pandemic, that includes now announcing a new vaccination goal of 200 million doses administered to americans within the first 100 days in office. but he s also going to be facing a barrage of questions on a wide range of other issues, pressing issues facing the country right now. the economy in recovery, immigration, gun reform. the senate filibuster, even, and foreign policy challenges ranging from china to russia to afghanistan. add to that now, new cnn reporting that joe biden may have some new challenges in getting his agenda through congress and it may be coming from within his own party. let s get over to capitol hill, joining me right now is cnn s manu raju as well as cnn s lauren fox. manu, what are you going learning? reporter: the challenges are beyond just one democratic senator joe manchin, a conservative west virginia democrat, a thorn in the side of progressives in particular but in speaking to a number of democrats up and down the caucus it s clear there s no
see exactly where it is and we re seeing i have not seen yet. let me pan over here. you re looking at what is some upwards of 40 or 50, all females, many of them clearly must be unaccompanied minors because they re by themselves although just looking from a distance and we don t want to look too closely or show any of these faces for their privacy, you re seeing maybe some women that could be in their 20 s as well. now, this is the location where dhs secretary mayorkas came and visited with portman, peter, capito, from the family unit, a mother and her children, these migrants were flown over from the rgv sector, because this is the el paso sector. the el paso secretary is at its capacity and house minority leader kevin mccarthy, when he visited said, and the u.s. chief said the esent surge of awn accompanied are reaching capacity. i mentioned the rgv. if you go there, they re at capacity more than 600% holding some 5200 individuals. if you look at the last 24 hours, in the a
an aide that he received an offer from the national guard when we included mr. stenger we discussed the specific issue as to whether the intelligence warranted the truths and the answer was no. it was a collective answer no, and his recommendation to have them on standby and by recollection mr. sund was very satisfied with that. he briefed the following day that he was satisfied and i saw no concern at any time thereafter. were you concerned, the use of the word optics and the appearance of what it would look like is what mr. sund testified was that there is a reluctance to request assistance because of the appearance, was there something what s the appearance that you were concerned about, mr. irving if indeed you were, were you concerned that having the guard present would look like it was too militarized? were you concerned about the criticism of the guard being deployed in washington during writing earlier this summer? just give us some insight into your thinking as y
but the legal problems for him beginning. according to our legal analyst we spoke to, on a scale of one to dten, he thinks the concern ask a ten. here in new york a scrutiny, a criminal investigation for his attempt to overturn the election in georgia. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, you heard madeleine dean unimpressed. he did say he gave a dereliction of duty. now a law maker who both parties are calling for a 9/11 commission to investigate the attacks. president biden squarely focused on the future. his 1.9 trillion relief package. of course, he wants to see a package bassed by the end of the month on the president s desk, before these unemployment benefits expire march 14th. all of this as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to decline, but new this morning, researchers identified seven new strains of coronavirus here in the united states and many of them have the same mutation as those fast-spreading variants first identified in the uk and south a
did they do? bill: they were traveling under the nation. dana: three young guys. bill: 21, 20, 24 finish. dana: that s pretty good. bill: we had them on friday and you asked them about valentine s day and the guys said i am single as a pringle. dana: the best new line. let s get to the white house now where president biden is focusing on his progressive agenda as the impeachment trial comes to a close and the senate heads to recess. very excited to have our white house correspondent peter doocy. the president has a targeted timeline for covid relief. tell us about that? we re within a month. march 14th the senate leadership wants a vote on the american rescue plan. today they ll start a new healthcare push even without a new law. get people insured during the pandemic. a special open enrollment period at healthcare.gov. we don t know when congress will vote on another healthcare package or the biden immigration bill that would shorten the pathway to citizenship