coronavirus. that number hit a new record yesterday, 4,131 americans. on top of that we just learned a few minutes ago that 900,000 americans filed unemployment benefits for the first time in just the last week. just add that to the millions and millions of americans that are already out of work right now. it is a crisis. and we cannot forget that the building directly behind me, the u.s. capitol, was attacked by domestic terrorists just about 15 days ago. we know that president biden is laser focused on trying to heal this country, and bring people together. he said it over and over yesterday. but he also knows it will not be easy. >> there are moments in our history when more is asked of us as americans. we saw that in the civil war. we saw that with dr. king. dreaming from these steps across the mall. we are in one of those moments now, the pandemic, economic crisis, racial injustice, the climate crisis, and threats to our very democracy. and the question is, are we up to it? >> in his first few hours in office president biden got to work by reversing a number of trump policies on issues like immigration and climate change. today it is all about tackling the covid crisis. i want to dig deeper and bring in nbc's chief white house correspondent peter alexander and eli stokols, white house reporter for the l.a. times. peter, talk us through what the president is going to do today in terms of the virus. >> reporter: yeah, it's a good question, stephanie and it's clear that the priority for this new president is the pandemic, already signing 17 executive orders yesterday, ten more today, heavily focused on the coronavirus crisis, including a series of steps he's going to take to try to combat this, particularly as it relates to the defense production act, implementing that act which allows the government to use sort of wartime powers to help get up to speed in terms of vaccination, the production of supplies, one of the significant priorities for this administration. you see part of the checklist there, expanding testing and treatment. there will also be new guidance, steps that will be taken to help reopen schools and businesses safely. joe biden announcing that he'll be requiring masks be worn in -- during transit, on trains, and on planes and the like. also addressing some of the racial inequities, how communities of color in particular have been so hard hit by this over the course of this last year. and in particular what we're hearing is a real frustration within the biden administration, one that they communicated even in advance of their arrival here, about the impediment as described by one of the covid coordinators provided by the last administration, not giving them the visibility they needed into the situation here and they're really trying to create a national covid strategy. real coordination that would include some of these vaccination sites, the gymnasiums and stadiums that would be implemented and run by different folks from federal agencies, members of the military as well as first responders to try to crack down on this right away. biden, president biden recognizes that is the most urgent issue on his plate. >> eli, executive actions are one thing, but to get this massive covid relief program through, he's going to need congress. is joe biden going to have to give up a lot of what's in his plan to get that done? republicans aren't going to want to play ball. >> well, it's true that they're going to have to do some negotiating and they don't want to give things up right off the bat, steph, but certainly they understand that what they've put out is a starting point. the administration is really trying to do a lot of outreach to those lawmakers who are seen as centrists, people who can tip the balance in the senate and the house. obviously there are small majorities for democrats in the house and a 50/50 split in the senate and so they believe that, you know, working the middle of the field is a way for them to potentially get a majority of people supporting this plan, and joe biden's going to continue to talk about urgency of putting more money in americans' pockets above all else because that's the biggest selling point, i think, to the country and the thing that will put the most pressure on lawmakers to come along with him. but obviously this comes at a difficult time in terms of the partisanship. joe biden wants to tamp that down and create space for bipartisan governing and yet you have the possibility of an impeachment trial of donald trump occurring in the senate, you have all these executive orders that he signed already on his first day that we've seen give republicans a reason to begin sniping about rejoining of the paris accord, to sort of ramp that partisanship right back up to a ten. and so it's going to be difficult. but this is an administration that unlike the last one has a real team doing legislative outreach and has a president who instead of reacting to the television is going to be coordinating with his chief of staff with others in the white house, going to be working the phones to congress himself, and i think you'll see more people in the west wing all pulling in the same direction. >> a very different team, that press briefing room was very different yesterday. peter, you were there. sean spicer, president trump's first press secretary, his first day he in the press briefing room he was talking, lying about crowd