is a political debate these days. even what time the sun rises and sets. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, and joshua johnson. welcome to the week. 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 primetime presidential address. and in that speech, the president -- division of post- pandemic summer. >> i set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. i said i intended to get 100 million shots of people's arms and my first hundred days in office. tonight, i can say we are not only going to meet that goal, we are going to meet that goal. because we are actually on track to reach this goal of 100 million shots in arms on my 60th day in office. tonight. i am announcing i will direct all states, tribes and territories, to make all adults, people 18 and over, eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. if this pandemic is nearing its end, at least in the united states, what is next on the administration's agenda? unity and bipartisanship driving forces of biden's campaign. but how much do the major parties have the will for that? or the stomach for it? no republican in the house or the senate voted for the covid relief will. that did not stop the bill, because democrats used the budget reconciliation products process to passive. as long as they kept everything every single democrat in the senate on board, they could pass a more sweeping, more progressive bill. but that tactic will not work for immigration reform or voting rights, unless every democrat favors ending the filibuster. so far, they don't. so, they will need republican support to advance president biden's legislative agenda. one republican and democrat, democrats often turn to is maine senator susan collins. back in 2009, she worked across party lines to pass an economic stimulus during the financial meltdown. but listen to senate majority leader chuck schumer explain why he did not reach out to her this time. >> we made a big mistake in 2009 and 10. susan collins was part of that mistake can we cut back on the stimulus dramatically. we stayed in recession for five years. what was offered by the republicans was so far away from what was needed, so far away from what biden propose, that he thought that they were not being serious and wanting to really negotiate. the urgency of covid release makes this understandable, but the american rescue plan comes with expiration dates. and there are some serious poverty fighting measures at democrats will want to extend. take the child tax credit in the stimulus. democrats increase this year's credit to $3000 for each child ages 6 to 17. for children under 6, it was raised to $3600 annually. the credit can be paid out in monthly installments, rather than a lump sum. and here is the thing. some republicans have already shown interest in making an expanded child tax credit permanent. last month, senator mitt romney of utah introduced the family security act. his bill would increase the credit above what the democrats passed in the covid package. but, to fund that, senator romney wants to eliminate other family and child assistance programs. he says that his goal is to simplify income support for low- income families. this might not be what democrats would prefer to pass. still, they are not as far as they were on covid relief. and unless senate democrats somehow unite on filibuster reform, they will need republicans and sooner or later. of the west, they could enter the midterms as a party with only meant one major achievement. covid legislation. and nothing else. joining us now to discuss it is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times and an msnbc political analyst. jason furman, former chairman of the white house council of economic advisers during the obama administration. good to see you both. gentlemen, we start with you with the child tax credit and the housing assistance. talk about how much impact that will have toward fighting poverty in this country. especially poverty brought on by the pandemic. >> it will have an extraordinary impact. we are going to have less poverty in the united states in the year 2021 then we ever had in our country in history poverty is going to fall particularly sharply because, be cut in half for children in this country. now, that will be a combination of people getting jobs, and, the check that they are getting from the government. and the key will be, making sure some of the key elements here are extended and made permanent so this is not just one, you know, low year for poverty. this becomes something that is built on in the future. >> jason, contrast that with what the house minority, kevin mccarthy, said about this, of this plan, the american rescue plan. take a listen. >> let me just point out three things which are hard-working taxpayers money is going for. you are now going to provide bonuses up to $25,000 to government employees and bureaucrats. if you're not part of the swamp, you get nothing. you are now, your money is going to pay for illegal immigrants healthcare. your money also is being sent to san francisco city, where your money will be spent giving alcohol and marijuana to the homeless. that is what that bill is doing. >> let's just be clear. at least one of the things that mr. mccarthy says is flat-out false. when he said your money is going to pay for illegal immigrants healthcare, well, one of the things that happens i should say senator -- had said that the money was going directly to illegal immigrants in the form of checks, which is not true, because undocumented immigrants don't have social security numbers and any social security numbers to get those checks. but jason, what about that? the messaging around this in terms of the aspects of the bill that are just designed