despite republican efforts to slow down the final vote with a flurry of last-minute objections on the house floor. the bill would create a massive surge of new funding that will send $1,400 checks to tens of millions of americans, provide billions in aid for schools, small businesses, state governments, and the vaccine distribution effort and slash health care premiums for many obamacare recipients. joining me now is nbc's garrett haake on dpl xl. nbc chief white house correspondent and weekend today co-host peter alexander. former maryland democratic congresswoman donna edwards. and former republican national committee communications chairman. garrett, the efforts to get this through debate for an early vote hit a roadblock this morning from congresswoman marjorie kalear greene from georgia, the controversial congresswoman. tell us how that went down. >> yeah, look, these are the procedural tools that can be applied by the minority and in this case it's not terribly surprising. marjorie taylor greene and other republicans have been doing these motions to adjourn on basically every day the house has been in session. not a huge surprise they tried to do so today. but this is the reality in the house. when you're in the minority there is a lot you can do to slow down the process, gum up the works, but very little you can do to stop the majority from passing their priorities. and that's what house democrats intend to do today. hakim jefferies told me yesterday he's 110% confident they've got the votes. they know the democrats are expecting to stick together on this thing and they will ultimately push this bill across the finish line. it's just a question of when, andrea. >> and peter, the president is once again separating himself from his predecessor. he's not going to have his signature on these relief checks. also no letter enclosed in the checks, envelopes, with his name and taking credit for it. what are white house officials telling you about the delivery of these payments and their rollout when he goes on the road? >> you're exactly right. and obviously, this is a significant priority not just for this white house but for those tens of millions of americans waiting to receive these $1,400 direct payments, most of which will be done through direct deposit. the president saying he expects a large number of americans will get these checks or these direct deposits, as it were, before the end of the month. the treasury department right now is working to expedite that process. as you may know, for those who receive these payments in the first two rounds of covid relief, if you have your bank account information on file with the irs you will get them soonest. for others it might take a little bit longer. obviously in terms of those actual checks, though, as you note, president biden whose name is not going to be on there according to press secretary jen psaki. for president trump his name was stamped on the bottom of the checks. in terms of the toefrt sell this the sales campaign going forward the white house feels very good that even though it's lightningly they're going to get a single republican vote in support of this nearly $2 trillion covid relief bill that it is a bipartisan win, that many republicans or at least members of both parties around the country, americans broadly support it right now. and i would expect you're going to see the president, the vice president, the first lady and others really trying to draw attention to the benefits from this bill, the more than $120 billion for schools, 14 billion or so for vaccination distribution, vaccine distribution, and on some of the other issues that affect real americans like the obamacare premiums that will be going down for many americans, those who rely on obamacare. take a family of four right now, say, they're making $60,000, they're paying $379 a month, that number's going to go down by about $220 a month for that family in terms of their obamacare premiums. and the reason that one's notable is because it's something, andrea, we're going to see them campaign on not in the immediate future alone but over the course of the next couple of years. it expires in two years just in time for those midterms, andrea. >> exactly right. and donna edwards, that puts health care front and center once again as it was in 2018, something that speaker pelosi said was critical to them winning the house, although they lost some seats, they lost their margin. what are they going to do with the more progressive members of the caucus? they're clearly falling in line here, accepting the changes that were made in the senate. but going forward, that certainly does not bode well for some of the more controversial issues like immigration reform and climate change. >> well, i don't know about that, andrea. i mean, i do think that the reason that there is such unanimous support among democrats for this, whether you're a progressive or you're in the middle, is because it delivers so much for the american people. and i think for progressives you look at things like expanding the earned income tax credits, the childcare tax credit, the relief on unemployment and extension of those unemployment benefits, i mean, there's so much in this relief package that progressives have been fighting for for many years. i do think that there still is going to be another fight around how you get the minimum wage across the finish line. but i think that that's one that joe biden is interested in as well as many other democrats. so i don't really see the foreboding. and in fact, i think this kind of win for democrats, for the president and for the american people is one that will put the wind at the sails of democrats going forward and actually clear more of a path for things like immigration and climate change and infrastructure as we look to the future. >> it's really interesting because some people are saying that they think this is the last big win and that from here it's going to be all downhill, that they're not going to be able to manage to hold the coalition together, especially in the senate of course. doug high, it's very popular, as we're just hearing from donna. 