have much of a future, in donald trump s republican party. welcome to tuesday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. president biden approaches the halfway mark in his first 100 days in office. facing a prior of different crises that s going to test his presidency in different ways, facing tremendous pressure to keep the momentum going on what is clearly an improving covid outlook. to hold the positive trends that we re seeing. cases going down, deaths going down, hospitalizations down, and most importantly vaccinations up, up, up. but health officials continue to urge caution and there s already a bit of brewing confusion over the cdc s recent guidance, which okays a fully vaccinated americans to potentially see their families but discourages the kind of travel required for many to actually see their families, diving into that coming up. and there s biden s signature piece of covid legislation, $2 trillion in relief that he is expect today sign into law this week a
read state red states where they re going to be up for reelection this year and feel vulnerable politically potentially. but not enough democrats to get this over the finish line. for the most part,democrats recognize that their base is very energized by this immigration issue. you re getting more information david. our reporteder reporter repa house democratic leadership meeting has been called. obviously house members who thought they were going to be out of town by now have been hanging around to figure is this something that s going to come back to them. prams th perhaps they ve gotten a read on what s going on in speaker ryan s office and leader pelosi wants to give them a sechbs of where they are. the house democratic part of this seems rather done at the moment. if the senate were to pass
if he gets his new job he s going to take a substantial cut in pay. right now he s earning about $23 million a year. the secretary of state earns about $200,000. david lee miller outside trump tower, thanks. let s turn to our political reporteder from the associated press. often during transition times we get an idea about how a president elect will govern by the choices he makes for his cabinet. do these choices tell us anything or give us any ideas? reporter: so far i think it s safe to say that trump seems to be really favoring people who some ways look like himself and that are successful business people from lots of different industries. he s going with a more untraditional cabinet in that sense in that we re seeing fewer former elected leaders and more former or even current business
miami s little havana neighborhood has been scene of celebration since news broke late last night about fidel castro s death. the paper chronicling reaction in miami and providing perspective on what his death means. joining me now is molly hooper, congressional reporter for the hill and politics reporteder for the los angeles times. molly, let s start with you. several cuban-americans lawmakers today backing trump s vow to roll back obama s kpoef orders. what would that process even look like? apparently it s fairly easy. essentially, he just had to check the box and undo what president obama has done. right now, there s commercial flights that are taking place going from the united states to cuba for, you know, not necessarily for tourism but for official family visits and things like that. president-elect trump can come in and say, we re no longer doing that. he can rescind a lot of the
oh, i see, you have a made up phony crime collusion that never existed. well on that point, however, the president s mistaken a review of the 49 questions made public today shows at least 14 of them relate to the potential collusion with russia during the campaign. and while those questions don t reveal what kind of evidence the special counsel might already have, there s one in particular that s receiving a lot of attention. mueller wants to ask trump what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including by paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign? ? the reference to manafort s potential outreach to russia suggests the special counsel may have evidence that has not been publicly revealed so far. i m joined by the reporteder who broke the story michael schmidt. he s also an msnbc national security contributor. kim whaley a former federal