going again? it's way to early for this. >> welcome to way too early. it is monday, march 29. the latest news shows wide-spread approval for biden's priorities. 75% approve of vaccine distribution, 72% of the pandemic handling and the economic recovery. as vaccinations ramp up, the united states has hit a new record of shots administered. nearly 3.4 million doses of the pfizer, moderna and johnson&johnson vaccines were administered. bringing the seven-day average to 2.6 million shots per day. that number is expected to continue rising. the biden administration says 11 million doses of the johnson&johnson vaccine will be distributed this week. according to the response coordinator, the u.s. is still on track to deliver its goal of making shots available to all adults by the end of may. >> nice to kick off the morning with some good news. still this, some areas of the country are still seeing a rise of covid cases and a plateau of hospitalizations. >> it is not completely the variants. what we are likely seeing is because of things like spring break and pulling back on the mitigation methods you've seen now. several states have done that. i believe it is premature. i've said many times to you, when you are coming down from a big peak and you reach a point to start to plateau, once you stay at that plateau, you stay in danger of a surge coming up. that's what we are starting to see. >> president biden set to pitch the first half of $3 trillion infrastructure plan in pittsburgh in an effort to improve the country's roads, bridges and water systems. outlining a second bill to address health care and other social assistance programs. >> what the american people hear from him, the first step of his plan towards recovery will include an investment in infrastructure. he's going to have more to say later about the second part of his recovery plan which will include health care, child care, addressing that. the total package, we are working out. he'll address those. >> joining us now, white house correspondent and co-aa tore of "the playbook" eugene, it's great to have you on the show. it has been a long time since we've had an optimistic start to any day let alone, week. the polling we are seeing here, essentially the pandemic the covid relief bill, and vaccinations and economy is very strong. they have spent the last couple of weeks dealing with crisis, specifically the situation at the border. how does this set them up going into the spring where there are touch choices about what p to do next? >> every single president or administration would do anything at any time to have high numbers like this. this is just one poll but part of a trend we've seen since the very beginning of the presidency. people have seen the way president biden and the administration have taken care of the economy as something that they are very positive about. to your point, in this era of politics, we are not seeing public opinion really move congress or republicans to be more likely to act. it doesn't feel like that. we saw during the covid relief bill. it was always popular with the american public, yet we didn't see any republicans vote for it in the house or senate. it is really interesting. thinking about infrastructure in two ways with the roads, bridges, waterways. that's likely to get more republican support. the idea we saw during the campaign is that president biden is interested in raising taxes on wedgiest americans and big businesses and that's where he's going to lose any republican support. >> what does it look like at the end of the day, perhaps they are going to make some effort to say, okay, we are going to build a road in the district to patch up infrastructure and dare republicans to say no to that while working on, as you point out, what is becoming a massive climate package that they are going to use the budget program, reconciliation process to do. is this basically the last challenge to republicans to say, hey, we are thinking about getting rid of the filla buster. show us you are willing to work a little bit. >> i think president biden will want to do a little more than workup this extra bill. especially those that are very popular with the american people. if chuck schumer can continue to convince the american people, that filla buster, because it hasn't been used but if they can continue to push this idea that republicans will use it and do that as they try to put a road in the district and get rid of the potholes that are destroying your car tires. those are the things the american people are thinking of. we are not traveling. but people are going to work in places. if you can convince people, hey, we are trying to get roads and there is a lot of pressure we'll put on republicans. at least a few republicans in the house, maybe the senate, possibly. >> eugene daniels, thank you for kicking off on this monday morning. republicans and democrats made duelling visits to the southern border. their take aways could not have been more different. house democrats toured a facility of unaccompanied children. >> we are glad to see the administration is building up the capacity to handle kids who have prnted themselves for asylum. the right place for these kids is with their family or relative sponsors. they are better off here than in the cpp processing centers where we have seen not just in the last week but even before in years past, the conditions at the cpp processing centers with people sleeping with what looks like aluminum blankets. so this is a much better situation but not the right situation tore them. the biden administration is taking people who are testing positive for covid-19 and locking them in cages side by side. this is inhumane and wrong and direct consequence of the administration to stop building the wall, end the return and release policy. >> senator cruz sent the pictures of the cbb facility. humanitarian and public health crisis. >> the visits come a day after biden faced some questions at his first formal news conference as president. former president trump says he might visit the southern border claiming that many border officials have asked him to. >> a lot of people want me to. the border patrols and people of vice want me there. they've asked me to go. i feel i owe it to them. they are great people doing an incredible job. >> mr. president, when do you think that you would go? 