to a facility housing unaccompanied migrant children as the president taps vice president harris to head up the effort to fix the crisis. the question is whether the right policies and messaging are in place to get it done. plus, president biden set to give his first official news conference this afternoon. the question this morning, will he break any news? and a massive ship runs aground in the suez canal, blocking one of the busiest waterways. the question is, how much longer before the ship is floating and things get moving again? yikes! it's "way too early" for this. ♪♪ >> good morning! and welcome to "way too early," the show that has never seen a traffic jam quite like that one. pretty remarkable. i am kasie hunt on this thursday, march 25th. we'll start with the news. vice president harris is now the biden administration's point person to manage the crisis on the southern border. president biden made the announcement during a meeting on immigration yesterday. he said the vice president would focus on two tracks -- stemming the current flow of migrants and addressing the root causes of their migration. biden coordinated similar efforts in central america as president barack obama's vp. while announcing the appointment, biden highlighted harris' experience as attorney general of california, saying she's upheld human rights while also fighting organized crime. >> so, it's not her full responsibility or job but she's leading the effort, because i think the best thing to do is to put someone who, when he or she speaks, they don't have to wonder about, is that where the president is? when she speaks, she speaks for me, doesn't have to check with me. she knows what she's doing, and i hope we can move this along. so, madam vice president, thank you. i gave you a tough job, and you're smiling, but there's no better person to try to organize this. >> thank you, mr. president, and for having the confidence in me. and there's no question that this is a challenging situation. as the president has said, there are many factors that lead precedent to leave these countries. and while we are clear that people should not come to the border now, we also understand that we will enforce the law and that we also, because we can chew gum and walk at the same time, must address the root causes that cause people to make the trek. >> a challenging assignment, indeed. a delegation of white house officials and members of congress traveled to the southern border yesterday to tour a health and human services facility being used to house migrant children. an nbc news crew accompanied the delegation and toured a facility in carrizo springs, texas. officials say there are just over 766 migrants at the facility, which has a capacity of 952. 108 of the children had tested positive for the coronavirus when they entered the facility, and those who do test positive are kept in negative air pressure dormitories. and no minors are released from the facility until they've had at least two negative covid-19 tests. the facility has classrooms for the teenagers and dormitories that hold four children to a room. unlike reports from other facilities, there was no indication of overcrowding there. and a new nbc news report highlights how in early december the biden transition team and career government officials began sounding an alarm on the need to increase shelter space for the large number of migrant children expected to soon be crossing the border. but the trump administration didn't take action until just days before the inauguration, according to two biden transition officials and a u.s. official with knowledge of the discussions. according to one of those transition officials, quote, they were sitting on their hands. the biden transition team made its concerns about the lack of shelter space known to trump officials both at the department of health and human services and at the department of homeland security. a u.s. government official who served under both the trump and the biden administrations said nonpolitical staff also brought up the need to open more space. the official said it was, quote, irresponsible of the trump administration not to listen to us when we were throwing up red flags. and it wasn't until days before president biden's inauguration, when then-hhs secretary alex azar finally issued a request for assistance. blame game playing out there. and now to colorado, where the man accused of killing ten people after opening fire inside a boulder grocery store is expected to make his first court appearance later this morning. the 21-year-old will be formally charged with the mass shooting and is expected to face ten counts of first-degree murder. if convicted, he could face a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. last year, colorado eliminated the death penalty. meanwhile, hundreds of people lined the streets yesterday during a procession to honor one of the victims, fallen officer eric talley, as his body was transported from the coroner's office to a funeral home. and last night, the first of several planned candlelight vigils were held to remember the ten lives lost in the supermarket shooting. just an incredibly difficult day. and in emotional remarks yesterday, senator michael bennet of colorado paid tribute to the victims of the colorado shooting and called on congress to take action. >> boulder will heal, but this scar will always be there. my daughter's generation will always bear the burden of a national government that did nothing to protect. i'm not asking anybody here