first of all, the british people to watch the interview last night, and she is a very measured, very moderate person, and i think she wanted to lower the temperature. she's a tolerant person, and she doesn't jump in to decisions. she likes to gather information. and as max pointed out, she wants to do it primarily within the family, although knowing the implications of the issue of race are to them. but it's a mission of the lines and asking for forbearance. her husband since 1937, the duke of edinburgh is in the hospital and has been for nearly a month. there's been a lot of -- a lot of heat around this -- this explosive interview. one of her qualities is to bring a note of caution and let's gather the facts, and i think it also is important that we need to do this as a family, issues like the suicidal thoughts and meghan saying she took her mental health problems to the people in the household, i think these are -- there are so many things in this interview that call for a very careful gathering, if you will. >> i wonder, max, especially when you look at how many people in britain watched this, i think one in five watched the interview live last night. that's live, that's not just people watching the clips online the next day. i mean, think how many people have seen this. is this short statement going to be enough? where does it go from here? >> well, they want details who was in the room and how they're going to deal with things in the future as well but they want to take it and rise above all of this and take it behind the scenes. so had they had a conversation with harry and meghan about reaching some sort of agreement about thrashing this out behind palace walls or is this a warning in a way to say let's stop discussing this in public, let's try to deal with it between ourselves? that's not entirely clear. i did put a call in to the sussex's offices. they won't be commenting any further on this. so i think they are satisfied this is done for now. i will point out one note i was given by a royal source, and this is what they said to me, diversity, equality, inkloots and mental health are important to the royal members for many years. i think that's an acknowledgment how the accusations in this interview could have done hard to the monarchy because it represents a sense of hypocrisy, because if they are not taking mental health issues behind the scenes seriously, theyp ca can' speak to that in their role as royals as well. so they're emphasizing these values are important to them, despite what was said in this interview by meghan and harry. >> max foster, thank you very much. sade bedell smith, really appreciate it as well. race, bias all at play here. harry saying he did not at first realize the severe impact of i fligted bias and his own privilege until he was married to a woman of color. sal misha colette is a critic for "the new york times" and henry rutgers professor at rutgers university. thank you very much for being with us. i wonder first off here when you hear the queen's statement, part of it is acknowledging the problem but i wonder what you think of the statement overall. >> i think what harry and meghan exposed to us wasn't just a family squabble but the way in which race and racism are central to how the monarchy exists and also how -- which members of the family belong to the royal family. so i think it's beyond a family squabble, but really endemic to and exposing racism that's at the core of the monarchy itself. >> with that in mind, this statement talks about pulling this sort of in an insular way into the family discussing this privately, but you're saying it's more than a family squabble. do they owe the country a public conversation about this? >> i mean, they're already having these public conversations in england, right? the summer wasn't just limited to the united states in terms of the call to recognize black lives that matter, but also taking place in england as well as france and throughout europe. so i think this is a really important moment for all of us to have these conversations but i think what was unique to me about harry's physician and his interview was he could see for the first time in realtime someone go from, oh, i didn't realize i was part of the problem. oh, wow, wait, i'm not exempt from racism because i have -- now i have a wife that's biracial, and my child has a grandmother who's black. oh, wait, this is terrible. and now i'm going to do something about it. so there was a whole trajectory, whole evolution of harry's thinking that i really thought was important for us to see in this moment as we're trying to understand what white allyship looks like and institutional racism looks like in the most intimate of settings. >> that's a really interesting point. meghan markle's father, from whom she is estranged, is speaking out today about what his daughter said about racist treatment. let's listen to that. >> this thing about what color will the baby be or how dark will the baby be, i'm guessing and hoping it's just a dumb question from somebody, you know. it could just be that simple, it could be somebody asked a stupid question rather than being a total racist. >> what did you think about that? >> i'm going to just use the language harry and meghan used in their interview. so it wasn't simply a question of what's the skin color, now we know, what archie was going to be but they understood was linked to certain privileges and benefits that come with being a prince. so the relationship between skin color and being denied protection and being denied opportunities is how they heard it and how they told it to us, so i think it's not just a silly question, but also maybe a way in which we can understand how skin color and then these rules and these rituals that protect white people primarily in the monarchy, are now being used against their child, who for all intents and purposes, look like the royal family. i think that was part of what was absurd to harry but also not necessarily so absurd to people of color here in the united states and in england. >> you know, i'm sure as you were watching this, you saw it was like oprah's jaw literally