sizes, people laughed at it at the time, they did snl skits but things devolved. that press briefing room became a war zone and essentially by the end there weren't even bless briefings at all. what was it like to be back? >> steph, you're exactly right. i'm reminded of that first sean spicer press briefing where he stormed out of the room, that one happened the day after the inauguration, by design for the nirt in modern history the press secretary held a briefing on inauguration day itself. i was sitting there, one of the first couple rows for that yesterday and jen tsaki the new press secretary said to the room of reporters and americans watching that it will be her job to communicate the truth, even sometimes when the truth hurts, a function of the crisis we're in right now. but this is all by design, steph. we know there are going to be briefings, not just every few weeks, every few months, maybe once a year, but every day, at least, as best it's communicated so far, jen tsaki will be back at the modium at 4:00 p.m. today. she's be joined by dr. anthony fauci, taking a prominent role in the effort to combat coronavirus. i was struck in my reaction with her yesterday you're not bracing yourself for attack. we'll continue to ask tough questions, i challenged her about whether president biden has faith in the fbi director christopher wray. she didn't have a particular answer on that, deflected on that, raised some eyebrows perhaps in the intelligence community but she's going to take tough questions but there can be a good discourse back and forth that benefits all sides. >> well, peter, you're not going to be responding to tweets all day long and figuring those out but you are going to have to do home work and put together real questions every day. very different job for you. peter, eli, thank you both so much. i want to talk about the other big story on wednesday, the power shift in the u.s. senate. new vice president kamala harris led the swearing in for three new democratic senators, raphael warnock, jon ossoff, that puts control by a thin margin both houses of congress. pennsylvania democratic senator bob casey joins me now. senator, you have not had unity in years. it was extraordinary to see yesterday's speech, to watch lawmakers go to church together. but let's be honest, do you think there's a snowball's chance in you know where that there's going to be any unity? you've got members of congress who wanted to block fair election. >> yeah, stephanie, there's no question that today is the day when -- in terms of moving president biden forward. that's going to be difficult. i have no doubt that his rescue plan, the basic elements of it, will get passed. and i would not want to be a republican senator going back and saying i was the one who balked money to reopen schools, i was the one who balked money to get -- extradition. they have to join us in those fundamental priorities for the american people. as your reporters have just outlined we're still setting records for deaths from the virus. still setting records in terms of unemployment. we have a lot of work to do, and i think they would be wise to work with us for the new president. >> however, mitch mcconnell was the one who held up the last stimulus package for months because he cared about liability shields and while that was going on he was elected again. given what a high bar bipartisanship is, what can you get done that doesn't require republicans. >> there's no question sometimes we're going to put forward legislation, and won't be successful. but that shouldn't deter us from doing it. look, our candidate won the election for president. we have a majority in the senate. we should never, ever negotiate against ourselves. that's why i think it was really important that joe biden went big on the first legislative initiative. you want to tackle the virus, get the economy out of the pit and rebuild the country, you've got to go big. and you can't be bashful about it. so when i consider just back home in pennsylvania, we're right now at a point where we have more deaths in pennsylvania, we're at about 20,000, more deaths than there were killed in action in world war ii in my home state. we've got to knock this virus down, and there's no question that republicans are doing the same thing when they go home. >> democrats and a whole lot of american people have been furious over the last few years about president trump, former president trump abusing the system, even in the last few days. he extended secret service protection, something very expensive, for his entire family, 13 extra people. in the last minute he changed the ethics rules so his aides can immediately become lobbyists. is there anything that you want to change right now about the rules so they don't get abused again in the different administration? >> well, certainly, i think on ethics, that should be the subject of a lot of attention legislatively because the one thing people back home hate about washington is any kind of ethical -- happens all the time, probably more than it does in reality. but there's no question that ethics should be the subject of our attention. but right now we've got to focus on the virus, and on jobs. those two issues, first and foremost. look, i think there's a lot of support for that when you look across the country. one of the reasons we have a majority is because those two races in texas -- or in georgia for