president joe biden preparing or the hold his first formal news conference tomorrow afternoon in the wake of the mass shootings in boulder and atlanta. he's calling on congress to pass gun legislation to prevent more senseless shooting deaths. the president is said to be considering executive action on guns to prevent more deadly violence. let's discuss now. cnn's white house correspondent john harwood is here as well as our cnn political commentator david axelrod. he is a former obama senior adviser. gentlemen, good evening. thank you so much for joining. john, i'll start with you. the white house is dealing with a slate of urgent crisis, guns, voting rights, immigration, coronavirus. president biden's first big news conference is tomorrow. is he ready to get grilled on all of this? >> well, i think he's ready for it, don, but i think he's going to illustrate through this experience why he has waited to hold a news conference. as david knows better than anyone because he's lived it professionally, presidents like to control what the political conversation is about. joe biden has been very purposely focused on his covid relief plan. now he's preparing an infrastructure climate, human capital plan called build back better that he wants to pass. what he's facing is, as is typical for white houses, events that they cannot control. so he's got a border challenge, crisis, problem, that he's not eager to have the focus of attention on because that's a more divisive issue than what he's spending his time on or prefers to spend his time on. now the gun issue as well. crises of two mass shootings and calls for gun control. that's also a difficult issue. more difficult issue than the ones he would rather be paying attention on. he'll do his best to steer the conversation back to what he wants to talk about. but you can only do that so much. >> david, i know you want to respond to what john said. the filibuster, he is likely going to be asked about that. if you were advising him, would you say to chuck the filibuster torsion get as much done as possible while you still have the political power? go on, david. >> look, it really doesn't matter what i say or he says. if he doesn't have 50 votes plus one, kamala harris, to change the rules, he's not going to get rid of the filibuster. right now he doesn't have 50 votes to get rid of the filibuster, and he needs the support of senator manchin and senator sinema on other things. so this is complicated stuff. and that is why these press conferences become complicated. i was smiling because i've lived this nightmare before. you know, eight days ago, when they called the press conference, it was before the two gun massacres brought guns back to the forefront of our debate. it was before the blow-up with russia and china. it was before north korea tested ballistic missiles today in a clear challenge to the biden administration. that's the presidency. you go to work every day and you have the best laid plans, and then things happen, and you have to respond to them. and he'll have to respond to a number of these things including the question about the filibuster. >> john, president biden will continue his push for gun legislation tomorrow. we're told that he's also considering executive actions. what could that entail? >> well, you know, david alluded a moment ago, you have to have the votes to do whatever you want. on gun issues, the background check is very popular. polls, 70, 80%. does not have the votes to clear a senate fbi. filibuster. even if you didn't have a senate filibuster, he doesn't have 50 votes to fast senate weapons ban which he's also embraced. of necessity, he will be turning to executive action. he was going to do some of these things anyway. there are steps he can take. they won't be dramatic steps. they are steps that gun control advocates say might make some difference. you could regulate ghost guns. the guns put together without serial numbers. subject the people who exchange those firearms to background checks. there's money you can put into community violence prevention because mass shootings are not the only kinds of gun violence that you want to prevent. you want to stop the everyday drip, drip, drip of gun death that's occur in major cities around the country and there are some things you can do administratively to strengthen the background system that exists already. even though you want legislation to make it much more robust than it is right now. >> david, i want to talk about immigration. because that is -- john mentioned it just a moment ago as something that's critical right now. when they announce this press conference, a lot of this wasn't happening, including the migrants who are showing up at the border, children. so that's a topic, of course, in this news conference. president biden is making vice president harris the point person to deal with the flow of migrants at the southern border. this is the first key issue of their agenda she's getting tasked with. this is a big moment for her. >> it is, don, and one of the reasons they wanted to announce this before the press conference. they might have gotten a question about exactly what her portfolio was. people have begun to raise that question so they announced that today. it is a discreet, an important assignment she's gotten, to deal with the central american nations from which these immigrants and refugees are leaving to try to get their cooperation and change in conditions that are causing these people to flee. it is a difficult assignment. biden himself had an assignment like this in the obama administration and had hard time making progress with it. so she's taking on a very difficult assignment. but it is an important one, and it also is the first foreign policy assignment, diplomatic assignment that she's received as vice president. so yes, it is a big moment for her. >> david, john, thank you very much. i appreciate your time. the white house says there is an ongoing process on executive actions on guns. does president joe biden need to use his executive power now? let's discuss now. legendary news man dan rather is here. dan, always a pleasure. good to see you. thanks for appearing on the program. here we go again. this is a uniquely american situation. another mass shooting. are we doomed to repeat this over and over and over? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me on. and congratulations on your new book. in answer to your question, look, sooner or later, and i'm convinced it will come someday. but sooner or later, common sense has to start prevailing. there is no sign it will at the moment. we have to understand that what is happening right now with the gun violence crisis is similar to what's happening in some of the other crises, including the pandemic. and that is that any number of politicians are playing a divisive game. they want to keep the country divided on certain issues. for example, the federal, national republican leadership with its nra allies has continually and continues to stoke animosities and grievances as a way to hold on to and wield power. and let us note that a lot of democrats fall in line right behind them. now everybody knows it's no secret that a lot of this has to do with sheer money. there's a lot of money to be made. in the sell of guns and ammunition. a lot of money is paid to lobbyist and to have politicians vote the way they vote. this is in contrast to the country as a whole. poll after poll shows a rather sizable majority of americans in favor of having, say, a delay in when you can buy a gun. a three-day delay. or a two-day delay. you buy it, you pick it up two or three days later, together with background checks. this is very popular. but year after year, decade after decade, it doesn't get put into law. what is needed is a common sense approach. if you can get the politicians out of this, i'm convinced americans of good will on various sides of this issue. would get together for some common sense things. you have to have a driver's license to drive a car. you have to be trained driving an automobile. >> you have to have insurance. >> a seatbelt. and you have to have insurance. i mean, all these things we have. and you know, we're getting the reputation in this country overseas, even among our friends in places like australia and new zealand, never mind in china and russia. we're getting the reputation for a country of people that can't do anything. we have a terrible gun violence situation. we can't do, we don't do anything about it. we have a terrible pandemic and we have trouble getting our people even to wear masks. this is dangerous for the country far beyond just any one issue. >> i agree. i agree. listen. >> can't do anything. >> yeah. you're right about that. just a couple years ago, i had to get my driver's license reupped. periodically, you have to get your driver's license, go back in, do the test, whatever it takes to get that driver's license renewed. and so we do need to look at some sensible gun legislation. but again, we have to stop looking at it through the extremes that if someone, that it can't even be looked at just by saying you want to look at how it could possibly be improved. that means you're taking, you want to take all the guns away. that is the extreme people go to. and we have to stop doing that. it is not helpful or productive to anyone. dan, i ned to move on because i want to talk about something very important. you draw lots of comparisons between the historic rights, fight for civil rights and the path forward to curb gun deaths. what does that path look like? what do you mean by that? >> what i mean by that, i'm old enough, don, to remember the early stirs of the civil rights movement with dr. martin luther king. as you know, i was honored to cover dr. king in the early 1960s. for the longest time, everybody said, listen, things won't change. there aren't going to be any real change, particularly if the deep south when it comes to a thing like voting rights for african americans. but slowly, painfully, slowly, with determination of a lot of people, you know, martin luther king himself would say that the heroes in the movement were the rank and file people who turned out for protests in the streets, nonviolent protests. if the cause is just, nobody wants to preach about this. but if the cause is just and enough people are determined to have the cause prevail, progress can be made. it can be done with gun control. you just on something very important. you touched on it. you don't start with extremes. people who own guns, many of them have to be assured nobody is coming after their guns. if they have a squirrel gun, a hunting gun, a practice gun, nobody is coming after their gun. we're talking about a few days' delay in letting people pick up guns they bought so you can have a background check. you start with one sweet step at a time. this is what happened with the civil rights movement. while we're still in progress with the civil rights movement in the 21st century, progress was made during the '60s, mid to late '60s into the '70s. it can be done. so people shouldn't lose heart about the gun violence. it is hard not to lose heart when we have these heart breaking situations such as we've had in atlanta and boulder these last few days. >> amen. thank you. dan rather, always a pleasure. you be well. thanks. >> thank you. the former first lady michelle obama urging americans to support the sweeping senate voting rights bill to expand voting access nationwide. we'll talk on valerie jarrett about the battle stacey abrams calls a moral imperative. >> it is not only i think an existential crisis that we face, it is a moral imperative that we not allow a procedural rule to destroy the most durable democracy the world has known. ur goes beyond just soothing sensitive skin? 