now getting ready to reopen. republican governor greg abbott has just lifted almost all of the state's covid restrictions, including mask mandates, despite very dire warnings from the cdc. and i'm quoting now, that we aren't out of the woods yet. also breaking right,000, fbi director christopher wray, testifying before congress today for the first time since the january 6th capitol siege, which he calls domestic terrorism. he was unable to explain intelligence failures ahead of the attack. wray also debunking republican conspiracy theories about the insurrection, saying there's absolutely no evidence that fake trump protesters were behind the riot. let's get to the breaking pandemic news first. our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is joining us. president biden significantly moved up the timeline when the vaccine will be ready for all american adults who want one. tell our viewers what he said. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. it was supposed to be by the end of july. it is now the end of may. in large part because that have johnson & johnson single-dose vaccine and what the administration is putting in place to try to ramp up the production of the vaccine. something administration officials are calling historic. getting two large companies, traditional competitors, mechlt rck and johnson & johnson, to work together on the vaccine. the president has made clear his administration was working on behind the scenes to make it happen and today it is now locked in. take a listen. >> two of the largest health care and pharmaceutical companies in the world that are usually competitors are working together on the vaccine. johnson & johnson and merck will work together to expand the production of joh johnson & johnson's vaccine. this is the type of collaboration between companies we saw in world war ii. here is what all this means. we're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in america by the end of may. >> that's important to note, wolf, it doesn't mean every adult will be vaccinated by may. that just means that the production or the supply will actually be there. the president cautioning that they still need vaccinators, still need people to actually go in and get the vaccine. moving up that timeline is significant. the white house and the president making clear for the month of march, they want the priority to be on vaccinating teachers, saying they're going to use the federal pharmacy program to prioritize teachers and caregivers over the course of the month. again a recognition on an issue this administration has had a difficult time with throughout their first five weeks in office. how do you get schools back reopened. it's not mandatory for teachers to be vaccinated in order for schools to reopen but the president making clear they want that to be prioritized and directing states to try to make that happen. one other element to keep in mind here, wolf, you mentioned it. with texas and mississippi starting to put an end to their mask mandates. i'm told there's extreme frustration from white house staff who believe they're on the cusp of major breakthroughs, finally getting a handle on this pandemic. now is not the time, white house officials say, to start pulling back on the restrictions put in place. the president, while not specifically talking about texas or mississippi, saying now is not the time to pull back, in his words, lives are at risk. wolf? >> this is a critically important moment. phil mattingly at the white house, we'll get back to you and have much more on the breaking news, including my special interview with president biden's senior adviser for the covid response team, andy slavitt. he's standing by. we have much more to discuss. first, public testimony about the capitol siege. cnn's brian todd is working the story for us. brian, christopher wray was pressed on intelligence failures but strongly defended the bureau's handling of the threats. update our viewers. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. those were the toughest questions directed at christopher wray on intelligence. even though did defend the fbi, senators were left with questions on why some important dots were not connected. it was a single overlooked warning of potential violence planned for january 6th, a report the day before from the fbi's field office in norfolk, virginia, detailing online posts about going to d.c., ready for w war, getting violent and making lawmakers hear glass breaking and doors kicked in that the fbi director got some of his most serious grilling on today by senators. >> so it comes down to the basic question of what the fbi knew, when they knew it, whether they shared it, why this didn't rise to the level of a threat assessment. >> it was, as you noted, raw, unverified, uncorroborated information that had been posted online. and my understanding was that that information was quickly, as within an hour, disseminated and communicated with our partners, including the u.s. capitol police, including metro pd. >> reporter: that threat information, christopher wray, s said, was communicated january 5th to the capitol police and d.c. metropolitan police in three ways. an email, verbal communication, and through a law enforcement portal. >> as to why the information didn't flow to all the people within the various departments, that they would prefer, i don't have a good answer for that. >> reporter: in previous testimony, former and current capitol police chiefs acknowledged their department did receive the fbi's threat report the evening of january 