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>> good morning, i wish i could stick with the positive vibes but we have a dire situation happening across nashville and portions of tennessee. they are dealing with about six inches of rain in the last 24 hours. we have half a dozen communities that have been evacuated. the rain and river flooding that will be an issue. before we make its way out of the area. still, we are seeing the high tides in this area. we'll be watching that closely. i'll focus on the northeast. this is the exiting storm system that we saw over the weekend. this is our third severe outbreak. you can see it is moving out of the area. high wind, watches and advisories will be in place over the afternoon. we have had over 155 wind reports in the last 24 hours with cooler air. continue to see wind gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour throughout the afternoon across northern new england all the way into new york city. we are going to be watching the centrals here where you can see the upper midwest and another system making its way across the area. 55 to 75 mile an hour wind gusts and continue to watch the snow for the rockies. this last monday of march, we are still talking about snowfall up to 3 to 5 inches in that area. >> janessa webb, thank you. opening statements get underway today in the trial of derek chauvin. we'll be back in just a moment. t ♪ ♪ we know it's going to take many forms of energy to meet the world's needs while creating a cleaner future for all. at chevron, we're lowering the carbon emissions intensity of our operations, investing in lower-carbon technologies, and exploring renewable fuels of the future. we work hard to care for the homes we love. but it's only human... to protect the one we share. sales are down from last quarter webut we are hopinge things will pick up by q3. yeah...uh... doug? 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>> we are taking a look as well. in a fiery statement, the president urged congress to pass the voting rights bill that would prevent restrictions like in georgia. he wrote in part, this is jim crow in the 21st century. it must end. we have a moral and constitutional act. urging people to pass the voter rights act and john lewis act to prevent attacks on the sacred right to vote. as the administration moves to shift, senator warnock says the country cannot simply move on. >> we have to work on our infrastructure, and our democracy. the only way we've got the prospects of getting things done is because people were able to show up and express their voices in the democracy. we wouldn't had passed the american rescue plan had the people in georgia not stood up the way they did, historic turnout. we have to do both of those things. >> joining us now, political reporter greg. thank you for getting up early with us. you've been reporting on some of the legal challenges as to what we saw happen in your home state last week. this seems inevitable to me. walk us through what those challenges are and what your reporting says about whether they are likely to succeed. >> there are now two sweeping lawsuits. one was signed hours and the other filed last night. they both say these new rules are a grab bag of voting restrictions that flout the constitutional rights of georgians and disproportionately affect voters of color. they could both be moving through courts. i expect them to be kind of lumped together but could move through courts the same time congress is facing increased pressure to pass legislation that would preempt all of this discussion. >> so greg, everyone knows court cases can take very, very long periods to ultimately be resolved. there are periods of appeals, possible it ends up in a higher court at some point. what is your sense of whether this law is going to be in effect when reverend warnock faces voters in two years. he was part of a special election and has to run for a full term. >> a lot of legal experts expect this to go to appeals court which is majority conservative. vote he there is pressure to pass some kind of voting law which would render these court fights meaningless and strike down the hurdles to pass the approval and other key pieces that democratic critics say are necessary now to block restrictions from elections from taking place. >> and greg, can i ask you, one thing that stuck out to me is the substantial businesses in atlanta, coca-cola, american airlines, we did a story about how the masters is coming under pressure over this law. what kind of impact could those companies have over this law as it goes forward? 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>> i can tell your experience of this on a personal level. look, we've administered about 100 million shots so far. i do think the biden administration will meet their goal of 200 million by the first hundred days which i never thought would be possible. a couple of things made it happen, the supply partially evoked by the act being trigorred to basically get 24/7 access to pfizer, moderna and johnson&johnson. when president biden set this may deadline, i think these states, the ones you listed which are majority republican governed said, we'll beat it. that's great. to your question, we are still going to be about another month before you can kind of walk in and say, this is the vaccine i want, where can i go and get it? it is still coming along with an impressive click with more sites being populated on a day-to-day basis. >> thank you. after a year of this that month doesn't seem too far away. to what point was the politicization of the mask wearing, do you think we'll see that in the vaccination arena as well? how concerned are one, you'll still have people who haven't actually gotten them. how does that affect the rest of us who decide that we want to be vaccinated. and what do we need to be doing to try to convince people that this is safe and effective and helps everyone? >> i think having those conversations actually do work. i find that when tell me, no, i don't want the vaccine, and if i actually try to probe and don't try to blame or judge and ask, what are you thinking, a lot of women in reproductive age are still concerned about effects it might have on taking a vaccine and effects on a future pregnancy. addressing though, one, takes time. and two, i think it takes a conversation with a health professional that actually understands the data, more specifically, somebody who's looked at the trials. and to your point, we are going to have a point after which we still have probably tens of millions of americans who do not want to receive a vaccine. and i want people towns, herd immunity isn't an on and off light switch. it's like a dimmer dial. so the more and more people we can get vaccinated sooner rather than later, the earlier kind of a return to normal happens. i actually think that incentive matters. i think you'll start to see a lot of employee workplaces and other places get vaccines after the country has had a chance to get them, and they will try to make it easier for some of those more reluctant staff. because, right now, you have to really work to get the vaccine. but for those who don't want it, as it becomes easier and more convenient to get it, i think we'll be able to address. there are always people who do not want vaccines for multiple reasons, and we have to remember that it is a medical procedure, getting that shot and we have to remind people what not getting it could mean for them. >> dr. kavita patel, thank you very much. earlier on the show, we asked all of you, what are you up? 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