president biden traveling to pennsylvania tomorrow as part of his administration's week-long tour to introduce americans to his nearly $2 trillion rescue plan saying his goal is to get 100 million vaccine doses in people's arms and 100 million relief checks in people's pockets. checks began arriving over the weekend. the president also announcing that gene sperling, a former top economic official in the clinton and obama administrations will oversee the massive spending in the new law. so joining me now, cnn white house correspondent, john harwood and senior political analyst, kirsten powers. so big promises, 100 million shots, 100 million checks in pockets. all in the next ten days. how will he get this done? that's a lot. >> well, the truth is those promises sound a lot bigger than they actually are. remember, joe biden came into the presidency promising 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days. that's the rate of a million a day. we were approaching when he came into office. with a very focused and determined effort, they have accelerated that significantly. we're now getting over 2 million a day. we had a 3 million dose day the other day. so when you start racking up those extra millions of doses per day, per week, you get the 100 million pretty fast. so they'll get there somewhere in the 60s in terms of days, instead of day 100. in terms of the checks, that is not all that difficult either in the sense that if the treasury department has your bank information, by virtue of your irs tax refunds, they can shoot that money out to you quickly and that's why people started seeing those 1,400 checks landing in their bank accounts over the weekend. i don't know how much effort it is to get to 100 million specifically but they can move a lot of money pretty fast. and this is a case of those are round numbers. joe biden is in fact delivering on things that he promised in the campaign. and no politician ever gets pun i shalled for setting goals that they know they can achieve or exceed and he's on track to do that. he will spend the next couple of weeks along with his top aides, crisscrossing the country, promoting the need to get vaccinations and promoting what is in this relief bill. he's going to pennsylvania tomorrow. jill biden is going to new hampshire and new jersey. joe biden will go to georgia later in the week. all swing states. he will try to make the case about child tax credits, boerk subsidies, aid to small businesses, all those businesses. today he announce that had gene sperling who was a senior economic official under both president clinton and president obama will oversee that effort. gene sperling is eminently familiar with all of these programs. so he's somebody who brings a lot of expertise to that task he is and promising to be as focused as joe biden was focusing on the oversight of the stimulus plan when obama was in office in 200nape. so he's off to a promising start and he has ten days to deliver on this set of goals that he's established. so a trim to the border in texas today. here's what he said about the situation. >> it's more than a crisis. this is a human heart break. the sad part about all of this, it didn't to have happen. all because the policies of our president has changed and told them something different. told them to risk their lives. and broke families apart. >> i mean, it's pretty rich for the republican leader to talk about the inhumanity of separating families at the border. how do you explain the outreach? >> well, i mean, this is i think what the republicans are very good at and i think that they think they're doing some sort of political jiu jitsu with this or something. somehow trying to turn this around. on democrats, pretending that they care about something that they have more than demonstrate they don't care about. this issue is far more complicated than is being presented. nobody wants to have families come into this country. nobody wants their children to come into this country and go through a very unsafe process unless they're absolutely desperate. and that is the point. it's not caused by the president of the united states. it doesn't matter who the president of the united states is. people come here. they come here because they're desperate. and they're trying to get a better life. so it is on us when they get here to treat them as humanely as possible. >> i want to get to the growing number of harassment allegations against governor cuomo of new york. new york democrats are now overwhelmingly calling for his resignation including schumer schumer. they say the investigation should play out. why is that? >> well, that was their position that they feel like they learned through al franken situation, a lot of people felt they pulled the trigger too fast. there was an investigation and there was a huge back lash from democratic voters. so their position is, have a real investigation. get to the bottom of it. find out what happened and don't make any premature decisions until you have all the facts. >> thank you. i bring in sarah murray with the latest on the growing assault on voting rights. thank you for joining. there are more than 250 bills in 43 states trying to make it harder to vote. governor abbott is the latest republican to join this effort. are not his plans based on lies about fraud? >> well, it was interesting, listening to governor abbott today. emthese bills, two dozen have been introduced by lawmakers in texas, are important so they build trust and confidence for constituents in their elections. he doesn't mention the reason people may not have trust and confidence in their elections is because republicans have been running around insisting there's widespread voter fraud when there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. even governor abbott wasn't able to come out in front of the cameras today and say there was widespread voter fraud. but that hand stopped republican lawmakers. and in texas, they're talking about early voting, to make it harder to get absentee ballots or return they will. a lot of this was pushback in houston when we saw the early voting places open 24 hours, drive-through polling sites and that kind of thing. >> you have some new reporting on what democrats are doing to push back against these measures in the republican led states. >> this is a big campaign. what they're doing is going national. a bunch of left leaning groups that have teams up together and citizens united. the nationalic redistricting committee, they're going to pour $30 million into 12 to 15 states where they're going on convince senators to get this bill that already passed the house of representatives, this sweeping election bill, and get it through the senate. the reason it is a challenge is this fight over what will happen with this election bill will cold h coalesce. the arguments the left leaning groups are making, this has to pass the senate no matter what. we don't care how you get there. we don't care if you have to make a procedural change to the rules to get around the filibuster. we want this to pass. >> we're hearing voting rights groups in georgia are calling to speak out against voter suppression. what are you hearing? >> no surprise georgia is one of these states where republican lawmakers in the state have pushed forward a number of measures to playing it more difficult for people to vote in that state west saw a lot of democratic wins that republicans were not too happy about. so voting rights groups are going after companies like coca-cola, home deep pot saying need to you speak out. you've said you support voting rights so it is time for to you speak out specifically against this legislation moving through the georgia legislature. >> always a pleasure. thank you so much. >> stacy abrams calling vote years pregs efforts jim crow in a suit and tie. is this just about the gop getting power any way they can? >> they've gotten so comfortable winning election after election in our state that they're not really running on policy or ideas anymore. they're just trying to keep the people who don't usually vote for them from voting at all. tonight i'll be eating a calzone from doughballs in aurora. 