fantastic group here to help us understand all that's going on in the political news. kelly o'donnell in the white house, the co-founders of punchbowl news and the editor of the nevada independence. kelly, what are the president and vice president going to say about this bill that hasn't always been said? >> a lot of it will be a focus on the real underpinning of this. the biden administration, president in particular, wants to sell to the public that government can work for them. that they can accomplish golds that were campaigned on, promises that were made. in the specifics today president biden will talk about the limitation phase. it's not the sexiest part of this kind of a law but it is critically important and also one of the areas where there's all kind of land mines and things that could go wrong. president biden knows this firsthand because he had been in charge back in the obama administration of implementing the recovery plan at that time so he knows there are a lot of things that can affect how people will experience this law, and how they will ultimately be judged. all of the money we've been talking about, things that go to vaccines and schools, the direct financial help, and all of the other benefits, programs and spending in this plan have to be administered and decisions have to be made on how that money is used. part of that today will be talking about that implementation phase. we suspect the president will name gene sperling, longtime economic adviser to lead this, be the point man on it and this tour they're now getting, getting on the road, going across the country, in part to sustain the interest in what's in the plan and keep getting the political credit for what they've accomplished here. to remind people and educate people about what they will receive and what is in it broadly for the larger programs but to keep the emphasis on, they promised it, they did it, especially as republicans have been so critical. >> progressive democrats were furious at democrats like john manchin for killing the federal minimum wage hike. but what ha does it say about the democratic party, democratic leadership, that they were able to get a progressive icon like bernie sanders and john manchin, who represents a deeply red state of west virginia, on the same page? >> exactly right, stephanie. they took the most popular proposal for the last year or is he and put them on steroids. a lot of the things we see in this bill, much of what we see in this bill, got bipartisan support in the last congress, and listen, legislating is the art of the doable, right? you have to work. when you say this in punchbowl news frequently, have to work with the congress that you have not the congress that you like. the congress joe biden has cannot do a $15 minimum wage no matter how much he would like to, no matter how much she -- they wish it could happen. look, i would say going forward with the future, it would be interesting to see how much they can do that as john manchin and bernie sanders on the same page and it's not a lot to be honest with you, stephanie. there's a lot not -- a lot of areas you can thread that needle. that will be -- that's the continuing story of this congress. joe biden, and john manchin with veto power over the entire democratic agenda. >> to that very point the next thing democrats want to do is get to infrastructure. treasury secretary janet yellen is already dropping the bread comes, preparing us that a tax hike could be on the way. it's one thing to get people excited about sending them a check. it's a totally different story when you're asking people, hey, i want to raise your taxes for infrastructure. >> yeah, it's going to be a tough sell. i'm not surprised democrats are looking at this or they have to find ways to fund massive projects to implement and boost the economy. certainly infrastructure is going to be the next thing we've all been talking about and democrats are very excited about this. the questions remain, will they be able to get any bipartisanship? will republicans come along on this type of a package, which traditionally, maybe decades ago, bringing back money to your state for crumbling roads and bridges are something democrats and republicans agreed on. i think they will start down this road of bipartisan but i'm skeptical the end product has any republican support. >> don, take us to las vegas. besides the covid number downs, the economy opening is a game-changer. the unemployment rate in vegas hit 34% last april. it is still one of the highest in the country. now we are actually starting to see packed casinos, tourism picking up. does it feel like things are turning a corner where you are? >> i think the light is flickering here, stephanie, but the light going out for the first time in months since gaming was legalized and city and state slowly rep 0ing. the rescue plan and one of the reasons the vice president is coming here is so badly needed, to put it in perspective, they had to cut $.2 billion out of the state budget because it's so depend on the few miles of road known as the las vegas strip. we're a swing state. there's a senate race here. makes sense for them to come here but we're by no means out of the woods, stephanie. they have to country hundreds of millions of dollars out of the budget and we're a state that is very per nearis in its services anyway. so the american rescue plan is really needed to rescue nevada, i think. >> it zmt even man what jon ralston says in the next three minutes, the fact he has a lego yoda behind him, he won this segment. but they're calling this a trojan horse for more progressive ideology. what if it is? if it helps low-to-middle