5th. why didn't they act on it? >> it was being shared for informational purposes but has not been fully evaluated, integrated with other information, interpreted or analyzed. receiving agencies are requested not to take action based on this raw reporting. >> reporter: wray also knocked down a conspiracy theory pushed by republican senator ron johnson and others, that the january 6th riot was organized by people posing as trump supporters. >> we've not seen any evidence of that. >> is there any evidence at all that it was organized, planned or carried out by groups like antifa or black lives matter? >> we've not seen any evidence to that effect. >> reporter: the director came under tough scrutiny from democratic senator richard blumenthal with all the information the fbi had before january 6th about the proud boys and other extremist groups coming to washington, blumenthal asked -- >> why didn't the fbi sound the alarm? >> there is so much chatter often unattributed to somebody in a neatly unidentifiable way where people are saying unbelievably horrific, angry, combative things, using language about beheading, shooting, explosives and all kinds of things like that. and separating out which ones are getting traction, which ones reflect intention as opposed to aspiration, is something that we spend an enormous amount of time trying to do. sometimes we don't have the luxury of time in the ability to make those judgments. >> reporter: an ominous warning from the fbi director today. he said violent extremists and other bad actors are getting better at using encrypted social media platforms. wray says getting access to that information is one of the biggest challenges his agency is facing in trying to head off some of those threats. >> brian todd, thank you. let's get more on all of this. chief national correspondent john king is with us, gloria borger is here and charles ramsey is joining us, former washington, d.c. police chief, former philadelphia police commissioner. director wray strongly defended the fbi's handling of this memo the night before the january 6th insurrection. did he answer why the fbi didn't raise more alarm bells just ahead of the deadly attack? >> no, i don't think he did. clearly, there was an intelligence failure on the 5th and 6th of january. what i would have liked to have heard was the fact that -- i mean, it's been almost a month now since the insurrection took place, that the fbi has since reached out to the capitol police, reached out to metropolitan police, really broke this down to figure out what went wrong and how do we fix it, so that you don't have it happen again. there is no one agency at fault here. but they need to get together and figure this out, because this isn't the last time. they'll need information sharing that leads to action taken part on one of those agencies. >> it's been almost two mons i should say. wray said -- you heard him say it, there was so much chatter, it was hard to figure out what was a real threat, what was just chatter. did he acknowledge the scope of the intelligence failure? >> no. he tried to defend what happened, saying it was unverified, raw intelligence, from the norfolk field office and they did raise it through three separate channels so that people, the capitol police, metropolitan police should have known about it. the question is, why didn't somebody say, look at this piece of intelligence and look at this piece of intelligence, and this is the chief's wheelhouse, he has done this for a living and then say somebody needs to pull the alarm. what director wray did today, he answered the questions. some answers were unsatisfactory. he very much made the case for that 9/11-style commission so many members want to do. there's so many unanswered questions, should the fbi have sounded a greater alarm, grabbed the capitol police by the shoulders and said you need to follow this, watch this? he raised as many questions as he answered, which makes the case for an independent thorough review so six months from now we may look back at this and have better answers. >> they need to do a review so lessons are learned so it doesn't happen again. wray was crystal clear that antifa was not behind this riot. that was a huge rebuke to those republicans. >> that is one thing he was clear on. he wasn't clear on what happened to the intelligence. he wasn't clear on why people didn't connect the dots, but he was clear that of the people they have looked into and the people they know about, that did the insurrection, that it wasn't the sort of fake trump people. that they were -- that he knows some of them were white supremacists. he said he puts them in different buckets and the insurrectionists were the insurrectionists. they are who we think they are, and nobody else. and so there were some republicans up there who were trying to kind of change the subject, talking about what happened in portland, maybe it was antifa, maybe it was the same group. and wray was crystal clear about that. he said we have not seen any evidence of anarchist, violent extremists or people subscribing to antifa in connection to the 6th, period. >> lindsey graham was asking questions about whether foreign intelligence operatives -- >> that's right. >> -- may have been involved in this and wray made it clear there's no evidence of that. john, how far does wray's testimony go with the trump supporters who believe those conspiracy theories? >> look, i'm not sure they're going to listen to anybody. they listen really to donald trump and his close inner circle. remember, part of the byproduct