70% polling favorability, even higher in some cases. what about republican lawmakers? are they going to get worried about facing the midterms coming up just as this obamacare benefit is going to expire and the fallout from being against something that is that popular? >> i don't think they will, and i'd say two reasons for that. one is as the congresswoman mentioned this has a lot to do with things that progressives and liberals have pushed for that don't have anything to do with covid relief. so it's one of the reasons republicans are by and large opposed to this. every republican member of congress is opposed to it. two, if we're having this conversation back in 2009 when there was a joe biden-led stimulus bill, democrats were saying that it would be electoral doom for republicans to oppose the stimulus bill. every republican in the house, only one republican -- every republican in the house opposed the stimulus bill. only one republican in the senate supported that stimulus bill. and what happened in 2010 elections? 20 months after we passed the stimulus bill. republicans gained 63 seats in the house. so to think -- to be able to say here's what happens in march of the year before an election and that tells you exactly what's going to happen in the elections, it's a fool's errand to do, good or bad. >> except that it's going to expire right before the election. it's a two-year extension. that's my point. so it's got to be front and center in the campaign. garrett, i just want to also note an exchange that played out on the house floor during this debate. democrat stacey plaskett responding to these comments from republican glenn rothman. >> one of the things that hasn't been mentioned here, the increase in the income tax credit for single people has a marriage penalty in it. i bring it up because i know the strength that black lives matter had in this last election. i know it's a group that doesn't like the old-fashioned family. >> how dare you? how dare you say that black lives matter, black people do not understand old-fashioned families? we have been able to keep our families alive for over 400 years and the assault on our families to not have black lives or not even have black families. how dare you say that we are not interested in families in the black community? that is outrageous. that should be stricken down. >> garrett, you rarely see that kind of passion on the house floor. it was really stunning to see. >> it certainly was. and i don't have much to add to the congresswoman's commentary there except to say that i think we have seen over the last couple of months, really since january 6th, relations in the house in particular just continue to deteriorate. the comments from mr. grothman were interesting, i think, i'll say. and the response, quite strong from miss plaskett. that kind of back and forth on the house floor and in the hallways off the floor has frankly gotten more common over the last couple of months with relationships really not what they were in years past here. >> and donna, to the point that plaskett was saying, you know, the stability and sturdiness and resilience of the black family over 400 years despite slavery, despite everything that has happened is one of the signature cultural events in our society. >> yeah, and you know what, i was listening to the debate. and like stacey plaskett, i leapt from my seat because those comments were outrageous. and frankly, the racism and the insult that oozes now from the republican party, not whispered in quiet but right out on the house floor, is really just outrageous. and it was insulting to black families who struggle so much, both keeping families together and strengthened through generations. and i think that the congresswoman really captured that in her remarks and response. and i think it was appropriate to respond and not let something like that sit in the journals of the united states congress. >> we have to leave it there. donna edwards, garrett haake, peter alexander, and doug heye. thanks to all of you for kicking it off. and meanwhile, texas officially ending its mask mandate today. businesses are fully open. we will take you to one of the areas of the state hardest hit by covid to see what people there are saying about these rollbacks. and after the new cdc guidelines for those who have been vaccinated we're seeing some heartwarming family reunions with grandparents across the country. but this one is truly unique. 90-year-old shirley donaldson of maryland used to see her grandson almost every day until the pandemic of course but tuesday he was able to give her the vaccine because he works as an emt. they both say they're ready to get back to normal. >> when this is all over we're going to have a big celebration. >> a big party. >> yeah. we're going to celebrate my 90 years and all of the times we missed. years and all of the times we missed ♪“you're the best” by joe esposito♪ ♪ [triumphantly yells] [ding] don't get mad. get e*trade. 