Separation program. I specifically asked Secretary Mayorkas about accountability for members of the Trump Administration. You remember President Biden in the debate with Kristin Welker called the policy criminal. He promised a thorough investigation. This is the part of the conversation, when i asked him about that exact thing. The Attorney General is a member of the task force, or when he is confirmed will be a member of the task force. Will his role be to look into potential criminality of members of the Trump Administration . I think we are focused right now, jacob, on reuniting families and restoring them to the best of our abilities. This is an all of government effort. Its not just the department of Homeland Security and the department of justice. Its also the Department Of State working with our International Partners, the department of health and Human Services to bring whatever Health Relief we can to the families. And were going to work, as i mentioned, with international organizations. Our International Partners and the private sector also. This is all of america effort. Reporter how is it possible they can issue a report so it never happens again if theres not a holistic investigation into potential criminality of the Trump Administration . I havent excluded anything. What im focused on right now is reuniting the families. In terms of not happening again, our intention also in the task force, after the reunification of the families, after restoration of the families, to the best of our abilities and as fully as the law permits, is to build institutional safeguards to make sure it does not happen again. Reporter that includes financial restitution, Mental Health services to the families . We are looking at all opportunities to restore these families, to bring stability and health to them. As i said earlier this week, we are going to look at all the options and lean forward. Reporter craig, happens sometimes in a breezy border location. What i think was the most important thing you heard was that secretary of department of Homeland Security said, i have not excluded anything. I have not excluded anything when it comes to holding the Attorney General excuse me, holding the Trump Administration responsible for the potential criminality. It was a wide ranging interview. More in a little bit. Thats one of the headlines just for starters. Wide ranging interview that nearly cost you your life there, it would seem. Unflappable, as always, my friend. All of this coming on the heels of your new reporting about that growing backlog of unaccompanied migrant children. Who are the challenges for the Biden Administration here, jacob . Reporter well, in particular, capacity. The idea that children are being backed up in Border Patrol stations. Over 600 children have been in Border Patrol stations for over 72 hours. We saw what happened when children were held in the facilities, sleeping on concrete floors. Some sleeping outside in areas surrounded by chainlink fencing. I asked the secretary about that. What he said to me is very specifically, we will build capacity as we need or as needed. What that means, to translate for everybody is, there has been some discussion in the public about additional soft sided Tent Facilities. They call them soft sided springing up here along the border or hhs facilities. The secretary of Homeland Security did not rule out adding additional Tent Facilities in order to maintain, to process migrants coming to this country, craig. Stand by if you can. I want to bring in garrett. Garrett, in the last hour, you and our team on the hill there reported that the house is apparently not going to be voting on the comprehensive immigration plan. That was proposed by President Biden. What more can you tell us . Whats the holdup . Reporter the bottom line is the comprehensive Immigration Reform bill isnt quite ready for prime time. There had been hope they could vote on it the second or third week of march. Democratic leaders had been whipping the bill. They decided in the judiciary company, that controls immigration issues, that they wanted to take more time to work on the broader bill. What they are going to do is break off some of the Component Parts they know are more popular and perhaps more likely to get bipartisan support. Thats a portion that deals with dreamers, that deals with ago agricultural pieces while they work on the larger bill. That way they can keep the ball rolling on this issue. In this current configuconfigur with narrow democratic majorities, it continues to do so. They will do it piecemeal . Reporter for now. The two pieces they will try to break off and then see if he had can do a larger bill with Everything Else they want to accomplish further down the road. Maybe in april. Lets bring in Kelly Odonnell at white house. Kelly, first of all, how challenging has it been for the white house to address the Previous Administrations policies and try to implement its own Immigration Priorities . Reporter one of the big challenges is that there are theres a desire from the Biden Administration, to distinguish trump policies from Biden Policies. There are complicating factors that make this very challenging when it comes to the reality that they have to have facilities to care for children who come here without an adult. If people on the surface view that as somehow