they were debating on president biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. the package is expected to pass handing the legislature its most legislative win. it is broadly popular with the american people. look at these new numbers from our latest poll. 61% of americans support this. president biden will begin touting the win during his prime time address, his first one to the nation. that's tomorrow night. this as the white house prepares to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the johnson & johnson covid vaccine. >> chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, yet one more republican delay here now, another one of these votes to adjourn. is that the last one? when is the actual vote going to happen? >> yeah, there could be more. we expected this vote to take place around noon eastern, but it's now being delayed because of marjorie taylor greene, the freshman republican from georgia, who has made a motion to adjourn the chamber. this is actually the fourth time she has done that in recent days. in talking to republican members of the house, i can tell you patience is wearing thin over that particular tactic. but, nevertheless, one member can do that to delay the process here, and that's exactly what she is doing. what's interesting, actually, on this actual procedural vote where more than two dozen republicans have voted against her, showing the signs of frustration within her own caucus. nevertheless, she can't delay the inevitable which is passage of this bill. we do expect it to pass sometime this afternoon. we do expect virtually all democrats to support it. perhaps one could vote against it. jared golden of maine voted against it last time, but one democrat voted against the first version of the bill. he says he does intend to support this plan, so democrats can be confident this bill passes. they can't afford to lose more than four votes on their side of the aisle, assuming all members are present and voting, and we do expect all republicans to vote against this plan. despite what the polls say, they argue that this plan is unwieldy, too big, and unfocused and unneeded at this time. and the party is united in opposition on this particular proposal. this party line vote on this sweeping measure expected to happen this afternoon, and then we'll see how quickly it can get to the president's desk. maybe today, maybe a few more days, because sometimes it takes some time for that paperwork to get over to the white house, guys. >> manu, thank you for the update. we're keeping a close eye on the house floor. the white house will also announce these plans to buy another 100 million of doses of vaccine from johnson & johnson. >> cnn's white house correspondent john harwood joins us from washington. john, this purchase, will it help boost supply nationally? that's the real issue now. a lot of demand getting shots in people's arms. >> reporter: well, it will boost supply but not immediately. johnson & johnson has had some issues in ramping up their own production. that's why the administration brokered this deal with merck, a very powerful pharmaceutical manufacturer, to ramp up that production. they are saying they will have enough vaccines to vaccinate every adult, every american by the end of may. what that does is even if it comes in the end of the year, it builds up redundancy, the possibility that if health authorities decide they need a booster shot for johnson & johnson, that provides some additional supply for that, but also generates some momentum around this vaccination rollout. as the conditions improve with coronavirus, we've got the bill passage as you were just discussing with manu, and as poppy noted at the top of the segment, our new cnn poll shows 61% of americans support this covid relief bill, 60% support bind's handling of the pandemic, 51% give approval for his >>judgjob performance overall. that is underwhelming except with president trump who never hit 50%. if the covid situation improves as it's happening, if the economy improves as the white house predicts from passage of this bill, president biden is hoping that approval rating ticks up froto 61%. >> thank you, john. and thank you for being part of the program. >> thank you, and those are good numbers, just to be clear. >> i won't challenge those numbers. i'm sure you're aware the new cnn poll out today shows 73% of republicans here, not the public, but republicans favor the larger tax credits in the stimulus bill. 55% of republicans favor money to return to the classroom. 55% again of republicans favor sending out stimulus checks. i just wonder, given that public support there, why not a single republican vote for this stimulus bill? >> well, you know, this is basically a liberal wish list and the republicans i talked to in wyoming this past weekend are very disturbed that we're adding $1.9 trillion to the debt. i think the more people hear about what's actually in this, and that only 9% fortof the mono to coronavirus relief, i think the less popular this is going to be as time goes on. >> you know that 9% figure, senator, is misleading, right, because a large portion of it goes to relief for the economic consequences, right, of the pandemic including the stimulus checks and other aid. so 9% doesn't reflect exactly the portion of this bill that is going to the economic consequences of the pandemic. >> well, don't forget, so much