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>> no. i can't. no. i'd rather take care of my grandmother because that's the only grandmother i have. i lost my grandfather like three weeks ago of covid, and i'm like, are you serious? you're really going to open everything after everything that has been happening, a lot of people have been dying recently? i'm like, are you serious? you're being that selfish? >> reporter: last night the mayor here held a roundtable with around a dozen business owners from across the city. all of them vowing to continue to require those face masks and those safety protocols even as they increase capacity. and so that is really the state of things here. andrea? >> priscilla thompson in rio grande city. thank you so much. and joining us now, dr. ashish jha, the dean of course of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, it's sort of good news/bad news. we've got the trend down in the pandemic. the plateau is finally trending downward again. but concern about variants. and now you see these states like texas opening to 100% restaurant capacity. what concerns you about that? >> yes, andrea, thanks for having me on. this is just the wrong time to do it. and i think we heard that in that last report. there are a couple of things that really worry me right now. a lot of high-risk people like jose's grandmother from the previous report, a lot of high-risk people are not yet vaccinated. and until they are vaccinated i think we absolutely need to make sure that we keep public health measures in place. and then this b.1.1.7, the variant from the uk, is still out there. it's growing in numbers. and i'm happy to see the overall infection numbers coming down, but we're probably a couple of weeks away from that infection, that virus becoming dominant in the united states. again, wrong time to open up right now. we really do need a few more weeks, four, six weeks at the most, in terms of really public health measures until we're in better shape. >> and today president biden is going to announce a new deal securing an additional 100 million j&j doses. that will ensure we're going to have more than enough vaccine for every adult. so where does this position the country in this race to herd immunity against those concerning variants? >> yeah. so i think there are two things here. one is there's a short-term race. really the next four to six weeks as i mentioned. where we've got to get as many high-risk people vaccinated as quickly as possible. i think we'll have the vaccines. i love the idea of more j&j vaccines. the issue will be we will be probably at some point in may, june at the latest, at a point where we have more than enough vaccines for every american adult and more vaccines coming. and the question is what are we going to do about it? and my hope is that we start being able to share those vaccines with the global community because there are a lot of people, high-risk people around the world who have not yet started getting vaccinated. so i'd like for us to be able to get these vaccines out to more people around the world as well. >> i was wondering about that because that is a high priority among all the foreign policy people i talked to. but there still is resistance and lack of access problems here. so you've got communities that aren't on broadband, haven't been able to sign up, the distribution is very disparate different states, lack of equity, profound lack of equity in the number of state locations. so how do you begin to distribute, quote, excess vaccines around the world if you have not properly vaccinated all americans? >> yeah, no, absolutely. i think right now where we are, we still have a supply problem. demand is still outpacing supply. the issues of equity in my mind are really different in the sense that they're not a supply problem. they are we have not done a good enough job of placing vaccination sites in these communities. we have not made it easy for people to sign up. those are things we're going to have to continue working on for weeks and months. but i do think at some point, andrea, as i said, probably april -- i'm sorry, probably may, maybe june, we will have plenty of vaccines and that will no longer be a constraint for us. at that moment i'd like to us shift to a more global stance and really start pushing these vaccines out, keeping enough for every adult in america surely. >> and top health officials have indicated that more, additional cdc recommendations for vaccinated people are coming soon. do you think this will loosen up travel restrictions? because some people say they were too conservative regarding travel. >> yeah, i do. again, i don't know -- i don't have any inside track on what the cdc's going to say. but i do expect travel to be -- their recommendations to get loosened up because i think for people who are fully vaccinated travel is reasonably safe to do, especially if we continue to measure -- kind of keep the mitigation measures like mask wearing and all of that that's so important. so i expect new guidance from the cdc relatively soon and i expect it to head in that direction. >> dr. ashish jha, as always, thank you so much. and tonight please join nicolle wallace for "lives well lived." it is her special hour dedicated to remembering and honoring covid-19 victims as she does every day on her program. and tomorrow chris hayes hosts "all in america: the year we meet again." live from the lincoln memorial. both of these very special events at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. the fbi is releasing new security video of someone placing the pipe bombs outside of the rnc and the dnc headquarters the night before the january 6th capitol insurrection. the latest on that investigation coming up next with pete williams. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc nicorette® knows, quitting smoking is hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey are you kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette®. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette® riders, the lone wolves of the great highway. all they need is a bike and a full tank of gas. their only friend? 