income americans in a big way, how is that not a huge win for democrats? >> it is a huge win for democrats. they continually brand it at that, 75% approval rating, 20 points higher than the stimulus in 2009. to draw parallel to the stimulus and political fallout that happened in 2009/2010 because the stimulus is complete nonsense. this bill is far more popular and republicans keep saying that and snubs stay study. -- the numbers stay steady. kelly is so right. republicans are just hoping it gets battered a little bit and i'm not sure it's going to. larger question for democrats, do people remember and vote on this next year? i don't know the answer to that. >> and at the same time there's a lot of republicans that are angry. they're saying president trump should get some credit for this. he's the person behind operation warped speed, that's what brought the vaccines to us. if that argument holds any weight, why on earth didn't trump sell it himself? he spent the last two months in office pushing baseless voter fraud claims. if he wanted to leave on the high note saying i have givern you the golden ticket of the vaccine, he could have set up a vaccination station on every street corner and put a band-aid with his face on the arm. he barely talked about it. >> hard to understand exactly what was going on in the president's mind the last couple of months when he was in office but, i agree with you, he tried to take credit of the vaccines, only reason it's there is because of him. the question for republicans, are they going to go to a culture war argument who started the cancel culture of dr. seuss, or are they going to try to bring some kind of proactive measures to the floor. right now they're fully just against whatever do and just trying to find their alignment and their momentum by actually trying to find something they agree on together with donald trump kind of fading into the background. >> jon, the covid crisis didn't just hit nevada hard. nevada is one of those states that got slammed by the subprime crisis. people there are still not on their feet. many lost their homes. are their investments being made through this bill or other things that are actually going to help nevada get back on its feet in the long term? >> well, stephanie, let me put it in perspective for you. nevada is slated to get about $4 billion from this, about $3 billion or more to the state budget. the state budget here annually is only about $4 billion. you can imagine the potential that it has here, the lower education system was crushed, the higher education system was crushed. where this money goes and we don't know exactly where it will be allocated yet, it's going to be a shot in the arm for this state because of the relatively small budget and how much money is coming here. the state still needs it, as i mentioned, stephanie. this economy has been crushed, mostly because we are so dependent on tourism, which is coming back but not nearly what it usually is inside those casinos and they just started vaccinating hospitality workers last week. we're still not quite up to speed on that. so we have a long way to go, but $4 billion for a state that has a $4 billion annual budget, that's going to be significant. >> it will go a long way. jake, anna, jon, kelly, thank you all very much. we have to talk about this developing severe weather situation over the weekend and it is still causing problems as we start the week. blizzard conditions stranded dozens of people on i-20 from colorado to wyoming yesterday. the latest total for denver, 127 inches of snow, windy peak, wyoming, measuring almost 53 inches. down in texas people are cleaning up after multiple tornadoes rolled towards lubbock. fortunately, no injuries reported. and this brush fire on your screen damages dozens of homes in lakewood, new jersey, yesterday. there's a chance for rain later in the week. coming up next -- republicans are calling it a biden border crisis. the federal government is sending fema to help with a record wave of migrants, including unaccompanied minors. we'll have the latest from texas and came. plus, where exactly is the covid stimulus money coming from, and who is it going to? 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>> it's really the issue is a lack of faith. let me apologize for technical difficulties, which is why i'm joining you from my phone but where i am will help, i think, explain this in quite detail. if i can swing many camera around here, this is nasa ames research center in the san francisco bay area. what this facility is, is a potential overflow or they call it influx in the lingo of the department of health and human services to unaccompanied children. where no children should be, sleeping on reports, children have been in overcrowded conditions. so let's me see if i can walk you over here and show you quick, but this is the idea this will be inside this facility, a potential future location. the problem is, it is way -- it will take way too long to stand up and open this place to get kids away from the border and the amount of time and to receive what they need to in order to put them in a safe congregate setting to get out of these situations, steph. >> once they get out of these facilities, assuming their in better, safe facilities, where do they go? bill cassidy is making the argument the surge is coming because they can stay forever? >> yeah, well, no the surge is coming so they can stay forever. look, this is a humanitarian issue. it's a humanitarian issue to have children on the foreign border patrol stations. they leave their countries because of issues like violence, poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition. the