to inflame and how that affects the administration's ability to measure, to message on this? >> the largest ottoman this bill is checks for american families. -- in this or money for children. pour for the unemployed. assistance for states so that they are not cutting back on their budgets. it is pretty easy to understand the american rescue plan. and the evidence will be something we see in the economy. as we see -- expectancy which is rapid drop goes over the course of the rest of the year. still going to have an eye on them high unemployment rate for many months to come. but i expect it will be coming down sharply. and i don't think it would be very hard to explain. connect the dots between what was passed and what is happening. >> peter baker, what is your sense of what is next for the ministration? we learned that the dsa -- alexander may occur has instructed feed fema to help out with managing the flow of unaccompanied migrant children across the border. there's a 90 day federal effort to help receive shelter and transfer unaccompanied migrant children. does this mean that immigration is the next big item on the administration's agenda? or is this just one item on the list of things to do next? >> well, as with any president, the agenda items that you choose and the agenda items that are chosen for you. right? this, you know, the situation of the border is something obviously president biden had to deal with in his first hundred days in office. he would rather have had a chance to get some other things off his plate first. he would like to get the immigration legislation. but as you point out, that is a pretty far stretch at this point, given that it will require 60 votes in the senate and the only have 50+. kamala harris is tie-breaking vote. so, is a better chance of getting to some sort of bipartisan agreement might be infrastructure. at least that is the hope because both republicans and democrats have agreed over the last number of years that the country's roads and bridges and you know, broadband and other, you know, necessary items for the growth of the country are woefully underfunded and in need of repair. whether the two ties can actually come together on a plan on how to do that is a different question. it is another large ticket spending items that the republicans might decide is just too much to go along with. it might be in their interest to oppose it. but that they generally like some of the things in the bill because it will make the president look like a big spender. which of course he discussed a $1.9 trillion bill, is you know, the way he started his presidency. i think he is that a number of things on his agendas he wants to get done. -- at the border crisis that are things that are going to force themselves onto his agenda he can cope with. >> peter, how is this tour that the first lady on the vikes president and the second gentlemen are about to embark on going to impact that? we have a map of some of the places where they plan to be going over the next few days. you see the vice president is going to be headed to las vegas on monday, denver on tuesday. the president will be in deliver -- pennsylvania on tuesday. county, not the state of delaware. first lady will be in burlington, new jersey on monday. both the president, vice president will be in atlanta at the end of the week. and the second gentlemen will be in albuquerque, new mexico. what is the strategy, peter, in terms of whether those places? and what they will be saying there? >> conveniently enough, most of those places are in battleground states are states that democrats obviously want to hold onto them for years from now. and of course midterms in just two years. but you heard a lot from jason's former colleagues in the obama administration is that what date didn't do enough of was to sell the economic stimulus and the benefits they believe came from that in 2009. the president, president obama didn't care enough for didn't spend enough time or invest enough energy anyway, into convincing the public that this is a good thing that was going to result in good things in their lives and the things that they saw in the economy that were turning around were the result of something that the president has done. so, president of president biden wants to avoid that mistake. what whether it makes a difference or not will depend largely on the results of the package. but jason just talked about doing, if it really does propel the economy into higher groton people see it in their lives and were open to that kind of message. so, the substance matters as much as the messaging. but the biden administration plans to be aggressive about being out there and making sure they get credit that they can get. where they can get it. >> before i let you go, jason, what do you think in terms of where the economy is going? i don't know whether it is wise right now for people to start making big economic decisions. feels like things are going well. but there is still so much uncertainty in the very short- term. partly based on vaccinations, who gets vaccinated and when and how quickly re-reach herd immunity. what is the economy looking like to you in the neck 6-8 months? >> the next 6 weeks? yes. still a lot of uncertainty. how much viruses out there. if you are asking me six months from now, i think we won't be quite all the way back to normal. but we will be a lot of the way back to normal in our own lives. and, to have a successful economy, you need two things. one is people need to feel safe going to restaurants, traveling, doing all the things they love to do. and, we need to be able to afford to do all those things. the shots are one. to cash in your bank account is number 2. we are doing both of those right