here, part of the damage done during the trump presidency is christopher wray, number one, was very cautious. number two, said he didn't want to throw people under the bus. number three, didn't want to say he faced pressure from the president or people around the president to be more candid about domestic terrorism and white supremacy. president trump routinely attacked director wray, routinely attacked the fbi, routinely attacked the intelligence agencies. to a trump supporter, director wray is probably not viewed as a credible witness. >> chief ramsey, are you hearing enough answers and accountability, for that matter, to make sure this doesn't happen again or are officials still playing the blame game? >> i'm very concerned. that's exactly what they're doing. it's not their fault. it's somebody else's fault. it doesn't matter if these extremists are from the left or right. if they are using violence to get their message across, we have to deal with it. that will require sharing of information, working together at the federal, state and local level and these elected officials that we have need to stop trying to spin and get their own agenda out. this is serious stuff. we need to deal with it as a na nation, collectively, in order to be able to avoid having tragedies occur. i mean, what happened on the 6th of january could have been far worse, had it not been for the actions of many of the capitol police officers, metropolitan police officers that actually were able to evacuate members of congress. they might not be so lucky next time. today we're talking about congress. tomorrow, we could be talking about some other target. the bottom line is domestic terrorism is real. it's a threat. right now i'm not happy with the way we're dealing with it. >> i want to read a sentence that he said today. i thought it was so significant. he was totally blunt in describing the nature of the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. he said this, quote, that attack, that siege was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it's behavior that we at the fbi view as domestic terrorism. gloria, he minced no words. this was domestic terrorism that these trump supporters engaged in as they stormed the u.s. capitol. >> right. and, look, i don't think there are going to be many people on that committee who were going to disagree with him. they were the ones who were attacked. they were the victims of the attack. what kind of surprised me about the entirety of the hearing today, wolf, was that i think they tread kind of lightly on christopher wray except for maybe senator shelden whitehouse, who took him on because the fbi hasn't been responding to a lot of congressional inquiries over the last four years. maybe they were being kind of nice to him because the democrats know that he had had some issues with donald trump, but i am surprised they didn't push him more on why the intelligence didn't get to where it needed to go, why it was so last minute. if people knew about this stuff going on, on social media, what happened? i think that it was sort of stunning to me that, given the fact that this were the victims here, that they didn't learn more from him at this hearing. >> and, wolf, to that point that gloria makes, you could hear from director wray. and we heard from the previous hearings. if you take all the hearings together, there were dots that were not connected. there simply were. that last piece of intelligence might have been taken more seriously if you knew about that piece and this piece. it might have been the third piece that made you say whoa. director wray was trying to be polite, said he didn't want to throw people under the bus or his own agency under the bus. to the chief's point he raised so many communications about the lack of communication and coordination that again there have been a lot of calls for this 9/11-style commission to scrub this. i think director wray made the case for it today. >> and about 300 of those guys who stormed the capitol have been charged criminally charged and he said this investigation is continuing. maybe only just beginning. many more are going to be charged in the coming weeks and months. guys, thank you very, very much. breaking news here in "the situation room" continues. more information on the texas governor's decision to reopen his state regardless of variants. we'll talk more about that with the senior consultant to the covid response team, andy slavitt. with bounce pet hair & lint guard, your clothes can repel pet hair. one bounce mega sheet has 3x the hair fighting ingredients of the leading dryer sheet. simply toss into the dryer to bounce out hair & lint. look how the shirt on the left attracts pet hair like a magnet! pet hair is no match for bounce. it's available in fresh scent & unscented. with bounce, you can love your pets, and lint roll less. what happens to your body language when your underarms are cared for? 