testing. it's going to help us accelerate our nationwide effort to reopen schools safely. last week i directed all states, tribes and territories to make all adults eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. while this is a time of optimism, it's not a time for relaxation. i need all americans to keep doing your part. wash your hands, stay socially distanced, keep masking up as recommended by the cdc and get vaccinated when it's your turn. none of this is political. it's all science based. but now is not the time to let our guard down. that is science based as well. in the last week we've seen increases in the number of cases in several states. things may get worse as new variants of the virus spread. that's why we need to vaccinate as many people as quickly as we possibly can, because the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants. we have to beat this virus. we have to and we will, but we'll do it by setting aside politics and embracing science. another subject, the right to vote, that should bring us together as well, but it now divides us. this is a democracy. the right to vote is fundamental. the fact that there was a record turnout in america in the last election in the midst of a pandemic should be something we celebrated, not attacked. the fact that you held a free and fair election in georgia that stood up to recount after recount, court case after court case is something you should be proud of. the fact that your poll workers, your election workers, your volunteers, your local officials, your state officials, your courts stood up to the immense pressure with character and honesty and integrity helped save our democracy. this country will long be grateful for it. but as this state, home to martin luther king and john lewis, knows better than most, the battle for the right to vote is never ever over. it's not over here in this state of georgia, so we're going to fight again. it's a fight we need to win, because if anyone ever doubted that voting matters, georgia just proved it did. if anyone ever wondered if one vote can make a difference, georgia just proved it. 11,779 times. and if anyone ever wondered if voting can change a country, georgia just proved it can. we elected two new united states senators and made it possible to pasd pass the american rescue plan, landmark legislation to not only meet the emergency we're in, but transform this nation. starting with this, for those folks who already have or will soon have $1400 in their pockets, you can thank senators warnock and os san asoff. what does that mean? it means 85% of households in america will get that money. here in georgia it means 88% of all adults and 88% of the children in this state will get that $1400 as well. just add it up. a typical family, two parents, two kids earning $100,000 a year, each will get $1400. that's $5600 for that family that's in distress trying to figure out how to pay their mortgage, pay their rent, keep food on the table. that's not all. there's something called a child tax credit. what that base ically means is u get a child tax credit for every child you have. the american rescue plan expands that credit. it means that families of over 2 million children in georgia will be eligible for an increase in that child tax credit of $1600 per child. it's going to be delivered on a regular basis. starting this summer families with young kids will get $300 a month per child. it's going to lift 177,000 children in georgia out of poverty. the american rescue plan expands coverage and reduces costs under the affordable care act. so for a family of four earning $90,000 per year with insurance under the affordable care act they'll see about $200 a month off their monthly premiums. for georgia schools, the american rescue plan provides around $4 billion for georgia's school children from grades k-12 to help them reopen safely. and here is one of the biggest things for georgia. because of the american rescue plan, georgia is now eligible for about $2 million to expand medicaid. what does that mean? it means another 500,000 georgians will be covered all across this state with medicaid that don't have it now. for your state and local governments, this is what it does. state government will get around $5 billion to make up for lost revenue. local governments will get around 3.5 billion. that's going to make it possible to keep a lot of police officers, firefighters, teachers and other first responders on the job. here's one final thing the american rescue plan does. for the first time in a long time, it puts working families, the middle class, people who built this country first, not last. 66% of the tax breaks in this plan go to folks making $90,000 or less a year. and how much for the top 1% where 83% of all the last president's tax cut? zero. top 1% get zero. but the american rescue plan isn't only about putting money in people's pockets. it will also will create and spur economic growth in america. that's why major economists left, right and center support this plan. even wall street agrees. according to moody's, this law will help america create 7 million new jobs by the end of the year, and we'll do it by rebuilding the backbone of this nation, the working people, the middle class, the people who built this country. it's about giving those people a fair shot for a change. it's about providing and proving to the american people that their government works and can deliver for them, which brings me to my last point. the american rescue plan is a plan that brings america together and benefits all america. that's why so many polls show that over 70% of the country supported it, including democrats, republicans and independents. maybe republicans in washington didn't vote for it, but the american rescue plan sure has brought the countery together. for me, that measure of unity, that's what matters. let me end with this. there's so much we can do if we do it together, if we remember who we are, if we stand together against hate, once again invest and belief in science. we stand up for the right of all americans to vote and have access to voting. if we remember we're here to help