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will we be able to crowd together with our family? what about concerts, what about the kids' soccer games and friday night football and for that matter monday night football? these are questions we're now able to contemplate thanks to a president willing to tackle this crisis. as we move forward, we should remind ourselves to look back at this moment and who did not help this bill become law. in other words, every single republican elected to a seat on capitol hill. it could present the democratic party with the opportunity to brand itself as the party that gets things done. the president and vice president will take that for a test drive next week. by and large americans appear to understand democrats did try to work with their political opponents. pew research find 57% of americans feel the administration is making a good faith effort to work with republicans. 55% say republicans are not making a good faith effort to work with the biden election. a number of republicans are using revisionist history to talk about the relief package which they did not support. gop senator wicker applauded the money set aside for restaurants. but he voted against the bill. it's puzzling why republicans didn't get on board, found that residents of republican-leaning states are more likely to get the biggest stimulus checks. so republicans can frame the bill as a liberal wish list if they want but in the end, will voters know who had their backs when they needed help most? with any now, reverend dr. william barber ii, president of repairs of the breach and the poor people's campaign. sister simone campbell is assistant director for lobby for catholic social justice and the author of "hunger for hope." good to see you both. reverend barber, i'll start with you. the coronavirus crisis has magnified inequalities that have existed for decades. how do we avoid going back to a status quo were poverty was treated as a sidebar issue? >> thank you so much, my dear sister, and my dear sister simone campbell. the pope recently said neo-liberalism and trickle down economics was taking the country back. i know someone who died from how covid hurt the poor and said we need a campaign that 140 million living in poverty before covid, 62 million workers making less than $17 an hour in a country where it takes $20 or more an hour to just have a living wage and 52% or 39% of poor children was wrong, it was caused by an unjust system, and we need policies to change it. this covid relief bill showed that policy creates poverty and policy can change poverty. and what we must do now is make permanent in this bill that's temporary and we must press forward to $15 an hour minimum wage, universal health care, infrastructure development. we can do this. it's not whether or not we have the resources. the issue is not a scarcity of resources. it's a scarcity of will. and we must make sure. now, we're not just celebrating, but we have concentration and commitment on attack the next steps quickly, vastly, and with deep commitment to changing the reality of poverty in this country. >> simone, i want to talk about one of the policies that the reverend just referenced that is temporary but a lot of people want to see made permanent, specifically the expansion of the child tax credit. it was something you advocated for. why was it so important to you personally to see this included in the relief bill? >> well, i'm so grateful for this opportunity to be with reverend barber and to be with you, alicia, to be able to talk about this, because what is urgent in our nation is the struggling of children. children are hungry. we hear a lot about children having to do virtual school. but what guess lost in that process is the fact that low income families have had to struggle to feed their kids at all meals and that there hasn't been school lunches, that the cost, if parents are essential workers, they've had to pay extra costs for childcare. there have been added costs. and the other piece is that the old policies phased in only after the first $2,500 of earnings. and so many low wage workers who work seasonally didn't make it to the $2,500 threshold. what this new law does is historic. it changes the structure so that families receive the money for the child. so it starts $3,600 per year for families that have kids, any child under 6, $3,000 for any child over 6 to 17 this year. it is a structural change that becomes critically important for our children to flourish. and that is the important piece. >> and when you talk about that structural change, i think's important, it can sound very technocratic but even how frequently people are getting these payments, right? it used to be these payments would come annually. reverend, an article in "vanity fair" which talks about republicans adamantly opposing these policies and trying to reframe them to voters is a bad thing? >> they need to get to know jesus. the reality is that is a sad situation this politics. but the republicans we have now are not really the extremists. they've never seen a wage increase they like. they've never seen a tax cut for the wealthy they hate. but what we must do is not so much worry about their rhetoric. we have to push forward. these things need to be made permanent but we also have to say you can't ultimately deal with the children if you don't raise wages for the adults. so we have to have a wage increase. we have to have 15. it was shameful for those eight democrats to block it but now we have to put it back on the table. we have to say that yes, it is good to change the poor children by 50% or at least what they call that level. but there were 39 million poor children before the pandemic. billionaires have made over $1 trillion during the pandemic. structural changes in health care and in education and in wages and in tax credits must all be held together. it's not one solution. it's not one little piece of it. but what we must do is ignore republicans when they say things like that. don't get caught up in that rhetoric, just keep doing the work, just stay committed. we need to celebrate a little bit on the 50-yard line but we need to keep pushing. the mandate is there among the people. but more importantly, it's a moral mandate and it makes economic sense to do this if we lift from the bottom, we lift the entire country. >> sister simone, we can't talk about the economic piece of that without talking about the health crisis that is ongoing in this country. you held a virtual event about how the interfaith community can help overcome what vaccine