derek chauvin. he faces second degree murder and manslaughter charges for kneeling on floyd's next for nearly 8 minutes. more demonstrations are expected today, demanding justice for george floyd so let's begin there in minneapolis, with omar jimenez, you were there for weeks and weeks following the killing of george floyd, the protests, all of it. tell us what we can expect in court today and the ruling, what the people who live there are saying to you? >> reporter: yeah, this is the beginning of a process that's been a long time coming, state of emergency back to, of course, the protests in may and over the summer in the wake of george floyd's death, you talk about the passion, you look no further behind me. this is outside the hennepin county government center, which is where the trial for derek chauvin, one of the former officers charged in this case will be taking place. right now at this point in the morning, they are beginning motions in that courtroom. while all of this plays on outside, this fencing, these barricades, they were not here prior to preparing, but the city and those in operation here felt that it was necessary keeping what happened in may in mind, but also keeping what happened in january in the u.s. capitol in mind feeling they did not want this location to be overrun by any similar set of emotions. so as far as we can expect in court, jury selection, the main part of today begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern time and goes until 6:00 a.m. as they try i to begin this process of whittling down to 12 jurors in this. as a reminder, derek chauvin is charged with second degree on intentional murder, second degree manslaughter and there is potential talk of bringing back in a third degree charge, third degree murder charges what judge peterka hill should be looking at according to an appeals court judge. he has pleaded not guilty to all of these charges. again today begins the process of what is a long-time coming in the case of george floyd. >> omar, thank you very much. obviously following this trial very, very closely. well, it is a crucial 24 hours in the push to provide economic relief to tens of millions of americans, the democratic-led house hopes to pass the senate's version of the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill perhaps on tuesday, that means the president can sign it before sunday when the hopped up unemployment benefits would have ended. >> cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox joins us from capitol hill. so democrats have kept to the schedule that they talked ability. right? they needed this done before march 14th, hitting each of us, although some delays, friday into saturday, which you were up late covering. based on what you know, will they get those checks out before march 14th? >> that is correct. there was a little heartburn on friday, senators, democrats, specifically were watching senator joe manchin. they had to negotiate something on that unemployment provision. yes, there are going to be a few procedural steps tonight and the goal from leadership is to have this final vote tomorrow and we have heard from clyburn and democrats including ro kanna saying they are going to be there. yes. they are frustrated the minimum wage wasn't included and the last minute frustration with senator joe manchin on the progressive side of things. overall, democrats feel this bill is a step in the right direction. not to mention the fact that it is joe biden's first big legislative push on capitol hill and there is no room for error here. there also is really a sense they want to give the president a big win, especially given the fact that not a single republican has voted for this proposal yet. we don't expect that to change tomorrow. but like you said, the goal is to have this signed by the president with days to spare before those unemployment benefits run out over the weekend. jim, poppy. >> certainly, it's the difficulty of governing with that 50-50 split. lauren fog on the hill, what are the real impacts, poppy, we call it a covid relief bill, but there is a lot of stuff in here that goes beyond the pandemic. >> right. that was a complaint of a number of republican who's voted against it, christine romans our chief correspondent knows more about it than we do and most anyone does. >> what i find that didn't get rejection from a lot of republicans is how much this does to reduce poverty, namely child poverty. i think i read 93% of children in america get helped by this. >> this is really remarkable. this is a real anti-poverty piece of legislation here. in fact, that part of things, families will feel more than those stimulus checks. you are talking about payments every month for children 6 and under that $300 a month and for 7 and up, it will be $250 a month. it phases out the more money you make. but this is about getting money into the pockets of americans every month. not just when they file their taxes and it could be thousands and thousands of dollars. i looked at a family of two, for example, that earned less than $100,000 a year with a couple of kids, you add in the stimulus checks. you add in the child tax credit. we are talking almost $12,000 in relief for that working family and that's real money that's expected to get out the door pretty soon. now the treasury department is tasked. it has been tasked with getting the money to people regularly in terms of that child tax credit. that should start with monthly payments in july going through next year. but this is a really big deal, the child part of this there is also an extension of the bigger food stamps, snap benefits, through