President biden visits the steel city to unveil his massive jobs and Infrastructure Plan but republicans are already pushing back the question is, will the president be able to get a bipartisan deal, the bipartisan deal he wants . A dramatic day three of testimony in the trial of the former Police Officer accused of killing george floyd as a juror becomes ill and a witness breaks down on the stand. The question is, what will day four bring and new york is now the 16th state to legalize Recreational Marijuana. The new law takes effect immediately. The question is, how long before the legal buying and selling begins its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, april 1st. April fools day be careful out there im kasie hunt. Well start with this breaking news. Officials say four people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting at a business complex in orange, california, yesterday evening. Two others are listed in critical condition, including a fifth victim and the suspect who suffered a gunshot wound, although its unclear how that happened police are now working to determine a motive and say the investigation would include multiple agencies. This, of course, follows the massacre last week when ten people were killed as a gunman opened fire at a boulder, colorado, grocery store. A week before that, eight people, including six women of asian descent, were killed in three atlantaarea spas. Always so incredibly discouraging to start out, again, with what is a horrific normal in america. And as Congress Debates what to do about this epidemic of gun violence, new polling shows overwhelming support for certain reforms. According to a new politico poll, 85 of registered voters support Background Checks on all gun sales, compared to 11 who oppose them. When it comes to Background Checks at gun shows and private sales, 79 support that reform 13 are against it and 64 say they support a ban on assaultstyle weapons, 27 oppose 64 of americans cofounder of punch bowl news, john resnahan. Here we are again talking about another mass shooting. Here we are again having the conversation about Gun Reform In Congress and you and i have talked about this as recently as last week when you pointed out rightly that this happens, then nothing happens in congress. What is the Biden Administration going to try to do about this . Theyre teeing up some Executive Orders on this issue in fact, the president yesterday in support of his Infrastructure Plan talked about were going to spend 5 billion on Community Violence centers theyre teeing up Executive Orders, i want to call ghost guns, thats one thing, its like a homemade kit you can buy, you assemble a gun theyre going to try and see if they can register those or get a Background Check on those. Theres other theyre pushing some democrats in Congress Want to push President Biden to take Executive Action on what the gun the type of gun used in the boulder shooting, its called an assault pistol, which is Assault Rifle but its a pistol. They want to change the way those are registered but in terms of Background Checks, this is the big issue. Its the huge issue. You know, theres not a lot of movement chris murphy from connecticut, been working on this for a while, hes talking to a lot of republicans. Right now, i dont see how they could pass a Background Check bill that included private transactions i just dont think that will go through congress yeah, no. And weve been talking about that, that Background Check piece of gun reform, was kind of the smallest piece of the original legislation that they started out with after newtown and here we are how many years later and they cant even get that one piece done. You mentioned infrastructure i want to fill everyonein on what we heard from President Joe Biden yesterday, then well talk a little more about it President Biden unveiled his much anticipated 2 trillion Infrastructure Plan, speaking from a carpenters trainiing facility in pittsburgh yesterday. His plan aims to rebuild roads, expand access to clean water and broadband, invest in care for the elderly. Im proposing a plan for the nation that rewards work, not just rewards wealth. Its not a plan that tinkers around the edges its a once in a Generation Investment in america. Unlike anything weve seen or done since we built the Interstate Highway System and the space race decades ago in fact, its the largest american Jobs Investment since world war ii its big, yes. Its bold, yes and we can get it done im convinced if we act now, in 50 years people are going to look back and say, this was the moment that america won the future its a basic question. Can democracy still deliver for their people can they get a majority . I believe we can i believe we must. This plan would spread out over an eightyear period and raise the Corporate Tax rate for 15 years from 21 to 28 it does not at this point include an increase in Capital Gains taxes. Biden has already reached out to top lawmaker on this the hill, including Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, before he unveiled this package. And while mcconnell indicated he doesnt support the, quote, trojan horse bill as it is, House Speaker nancy pelosi hopes to pass the