warnock and ossoff, one of the reasons they won is because they said they wanted to focus on those issues, fundamental issues that have been ignored for far along. we're going to use this majority as long as we have it. we know we have it for at least two years to get things done for the american people, and move the agenda, move president biden's agenda forward. >> things fortunately were very peaceful in washington today but today we're looking at the national guard packing up and heading home. does that worry you? because the threat hasn't gone away. >> no, stephanie, i think that the capitol police, i'm sure, learned a great deal from january the 6th. i think members of congress did as well. you have to have a strategy to not only secure the capitol, but you can have -- one of the biggest challenges we all face as a people, not just joe biden, we have to do something for the core of this country when it comes to rooting out white supremacy. that was at the core of what was happening at the capitol yet people going to the capitol to kill the vice president, kill the speaker in order to stop the electoral vote count. we have to stamp out white supremacy. that means every legislator has to do that. that means every member of the administration has to be focused on that. that's how you do it ultimately. you can't just build a wall around washington. we have to get to the core of this problem. it's white supremacy and racism and we've got to do a lot about it and i think we can, not just by way of prosecution, but also by way of changing the culture and educating our children in a different fashion. >> no doubt. senator, thank you so much for joining me this morning, i appreciate it. >> thanks, stephanie. coming up next here live in washington, d.c. we've been talking about it all morning, a record number of people died from coronavirus yesterday, yesterday. as our nation still struggles with the national vaccine plan, i'll be asking west virginia's trump as he's known as, governor jim justice why his state is emerging as a vaccine leader. what they are doing right, what the rest of the country needs to learn, and how west virginia, a state that overwhelmingly supported president trump, is reacting to president biden's calls for unity. and later, now that former president trump has officially left the white house, what are his supporters fueling those crazy online conspiracies, what are they going to do next? 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>> reporter: stephanie, we're here in the majorly large parking lot that the valley has set up. the tents are already set up. setting up the computers, heating lamps already here, lines, the traffic cones ready for cars to come through but they're not driving through here yet simply because the health department doesn't have the doses available. now back in the fall they held a flu vaccination site here and were able to distribute 8,000 vaccines a day so clearly they are -- they know what they're getting into, they are prepped to do it but the problem the health department tells me is that even though they're getting weekly shipments of the moderna and pfizer vaccines across pennsylvania each week they don't know how many vaccines they're going to get. there's a lot of uncertainty here so they don't know how to schedule out appointments or how to sprep here at the site. moving forward as we are seeing biden's first full day in office he is making the vaccine distribution plan number one on top of his list. he anticipates activating the national guard and fema to help distribute vaccines across the country. as well as better communication plans between the local, state and federal governments because the spokesperson here at the health department said, you know, we're at the whim of the state and the state is at the whim of the feds. they need a better plan between those two entities. biden also is planning to enact the defense production act to make sure manufacturers are producing enough of the vaccine so it can come down to communities like this, he also mentions wanting to set up more mass vaccination sites like the one we're at here so more people can get vaccinated more efficiency. we expect to see president biden signing those executive orders to put those additional plans into place just this afternoon, stephanie. >> we've got to get more vaccines and then we've got to get them in americans' arms, mara, thank you. i want to talk now about a states that doing it right, and bring in their governor, joining us now republican governor jim justice of west virginia, where more coronavirus vaccinations have been administered per capita than any other state. that is an important achievement, governor. what are you doing in west virginia that the rest of the country should be? >> well, stephanie, we just took a real practical approach to the whole thing. when it really boils right down to it you're dead on the money right, 4,100 people died in the last 24 hours in the nation, 400,000 plus and everything. west virginia is the oldest of the -- the third oldest state in the country with a lot of chronic illnesses and everything. so what did we do? really, at the end of the day, we absolutely looked at this as a practical approach to be able to just get shots in arms. and what we did is we recruited all of our local pharmacies, local health clinics and put our national guard to work, and can you just imagine