What will they do there today . Reporter theyll show case the role of the president as providing comfort and assistance for people in times of crisis. President biden is going to visit the Emergency Operations center in houston that helped respond to that crisis last week when so many people lost power, lost water, suffered Property Damage and personal hardship. Jill biden is going to a food bank where President Biden will join her and then subsequent to that he will visit a mass vaccination site in texas. Of course the administration has been playing catchup this week after the storm interrupted the delivery of vaccines to in places around the country. They celebrated their 50th Vaccination during the Biden Administration this week. Theyre going at about 1. 4 million Vaccinations Aday sand as the president is waiting for the house this evening we expect to approve on a Party Line Vote that 1. 9 Trillion Covid relief bill that is the linchpin of his agenda and then go on to the senate. John, you have new reported on the omb nominee, neera tanden. She will meet with Lisa Murkowski, republican, could this rescue the nomination. Is there a quid pro quo going on here potentially . Dont know what will come out of the meeting. But it could rescue the nominee. With a 50 member senate, one defection 50 member democratic caucus, one defection could sink a nominee. Joe manchin announced that he was going to oppose neara tenden. That mean her nominee was sunk unless you could get one republican vote. Most ruled themselves out except for Lisa Murkowski of alaska who voted to convict President Trump on those impeachment charges some weeks ago. So shell meet with neera tanden on monday. It emerged that one of the mean tweets that she sent was about Lisa Murkowski. Nevertheless the fact that shes meeting with tanden suggests that she might have an open mind and look at an opportunity to say lets put this behind us. Dont know the outcome, but neera tanden still have a shot and monday is critical. Curious and curiousier. Thank you so much. The house is expected to pass the covid relief package today. Lets go to manu raju on the hill. Obviously theyre going to keep that 15 minimum wage in it but it is not going to get through. It is a big decision last night. Explain the importance of that and what it means now for people to get aid. Reporter the time line for getting aid will probably be early to midmarch. The push for the democrats is to get this done before that March 14th Deadline when jobless benefits for millions of americans expire. Today is a critical day to meet that deadline. The democrats advancing the 1. 9 trillion package out of the house. This bill would touch virtually all aspects of the u. S. Economy, provide money for vaccines, for schools, provide money to extend jobless benefits and states and local governments and the like. But what it does not have or will not have ultimately is that 15 minimum wage increase at the federal level. The house plan will include that tonight. But because of the ruling by the Senate Parliamentarian who sets and determines what fits in within the rules of the senate. The ruling that this does not cannot it would violate the rules of senate by including it in this proposal, that means that next week when the senate takes up this plan, the 15 minimum wage will be striped out. And ultimately what will pass the senate assuming the demo democrats could keep all members in line, is a bill without the 15 minimum wage and theyll have to move that separately and it is very unlikely that it will become law because it would require 60 votes to pass out of the senate and this current process requires 50 votes. Democrats could do it if they are all in line. Now, tonight is key because it is the first step as i mentioned. But could the democrats keep all members in line. The expectation is probably yes, they might lose a couple. Nancy pelosi could really only lose five members because we do expect republicans will vote in lockstep against this plan. Which they consider an overreach, too much money spent. But we expect it to pass and could the senate get it done and out of the house before march 14th. The goal is yes, for the house and senate democrats. Lets see if they could get it done. Manu, thank you very much. Now to the vaccine news. Theyre meeting right now to discuss Johnson Johnson dose. Emergency use authorization means that a rollout will be early next week. Adrian joins us from a mass vaccination site south of chicago. Andy is one thing, and supply is another. Im curious where you are, do they have enough supply to meet demand . Reporter they are expecting more supply and working hard here at tinley park. Especially on that news from President Biden commemorating a milestone. 