to show the courage that officer talley showed or the other men and women of law enforcement who constantly have to deal with the inability of this place's capacity to deal with these issues. i'm just asking us to show an ounce of their courage by doing whatever we can to keep weapons of war out of our communities. >> joining us now, the co-founder of punch bowl news, john bresnahan. brez, good morning. always good to see you. that pretty emotional address there from michael bennet. colorado has had far too many of these incidents. but let's do a little bit of a reality check here. what did you make? earlier this week, mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, said he seemed open to doing some gun reform. this has happened so many times. the politics of this, especially in the suburbs, is something that's shifted a little bit since we've had so many of these debates, but again, how many times have we sat and said, okay, something horrible just happened, what are they going to do about it, and the answer's nothing. what's the answer this time? >> i don't see much happening. i mean, the biden administration's already talking about doing some executive orders on ghost guns and stiffening background checks, but there's not going to be -- right now there's nothing that's going to really move in congress, except around the edges. there's talk about doing some red flag legislation. lindsey graham from south carolina, republican, and richard blumenthal of connecticut, democrat, they've pushed this legislation before. this would be someone who's come to the attention of law enforcement or other authorities and is considered a threat. they could go in, possibly, and take weapons away from this person. that's been talked about. but it's only on the edges. there's not going to be a big background checks bill. there's not -- that's not going to pass. there's not going to be, you know, any other dramatic legislation on guns or, you know, banning assault weapons, high-capacity magazines. that's just not going to move through congress. >> so, brez, i think what you just outlined -- i'm not arguing with any of it, but it is the kind of thing that is why progressives are now pushing so hard to get rid of the filibuster. they say, okay, congress has shown they can't do anything without 60 votes. there's no way we're going to get 60 votes in the senate. do away with it, use the 50 democrats we have to try and pass some of these kinds of measures. but at this point, they don't even have 50 votes to end the filibuster. is there any single issue that's going to cause joe manchin, for example, to switch on this, or do you think it's a compilation? we've talked this morning about immigration, guns, there's voting rights as well. >> you know, i think you're right. i do think there could be -- if enough issues become critical mass -- voting rights, gun legislation -- and joe manchin has pushed a background checks bill on commercial gun sales, not on personal transactions, but on commercial gun sales -- on infrastructure or, you know, which he's talked about he wants to do -- if enough critical mass comes together on this, maybe manchin will do something. actually, we're going to lay out the arguments for and against this in punch bowl news today. but i think right now there's not the votes to do it. but again, you know, we're just a couple months into the biden administration, you know. schumer has talked about everything will be on the table. he said this again this week, senate majority leader chuck schumer, about the issue of gun control. and you know, he's going to have a press conference today. he'll be asked about this issue, about whether they should get rid of the filibuster because of gun control. i think this is, you know, this is going to be a challenge. and the unfortunate history of the united states is there will be more of these. we all know there's going to be more of these, and we're going to be talking about this again, and it's the tragedy of our times. i've been writing gun control stories for 25 years, and nothing has really changed. >> that is such a depressing, and yet, true statement. john bresnahan of punch bowl news, thank you very much for being here. i guess we'll see. i am not looking forward to having that conversation yet again over and over and over and over again. all right, still ahead here, the top two senate leaders, chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell, clash over election reform. what they each had to say about voting rights yesterday. plus, we're four months away from the tokyo games, but the olympic torch relay is officially under way. we're going to have those stories and a check on your weather when we come right back. . welcome to this family meeting. i'm here because you guys need some serious together time... the good kind. mom's alone at the office... dad's hiding out in the van... and the kids are virtually teaching each other. y'all need to let yourselves woah... at universallllll. good job, jonesesess... jones'. jones'? 