surge in violent crime in america s biggest cities. dana: we ll talk to former minneapolis cop steve dykstra about his decision to leave the force. first we go to garrett tenney in minneapolis today. good morning to you. a lot of city leaders across the country who last year got behind the defund the police movement are struggling to respond to a wave of violent crime and minneapolis has become ground zero for this debate. the city s police department is down more than 200 officers from a year ago and that s largely due to a wave of early retirements and extended medical leaves following the protests last summer. so far murders are up 130% compared to this point last year. violent crime up 15%. other major cities are seeing the same trends as well. murders up by double digits and more than 800% in portland. in minneapolis police are so overwhelmed that this weekend the mayor asked state and federal agencies to send help. the spike in violent crime is why efforts to disman
nuñes, is here on how our adversaries view biden s america and plans to withdraw from afghanistan. plus, the numbers are staggering, more than 19,000 migrant children apprehended at the southern border in the month of march, the most ever in a month as the white house builds more facilities but does nothing to stop the flow coming in. some facilities now surpassing 1,000% capacity. former senior white house adviser stephen miller on biden s man to process the migrants quickly so they can catch a flight to big city destinations of their choosing. and candace owens and charlie kirk on critical race theory with another family pulling its seventh grader out of school and away from race theory propaganda. all that and more as we look ahead right here, right now on sunday morning futures. maria: and first up this morning, the fight against biden s radical agenda with florida taking the lead on a multistate lawsuit against the administration over the mass release of criminal
received the covid vaccination in january with no press releases or disclosures made at that time from the white house. all of this as will johnson & johnson started shipping out millions of doses of its single dose coronavirus vaccine. the first of those shots, expected to be administered within the next day or so. joining us to cover all of these stories, nbc news correspondent, mike is covering the white house and tara palmieri, co-author of the political play book. just 13 days left before the enhanced unemployment benefits expire. will democrats be able to get this bill through congress? what is standing in the way right now? reporter: i think they will. the senate could pass it at the end of the week. then it gets kicked to the house and then back to the senate for another vote. they ll have a lot of late nights. but they pretty much figured out how to do it without republicans and reconciliation. a lot of progressives were hoping to see this $15 minimum wage come thr
what do you make of democrat s decision to move forward with this vote, move forward with this plan, even though as christine pointed out it s dead on arrival by all accounts? well, good morning, laura. i think that s right. look, they re going through with these votes now in part because they made this commitment to civil rights leaders. it was central to biden s promise of governance. quo, and republican led states to restrict voting, make it harder to vote than it was in 2020. but in part, this is because they need to fulfill a promise, and it s not going to get any easier, in part this is because they want to be able to campaign on this issue and say they ve done everything they can, and in part it s because they have to exhaust all of these big picture eff efforts at reform before they can try to remove any smaller attempts at if i cans where they potentially might have a better chance. it seems like part of this is an exercise in trying, in showing people that you t
the suspects he says powerful ukrainians and, yes, russia. what the kremlin has to say about it . and we begin, of course, with a new coronavirus variant that is, of course, unsettling so many around the world. the w.h.o. is calling the variant a variant of concern as they designate it. it was first identified in south africa and has been detected in several other countries in the region. cases have also been confirmed further afield. that includes israel, hong kong, and belgium. it s not yet known whether it s any more deadly or whether it can blunt vaccine efficacy or natural immunity. scientists fear it could be more contagious, and health experts say more research is needed right now. this variant has a large number of mutations, and some of these mutations have some worrying characteristics. right now there are many studies that are under way. there s a lot of work that is ongoing in south africa and in other countries to better characterize the variant itself in t