not just when it comes tos it price tag but ambition and impacts. democrats are united in their support. >> this is the most significant legislation for working people that has been passed in decades. tremendous piece of legislation. it will create a lot of employment all across the country. >> getting both senator sandgren and manchin, the two poles of the democratic party on board is no easy feat. but they are united. >> socialist wish list. >> a left of lenin. >> this is a left wing giveaway. >> no republican getting behind the bill, not a single one. 62% of voters support it. no surprise given it includes the biggest stimulus checks so far during covid. phil, president biden is now getting ready to sell this bill to the american people in a big way, and doing kind of a blitz the likes of which we have not seen from him. >> yeah. that is exactly right. there is a recognition while the popularity ratings for the bill remained stable over the course of the president's first 49 kay days of office, they need to keep pushing. the expectation is that the house will pass the bill tomorrow and after that he will hit the road. president obama passing a $787 billion stimulus back then. that will be the purpose of president biden and his team. there is a recognition that the bill is very, very popular. $1,400 checks. treasury department and irs are working together to get the checks out as fast as possible. i am told the timeline that the checks should get out the door, particularly to individuals that have their bank account information on file with the treasury department and the irs over the course of the next couple of weeks. president biden's name will not be on them. president biden, according to his press secretary, it wasn't a priority for him. while he wanted his name on a big fat stimulus check, president biden wants to get them out the door. >> i want to go to katie porter of california. looks like democrats are united in support of the bill. do you know of any, of a single republican in the house that will support it? >> at this time, i do not know of any. but i certainly hope that they will. i think the right way to think about that is that we historically had bipartisan agreement about providing disaster relief. that has been one of the most bipartisan aspects. covid-19. the pandemic has been a disaster. the america rescue plan is disaster relief. i hope we will see republicans stepping up to support it. >> it is the biggest stimulus package related to covid that we had so far. some argue the package is too big for the time. you know the former treasure secretary, larry summers wrote the bill could set off inflationary pressures of the kind we have not seen in a generation with consequences for the value of the dollar. it is five to six times it needs to be to replace lost income from covid. do you have any concern the bill could be damage to america's future, even if it feels good right now? >> listen he is opposing something that every democratic member of congress has supported. second here is the cost of inaction. we have people of color and women of color who exited the workforce and are unable to return. our state and our local governments need help balancing their budgets. there is a real danger here of going to small out of not doing enough. when you look at what we have done here in the united states. given how severe our covid-19 outbreak has been. >> let me ask to this point of the timing. when the first upon stimulus checks went out in 2000, unemployment was 14.7% now it is 6.2%. the savings rate has surged. yet these are the biggest checks of any stimulus thus far. so, just so we understand, why now do they need to be the biggest when unemployment has plunged? >> some of the remaining un. the is instructal and it will be difficult to meet. people who can work remotely and get a laptop. what is remaining is people that are going to have a difficult time returning to their jobs because of the type of work they are in or because of their life circumstances. by the way, while it may be true about the unemployment figure, there are other parts of the economy in even worse shape. our city-states, cities, counties stretched their budgets to the breaking point, and they desperately need the funding or they are going to face making massive layoffs that could double or triple their unemployment rates quickly. you happen to be a single mother. you were outspoken about how the bill penalizes single parents because those that make as much as married parents may not qualify for the same child tax credits. tell me how it could happen. why this is not fair across the board? >> well, our country had a long-standing tradition of kind of lining up different types of families. single people. people who file head of household, very often single parents and married couples and giving them different types of tax relief. when we focus on the child tax credit it should be on the child, not on the parent's marital status. we want every child in the country to have adequate nutritious food and to have safe housing and to have been able to get quality child care. so, to do that we need to give the same child tax benefit regardless of the parent's marriage status. until i raised the issue a lot of people had not thought about. >> i don't think they had and i think it is important you are pointing it out. it has a simple solution. focus on the child opposed to the parent's marital status. thank you very much. i appreciate the time. >> thank you. >> i want to go now to michael smerconish. in that you take calls from people. you talk to voters. obviously this bill is extremely popular, right. it has the biggest checks of all of the bills so far. what does it mean? the g.o.p. is united in coming out -- >> erin, i think what they are making right now is -- the book spoke of voters willing to vote against their own economic interest in cases where there were cultural issues at play. the republican party in the last -- isn't this going to jeopardize the standing as we approach the election. i think the calculus is to say they don't run