massive legislative initiative by july 4th that, of course, under her narrow, narrow, narrow house majority, bres so what are the hurdles for biden here because as much as they are still kind of giving lip service to the idea that this could be bipartisan, it certainly is clear to me theres no way that thats going to happen if you disagree, id be fascinated to hear your take on it but it does seem like theyre going to have some challenges keeping all the democrats on board in the house, and that there may be some serious Pressure Points for the administration, body from the Progressive Left and moderates in the caucus. Yeah, i agree with you. If theres one thing republicans can agree on, its they dont like taxes and this bill would raise taxes. So republicans may not agree on anything else, but theyre against that i do again, you have a very good point theres going to be on the left you have progressives like aoc, alexandria ocasiocortez, they dont think its big enough, they dont think 2. 5 trillion is enough, they want to spend more moderates like Stephanie Murphy of florida whos on possibly a statewide run. They think its too much money, concerned about the raising Corporate Taxes in a pandemic, you know, the economys still fragile. I think youll have other democrats who have their own pet issues theres a bunch of democrats, tom swazee of new york, bill pascal of new jersey, say theyre not going to vote for any tax bill unless they bring back the date minimum tax relief they got rid of, republicans got rid of in 2017 democrats, like you note, you only have a fourvote margin in the house, tied in the senate. You cant lose anyone. You have to get joe manchin and Kyrsten Sinema like squeezing a balloon, you push it in one place, its going to pop out another. Theyve got a lot of work to do. Its an interesting metaphor, ive never thought about congress that way but it works john bresnahan, thank you, especially today, we appreciate it. The latest in the investigation of possible Sex Trafficking by republican congressman matt gaetz the New York Times was the first to report federal investigators are looking into whether gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17yearold girl and whether he paid for her to travel with him across state lines. When asked about the allegations tuesday night the congressman said he did nothing wrong and claimed it was part of an effort to extort him and his family Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news that the Sex Trafficking investigation into Congressman Gaetz and the extortion allegations made by gaetz are actually two separate investigations now this yesterday in the trial of derek chauvin, the bystander who told george floyd to comply with police broke down on the stand while testifying during video replay of floyd calling for his mother shortly before his death. Do you need a minute . I know this is difficult can you just explain sort of what youre feeling in this moment i can i feel helpless i dont have a moment either they just end him. Charles mcmillian, the states 11th witness, confronted then officer chauvin after the accident, saying he should have taken his knee off floyds neck. Chauvin is heard on Body Cam Video defending himself. Thats one persons opinion. No, no ive got to control this guy, hes a sizable guy. I thought he couldnt get any looked like he was coughing out something. Earlier in the day, prosecutors played Security Camera footage of floyd inside the cup foods buying cigarettes with the allegedly counterfeit 20dollar bill and circled the face of christopher martin, the 19yearold clerk who made the Sale Prosecutors showed martin outside among the crowd of bystanders with hands on his head, appearing distressed, and asked for his thoughts at the time i saw you standing there with your hands on your head for a while, correct correct. What was going through your mind during that time period disbelief and guilt. Why guilt if i would have just not tooken the bill, this could have been avoided the prosecution also introduced Body Cam Footage of floyds arrest from chauvin and the officers with him that day floyd could be heard pleading not to be shot as hes taken from his car and hes later seen being seated by police to await the arrival of additional officers, including chauvin. Livestreaming of the trial resumes today at 9 30 central time still ahead, shipments of Johnson Johnsons coronavirus vaccines get delayed after a mixup at one u. S. Factory. As Major League Baseball gets under way today, yes, President Biden is criticizing, oh dear, the Texas Rangers plan to allow fullcapacity crowds. You can understand why those stories and a check on the weather when we come right back. Facing leaks takes strength. So heres to the strong, who trust in our performance and comfortable longlasting protection. Because your strength is supported by ours. Depend. 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That means it could be filled to capacity, mr. President. 