of this money even for education doesn't even start going out until long after the pandemic is gone. it doesn't start going out until 2022. it didn't have to be this way. we've had five bipartisan coronavirus bills passed, signed into law. ten republicans went to the white house to visit with president biden, and basically his staff kept shaking their head no, and this has gone in straight party lines, which is regrettable. you want to find ways to work together with a new president coming in to office. we don't have this now, and it's a result of the way this has been done. we want to help people truly get back to work and kids get back to school and put the disease behind us. we have a wonderful vaccine. there is a better way to do this. >> let me ask you about the deficit, because you bring up the cost of this. that is, right, $1.9 trillion, but it's notable that the trump and republican tax cuts passed again through reconciliation in 2017, but by the estimates, both the nonpartisan committee for federal budget but also the cbo, they added exactly the same amount or in the same range to the deficit. so why the willingness to add to the deficit for tax cuts but not for economic relief? >> well, you know that revenue actually went up as a result of the tax cuts and the regulatory relief we've had under republicans and under president trump, but spending actually went up -- >> not in terms of how much is determined for the deficit. >> income went up by about 3%, spending went up by 7%. we have a big spending problem in this country. a lot of washington wasteful spending that we need to get under control, and both parties have not been able to do that to the degree that's necessary in the long-term best interests of our country. >> let me ask you about infrastructure, if i can, because that's next up on the biden agenda. this is one of those issues that under trump, too, right, that both parties talk about supporting money going to infrastructure. is there a figure, a plan that you believe biden could get votes? >> i represent the public works committee. we came out with a highway bill passed unanimously from the committee. i voted for it, bernie sanders voted for it. we sent it to the house. the house ignored it and they said, no, we're going to do the green new deal instead. so part is the price, but the other are the priorities and what goes into the policy. so i think you have a really willing group of people who want to work together in a bipartisan way. but i have to tell you, jim, it doesn't help bipartisanship when chuck schumer goes on anderson cooper as he did last night and attacks the most bipartisan member of the u.s. senate, who is susan collins, attacked her by name, and essentially said she was responsible for five years of a recession under president obama. that's not a way to work together with people or find common ground solutions. i hope president biden speaks out and opposes what chuck schumer has said about susan collins. she's a spine of steel, she's a hard worker, she's not going to be bullied or bribed by chuck schumer, and that doesn't work in the way he does politics in his own caucus. >> to be fair, as we're sitting here waiting for a vote on stimulus, there is another republican motion to adjourn, right, to delay the final vote when the votes are there. i think you could say that the failure for bipartisanship, both parties probably share some of that blame. but i do want to ask you about the party itself because you're a member of gop leadership. as you know, trump is now demanding that campaign donations go to his pac, political action committee, over the rnc, and there is even a battle between trump and the rnc over whether the rnc could use his name to fund-raise. i just want to know is that good from your perch for the republican party? >> the thing that's really uniting the republican party right now is the biden administration and biden policies. what we see happening at the border is uniting republicans. what biden has done with his executive orders in terms of energy and jobs and the economy. the fact that gasoline prices are up 60 cents a gallon. those are the things that are going to continue to unite republicans as we focus on the 2022 elections which i think is going to be a very good year for republicans. >> i noted you did not say that president trump is uniting the republican party. is he uniting or dividing it? >> he is a very influential member of the party. nobody can get the crowd on their feet like president trump can and will continue to do. i'm saying the single uniting factor is our opposition to the sort of the things that joe biden is doing with spending, with the crisis at the border. i know his administration doesn't want to call it that, but that's exactly what is going on there. and the jobs that are being lost in american energy as well as our influence in the world by his executive orders and the target that he has painted on the back of energy. >> i get the turn there, and let's be frank. biden's policy against voting for stimulus, he's primarying a number of republicans who voted against him, voted to impeach. does that unite the republican party? >> we're going to be united in 2022. we're going to continue to work together and continue to stop these policies that all of us believe are bad for the country. >> senator john barrasso, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, jim. still to come this hour, a republican governor has rebuked a republican-led effort to lift a statewideman date, slamming the move as ridiculous. why the big rush? he's going to join us just ahead. also, dr. fauci says new cdc guidance for fully vaccinated people is imminent. that could include new travel guidelines. and children of undocumented immigrants suffering as too many families are afraid to raise their hand for help. now a new immigrant in this country is doing all she can to help her hungry neighbors. in aurora. 