this? for about a week now, every single vaccine that has come into this state is in somebody's arm. i'm talking about 99.6% of the vaccines are in arms right now. and so if we had the vaccines and you've got a lot of places where vaccines are sitting on the shelf and everything and that's no good. we're all americans. at the end of the day, whether it's an american in west virginia or california or pennsylvania, if we can get a shot in the arm we've got a real chance of saving somebody's life. >> so you've done an extraordinary job of taking all those vaccines and getting them to people. but for the next phase it's about how do you get those vaccines, new york's governor cuomo, he wants states to buy vaccines directly from pfizer. that's a lot easier for him, new york's got a whole lot of money. how do you feel about something like that? >> well, i tell you the honest truth, you know, west virginia, economically, is doing fantastic. and -- but i don't really think that's the way to go at all because, you know, there's a lot of states that are really struggling and everything and it would be just a bidding war and all that, it's no good. i don't think that will ever get off the ground. you know, new york surely had a whole lot of challenges and a whole lot of problems and everything and i think what happens so often, stephanie, is just this, we look at it from a bureaucrat standpoint. i look at it, you know, from a business guy standpoint. and absolutely, in west virginia, we're practical thinking craftsmen type people and everything, they're good people, really good people that are smart people, we've got a kind of a bad rap in the past but i'm telling you this is a wonderful place here and we're getting it done. >> well if getting things done are about practicality and pragmatism i want to ask you about the path forward politically. your state voted overwhelmingly for president trump. you have been dubbed west virginia's donald trump after you switched parties from democrat to republican at a trump rally. i have to ask, how do you feel about president trump now, after the way he left office? >> well, to be perfectly honest, stephanie, and you know, i know this is maybe not a popular answer with you. here's how i feel -- >> how do you know, slow down, sir, how do you know what's a popular answer with me? we've never even met. >> well, bless your heart, okay, i'll go with this and everything. but here's how i feel. you know, i ran as a democrat in the past. then i became -- then i became very proudly republican, and my family grew up republicans. but i don't care. i don't care if you're a democrat or republican. i really don't care. i think we should respect the presidency of the united states. there was lots of wonderful stuff president trump did. but at the same time he probably got out over his skis, and donald trump has a way of doing that, and i'm a great friend and everything, but for god's sakes we don't need to chase the man and beat the man to his grave. i mean, we now have a new president. we need to respect this new president, and we're excited about this new president. and let's go. let's get on with what we're doing in life and everything. that's how i feel wholeheartedly. i spoke yesterday to jeff ziance, the new coronavirus czar, he was really upbeat, real excited and everything, absolutely, let's go, come on. you know, this is all about a problem where we've got people that are dying right and left and we've got to stop it. >> well, joe biden is asking for that. joe biden yesterday had a massive call for unity, and he said the only way we will get out of this is if we work together. do you believe the people of west virginia want that? that is where president trump has some of his most devoted supporters who following his lead were fighting these election results. are the people of west virginia open to this message of let's go, let's work together? >> well, i surely hope to goodness that they are and i think that they are. i mean, west virginia is -- just think about this, stephanie. we're first in the nation to test all of our residents in our nursing homes, we're first in the nation to vaccinate, and we're now on our second shots, completing our second shots with our nursing homes. i think we're done right now. but it is amazing what west virginia is doing and has done. our people absolutely are excited about the new president. they're -- they were absolutely supportive of president trump but we're going to move forward. and i promise you, from my governorship standpoint, i am absolutely the guy that would always say respect the presidency. for god sakes of living, let's respect the presidency and let's work together and get the very best done that we can -- you know, have for our people, whether it be west virginia or any state in this nation. >> amen to that. then how do you handle right wing extremism in your state? you actually have a state lawmaker who was arrested and charged after he participated on the riot in the capitol. how do you address that, sir? that's a lawmaker. >> well, i promise you just this. now, he's resigned his position. but that man's an idiot. that's all there is to it. that man is an absolute idiot. and it's disgraceful what he did. and i've never met him. he was newly elected. and i'm glad i haven't met him. you know, and he needs to go on down the road and just get away from anything to do with what we're doing in west virginia. but that's no good in my book, stephanie. >> well, congratulations to the state of west virginia on this vaccine. and joe biden's call for unity, your call for unity, the only way we're getting stuff done is if we do it together. i appreciate you joining me this morning. >> no, stephanie, thank you. and amen, i believe exactly what you just said through and through. >> all right then. coming up next, 900,000 new jobless claims were filed in just the last week. the latest example of the major economic problems joe biden has inherited. we'll be speaking about the executive orders he just i should, and what he needs from congress. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7! 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joining me now to discuss, two of my favorites, andrew ross sorkin, co-anchor of cnbc's "squawk box," and a professor at the harvard university, jason you were part of the administration in 2009. walking in to a devastating financial crisis. that was an enormous challenge. compare that to what biden's stepping into. >> he is stepping into an incredibly complicated multifaceted problem in the economy in the pandemic and everything he talked about. but he has the solution to this. he has the vaccine if he can get it out there. he has a $1.9 trillion proposal, which could do an enormous amount to get the economy growing again. so i think, you know, we could have a real great year if we take the right steps. and i think he's taking a lot of them so far. >> andrew, in deal book this morning you say that wall street can tell us a lot about the economic situation biden is walking into. i mean, wall street is about a million miles away from the real economy. so how do you mean? >> you know, what we looked at this morning was actually what the banks are doing and how the banks are thinking about what the economy is going to look like over the next year. so take the stock market out of it. when i say wall street we're not talking about the stock market, how banks are quote/unquote reserving for losses or in this case starting to stop reserving for losses in the way that they were. so their expectation is if things are going to get better to jason's point, i think there really is now a six-month period here where we really have to find a way to bridge people, especially people that don't have the opportunity to work in the travel industries, in the restaurant industry, in places like that. we have to figure out a way to solve this health crisis with a vaccine. that's what's going to do this. you can throw all the money you want at the problem, but it won't solve it until we actually find a way to get to some kind of healthy way to get people to go back to restaurants, to go back to work and i think you're seeing that with some of the executive orders yesterday that president biden put in place around trying to get schools back up and running. that will help with the economy, trying to get ppe in places that it hasn't been. using the defense production act, really for the first time in a meaningful way, to try to deal with testing and all the other equipment that we haven't had access to over this past year. >> then, jason, what's the likelihood that joe biden can get this thing passed, it's not like congress hasn't already put money towards coronavirus but a lot of the money wasn't well spent. >> yeah, i think it's very important that he get something very substantial passed. i'm sure congress will make changes to it. there's changes i would make to it. it's a lot of dollars per month. not enough months. it ends at the end of september so i would love to see them add something that if the unemployment rate remains high it would continue to support people who are unemployed. but, you know, there's a broad realization that more needs to be done so i expect something substantial to come out of congress. >> what would you be fine with joe biden leaving on the table? obviously republicans aren't going to say yes to everything so when you look at this, at this program, and i know you really like it, i've followed your tweets in the last week, you think it's extraordinarily ambitious, what do you think you could leave on the table? >> look, the $1,400 checks are an extra thing that's there for people who don't get all the other forms of assistance, like unemployment insurance. if those were more targeted, they were a bit on the lower income side, phased out more, that was a way people needed to save money. i think that would be perfectly fine and we'd still have most of the benefits. but overall the package says if you give money to people who need it the most, they're most likely to spend it. that's good for relief for them, it's also good for economic growth in the economy as a whole. >> andrew, how important did you see -- >> i would just say -- >> yes. >> i was going to say part of this, though, is we don't have a demand problem, per se, we have a supply problem, it's in a very strange way the opposite so you can ply people with money but if they don't have the opportunity to go out and spend it it makes it very difficult, and that's why, to the degree that you're talking about these payments, look you want to get as much money out to people as possible, but i think we're actually going to have to focus not just on the health situation, get that vaccine out so that people can actually go out and go to restaurants, but on the