that everyone in this country age 18 and above will be able to receive the coronavirus vaccine by may 1st. may 1st. that's it. you will have your appointment by may 1st if not already have the vaccine in your arm. president bide ensaid this goal is to allow people to be able to -- his goal is to allow people to be able to gather in small groups on july 4th to celebrate our independence and to celebrate our independence from the coronavirus. today was the triumphant high point of the biden presidency so far with house speaker nancy pelosi delivering the biden covid relief bill to the white house for the president's signature one day earlier than expected. signing the bill into law today means relief checks of $1,400 could be flowing into people's accounts as early as this weekend. >> people can expect to start seeing direct deposits hit their bank accounts as early as this weekend. >> president biden stepped up to the microphone in the east room of the white house tonight to tell americans what they will be getting from the covid relief bill and when they will be getting their vaccinations. but he began with what we have lost. >> i've told you before i carry a card in my pocket with the number of americans who have died from covid to date. it's on the back of my schedule. as of now total deaths in america 527,726. that's more deaths than in world war i, world war ii, the vietnam war and 9/11 combined. >> president biden described the progress the biden-harris administration has made on vaccinations. >> when i took office 50 days ago only 8% of americans after months, only 8% of those over the age of 65 had gotten their first vaccination. today that number is 65%. just 14% of americans over the age of 75 50 days ago had gotten their first shot. today that number is well over 70%. i said i intended to get 100 million shots in peoples arms in my first 100 days in office. tonight i can say we're not only going to meet that goal, we're going to beat that goal because we're actually on track to reach this goal of 100 million shots in arms on my 60th day in office. no other country in the world has done this. >> tonight president biden made a new promise on vaccinations. >> tonight i'm announcing i'll direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over, eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. let me say that again. all adult americans will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than may 1. >> the president described the mobilization that he is organizing to get that vaccine into people's arms. >> we're mobilizing thousands of vaccinators to put the vaccine in one's arm, calling active duty military, fema, retired doctors and nurses, administrators and those to administer the shots. and we've been creating more places to get the shots. we've made it possible for you to get a vaccine in nearly any one of 10,000 pharmacies across the country just like you get your flu shot. we're also working with governors and mayors in red states and blue states to set up and support nearly 600 federally supported vaccination centers that administers hundreds of thousands of shots per day. you can drive up to a stadium or a large parking lot, get your shot and never leave your car and drive home in less than an hour. we've been sending vaccines to hundreds of community health centers all across america located in underserved areas. and we've been deploying and we will deploy more mobile vehicles and pop-up clinics to meet you where you live so those who are least able to get the vaccine are able to get it. >> president biden gave a specific date to look forward to when we are all fully vaccinated and ready to gather in small celebrations once again. >> if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together by july 4th there's a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate independence day. that doesn't mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. after this long, hard year that will make this independence day something truly special. where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. but to get there we can't let our guard down. this fight is far from over. as i told the woman in pennsylvania, i'll tell you the truth. on july 4th with your loved ones is the goal. >> joining us now john heilemann, msnbc national affairs analyst and host of the hell and high water podcast from the recount and jennifer palmieri. former communications director for the obama white house. both are co-hosts of showtime's "the circus." and john, it's a moment like i've never seen before. this was a victorious moment in this presidency 50 days in, giant legislative achievement. the president addresses the nation, but he begins with the sadness of what we've lost. he delivers optimism for where we can get to but cautions us about the fear we have to maintain of how to hold our own personal health in a safe space as we move forward through this coronavirus plague. it was an amazing range of notes that he was delivering there. all in this continued effort to keep his presidency on course, keep us on course in dealing with this virus. >> yeah, that's right, lawrence. i think there's -- people underestimate joe biden at their peril i think, and i think that is part of what this first 50 days of the administration has shown just as his campaign showed the same thing. he comes -- he has extraordinary -- he's not like a politician who has -- like he's not a five-tool player, right? he doesn't have all the skills, but the skills he has and the temperament he has are just about perfect built for this moment. and his mastery of the legislative process, his personal experience, everything people understand about his acquaintance, his deep, sad acquaintance with profound grief, the empathy that's brought out in him, and the fact that i think he understood something that donald trump never understood, which was that the country wants to be called to sacrifice, wants this notion of him striking that tone again even now as it seems like victory is maybe in sight with the coronavirus, saying again that i want to have the country on a war footing. it was the one time