dropped when meghan and harry were talking about people being worried about what color complexion archie was going to have. and i've heard so many people say why didn't whoever they were talking to, who was part of this institution, the palace, understand the opportunity in having a biracial duchess, of having a biracial child in the family. what do you think about that? >> i mean, i think that was part of what was striking about the interview, that meghan and harry not only represented an optimism, but they believed in the fact that their union could represent a new wave of understanding the monarchy and understanding the commonwealth's relationship to the monarchy. so i think that naivety, which, you know, we as americans and me as a black american, can say why were they so naive, but, harry, that was his life. and he hadn't dealt with racism at all up until that point. so i think it was not only a missed opportunity but it does say a lot about how all of these black and brown subjects who live in the commonwealth, who live in all of these countries -- my father is from trinidad, for example. i remember my dad coming to the country when i was a child. all of these commonwealth countries do suggest not just the paternalistic relationship between the commonwealth and monarch but racist relationship that was there in the beginning and continues today. >> yeah, great conversation to have with you. thank you very much, salamishah tillett, appreciate it. the oprah interview has drawn a lot of comparisons to princess diana's interview in 1995 with the bbc. both women speaking in defiance of the palace as they tried to set an independent course for their lives. meghan markle even wearing a diamond bracelet that once belonged to diana for her sit-down. and prince harry telling oprah he felt her presence during the process of stepping away from his royal duties. my next guest wrote about this for "the new york times." sara, thank you for joining me and talking about this. you wrote about how neither woman was protected by the paulus, and in that, that's something they have in common. >> that's right. they both spoke about that in these extraordinary interviews. when diana had her interview, nobody had really done anything like this before. no one had heard someone who was kind of an outsider who married into the family speak about what it was like to be a royal bride, to speak about how hard it was. and in her case, it was a bit different in that she had a bad marriage, her husband cheated on her. she was essentially told to suck it up, this is the way it's always been. she had a lot of mental health issues while she was married to charles. she tried to kill herself. not really seriously, it seemed, but she was really crying for help and no one would help her. and she spoke about that. it was really striking how meghan markle said some similar stuff in the interview and also how -- how seriously harry took it. i mean harry i think is haunted by his mother's death and has been very worried that he's seeing history repeating itself with the sort of things that happened with his own wife. >> there are also some key differences here, and i was wondering if you could speak about that. what separates, say, diana from meghan markle? being, one, a product of an american culture versus a british culture. the timing, the difference in time. we're post me too. we have experienced in this country the beginning of a racial reckoning and not just in this country, around the world, including in britain. what do you think about the differences here? >> i think that's a really, really interesting point. but you know, when diana spoke out, it was the first time anyone in britain in that kind of position had spoken about mental health, who had said, i've had problems. it's okay to talk about your problems. we're all sort of in this together. you don't have to just have a stiff upper lip. and that is what they had to recon with then when diana was speaking. now we're at a different point. and this issue of here are these people who are coming into this family and forcing them to sort of catch up with where society is is a really resonant one. >> sarah, thank you so much. your story on this is very interesting, and we appreciate you sharing it with us. >> nice to talk to you. take care. still ahead -- we're going to fact check one of the biggest complaints that the gop has about the covid relief bill. turns out that they supported it under president trump. plus, the mayor of mcallen, texas, will join me live to talk about the growing crisis at the border, the number of migrants tripling in the past two weeks and many of them are children. and we have new details about why the white house decided not to loosen travel restrictions in its latest round of covid guidelines. 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>> absolutely. i mean, that's -- in the obama administration, he talked about doing immigration reform so the rumor was what the cartels use, you better get here or it's going to be too late if you're not in the country when it happens. and under the trump administration it was we're going to shut the border so get here before it's shut and we had the surge before that. and now with biden's election, it's going to be open again so come back, first come, first serve and that caused it. i would understand the presidents would be more in tune to what some rhetoric or speeches have as much effect on immigration issues as even policies from that standpoint. >> the governor of your state is blaming the biden administration for the surge in migrants and he's warning that the cartels are taking advantage of the situation. this is what he said at a news conference moments ago -- >> the strategy of the cartels is to overwhelm border patrol agents and law enforcement officials and when the border patrol agents are so completely overwhelmed, it's during those moments the cartels will bring across the border even the more dangerous elements. >> is that what is going on in your view? >> that happens up the river. they've always done diversions, cartels, whether to smuggle drugs or whatever. but