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think i've spoken to him since he was sworn in. we had a couple conversations before then. >> he's had a number of meetings, bipartisan meetings, in the oval office. he will continue to do those. those have often been constructed with committee chairs or members with specific jurisdiction. he has a long friendship with leader mcconnell. he has spoken with him. he speaks with him regularly. >> close the loop on a leader mcconnell question. you said they speak regularly. he says he's only spoken one time, he corrected the statement saying they've spoken one time on burma. >> i don't have any more calls to read out for you, which we will not make a case of doing, as you know. so, i don't have more to read out for you. >> very interesting. if republicans had held on to control of the senate, i think that would be a significantly different story. meanwhile, the senate majority and minority leaders faced off yesterday at a hearing on democrats' sweeping voting reform bill. the proposal, which passed the house with no republican support, is aimed at countering the more than 250 bills that restrict voting at the state level. the hearing got heated with majority leader schumer saying republicans should be ashamed of their actions. watch. >> instead of doing what you should be doing when you lose an election in a democracy, attempting to win over those voters in the next election, republicans, instead, are trying to disenfranchise those voters. shame on them. this is one of the most despicable things i have seen in all my years. shame, shame, shame. some of these voter suppression laws in georgia and other republican states smack of jim crow rearing its ugly head once again. >> states are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever. this is clearly an effort by one party to rewrite the rules of our political system. talk about shame. if anybody ought to be feeling any shame around here, it's turning the ftc into a partisan prosecutor, the majority controlled by the president's party, to harass and intimidate the other side. that's what you ought to be ashamed about. >> joining us now, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio. susan, it's always good to see you. so incredibly rare to have those two leaders face off in that kind of a situation. and the reality is, of course, that democrats view this as perhaps the litmus test issue, the seminole issue in front of them, but the reality is also that they're probably not -- they're definitely not going to be able to get anything along these lines passed unless they get rid of the filibuster. what are the pros and cons, in your view? >> i actually think they should get rid of the filibuster, which is a huge change in my opinion over the last 30 years, because i value the fact that you needed 60 votes because 60 votes in the senate meant consensus, it meant they were working together, both sides, to really come up with important legislation. now, it's just a way of stopping everything. and the thing is, kasie, even if they got some republican support, what are we going to see most, five, six, maybe seven senators come over? it's not enough to move. and when you listen to mitch mcconnell, all he wants to do is stop things. i wouldn't blame president biden inviting mitch mcconnell over. why would he? all he's going to do is say no. >> certainly during the obama administration, president obama cracked that joke about, okay, you go have a drink with mitch mcconnell. biden seemed to be more willing to do it certainly, than his former boss, but i do take your point. so, here's -- i mean, the one challenge that i have here is that, in the course of the last 10, 15 years that i've been covering congress, we have seen control swing back and forth. when i first started, it was all democrats. they had, basically, 60 votes in the senate, which was incredibly remarkable at the time. just a few years later, the house flipped, then the senate flipped. the danger in getting rid of the filibuster is that, especially, i think republicans point to things like abortion policy that could change in the event that power shifts. do you see any risks to changing the filibuster now that could potentially come back to hurt democrats later? >> no, because then let people take votes on it. if they don't think they're voting in the right way to represent their district or state, so be it, but at least we'll now at least have some real movement on policy, which is what we need. we are stuck, kasie. we are stuck as a country. we are simply moving from one crisis to another. that's maybe how we get something done, even on covid relief. 550,000 americans have died and not one republican would support helping the american public? it's crazy. and you know what, it's worth the democrats taking the risk. plus, maybe, just maybe, it will force more consensus to the middle. so, you have the fringes on each party, the more left or the more right. and maybe the middle 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i mean, how many times have we heard repeal and replace? we could never figure out what replace meant. >> yeah. we keep hearing it, and they don't have a replacement plan. you know, they passed it in 2010. and as you remember, in the 2010 midterms, democrats got what president obama called a shellacking at the polls. there was that huge backlash. then you fast-forward to 2018, and the process plays out in reverse. and that's when the republicans lost their house majority. and a big reason they lost the house majority was because people were so upset that republicans had tried to take away obamacare. and you know, part of that is just that change, necessary kind of change to the health care system is hard to do. people get skittish, they get angry. and so, democrats suffered a backlash when they made changes. republicans suffered a backlash when they tried to make changes. but i think more fundamentally, that for all of the messiness and all of the inadequaies of obamacare, it provided