september. there is a bunch of other stuff that i think is important, the health insurance subsidies for the affordable care act. ways to get money to people right away so that struggling families can survive coronavirus, frankly. >> it fits the democrat's argument, right, that the best way to boost the economy is to help the lower end of the income spectrum as opposed to the higher end, which is a focus on the tax relief in 2017, the numbers. >> it's a very different approaches when you think about that when you look at the child poverty curve, the chart of child poverty, what the coronavirus has done to that. there was no bend in that curve because of tax cuts for corporations for 2017. there is a forecast to abandon that curve because of these direct families to families. >> will they make them permanent like the democrats want to do? >> that's the democrat hope. >> thank you very much. millions of americans are struggling. we talked about it to stay afloat financially. trouble in the fight against the pandemic at this stage as well, cases have pretty much stopped the climbing. infection numbers plateau at high levels, the u.s. averaging 60,000 cases a day in the last week. >> plus even amid those concerns, there is a whole bunch of reasons to be optimistic. one is the acceleration in the rate of vaccinations per day, now averaging more than 2 million per day. dr. anthony fauci says fully vaccinated americans should receive guidelines so what they can and can't do in the coming days. that been a big question. let's bring in brown university physician. you look at these numbers, you say lives and statistics, i wonder, did you share the concerns about plateauing rates there in terms of new infections and how do you balance that out against accelerating rate of vaccination? >> yeah. i do think that we're in a tug-of-war right now between two things. one is those novel variants. we're seeing the rate of infections with that b-117 variant identified in the uk is skyrocketing across the country. on the other hand, we have this rapidly expanding vaccination program. i saw data 65% of folks age 75-plus, those at highest risk of hospitalization or death has been vaccinated. that is great news. we're in this tug-of-war between the two of them. it's not clear which is going to win out. let me remind you that daily infections, hospitalizations and deaths is similar to what we were seeing in the summer last year when we were all horrified by the levels of infection in a surge. so this was better. that's something to celebrate. >> why do you think we don't, doctor, yet have guidance from the cdc on what people can do when they're vaccinated. i ask not to be critical, because so many are wondering and we knew we'd get to this point. right? >> we did. once again in this pandemic, we are trying to provide guidance before the data is fully present and so my bet is that there is a tension within the cdc about stating what we think we know versus anything definitive. the science strongly supports, once you are vaccinated, the chance of you getting sick and catching and transmitting the virus to someone else is infinitesimally low. which means once you are vaccinated, you can hang around other people and not worry you will get them sick. it's not 100%. the cdc likes to live in that realm. we need that excitement to encourage people to get the shot in the artillery and to hold on a little longer until they're there. >> how do you rate the biden administration's management of the vaccine rollout? they have been doing things like opening up more mass vaccination centers in sports stadiums, et cetera. that's made a bit of a difference. i wonder what are they doing right? what do they still need to do better? >> so i give them about an eight out of ten. i also ask compared to what? but if you look at israel and what they have done, where they've taken mobile vans and literally gone neighborhood to neighborhood. israel gets a 9.5 out of 10. the u.s. right now is about an 8. what we have done great is the biden administration has gotten us the data on how many vaccines are there. has worked hard to increase our supplies and support states and municipalities in the logistics in that last mile. where we are still struggling is around equity. data shows black and brown americans are vaccinated half the rate of white americans. that's just not acceptable. >> but yesterday we did get news, i totally agree it's unacceptable. we see it getting better every day with these numbers. but the fact that 2.9 million americans were vaccinated in a single day. it's great, right? >> it is amazing. and that's when i say compared to what? praising the biden administration compared to where before they took over. we're in a ten out of ten. what they've created in the last month-and-a-half is nothing short of remarkable. where we are, we have vaccinated. we are in the top percent of the world for vaccinations. it's terrific. this is the end of the tunnel in sight as more and more people get vaccines in arms. >> well, it's nice to hear some good news. thanks so much. and, to our discussion, we just got word that the cdc will release vaccinations at an 11:00 a.m. briefing. these are answers folks want answered. we will keep you updated. shocking revelations in a remarkable interview. meghan markle says at one point she contemplated suicide due to a deep depression when she and harry lived in the uk. remember the royal family asked how dark, this is amazing to hear, their unborn child's skin would be. details on that conversation next. plus, with a razor thin victory on his coronavirus stimulus bill, president biden's legislative agenda faces real challenges going forward. what is the path forward? 