now. and i think it is going to work in 6-8 months. >> very, very briefly, peter, is that the economic outlook the administration is counting on right now? what did they expect? >> i think they are expecting that. what you hear from some economists is a worry that might propel the economy too far. it could overheat the economy. i don't know what that is going to happen or not. that is on the, you know, economists will debate. but that is soon to be the bigger concern at this point. that is what you the presidency. they would rather go go big and take a chance on that then go to small and leave the economy still suffering. >> peter baker of the new york times and jason furman. gentlemen, we appreciate you making time for us. thank you very much. >> still to come tonight, louisiana's cancer alley. residents there are fighting a plastics plant after growing concerns over high disease rates. up next, we will take a look at why and where the former president is currently under investigation. plus. the curtains could soon go up on broadway. and i cannot wait, please come up broadway. take my money. elizabeth stanley, one of the stars of the jagged little pill, one of the ones i am dying to see will share her story of surviving during the pandemic. that is all ahead when the week continues on msnbc. only pneed. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ dad, it's a video call. hold the phone in front of you. how's that? 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let's discuss it with joyce vance. she is an msnbc contributor and former u.s. attorney. joyce, let's start with that. michael collet has been asked back for an eight interview. that was enough to make john dean, former white house counsel to president nixon to say that basically it is only in his words, it is only a matter of how many days until mr. vance indicts donald trump and others. what you think of that choice? >> well, dave, maybe a little bit optimistic. but michael cohen plays an important role for prosecutors. he now has millions of pages of documents, the debtor that underlies trump's taxes and other financial records. and it is such a help for them to have someone who can explain it. who better than the president's former lawyer? probably present for a lot of meetings and conversations, familiar with issues that get reflected in texas. so, it is no surprise that they have had: intro much work and it would seem to indicate that they are very interested in what is contained in the papers that they finally received. >> what do you think of that call in georgia? the one that the wall street journal reported on. how does that affect the overall investigation, do you think? >> you know, joshua, i have been thinking about these calls a lot. both of them. and, obviously what is at stake here is solicitation of election fraud by the former president, asking georgia officials to help. the -- would likely be that he really thought he one. he did not have the intent to solicit a crime. he was acting in good faith. but you know what is really remarkable here is, just that he wasn't acting in good faith if he believed he had won the election, he would have left it up for the process to work for recounts to happen. and for any problems to come to light. the fact that he personally is making his phone calls, the georgia officials who he doesn't know. the president of the united states, pressuring them to find him votes. pressuring them to find fraud. this i think is a strong indication. this is not the normal course of business. and i look forward to see what comes out of georgia in the next few months. >> could you give us some context for what you might expect? i'm not a prosecutor so i don't know how all this works and i hear plenty of people cynically presume that there is no way this prosecution is going to go forward. it is donald trump. he is to teflon. georgia will not go after this guy. and even if they did, there is no way, is impossible for this to actually happen. i have heard tons of cynicism on this. then again, if there is a case to be made and they don't go after him, that will be pretty bad for those prosecutors. but, what do you think about all of the peripheral aspects to these investigations, other than just the facts of the case? >> there is enormous cynicism about the criminal justice system, knowing that trump alluded what appears to be responsibility for crimes. we don't know for sure, right? it was possible that he was never prosecuted in the past because all of the evidence wasn't there. but their appearance of a long- term skating awfully close to the edge. so, people a right to be cynical. now, we no longer have a justice department that is controlled by the former president and his cronies. and instead, we have a prosecutor in new york, cy vance, i always feel the need to remind people, i am not related to. who seems to be going after a lot of financial calculations. we have the elected district attorney in fulton county, georgia, and experienced prosecutor. i would expect to these folks to examine the evidence, look in a criminal case. you have got to have admissible evidence of guilt that will stand up beyond a reasonable doubt both with your jerry and on appeal. so, it is really easy to be an armchair prosecutor and say, oh, there is plenty of evidence there. they should indict. it is really hard to begin the room looking at the evidence and making the decisions. particularly with the defendant like the former president. but i think these prosecutors will be focused. and they will do the right thing. if the evidence is there, they will indict. they don't have the evidence, they won't. >> and how to the ends of the cases factor in this? eric swoll well, a the bay area as a lawsuit he