in all of 2020 that donald trump did well on covid for about three days when he said he wanted to be a wartime president. and i think biden understands you cannot give up this fight too soon, victory has to be total, and that tempered measured cautious optimism and realism as he kept coming back to again tonight, telling people the truth even if the truth is not happy talk, that that is the path and the path that will keep him where he is right now, which is an extraordinary position of political strength. >> jennifer, you've been in a white house approaching big days like this. it turns out the bill signing was a day sooner than they expected. and these bill signings as you know and you participated in are highly choreographed and planned and yet this one was rushed by 24 hours so that that money could move quicker into people's direct deposit accounts. and then you've got this speech to prepare for tonight and the notes to decide to hit in this speech tonight. what is it like for the west wing going into this speech tonight? >> they were planning on having a big signing ceremony tomorrow with leaders from the hill and everyone coming down. and that's something you put a lot of time and effort into and you have to decide. i think the decision was we can't have him give a speech about a bill he has received and has not signed. we've got to get relief going as quickly as possible. he made the decision to do that. and you really have to nail this speech. and what i found -- what i love to look for in these presidential addresses is what is the story of america that the president is trying to tell us, right? that is something that speechwriters have, you know, at the forefront of their mind. there's this sort of deliverables you have to tick through, but it eclipses the bigger story. and i think biden is -- he went through things the administration had done, but he said america is leading this, right? we are vaccinating more people than anywhere in the world. we're no longer leading in deaths. we're leading in vaccinations. and only america could do this and we did this together. it's a very far cry from donald trump's "i alone can fix this." he's making -- he's like restoring america's pride, patriotism and having this victory, you know, not quite won yet but we're on the path to defeating the virus. america's victory and trying to drain politics out of this. i see him in so many ways in a usually relatively subtle try to take down the heat when it comes to partisanship, and i think this is something in terms of defeating the virus he wants america to think they did, we did it together. it's not something joe biden -- >> one of the things in the speech i like the best and this is a biden note. this is a note that i think he among our politicians is the best at delivering, is the note of humility. and he's rattling off statistics about how great his administration has done with vaccines and vaccinations and how much better it was than the first vaccinations run by the trump administration. and yet he says at the same time if we make mistakes in delivering the covid relief bill, if there are aspects of this that don't work, i will tell you. he's anticipating the possibility that what he's trying to do won't work perfectly, that he can make mistakes at various stages of this there are things that won't work. and he'll admit that, and he's telling you up front humbly that this might not be perfect, everything i'm describing to you. >> yeah, lawrence. that's a guy who's been around the block a few times, right? someone who has seen their -- has their share of battle scars, someone who lived through eight years in the obama administration where things like the affordable care act, the obamacare website was such a problem. he's learned i think joe biden over these many years in the senate and white house, he's learned to under-promise and over-deliver. and he's also learned to set those expectations in the way you're talking about it. and finally the other thing jennifer just said a second ago which i think is so true is this notion of trying to part and parcel of leaching the politics out of things, turning the temperature down is to focus on his competence and to try to focus on very readily achievable metrics and markers, things that the administration, it feels very confident they'll be able to deliver so that step by step he grows the country's confidence, that grows his political leverage. and it also without ever mentioning donald trump strikes the most vivid possible contrast with the most incompetent administration in history. >> jennifer, i'm going to read you some polling numbers that i have to read them out loud to believe them because i've never seen anything like this. 75%, cbs poll, 75% approve of the covid relief package. 75%. jennifer, this is a gigantically complex bill. it's literally the biggest bill democrats have ever passed, any democratic president has ever signed. the public in arriving at that 75% approval number has to be basically extending some amount of trust to joe biden because they haven't read all 600 pages of that bill. >> right. they don't know the details of what's in it. they know that they were told repeatedly from economists, administration officials across the board the biggest mistake we can make is to go too small and the public put their faith in joe biden we needed to go big and they supported that. and they know there's going to be actual checks in the mail soon that's going to help relieve some of the pressures that they're feeling. that is the good news. but i lived through the obama administration where we passed a stimulus bill, you know, part of the recovery act very early on in february of 2009. but the problem -- the political problem that developed was people didn't -- the economy did not improve dramatically. it was like a constant battle of us telling the public if we had not passed that recovery bill things would be worse than they are. that is not a message you can sell. and so i think what going forward with the administration is going to do is show the economy is getting better and the recovery act is -- the rescue plan is the reason why. >> jennifer palmieri, john heilemann, thank you very much for joining us tonight, starting us off. and thank you very much for observing the msnbc rule of no profanity, which you do not observe on your showtime show. it's john heilemann we're really talking about here. the must-see "circus" on showtime. thank you very much for joining us. really appreciate it. and when we come andy slavitt, president biden's senior advisor on the coronavirus response will join us later in the hour. but first what do you think should be next on the agenda for the biden-harris administration? the answer is one word, and it's something donald trump did 231 times. that's next. ♪♪ (car horn) ♪♪ turn today's dreams into tomorrow's trips... with millions of flexible booking options. all in one place. expedia. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. now no fruit is forbidden. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? to support local restaurants, we've been to every city. including little rock and even worcester. and tonight... i'll be eating the chicken quesadilla from...tony's tex mex...in... katy. 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are you going to be trying to run as high-speed a confirmation process as mitch mcconnell was running? >> gosh, i hope so. but the thing front of mind for me is why don't we tell the story better? these are not things that are happening. these are things that are being done. and the force behind all the rule breaking, all the norm breaking, all the hypocrisy and position reversals, all of the -- the whole thing just smells and people don't behave that way if there's not a reason. and the reason was that machine was behind all of this. it gives money to this operation that funds mitch mcconnell's independent so-called political operation that has now turned its guns on voter suppression. and it was just so frustrating to me when people would treat these as events that just happened, it was somehow just a thing that occurred and wouldn't look at what the driving force was that was making this happen. there's an octopus behind all these tentacle tips and we've got to start paying attention to it. and i hope through my little subcomittee we can pay a lot of attention to it. it certainly drives them crazy when you go after them. >> how much does hr1 if passed solve these problems? >> enormously. enormously. it would do two things. first of all, it makes dark money a thing of the past for contributions over $10,000. and then second, it takes the money spent on judicial confirmations and treats them as what they are, which is a political advertising expense that has to be disclosed also. it would make an enormous difference. as soon as the american public as citizens sees who the players are on the stage, they get the plot right away. and that's why these nasty big dark money players love to hide behind masks and try to fool the american public and deny them the knowledge of who's on the political stage. and in this case who's in the courtroom. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, thank you very much for joining us tonight. and i always appreciate having you here because i know you're one of the people in the senate who's always doing the thinking about the issue that isn't on the front page today that we do have to be thinking about. thank you, senator. really appreciate it. coming up, tonight joe biden told us we can gather together again in small groups in the backyard on the fourth of july. andy slavitt, the president's senior advisor on the coronavirus response, will give us more details on how we can expect our lives to change once we have all been vaccinated in may. that's next. with relapsing forms of ms, there's a lot to deal with. not just unpredictable relapses. all these other things too. who needs that kind of drama? 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where's the website? where's the thing in here that tells me where i can go to get the vaccine? and that was, of course, very early in the process. it seems like you are now getting close to a national kind of landing point for exactly that sort of information. the president talked about that tonight in his speech without much detail, that we're going to be able to go to a particular website that would be centralized, it will tell us all anywhere in the country. is that what he was alluding to in his speech tonight? >> well, the first obligation we had when we got here was really to increase the supply of vaccines, into crease the number of vaccinators and places for people to get vaccinated because the website doesn't do any good in a shortage. so we've had to fix that. and we're still in a shortage and we will be for the next few weeks. but americans also have to and particularly as we get past a group of people who are so eager to find a vaccine that they'll do anything for it to the people who are a little bit more on the fence. we're going to have to make it easier and reduce the friction in the process and make it easier for people to find vaccines. so yes, the president announced tonight that in addition to all the state websites people will be able to go online to a federal site and find places near them that have vaccines available. >> and so when you look at that challenge of trying to deliver the interface -- because right now what i'm hearing from people who are eligible, who are of the right age or occupation, is that getting the appointment itself is the biggest challenge even though they qualify with websites that are nonresponsive or there are just no appointments available. how do you conquer that? >> well, the biggest problem is just the shortage. it's not a very good feeling to get on a website whether it works well or doesn't work well and hope for a vaccine and all the appointments are taken. and that's the folks just not having enough vaccines for the number of people in the country. but that's going to change, lawrence. that's going to change as we continue to increase the production of vaccines from our now three manufacturers -- johnson & johnson, pfizer and moderna. and as that changes people will get less frustrated. but even with a perfect website today people are going to be frustrated because it's still difficult for many americans to get their vaccines. we've made a lot of progress. 