similar to the Government Holding and processing young people in some form of care, that that can look like what was going on during the Trump Administration even though the backdrop is different in terms of intention and policy. You add to it the issue of being much more mindful of covid precautions and needing more space in order to accomplish that. You see the addition of bed space, Housing Space for young people who have come to the country without supervision as a problem. What you hear from senior officials is that what they want to be able to do is to have plans in place through Immigration Legislation that garrett touched on, its going to take a while. They are left with choices that are bad, worse and more worse to choose from. Part of the thinking is that they have to put forward some of the things they believe in. The covid protections, protections of the young people and going through the due process. Some of that will look like detention that is in the most 30,000 foot level reminiscent of the Trump Administration, very different when you drill down. It does have real challenges. The unpredictability of certainly having people on the right saying that some of the Biden Policies and approaches to this might be driving the migration forward and north to increase this problem. Thats something the administration disagrees with. That is noise in the conversation about immigration, which has been a longterm problem. Its generational in terms of how dire it has been. It is affected by conditionsies under control of the Biden Administration. Its a big challenge and one that typically gets a lot of attention. With certain political stakeholder groups that have a different relationship with the white house than in the Previous Administration. Craig . Kelly, thank you. Jacob, did you want to chime in here . Reporter yeah, id love to. Listening to garrett and kelly talk about this, i think theres concern amongst advocates and activiss for the conditions they will be held in. While the secretary is not ruling out adding additional temporary facilities to process migrants that are coming to this country he did acknowledge that our reporting from Peter Alexander a couple days ago about 117,000 children potentially coming this year sounded like an accurate number. He did say to me when i asked him about the idea of detaining families in family detention centers, he said very specifically to me, jacob, a Detention Facility is not where a family belongs. If thats the case, if they move forward sort of with that line of thinking and eliminate what the government refers to as Family Residential centers there are three in this country that would be a very significant step by the department of Homeland Security and backing away from not only a policy of the Trump Administration where they were not releasing families but also the Obama Administration which set up the facilities. It will be all worked out in the details. I think thats a very significant admission, i guess, from the secretary of Homeland Security. Jacob, i also to hear the secretary talk about the possibility of compensation for these families who were separated under the Previous Administration and access to Mental Health services for folks who have not been following the story as closely as you, explain why those two things would be so important. Reporter well, the restitution is important because of the trauma these families went through. But also because it was blocked by the Trump Administration. Stephen miller literally they blocked an agreement that would have provided millions of dollars in Mental Health care to families separated by the Trump Administration in order to help them cope with the trauma they will have for a lifetime. It was only implemented ultimately because a judge ordered that it be implemented in a Settlement Agreement over the wishes of the white house. Now you hear from the white house itself that they are going to be looking at issues of restitution, financial compensation, Mental Health care for these families, which is a very, very significant step at making amends for what the government did and what the president himself called criminal. Jim, you are acutely aware of the politics surrounding immigration from your time in the white house and on the Campaign Trail as well. Talk to me about the risks here for the Biden White House if its Immigration Reform plans fail. Yeah, garrett has it right. This is the issue that has bedevilled the last several administrations. Its the most partisan political issue with swing voters. Theres not consensus in either party exactly how to go forward. Then you just have the operational challenges that jacob was talking about. From an operational standpoint, theyre not going to be able to fix what President Trump spent four years breaking in just the first six weeks. They have really tough decisions they have to make just operationally which will affect the politics, as kelly points out. When you look at how to move forward here, nancy pelosi is the smartest political operative in town. I think her decision to pull this bill apart and pass pieces of it is really smart. It provides some political bipartisanship. You can see Real Bipartisanship In The Ag And Tech Working Side of this, in some of the other pieces of this that we can move forward on while we start to look at some of