is pursuing related to the january 6th attack on the capital. mississippi congressman bennie thompson and the ncaa are suing the former president and his associates for their role in that. and you have a new piece in the washington post where you talk about how civil cases could kind of, as you put it, pry out the information that could lead to the former president being held more accountable. how does the whole network of all of these various cases lock together? >> the civil cases, there are at least 10 of them, are very interesting. for one thing, on a combined level, they have the potential to not the former president out financially. we know he has a lot of debt. some of these cases include damages and punitive damages into the millions of dollars. they could be very problematic for him on that level. but also, a civil discovery proceeds as motions or argued us argued and court hearings, it is very difficult to keep all of that evidence in a secretive fashion. in fact, there is a long- standing tradition. the constitution and practical, that advocates for public access to these sorts of proceedings and the sort of documents. so, this may be ultimately the way that the public learns much more of the troop. both about january 6th, and also about the presidents personal financial dealings. an awful lot at stake for him in the civil cases. >> dress, we had forests attorney and msnbc contributor. thinks so much. >> good to see you, too. coming up. >> tough living, knowing that you won't make it to be old- age. >> one louisiana's town, fight against pollution and cause of gases in a place they call cancer alley. ♪ you've got the looks ♪ ♪ let's make lots of money ♪ ♪ you've got the brawn ♪ ♪ i've got the brains... ♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700 click or call to switch why walgreens? 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a majority of the states democratic congressional delegation now says he should indeed. among them are both of new york's u.s. senators, majority leader chuck schumer and kirsten julie grant. meanwhile, nearly 60 democratic members of the state legislature are calling on the governor quit. the assembled speaker, also a democrat, also authorized an impeachment investigation over the accusations. six women have publicly come forward and accused mr. cuomo of inappropriate conduct. in a briefing with reporters yesterday, the governor maintained his innocence and pushed back against the calls for his resignation. >> i did not do what has been alleged. period. politicians who don't know a single fact, but yet form a conclusion and an opinion, are in my opinion, reckless and dangerous. >> joining us now is jesse mckinley, albany bureau chief for the new york times. jesse, good to have you tonight. tell us about these allegations, particularly the latest one involving a current female aide to the governor that was referred to the albany police department. is there a common thread through these accusations? or are there things that this latest allegation involves that are different? >> many of the allegations thus far involve former employees, generally employees that were subordinate to the governor. in terms of assistance and things like that. the allegation outlined in the times union involved a young woman who said she was groped at the executive mansion when she was -- right up the hill here in albany on is probably the most alarming just from a shirley criminal viewpoint. obviously, the referral to the albany police, which came via the state police indicates that at least there is some possibility of a misdemeanor involved here. and i think that that honestly moves the needle in terms of -- politicians calling for mr. cuomo to resign. yesterday obviously, we saw an enormous number of congressional delegation, all democrat stepping forward saying it is time for governor cuomo to go. as well as you mentioned, the senators from the state of new york. the pressure is really increased here in new york for governor cuomo to consider stepping aside. >>'s allegations have said a lot about the culture around governor cuomo and the way that he governs. there was another piece that came out in new york magazine that just came out talking about what it described as a culture that supported harassment, cruelty, and deception according to the piece from new york magazine. what have you observed from the cuomo administration in terms of the way that it is business? >> that was an excellent piece by rebecca tri-star. -- the reporting we had done a couple weeks ago in the new york times where you know, you talk to former and current staffers in the cuomo administration, the word that comes up again and again is toxic. that it is a very hard hitting, very sometimes borderline abusive place to work it place where both men and women can be verbally abused by the governor or his surrogates. and, that that has been documented not only in our publication, new york magazine, the washington post in a story after in early, the general conception of the way that junk governor cuomo does business. and of course, the first allegations -- over the idea of sexual harassment. another that is a good look for a governor who last year obviously went to coronavirus, gained great reviews for his handling of that. and seemed to be this kind of paternal, you know, loving figure. so that just -- is not a flattering one for governor,. >> what is your sense of why this toxic atmosphere has endured for so long? again, with the understanding that the governor is not here to speak for himself and nbc new has reached out repeatedly to governor cuomo to offer him opportunities to speak for himself. with that taken as read, what is your sense of why this atmosphere has