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they're vaccinated, i'm vaccinated, my wife and children are not. but if you look at the cdc guidelines, we could get together. they're well protected against getting sick. they're older. that's them waiting in line for their vaccines. they were number 288 and 289 with the number of vaccines. they waited all night to get them. the big question is should they fly to see us? right now the recommendation, whether you're vaccinated or not, it doesn't matter, they're really recommending against non-essential travel. despite the fact the numbers are coming down, they're still pretty high in terms of people who are newly infected, and the concern is that if people are traveling and things like that, you could add to the overall viral spread. having said that, and i talked to a lot of people, i think within the next couple of weeks, i think we probably will see a loosening of guidelines and recommendations on airline travel as well. there haven't been big outbreaks related to airline travel. i think they'll take that into consideration along with the fact that more and more people are getting vaccinated. >> there is new research out this morning that says the b.117 variant, the one discovered in the u.k., does appear to be more deadly than we thought. on the flip side, the vaccines do pretty well against it. tell us what the bottom line is. >> i think that is really the bottom line. first of all, it was hard to say for certain that this virus is more deadly than another virus unless you follow people for long periods of time in large populations of people. with this study, they basically followed 100,000 people. 50,000 of them had the more wild type or the circulating coronavirus that we know, and 50%, roughly 50,000, had the variant. and what they found was that in the group that had the variant, the mortality rate was higher versus those with the other coronavirus. it's hard to know, to really make a lot of sense out of that, but the bottom line is that we do know these vaccines have been very good at preventing hospitalizations and deaths regardless of whether it's the u.k. -- so-called u.k. variant or the wild type. >> sanjay, you know, you've got the one-year mark coming right up for this pandemic. dr. fauci was on cnn earlier today. he said clearly we're not out of the woods yet, and he's a little anxious about the plateau we're seeing. when can that anxiety for all of us pass about another surge? >> it's a really great and interesting question. i've talked to so many people about this. for the last year, we have talked about everything from the lens of mitigation. basically this idea that we want to just try to slow things down and keep up as much as we can, flatten the curve, slow things down. there is a phase before mitigation which is called containment, and these terms are going to sound familiar, but we haven't said them in a long time, but test. trace. isolate. all those sorts of things. people aren't doing as much testing because everyone is waiting in line for the vaccines these days. >> right. >> but here's the point. when you get to 150, roughly, in this country, that would be 35 people a day, a public health system will feel like we've got this contained, we can get our hands around this, we can find the newly diagnosed people, we can isolate them, we can trace their contacts and eventually we stamp this thing out. we're not there yet, but i am optimistic. it's been a tough year, but i am optimistic we could get there over the summer and get the numbers really low. >> goodness, just to talk about that prospect, it's like a weight being lifted from your shoulders. dr. sanjay gupta, thanks very much. >> you got it. thank you. well, as texas becomes the latest state to lift its mask mandate, one republican governor is asking, what's the big rush? 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>> well, jim, my feelings are just this. you know, i really, truly do think i'm surrounded by a medical team that's terrific. you know, from the standpoint of getting in a great big hurry -- i can't stand these masks, either, and i'd love to just get rid of them, but at the same time, i think the prudent thing for us in west virginia, if we don't watch out, the old adage, one robin doesn't make spring and the next thing you know, you have a winter storm on your hands. i think we've been doing the right thing. we've been right in west virginia all along. we've led the way in nursing homes, on vaccines, we've led the nation over and over and over, and i think this is, right now, from the standpoint of opening, we've, for all practical purposes, we're open 100%, but we still really think we should wear a mask and be cautious about the number in our gatherings and so on. >> do you think that some republicans underestimate people's willingness just to stick with masks