all the people in this country, not just those few at the top. if we remember to do justice, love mercy as fellow human beings and fellow americans, if we remember we're the united states of america, that together, there's nothing, not a single thing we cannot do if we do it together. my heart goes out to all, all the family members who lost someone in those horrific shootings on tuesday. i know they feel that like there's a black hole in their chest they're being sucked into and things will never get better, but our prayers are with y you. i assure you the one you lost will always be with you, always be with you. the day will come when their memory brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye, as unbelievable as that is now. it will take a while, but i promise you it will come. and when it does, that's the day you know you're going to make it. may god bless all those families, may god protect our troops. thank you very much. >> mr. president -- [ inaudible question ] >> we have been listening to president biden and vice president harris after their talks with asian american leaders in atlanta following the deadly spa shooting there. i'm pamela brown in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. let's bring in cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny in atlanta, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins, cnn correspondent amara walker in atlanta and cnn legal analyst shaun wu to talk about this. in your view, did those remarks from president biden meet the moment amid this wave of anti-asian hate? >> i think that's what white house officials were aiming for when they were talking about this. i know we had heard from some of those asian american leaders and others in the community who said, yes, we do not have the police coming out and formally calling this a hate crime, we don't have them saying what the motivation of this shooter was, but we do think this highlights a problem people have been talking about, something that's seeing an uptick that's been highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic. that's been this violence against asian americans. that's really something you saw the vice president and president biden try to focus on there where president biden was saying, yes, we don't know the motive, but whatever the motive is, we know what the facts are. we know six of these women were asian. we know what asian americans have been living through for the past year. he called it a year of terror saying they've been harassed and scapegoated and even killed at times. that's what he was trying to get at, is what has been a topic of conversation ever since these shootings happened in atlanta tuesday night. that was the moment they were really trying to reference there. at the end he'd gone off and talked about voting rights, his coronavirus relief bill, what it's doing for people who live in atlanta and live in georgia. in the end he was speaking to those eight families that of course have lost someone in the shootings. he is someone who has a history with tragedy. he knows grief well. >> he is clearly very comfortable in that role as consoler in chief. we know, jeff, he also met with the leaders in the asian american community today. kw what are you hearing about how biden's visit went with them? >> pamela, that meeting with asian american community leaders here which were a mix of state legislatures as well as about three leaders from outside advocacy groups, that meeting lasted more than an hour. it was a very emotional meeting, a very frank meeting where the president and vice president made remarks. i'm told all of the leaders had a chance to speak. i actually spoke to someone who was inside the meeting, stephanie cho. she's the executive director of asian americans advancing justice. she said that former president trump came up repeatedly throughout the meeting about his what his words, his actions have done for the last year through the pandemic to really contribute to what they believe is a rise in violence against asian americans in this country. she said that president biden agreed with her and he pledged to roll back many of the things that former president trump did. he also planned to speak out forcefully. she said these leaders asked president biden to speak out as forcefully against hate and violence against asian americans as president trump spoke out calling this the china virus repeatedly. so that was an interesting element of this meeting. i'm also told that, yes, the conversation about is this a hate crime did come up but only briefly, because people here in atlanta, asian americans who have experienced this violence, they know it was a hate crime. they don't need the president to say it directly. they know his hands are tied a bit because of the prosecutors are going to make that determination. so i'm told that was not a big part of contention here, but these leaders do want to hear many from the president. pamela, as we heard the speech which happened in the building behind me here on the campus of emory university. president biden was also quite political. he talked about the covid relief bill. he talked about the importance of georgia, which of course these two democratic senators elected in january contributed to the democratic majority in the senate which led to the passage of this bill. but he tied it all together in that coronavirus has caused so many issues of violence in this country, which we saw perhaps here this week in atlanta as well as lifting up families. so he was trying to do a lot there with that, but this is connected. so he didn't have his political rally. he did have the political speech, but made no apologies for it, because again, if there's an umbrella overall of this, it's coronavirus, the hate and the hope he says that's coming. >> amara, what was your reaction listening to president biden? >> reporter: pam, this really is a moment for asian americans in america. i can't overstate how much it means, i think, for the asian american community to see the president and the vice president, who is half asian, to physically come to atlanta to listen to the concerns and to feel