have much of a future, in donald trump s republican party. welcome to tuesday, it is meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. president biden approaches the halfway mark in his first 100 days in office. facing a prior of different crises that s going to test his presidency in different ways, facing tremendous pressure to keep the momentum going on what is clearly an improving covid outlook. to hold the positive trends that we re seeing. cases going down, deaths going down, hospitalizations down, and most importantly vaccinations up, up, up. but health officials continue to urge caution and there s already a bit of brewing confusion over the cdc s recent guidance, which okays a fully vaccinated americans to potentially see their families but discourages the kind of travel required for many to actually see their families, diving into that coming up. and there s biden s signature piece of covid legislation, $2 trillion in relief that he is expect today sign into law this week a
moment. we re going to begin this hour with the search for the pipe bomb suspect. pete williams joins us now. this released in the last few minutes. how does this advance our understanding of what the fbi is looking for? what the fbi is hoping is that somebody will see this video and think they recognize some characteristic of the person in the video. they have not said whether this is a man or a woman but there are several scenes here. this is walking down an alley between the republican national committee and the capitol hill club. the republican club near the house side. then you ll see separate video that i guess, that s on a loop there. the person walking back and forth. the second video and the longest one is the one you started out with. the person on the sidewalk. walking along in a residential neighborhood. this is south capitol street, as the name implies, the street to the south of the u.s. capitol building. the person enters the frame here and then after a time,
dana: administration telling facilities caring for unaccompanied children. bill: there is there are numerous angles on this story. we ll talk to the former acting ice director ron vitiello in a moment. we ll begin with kristin fisher to figure out what the strategy is now. good morning. the white house is still calling this a challenge but not a crisis. the fact that president biden sent this team of high-level advisors, top administration officials down to the border shows you they know at the very least it is a big and growing problem for this administration. leading this team was the secretary of homeland security mayorkas and susan rice among others. while they were down there according to a statement put out by the white house just yesterday, the white house says they discussed capacity needs given the number of unaccompanied children and families arriving at the border. the complex challenges with redoing is immigration center and the white house is blaming a lo
better life and not a better offer when you provide refuge. the irony is they aren t arguing over whether the migrants should be in our country illegally but arguing over should they be in new york and who should pay for them? that is the contrast that voters should sit back and look. republicans that advocate for a stronger border should sit back and let the argument happen in public as loud as possible so voters get fully informed. it is lot harder for the biden administration or democrats in new york to say there isn t a crisis at the border when they are arguing over the result of that crisis. john: the dhs secretary did in his letters to hochul and adams say we ve got a hangar at jfk airport we can give you. new york post pointed out it would hold a day s worth of arrivals. mayokas in his letter said the dhs enforcement team has formulated two dozen recommendations to strengthen the city s migrant operation
president biden makes moves that are angering immigrant rights advocates, none of this is going to satisfy the gop base, nor the bad faith actors on the right to do not want to be a nation of immigrants. just this week, the house gop passed a new bill going even further to eliminate asylum claims. there is no chance of passing the democrat let s senate. so the governor ron desantis just signed a new law cracking down on brace for undocumented migrants and for american citizens who are in community with them. as you watch all of this frantic coverage about the end of title 42, please remember, this isn t about any one single policy. this is about a global humanitarian crisis. moms and dads, and babies. this is about how we rise to meet this moment and who we are as a nation. what does it say about us? if we don t offer safe haven to those in crisis? i ve shown merkel has a beacon of hope. who was it that we want to be? joining me now, krish