moments ago. secretary mayorkas, thanks for coming to the sunday show. thank you very much for having me, jonathan. so mr. secretary, the administration seems to be sort of haggling over language. it s not a crisis. some have called it a challenge. why not just say flat out what s happening on the southern border is a crisis? jonathan, we re not haggling over language. we re focused on mission. and that is securing the border, and the border is secure. the border is closed and that s what we re focused on. and i will not use language that is not applicable. we have dealt with surges in migration at the border before. we have a plan. we are executing our plan. we will succeed. we know what to do. we are doing it. and that is the fact of the matter. mr. secretary, what is driving the surge at the border? i mean, i know these surges have been happening, they happened under president trump, they happened under president obama. they are now happening under president bide
house hearing yesterday about violence against asian-americans. ben rhodes will join us and jonathan capehart is here to discuss voting rights legislation coming in collision with the senate filibuster. and at the end of the hour we ll be joined by praise magombo, a nurse in malawi, a nation that just received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine. today the medical examiner in fulton county, georgia, finally released the names of the four people murdered in two asian owned businesses in atlanta on tuesday night. the names of the four people murdered in suburban cherokee county by the same mass murderer had already been released. the two words that appear in each entry in today s list of the four victims released by the fulton county medical examiner are asian and female. the first name in the list of four names released today is soon chung park. she was 74 years old. she is now case number 0703, and her cause of death is listed as gunshot wound of head. that is the same
secretary is leading a bipartisan trip to the border today amid new information obtained by nbc news the humanitarian emergency at the border is only escalating. welcome to friday. it s meet the press daily. i m chuck todd. president biden left the white house a short time ago. he spoke to reporters about china, russia and vaccines. he is about to land in atlanta where he will visit with asian community leaders today amid the fallout over the atlanta spa shootings. his first stop is cdc headquarters coming as the administration announced a loosening of guidance for schools due to promising data about transmission rates in the classroom. in new published guidelines, the cdc calls for three feet of social distancing in schools as long as masks are worn and community transmission in general is not high. this could pave the way for more kids back in the classroom. obviously, three feet cuts the amount of space you need to find to see how big of a classroom you need. the whit
school in person. federal health officials now say students need to remain only 3 feet apart as opposed to 6 feet as long as everyone is wearing a mask. that is a major policy change of interest to so many parents and so many kids who are eager to close the laptop on telelearning and get back to the classroom. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. the president s visit to atlanta was originally scheduled as part of the white house s help is here tour, touting that $2 trillion rescue plan, and although the main focus of the trip has turned to the aftermath of that deadly shooting rampage, the president and vice president will meet later this afternoon with asian american community leaders to discuss the escalating threats and violence against asian americans since the start of the pandemic. we re also learning a lot more today about the victims of those shootings, not only their names and their ages, but their stories. like delainie yan who went to the spa for mas
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