40,000 people with masks required, except when actively eating and drinking. What are your thoughts on the rangers decision . Well, thats a decision theyve made i think its a mistake they should listen to dr. Fauci and the scientists and the experts. And but i think its not responsible. Welcome back. That was President Joe Biden on the eve of opening day of Major League Baseball criticizing the decision by the Texas Rangers to open their stadium with no attendance limits. The rangers are going to have a full house for mondays home opener while the 29 other Major League Teams will host fans at reduced capacity to begin the season the president also said he would back a decision to move the mlb allstar game out of atlanta in response to new legislation that tightens voting laws in georgia. I think todays professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. I would strongly support them doing that the most are the people who are the leaders in these various sports and its just not right this is jim crow on steroids, what theyre doing in georgia. So for the First Time Since 1968, all 30 Major League Teams will take the field on opening day. The slate of 15 games begins in the a. L. East with the new york yankees hosting the Toronto Blue Jays this afternoon, and concludes with three west coast games starting just after 10 00 p. M. Eastern baseball is back meanwhile, both the mens and womens Ncaa Basketball tournaments are down to the final four the mens tournament, according to the washington post, generates more than 800 million every year and it accounts for more than 70 of the ncaas annual revenue the question is, does it come at the expense of Student Athletes . The Supreme Court weighed in on the business of College Sports for the first time in nearly four decades yesterday hearing more than 90 minutes of arguments in a dispute over rules limiting College Athletes educationrelated compensation it comes after a federal Appeals Court ruled last year limits on benefits Like Computers and scholarships violate antitrust laws justices expressioned concern with the ncaas limits on benefits for Student Athletes but several said they worried giving schools more authority to regulate those rules could undermine the amateur nature of College Sports. I start from the idea that the antitrust laws should not be a cover for exploitation of the Student Athletes so that is a concern, overarching concern, here. Schools that are naturally competitors as to athletes have all gotten together in organization, an organization that has undisputed market power, and they use that power to fix Athletic Salaries at extremely low levels you say that whats distinctive about your product is that your players are not paid and that was true 100 years ago. But they are paid. They get lower admission standards, they get tuition, room, and board, other things, and thats a form of pay. I worry about judges getting into the business of deciding how Amateur Sports should be run. Its like a game of jenga youve got this nice, solid bloc that protects the Product Schools want to provide. You pull out one log, another, everythings fine. Another, another all of a sudden the whole thing comes crashing down. 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Start stopping with nicorette i understand that they have Public Companies and they have boards that are pressuring them, but that doesnt change the truth and the fact that this bill expands Voting Access, especially on the weekends in georgia. It uses a voter i. D. Which is free for Absentee Ballot with mail that will speed up the process. It requires county Elections Officials to continuously tabulate governor to get everybody counted. Its a secure, accessible, fairway to do it that was georgia Governor Brian Kemp defending the states new voting law amid pushback from powerful corporations those georgia businesses are speaking out against the restrictive voting measures. Cocacola ceo james quincy called the legislation, quote, wrong, unacceptable, and a step backward Delta Airlines Ceo Ed Bastian wrote in a memo to employees, the entire rationale for this bill was based on a lie, that there was widespread voter fraud in georgia in the 2020 elections. This is simply not true. Unfortunately that excuse is being used in states across the nation that are attempting to pass similar legislation to restrict Voting Rights the statements come as activists threaten to boycott atlantabased companies saying they didnt do enough to stop the law from being passed. As we just played Governor Kemp is pushing back saying republicans had worked with delta when crafting the bill, and at no point did the airliner raise objections with his office about some of the controversial provisions in a move seen as retaliation, the republicanled statehouse passed an amendment that would repeal a tax break on jet fuel for delta. Still ahead, President Biden will host his first Cabinet Meeting today amid a new push to pass his Infrastructure Plan well have a preview what was that meeting will look like. We want to know, why are you awake . Email us your reasons for being up and watching to waytooearly msnbc. Com. 