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joining me now is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, the video is really extraordinary. it's so easily identifiable, you would think. >> well, if only it showed the face of the person more clearly. this particular one may show the person actually placing one of the two bombs, the one outside the democratic national committee headquarters, because it was found near a park bench and that's where this is. the second video -- or the other video shows the person walking around in the neighborhood between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. this near the republican national committee. that's when the fbi says the two bombs were planted. now, they didn't go off. and one of the mysteries is were they intended to go off that night? they had ordinary kitchen timers attached to them, which as you know, can be set only to an hour maximum. so were they supposed to go off? did something happen wrong? these are all unresolved questions. but right now the fbi is hoping that somebody will see these videos that are posted in full on the fbi's website, fbi.gov, and recognize something familiar and call the fbi with tips. we've learned a few more details about how they were made. the fbi says they were made with metal pipe, one-inch diameter metal pipe like this, commonly available at the hardware store that you screw the end caps on. and inside the fbi says was homemade black powder, what some people call gunpowder. so that's an additional new detail. the person was wearing a face mask, a gray hoodie as you said, and distinctive shoes. the nike air max speed turf shoes, light gray and black, with a yellow logo. so they're hoping that as they add all these new details, carrying a backpack, walking through that neighborhood between 7:30 and 8:30. this one on south capitol street setting the backpack down. and as the sequence goes along here the person reaches inside the backpack, takes what appear to be a pair of dark glasses, puts them on, and you'll see as this video continues the person looking up just as a car goes by. there's a little glint right there in the glasses catching the light, standing up on tiptoes. and then someone walks by walking a dog. and then takes the glasses back off and puts them in the backpack. so these are all the sorts of mannerisms that investigators hope will strike somebody as familiar, andrea. >> is that black powder, the gunpowder, easily available? 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what's being done about it? how are they trying to deal with it? >> i think, andrea, with the children it's very specifically a reversal of a trump administration policy. all migrants were kept out of the country under the cover of this title 42 public health law that was, you know, nominally, supposedly supposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the united states. now, public health officials and experts have called that a faulty, not fact-based justification. but nevertheless, the biden administration has kept it in place for adults and families. but they have reversed it for children. and in so doing children who have been waiting on the other side of the border in somewhat of a backlog have started to come into the country. and yes, right now there is a backlog in border patrol stations and health and human services shelters. those stations are no place for children. and the idea is to get them out as fast as possible, to go into the shelters so that they can get child welfare support from experts, who will then place them with their family members in the interior of the united states. but the idea that we're hearing in right-wing media or from republican politicians that the border is open is not the case at all. for children maybe so. but for everybody else absolutely not. >> and is it up to hhs to provide the shelters? is this where different agencies have to coordinate better? >> yeah. and there's two ways of increasing shelter capacity. one is by getting permanent capacity appropriated by congress. and the other is creating these temporary influx shelters like carrizo springs. i don't think anybody believes that's the ideal situation or scenario. but that is the only option that they're left with at this point under the law. >> and phil, the "washington post" reported recently that there's a real drop in arrests, that they've fallen sharply under president biden, dropped more than 60% in february compared with the last three months. so according to i.c.e. data as reported by the "post" you're seeing former president trump and governor abbott in texas attack joe biden exactly on these data. >> yeah, that's right, andrea. but this is exactly what joe biden campaigned on. he said he was going to decrease enforcement at the border and as president now he has directed i.c.e. to focus on prioritizing national security dangers and other sorts of arrests but not to simply be arresting migrants because they're crossing the border. that helps explain why there's this drop in number. but again, you're having biden here in the middle feeling political pressure on both sides. you know, abbott, trump, other republicans saying they're not doing enough enforcement at the border. but there are a lot of democrats who are part of biden's coalition who would like to see i.c.e. disbanded entirely, who would like to see this enforcement measure dropped completely. so biden right now is stuck in the middle here. >> and democratic aides are telling nbc news, phil, that they're not -- the democrats are not going to take up the immigration plan, any new legislation, at least this month. is that what you're hearing? >> that does seem to be the case. look, the congress has been dealing almost exclusively in the last couple of months with the covid relief package and these more emergency measures related to the pandemic and the state of the economy. biden