a bit longer? we talked to a business owner in texas a short time ago who says he's happy to reopen fully, but his customers actually want to keep the mafsks on because they actually feel more comfortable coming in. >> i don't want to make a gigantic issue out of this. i'm having a little bit of a hard time hearing you, jim, but with all that, my feelings are just what they've been. i'm not going to be a politician. i'm going to just tell you what i think, and what i think is that, you know, our medical team and west virginia led the way with this, i don't think we ought to be in public buildings and everything today without our mask on, but i'm very, very hopeful with what's going on with the vaccinations and everything that we'll be able to get rid of that really soon. but by really soon, i mean probably 30 days, 45 days if things continue to go well. >> wow. let's hope so. i want to talk about stimulus. you have said, including on this broadcast a couple weeks ago, that we should go big or don't go at all in terms of stimulus. you saw that all republicans have voted against, both in the house and the senate. do you think they got the politics right here? there is broad public support even among republicans for a lot of elements of this plan. >> jim, again, i'm a business guy. i don't want to be a politician. and what goes on in washington is despicable in lots of different ways, because our people are really hurting. now, if you look at anything -- from the standpoint of do i think we should bail out pensions? no. do i think we should put all kind of money -- covid money into pet projects? no. absolutely i don't. but at the same time, i really truly know this, because i've done this so many times in the business world. if you budget x number of dollars, it always costs more. we've got a lot of people out there that are hurting, a lot of individuals, a lot of businesses and everything, and it's our chance, our chance right now to right-side this economy and let it explode, explode to the future. and so with all that being said, you know, i'm a real believer that you either go big or don't go. >> joe manchin, of course, one of your colleagues, a west virginia democrat, you've been critical of him particularly on this covid package. of course, it was his vote that delayed it, at least from the democratic side, reining in some of the continued unemployment benefits. you said he's selling his influence in congress. that's a serious allegation. i wonder what you're basing that on. >> well, jim, here's just all there is to it, you know. joe wants to be in control of too many things. i know joe very, very well. and, you know, in this situation of what's going on in west virginia today, i mean, just to tell it like it is, joe was unhappy with some things that i did right off the get-go in my administration on the first go-round. he has absolutely tried in every way in the world to defeat me in the last election, and i won every single county in the state of west virginia, and all this is is just a hit back. hitting back when you put in things in regard to the tax situation and all that in the stimulus package, it's just a hit back. it's childishness. joe needs to grow up and get by that. for god's sakes, he's hurting his own people in the state of west virginia. that's just all there is to it. the only reason that this language is in there about, you know, you can't do this and that in regard to getting rid of taxes is joe manchin. and with all that, i just do not -- i do not condone it, i do not go along with it, it is absolute childishness and a continuation to try to just hit back at me. in all honesty, he's sending stuff to all the democrats in the house and the senate here, and he's taking claim that this was his doing. at the end of the day, all this is going to do is hurt west vi virginians. i don't think he ought to be doing that. >> we'll reach out to senator manchin and get his response. west virginia governor jim justice, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, jim. appreciate you. >> that was quite an interview. hopefully joe manchin will come on the show and talk to you about it. >> we're going to ask him for sure. you've seen the lines, you've heard the stories, and for some of you, you're lifving this nightmare right now. food insecurity among immigrant communities. and now pandemic positives are surging right now. that's next. how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? 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>> pizza. >> six-year-old six-year-oldal says her favorite food is pizza. >> did your children ever go hungry during the pandemic? >> translator: yes, sometimes. >> she worked cleaning bathrooms at a department store until it closed. >> translator: i worked in a whole center where they put the trash and the bathrooms. >> she told us she came to the united states from guatemala when she was 16 years old. she came alone looking for work, her parents unable to support their family. >> translator: i worked in the fields in tobacco, picking apples or pears and the tomato factory, too. >> she's been in the united states 15 years. now she volunteers at this food bank. but she also relies on it for seiur survival. >> translator: i heard she helped people with food. now that i've moved here, i can help her. >> she and her partner are giving food to hungry neighbors. when she came to the u.s. just