hesitancy is still out there. what are some of the main things that community faith leaders can do, why is it important for clergy to speak up about this? >> clergies are often the only trusted messengers these days. what we've learned from the university of michigan researchers and yale university school of public health is, they're testing around the country is that if we talk to people about protecting someone they love, about being a protector, and you just had that fabulous piece about the elderly couple, they had been protecting each other by staying away. it's that quality of being a protector, motivates people to both wear a mask and get the vaccine. what people of faith can do, pastors, ministers, any of us of faith, can talk about how important it is to care for our community. and as being a protector, then i know i'll get the vaccine in order to protect you. i'll get the vaccine to protect people i love. and that can make the difference. it's not political. it's the love of community that makes the difference. >> reverend barber, president biden, vice president harris, are kicking off their help is here tour next week to tout the benefits of this relief bill. on the ground level, how do you go about educating people about everything that is in the bill, really connecting the dots for them between the legislation itself and the relief that they can start to expect on the ground? >> one of the things you do is you just tell the truth. we have been having a monday coming up called stand against voter suppression, stand for a moral agenda. i would encourage president biden and vice president harris to do this. tell the truth about the bill but also tell the challenges, there are things that are temporary that end at the end of this year but they need to be made permanent. saying that this bill is motivation for us to do more. it is not really celebrational for us to say, you know, we've done everything. this proves that if you do a little bit, you can change a lot, so what if we do the whole thing? what if we showed this nation there is something deeply wrong for 43% of this country to be living in poverty and low wealth before the pandemic? when i think about where we are in this particular moment, we have such an opportunity. with the narrative shift and then a deep commitment, if we take this bill almost like the 1957 civil rights act and use it to get more, not less, but push more, then what will happen is we will not merely have a temporary train but we will have a transformational change. we can end poverty and low wealth in this country. so i'm saying to tell the truth, celebrate where we can celebrate, but also say to people, we need commitment now, commitment to finish the job, commitment to -- that's what i'm hearing on the ground from poor and low wealth people. and lastly, we must change the poverty measurement. i want to talk about that, maybe come back, because the poverty measure the is 60 years too old and too low. we must make sure when we say we'll move people out of poverty we're not using a measurement that may move people out of official poverty but it does not move them out of desperation, it does not move them out of low wealth. our goal must be poverty and low wealth transformation until everybody has the right to life, liberty, and the very pursuit of happiness. >> all right, reverend barber, you want to come back and talk about that next weekend, it's a date. sister campbell, thank you so much for your time. the man investigating donald trump's taxes is leaving office. what does it mean for the indication he's spent years building against the former president? 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>> well, both of these bills have had bipartisan support in the last congress. the farm worker modernization act is a bill that i authored with the help of republican colleagues in the house and stake holders, both growers and the united farm workers and we came up with a compromise that serves the needs of the american economy. and i'm hopeful that it will pass. we have a situation now where more than half the farm workers in the country don't have their papers in order, yet we need them. and then also need to improve the flow of temporary workers in the future who come and do this work, pick the crops and now with this program will also be able to help with dairies. i'm hopeful again it will get bipartisan support. the dream and promise act is popular. these are young people who are americans in every way but the paperwork. they were brought here as children, they didn't make a decision, they were a child and they were brought up he were as americans. to say they're going to go back to your country, they don't even remember their country in many cases. i've met hundreds of thousands of these kids. when the daca program was instituted to give them temporary status, they just blossomed. these kids went off to medical school and became scientists and teachers and firefighters, able to more fully contribute to the only home that they know. so i'm hoping that we'll have a good bipartisan vote again this next week. >> i do want to ask you if it gets to the senate and it stalls out there, do you think that there is an appetite for doing citizenship for farm workers through reconciliation? >> well, i can't answer that but we've been in touch with senators both republicans and democrats who are interested in this bill. and let me clarify. it gives agricultural workers a temporary status that can go on indefinitely. it legalizes their status. they can leave and come back. it's not legal permanent residents. if after a period of time they want to apply for legal permanent residence, then they can, and if they have a clean record, they can apply for legal permanent residence. and after a period of five years you can apply to become a citizen or not. a lot of people who become legal residents decide to just stay in that category. so it's in keeping with the history of immigration law and it gives the decision making in the hands of the immigrant. >> congresswoman, i also want to ask you about the investigation into the capitol riot, the department of justice is asking for more time. this is becoming one of the biggest probes in u.s. history, where 300 people have been charged. you recently released a detailed examination of the social media accounts of republican house members who voted to overturn the 2020 election results. what did you find? 