these things. Talking to dhs officials who have been in their only about a month, they are just stunned by how broken all of this is operationally. We havent even started talking about the politics. What we need to do is find some bipartisanship, find some consensus on some of the easier issues while we figure out a path forward on issues that have stopped several administrations from passing comprehensive Immigration Reform. Garrett, beyond immigration, lawmakers on the hill dealing with a threat that has house lawmakers staying away from the capitol entirely today. I know theres work being done on the senate side. What is security like there today . How is it affecting the day . Reporter its hard to notice much of a difference. I have seen probably more National Guardsmen patrolling than i typically do. Remember, since the attack on the capitol in january, we have had the eightfoot high fence. We have had 5,000 National Guardsmen and a presence of police. They are visible today. Perhaps more noticeable because the house is out. So many staffers told, if you dont have to be here today, go ahead and stay home. Jacob, thank you for sharing that exclusive conversation with us with the new dhs secretary. Kelly odonnell, thank you. Jim, garrett, stick around for me for a few moments. A few moments ago, House Speaker nancy pelosi talked about two big votes that the house took on wednesday night. One of them a sweeping Voting Rights bill that in part will create automatic Voter Registration across the country. It will also expand early voting access as well. The speaker there just saying a few moments ago that it protects the right to vote and it would remove obstacles from participation. The second is a Police Reform bill named in honor of george floyd. Both of those being passed wednesday night. Garrett, take us through these two bills and what hurdles they could face in the senate. We will try to get garrett back up. Jim, let me come to you for a moment. Important to note that neither of these bills got a single republican vote in the house. That would suggest they face quite the Uphill Battle in the senate. With specific regard to the Voting Rights bill, jim, if they dont get 60 votes, it doesnt pass. Is this the time for democrats to seriously talk about getting rid of the filibuster if they really want to pass sweeping, transformative legislation . This is the issue thats always been the most likely cause of the filibuster to be take and part here. If you look what happened, we just had the highest Voter Turnout in 100 years. The response to that from republicans in State Capitols across the country has been to pass bills to restrict all the things that just made more people participate. Early vote, vote by mail, some of the access issues. Look at State Legislatures across the country and they are just ripping these things apart. Pelosi is doing what she should do, which is say, you want to play this game, we will pass a national bill. Democrats are going to be completely united on this. The question is going to be, do you get rid of the filibuster to pass this bill . Is this the bill you say to republicans, if you dont move, we are going to do this . I think its a very tough fight in the senate to remove the filibuster. Senator manchin has said under no circumstances would he vote for that. He reaffirmed that yesterday. This is going to be a big war inside the democratic party. I have always thought that Voting Rights is the most likely piece of legislation that will force this discussion and put this right on Chuck Schumers lap. Lets listen to the speaker. Shes now talking about the george floyd policing act. Those whose lives are lost. This is not without respect for those in blue who protect us. But it is that respect should not be a path to apathy in regard to those who are not honoring their profession and who are unduly doing violence to so many of our young people, especially in the black community. Here we are, the senate has received our Rescue Package earlier this week, on monday. Now they are acting upon it. Were very excited about the prospect at the end of this week or the beginning i dont know their schedule. It depends on how many bills and amendments some of the republicans want to be read. I dont know so much about the wisdom of that. However, or the value or the time of some of the people who are proposing that. Nonetheless, we will, in a matter of several days, be sending back to the house and then we will send to the president the American Rescue plan, the biden American Rescue plan which we are very, very proud of, which as we say, puts vaccines in the arms of the american people, money in the pockets of the american people, children in schools safely and workers back into their jobs, among other things. Were very proud of the legislation. We wish the senate well in its deliberations. This is Congress Working its will. We sent our product. They will act upon it. Apparently, there will be some changes. It will come back to the house. We will review it and send it to the president. Do you have any questions . Yes, sir. Okay. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with an update on a number of pieces of legislation. Garrett, lets start with the covid relief package, the speaker saying the senate is going to take it up today. They will make changes. They will send it back to the house. It sounds like this is on track to become law here in the next week or so. Reporter yeah, i think democrats have their fingers crossed that there arent any more surprises in the way. It should continue to work its way through the senate. By the end of the weekend. Right now we are waiting on a final report from the Congressional Budget Office which will say two things. Number one, the final cost of the senates changes to the bill. Tell us what that top line number is. Two, it will tell us if the Senate Version complies with the Reconciliation Rules which are the reasons the minimum wage provision got stripped out, a couple of other provisions in the bill had to be removed. We will get that combination of those two things that will allow the process to start on the senate floor. Then its a matter of up to 20 hours debate. This wide open amendment process, another opportunity really for republicans to force democrats to take difficult votes, essentially. Its unlikely the bill will substantially change during that process. That could be kind of a grueling late night affair before the senate as the speaker said hands its product back to the house to finish the job sometime early next week. Lets get our moneys worth out of you today. Thats the covid relief bill. Lets talk about the other two bills here, specifically hr1 and the George Floyd Justice in policing act we heard the speaker talk about. Give us a birds eye view of whats in those bills. Reporter two major democratic priorities that were both passed last night because of the security threat. House members wanted this passed and not be here today. In hr1, for the people act, theres a bunch of changes, all designed to reform the voting process, reform democracy. Election day a federal holiday. Creates Voter Registration, sameday Voter Registration for federal elections. Allows felons to be registered as soon as their terms are up. Lots of changes in that bill. Probably the heavier lift in the senate. Tough to see that one going far without a change to the filibuster. The other bill, the George Floyd Justice in policing act, has perhaps more legs in the senate. This is a bill that bans chokeholds nationwide, it changes the rules for federal no knock warrants, bans them for drug raids. It changes qualified immunity. Overhauls the process by which Police Officers or departments could be sued for instances of violence. This also passed in the last congress. There was a Senate Republican version. Never did the two sides really meet to iron out their differences. Its possible that could go differently this time. Theres much more of a con city con stit conuency for the republicans getting to 60 votes there. A much heaviest lift when it comes to the senate for the hr1. 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You can see the National Guard tanker trucks filled with water at a local high school in jackson, mississippi. They have been waking up to a nightmare. Every day waking up to a boil water advisory, which means that the water thats coming out of their pipes they cant trust. Thats if they have any water at all. Right now, nearly 200,000 residents here in jackson, mississippi, do not have drinkable water. They get by with donations, bottled water people are driving up to receive to get to the basic daily functions. Listen to what some of the residents told us. How are you with this family of five getting by right now . We dont know whats coming out of the water. I dont feel comfortable bathing in it. I dont feel comfortable brushing our teeth and cooking or anything else like that. We were without Running Water for 15 days. Reporter you brought these buckets out to actually collect water from the rain . To collect water from the rain, yes, maam. Reporter what do you do with the water once the rainfall comes . I take the smaller buckets and fill the larger buckets. Then i use a bucket to carry it in to flush the toilet. Reporter this is a layered issue. Two things. One, the mayor said most of the people who are affected are in south and west jackson. Those are predominantly black areas north of 83 of the population of those areas are black. Those communities are farthest from where the water pumps are. They are being most affected by this water crisis. Number two, when i spoke to the mayor, there seems to be confusion. The city saying we need more state funds. The state saying its a municipal problem. The mayor was clear in saying he thinks his residents are being unduly affected. He can only do so much without the state or federal assistance. One thing is for sure, in the year of our lord 2021, you shouldnt have people in the United States of america going three weeks without water. Thats one thing. Reporter not like this. 