Administration is preparing a Sweeping Campaign to encourage americans to take the covid19 vaccine when its available to them and as vaccine supply increases. And it all cant come soon enough. The centers for Disease Control and prevention report more than 600 cases of the more contagious covid19 variants from the united kingdom, brazil and south africa across 33 states. According to the latest forecast models, an estimated 631,000 americans would have died from covid19 by june 1st. The mounting of a real federal response to the covid pandemic for the first time comes alongside the Historic SecondImpeachment Trial of the former president who failed and refused to lead that fight. The second Impeachment Trial of the accused insurrectionist donald j. Trump begins on tuesday. It does not appear that there would be enough Senate Republicans to join in convincing the former failed president of his role in inciting the mob that attacked the capitol one month ago on january 6th and thats not stopping House Democrats from making the case against the failed former president. In their impeachment brief they write President Trumps conduct must be declared unacceptable in the clearest and unequivocal terms. This is not a partisan matter. His actions threatened the very foundation on which all other political debates and disagreements unfold. One of the failed former president s attorneys, he was able to cobble together a couple after his Previous Team resigned en masse last week. The former president will not testify or provide any written statement for the trial arguing, quote, it is a Publicity Stunt in order to make up for the weakness of the house managers case. Lead impeachment manager congressman jamie raskin of maryland said any official accused of inciting violence should welcome the chance to tiff. His immediate refusal speaks volumes and establishes an inference supporting his guild. Joining me now is alexy mccannon, msnbc contributor. There are two worlds coming together. We are learning more and more information and more and more videos are coming out and more and more arrests are being made and more and more members of congress are relating their experience on january 6th as we approach february 8th, tuesday, when some of those people who were under threat are going to sit ostensibly as some sort of juror on the trial of President Trump and reconciling those two worlds seems to be difficult particularly if youre a republican senator right now. Thats exactly right and good morning, ali. We are seeing these two kind of americas in the two parties in the way theyre approaching the Impeachment Trial of former President Trump. As you laid out, democrats are going to make the case that his words directly incited the insurrection and theyll remind folks that the terror and violence that members of both sides of the aisle experienced that day. We saw some of this previewed on the house floor earlier this week and on Instagram Live by alexandria ocasiocortez and its clear how republicans feel and the case theyll put forward. 45 republican senators gathered to say it is unfair to put a former president on trial. You know as well as i do that many legal scholars agree that that is not the case. You can put a former president on trial in the senate, but were going to see republicans continue to kind of deny what happened and try to get the country and the American People to move forward, and i think thats the big picture, ali. Democrats know theyre not going to convince enough republicans to come to their side, but i think at a certain level both sides are trying to influence the court of public opinion. Theyre trying to brand the other party to the American People and not just ahead of 2022, but in the immediate aftermath of President Trumps term. Whats happening in the Republican Party as it is now . We have two members who have now been fined for going past the metal detectors. Lauren bobert of colorado who wants to take her gun everywhere she goes. Marjorie taylorgreene that the Republican Party refuses to censure so all of they expelled her from her committees. There were 11 republicans who said okay, enough is enough. There are boundaries to how big the tent is that is called the Republican Party. Yes, in theory, but then you compare it to the 61 House Republicans who voted to condemn liz cheney who supported in support of impeachment of President Trump and that tells you exactly where the Republican Party is right now, ali. It is still controlled at least in part by donald trump even though he is no longer the official leader of their party. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that herself in the press conference. We see folks like jeff gates embody the trumpian style of politics even in his absence and thats really what theyre allowing themselves to do while at the same time weve seen how senator Mitch Mcconnell has found himself at a crossroads trying to balance those two factions of the party. I talked to a republican strategist earlier this week, the thing that people dont understand is the more attention that Marjorie Taylorgreene is getting the stronger shes getting among gopers and the trump base and those folks feeling not totally politically homeless and looking for the next iteration of trump because hes no longer serving and theyre finding that in folks like Marjorie Taylorgreene. It is amazing how the story is unfolding. Alexi, good to see you, my friend. Alexi mccannon. The senior fellow of budget and policy prior sxits from 2009 to 2011 bernstein was the economic adviser to Vice President joe biden and if you recall back then, jareds job was helping and overseeing the recovery act. Jared, you and i met at the white house in 2009 and argued about the effectiveness of that stimulus program, but what hindsight has taught us that you were right and i was wrong. There was no danger of doing too much back then. The only danger was of doing too little and in 2021, we find ourselves in exactly the same position. Theres no danger of doing too much because you can always pare it back. You can always raise Interest Rates if you need to slow the economy down and there is always a danger of doing too little. Of course. Not only do i agree with that and thats at the heart of the president s Emergency Rescue plan. By the way, im no longer at the center of Budget Priorities and now im on the president s council of economic advisers, of course. Look, i think one of the most important recent data points underscoring what you just said is yesterdays jobs report. We are looking at a labor market that is in stall. We had 49,000 jobs created in january and if you look at the private sector, the most relevant lens, 6,000 jobs and thats essentially zero. We have Unemployment Rates of black and hispanic persons who are around 9 . Compared to a year ago, 2. 