has other items on his agenda. immigration of course is on there but it is not the most pressing issue for the president. even as we see the surge in migrants at the border and an emerging crisis at the border heading into spring. >> jacob, you were recently on the mexican side of the border in tijuana speaking to attorneys, i guess from the aclu who are working with the migrants, and here's what they told you. >> people are in extremely desperate situations. they've come here hoping that, you know, we'll be able to tell them how they can actually vindicate their right to asylum. in most cases unfortunately our answer is really that there are no options at the moment. >> not much has changed since trump. they've only processed a handful of people each day. >> and jacob, is this the people who were previously being held on the mexican side under trump rules who are now being let into the u.s. under biden rules or is it that more people are coming up from the -- through mexico from guatemala, el salvador and other country, nicaragua? >> that's a key question, andrea, that i hope ambassador jacobson will answer today, you know, from the podium in the briefing room. but anecdotally what i heard from both of those attorneys on the ground is that right now only 10% of the people are new arrivals. most of the people, adults and families both, have been waiting there. been waiting there under trump and now are waiting under biden. because -- and i want to emphasize again, the border isn't open for almost anyone unless they're a child who is arriving at the country on their own. and so what these -- phil mentioned people that would like to see the borders more open than they are, biden go more progressive on policy than he has. those two immigration attorneys are a perfect example of that, running counter to the narrative you're hearing from the republican party right now about open borders. >> exactly. one of the toughest problems that the biden administration is going to have to face, that any president has had to face because no one has been able to solve it really for a generation. jacob soboroff, phil rucker, thank you both so very much. now to the passing of a television news icon. veteran cbs correspondent roger mudd, who also briefly co-anchored nbc "nightly news" with tom brokaw back in 1982 and 1983. roger mudd made his mark in the '60s and '70s as a leading political reporter covering stories from the civil rights movement to watergate and beyond for cbs news, later going on to pbs and for a while teaching at princeton. here's a look at a remarkable career. >> this is roger mudd at the u.s. capitol. >> reporter: roger mudd set the standard for political reporting in the tumultuous 1960s, becoming a household name in american living rooms as a fixture on the "cbs evening news" with walter cronkite. >> with the democrats in such overwhelming control of the congress, it is a spirited race for a relatively minor party post in the senate. >> reporter: from his perch on capitol hill mudd covered momentous stories. from the fight for the landmark civil rights act of 1964 to the watergate scandal that led to the downfall of an american president. >> good evening. the nixon presidency is virtually being overtaken by events tonight. >> reporter: a familiar presence on the campaign trail, mudd closely covered bobby kennedy's rise to political stardom. >> do you think about running for president? >> reporter: he was there in 1968 when minutes after winning the california primary -- >> now it's on to chicago and let's win there. >> reporter: -- kennedy was shot in a hotel ballroom in los angeles. a decade later mudd's interview with ted kennedy helped sink the massachusetts senator's 1980 presidential campaign before it began. with this simple question. >> why do you want to be president? >> well, i'm -- um. >> reporter: despite years of substituting for walter cronkite, when cronkite retired mudd was passed over for the cbs news anchor chair in favor of dan rather. he jumped to nbc news, where he was briefly paired with tom brokaw. >> good evening. president reagan today proposed what amounts to a summit meeting with the soviet union. >> reporter: later serving as moderator of "meet the press" before moving to the pbs news-hour and then the history channel. still mudd told the newshour in 2008 his years at cbs marked his finest hour. >> everything that could have happened happened in those 20 years, and we were there with a swagger covering every bit of it. >> indeed he did. roger's family roh in a statement that he delighted in discussing journalism and current events with family and friends, particularly with his children and grandchildren, none of whom got off without having to field tough follow-up questions. we can relate to that. his nbc news producers can attest to the fact that roger would always ask them when they handed him a piece of paper, a script or any kind of document, how do you know that? 