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the southern border. more than 4200 unaccompanied migrant children are in custody in the united states as pressure mounts on this administration. we do have a lot more on that in a moment. lets begin with the race to vacc vaccinate. randi kaye is live at a mass vaccination site. you see so many getting vaccinated in florida at the same time you see spring breakers acting like there never was a pandemic. >> absolutely. i mean, you -- it depends on where you go here. thats when you know ...

cash-strapped states. a lot for schools. it is broadly popular with the american people. a brand-new cnn poll shows 61% of americans support it. the bill is expected to reshape the u.s. economy in a lot of ways. president biden will tout it in his first primetime address. that is tomorrow night. lets begin with our lauren fox who joinsous capitol hill. whats the timeline for the final vote? >> we expect the debate is just about to get under way in the house of representatives. then we ...

Called. >> but the six members, if they say to you, ro, brother, i will vote for the build back better act as long as the cbo analysis is -- resembles what the white house says it is. you dont have to worry. will that be good enough for you? >> what does resemble mean? i dont think this is about the cbo. tremendous economists have looked at this. nobel laureates, jerod bernstein, everyone knows the bill is paid for. this is a values question. heres the basic issue. do you believe we ought to tax...

Corporate and the -- and the shareholdering sector, not people who depend on their paychecks. as 2017 comes to an end, that to me is the biggest betrayal of trumps first year in office. the betrayal of the working people who helped put him where he is today based on a false premise that he was going to help them. >> that was the biggest story in your opinion of 2017, jerod bernstein. what in your opinion is the most underreported story? what did we miss? >> i think weve missed this quiet attack ...

Taken never to have been over 50% on a single day, including his inauguration day. hes never had majority support. you can cite, as he did, the rasmussen poll all you want to, but the polling averages are better and you were correct to say the polling average is at 38%, not 46%. so i think republicans should be concerned for that reason and quite a number of others. >> jerod, lets talk about taxes and that "new york times" interview that the president did there at mar-a-lago. he said in part, qu...

Congress that the trump administration has been gutting ever since they dot got into to. >> larry, biggest story of 2017 and then the most underreported story. >> the biggest story has to be the inauguration of donald trump and his presidency. i suppose thats always true when you have the inauguration of a new president, but never have we had a new president so unpopular, so controversial, so completely unusual. and ill leave it at that. the underreported story, actually, i was going to cite wha...

Its the biggest economy in the world, and its not as transparent as it needs to be, which means it is easy to overshoot in terms of hopes and also overshoot in terms of fears. >> lets listen to more of china expert donald trump with bill oreilly tonight. >> our government should have stopped china from devaluing. >> they cant! >> they never even bring them up. of course they can. >> how? >> you know how they can? >> yeah. >> they put a tariff on chinese goods. you know, china -- >> then youve go...

One iota. if theres any fault at all, its that china is growing so fast. its the biggest economy in the world, and its not as transparent as it she hneeds to which means it is easy to overshoot in terms of hopes and also overshoot in terms of fears. >> lets listen to more of china expert donald trump with bill oreilly tonight. >> our government should have stopped china from devaluing. >> they cant! >> they never even bring them up. of course they can. >> how? >> you know how they can? >> yeah. ...

That paul ryan decided to introduce a new budget. he tweeted, so paul ryan plays charlie brown to the medias lucy by providing yet another comprehensive budget for dems to savage. joining me now, jerod bernstein, an msnbc analyst. jerod, here you have republicans no longer so sure they should run on a repeal obama care platform and now the democrats suddenly have a document they do want to use in their campaigns, and that is the paul ryan budget. >> exactly. you had a good discussion earlier abo...

Know, couldnt identify they were going to give to congress. the only difference is this is a more extreme budget. this is the romney ryan budget we saw last november, but it is on steroids. he wants to get rid of obama care. he wants to get rid of dodd-frank. he wants to get rid of more of the spending programs that the middle class and lower middle class and poor depend on. this it is designed for coherence or logic or even arithmetic. this is designed primarily to move the goalposts further to...