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>> that's a great question. i think it's a combination of partnerships and the dedication and commitment of our volunteers. this is an effort that you can't do on your own. honestly, dr. cohen from the health department has been a great partner, as has our community, not only students but those on the ground are dedicated to community members that want to come together and get this pandemic behind us. >> reporter: dr. jacobs, can you actually walk us through it? what do these sites look like. how are you managing to vaccinate people at that scale? >> well, they are very complicated but i think the way that they look, at least i hope, is that they're very organized and straight forward. so much we have our volunteers organized into different groups, traffic, medical, et cetera. and so everybody just knows their own job extremely well. and we keep everything flowing that way. >> dr. jacobs, can i ask you, what have you heard from people who have already received the vaccine. is there a through line? is there something that comes up when you talk to people who have gotten at least their first shot? >> there is so much. and it's just gratitude and relief are the two things that i see the most. and we do ask sometimes what are you looking forward to. it's almost always family. so today we just had somebody at the pod who was really excited to be able to meet with their grandchildren again and hug their grandchildren. and it's very moving to experience that and it a privilege to share these moments with them because we had an absolutely brutal winter. and so anything that we can do to sort of ease the suffering is such a privilege, and i am so grateful for it. >> grateful for it. >> all offering covid vaccines to all adults long before may 1st and in arizona, hila county is taking this approach. how does broader eligibility affect the eligibility of vaccine. we need to make sure we are doing right by our community. and as we expand, we need to really make sure that these pod sites that we have they're able to accommodate all these individuals but their needs as well, right? but as we look at that may 1st target date, i think we really need to start pushing it. and we are going in that direction, making sure people who are able to come to these large pod vaccination sites, get their vaccine. but then also what other community assets do we have in place, what partnerships can we leverage and get it out to the community members who may not have the transportation. or it's a lot easier to go to the doctor's office or the walgreens across the street to get the vaccine. it is a real balancing act, making sure we can do that and really keep the concerns of our community in mind. >> i'm going to ask you a question about these variants because it is something i don't think we talked about so much when it comes to president biden's american rescue plan which is there is funding there in order to get ahead of these variants. can you give us a sense what that's going to look like? >> well, hopefully one of the first things that's going to occur is to expand the surveillance for the different strains that are occurring. i know that in arizona we recently started doing much more stringent and active surveillance of those strains. so having a national capability to assess those and genotype b pathgen is the most important thing to do. i know there are a lot of other organizations that are already poised to do this. so i think that would be the most important piece to that puzzle right now. >> all right. dr. jacobs, dr. arora, thank you both so much. next, the new law in arkansas aimed at getting the supreme court to overturn roe. and at the top of the hour, it is "the week" with joshua johnson. new york city slowly starts reopening for business. that is 8:00 p.m. eastern only on msnbc. cell phone repair. did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? 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donald trump placed three conservative justices. those three justices make the court more open to striking down roe. we should note that a similar abortion became legal in north carolina. that's like to happy in arkansas, too, which is why other restrictions are still being considered in the state's legislature, including a bill approved by the state senate requiring a woman to be shown an ultrasound before having an abortion. then there is mississippi, where the governor signed the mississippi fairness act into law which bans transgender athletes from participating in women's school sports. this law is very confusing for a number of reasons, as president of the human rights campaign puts it, this law is a solution in search of a problem. case in point, there has not been a single occurrence in mississippi of a trans student seeking or being denied a spot on the playing field. so why did mississippi do this? according to the governor, he was forced to because he claims, quote, president biden promotes trand genderism, which is used to demean transgender americans. we assume he's talking about the president's moves to protect transgender americans. president biden expanded protections for trans students. on may 6th, he repealed the ban on members of the military and thetenned sanctions against countries that suppressed transgender rights. he nominated rachel le vine, leaving her posed to become the first transgender federal official to be confirmed by the senate. unless you think this is just happening in mississippi or arkansas, think about. right now at least 20 other states are considering similar legislation targeting trans rights. that is all the time i have for today. i will see you back here tomorrow 6:00 p.m. eastern for more "american voices." for now i hand it over to my colleague joshua johnson. hello to you. the american rescue plan is now law. the biden administration is beginning a nationwide media blitz to tell the american people what kind of help is on the way one year after the pandemic began. a new york district attorney is taking on the former president. we'll have the latest on the manhattan da's investigation of president trump and maybe his family. also, governor andrew cuomo faces more pressure to quit over allegations of women from inappropriate behavior. skblrchlgts and it seems like everything is a political debate these days, even what time the sunrises and sets. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." so did you have a good week? president biden certainly did. over the course of 48 hours he took big steps toward addressing his priority, the pandemic. on wednesday, congress passed the american rescue plan. the next day he signed it into law. that night he delivered his first prime time p