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Much of the meeting will focus on how the cabinet will Work Together to implement the plan and how to communicate to the American People for the benefits of Working Families is how they put it the Associated Press points out the meeting is going to look very different from those that were held by former President Trump. Quote, thefull cabinet wont meet in the room that bears its name instead assembling in the more spacious east room to allow for social distancing. All attendees, including the president , will wear masks also, the Afternoon Meeting will probably not include the overthetop tributes to the Chief Executive that came to define Cabinet Meetings held by President Donald Trump hm, indeed with the Republican Party eyeing ways to try and win back the majority in congress, a memo from the chairman of the Republican Study Committee was given to House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy it was titled Cementing Gop as the workingclass party. According to an axios report, the memo was written by indiana congressman jim banks where he argues the gop should fully embrace its transformation into a blue collar party. He addsness President Trumps gift didnt come with a receipt. In the memo banks writes, quote, our electoral success in the 2022 midterm elections will be determined by our willingness to embrace our new coalition. House republicans can broaden our electorate, increase voter turnout, and take back the house by enthusiastically rebranding and reorienting as the party of the working class. Joining us now, author of the washington posts Early Morning newsletter power up, jacqueline alemaini. The heart of this memo and the conflict, its true former President Trump seems to have turned out more workingclass voters in the 2020 election than republican candidates have in the past, certainly more than Congressional Republicans who do the polling and dig into this were expecting they were surprised by that. Thats part of why were learning this lesson here. But the reality is right now, republicans are opposing policies that are aimed at helping workingclass americans. Namely, a lot of the stuff thats in this infrastructure man. They opposed to a person the covid relief package how do they square what they think they need their politics to be with the policies that theyre voting for or voting against . Thats a great question, kasie, and its one that republicans are going to have to answer on the campaign trail, which is already starting up again. But as we reported yesterday during conversations we had had with democratic groups who have been pushing for major tax hikes in order to foot the bill for this Infrastructure Bill, they noted that regardless of what they do as democrats, republicans are going to attack them as implementing higher taxes, being in favor of tax hikes. Whether they actually implement them or not. But that for once, democrats have on their side that there is overwhelming public support for higher taxes bidens Campaign Pollster has said that that was the most popular Economic Policy of the 2020 campaign, raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations these are statistics that republicans are going to have to grapple with and theyre going to have to explain why their rhetoric and why their support and desire to bring in the coalition of workingclass americans doesnt match their Policy Actions in terms of not supporting the American Rescue plan, and most likely not supporting the impending infrastructure legislation thats probably going to get pushed through by the end of the summer. So lets talk about this Infrastructure Plan. Because and the taxes in particular because you do raise a very interesting point there. But there is a big difference between raising taxes broadly on what has become as our society has become more economically unequal, there are far more people willing to say, yeah, raise taxes on that guy. The Business Community is officially opposed to the Infrastructure Plan because of these tax hikes. But theyre also at odds on the other side with Mitch Mcconnell in some ways there have been small signs where the Chamber Of Commerce has picked fights with Mitch Mcconnell, where i didnt think i would ever see that in my lifetime does that mean that the Business Community is sort of out there without any allies anymore yeah, you know, it remains to be seen. I think that they were potentially hoping, because of if you look at the makeup of bidens cabinet and a lot of his senior staffers who have corporate backgrounds, that he might be potentially friendlier. But what we have seen in the last week especially, you know, thats been echoed by endorsements from major unions and progressive organizations, that biden is coming out in support of ramping up taxes on corporations and the wealthy, reversing the tax cuts of to reverse some of the tax cuts of trumps 2017 tax plan, and implement some new ones that he outlined along with the Infrastructure Plan that he unveiled yesterday that being said, you know, youre not going to see biden cozy up with wall street in any way, and you have pressure from these unions, aflcio, americans for tax fairness, already putting additional pressure on biden to go even harder on raising taxes because it is popular in terms of consensus from the American Public put if you look at, as you noted, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, hes drawn a red line saying, republicans cant get behind something that raises taxes like this putting basically making it so that this Infrastructure Plan is a nonstarter for republicans to support the washington post, jackie alimeny, thank you as always. 