over a year ago seeking asylum, she could barely get by. >> translator: when i came here to the united states, i was starting at zero. i didn't have the economic support to buy diapers, formula, i didn't know how to feed my kids. >> she fled peru, she says, after severe violence from a family member. is it a better life here? it's okay. what is bringing the tears? >> translator: because it's hard. a lot of things happen in my country. it's hard to be here, to be an immigrant, to be a single mom. but i don't regret it because i can live well with dignity and happiness. >> you live with dignity now. >> translator: yes. >> what she didn't know was how hard life would be for her and her children, 7-year-old diego and one-year-old maya. >> i walked more than two hours to go to the food pantry to get diapers, food. >> that need resurfaced when the pandemic hit and her hours working at a fast food restaurant were cut. once again she had to rely on food banks. out of her need grew an idea that would become a source of support, she says, for nearly 1,000 mostly undocumented immigrants in hartford, connecticut, many of them children. in her own living room, she started the people's little market, supported by donations and now run from this basement below a mattress store. >> the families are coming with three or four kids, some of them have seven or eight kids. you might see a lot of this, but here in one day can go out. >> in a day. >> in a day. >> it's cold and damp, no extra money to pay for heat. did you ever think it would come to this? >> translator: no, never. that's why i like to spend time here so i can see everything i achieve. >> i remember turning to her one time and saying, when i grow up, i want to help people, too. >> he serves primarily undocumented families, too scared to ask for help. >> they were threatening them. >> threatening them with what? >> if you don't pay the rent, i'll call immigration on you. >> translator: many don't have anything to eat. when ingmar and i visit them, it's already been three or four days they haven't eaten. they're afraid to ask for help from the government or to receive it from other places, that they wouldn't get their papers. >> she is speaking about a trump era rule that makes it harder for people to change their immigration status if they have access to public benefits, including food assistance. president biden has ordered his administration to review the rule, and that leaves so many of these families leaning on each other to make it through each day in a pandemic that is already disproportionately hitting this community. what do you say to people who are critical of you helping undocumented immigrants, people who are not legally in this country? >> translator: i would just tell them to check their heart and see that we only come here to work and not hurt anybody, and that we do it for our children's future. she helps me too much. she's a great person. she's a good person. and we need more. >> helped by a stranger and now helping strangers. a community living largely in the shadows and relying on each other. >> we have a dream, and we want la bodeguita to be in every single city in connecticut. >> for this i used to walk hours. but that's how it is. >> and, jim, the hartford mayor's office in connecticut where they're doing all this says they're actually going to partner with them to help reach this community with vaccines in the middle of covid, so it's amazing to see, they came with nothing and what they're doing for all their neighbors. >> yeah, and listen, it's great to put a spotlight because these are the kind of folks who don't often get their story out there and they're the ones suffering the most. appreciate you doing that. i'm sure folks at home do, too. the other story we're following, the duchess of sussex is pushing back against comments that the british broadcaster piers morgan made about her mental health, doubting her story. she's now filed a formal complaint. we'll have new details ahead. allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst psst you're good if you have risk factors like heart disease, diabetes and raised triglycerides,... ...vascepa can give you something to celebrate. ♪ vascepa, when added to your statin,... ...is clinically proven to provide 25% lower risk from heart attack and stroke. vascepa is clearly different. first and only fda approved. celebrate less risk. even for those with family history. ♪ don't take vascepa if you are... ...or become allergic to icosapent ethyl or any inactive ingredient in vascepa. serious side effects may occur like heart rhythm problems and bleeding. heart rhythm problems may occur in more people... ...with persistent cardiovascular risk or who have had them in the past. tell your doctor if you experience an irregular heartbeat or other heart rhythm problems. possible side effects include muscle and joint pain. celebrate less risk. added cardio protection. talk to your doctor about adding protection with vascepa. at jackson hewitt, we offer safe and easy ways to file with a skilled tax pro. securely drop off your documents, have them picked up, or upload them, and work with a tax pro online from home. safe and easy ways to file that work around you. our clients come to us with complicated situations that occur in their lives. for them it's the biggest milestone, the biggest accomplishment, the sale of a business, or an