauci faces more questions on that response and the origins of the virus that killed nearly 1.2 million americans. dr. fauci will also face questions about email exchanges involving one of his top advisers a subpoena from the republican-led committee turned up emails were dr. david borons appears appears to be trying to avoid public record laws cnn s lauren foxes up on capitol hill for us,
too big, too small or just the right size? i ll talk to two of the world s foremost economists, larry summers and paul krugman. then, what is the quad? president biden met with the leader of japan, india and australia, a new block focused on deterring china. will it work? i ll talk to an expert. and the biotech revolution brought us to the covid 19 vaccines more swiftly than anyone imagined possible. it is given us the ability to edit genes to cure diseases and the innovations on the horizon are even more extraordinary. i will ask walter isaacson to describe what is next. but first, here is my take. within hours of being inaugurated, president biden began to roll back donald trump s most egregious immigration policies including the so-called muslim ban which biden called a stain on our national conscience. he signed six actions geared toward a more humane and generous policy and outlined a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform including a path to citizenship for mor
there s a press conference planned by the floyd family a few hours from now. more on all of that straight ahead this hour. it s a big day for white house. roughly 15 minutes from now the white house covid-19 response team will be holding its briefing. a few hours after that, president biden and democratic congressional leaders will talk about the american rescue plan. big news for all of us. president biden just late out a new vaccination time line. you may want to turn up the volume. you do not want to forget these days. may 1st, that s when president biden says he will direct all states to make every adult eligible for a vaccine by that day. it doesn t mean doses will be available by then. the white house hopes for that to happen by the end of may. let s not forget, it s going to take time for people to actually get that shot or get those shots. if all goes according to plan, we could have a sense of normalcy by july 4th, according to president biden. the president hopes
have been allowed to cross. healthy average american neanderthal want to live in an open state. they let people go across the border. wins las vegas. great job. ainsley: good morning to you. it is 6:01 here on the east coast. thanks for waking up with us. brian is back. he was down there in florida. brian: i was with you on friday. like you never missed me. ainsley: you went to interview desantis that was shot so beautifully. his wife is so cute. they have all their kids in the governor s mansion with him. you will see the whole interview. brian: a couple of parts spending the day in florida where you can walk around. people are happy. they wear masks inside when they are supposed to. they can walk outside alone without one. it is interesting. steve: that will come up in half an hour. ainsley: steve and brian spent a lot of time in florida. i will come with you all. steve: florida is where the action is. it is 22 degrees in new york city. we re going up to 60 tomorr
about dr. faltys oversight of questions about the origin of the virus. dr. grouchy really coming in and wanting to address four topics off the top, which really had to do with that as well as people bill on his staff who ve come into attention for potentially behavior that was not seen as the right way to be transparent about the early days of the pandemic and grants to a certain group ecohealth alliance. but well, folks, i ve talked with on both sides of the aisle and the public health community not expecting a ton of scientific revelations coming out of this hearing today, more sort of political focused on max down, but i want to quickly listen and to at least part of this hearing that s ongoing right now, let s listen with a copy of the christian andersen, but you sent it to professor jeremy for our jeremy, i just got off the phone with christian andersen and he related to me his concern about the purine site mutation in this spike protein of the currently circulating 2019 and cov i