50 million doses of the vaccine since he took office have been administered. That is half of his goal. Meanwhile lets take a look behind me here. Were inside of the Vaccination Park here at tinley park in cook county. Cook county encompasses chicago and some of the surrounding suburbs. Today alone they are expected to vaccinate 2,800 people. And we talked about President Bidens milestone, their part of that number. So far they have vaccinated 40,000 people here at tinley park alone. Lets look at some of the other numbers. For example, we told you this is in cook county and they are doing 5,000 shots aday but it has the capacity to do 60,000 a week if the vaccines are available. Meanwhile, here inside of the convention center, i want to show you what is going on. Behind me there are roughly 55 vaccination stations. But before people walk in this room to receive their vaccine, they are greeted outside by members of the National Guard. We know members of the National Guard have a variety of missions. Right now their mission is to protect the people here in their home town. Theyre collecting information and making sure that folks who come inside have appointments. Well have much more for you on this throughout the day. Back to you, jim and poppy. Such a great sight to see. 2,800 folks there today getting a vaccine. Thank you very much. Lets bring in sanjay gupta. Good morning. Huge day. Good morning. And there is no reason to believe the fda will not give the green light to j j, right. So if it does. W what will we see over the next few days . This is a process that weve seen before with moderna and pfizer. This Advisory Committee is reviewing all of the data that weve already seen. And it looks very promising. Which is why people are so optimistic. They will make their recommendation. The fda will then officially authorize this. They dont have to but they almost always follow the recommendations of this Advisory Committee. After that this goes to the cdc over the weekend, a commit for Immunization Practices will meet and they determine the who, the when and the how this vaccine will get rolled out and the cdc basically validates that recommendation and put it altogether, early next week you should see the existing doses of Johnson Johnson benefits roll out. Theyve been making the vaccine before they have authorization in anticipation of that. So the next three or four days will be very big days for Johnson Johnson and for all of us with regard to vaccines. So, sanjay, help us understand what is going on big picture here. Because you have the good news, this could be a third vaccine authorized and more supply out there and this number on our screen rising of the number of americans vaccinated and you have hospitalizations coming down and new infections coming down. But we just spoke with dr. Michael osterholm and he thinks were poised for another rise based on this uk variant and i wonder where you stand on that . And i talked to professor osterholm all of the time about this. This is i more these variants are more transmissible and contagious. If we have a certain amount of contagiousness right now, it will go up. Because what would have otherwise been an encounter that you could have gotten away with, you wont be able to get away with that because of the more transmissible variants out there. And the big question and the important one is will we see the lagging indicators like weve been talking about all year. So cases go up but does that mean that hospitalizations will also go up a few weeks later and that deaths will go up a few weeks after that. And if they do, will it be the same proportion that weve seen in the past. And what i would say with regard to that, after talking to lots of people, is that im optimistic that they wont go up as much if or as quickly as they did in the past because we have so much more immunity out there in the public. Everyone talks about Herd Immunity. That is very true. But i think what is important is if you look at who is getting immunized, 75 of people in longterm care facilities have now gotten immunized and gotten vaccinated. That is important because that population of people accounted for more than a third of the deaths in this country and now they are largely protected. Vulnerable people all living together in a longterm care facility, that is a problem. If they are largely protected now, that, i think, should reduce the likelihood of hospitalizations and deaths. So that is what im looking for. Cases may go up. And that is not a good thing. But if we could keep hospitalizations and deaths from going up, i think that is really important. That is helpful, thank you. And sanjay, there is a new model that shows that you have cases falling faster than expected. You spoke with the doctor heading that Modelling Team last night. What did you learn . Well, so it is dr. Murray. This is the ihme model that everyone has heard of from the university of washington. I think there is a couple of things. One is that again i think people have been thinking about Herd Immunity as sort of being the switch. You get to Herd Immunity and that is everything is going to be improving. But what we now see is that you could get significant improvements along the way. And that is really what i think dr. Murray was talking about. If you look at the fact that there has been, you know, somewhere between 20 to 30 of the country has likely developed Natural Immunity because theyve been exposed to the virus and then increasing vaccinations to the right population, you should see it decreasing numbers overall and in