question is how do we want to treat our fellow beings, as human beings or political pawns to send from one side of the border to another? the issue is where are we going to house nations coming to this nation by themselves who have no other option? that's why i'm standing here in the rain outside a nasa facility because the united states has run out of options and the biden administration is looking for ways to care for children in a humane and fair and safe way, as they put it. >> how expected was this surge? could more have been done to avoid getting into the exact situation we're in right now, exactly where we're standing? >> it's a great question, steph. i think there are two entities you you in ask, the biden administration, what did they know about a projected increase of migrant children coming into the country and what's the trump administration warned? what i want to know, did the trump administration get any warning they might need ames research center in the bay area, and this is something that does happen. health and human services will send out a request to other federal departments to ask them, do you have space? we may see an increase in children coming to this country. did that happen during the trump administration? was there a request? was it denied? if there was, that could indicate they could have been ready for this and simply weren't. >> besides senator mccarthy coming with fellow republicans and touring the area calling it a biden crisis, do they have another idea? what do they want to do, go back to zero tolerance? >> that's part of it. house republicans are proposing a plan that reverses changes to title 42, which is are the anti-immigration measures put in place during the trump administration to stop anyone coming in because of covid-19. the biden administration overturned just a small part of that, the part that allows unaccompanied minors to come in. one of the house republican proposals i have seen would reverse that and send uh-uh pied minors back into mexico or from where they came. and that is creating other issues. the biden administration has a comprehensive immigration reform strategy, and this is why you have a congressional correspondent down at the border, there are not yet votes for that. so the piecemeal things that are going to happen and for house republicans, this is not a situation like michael scott "the office" where you can declare a crisis, declare a bankruptcy, that alone doesn't do anything. we will have to see a whole response if the projected surge of minors picks up through the spring and summer, as the justice officials expect it to. >> the whole of government response? 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let's get more confused. >> right, it does get a little confusing, of course. it's the state of florida. it's going to be confusing, steph. good morning, good to be with you. there are state-run sites and federally run sites, both with slightly different criteria. i will outline that in a second. what you're looking at over my shoulder now at miami-dade college's north campus is fema supported, federally run site. there have been waves of people coming here all morning, but at the moment i've got to tell you over my shoulder is where the line should be. the there's no one standing outside there right now. they have the capacity here, steph, to vaccine 3,000 people a day. i'm told 2,000 pfizer vaccines, 1,000 johnson & johnson. but this is all fluctuating in realtime. one of the administrators down there on a megaphone just a little while ago were telling folks we're out of johnson & johnson and none of them left. i'm not sure this is because of lack of demand or the fact they're so efficient here because inside those tents, there's roughly 40 vaccination stations going on at the exact same time. in terms of who is actually eligible here, everybody, as you mentioned, 60 and older now that's an additional 1.25 million people who were not eligible to this morning, long-term health care, staff residents, health care workers working directly with patients available, firefighters that are 50 and older and educate irs. . this is where it gets confusing. if you're pre-k or daycare employee, you can get vaccinated here because that's part of the federal criteria but the state doesn't acknowledge that. the state is only vaccinating teachers and those in the educational community 50 and older and not necessarily pre-k. it gets really confusing. the bottom line is expansion of eligibility is very important. the question, steph, ask as younger people become more eligible and able to get shots, will they? what will the demand look like? steph? >> florida is wide open. it's always a popular spring break destination, this year may be more than ever because it's harder for these kids to go to mexico or the caribbean. are local authorities worried about more outbreaks? it's very unlikely that these young people are vaccinated and from the pictures i've seen, i don't see many masks? >> exactly. i can tell you it's crescendos in recent weeks. they are worried. look what happened in miami beach saturday, they arrested 30-plus people, i'm told about ten minutes ago they're expecting arrests for the week to be similar in the neighborhood of 150 people. miami beach police staff had to use pepper balls to disperse crowds that were, quote, volatile on the main strip there on ocean drive over the weekend. that is not what you want to hear when you're dealing with these confluent factors of a lot of people coming down, spread of the virus, and not just that that is more present in florida than any other state. >> there sam, thank you. i