that risk. his take was this. smart people are out there. i think they need to learn what i started learning. more people will remember seuss than the covid plan. >> it is a great example of what i was making reference to. as to the economic argument, you heard because you rolled some of the sound there in your lead in. the argument you make is so much of this, in fact "the wall street journal" editorial board says that $825 billion of the stimulus is not related to covid at all. that is a part of what they are saying. it is a progressive grab bag. >> right. there are real questions. time will tell. as to sending out the biggest checks at this point in the crisis, that is not what you would expect. that is what is happening. let me ask you about one other thing. this is pertaining to the former president who passed two of these, right. election records show he has requested a mail-in ballot for a local election. trump, we all know how he feels about mail-in ballots. he said it would result in the greatest fraud and him really losing but he wouldn't lose and all of that business. he voted by mail before. here he is again, the irony. >> the interesting part about this, i think the palm beach rules specify that he is too late to return it by mail so he will have to entrust a third party with the delivery. erin, you know that there is a name that republicans use for that. ballot harvesting. he is on the side of ballot harvesting with regard to his own ballot being returned in palm beach. >> site of mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting. the site of all of those things that he was not before. thanks so much michael. >> thanks, erin. >> next, an influx of migrants at the southern border. more than 100,000 migrants arrested. what is biden's plan? 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he saw many children along the way begging or cleaning windows for money and says that not all of them will be lucky enough to make it. >> it is amaze to see what is happening right now, and let's just start with this disturbing reality. a record number of unaccompanied migrant children arrested at the border. they are there. what do you do with them or send them. what is the biden administration going to do about this? >> these are serious pressing questions. the biden administration, they are arguing that they are trying to implement a more humanitarian immigration policy compared to the trump administration. you had 25,000 migrants sitting in border towns, waiting for permission to enter the u.s. and title 42. to block a lot of people from entering the u.s. to seek asylum the administration says that it needs time to work through the problems and implement what they describe as a more humanitarian approach. many critics say that the administration is not acting fast enough. >> you talk about a record number of children. 100,000 people turned away. what is the most pressing issue they face right now? 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i know it is important for the fact finders to decide the contact. i think they give more preference to police officer. i think that is going to be the issue here. derek chauvin is on trial for killing george floyd. but if they do what they always do, they are going to try to put george floyd on trial and assassinate his character to try to distract from the fact that chauvin kept his knee on his neck for 8:46 and tortured him to death. >> you know, i saw you nodding a moment ago. it is ten months since you lost your brother. when you hear ben say this what he worries will be on trial is george floyd's character. how do you feel on day one? >> they are going to try to assassinate his character. when you have facts, facts bring out the truth. every day, anybody that has eyes, and a blind man that can hear, anything he heard in the video, they know it was wrong. somebody who was sworn to protect us, he killed my brother. he tortured him to death. he had a smirk on his face. and he had his knee on his neck. i had no idea that a human being could do something that was that hurtful. i am talking about the graphic content everybody had to view across america. we have to get a conviction. if you can get away with that in america, then you can get away with anything. because we need justice. because the things that my family are going through, nobody else will go through in life. we are torn and broken down right now. >> you admit history is not on your side in convicting a police officer for the death of a black man. why you need a fair jury that is also diverse. you have more to pick. you have three so far chosen. we appear to have two white men and a woman of color in her 30s. how do you feel about that? >> well, obviously we want a diverse jury and somebody that can respect the life, background and culture of george floyd. oftentimes they can't appreciate the culture of minorities. if the roles were reversed and george floyd would have done to derek chauvin what he did to george, nobody would say that it is a tough case. they are not being honest with themselves. we have to say that black lives matter and george floyd's life matters. when our reporter spoke to a man on the ground there, let me play it for you. >> i think history will repeat itself. you know, it is not just him. there have been riots and many other situations, not just george floyd. and it comes from a place of the being tired and fed up with the same outcome over and over again. >> while you are broken, you want peace. i know you are worried about how things might go in this trial. if they don't go your way, are you concerned about the hurt and the anger that so many people feel could lead to more unrest? >> i have confidence. right now, i have faith we will get justice and get a conviction. footage of that video, it tells you everything. it is nothing that you can see that the jurors won't see. people who are watching the video, if you do not think he is guilty by what he did, you have a problem. people out there, they seen it. you got to make the right decision. you have to put guilty. he killed that