the pain of the asian american community, just that acknowledgment, because we are a community that has felt invisible for so long. for the president to come and say i see you, i hear you, i feel your pain and to elevate this issue i think a lot of us it's a cathartic moment, because the first step is to be seen and to be heard. and the fact that we have the vice president also acknowledging the history of racism against asians that we have faced since the day chinese immigrants started immigrating to the united states. i know that president biden, i know the leaders there that i spoke with wanted the president and the vice president to call on the investigators to investigate these shootings as a hate crime. they didn't get that, but i think what they did get was a lot of comfort to know that we are being heard. you know, there was also that mention from the vice president about asians feeling like the perpetual foreigner. that is so true, because when you are a foreigner in your own country, you are dehumanized, you are not taken seriously. if there is a crime committed against you and your community, even law enforcement might dismiss it as the perpetrator having a bad day. when you have the president and the vice president elevating this issue, putting it in the spotlight, saying i hear you, let's find a way to protect the asian american community, you've been hurting for a long time not just because of covid-19 and, yes, we are seeing a huge surge in anti-asian hate. people who felt emboldened, many will tell you because of the trump administration's flippant use of terms like the china virus and the kung flu is a huge juxtaposition between these two administrations. i feel like the community is breathing a sigh of relief for that one simple step of being seen and acknowledged, pam. >> this is obviously so deeply personal for you, amara. just tell us, if you would, what your personal experiences have been and why this moment for you personally is so touching. >> reporter: i've been doing a lot of soul searching. you know, i want a lot of people to understand why there was such a visceral reaction when captain jay baker of the cherokee county sheriff's department said that the superinspect was just havin bad day. that's because for so long asian americans felt like they have not been taken seriously, they have not been seen. i was thinking like when did i feel this way. i grew up in a community where we were probably the only asian family on our street. i remember cars driving by. we lived on a busy street. i'd hear racial slurs. i remember our family car getting vandalized a couple times and once someone had thrown a hammer into the window of my dad's car. when you couple these incidents, you bring them together, you're of course automatically thinking it's racially motivated, people just don't wasn't us here because we're asian. i remember we filed a police report. i was translating for my parents. just the attitude of the police officer, he didn't really seem to understand the fear that kind of attack instilled in my family and the pain we were reliving over and over, because it's not the first time we've been told to go back to our country and being called the china virus. this is our experience, this is our reality. it's relieving. i think we're breathing a huge sigh of relief to know that people are finally listening and hearing our stories and caring about it and even trying to put in legislation, pushing for legislation that would stiffen penalties for hate crimes related to covid-19. >> absolutely. shaun wu, i want to bring you in. i'm sure listening to amara talk, you can relate to some of what she is saying and feeling today. >> absolutely. as a child myself, i was bullied on the playground. people called me vietcong. it meant so much to me as an asian american to hear a woman of asian descent as the vice president of the united states and as an american to hear our leaders, the pthd and vice president, coming out and really putting on a masterful combination of compassion and politics, shoring up the politics and voters in georgia but also showing them that the leaders care about what has happened here. i think what jeff had mentioned, that the asian leaders, they know it's not really up to the president to charge whether it's a hate crime or not, but they know it is a hate crime. they already know that. what they need to hear from him is that he cares, he's not going to stand for that kind of racism. understandably he had to be cautious in terming it that because the prosecutors haven't charged it that way. i look forward to the day when they will charge these crimes as hate crimes. i look forward to the day when we can charge hate crimes as easily as we do other crimes of violence, because this is not a time to be timid about that, this is a time to call out the hate. we don't need filters on that. >> all right. thank you. amara walker, thank you so much for being vulnerable and sharing your personal experiences. i think it is so important to do that and show the emotion. it shows just how important this message is. thank you all so much. and just ahead, hope and some skepticism as the cdc relaxes its guidelines for social distancing in schools. we'll break down the recommendations. and the president is setting another vaccination goal as he reaches the 100 million mark on his watch. ♪ don't wanna wake up on a monday morning ♪ ♪ the thought of work's getting my skin crawling ♪ hey, mercedes? -how can i help you? ♪ i can't fear you, i don't hear you now ♪ ♪ wrapped in your regret ♪ ♪ what a 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>> i think this guidance is the right thing to do because of how essential in-person schooling is. i think that should be the end goal, that we know that young children especially are really hurting from not being back in school, so in order to do so we have to cut the 6 foot distance to 3 feet. i also think there's nothing that is zero risk, but this is probably pretty low risk based on the studies that we have. there's one thing i wish the cdc did, which is to say if we are cutting that distance from 6 feet to 3 feet, what