many places people are being more adherent to mask wearing and things like that. Look, i just have to say, as much as we talk about the vaccines and the vaccines are this is a this amazing scientific thing and if we wore masks in high density masks for four weeks people tell me that we could bring this pandemic to an end in four weeks which is kind of incredible. Wow so those things make a difference. Theyve always made a difference. We dont lean into the easy things because we wait for the big breakthrough. Yeah. Well, listen, part of the problem is a deliberate misinformation against masks so a significant portion of the country doesnt believe it works or it is an infringement. Were seeing Vaccine Hesitancy declining. Kaiser family foundation, 55 of adults say they have been vaccinated or want to. It is up from 47 , up from 34 in december. It is going in one direction. That is good, right . That is very good news. That is the basic problem. I mean you could create these vaccines but vaccines dont matter. Vaccinations matter. And if you look through history, as more people get vaccinated, hesitancy does tend to go down. I see the other guy doing it and im less likely to be resist about myself. I look at jealousy but im glad it is happening. Thank you very much. The u. S. Military has carried out air strikes at a site in syria linked to iranianbacked militias. Ahead how this could complicate negotiations over the Nuclear Program into and as lawmakers criticize the stimulus package, dozens of mayors across country support the bill and strongly. Well speak to two of them. 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Not at all, jim. Im very proud of the way that weve administered the covid relief that we received a year ago. There are a lot of people in mesa that received food and utility assistance. Our First Responders were funded. Our hospitals were coordinated with. We were able to get kids back into school, to help with our School Districts to have the Remote Learning devices that they need. So i would invite any scrutiny that partisans would like to apply to the way that weve administered the funds that weve received thus far. As is typical, cities and what were seeing is were the ones that are dealing with the consequences of covid and prim primarily tasked with mitigating and avoiding those consequences. So if partisans want to think it is a good idea to eliminate cities from the distributing the covid relief, that is a big problem. I would encourage them to take a second look and realize that were doing the heavy lifting and it is now is not the time to take cities out of the equation. Mayor holt, the republican argument at the National Level here is that you guys are making out just fine. Revenues went up in some cases so you dont need this money. Tell us what the truth is in your city. Sure. Look, i dont know a city where revenues have gone up. That is news to me and i think that is not true. Whether youre mayor is a republican or a democrat, revenues are down. They may not be uniform around the country but there is ways to compensate for that in the bill. In okc, our revenues are down and that was our police and fire causing us to have to freeze a lot the hiring of a lot of positions and it causes 11 cuts on all of our other functions. You know, Municipal Government is the level of government you interact with the most. It is the one that you depend on the the most every single day and were not able to provide the level of service and we have 4800 employees here and were not laying off people, we are freezing the hiring and there are cities laying off people. So the idea that this is a red state blue state or red city blue city thing is a myth. Everybody needs support to get back to the level of services that people expect. Mayor jiles, you said thats arent bells and whistles. Where would this money go for you . It goes straight into addressing food insecurity, into assistance for our schools and needles into arms. These are basic services. This is what is keeping people from having their utilities turned off. So, to davids point, if people want to debate the financial questions, we can submit invoices for twice the amount that were receiving in covid relief funds from the federal government for all that our city has been involved in that is directly tied to covid relief. So expenses are way up. Revenues in some cities, were not being hammered on retch because were [ inaudible ] off of internet sales. That the keeping the lights on in my community. But i could tell you that expenses are way high. Mayor holt, and perhaps this question to both of you, i wonder, do you think that the National Republican party has the politics wrong here. Because polls show that Republican Voters generally support a lot of the measures in this relief. And by the way, President Trump, he supported stimulus payments. Josh hawley, aspiring for 2024, talking about a raise in the minimum wage for companies above a billion dollars. Do you, mayor holt, think that the national gop has the politics wrong . Well two thoughts on that. Mayor jiles and i are mayors of cities that got funding last spring. We couldnt use it on