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>> no, i wasn't. i wasn't satisfied that we are clear both about what happened on january 6th and why and about our path forward. i did get a very concise answer from director wray to my questioning about whether or not there is any evidence that the riot here at the capitol, the assault on our nation's democracy that happened on january 6th was in any way caused by leftists, by antifa or black lives matter, or might have been caused by folks who were dressing up and pretending to be trump supporters. he definitively said no, senator, there's no evidence at all of that. the reason i asked that is that there are folks in the other party and around the country spreading false rumors that somehow the assault on the capitol was cause bid leftists, rather than by a mob of mostly trump supporters, right-wing extremists and, in some cases, white supremacists. as director wray confirmed in answering a number of senators' questions, domestic violent extremism, which comes in a number of different shapes and sizes, is the greatest threat we face here domestically, and a significant component of that is anti-government extremists who are also white supremacists and who played a central role in the assault here on the capitol on january 6th. getting clarity about those facts is important toward our moving forward and understanding what to do next. >> yeah, he was blunt in saying this was domestic terrorism, which means those tho attacked the capitol from the fbi director's perspective were, in fact, terrorists. not just rioters, demonstrators but terrorists. he made that abundantly clear. president biden's nearly $2 trillion relief bill is coming up for a vote later this week in the senate. don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, especially some of the progressives who want that minimum wage included in the legislation, even though it's likely to be defeated if it is? >> wolf, it's critical that we get this bill passed. it's got support from three-quarters of the american people. including 60% of republicans in polls. this will include $1,400 checks to tens of millions of american families, extend unemployment payments for 11 million americans. there are also tens of millions of americans facing eviction, who are behind on their rent or their mortgage payments, preventing further economic pain and resolving the challenge of this current pandemic, that's the core goal here. and i agree with president biden's message to our caucus today that it's urgent that we move this bill forward. there's lots of other issues we're going to work on this year, wolf. many of those will be resolved in a bipartisan way. but making sure we deliver this relief package quickly and that we get vaccines in arms, we get kids safely back to school. we reopen businesses. that's a key part of president biden's agenda. it has broad bipartisan support amongst the american people. >> it has no bipartisan support among your republican colleague. >> that's right. >> not one republican voted for it in the house and i suspect not one republican will vote for it in the senate. right? >> that's right, wolf. republicans support it broadly around the country just not here in the capitol. >> senator chris coons, we'll see what happens on the senate floor. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. the texas governor lifts his state's mask mandate along with most other covid restrictions in defiance of strong cdc warnings. senior adviser to the white house covid-19 team andy slavitt is standing by. lots to discuss. growing calls for new york governor andrew cuomo to resign amid a report of yet a third woman now accusing him of making unwanted advances. if you're 55 and up, t-mobile has plans built just for you. get 2 unlimited lines for only $70. and now get netflix on us with your plan. and this rate is fixed, you'll pay exactly $70 total. this month and every month. plus, switch today and get a free smartphone for each line. the best value and award-winning customer service. only at t-mobile. i'm a performer. always have been. and always will be. never letting anything get in my way. not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. and certainly not arthritis. voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief to help me keep moving. and it can help you too. feel the joy of movement with voltaren. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? 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>> the relationship with merck and johnson & johnson which, by the way, i think is a great example of this country pulling together to get us out of this, was one of the announcements today, including use of the defense production act, operating the johnson & johnson plant 24 by 7 and headlined, as you say, by the agreement of merck to use two of their factories and merck is one of the most experienced vaccine manufacturers in the world. all. >> end of may, pretty impressive. having adequate vaccine supply is one component of this process. will states have the resources? will they have the vaccinators, andy, the vaccinators that they need to get all those shots into adults' arms? >> that's exactly the right place to focus. not just vaccines, but locations for vaccination as well as vaccinators. we've added 1200 vaccinators the last couple of weeks. what we really need is to use the defense production act, as we've done, but now we need congress to pass this american rescue plan, because the american rescue plan contains the rest of the resources needed for states to get the rest of the way there. i think all those things in combination, that harmony of the country working together is exactly what we need to get us there. >> i thought it was also significant that president biden also announced the new goal to get every educator, child care worker at least one coronavirus shot by the end of this month. will he also then be moving up his timeline for getting kids back into school five days a week? >> well, his goal is to get kids back to school safely, as early as possible, and permanently. the cdc has helped a great deal with guidelines that help schools figure out had an it takes to open. while the cdc