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we know the four have been seated. the jury makeup looks white and male which one would assume favor the defense over the prosecution. >> reporter: that's the case at this point right now. you mentioned four jurors have been seated. three of them are white men as we know it. we know the three yesterday, one was a chemist. the other was an auditor. they were in their 20s and 30s. the white man seated today, the estimation he's in his late 30s, early 40s. we're pulling these clues from what we're hearing during jury selection and the one reporter allowed in the courtroom and the fourth juror is biracial woman in her 20s or 30s. one little thing about her, he said she was excited about the possibility of serving on this jury because she knew how big this case was and saw it as her civic duty to come in and serve on this jury. that jury questioning process is still under way. i believe a new batch of potential jurors just got into the courtroom and the judge is giving them some of those instructions. one thing we're hearing throughout this process is it's the prosecution that is keeping an eye on the make up. the racial make up. we saw this challenge the defense after the defense used challenge against one of the hispanic jurors there. you saw that challenge that led to some clash there. you see the process continues to go on. that's something we will expect throughout this process. >> david henderson, how important is it to have a racially diverse jury in this case, important for the prosecution? >> i'm sorry. it's the difference between winning and losing. if the prosecution doesn't begin this trial with two black people in the jury, i don't think they have a fighting chance. if they have two black people it's still an uphill battle. i base that on other cases. the challenge we were talk about a moment ago where you cannot strike someone for an unconstitutional reason. it exists because prosecutors have a history of striking juries where you have black defendants but if you look at other trials that are similar to this one, compare it to be castille case and amber guyger, in other words to have the likelihood of convicting a white officer for killing a black person on trial, you need two black jurors to have a fighting chance. this is a huge discussion. it puts the prosecutors in a position they have never been in before in their career with trying to retain black juries instead of striking them. >> you've trained prosecutors and jury selection in the past. what advice would you give prosecutors on the questions in how they manage their preemptory challenges. the defense, i guess has more challenges than the prosecution? >> they do. the defense has more challenges. the defense has 15. the prosecution has nine. the defense is equipped to make sure they have an all white jury. you have to remember, this is a system that's designed where normally you have a person of color sitting in the defendant's seats. when the roles are reverses, it favors strongly derek and his defense. what the prosecutors need to remember is that you have one audience in a jury selection process like this one and that is the individual person you're talking to who might end up serving on the jury. this process is moving along very quickly given how it was designed to work. i picked a jury this cay on capitol case and it took us more than six weeks. you have 30% of this jury already chosen to sit. the prosecutors are not taking enough time to get to know these jurors and prepare them for what needs to happen for them to have a likelihood of success. >> i was also surprised with the speed of this jury selection. it was quite striking. thank you very much for your expertise on this. thanks to shaq brewster there. it's almost a year since breonna taylor was shot and killed inside her apartment. we spoke with her mother. >> reporter: even the simple passage of time is unbearable for tamika palmer. >> i don't know the difference in the days anymore. >> reporter: it's been almost a year since her 26-year-old daughter was shot to death in her own apartment as louisville police officers served a no knock warrant. the only indictment, for shots that went into a neighbor's wall. the kentucky attorney general said the officers were justified in shooting because taylor's boyfriend, kenneth walker, fired first. walker said he thought it was a home invasion and the officers never announced themselves. none of the officers were charged in taylor's death. >> nobody has been held accountable. >> this is such a heartbreaking story. tell us how is she doing. how does she keep from being discouraged? >> reporter: andrea, i was struck by two things when i spoke with her. one, the fact that even just when i spoke with her, when i spent that time with her, you could feel the weight on our shoulders. it's very clear that in a year, after 2020, where we saw so many events like this, that means 2021 will be filled almost a laundry list of the somber an -- anniversaries. she's in a different place. she's gone through a series of disappointments. the grand jury decision has come and gone without any charges in her daughter's death. she's asked for a special prosecutor. that request was dendenied. she's taken her request to president biden and asking him to intervene. i asked her that. how does she not become discouraged and what gives her the strength to keep fighting. she said she does it for her daughter and she said she's doing it for all the future breonnas as well. >> thank you as always. that does it for this hour. thanks so much for being with us. remember follow the show online, on facebook and on twitter. chuck todd is up next with mtp daily right here on msnbc. on m. needles. essential for pine trees, but maybe not for people with certain inflammatory conditions. because there are options. like an “unjection™”. xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections, like tb and do blood tests. tell your doctor if you've had hepatitis b or c, have flu-like symptoms, or are prone to infections. serious, sometimes fatal infections, cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happened. taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra may increase risk of death. tears in the stomach or intestines and serious allergic reactions have happened. needles. fine for some things. but for you, there's a pill that may provide symptom relief. ask your doctor about the pill first prescribed for ra more than seven years ago. xeljanz. an “unjection™”. condos. 150k. more than seven years ago. how are you, son? 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