important event for their family. for them, it's the first and only time. we have seen this literally thousands of times, in thousands of iterations. ♪ ♪ i am vince lumia, head of field management at morgan stanley. whether that's retirement, paying for their children's college education, or their son or daughter getting married, our financial advisors need to make sure that they are making objective decisions, every step along the way. every time you hit a milestone, an anniversary, a life event, the emotions will run high. making sure that you have somebody, a team of individuals that have seen it before, have seen every circumstance and seen every challenge, and have your back when you need it most, is one of the most valuable things a financial advisor could provide to a family. i am vince lumia and we are morgan stanley. this morning the duchess of sussex has made a formal complaint to british broadcaster itv over piers morgan's comments about her mental health. morgan lashed out at meghan following that stunning interview with oprah winfrey. >> cnn's max foster and hannah join us. piers basically said he doesn't believe her mental state about this. what's been her response? >> reporter: well, as you say, he basically said he doesn't believe a word she says. specifically he talked about mental health as part of that after a use us showing of the interview. he said this on his monday morning show and then he walked out of his show on tuesday, and then he ends up resigning because of a discussion he had with the ceo of itv. i don't think he was fully aware of the meghan complaints at that point. he was aware, however, of the tens of thousands of complaints to offcomm which is the broadcast regulator in the u.k., so the audience had a lot of issue with what he's said. we since learned that meghan made a complaint as well directly to itv, not about the personal attacks which have been there for some time from piers to meghan, but his concern about the way he doesn't believe her mental crisis story. if other people start seeing that, she's concerned they won't come forward and discuss their own mental health issues. so she sees it as a broad concern, really, about the mental health crisis in the world, as she would see it. that was the basis of the complaint. >> anna, you do have this statement now from buckingham palace reacting, particularly the queen, to the charges of racism that were brought up in the interview with oprah. tell people what their statement said and what you make of it. >> yes, we finally got this statement last night, poppy, and specifically from her majesty the queen. so it comes right from the top. it's succinct, it's a short three paragraphs. it says, the family is saddened to learn the full extent of how the past three years have been for harry and meghan. while some recollections vary, they will be taken very seriously and addressed by the family privately. harry, meghan and archie will always be much-loved family members. right from the top, they said they're learning of the challenges they faced, that they weren't fully aware. recollections may vary. it suggests that the accounts meghan and harry may have given them are not accurate, but it doesn't specify which. they made it very clear they want this interaction to be held privately. they said this is a family matter, that is how it should be dealt, and they suggested it should have been dealt in a private conversation originally, so a bit of a rebuke. that is not, though, in the official statement. where this goes from here, will people feel the statement is enough to sort of stem some of the outrage we've seen against the royal family not just here in the u.k. but across the world. if anybody is expecting an apology, they will be disap disappointed. this is more of an acknowledgment, i would say. >> max, this is truly deeply personal for harry, right, given his mother's treatment by the media there but also her own struggle with mental health issues? i wonder how that has factored into this. >> reporter: it's deeply relevant. harry was just 12 years old when his mother died, and he's utterly scarred by it, and he blames the tabloid press for her death, not just the tabloids but the english editors who were going to buy those photos of his mother dying in a car crash in paris. it's really, really deep-seated. there are also the conspiracy theories diana had about palace aides effectively working against her, and he thinks now that's being confirmed through what meghan experienced, and he's trying to protect meghan from going through what diana went through. it seems the palace hasn't learned from his point of view. >> a lot of pain there for them. thank you, max, thank you, anna. good to have you. thank you to all of you for joining us today. we'll see you back here tomorrow morning. i'm poppy harlow. >> and c"cnn newsroom" begins right after the break. hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thank you for joining us. at this hour we're following two stories. at any moment we're going to get a response from president biden's covid response team. it's getting pushback on cdc guidance on what america should or shouldn't do. we'll bring you the briefing as soon as it begins. the cdc director is appearing to acknowledge some of this criticism in an opinion piece published just moments ago. in the op-ed it says, quote, cdc guidance will evolve as covera