there are many issues that people can bring up with president biden including his new push for gun reform, immigration, legislation. biden is appointing vice president kamala harris to lead efforts to stem the flow of migrants from central america. this is a huge problem. this is not going to be solved overnight. investigators continue to collect evidence and search for a possible motive. as many continue to mourn that there s a national outcry for congress to act. how many more have to die? how many more officers have to face down a mad man with a gun. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day, thursday, march 25th, 6:00. re ready? no, the president didn t start the fire as billy joel wrote in one of his few bad songs. well done. but these are all subjects he has to deal with in his first formal news conference in just a few hours. aids to that n
hours. let s begin our coverage with our jeremy diamond. he joins us at the white house. good morning, jeremy. do you have a sense of i mean, they can t control what the reporters ask, but do you have a sense of what the administration wants to convey in this press conference? well, and that s the critical decision there, poppy. what the administration wants to convey here, what the president wants to focus on during this news conference, and then there are the topics that the president is going to face questions on during this first news conference of his presidency. look, president biden is going to come out today and wants to talk about what he s accomplished in his first 64 days in office. getting vaccinations to a pace of about 2 1/2 million vaccines per day. crossing that 100 million vaccines goal within 60 days in office, rather than the 100 days that he had first laid out. the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which he signed into law in recent weeks and the
can waive that right if he does so in writing. we re not aware if he has done so. this is set to begin in 15 minutes. the hearings are quick and routine. suspects are adviseded of the charges and informed of their rights. but, you know, given the enormity of this case, this will be anything but routine. as we await for this to take place, poppy, i want you to listen to the sister of officer eric talley who spoke out about her feelings towards the shooter. take a look. i don t hate that person. he doesn t get to have that power. shootings and death and darkness, they happen. they cannot put out they can t put out. they don t win. they can t put out the light that was my brother. they can t put out the beauty that is his children and his family and this is not okay. it is not okay that i m burying my brother. that s not okay. but everything is going to be okay. and he would say that. he would say it with that look, that bemused look like don t be too upset. like, there is s
dana: as fox news learns the administration is holding more than 16,500 unaccompanied children up by more than 7,000 from last month. bill: one point of clarification on access. media should be shut out, essentially. congressman cuellar. yesterday they took in a pool camera. the network nbc that provided the images for the rest of the media. earlier in the week they gave us 44 images and two pieces of video. that was strictly provided by the administration. this is not free and unfettered access. dana: it reminded me of in the obama administration there was a day when the wnba came to play basketball with president obama. they wouldn t let the pool cameras in. later that day the government, white house, released a video of president obama shooting baskets and guess what? he never missed one. do you think that actually happened in real life? no, you cannot take the government s word for those kinds of things. bill: reporters shouting questions to president biden. watch
vice president in charge of the growing crisis at the border. progress stalled. with coronavirus infections rising in nearly half the country, the nation s top infectious disease expert says we still haven t turned the corner on the pandemic. the move from the white house tonight to get students back in school. moment of attack: the up-close images of a fallen capitol police officer under assault. why these pictures could reveal what killed him. and, the new court filings. did extremist groups coordinate the january 6 riot? pandemic, hidden health risk a cancer screenings. could you have missed an important diagnosis because of covid? and, from mega-hit to music history. how this number-one song is now part of america s permanent muca this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. brennan: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. norah is off tonight. i m margaret brennan. we re going to begin wi