1 in 4 adults has now been vaccinated, had their first vaccine shot which is great. over 70% of people over 75, which is also great. it's a great amount of progress but we've got a lot more to do. >> what is the thing you go into work every day this week saying we really need to fix this, we really need to fix this? >> i think the thing that i worry about the most is the equitable distribution of vaccines and making sure that we can get vaccines to the people who are hardest hit or in the hardest hit communities. you know, you set up a location like we did in oakland and you setup a big stadium for lots of vaccines and what happens is the people from san francisco come over and take all the appointments and take the vaccines. it happens routinely that people who have access to technology, people who have access to means, who have a little bit more privilege, are the ones who are swooping in and taking the lion's share of the vaccines. and racial minorities, ethnic minorities, people who live in rural locations, we've got to work extra hard to get those folks vaccines. so i feel really good about the fact we've increased demand. i feel great the president was able to come out tonight and give a vision for what the next period of time could look like if we all pull together. that was based on his leadership and his guidance and his hard work. yet community by community we have to make sure that the people who need these vaccines the most, the people who are working in essential occupations living in very crowded environments, that they're getting the chance to get the vaccine. >> joe biden gave us his view of the fourth of july this summer. give us more details on what you're telling us we should be able to do on the fourth of july? i think the assumption and what the president was saying is we will all be vaccinated. and so when we gather in the backyard in that small group everyone will be vaccinated. is that one of the principles of the gathering on the fourth of july for you, is that everyone is vaccinated? >> well, i think everyone is going to have a chance to be vaccinated by the fourth of july. but the cdc said even today that a grandparent who's vaccinated can go visit and, yes, even hug a grandchild who hasn't been vaccinated without a mask so long as they're low risk, which in most cases is going to be the case. so we're already able to take steps. and i think, you know, the president is not one to come out and be overly optimistic. he's one to be very straight with the public. and i think what he said tonight was if we keep doing the things that we're doing, if we stick together, if we don't abandon the kind of safe practices that have got us here, if we're able to hold it here for a couple more months, by the time we get to summer, by the time we get to independence day we're going to be in a situation where many of the things in our lives, not all of them but many of the things we cherish so much, mainly spending time with one another, we're going to have that back. >> andy slavitt, thank you for the important work you're doing, saving lives in this country. we really appreciate it. and thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. coming up, we have breaking news from albany tonight where the democratic speaker of the assembly has authorized an impeachment investigation of new york governor andrew cuomo. we will be joined by a member of the assembly who was in the meeting with the speaker when the democratic speaker decided to launch the impeachment investigation of the democratic governor. that's next. ♪♪ for skin as alive as you are... don't settle for silver 7 moisturizers 3 vitamins 24 hours hydration gold bond champion your skin up at 2:00am again? 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>> well, the democratic party and the new york state assembly just like in any other body is not monolithic. however, we support speaker heastie's decision to have a trauma informed process. and as a member of the new york state assembly judiciary committee i took an oath to uphold the state and the country's constitution. and the embodiment of due process is as fundamental and essential as air, food and water. it guarantees fundamental fairness and justice. and it provides a process so we're not playing this out in political theater or the court of public opinion. to do so -- to do otherwise or to avert this process that's a dangerous precedent. and we must ensure that we have a sensitive balance where we are going to be gathering facts, looking at all of the circumstances to determine whether or not those facts warrant a further impeachment proceeding. >> the impeachment proceedings are similar to what we have seen in now the two trump impeachments in washington with one very, very big difference. and that is if you in the assembly impeach the governor and send him to trial in the senate, lieutenant governor kathy hochul immediately takes over as acting governor while andrew cuomo is awaiting trial in the senate and while he's on trial in the senate. how will that dynamic affect the assembly's deliberations? >> well, we have a budget to get back to. and kathy hochul as the first female lieutenant governor of the state of new york will be the first governor of the state. and we will ensure that government will continue to function to ensure that we have a budget that addresses and continues to make new york state a great place to live and raise a family. we have a number of issues to look at which includes food insecurities, access to quality education, small business stabilization and our fundamental rights to housing. and so we look forward to getting back to work. >> so you sound tonight like you're ready to go to work with kathy hochul as acting governor or as governor if andrew cuomo were to resign, for example. >> well, we've enjoyed a great working relationship as colleagues with her in a position of lieutenant governor. she has ushered us through the centennial of women having the right to vote, and we'll be looking forward to a proud moment in having her as our next first female governor. >> one more question about procedure. will all of your investigation be public when you're questioning witnesses? 