our own Revenue Shortfalls and that is what we need here. But as an example, that is a popular move. That helped his city and my city tremendously. We were able to respond to covid19 in a very proactive way due to that funding. And this time around, i dont know what about mesa, but weve been told he may get 116 million. I could assure you, every one of my residents, whether they are registered republican, democrat or independent, is going to welcome those dollars and welcome the return to normal City Services that well be able to realize because of that investment. So, yeah, i think this is a nobrainer. It is a very popular issue in my community regardless of your party registration. And certainly that is why we would encourage and we think it is good public policy. Whether it is good politics is to judge. And that is why we encourage congress to move on this package. Mayor jiles, same in mesa . Absolutely. The emergency relief, i dont know how this got into a partisan debate. Emergency, covid relief has got to be viewed as bipartisan and nonpartisan. So shame on anyone who wants to make it anything but that. Well, gentlemen, i know you have a lot on your hands in mesa and oklahoma city. We wish you the best and your constituents the best going forward. Thank you, jim. Be well. 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Defense official tells us that the plan was to strike two targets but the second location scratched at the last minute because of concerns over the potential for civilian casualties. With us to talk about this and the broader implications, from the council of Foreign Relations that reported extensively throughout syria and iraq and afghanistan and the author of the new book, the daughters of kobani about the fight against isis in syria. Now a New York Times bestseller. It is an important read. Thank you for being with us on this important news. Your read is that this is the Biden Administration sending a message saying we know where you are. How significant is it beyond the strike itself . It is significant. Because it is aiming for payback for three Rocket Attacks in one week in iraq. Without provocation. And without further escalation of tensions between the u. S. And iran. Without complicating life for iraq, and making it harder for the iraqis who are trying to not have any further skirmishing between the u. S. And iran on iraqi soil. It is payback without provocation is the goal. Interesting. They did so inside of syria because you do have similar attacks by the Trump Administration inside iraqi territory. That said, the standard here, not that different from the Trump Administration, right. You had Rocket Attacks on a u. S. Base, didnt kill an american, did injure an american and an immediate payback for that. So not a dramatic change from, if you want to call it a trump standard, but the practice under trump of Rocket Attacks like this. Yes. And the Trump Administration had continued a lot of Obama Administration policy in syria. And it is interesting because there is shared concern across parties about iran and its sort of trained and equip of iranianbacked militias across the region and the u. S. Is making a distinction between iran and the militias and that is why the presence is seen as a bulwark against them. The next question becomes so what does it mean for getting iran back to the table to talk about the jcpoa, the Iran Nuclear Deal. Because it is believe thats the Militia Groups in the three strikes were all backed by iran. Yes. And it is so interesting. The u. S. Is really making a distinction between iran and the diplomatic outreach that happened last week and the iranian proxies that are really expanding the influence and the footprint of iran across the region. And the Syrian Civil War and the iranians have been all in on the side of asad has expanded the opportunity that the iranians have to grow their influence. Youre book is about the all female fighting forces among the syrian keurds fighting isis inside of syria. The u. S. Abandoned those allies under the Trump Administration, two withdrawals, they werent complete, but two withdrawals by tweet under President Trump. I wonder, has the u. S. Reputation there, have those relationships recovered from that or is there lasting damage . It is so interesting because the story in daughters of Kobani Go News this, there is a deep connection between the u. S. And the Partner Force that fought isis for the United States and for the world, right, to eliminate the physical caliphate of isis. When i was there in december of 2019, thats the thing that struck me. So much of what has been built since 2014 has endured. There are women leading the Civil Council still in every town that has been taken over after isis. There are womens councils in all of the towns and the relationship between the u. S. 