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"new york times" best seller number one spot. >> thank you very much, valerie. you helped out. i appreciate all the help by holding the book interview with me. i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i want you to listen, before we get started. let's listen to senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, what he had to say about the bill today, and then we'll talk. >> the turnout in the 2020 election was the highest since 1900. states are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever. >> so isn't that, isn't that high turnout exactly why they want to roll back voting access now? >> well, of course it is. 43 states are trying to pass hundreds of bills to suppress the vote, to reduce early the number of days people could early vote. to get rid of no excuse absentee voting. to prevent voting on weekends when we know that many times, that's when black people particularly will vote. the souls to the polls initiative where people to go vote right after they go to church. trying to take all of these different measures to target how they are suppressing the vote is undemocratic. and the notion that you have to suppress the vote in order to win an election, or as we said in our letter, picking your voters rather has not the voters picking you. it's going the wrong way. that is what made us decide to work with a grm of voting rights, civil rights organizations, to bring this issue to the senate to put pressure on them to do the right thing. and to do it at the federal level, where we are making it easier to vote early. extending the days that you can vote early. allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to pre register because evidence shows that you vote in your fist election, you're likely to become a lifelong voter. same day registration. there are lots of ways across our country, we should be making it easier to vote. and since the states, 43 of them are taking the opposite action, this is why we need to set parameters that guarantees every american the opportunity to vote in a free and fair election. one more thing, don. >> yeah? >> i was just reading about this in georgia. they want to criminalize your ability to take food and drink. >> and water. >> to people who are at the polls. so if my 92-year-old mother has been standing in line for hours, i can't bring her something to eat or drink? what it does is discourage people from standing in line future a very long time. that's outrageous. >> you know, we had a similar conversation. i write about this. my grandmother had to deal with how many bubbles in a bar of soap, how many beans in a jar, or jelly beans in a jar. your 92-year-old mother, i'm sure, either witnessed that or it was happening in her time. it seems like they're trying, it seems like this is the second sort of jim crow, the new jim crow. >> yes. >> i want people to know how important it is for them to get in touch, to be in touch with what their local politicians are doing. not just maybe every two years for a primary or every four years for a national presidential debate. >> well, that's exactly why. you need to put pressure on your state and local elected officials right now. the legislatures that are passing these laws at the state level. but you also have to put pressure on your senators to say we need a national standard. we shouldn't be at the whim of these individual states that are designing strategically -- let's call it what it, don, to suppress the black vote, the brown vote and young people. >> yeah. >> very strategically, very deliberately. >> and poor people too. >> and the only counterbalance to that is us, the american people. and we are a mighty force to be rock conned with. >> it's not going to affect rich people. but like you said, black and brown, marginalized people and poor people. and it restricts them from getting to the polls. not everyone has as much access as the next person. i want to talk about this next. i know you want it to pass. is it likely going anywhere as long as mitch mcconnell has the ability to filibuster it. barack obama brought this up at john lewis' funeral. he was talking about restoring the voting rights act. let's listen to it. >> if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another jim crow relic, in order to secure the god-given rights of every american, then that's what we should do. >> jim crow relic. he said it. do you think democrats stand a chance of passing this bill? >> i think they do. but if it means they have to get rid of the filibuster to do the right thing, then that's exactly what we should do. i watched for eight years how mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans tried to block every single measure we put forward that would have been helpful to the american people. so when you have that kind of an recalcitrant,s on nat senate, republicans, you put us in a position where there is no other choice. so i think clear-eyed members of the senate ought to think about what is best for our country, what strengthens our democracy, and then push that forward. if that means we have to get rid of the filibusters to do so, that's a small price to pay to enfranchise millions and millions of americans who will be disenfranchised if these bills around the country pass and become law. >> i want to you listen again to the former president. he said this on a recent podcast. the new podcast that he co-hosts with bruce springsteen. it was released just a few weeks ago before the shootings in boulder and atlanta. he talked about no meaningful gun reforms passed after sandy hook, and then a few years later in charleston. here it is. >> in making a statement issued from the white house, i'll say i'll want to go to the funeral, but i don't want to speak. i don't have anything left to say. i feel like i've used up all my words. nothing i've been able to say, whether making practical, rational arguments, emotional arguments, i've shown anger in speaking about this. i've shown sorrow, and nothing seems to have any impact. i'm out of words. and of course, they ask that i speak. and i -- concluded, it was part of the job. i don't have the luxury. but i was stuck. i had nothing to say. >> so valerie, we all remember how powerful it was when he led that congregation singing amazing grace after the shooting that happened at emanuel baptist church. how do you think he's feeling this week? >> he's feeling the same anguish that many americans are feeling. this senseless gun violence that continues to happen over and over again and we can't get republicans in