has said teachers aren't required to be vaccinated for the schools to open in person, the president made the decision that we can use this new capability we have, the new vaccines from johnson & johnson, accelerated manufacturing from pfizer and moderna, to say let's make it a priority by getting our educators and staff, bus drivers and daycare workers, let's get them vaccinated and do it in the next few weeks, pull together as a country and do that. >> the breaking news and major breaking news happening this hour, texas and mississippi. i don't know if you heard about this. it's really significant. they're lifting their mask mandates, fully reopening their states. what's the message from the white house to these states and potentially other starts who may consider doing the same thing right now? >> look, we certainly understand the pressure governors are under, and we appreciate the working relationship we have with governor abbott. as you know, the president was just down there. at same time, we think it's a mistake to lift these mandate toos early. masks are saving a lot of lives. the president has been clear about the fact that in the first 100 days of this administration, we could save 50,000 lives if we stick to this. i'm hoping that the businesses, the chunt and people in texas, the mayors, the county will rethink this. i hope the governor rethinks this. it's only a small piece of cloth that's needed. so, i don't think it affects the economy of the state. hopefully, states will stick with this until such time as we get through all the vaccinations and see the other side of this. >> it makes sense for president biden to pick up the phone and call governor abbott? they met earlier in the week in texas, and suggest to him maybe this not a good idea? >> yeah. well, i'm not paid to ask the president what he should do with his time. i know he is being clear and forceful in all of his conversations about what's important to him and to this country. >> we've heard from the cdc director, dr. walensky, this is not, repeat not the time, to let up in these precautions because there are variants out there. still a very dangerous pandemic. as you know, andy, more than 78 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have now been administered here in the united states. yet there's no clear guidance on what people who are fully vaccinated should or should not be able to do. when do you think americans will get that much-needed guidance? what will it include? >> well, i think the president's chief science officer, dr. f fauci, has begun talking about that, you know, this week. and i think he is really trying for people to speak in common sense terms and americans to understand exactly how much their risk goes down when they take a vaccine and what actives are safe and not safe. cdc scientists are spending time on this. they're thinking about recommendations. it's important because it's important that people can take the steps they can take, when they can take them. i'm not going to get ahead of the scientists. no one wants a white house who is driving the scientific answers. but we are working to make sure that scientists try to answer those questions the best they can. >> yeah. everybody says, dr. fauci and dr. walensky, everybody else, say they're learning so much as we go along. we've learned a lot but there's still so much to learn. andy slavitt, good luck to you and the whole team over there. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> unwanted sexual advances by new york governor andrew cuomo. this time there's also a photograph. there it is. stand by. we have new information. aula. destroying ransomware is, like, the most epic thing anyone's ever done. it's actually really easy. i just use sophos. if she told you how she did it, your face would melt off and you'd probably die. i just told you how i do it. we'll edit that part out so your face doesn't melt off. this is the destroyer of ransomware destroying more ransomware. she knows we know she knows we'll never know how she does it. 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from albany, new york. tell us more. >> reporter: wolf, another day, another woman has come forward with another accusation, and that has made the governor's political footing even more precarious. >> we're going through a difficult time here, as everybody knows. >> reporter: a deepening crisis for new york governor andrew c cuomo after a third woman came forward, accusing him of unwanted advances. the woman is anna ruch, who told "the new york times" that kruchlt omo asked if he could kiss her at a crowded wedding in 2019. she says after toasting the newlyweds, the governor approached her and put his hands on mrs. ruch's bare lower back. when she removed his hand with her own, the governor remarked she seemed aggressive, ruch told the paper. cuomo then placed his hands on her cheeks and asked if he could kiss her. the photo caught the governor placing his hands around her face. she is the first woman to come forward with unwanted advances who did not work in cuomo's office. the governor's office did not respond to requests of cnn. in the face of backlash of two other accusers, former aides lindsay boylan and charlotte bennett, the statement saying in part, to be clear, i never inappropriately touched anybody and i never propositioned anybody, and i never intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable. but these are allegations that new yorkers deserve answers to. >> i already answered that one. >> reporter: democrats pressed about the allegations in