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The gold standard, so to speak ; right now there is a scramble at the u. S. mexico border, hundreds of Migrant Children are entering the country each day and to deal with it just days ago the Biden Administration made the controversial decision to reopen a trump era Detention Site and now another Detention Site in florida is being looked at. With me knew is julian castro, from the obama term and formerly a president ial candidate and former mayor of san antonio, mr. Secretary, thank you for the time this morning. Great to be with you. So this facility, we have some images it of, it reopened in texas, it is just about two hours from san antonio. In june of 2018 you said President Trumps Child Separation Policy and the detention in these facilities crossed a line. These children now are unaccompanied minors. They are not separated from their families. That is an important distinction. But if you think by putting them in this trump era Detention Facility and reopening it, President Biden has in your mind crossed a line. You made an important distinction there, which is these are not children that have been separated from their parents. There is a lot of confusion. The other important distinction is many of the images of kids in cages that we see are i. C. E. Facilities, this is not an i. C. E. Facility. This is a facility contracted to the department of health and Human Services office of Refugee Resettlement but i think it is the wrong direction to go in. What i believe we need to do instead is to speed up the placement of these unaccompanied minors with Host Families that often are relatives that already live if the United States. The Biden Administration has said theyre basically two reasons why they need to do this. Number one, for covid distancing requirements, look, that is understandable. You want to keep people safe. But secondly because there is a surge. I understand both of those explanations. But i also believe that these types of facilities have been used as a crutch because the bureaucracy at hhs is taking too long to place kids so they need to improve that and eventually be able to phase out these facilities. Right. So it is not an i. C. E. Facility. But as i think you know, it is not a state licensed facility. And it is really in the middle of nowhere. It is like two hours away from my major city. So there are Major Concerns from folks about the ability to monitor it. It is basically a contractor that runs it. And i just ask, you know, what would you do instead . Because youre a democrat who is messaging to the Biden Administration, this is the wrong decision. I would invest in personnel and in policy to find the unaccompanied minors the host family as quickly as possible. Look, do i believe that when a child shows up at the board who are is 14 years old, and you have a choice to make as the government, what are you going to do to make sure that that child that does not have parents here and not with them, what are you going to do to make sure that child is safe. You have to place them somewhere. The answer to that of course is yes. But here is the thing. In that Washington Post article, that broke the story, the person from hhs said that on average they think that these kids are going to be there 30 days at this facility. Which violates the flores agreement which is 20 days. Youre going to improve the accommodations, they are not facilities in the middle of nowhere and unlicensed that i think are scaried for a lot of kids to live in, but secondly you could make sure that hhs has the resources to find the families much quicker so they dont have to stay near 30 days. That is what were failing right now. There is also not even a nominee from the white house to lead i. C. E. Or cvp. President trump is reporting this sunday going to blast the Biden Administration over Immigration Overhauls at cpac. The idea here is that he believes it will help republicans in the 2022 midterms and at least one democrat who represents part of The Border Town in texas agrees. Here is what democratic congressman Vincent Gonzalez told politico, the way were doing it now is catastrophic and a recipe for disaster. Bisen is dealing with a minority in congress if he continues down some of these paths. Do you think hes right . Are you concerned about the political backlash for your party . What i think we need to do is to make sure that we have a common sense Immigration Policy and that we lead with compassion, especially when it comes to children who are seeking a better life here. It is Night And Day between trump and joe biden. Look, donald trump had a dark heart when it came to migrants. He and people like Stephen Miller have this vision of america as a white country and they did everything they could to slow immigration and stop immigration, deport people when they could, basically to torture these kids by separating them from their parents. Joe biden is very different from that. I think hes moving generally in the right direction. I think on this decision to reopen this facility, they shouldnt use it as a crutch. What they should do is in vest in the resources with health and Human Services Department Office of Refugee Resettlement so the kids could be placed more quickly and if they have to place kids somewhere they should improve the conditions for these children. On the topic of unity, i think the country has been opening for, the Biden Administration is pushing through the 