congress to take the most basic steps of keeping guns out of the hands to those who are a danger to themselves or others. the vast majority of the american people support background checks. why would you give a lethal weapon who can't pass a background check? and yet, because of the nra, and the fact that the republicans are more accountable to them than they are to us, they have a strangle hold over the senate. the only counter force is the american people. >> valerie jarrett, thank you. thank you so much. i really appreciate you joining us. thank you. >> thank you, don. thank you for putting the spotlight on this issue. ♪ amazing grace ♪ ♪ how sweet the sound ♪ ♪ that saved a wretch like me ♪ why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? because a good night's rest is where muscles recover, and our minds are restored. the new sleep number 360 smart bed is temperature balancing. and it helps keep you asleep by sensing your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. perfect for those relaxing weekends. itchy? 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>> well, i think the american public has to demand bipartisanship. unfortunately, a lot of the pressure from the public has been to go the other way. to stay in your corner or you'll have a primary run against you. mitch mcconnell has not shown any concern for the traditions. of the senate when it came to the bipartisan traditions about supreme court judges. he used every tactic he could to steal supreme court seats. so he is picking and choosing which issues he wants to call for in terms of bipartisanship and senate traditions and which ones he doesn't. and this can't be tolerated. when it comes down to it, as you were talking about, from stacey abrams to others, the fact is this voting rights issue is pre preeminent. it is more important to protect the voting rights of americans than to preserve the filibuster in its current form. as senator warnock said, the new senator from georgia, the idea that you have to protect the rights of the senate at the expense of the people throughout the united states is an absurdity. if this is a democracy, you have to protect voting rights first. if the filibuster can be preserved in other ways, so be it. there may need to be an exception made, at least with regard to voting rights, which are the foundation of the entire democracy. the filibuster is not the foundation of this democracy. >> okay, so listen. explain -- and i don't think this is contradictory, but explain to me, because you're saying to have bipartisanship, some members from both parties need to agree on what the problem is. whether the filibuster is on the table or not. you admit that mccain-feingold wouldn't be possible today. so is killing the filibuster the only way to get anything done? >> well, you may have to modify the filibuster in order to get some things done, some critical things. maybe you make temporary exceptions. man you carve out the voting rights, which i think would make sense. but nobody ever intended the filibuster would be used or the political partisanship. in fact, the founders of the country don't even believe in political parties. and the whole filibuster thing dame caiman because -- >> wait, wait, wait, wait. hang on. that's a very good point. can you start over? people at home, are you listening? can you start over, senator? i think what you're saying is very important. >> what aspect? >> the founders of the country not even believing in political parties. >> yeah. james madison, many of the founders, particularly james madison, set up the senate the way they did because they feared political parties. they called it faction. it was written in the federalist papers and other key writings. so they feared this. it wasn't even intended that there be political parties dominating our government when these rules were made. it was a procedural ruling about 1806 that said you can have unlimited debate which is very unusual. usually in a parliamentary body, somebody can do something called moving the previous question, which means if a majority wants to cut off the debate, they can. so this is a very unusual. "the economist" wrote the other day there is basically no other let legislature in the world that has this. i saw some courageous filibusters over time but it wasn't about supporting your party every time. it was often a sole personal like bill proxmire of wisconsin fighting for the genocide tree. or as mr. smith goes to washington, jimmy stewart getting up and saying hey, there's corruption here. it wasn't about sticking with your party no matter what, even in the face of voter suppression as president obama said, the return of jim crow type laws, and frankly other issues such as gun control and other issues, where something has to give. dan rather said it well tonight on your show. at some point common sense has to prevail. and around the world, people are looking at us and saying what is wrong with a country that puts specific procedural rules, refusing to change them ahead of everything else. that makes us look foolish, incapable of governing ourselves. something has to give here. >> so former senator feingold, i don't know what's on your calendar and what your schedule looks like, but we're going to be talking about this. this is of utmost importance to the american people. i learned a lot. i know the viewers learned a lot. can you pencil us in and please come back to continue these discussions? because we learn so much from you. thank you, thank you, thank you for appearing. >> thank you. it is my pleasure. i'd love to come back. we at the american constitution society want to do everything you can to lift up this discussion about this critical aspect of our democracy. thank you so much, don. >> absolutely. be well, sir. prosecutors alleging the far right oath keepers coordinated with the proud boys before the riot. does it build a more damning case against them? and it's building up in your septic tank. but monthly usage of rid-x is scientifically proven to break down waste. maintain your septic tank with rid-x. so you're a small business, or a big one. you 