Good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Welcome, everyone, to weekends with alex witt. Developing this hour, President Bidens 1. 9 trillion plan is one step closer to becoming a reality. In a new excerpt from cbs news, the president giving a new insight into where key provisions like Minimum Wage Hike Stand as lawmakers work to get the bill to his desk. Its somewhere between an individual making up to 75 and phasing out and a couple making up to 150 and phasing out. But im wide open on what that is. You also want to raise the minimum wage to 15. Is that something you would be willing to negotiate on to get republican support . Apparently thats not going to occur because of the roles in the senate. Youre saying it will not be in it . My guess is it will not be in it. Today marks one month since the attack on the u. S. Capitol left five people dead. The Impeachment Trial will start just days from now. Trumps defense team confirming he will not testify under oath. Congressman
dismantling every system in place to address this with humanity and compassion. and new warnings from health officials as more states look to ease covid restrictions. this morning, dr. anthony fauci is saying, not so fast. even though the decline was steep, we absolutely need to avoid the urge to say, oh, everything is going great, which it is going in the right direction, but once you declare victory, that metaphor that people say, if you re going for a touchdown, don t spike the ball on the five-yard lane, wait until you get into the end zone. it all comes as u.s. vaccine efforts are picking up steam. yesterday the weekly average was brought to 2.5 million vaccines per day. joining me right now is white house principal deputy press secretary, karine jean-pierre, which is the most beautiful name in the world, we ll take it from there. the president is hitting the road to promote the details of the american rescue plan. does he feel he need to sell this more than he d
not really about the virus. 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. it has amazing things in it. if everybody is vaccinated by june, then it s clearly not related to covid. there is $350 billion for state and local government. california is getting $41 billion. that $41 billion is not related to covid, it s related to kind of helping a blue state. meanwhile, a humanitarian crisis is growing at the u.s./mexico border. fema ordered to help shelter and transfer a record number of child migrants. the biden administration addressing this situation last hour right here on my show. when you look at the past four years, just the rule inhumane way that the last administration moved forward with immigration, it did not enhance our security at all. and so now we re in a situation where, you know, this president and the administrati
a very good day to all of you and here s what s happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern. president biden and vice president harris are getting ready to travel beyond the beltway after their first legislative victory. and the goal is to explain and sell the american rescue plan to people across this country. they re going to criss cross dhis country and talk about the plan and how we re going to implement the plan. talk about the funding in the plan, the resources in the plan that s going to move forward, even further with getting people vaccinated. getting the mobile units out there, making sure shots are getting into the arms and vaxinators. fema will help transfer the record surge of unaccompanied children. and they re pointing fingers. and the open policies inviting more immigration and this humanitarian crisis. this is not something that happened as a result of joe biden becoming president. we saw the increases dating back almost a year and this is during the trump adminis
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