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Bill and it will not have a single republican in either ber supporting it. You told ana cabrera, if anyone could foster bipartisanship it is certainly joe biden. Are you worried were not seeing as much of that as you had hoped for . Im worried for the Republican Party. Because i think that poll after poll shows that the vast majority of americans, even republicans support President Bidens proposal. Thats true. So basically you have a Republican Party that has gone off the rails. We saw that on january 6th. They refused to acknowledge reality, the fact that joe biden won the election and now theyre not lifting a finger to help all of those millions of republicans, democrats, independents and Americans Still struggling who Small Businesses are closed and out of work on the brink of eviction, who desperately need congress to act. See, republicans are stuck in this donothing mode, as we saw here in texas last week, we couldnt put people in charge of government who dont believe in government if the first place. Theyll fail you every time and republicans are failing americans by refusing to support an investment. We have to go Ooim Out Of Time but they did propose a Counter Proposal. I hear you. But they did lift a finger in terms of making a Counter Proposal that was not acceptable to the Biden Administration. Well have you back, julian castro. It is a very important topic. Thank you. Thank you. Jim. Important topic for sure. In the wake of former President Trumps 2020 loss, bills now being introduced by gop legislatures across the country to restrict access to voting. Your voting. Critics calls these piece of legislations, and some republican critics nothing less than voter suppression. Well have more on this next. soft music announcer this is chet. He loves monday through friday but lives for the weekend. Hes put some miles on his truck and now, its time for something new. So he came to truecar and saw what other people paid for the same truck he wants. Now, he can recognize a great price. Truecar was so easy, chet was in and out and got right on back to the life he loves. 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Which is exactly the playbook that trump used if the last year. Reporter the Brennan Center for justice is tracking at least 253 restrictive voting bills in 43 states. That is roughly six times the number from this time last year. Majority is declared to pass the house. Reporter in iowa both chambers will make it harder to vote. That now awaits the governors signature. In Georgia The House and senate are advancing bills that would change Election Laws and restrict access to mailin voting. Even eliminating early voting on sundays. In arizona, votering Rights Activists are sounding alarms. There are bills that would really harm access to voting, particularly for people of color, for low income families, for native americans, and theyre rushing through because we have to fix a problem that doesnt exist. Reporter most of the votingrelated bills proposed in the grand canyon state are popular for decades in the sprawling state, more than 80 of arizonans voted by mail in 2020. One bill would require mailin ballots to be notarized and other lets them request a ballot but mail but you have make the journey to turn it in in person a permanent voter list that advanced out of Committee Just this week. If you are not voting, then youre not going to notice being removed. Its not just one bill. It is 50 or more bills. So it is the cumulative affect of all of them. Will they all get through. Probably not. Will a coalition of scrappy advocates be able to stop all of them, probably not. Reporter now some republicans are skeptical of the more extreme proposals. Some of them i think are valid. We need to clean voter rolls and make sure the people are here to vote. That is thats pretty standard stuff. But other things are are not as acceptable to me. Reporter now, look, a lot of republicans say this is just as many about Election Security as it is about restoring confidence in elections that was shaken by lies that largely many members of their own party spread. Jim and poppy, in talking to activists and democrats, theyre increasingly worried about the sheer number of bills. It is overwhelming that are being introduced. Theyre hoping that something could happen on the federal level that could basically counteract what is happening here on the state level. And that is a legislative priority for the Biden Administration, Voting Rights act. Well see where that goes going forward. Thank you. And thank you for joining us today and all week. Have a good healthy weekend. Well see you on monday. Im poppy harlow. And im jim sciutto. Newsroom with kate bolduan starts after a short break. Wanna build a Gaming Business that breaks the internet . That means working Night And Day. And delegating to an experienced live bookkeeper for peace of mind. Your books are all set. So you can finally give john some attention. Trusted experts. Guaranteed accurate books. Intuit quickbooks live. Hello, im kate bolduan. Thank you so much for joining me this hour. 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