having the border patrol handle all of these kids and family members and adults does keep them pretty busy and then that's when they smuggle drugs and other contraband across the river. it's much more complicated -- the problem i have, we say it's a crisis or not a crisis, well, that's really semantics. what's happening at the river is a crisis but it's not any particular one's fault or anything. i mean, it goes back to public policy, with our foreign policy in central america and those countries. so we feel the bankrupt of it because it makes our areas look dangerous, it makes our area look overrun with uncontrollable immigration and asylum seekers, when in fact, we're dealing with it and if they would do reasonable policies, the people in mex quo for two years, aholding them two years for asylum seekers wasn't a great policy either. we need to slow it down and come up with policy and legislation that recognizes what we are and what our area is all about to deal with this. until they do that, we're going to continue to have this particular problem. >> yeah, your city is living this inability to find a policy compromise on this, sir. we appreciate you joining us. mayor darling from mcallen, texas next -- promising numbers about how many seniors had at least one dose of a covid-19 and we will answer your questions on what is allowed once you're fully protected by the vaccine. to support local restaurants, we've been to every city. including little rock and even worcester. and tonight... i'll be eating the chicken quesadilla from...tony's tex mex...in... katy. 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>> the cdc says if you're vaccinated, you can be indoor without masks, without social distancing with other vaccinated people. they get a little vague because they say, don't go to medium or large-size gatherings but i think it would be safe to say just four couples, eight people, that would be considered a small gathering so go for it, have some wine, have some cheese, enjoy yourselves, celebrate this milestone. >> i can't even imagine that, you know. i'm trying not to think about it because then i'm going to be excited and then mad i can't do it. okay. the cdc doesn't say much about other activities, things like going to the restaurant or the gym. what about those settings a viewer asks. >> right, exactly, for restaurants and gyms and places like that, it's the same as it is for unvaccinated people. getting vaccinated doesn't change the cdc's guidance. let's take a look at what that guidance is. it's been around quite a while now. they say if you're at a restaurant or gym, vaccinated or unvaccinated, you should be wearing a mask, you should be maintaining social distancing, avoid crowds, avoid poorly vented spaces and wash your hands. same rules as it is for unvaccinated people. >> many of those who received vaccinations are seniors. where do those vaccination numbers stand? >> those are chugging along. those numbers are looking better and better. cnn did an analysis of the data, and here's what we found. we found when you're looking at seniors 65 ages and older, 60% have received at least one dose, 30% are fully vaccinated, and florida interestingly enough just to give awe an example of one state, they're about at 56% vaccinated -- i'm sorry, with just one dose, so they're moving down to 60-year-olds starting nefrl next week. so florida lowering its age from 65 to 60 next week. >> it's great to see the progress. we still have far to go but it's wonderful to see those numbers, elizabeth, thank you. the benefits of getting a covid vaccine far outweigh of risks of getting the virus. but the vaccines can have side effects and we're learning their more likely to strike women instead of men. >> brianna, we first saw signs of more women then men reporting adverse side effects early on in the rollout of covid-19 vaccines. so from mid-december to mid-january, more than 13 million doses of the vaccine were administered. among those, almost 7,000 reports of adverse events came in. here's what the cdc study found on those reports, about 79% were reported in women, even though only about 61% of vaccine doses were given to women. most of the symptoms reported were headaches, fatigue and dizziness, but brianna, the cdc told me just today that overall, more women then men have been vaccinated and more women are included in the safety and monitoring of the vaccine. that's something experts are continuing to watch. regardless, there might be some biological differences here as well. brianna? >> jacqueline, thank you. coming up -- the house set to vote tomorrow morning to give final passage to president biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. and my next guest says, we have the dr. seuss controversy to thank for it. hi sabrina! >>hi jen! so this aveeno® moisturizer goes beyond just soothing sensitive skin? exactly jen! calm + restore oat gel is formulated with prebiotic oat. and strengthens skin's moisture barrier. uh! i love it! aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst psst you're good rely on the experts at 1800petmeds for the same medications as the vet, but for less with fast free shipping. visit petmeds.com today. the covid relief bill is about to be law so the treasury will have to withdraw $1.9 trillion -- not billion or million, $1.9 trillion, and that is a lot. to have great effects to write lots of checks, $1,400 checks that's what the dems got. the republicans said no, unanimous no go, too much, too fast, too good for joe. but good day for stocks and good day for fox, which filled its blocks with seuss book shocks. some gop cried, seuss got decanceled, even though the racism was fairly substantial and the game for suits was quite substantial, the distraction of it all was circle. the covid bill went unseen, that was the point of ron brownstein, who joins us now. ron, you say this was made by fox and some republicans on these six dr. seuss books actually pulled by dr. seuss enterprises but that effectively captured more attention from conservatives than this gigantic spending bill. >> yeah, it's an extraordinary moment and extraordinary poem, so