a very good day to all of you and here s what s happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern. president biden and vice president harris are getting ready to travel beyond the beltway after their first legislative victory. and the goal is to explain and sell the american rescue plan to people across this country. they re going to criss cross dhis country and talk about the plan and how we re going to implement the plan. talk about the funding in the plan, the resources in the plan that s going to move forward, even further with getting people vaccinated. getting the mobile units out there, making sure shots are getting into the arms and vaxinators. fema will help transfer the record surge of unaccompanied children. and they re pointing fingers. and the open policies inviting more immigration and this humanitarian crisis. this is not something that happened as a result of joe biden becoming president. we saw the increases dating back almost a year and this is during the trump adminis
them what to do next. we ve dis covered, especially this time around, there s a fragile set of what yugsed to be gentlemanly understandings that have evaporated. frfrs yes, butted th they worked . and i don t mean the vagueness of what constitutes an impeachable ofenfense or lack o guidance except it s supposed to begin in the house for impeachment or indictment, senate for conviction or being thrown out of office. what s fragile about it is it really hangs on the parties being able to work together to some degree. that s what happened in 1974. you-at least seven republicans on the democratic control house judiciary committee who voted for some of the articles of impeachment. and that s why that impeachment largely didn t happen.
run it. now you have the question of what the figurative punching in the face that led them to, one, get an immunity deal and change their story away from we were exercising our journalistic endeavors and discretion here, and instead, say we did it, not only with the knowledge of somebody who was a part of the campaign right. or an agent, but also we did it for the expressed purpose of trying to help this candidate gain office. you have to buwup to wonder wha happened, a sidebar, allen, yugsed his last name, this was thought out long in advance to know this might be an issue. can we imagine what this would have been like if it all of this had come out in october 2016? we don t foe. all this money. all these relationships. we don t know. we re going to talk about that more coming up, but obviously, they thought it was important enough that it didn t come out, that they re willing in the waning days of this campaign to splurge on this money to silence this. jeff, thank
leak damage control session. brian stelter joining me now. it s just so odd. i think everyone expected that this might be a chance for them to make an appearance because they have been so mia. any expectation we re going to hear from them today? there is actually. axios is reporting that zuckerberg will break the silence today. there s a lot of questions about trust here. when users logon to facebook, we know there s a tradeoff when we log on and know our data might be ugsed to target ads but this case involving cambridge a analyt analytica suggests gross misuse of data for political campaigning. when a product is free that means you are the product. that s very true on facebook. users are the product and advertisers pay billions to target iiz izusers of advertise it s creating more awareness of that basic fact. in this case zuckerberg needs to address cambridge analytica and
very uneasy at times about dealing with the reporter from qult rolling stone , at one point she wanted to not be a part of the story at all and ended up making some type of agreement sh she would continue to be part of the story. actually richard bradley, ugsed to be the editor of george , was one of the first people to question the article. if you remember the man, steven glass, who it turns out he fabric ated almost all of the stories even to create fake business cards for people who were his sources. funny enough he was a classmate of sab breen that rubinand richard bradley said even before in the days right after, something in me says this is not right. this is a little bit too beyond. he was attacked and now he s been proven as right. he said partly as eric said, because it fed into biases. sabrina said she went out