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The Company Confirms one batch, quote, did not meet quality standards after the New York Times broke the story last night. According to the times, workers accidentally mixed together ingredients from the Johnson Johnson and astrazeneca vaccines, which are both being made in the same factory. The delay will not affect any doses currently being delivered and used nationwide, since those were produced in the netherlands. Joining us, Infectious Diseases physician and medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit at the Boston University school of medicine, dr. Nah ichlid bedelia thank you for getting up early with us. I saw that you tweeted about cases rising across the globe and in need for a global, unified effort to end the pandemic why do you think we need that, and also, could you briefly address this Johnson Johnson issue . Because this is a vaccine that could potentially be a key part of that. And im sure that there are some americans out there who are nervous, seeing these headlines. Should they be yeah, so kasie, good morn recognize Johnson Johnson theyre now going to take tighter control of Emergent Bio Solutions work being done around the vaccines, and i think thats important. My understanding is that the current projections from President Biden in terms of all adults being able to get vaccinated if they wanted to by may still hold but theyve been, in terms of the exact delivery dates of the Johnson Johnson, i think its going to be harder to sort of assess as a country, trying to make up for this potential delay. Its also good to know novavax, another vaccine distributor, might be submitting their data at some point in april you may remember they had International Trials that were very promising so another thing that might be on our horizon is there may be other producers, including novavax, as well as astrazeneca. Oh, and to your point about the yeah, please, go ahead. To your point about the need for a Global Governance and equity, listen, for the very reasons that were rushing to vaccinate everybody here, i think its equally important for us to try to get a global Vaccine Equity because if we only vaccinated people here, you might see the virus continue to mutate in other parts of the world since were globally connected, it would make us vulnerable again. Thats one of the reasons why we need that effort so the other piece of news We Saw Yesterday that frankly seemed so incredibly promising to me as a parent, pfizer said that their vaccine is 100 effective for kids between the ages of 12 and 15. What does that mean for getting kids back into the classroom in the fall and the timeline for getting younger kids vaccinated . Yeah, so fepfizer started th trial in october and its really promising. The Safety Signal looks great. The antibodies are amazing the kids look great. Its 100 effective so far the fda is now going to take a look at that data probably over the next month or so after its submitted. Its submitted. The hope is that its another way to protect kids. I think if all the adults around them are already vaccinated and the classrooms have those mitigation measures, youve already made the scenario safe, but having this extra step allows kids to be able to go Back To School and return to normalcy, sports, interactions, in other aspects and by vaccinating kids, we get closer to Herd Immunity faster because even if all the adults are vaccinated, we dont want the virus continue to transmitting among kids, for the same reasons we talked about in terms of getting the whole world vaccinated this is another way to have parents feel safer, hopefully before at some point before the next school year but also, a way for all of us to get back to normalcy all right dr. Nahid bhadelia, thank you so much for starting your day off with us. We really appreciate it. And earlier on in the show, we asked all of you, why are you awake . Mike writes, im up way too early trying Night Photography of the worldfamous washington, d. C. Cherry blossoms that is a beautiful photo. And thanks for watching. Laural fwtweeted this im awake because this little fellow decided to sneak into the house last night thats minorly terrifying. And amanda is very excited for opening day. Im trying to get some Spring Cleaning on opening day and saw my oriole birds opening day stats. Oh, dear lets go os. Im very exciting for opening day. For those of you telling me, go, yankees, im sorry, were not going to read your tweets here kidding. Up next, mike memoli joins us with his latest reporting from the white house and the latest in the aftermath of another mass shooting thats left four people dead in california and after last months slayings in atlanta sparked a nationwide outcry against antiasian sentiment, well hear from grace meng. 