pervaded? >> i think part of it might be in the tradition of kind of hard hitting new york politics, where people are brusque and abrasive and you know, get things done. governor cuomo himself had said, you know, i am pragmatic progressive. i like to get things done. it is not about you know, big speeches it is about hard- hitting policies to get you know, you know, put shovels in the ground, etc. and perhaps that sort of, you know, that no messing around kind of eat those has ended up with the governor kind of crossing the line in terms of workplace culture. >> what is your sense of what happened from here, if the governor -- presumably the lieutenant governor would become the governor until there is either an election or special election. but there is also a lot going on with covid relief, with the vaccination efforts. critics of the governor has said, you cannot do any of those things. you have lost confidence, you are just standing in the way of getting covid relief done. again, as you said, he kind of masterminded a lot of this covid relief effort. so, practically speaking, what would it mean on a day-to-day level if andrew cuomo left office? >> you know, it is a giant state government. it is 200,000 people doing their jobs every single day. i think that at the governor left, obviously, those people would continue to show up to work and do the jobs. certainly, one of the palpable arguments that people are making right now in albany and statewide, is that the governor's distractions of the scandal as well as the nursing home scandal, lest we forget, which was the -- of critical data but death and the facilities. that those sorts of scandals have made it very difficult for mr. cuomo to continue to be governor and continue to focus on the very problems he just elicited. >> jesse mckinley, albany bureau chief for the new york times. jesse, thanks very much. >> anytime, just. coming up later in the program, it has been 525,000 600 minutes without broadway shows. and counting. actors elizabeth stanley from the tony nominated musical jagged little pill told us how she is surviving during the pandemic. pandemic. psst! psst! allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! you're good. want to brain better? 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>> i'm gonna fight till the end. yes indeed. tanker gonna be two miles from my house. they must be losing in mice. up with the right person here to fight. god put the fight in me. this is my home. this is my people, and i am going to fight for me and my people. >> referee: he was governor data show air pollution and rates of cancer are well above the national average in cancer alley. despite claims to the contrary from the state of louisiana. campaign says there are other reasons to worry about the new plants, too. if it is built, it is estimated the new plastics plants will be pumping into the atmosphere something like 2.5 million cars worth of carbon per year. making it one of the biggest single sources of carbon in america. and contributing to something already causing problems. done in the mississippi delta. climate change. >> referee: we took to the waters to see the impact climate change is having on louisiana's coastline. diggers are trying to claw back marshland be on the levees. lost to rising water levels. further down the coast, the damage left by 5 hurricanes in the last year together number, blamed by many scientists and some of those who live here, on climate change. >> it is a worry when you leave, you don't know if you're coming home or anything. it is hard. it is hard to do four or five times a year. are the hurricanes getting worse? >> they are getting worse and they are getting more frequent. i am sure it is because of things that is happening around the world. >> referee: -- plastics is its new plant meets all regulatory criteria using advanced omissions reductive measures and extensive measures to protect the environment. the state of louisiana told sky news great care is taken in the site selection progressed to identify locations that safeguard -- in the residence. state and federal regulators require an extensive environmental permitting process before construction can begin. they say plans for new plants are subject to public consultation. but america's new president, joe biden, has singled out kelce ready by name. somewhere environmental justice needs to be addressed. people who live there say they will hold him to his word. >> that was sky news correspondent dominic leghorn reporting. the british monarchy is more than a family. it is a business. oprah's interview with harry and megan is shining new light on the firm. but, what is the firm? 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here to break it all down is chloe pen topic, lifestyle deputy editor for insider. chloe, welcome. >> had. thanks for having me. >> so, what is the firm? that is clearly not just a euphemism for the august grandeur of the royal family. this feels like a corporation that has interest that transcend even the people within it at the time. >> yes. it can get very confusing and a lot of people have had questions following the interview where megan was referencing the firm. the firm is a nickname for -- people both inside and outside the royal family. who are tasked with protecting and managing the royal family's reputation. it -- and it isn't something the royals have really discussed. so the fact that meghan mentioned the firm, some found actually quite insulting because it marks that separation from the family and shows that, you know, there is this business at work that people aren't quite aware of and harry and meghan really drew attention to that. >> who runs the firm? who is in charge? is it the queen or is it