something that people really wanted. it gave them security. it helped 20 million people to get health insurance. and you know, while the debate was going on, it was still very unpopular, but then when republicans finally got to the point where they were ready to repeal it, for the first time, they had to say something, you know, they had been saying, oh, obamacare's terrible! it's a disaster! we're going to get rid of it. well, they get power. trump gets elected. and finally, for the first time, they have to say, oh, hey, here's what we're going to do instead. and that's when everybody else discovers -- and frankly, a lot of republicans discover -- they don't really have an idea. >> yep. >> they've never done their homework. they don't have a clear sense of what they want to do. and fundamentally, despite all their promises, they do not have a plan that will get more people health insurance or make their health care more secure. and at the end of the day, that's why they suffered the backlash, and they couldn't pass a repeal bill. >> right. and president trump would repeatedly say, oh, in two weeks, we're going to have our health care plan, and it literally never materialized. jonathan, one thing i also want to ask you about is what's going on right now with this, because democrats were trying to make some important fixes to obamacare for a long time, because there were some problems with it. they never could because opening it up risked putting the entire thing on the line, until now. and they did make some significant changes to it in the covid relief package, one that has some very red states suddenly considering expanding medicaid, really entrenching the law further. what stood out to you in terms of the changes that were made in the covid relief bill that actually are going to expand obamacare? >> well, the medicaid provision is one of them. and actually, we're seeing right now in the state of wyoming some action on it, which is remarkable. you know, originally, they had hoped every state would expand medicaid, said it was open to anybody who was at or just above the poverty level, in part because of a supreme court decision. it became very easy for states to say no. and all these republican-led states have said no. even though, you know, it's almost free money from the federal government, and you have states like florida and texas where literally millions of people could get insurance, if the governors and the state legislatures would just say the states even more money. it gives them even an extra incentive to expand. and it looks like in at least one state, wyoming is thinking about that. and eventually, several million people could get insurance if more states take up the medicaid expansion. >> and jonathan, how do you think the broader trends are affecting this, as well. you mentioned florida. they, while electing republicans voting for donald trump, also voted to raise the minimum wage in the state of florida. how does health care fit into the way our parties are shifting? >> people need health care. it's a fundamental fact. for years and and decades and decades, republicans would say, we think universal health care is something that's okay, we support that, too, we just have different ideas about how to get there. one of the things that happened with the affordable care act is that democrats, they were so desperate for decades and decade, they've been trying to do universal health care, basically, the obamacare is an idea to coopt the republican ideas for how to get there, that's how they got it through. and republicans, rather than saying, oh, great, now you've met us halfway, we'll join you, they've retreated to a position of, we don't believe in universal health care anymore, that's not something we're going to provide. that's fine, you can make that argument. there's a conservative, coherent argument for that. but it's not what people want. people need health care. and of course, we're in the middle of a pandemic. it's like a giant advertisement for the fact that, hey, we need universal health care, we've gotten closer, we should be moving further in that direction. and right now, the republican party just does not have an answer on that. >> and of course, the country is becoming in some ways more populist to your overall point. your new book is the ten-year war. obamacare and the unfinished crusade for universal coverage. jonathan cohn, thank you so much for getting up way too early to be on with us. jonie writes, it's way too early for us, but thought we would check in, now we're going back to sleep. from your friends, mr. bud and figaro. thank you for getting up even briefly. shauna c. tweeted, i'm a newly retired air force veteran, not quite over a 21-year-old habit. congratulations on your retirement and thank you for your service. richard e-mails, my 9-year-old son is going back to school for the first time in over a year. we are so excited to finally be able to return in person. i can't even imagine. very happy for you and your son. and, another viewer shares this photo with us. i'm up early enjoying my granddaughter, carmen rose. she is beautiful. congratulations. coming up next here, we're going to take a look at the axios one big thing. and coming up on "morning joe," two members of the house armed services committee, adam smith and elissa slatkin will join the conversation. plus, we'll hear from congresswoman veronica escobar about a surge of migrants at the mexico border. don't go anywhere. 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