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Lets talk about this infrastructure thing, bill, because the president getting this major speech, but it it seems like to me, there is no hope that they are going to get republican support for what theyve laid out here. And instead, they seem to be more focused on problems that they could have with their left flank in the house i mean nancy pelosi can only lose two votes, three depending on how the elections play out. How are they trying to thread this needle . Theres trouble on multiple fronts, especially if you look at members of the new jersey congressional delegation, others that are raising concerns on the democratic side about not supporting any tax reforms, changes of any kind, unless they bring back that state and local deduction, such an important tax break for my family, friends, those in new jersey and other states in the northeast with high, local Property Taxes as well but listen, anytime and the Biden Administration was fully aware of this, you talk about any form of tax increase, even a tax increase on corporations that brings it back to even still lower where it was for most of the 20th century, youre really risking republican support. It was also interesting to see, as republicans were criticizing this as sort of a trojan horse for the green new deal, there were some groups on the left, Progressive Forces saying they didnt do enough here on climate. But the white house messaging is going to boil down to two things one is, this is essential for american competitiveness you really heard the president yesterday leaning into china eating our lunch, as he put it that this is something that is absolutely essential and also, the popularity of this the initial polling on this yesterday was is that these Tax Increases actually make the bill more popular, if you make it clear that the only people here seeing Tax Increases are the wealthy and corporations and so, the Biden Administration is actually giving more time for this the timeline on the hill is a little bit longer than it was for the rescue plan. And i think they want to make it politically uncomfortable, for certainly for republicans to oppose it and do everything they can to keep their own left flank onboard. So, mike, the left the said left flank has basically said, this bill isnt enough doesnt go far enough. We need more but the price tag is a pretty blaring headline i feel like i can see that the campaign ads kind of write themselves is the Biden Administration concerned at all about that part of it, or are they confident that the polling will hold and at the end of the day people will say, okay, we want to do this yeah, both parties have been talking about infrastructure we famously have been talking about infrastructure week for years now. So the view of the Biden Administration is that theres, of course, difficult questions about how to pay for it. And thats going to be the channel back to Mitch Mcconnell. Remember what we heard from the president as he was making the case for the rescue plan, what of the 1. 9 billion would you take away . Would you take away the Vaccination Blueprint . Would you take away the increased testing, the support for local governments . And i think thats going to be the argument back to republicans. What here, as our colleague Vaughn Hillyard was pointing out with bridges all across the country that are classified in need of repair, what project in your district would you oppose if it would be supported by this, clean water, all the different components of it when you have a bill this bill that there are certainly enough proposals in it that you can sell as relevant in districts and states that i think that theyre confident that they can do, but of course that opens the risk to being seen as nothing but a giant pork project well see where the midterm landscape is by this time next year, if this is what were still talking about, even. Yeah, no, so much can change. Mike, lets talk about one of the most important stories today. Baseball President Biden did weigh in on the rangers having a full stadium, but here in washington, the nats are going to have 5,000 fans they took press through, a tour of the safetymeasures. What are you hearing about how its going to go at the stadium later on today and how the nats are going to do this year . Not as good as the yankees, you know, im always hoping as originally a yankees fan for a yankees nats world series, but this year, i think the yankees are much more likely to get there than the home team here in d. C. All right nbcs mike memoli, thank you so much for getting up early with us and all i have to say in response to mr. Memoli and also to all of you is, lets go, os thank you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday morning. Dont go anywhere. Morning joe starts right now has got the exact right message and is being responded the response is fabulous around the country. Deeply honored and i want to thank you for your commitment to the American Workers my hats off to you for taking that stand and for sending a clear message around the world. Its a privilege to serve i cant thank you enough for the privilege that youve given me and the leadership that youve shown im thrilled to have a chance to help you live up to your campaign promises. Thank you for getting this country moving optimism from Small Businesses is higher than its been in about 16 years w