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>> they want power. most importantly, they want to subjugate the weak and vulnerable. specifically black people, specifically brown, specifically indigenous people and poor people. keep in mind, brother, the fundamental question. i know you deal with this. james bald win dealt with it. he raised the four questions at the very center of this grammy we won yesterday, the jazz alatn orchestra. how does integrity face oppression? how does honesty face deception? how does decency face insult? and how does courage face brute force. any time we talk about a white supremacy back lashering with don't want to be preoccupied. we have to get fortified with our honesty, decency and courage. you rebel that line in james bald win's letter to his nephew. don't, comma, be afraid. don't, come a, be afraid. dome get intimidated. straighten your back up. have spine. that's what our struggle is about. that's one of the reasons why louisiana is so important. they straighten their backs up. louie armstrong straightened his back up. your parents straightened their backs up. they walked with dignity. they didn't allow hatred to come at them in such a with a that they hated return. they loved the truces, beauty, goodness. and we love god. so when we talk about the white supremacist back lash, we don't want to be so preoccupied that we down play our own strengths. we don't want to look at ourselves through the white no normative gaze. dew see the points i'm making? >> yes. you don't have to be like them but you have what? >> you have to be strong. you have to be willing to fight. that's why we love stacey abrams. what is the name of her group? bear fight. she the people. empowerment. enablement. that's what we were talking about with the grammy triumph yesterday. to institutionalize and mortalize that attitude to the world so we never, ever become overcome by any kind of hatred or evil. but we get fortified, a real force for good. i'm not talking about polls and posturing. i'm not talking about acting as if you're good, self-righteousness, i'm talking about serving folk, being willing to pay a cost. that's what our struggle is all about. >> i didn't get to go to church yesterday so i'm happy to hear all of this. >> lord knows we need some spirit up in here. >> let's talk about this. you know, i do have to talk about the realities of this. black and brown voters, they could be disenfranchised. we don't want to forget our power and focus this spoex we forget our power, as up. but they've put an incredible burden on black and brown voters. this is what stacey abrams described in the bill. >> it is the reduction of jim crow in a suit and tie. we know it was not a question of security. the secretary of state and the governor went to great pains to ensure americans georgia's elections were secure. the only connection we can finds is that more people of color voted and it changed the outcome of the election if a way republicans do not like. >> jim crow in a suit and tie. what do you think? >> that's the white supremacy back lash. the question is, once you make point, how do you organize it? which she's been doing. she came together cynthia harris, coming together with all citizens of good will who want to push back the white supremacy coming back at us. >> dome forget la tasha brown, too. who has traveled around in an rv, registering people to vote and educating them about their power at the polls. >> absolutely. >> we've seen what he's saying, that he had been, he would have been scared if it was black lives matter. but the insurrectionists, he unworried about them. can you put this in the context. our history and where we are now? >> well, he becomes one of the voices that is part of white supremacy back lash. i'm not worried about him. i give him the weight of a mosquito on the back end of a rhinoceros. i'm talking about the strong voices we have, the strong, moral, spiritual forces and figure that's we need to respond to him. do you see what i mean? that's the crucial thing. because yes, his voice and the others become strong only to degree that we are not committed. we are not convicted enough to be able to resist. and that's why i love stacey is that the others, in a natasha ae others. we have seen this back lash as a cycle over and over and over again in u.s. history. and it is not just a matter of skin pigmentation. it is people who choose honesty, decency, courage. that's the moral and spiritual core and essence of fighting against a white supremacist back lash. and your voice has back very important one. and march 16th. it will hit the mark. did you say the day after the ides of march with julius caesar in 44 bc where the roman empire -- is that the march 16 dialect you've got working? 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>> i'm confident that it would not have an impact on the case. at the same time, i think about what happened when breonna taylor, how they barricaded the building before they made the decision, after they gave the lump sum of money, and all of a sudden, she lost the entire case. i don't want that to happen with this case. because that video is enough to show that we need a conviction and we need justice. the world is watching. minneapolis, minnesota, they have to make a great decision and it has to be impactful. >> let's bring the attorney in here. benjamin, so judge kale dismissed one juror because she said she couldn't be fair and impartial after hearing about the settlement. even the prosecuting attorney acknowledging the timing of the settlement was unfortunate. do you think the minneapolis city council should have waited to announce the details of the settlement? >> i just think it is ludicrous, when buds the fact that 50 million people saw this video and they saw the video and that was riveting video. once you saw that video, you can't unsatisfy that video. and if you can be fair and impartial after seeing that video, that's enough. a press conference last week is irrelevant to what happened on that video. and i think it is just a delay tactic. i think the judge will see past it and i think we'll go for it with this trial, with an impartial jury. >> you said that you think that it doesn't have an impact. the trial made national and international news. your family has been through a lot. i mean, i can't even imagine. most people can't even imagine. this is just the beginning. are you going to be in the courtroom when the trial starts? are you nevgs about that? about having to relive this? >> i'm not nervous at awfully feel like i'm prepared. i have a great team behind me and we're all fighting for justice. one thing i have learned. you have to fight for what you want in life. no j no justice, no peaceful like the protesters, hey, we'll march again. we will get justice and we will get conviction out of this. >> so of the nine jurors who have been picked so far, there's a make-up of it on the screen. five are white. two are black. one his panel issic, one is mixed race according to how they self-identified on their jury survey. six men and three women so far. how do you feel about how the jury selection process is going? >> well, obviously we would want more diversity.