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insurrection. kelly meg saying, at night we have orchestrated a man with the proud boys and i've been communicating with, and shen redacted, the leader. we will have the proud boys get in front of them and the comes cops will get between antifa and the proud boys. we will come in behind antifa and beat the hell out of them. i want to bring in doug jones, former democratic senator. from alabama. there's a lot more there. that was just a short excerpt. senator, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. so here what megs is talking about, joining force, planning tactic, discussing gear between the proud boys and the oath keepers. what does this new evidence give prosecutors? >> well, it gives them an be incredible tool of conspiracy. by its very nature it is showing an agreement which is the essence of a conspiracy charge . the oath keepers team leader referencing the former president donald trump. trump said it will be wild, right? that's what it says in this thing. it's going to be wild. he wants us to make it wild. that's what he is saying. he called us all to the capitol and wants us to make it wild. sir yes, sir. gentlemen, we are heading to d.c. pack your -- they were more evidence that rioters thought they were taking orders from the former president. does that put him, the former president in any legal jeopardy? >> it is certainly another piece of the puzzle, don. like any trial, cases are built like a puzzle. there are pieces of the puzzle. what the prosecutors are doing, now, which by the way we're getting an amazing glimpse at what these cases are being built because they're putting forth this evidence to keep these guys in custody. the defense is trying to get people out on bond. the prosecution is trying to keep them there. what you're seeing is a remarkable speed and efficiency with what the justice department and the fbi are proceeding with. every case is like a puzzle. these pieces of the puzzle are getting put on the table. the prosecutor's role is to connect those pieces. to see if it approves something at the end of the day beyond a reasonable doubt. that's an important piece of the puzzle. it can't be the only piece. that piece alone won't be sufficient. they're going to continue to try to put the pieces of the puzzle together. i think for president trump, former president trump, as well as anybody else that either spoke at that rally or had any planning whatsoever to do with the events that occur on january 6. >> yeah. very familiar with that skyline behind you, senator. i lived there for a bit. and i don't think people realize how beautiful birmingham, alabama is. it's a beautiful city. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> it's a wonderful place. >> thank you. >> my pleasure, don. thanks. >> we'll be right back. my plaque psoriasis... ...the itching ...the burning. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. my psoriatic arthritis, made my joints stiff, swollen... painful. emerge tremfyant™ with tremfya®, adults with 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from a hospital near the ward where she represents. it's located in the austin neighborhood. a predominantly-black community, hardest hit by the virus. the penalty, after it was revealed loretta improperly distributed the vaccine at trump tower in chicago. >> to have this to happen is certainly a tragedy. >> reporter: the hospital ceo, george miller, said he authorized the vaccine clinic at trump-international hotel and tower in downtown chicago, earlier this month, for hospitality workers. in a memo obtained by cnn, miller told staff in part, quote, we were under the impression at the time restaurant and other front line hospitality industry workers were considered essential under the city of chicago's 1b eligibility requirements. a spokesperson with the hospital told me 68 of the 72 people who received the vaccine at trump tower were black, latino, or asian. four people, identified themselves as other or non-hispanic. >> reporter: still, the city said, some people who didn't meet the eligibility requirements received a shot. >> it's unacceptable, to let people jump the line. especially, if people have clouted their way through. >> reporter: also, facing scrutiny, the hospital's ceo dr. ahmed. ahmed owns a condo at trump tower worth $2 million, according to tax records. and late wednesday night, the board of trustees accepted ahmed's resignation. >> we have reprimanded the president and ceo. sanctions were placed, financial charges, as well. and that doesn't change the fact that what they did wrong is wrong. so, each story line that continues to come out a wrong. >> they have pulled from an area on the west side of chicago, where there is already a lack, or a -- a decreased amount of places that people can get vaccinated. >> reporter: dr. wendy mcdonald, who treats patients all over the city, said the people who need the vaccine the most could suffer. >> i think that the pulling of the vaccines for the area will hurt and harm the black and brown communities. >> the vaccine was for us, zip code areas. anything else, shouldn't have been. >> reporter: she says she doesn't want the people she served for nearly-two decades. >> the virus, i don't want it to get to you, no kind of way. >> reporter: to miss a lifesaving vaccine. >> everyone shouldn't have to pay for someone else's mistake. particularly when you know that they had nothing to do with it. >> reporter: adrienne broaddus, cnn, chicago. >> adrienne, thank you so much. very important story. and thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. a capsule a day visibly fades the dark spots away. new neutrogena® rapid tone repair 20 percent pure vitamin c. a serum so powerful dark spots don't stand a chance. see what i mean? neutrogena® dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. an ipad was sold for less than $24; a playstation for less than $16; and a 4k television for less than $2. go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. remember, shipping is always free.

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