5 million women are out of the labor market and many of them relating to care out of the market and its low balling. The cost of inaction is precisely as you suggest, not only do we fail to get our arms finally around this virus and control it, but produce and distribute the vaccine and earlier in the show you talked about interventions the administration was engaged in to significantly ramp up that effort, but if we dont control the vaccine control the virus and distribute the vaccine we simply wont be able to launch the robust, inclusive, racially equitable recovery that this president and Vice President envisioned. So some of the stuff that my viewers will focus on is how much money are people getting. Who gets it and when will they get it . Were talking about 1400 added to the 600 and you get the 2,000 magic number everyone was talking about. Some of these republican senators seem to be meaningfully engaged in trying to come to something that they can expect. Were not budging on the 1400. What can you budge on, who gets the 1400 or the cutoffs to who gets the 1400. As usual you are pulling us into Policy Analysis as well you should. There are three parameters in place. The cutoff, who gets it, the amount and the phaseout. The conversations the president has had in recent days is focused on two things. How much folks get and the phaseout and the thresholds are in there, as well. He is according to comments hes made in the last few days and very much locked in to the 2,000, 600 in december and 1400 in the American Rescue plan and he believes thats what it will take not just low income, but middle income families get ahead of this crisis and be able to deal with housing issues theyre facing and with accumulating debt theyre facing and just making ends meet. The phaseout range according to recent conversations is in play in the sense and the president said this yesterday that when you get up to 250, 300,000 theres a cogent argument that folks dont need the money and thats one of the parameters thats in play and ive heard him say hes quite locked in to the 2,000. Jared, let me because youre an economist, i want to remind people, when you talk about a highend tax cut. If you gave the equivalent 1400 to someone in the they might go skiing in switzerland. If you give to to low income, it will be spent in our economy probably local to where that person lives. Im glad you used that kind of a breakdown. People have been critical of the targeting of these checks. When you give it to the top 1 , let me tell you how much people get from these direct Income Payments and that number is zero. Even the current plan phases out well before then, but yes, i think its important to recognize that the targeting here really emphasizes those with the least means. So i think that the increase in income to folks at the bottom from the direct payments is something in the nature of 20 . In the middle its about 5 and in the very top its 0 . This is a this is still a progressive plan and what youre hooking it up to is where the need is and what people will do with those dollars which is theyll go out and spend them in some cases. In other cases theyll probably hold on to them for a few months, perhaps to meet these accumulated debt burdens that i referenced in my earlier comments. Jared, always good to see you. Thank you for joining us. Jared bernstein is on the president s council of economic advisers. Hes a former Chief Economist and Policy Adviser to Vice President biden and a good friend of the show. Have a good morning. Thank you. Speaking of the pandemic, we are just a day away from the 55th Super Bowl and as cases keep climbing dr. Anthony fauci has a message ahead of one of the most watched events in america. Watch the super bowl on tv. Enjoy it. Have a party in your house with your family, with the people who are there, as difficult as that is, at least this time around just lay low and cool it. And today on the eve of super bowl sunday, The First Black Female coach in the nfl, Jennifer King joins Tiffany Cross live and shell talk about how the pandemic has affected the league and thats on Cross Connection at the 10 00 a. M. Hour and first more velshi after this. M. Hour and first more velshi after this [ Engines Revving ] its amazing to see them in the wild like th shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. Ing gain flings,e revs ] their laundry smells more amazing than ever. Ah, honey isnt that the dogs towel . Hey, me towel su towel. 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The former administration set the previous cap at 15,000 which was an historic low and an analysis done for the center of American Progress fund that during the Trump Presidency, the number of admitted refugees dropped by 86 which by the way, was the goal. The u. S. Admitted 88,000 refugees during trumps entire term in office compared to 85,000 refugees in 2016 alone under president obama. The Trump Administration tore apart 5,500 families at the southern border and because they failed to keep records of locations in some cases, children have been separated from their families for over three years, also by design. Officials say over 1,000 children are still separated and biden will create a task force focused on reunification. The most important order is aimed at tackling the root causes of migration by increasing assistance aid to Central America. Assistance is needed because their currently 79. 5 Million People who have been forced to flee their homes globally. Historically, mexico provided the majority of Asylum Seekers into the United States. Trump chose to focus that, but its long changed. Now the reality is the biggest influx comes from Central America from those countries in the middle of your screen. Honduras, guatemala and el salvador. People from those countries are forced to flee because of high rates of violence and poverty. It does appear that the current changes could have promising longterm effects. Joining me now is staff writer for the atlantic, caitlin dickerson. Good to see you again. Good for you to be with us. Thanks. I want to point to the photograph that the world came to see on april 3, 2019, of Oscar Alberto ramirez he was drowned with his daughter valeria as they were trying to come into the United States. Theyre from el salvador. They had applied. They were in mexico and had a visa and were applying for asylum in the United States. He had been working for 10 a day at a papa johns. They were trying to find a better life for themselves. Got to the border and were told that the wait would be weeks or months and were turned away so he tried to swim across the rio grande and the result was that death. Most of the people coming across that border are coming across for a better life and theyre not actually trying to mess with the system. They are literally escaping a terrible, crushing life of poverty and Gang Violence and sexual assault. Thats right. And im glad you brought up that familys story because its really kind of legendary, in a way, in the Migrant Camps where some Asylum Seekers have been living for almost two years at this point, and they remind me of a family i was writing about and i went to guatemala this summer to understand in greater depth what it was that brought them to the camp and led them to want to live outside under the elements, unexposed with no real end in sight. What i learned about families like the one you just mentioned or the one that i was writing about is that there was this real focus under the last administration in trying to root out the legitimate Asylum Seekers from the migrants. What is so true from anyone who has basic knowledge is its always a combination of the perfect storm of government corruption, of rampant Gang Violence and of very, very deep and pervasive poverty and you can even add to, that Climate Change which makes the Poverty Issues more difficult for People Living in agricultural communities that have been decimated because their land is not able to yield crops