washington expressing support for the new york attorney general's investigation. kathleen rice of new york, the first democratic member of congress, calling on cuomo to step down, tweeting, the time has come. the governor must resign. but many democrats stopping short of calling for a full resignation. >> it's a troubling situation, but i have been through this before with other colleagues, and i just have to say the investigation should be completed and should be -- as quickly as possible, and credibility given to the charges. >> reporter: today cnn reports state lawmakers in new york are moving to repeal some of the governor's expanded emergency powers granted to him throughout the pandemic. the vote expected next week. the move coming after a top aide revealed cuomo's administration delayed the release of data about nursing home deaths from state lawmakers. the administration's handling of that data currently under scrutiny by the u.s. attorney's office of brooklyn and the fbi. >> wolf, there have been questions about how the governor has been spending his time as of late. people here in the public are used to seeing him giving those press briefings. he hasn't done one of those since last monday. eventually, he is going to have to come forward and face very tough questions from the media. wolf? >> eventually, yes, indeed. jason carroll in albany, thank you very much. there's more breaking news ahead. fbi director calls the capitol siege domestic terrorism in his first public testimony since 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this is the story of just one massacre in just one village, but it also tells the bigger story of the pain and the heartbreak reverberating across this region. take a look at a bloody jacket. some rope used to tie the victims. shoes worn by a sunday schoolboy. the remnants of a mass kerr in a village in the tigre region. a massacre perpetrated by soldiers on ethiopian soil. 52 of the 54 pictures are victims whose identity is identified. this is the village where there's the murder of dozens, possibly even more than 100 civilians. witnesses tell cnn people were murdered orr three days of mayhem. with video and communication limited due to a government imposed blackout on the region and fear of government retribution rife, cnn has had to illustrate witness testimony through animation and use of actors' voices to describe what happened in december last year. one eyewitness marta, not her real name, told cnn they were returning from morning church service. when they got home, they were confronted by troops. >> they came to our houses and they told us to get out. there were a lot of soldiers outside and they were saying come out, come out. they didn't ask any question. they just opened fire. >> reporter: to understand what happened here over the course of these three days you need to understand what's been happening over the last few years in ethiopia. under the country's former rulers ethiopia waged hostilities with eritrea for almost 30 years in power. the president of ethiopia won a nobel peace prize for bringing that to an end. the region is distinct in culture and language and the leadership is battling for autonomy. now they stand accused of working together to crush tigre's fight for autonomy and civilians are being killed in what could be war crimes and something the ousted leader described as acts of genocide. this video was smuggled out to cnn to avoid troops. it's footage of the graves that eyewitnesses describe to cnn in harrowing testimony. underneath the branches and sticks are the grave sides for the victims. another eyewitness abraham again not his real name was supposed to help clean the church before the festival. instead he became a grave digger. >> they were all so young and they took them and killed them together in a field. >> reporter: among those he buried were 24 sunday school children. abraham and others registered the kids' names as best they could, one by one the shallow graves were uncovered and parents came to identify the children. some so badly disfigured they could only be identified by their clothing. this is not the only massacre perpetrated in tigre. using satellite images and interviews with witnesses amnesty found evidence of at least one other separate massacre involving hundreds of civilians believed to be carried out in another city days earlier. a day after the investigations by cnn and amnesty international u.s. secretary of state blinken said those responsible must be held accountable, strong words but will words be enough when the crimes bear the hallmarks of a possible genocide? cnn has put the findings of its investigation to the ethiopian and eritrean government. the ethiopian government said it's committed to undertaking a thorough investigation of the alleged abuses but it added it also regretted u.s. commentary on internal affairs. it also said that its forces were in the region as part of lawful operations. the tplf told us it did not have forces there before or after the massacre and calling for a u.n. investigation. the eritrean government did not respond but on friday in response to amnesty's investigation into that separate massacre they said that their forces were not responsible. wolf? >> as you have been reporting there's widespread condemnation in the aftermath of our reporting and renewed calls for investigation as you point out from the secretary of state. what is the response to all of that? >> reporter: we were able to speak exclusively to the leader of the tigre 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