congratulations, first of all, on your seuss imitation. look, what we saw in this covid fight, covid relief bill, in some ways the most important thing was, as in sheryl of course sherlock holmes, the dog that didn't bark. a bill that spent $1.9s trillion, double the obama stimulus and vastly more than clinton's plan in 1993 and i think that reflects both the popularity of the bill 70% support today in a poll including 40% republicans, but even more importantly it reflects the except to which the republican coalition animated and mobilized primarily by issues of cultural and racial grievance rather than the size of government and that could have big implications in serving democratic moderates and centrists to be comfortable not only with this plan but what might be coming next, very large infrastructure proposal. >> and fiscal conservatism is a thing that's always just been a part of our political system. it's been a tension usually only in the democratic rings and now you have conservatives who are really not motivated by that in such a big way that we haven't seen. is that kind of that poll, that fiscal, conservative side, is that just gone? >> we don't know if it's completely gone and that's one of the things biden will find out in the next two years when they come back with another economic plan that could be $2 trillion or more over a ten-year period. but there's no question even if it's not completely gone, it is tremendously attenuated. people focus on the fact no republicans voted for this in either chamber and that's true but virtually all of the democratic centrists in both chambers voted for it with much less teeth -- one said there was no teeth nashing, no pearl clutching. the changes john manchin demanded for his support were really minor by historic standards compared to obama or clinton or bush '01 tax cut. and while republicans are distracted by trying to light these cultural wars constantly, that is leaving a lot of room for biden to move forward on his economic agenda and hold democrats who in the past might have been somewhat leery of being tagged with that big government label. >> what does this spell -- i hear you saying it's actually giving democrats opportunity, but clearly republicans see opportunity in this culture war stuff. what does that ultimately spell for the agenda of the gop? >> so i do think, you know, it's an open question whether trying to run entirely on culture war, the democrats are trying to erase america as we know it, is a winning strategy for republicans in 2022 and 2024. there is an audience for that message. it is the driving, kind of animating concern of the gop. one poll by the conservative ethics and public policy center, 90% of republicans said christianity in america is under assault. 75% of republicans in another poll say discrimination against whites is as big a problem as bias against minorities. those are the issues that move the gop coalition. but two things, one, while they're focused on that in practical terms between now and 2022, i think this means the democratic moderates are going to feel much more comfortable supporting biden on a very aggressive economic agenda, and less fearful of being tagged with big government. and second, one thing we know from past generations, this is not the majority agenda. in he 7-8 elections it's never happened before in the modern party systems since 18 2k8. and you see you've been reporting that rather than trying to craft a majority agenda, they're looking for ways to make it tougher for that majority to vote and that's why beyond covid, clearly the biggest decisions democrats face is whether they will pass hr-1, democracy form, and voting rights act, which will require them changing the filibuster. >> always fascinating. ron, thank you. >> i wish i had a poem back for you. >> we'll work on it later. up next -- biden said his rescue dogs will come back to d.c. after being back in delaware after an aggressive incident. plus, two historic portraits are back in the white house after former president trump took them down. in aurora. 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and we do understand, right, they're going to be back? >> right. this is something that i reported on late last night. this is an incident that happened with major, who got excited, who had been a bit on the unruly side, my sources tell me, at the white house, he's the dog that sort of charges, barks, puts a little more fear in terms of control into some of the staff. and there was an incident that press secretary jennifer psaki just confirmed during the briefing that happened last monday. she said this person walked into a room and major was surprised by an unfamiliar face, and that there was an incident that resulted in an injury. the person was treated by the white house medical unit and did not need further treatment, but it was enough, brianna, that the dogs were taken back to delaware. the people i spoke to said this incident prompted that removal. jen psaki said today it was a preplanned trip back to delaware because dr. biden is away on the west coast for a couple of days, until wednesday, on a work trip. however, you know, as a dog person, you know, dogs are -- they can be sketchy in new places. this is a new house. this is new staff members. these are security agents standing around. even on the south lawn, if they're out there roaming, you never know who's going to pop up during their rounds, maintenance workers. certainly it can be a surprising and stressful situation for our k-9 friends and major, he's a young pup and this is something that happened. >> i think a lot of people relate to this, so i think that's why they're so curious about it, right? when you have pets, sometimes they're unpredictable here. i do want to ask you about some changes biden is making at the white house by bringing back some of the presidential portraits that trump had taken down. tell us about this. >> my colleague reported on this during trump's administration last summer, he had removed two officials portraits, one of bill clinton and one of president george w. bush that were in the entrance of the grand foyer of the