want to dig deeper and bring in dr. najib ba delos, the director at the boston medical center and msnbc contributor. doctor, you heard sam's report about the these spring breakers. everybody knows we're still in the pandemic but there's a difference between loosening our ties and streaking the quad. are we pulling back too much too quickly? >> i think so, stephanie, i think the roadmap to normalcy depends on vaccinating the majority of us and we're not there yet. if we change behaviors before we get to that point, we are at risk given the fact you just shares places like florida and elsewhere have high number of variants, b.1.1.7 being the one we're worried about, this highly transmissible one. that's concerning to me. the other part is florida has a lot part of vulnerable people, people who are older and we're getting through that population and we're getting better at vaccinating and there's better news on the horizon, right? there's new studies that show from mayo clinic all asymptomatic infections are decreased in 80% of people vaccinated. so it's really this period of time between now and we get more shots in arms that we are vulnerable and we're dropping the ball here. >> what's a bigger issue for you, people not having access to the vaccine or people not wanting it? facebook is now rolling out across all of other apps information on where to get et vaccine but you and i both know, facebook was one of the epic centers for spreading anti-vax content. a new ncr poll says a third of u.s. adults don't even want it. >> yes, disinformation and misinformation has been one of the biggest achilles' heels that most people in my field didn't respect how big of a role it would play during this pandemic here. i'm thankful for facebook for doing this, and putting the good information out there as long as they continue their vigilance in decreasing dismfgs and misinformation. just to step back, the outbreak, you start with slow moving, unchartered territories to return to normalcy, and you have these hurdles. our big three hurdles will be the variants between now and getting everybody vaccinated, are we going to see new variants that decrease efficacy more. the other is vaccine he's tennessee. hesitancy. right now there's a lot of demand but you will see other people who are more vaccine hesitant and that might be a lot of work. third is seasonal variation, next fall will we see potentially increase in viral activities because this is a cold virus, it's a version of the cold virus and how will it behave next fall? that is the three hurdles i see in our fear future. >> former president trump and first lady melania trump got the vaccine. they did it privately. they didn't promote it. at the same time a third of republican men they don't want to get it. so what if they don't? if they don't get the vaccine and the rest of us do, what does that mean? >> i think that we can -- 15% of us are currently vaccinated with both doses, according to a white house adviser over the weekend. so let's say another 100 million according to columbia's study have gotten the virus and people with natural immunities might get reinfections with the variants. there's a huge chunk of the population that doesn't get vaccinated and so it's harder to get to normalcy. the thing that concerns me is this underlying -- this will be another sign of underlying political division that will keep coming back, not just in this crisis but other future infectious diseases crisis and outbreach. dr. fauci said what he would love to see is president biden coming out and showing support for the vaccine because that will improve the taking of the vaccine and we hope that happens because that is partly how we get to normalcy, bringing us together so we can battle this together. >> we have to get through this together, dr. bhadelia, thank you very much. coming up -- stimulus checks are coming. how much you could expect next. s are coming how much you could expect next it's true jen. this prebiotic oat formula moisturizes to help prevent dry skin. impressive! aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ try the body wash, too. jaycee tried gain flings for the first time the other day. the scent made quite an impression. it's our nature.™ [music: "i swear"] it was like that towel and jaycee were the only two left on earth. but...they weren't. you can always spot a first timer. gain flings with oxi boost and febreze. 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we did an analysis how the research bill will benefit different families with different circumstances and here's are a few examples. let's say you're a single working parent making $15,000 a year raising a 5-year-old and 2 erld why. you will get $4,200 in stimulus checks and changing in the child tax credit, an additional $7,200. total boost would be more than $9,500 more than they would receive. if you're a single worker with no kids making $15,000 a year. you would get a $1,400 check and temporarily boost the earned child credit for childless workers, which could be up to $900. in this case saving this american $123 total. let's look at a family of four with two kids, 9-year-old and 3-year-old. they first get $6,600 in stimulus checks. they would also receive the full $3,000 in child credit for the older child and $3,600 for the younger one totaling $8,200 and this family gets $12,200 total. lastly say you're a single working making $120,000. you would not get a stimulus check or any earned income tax credit but you still could see changes in the affordable care act with subsidies to higher welcome nefls. this worker can save more than $2,000 with lower health care premium. with $1.9 