additional layers of mitigation are we going to be implementing. absolutely mask wearing should be enforced, but what about improved ventilation and t testing. i fear that otherwise school districts are going to skimp further. there are already a lot of schools that are at 3 feet distancing. with more contagious variants around we need to do a lot more to protect our children with additional layers. >> this is based on some studies that have come out particularly in massachusetts where it has shown the 3 feet of distance has proven to be largely safe. do we know if they took any additional steps like install a better ventilation system or make sure the windows are open which made the 3 feet of distance a success? >> right. that's the thing. actually the massachusetts study, they compared school districts that had a policy for 6 feet and school districts that had a policy for 3 feet. we actually don't know if they actually did 3 feet versus 6 feet in these various schools. there's nanother study that the cdc sited done in utah. they kept all the kids to the same pod in the same schools. all this is to say there is good evidence that 3 feet can be relatively safe, but i would also want to urge us to do additional things, including making sure, for example, that teachers and staff have access to vaccinations immediately. >> help us understand why the cdc is recommending different guidelines for different age groups on this. >> there is growing evidence that younger children tend to transmit coronavirus less than older children. the older you are, certainly teenagers and above, seem to transmit coronavirus at the same rate as adults do. that's one reason. i think another reason is how essential in-person schooling is for younger children. so if we want younger children to be brought back, that's also why 3 feet versus 6 feet makes sense. >> adults are still advised to stay 6 feet away, teachers and so forth right? >> that's right. the cdc has not revised their overall guidance for social distancing. 6 feet remains the rule. we have to do 3 feet in younger grades, because otherwise we can't get kids back. >> i want to pivot to another really important topic, one you have spoken passionately about. that is the anti-asian racist abuse that you've endured during the coronavirus pandemic. in light of the horrific murders in atlanta, what needs to change in american society so asian americans can feel safe in their own country. >> i've been hearing in the last several days about people saying, well, words don't really matter, or politicians even saying words don't matter, the rhetoric from the former president calling kung flu or the china virus doesn't matter. they should stop speaking because they are public leaders speaking out to the public and obviously words matter. every time i appear on cnn i will get messages or e-mails on social media calling me the kung flu or accusing me of bringing the virus to this country. of course, my colleagues who are nurses and doctors have endured much worse. i have not had this personally happen, but other people have been spat upon by their patients or have had patients say, i don't trust you to be my health care provider because you look like you're of asian descent, you brought the virus to this country. i think this is why words do matter. this is why president biden and vice president harris speaking up is so important in making asian americans and all people be seen and heard and understand that our lives matter too. >> just hearing you say that makes my blood boil, to think you and so many other asian americans in this country have been on the front lines of combatting this pandemic and to think of all the hate you have to endure any time you come on cnn to provide critical information. it's outrageous. dr. leana wen, thank you very much. we are learning about a covid obama at former president trump's mar-a-lago resort. legit unlimited data, powered by verizon for as little as $25 a month. but when you bring a friend every month, you get every month for $5. so i'm bringing everyone within 12 degrees of me. bam, 12 months of $5 wireless. visible. as little as $25 a month. or $5 a month when you bring a friend. powered by verizon. wireless that gets better with friends. priceline works with top hotels, to save you up to 60%. these are all great. and when you get a big deal... you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ liberty mutual customizes your car insurance ♪ so you only pay for what you need. thank you! hey, hey, no, no limu, no limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ want to save hundreds on your wireless bill? 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>> reporter: our kaitlan collins is reporting that the president was seen there yesterday. the first lady lives there as well. tomorrow is baron trump's 15th birthday. the family, as far as we know, is there. this is their home now after washington and certainly where they live and this is where they eat. we often hear about the president and first lady coming down to dinners, receiving a standing ovation from club members. this is the place they would go. clearly dining room is closed, beach club is closed so the president, the first lady and the family. the e-mail did not say when the club would be reopened. it's a temporary closure with some members of staff testing positive. we just don't have the answer right now as to when it will be fully back up and running. just ahead on this friday, new charges in the capital riot investigation targeting members of the pro trump proud boys. and the pentagon is launching a new battle to persuade more troops to get covid vaccines. 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"outfront" as the president and vice president speaking out in pain. the white house growing more concerns of the number of republicans won't get the covid vaccine as dr. fauci has a warning of the variant that's about to become dominant in the united states. a sitting republican congresswoman could lose their seat. the house democrats decide to overturn the results of that election. i will talk to that challenger why she believes she's the