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I know you talked to the acting fema administrator. How is the Agency Getting vaccines to underserved communities . Reporter craig, this site in the heart of Downtown Philly really is a symbol of the Biden Administrations more muscular federal approach to the pandemic. You see these guys . These are u. S. Marines. They are helping ferry people into the building. If you go in there, the vast majority of the workers are also federal workers, dod, fema. This is all part of a grander plan to open these Mass Vaccination Sites across the country, including in places like new york state, illinois, to try to get as many people in as possible. They think there could be 6,000 a day in this site alone. We talked to the fema administrator about why these types of urban locations. Its to try and get more underserved people in here, as many as possible. Those people who we know covid is disproportionally affecting. Listen to our exclusive interview with him about this initiative. Reached out using cdc social vulnerable data by county level to look for the most vulnerable populations to ensure that we provide vaccine to those areas. Not only are we doing it in mass sites where we do 6,000 people per day, but we are also sening out Mobile Vaccine sites to specific areas. Reporter why these urban sites . Because a lot of times underserved communities dont have transportation. They dont have wheels. This is accessible to septa, the Subway System as well as the bus lines. They are trying to get as many options as possible to these people. We spoke earlier today, for instance, with a couple who said that they had been hesitant about the vaccine. But then they heard from their Indonesian Priest At Church who had a sign up in the back of the room. Look, its okay. You should do this. Take the vaccine. They came through. What we see today is a lot of that, a lot of diverse faces, older people. You can see wheelchairs behind me getting a lot of use today. This is exactly what the Biden Administration is trying to accomplish to get those shots into the arms of the people who we know need it the most, craig. So good to see that. Reassuring to see that there in philly. Thats whats happening here. I want to bring in ashish joshi. Theres a Vaccination Issue in europe, specifically as i understand it with the astrazeneca vaccine. Walk us through the hesitancy in several countries there. There is a real problem in europe. The Vaccination Program there has been criticized for being too slow. The reason for that is because many european governments, including germany, have said they dont have the right data, theyre not sure if the efficacy of the astrazeneca vaccine is reliable. They were concerned that they didnt want to give it to the over 65yearolds in germany. And in some cases the over 55yearolds. We know covid19 affects people as they get older. These are the most Vulnerable People in our society. The older you are, the more you should be targeted by any Vaccination Program. Theres a uturn in germany. They looked at the data again. The independent Vaccination Committee there, which represents the government as far as Vaccine Efficacy is concerned, they have said its now safe to use. They will be rolling out the astrazeneca vaccine to its population who are over 65 years old. They have said they will follow what the uk has done and increase the intervals between the first and the second jab to 12 weeks. This will really speed up the Vaccination Program, or so it is hoped, in germany. The idea is to get the first shots into as many arms as possible by giving yourself a longer delay by not giving the second jab so quickly, you can afford to vaccinate more people. Thats what they have done in the uk. Thats why here we have vaccinated 21 Million People with their first dose since the beginning of december. 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But i also know that i am the only candidate in this race who has lived in the rural part of North Carolina, gree up in the rural part of North Carolina, organized in rural North Carolina. And can get the job done. When i had your primary challenger, senator jackson on we did a quick round of yes or no questions on some of the top issues facing the u. S. I want to do the same thing with you. Are you ready . Yes. Lets go. Do you support raising the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. Yes or no. Yes. Do you support the democrats sweeping immigration plan, the u. S. Citizenship act of 2021 . Yes. Absolutely. Do you support ending the Senate Filibuster . Yes. Its been used as a tool of obstruction. We need to get rid of the filibuster. You told politico back in february if im not mistaken, i believe it was february that employing the same strategy next year and expecting a different result is absolute insanity. What will you do differently this time with your campaign . Well, we have the campaign that speaks to working north carolinians. As we have demonstrated before, as we saw in georgia, we have to go everywhere. We have to knock on doors for everybody. We have to build a brand new electorate. We have to get rid of that Cookie Cutter Version of who we believe will be an electable candidate. Thats the white male. What we have to understand, there is a new face for u. S. Senate leadership in the south. And that leadership promotes representative democracy. Its how representative warnock was elected. We are speaking to the urban centers, the rural parts of the state, but it addresses the issues that people face that are working people across this state and across this nation. We are going to be following this race closely in North Carolina. Erika smith, i hope youll come back as well in the next few months as we get closer to the election. Thats going to do it for me this hour. We are out of time. Andrea mitchell reports starts after a short break. 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