other end we should start thinking about what i call a start-up fund for all, or might be described as a re-start up fund for all of the businesses that haven't been able to be at work to get back because there's going to be so much investment that's going to be needed to get back on track when they actually can and when it's the right thing to do. and what worries me is we're going to be spending a lot of money right now but it's not clear where that money really is going to go. >> then, andrew, do you think the number one priority -- oh, yes, jason, continue. >> well, i think it's a supply problem and a demand problem. the veeb vaccine is how you reopen your restaurant, making sure people have enough money, make sure that people can afford to eat in your restaurant, you need both of those to have a functioning economy. >> see, i'm so glad you went first, jason, that's exactly what i was about to ask you. i appreciate you both joining me today on this very busy and this important day in washington, and across the country. coming up next, for weeks, for weeks, online conspiracy groups have been preparing for president trump to stop joe biden from being inaugurated. well, that didn't happen yesterday. so how did they react to the ceremony and what are they going to do next? plus, at the top of the hour, the senate commerce committee will hold a confirmation on pete buttigieg's nomination to be transportation secretary, if confirmed buttigieg will be the first openly gay member of the cabinet. 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because while many of them have been completely cut off from reality, a lot of them are extended family members and neighbors. >> yeah, regular people believe in this stuff. i know that sounds insane. >> yes. >> completely bananas thing to believe. but friends and family across the country believe in this stuff. i talked to someone a couple of days ago whose family was stocking up on ham radios because they thought there was going to be a blackout during the inauguration so the president could declare marshal law. these are smart people in traditional senses. they have companies of their own. they live regular lives. there is a way to step in here. the problem is, at the same time white nationalists, neo-nazis, on telegram, that everyone flooded to after parler shut down. guide books are sent around saying we can reach these people, just get them into a group chat and bring them to the side one on one and say i was a trump supporter too, i got disillusioned but it's time to get violent. those are the people stepping in right now. not the friends and family. there's not a lot of guide books to get people back to reality from this cult. >> so you've got white supremacists now trying to target these people who are politically adrift, and pull them in. and at the same time biden's newly confirmed national intelligence director avril haines, she says she's going to focus on this public threat assessment, at least, of qanon. how much of a difference will that make? i mean, the president gave his tacit support for qanon and proud boys this whole time, east winking at them or pretending he didn't know them which only empowered them. >> it's going to make a marked difference. there were people around the president to the very last moment who were extremely close to the qanon movement. mike flynn who was in the white house a couple weeks ago trying to talk the president into declaring marshal law. he swore an oath to qanon on social media. he's full on qanon supporter and very close to the president. the difference between that and the new biden administration is stark, one views it as a terror threat, the other one views it as allies that need to be appealed to. it's much closer to a terror threat than the other thing. we're going to see what happens over the next few months. maybe there can be a shift here and maybe we can get people, like i was saying, we need some plans to get people back to reality. currently there are none. maybe they can help with that. >> yesterday was a peaceful day in washington but those terror threats, the sentiment behind them hasn't gone away. what happens now? >> really good question. you know, these conspiracy theories don't end, and militia groups don't stop recruiting. i will say pizza gate, the fundament of qanon, the very basis of it, that was banned from social media in december of 2016. ten months passed and then qanon came about. qanon is pizza gate with a hero, donald trump, with set dates of when things are supposed to happen. these things can go away but they can morph and turn into something scar ier. maybe when he can break the cycle now that we're taking it seriously. >> break the cycle. look at the calendar, these dates keep shifting and none of these things ever happen. ben collins, thank you very much for joining me. that's not true, there were riots in the capitol and now hundreds of people are being investigated or arrested. coming up next, an image of hope and unity, we saw it all oifr the city in washington, joe biden preaching those words, a look back on the historic inauguration of the nation's 46th president joe biden and the message it sent the country in more ways than one. ♪ must-have smoos. ♪ ♪ it's irresistibly delicious.♪ ♪ more almond breeze, please! ♪ ♪ ♪ be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? 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