trillion in support there are other things like rent relief and help with utilities like heat and electricity. joining us now, the former labor secretary during the obama administration and jessica fulton, vice president for the center of economic and political studies. jessica, what we see here, even a person making $120,000 a year could be getting a boost. critics say someone like this in the middle doesn't need any help but isn't that the point? for years and years the issue has been the middle class can survive but not thrive. doesn't this start to solve that? >> yes,ing and the most exciting thing about the american rescue plan is it starts to lay a foundation to build a more inclusive economy than we had during the pandemic. the things i'm excited about are the child tax credits we talked about. these are temporary changes that will list families out of poverty. for black votes who have the virus and economic impacts, it's going to lower the child poverty rate according to the institution from four inten to one in ten. >> when i saw how much support they were giving to people in the middle i thought exactly about the white trump voters who said they were forgotten. doesn't this help them? >> it absolutely helps them. this is an important economic lifeline to tens of millions of americans. as you pointed out, 85% of households will get a stimulus check. 11 million unemployed workers will get enhanced uninsurance benefits. 66 million kids will benefit from the child tax care benefit. it spreads far and wide. this is a down payment on joe biden's promise to build back better and not just get the economy back to where we were before the pandemic but try to deal with systemic inee kwa ulties that hurt low-income americans and people of color. and that's irregardless of race, irregardless of political party, that's just helping people who have been in need. >> chris, what about the argument that people are getting so much money they're going to abuse the system, they will be disincentivized to work, they're just getting free checks? for everyone who says that, how do they not see, name one single organization or wealthy person that doesn't have a team of people looking for everything single tax loophole possible. leon black paid jeffrey epstein $150 million just for tax advice. that's tax advice from a convicted sex offender. we don't even know how much taxes he avoidsed paying. >> yes, and let's just level set where we are in this economy right now. we are still 9.5 million jobs short of where we were before the pandemic. we had 400,000 small businesses close over the last year. and while infections and deaths have gone down, we're still losing about 1,500 people a day. this economy is not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. and there are people who are out of work trying to find jobs. there are entire industries that will likely never come back. there are a lot of people that are just hanging on a thread trying to figure out how they're going to buy groceries, how they're going to pay the rent. and so this is important funding that needs to go out to provide this economic lifeline. as you just pointed out, we have variants, we've got cities and states opening way too quickly right now. look, this is badly needed money and we know that when lower income and middle income feel they get the money, they're not buying second houses with and they're using it to keep the economy going. >> jess, can we look at this as the reverse of trickle down? former president trump's tax code over ten years would cost us $2.3 trillion and when you look at wage growth, it was minimal after that tax cut. could this be trickling up from the bottom to the middle up, to chris' point this money will go back into the system? >> yeah, you know what, i think this really is, is building a more inclusive table. this is an opportunity that we've taken to say that we need to invest in people up and down the socioeconomic ladder, not just those at the top. what i'm looking for in the long run are major investments in job creation and infrastructure and care work and climate change, creating the jobs that we know we'll need to build a more inclusive economy. >> chris, goldman sachs now predicting 8% growth, 8% gwyneth paltrow -- gdp in 2021. moody's said the economic outlook is as good as it gets. if that's the case does it make it easier or harder for the biden administration to get things done? >> i think it makes it easier for getting things done. they placed a political bet on this stimulus package and i think americans from an economic standpoint will see the benefits. but i think most people don't really understand what gdp is about. they compare about what's happening in their lives and because of this $1.9 trillion they will see tangible benefits that will make it easier for them to get through their days and weeks. it will be a stark differences from $1.9 trillion we spent in 2017 on a tax clut that did the produce to producing the economic gains promised. >> chris, jess, thank you both for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. coming up next -- governor andrew cuomo facing accusations from seven women over inappropriate conduct. as even president biden weighs in on whether governor cuomo should step down. visible is wireless that doesn't play games. no surprise fees, legit unlimited data for as little as $25 a month. and the best part, it's powered by verizon. but it gets crazier. bring a friend every month and get every month for $5. which is why i brought them. two $5-a-months right here. hey. hey. plus the players of my squad. hey. what's up? 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