someone else? >> so to understand the firm we have to kind of backtrack a bit. the firm is part of what is called the royal institution. and the royal institution has hundreds of members who play different roles. the queen is at the top of the royal institution. and it is of course comprised of royal family members. but also, again, has everyone from palace aides to communications as part of this group. and within that institution is the firm. not much is known about the firm in detail because so much of the royal family's inner workings and business is really shrouded. it's interesting how the tabloids played a big part in this interview because it was suggested, heavily suggested, that this relationship between the royal family and the tabloids has been very symbiotic and a businesslike relationship. within the firm itself, it's important to know that there is an inner circle that's known as the firm of eight. as of december, this was announced. so the queen is obviously part of this inner circle as is his her son, prince charles, his wife, camilla, the queen's grandson middleton, the queen's youngest son prince edward, his wife sophie, and princess anne. interestingly, prince philip is not part of this because he retired from royal duties. so the senior working members of the royal family are part of that inner circle, and they are the ones who often make decisions. as you mentioned, the private secretaries have a really big role to play and often are the ones that are pulling some of the strings in the royal family. >> i found the oprah interview fascinating. i watched it twice. i told all the producers on the show, you need to watch this interview because they do a lot of things right in terms of television and how you produce a two-hour program that sucks you in, at least it sucked me in. but it leaves me still with a lot more questions, namely what is this all about. the relationship between the tabloids and the monarchy feels sometimes symbiotic but often parasitic. and entirely, or at least largely, about money. when the royal wedding happened between harry and meghan, that was estimated to bring $1.5 billion to the uk economy. by one report the firm contributed an estimated $2.7 billion a year to the british economy before the pandemic. i don't want to believe that meghan markle was kind of treated with such contempt and at times outright racism because this institution had a bottom line to worry about. but i have no evidence to the contrary. i mean, is it just that simple? or is there more to it? >> i think, as we saw in this interview, meghan's experience of royal life is very unique. a lot of people have drawn parallels between meghan's experience and diana's experience. while i think that's very valid, we have to remember that meghan faced blatant racism from the uk tabloid media. we saw this so clearly in headlines. and as it has been shown, you know, we've seen the royal family does not often comment on stories or allegations. but they have chosen when to intervene in the narrative. and they did not choose to do so with meghan, according to her account. and, you know, looking at just the plethora of coverage that meghan faced, negative, racist coverage in the uk tabloid media, this was unacceptable. and i think that really was the breaking point. this story that meghan mentioned where it had been reported by the tabloids that kate -- i'm sorry, meghan had made kate cry the week of meghan's wedding over a flower girl dress. meghan was painted at this bridezilla. meghan said actually, that was me, i cried, and kate made me cry, and i forgive her. it was just this thing, we moved past it. but they decided not -- and by "they," i mean the royal institution here. it was decided according to meghan that they would not intervene. and they didn't intervene because we didn't hear anything to the contrary. one thing that took me not by surprise by was alarming, [ inaudible ]. >> it is such a fascinating story. i never thought i would be interested in the royals until i saw harry and meghan's wedding, watching the whole doggone thing. watching these events, i hate to say it's saddening but not surprising, i hate to say, because of the insidious nature of racism, but i'll be fascinated to see what happens here. thank you very much for making time for us. make sure you spring forward tonight. but more states are moving to make daylight saving time permanent. we'll explain why, next. nicorette® knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey are you kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette®. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette® with relapsing forms of ms, there's a lot to deal with. not just unpredictable relapses. all these other things too. who needs that kind of drama? 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republican senator marco rubio of florida is sponsoring the sunshine protection act. it would eliminate the fallback in november and give us more daytime sun all around. supporters say the two annual time shifts are harmful. they disrupt sleep, increase car accidents, heart attacks, seasonal depression and other health issues. because of the earth's tilt on its axis, the sun spends less time above the horizon in the north during the winter, that means fewer daylight hours here. without falling back an hour, most states would no longer have those winter sunsets before 5:00 p.m. but it's a little more complicated for cities that are on the western edge of their time zones, places like indianapolis and detroit would not see the sun rise until after 9:00 a.m. in december and january. but while kids in those areas would go to school in the dark, there would be more sunlight in the evening. and yes, grammar sticklers, we