white house. you could see them right when you come down from the executive residence. he removed them and put them in an room a lot of people don't go in and i bet a lot of people didn't even know they were gone. this is incredibly interesting. as the final vote on president biden's historic relief bill there's hypocrisy blooming on capitol hill. republican senator tom cotton is complaining that some of the relief money will go to prisoners tweeting that under the plan two of the nation's most infamous mass murderers, the boston bomber and charleston church killer will get money which is something that was echoed online by fox news. its headline emphasized that the funds come right from taxpayer pockets. here's more from the senator from arkansas. >> reporter: they had a chance on saturday morning to stop checks from going to prisoners, from going to the boston bomber, for instance, and on that vote they declined. every single democrat wanted to continue the practice of sending checks to prisoners. >> is that true that dylann roof, the person who walked into that church is going to get a check in. >> anyone who has tax forms filed will get a check. the democrats had a chance to stop that from happening saturday morning and they voted it down. i suspect you'll be hearing more of that on the campaign trail. >> this sounds awful but we've learned it's not so simple and that the senator has a double standard because he was silent when the trump administration did the same thing. president trump also approved of sending covid relief money to, yes, prisoners. cnn's daniel dale is here to further explain to us. daniel, the senator points out that democrats could have changed the rule to ban prisoners from these checks, but they did not. i think a lot of people would wonder why not. tell us, first, what the republicans did under president trump. perhaps that will inform this. >> reporter: both relief bills passed by the republican-controlled senate in 2020 and signed in 2020 by republican president donald trump included checks for prisoners. this is not new. let me walk through the timeline because it's clarifying. in march the republican-controlled senate unanimously aprivate cares act including 1,200 checks. president trump sign that had bill. nothing in that bill prohibited prisoners from receiving those checks. now, after the signing, the irs came out and said no prisoners allowed. prisoners can't get checks. prisoners said, hey, wait a minute, that's not in the law. they filed a class action lawsuit and in october a judge sided with them. now senator cotton tweeted this week that the only reason prisoners got money under this bill was because of a liberal judge. know the reason prisoners got money was because there was no prohibition on prisoners getting money in the bill so that was march and then we go to october and then we're in december. republicans still control the senate. they put forward a second covid relief bill for up to $600 checks, nothing in that bill prohibited prisoners from getting money so prisoners did get money. senator cotton's office told me that that was an up or down senate vote so there was no chance on the senate floor to offer an amendment to ban prisoners. that's true. however, republican leaders could have written that language into the bill before it got to the floor. they didn't so. go march, october, december and now in this year president biden is in office with a democratic controlled senate and another bill with up to $1,400 checks. this time senator could the top and a fellow republican put forward an amendment to ban prisoners from receiving checks. democrats did reject that amendment. they voted to keep allowing prisoners to receive the money. senator cotton's office says it makes accepts for him to attack democrats for sending money because this was the first time there was a specific vote explicitly on the issue of prisoners getting money. okay, that's fair, but i still think it's deceptive for him to wage this attack on democrats alone without even mentioning that his own votes, his own party and his own previous president approved money for prisoners themselves, brianna. >> it's very interesting as you lay it out like that. you can see there's a lot of nuance. reasonable people, i would expect, would say why is someone like dylann roof getting taxpayer money? what is the argument for giving relief checks to regular prisoners? >> reporter: prisoner advocates say, look, they are not all dylann roof in prison. a lot of people are serving short-term sentences and will get out soon and need to support themselves. it's hard to get a job during the pandemic and there's many costs prisoners face including phone calls, text messages to loved ones and medical co-pays and this relieves the people on the outside as well. >> interesting. daniel dale, thank you so much for take us through that. we're staying on our breaking new. the queen has finally weighed in on meghan markle's explosive interview with her sit-down interview. here's how the royals plan to handle it. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. thank you! hey, hey, no, no limu, no limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. queen elizabeth breaking her silence today over that bombshell interview from prince harry and meghan markle where they accused the royal family of racism and yanking their security protection. a statement from buckingham palace indicates that, quote, the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for harry and meghan, quote. we have so much more on that staumt and how the royal family intends to address the couple's claims. plus, that final vote on president biden's $1.9 trillion relief bill will get under way no later than tomorrow morning. it is expected to pass, and when and if it does those paychecks could come to you in a matter of days from the bank accounts of millions of struggling americans. we'll talk about that timeline. and it feels so good to be able to say this today. new infections of covid-19 are consistently declining this week, and, yes, while that sounds lik
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