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"the new york times" is calling biden a crusader for the poor. "aides said he has embraced his new role. mr. biden has done so in part by following progressives in his party to the left and accepting the encouragement of his inner circle to use democratic power to make sweeping rather than incremental change. he has also been moved by the inequities in pain and suffering that the pandemic has inflicted on the poorest americans, aides say." joining us now is anand girdadas, msnbc political analyst and publisher of the "ink" nude-letter. anand, i thought of you because it's on these nights when there are so many big things flowing through our news cycle that seem related but i can't quite put them together. that's when i need the big thinker. what are your reflections as we come to the end of this night where we have this big legislative victory by joe biden, this promise of a fully vaccinated country and this delivery by the signing of that bill today of a massive surge of economic aid in real money to people who need it? >> hope and history really do rhyme sometimes. as that poem says. today is also the one-year anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic that launched this year for all of us. and fittingly, it's the eve of the 88th anniversary of fdr's first fireside chat. which i thought was kind of interesting. and this year that joe biden spoke about tonight was a year not of one story but many. right? it was a story obviously of illness and death and pain but also a story of protest, extraordinary protest, of bravery, of mutual aid, of invention, of resilience. it was a year marked by this pandemic but also by a lot of intersecting crises, crises that intersected with it. health, economic, racial, democratic crisis. remember when we thought we might not still have the rule of law. as texas and other places illustrate, climate still very much with us. and coming out of this year what i have been thinking about is if there is a gift of this cursed year it is the end to any illusion that we had been living right. and the prompting to not just rebuild as we've heard the president talk about, which is important. but also to rethink. to rethink. and so when i was processing the making of this sausage of legislation that was signed today, at first, probably like a lot of people watching this, i was dismayed by a lot of things i was hearing and ending. minimum wage was in and then it was out. benefits were bigger, then they were smaller. it seemed like this thing that, you know, prime minister joe manchin was prevailing. and as i dug in the details of the final package, i actually began to revise my own sense of it, and i think a lot of people and realize it's not perfect, it's not everything. a lot of is not permanent. which we need to deal with. but a lot of this is quietly revolutionary. starting with the child benefit that creates the rudiments of a basic income for families in the country. direct cash to families, changes in the tax code that shock of all shocks, after 40 years of the reverse, actually most benefit the poor. and what a lot of these things, talking about tying things together, what they seem to have in common to me is they reflect not just new policies but new thinking, rethinking. in particular, the new notion that has been gaining ground of giving people money directly. it's been advocated by lots of people. this policy, this program reflects it. the idea of centering the poor, not just the middle class. joe biden talks a lot about the middle class. democrats often don't like to talk about the poor because they're scared of losing the white working-class voters who resent the poor. this bill centers the poor. this bill and this administration, its economic policy, has actually shown a little bit of a cold shoulder to some of the wall streeters who shaped these kind of responses in the past. this is not a larry summers, robert ruben administration which makes it decisively different from the obama and clinton years. and finally, ignoring the deficit worrywarts. this is not a program that reflects their influence. so what i'm seeing is early days but what i'm seeing is the hulking ship of american conventional wisdom on these matters turning. beginning to turn. and i would say as reflected in the tone of the president tonight, who is not someone who i have always seen eye to eye with at all, but i see a president whose most singular capacity is his capacity to be influenced. a desire to be pushed. a desire to meet this moment potentially. and i see him and a country potentially waking up to new truths. >> i also think you're seeing someone who went from representing one state, delaware, to now 50 and was in training for that for eight years as vice president. and so he is a different person than the person who served as senator. anant girar dadas, thank you very much for joining us tonight. always appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. ♪♪ well, good evening once again. da 51 of the biden administration. the one-year anniversary of the night when the pandemic actually felt real for millions of us. hours ago, in his first prime time address as president, joe biden chartered the way forward for a nation battered thus far by this year-long fight to tame the coronavirus. >> i need every american to do their part. if we do this together, by july the 4th there's a good chance you, your families and friends will be able to get together in your back yard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate independence day on july 4th with your loved ones is the goal. >> he also announced new measures to ensure every american who wants a vaccine can get one. >> i will direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over, eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1.

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