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>> potentially and what that would mean or look like. >> wow, oprah was stunned. i think everyone was stunned hearing that. there are major questions, who brought it up multiple times. why? listen to this. >> you did not share the identity with me, but he wanted to make sure that i knew and if i had an opportunity to share it that it was not his grandmother nor his grandfather that were a part of those conversations. >> let's bring in our royal correspondent max foster, also cnn anchor and commentator kate williams. you have covered the royal family for a very long time. herry has vowed not to share who brought up concerns about baby archie's skin color. but just the fact that there is, according to both of them, this ongoing blatant racism not only in the uk tabloid press but in the family. your thoughts this morning. >> emwith, you know, we've heard a lot about the attacks in the tabloid media. then we've heard a bit how meghan and harry felt they were left undefended by the palace. there is on a completely different level, accusing the palace of racism, accusing the family of racism as well. so it's a major charge to be leveled against the royal family. we haven't had a statement from the palace today. i imagine trying to get all the information in this interview together and trying to pull together some sort of response, it's very difficult to imagine how they can disagree or challenge what meghan has said. it's her experience. she is convinced there was racism linked with these decisions. i think they will pull her up on whether or not archie was entitled to a title, was entitled to a security. but those things are by the by. it's about this idea she feels as a diverse member of the senior royal family ranks that she was discriminated against. >> you know, kate, one striking thing beyond that was the effect of these rifts on very personal relationships for the prince. he says he is now speaking to his father again, prince charles, but that he says openly that there is a lot of repair that needs to be done. when he was asked to describe his relationship with his brother william, space is the word that he used. these are deep rifts, it appears. >> reporter: it's the grandmother, the queen, but really when it comes to charles and william, he was felt let down by charles, that when harry and meghan were trying to find their next step, charles stopped taking my calls. that's really, you know, that's a big thing to put off your child, new clips, one went into -- he has something to apologize to, have family members apologized to you for what is going on and, clearly, it's a risk, it's particularly painful because harry left his mother, it's very clear that they set they did everything they could to stay in the royal family versus business and family. it was impossible by the abuse that meghan was suffering. >> max, the fact that meghan was so opened with her circle with deep suicidal thoughts and that harry weighed in on the mental health aspect is really important for so many people to hear who have the same struggles and are doing them and trying to get through it alone like they were. the fact that she alleges the palace refused to let her get medical help at a hospital anywhere is stunning. i know the palace hasn't replied yet. but can you speak to the significance of that claim? >>. >> reporter: i think they really do have a gt to reply on. meghan saying she went to a senior official. also someone in the hr department expressing how concerned she was about her mental health, genuinely concerned. shelves told by the hr department that are you not an employee, there is nothing i can do, i do sympathize with your case. this is a vulnerable woman that wasn't supported by the institution that she worked for. it's another major charge. i think there is an element of hypocrisy as well to it. the royal family campaigned for years on riding the world of this stigma that it has with mental health, trying to put it on the par with physical health. so it's a big problem. again, we need to hear the palace point of view on this. why didn't the hr follow up? it's a huge question here. >> kate, the royal family as you know has been through crises before. you think of the blowing up of the relationship between charles and diana, of course, losing diana. even more than recently allegations against prince andrew. i wonder, though, given the seriousness of the deeply personal criticism and almost abandonment that meghan and harry describe here. is this a turning point in terms of the royals in the uk? >> reporter: i think it's fair. i think the royal family don't have a job to increase sentiment here. certainly, we will talk about this and terrible alibi for this allegation against them. but they have done back things, but it's separate to the monarchy, yet, we have a situation now where really what meghan was talking about, there are lots of problems and confusion. people are not supported. meghan was not supported. within the royal family, this is more than one individual committing acts, these acts are criminal acts. this is more. this is a big situation and princess diana talks about her being blocked. meghan and harry are much more specific why they had to go and there was no choice and saying the royal family has more specific questions to answer. >> hats off to oprah for the way she interviewed them, asking them challenge questions and giving them space to come forward with their truth. it had to be hard to do. thank you very much. president biden is on the verge of beginning