arguments even while getting him more attention. oliver concluded with this. >> tucker carlson shows sells in addition to utterly terrible pillows is very sed uktive. it's the idea this country is fundamentally color blind, that anyone who mentions race is trying to start trouble, that historic oppression is no longer relevant and that in fact you, his viewers, are the ones currently being oppressed. >> reporter: brian stelter, cnn, new york. team biden crisscrossing the country to sell the president's covid relief package, but republicans are focusing on something else entirely -- voter suppression. 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that's a lot. >> well, the truth is, don, 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 a rate of a million a day. we were approaching that 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 to 100 million pretty fast. so they're going to get there somewhere in the 60s in terms of days instead of day 100. in terms of the checks, that's 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. that's why people started seeing those $1,400 checks landing in their bank accounts over the weekend. now, 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 punished for setting goals that they know that they can achieve or exceed. and he's on track to do that. now, he is going to spend the next couple of weeks along with his top aides crisscrossing the country, promoting the need to get vaccinations and promoting what's in this relief bill. he's going to pennsylvania tomorrow. jill biden's going to new hampshire and new jersey. joe biden will go to georgia later in the week. those are all swing states. and he's going to try to make the case about child tax credits, obamacare subsidies, aid to tate and local governments, vaccination aid, aid to small businesses, all those programs. today he announced that gene sperling, who was a senior economic official under both president clinton and president obama, is going to oversee that effort. gene sperling is intimately familiar with all of these government programs, and so he's somebody who brings a lot of expertise to that task, and he is promising to be as focused on that as joe biden was in focusing on the oversight of the stimulus plan when president obama was in office in 2009. so he's off to a promising start, and he's got ten days to deliver on this set of goals that he's established. >> so, kirsten, the house minority leader kevin mccarthy led a gop trip to the u.s./mexico border in texas today. here's what he said about the situation. >> it's more than a crisis. this is a human heartbreak. the sad part about all of this, it didn't have to 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 this faux outrage? >> well, i mean this is, i think, what the republicans are very good at, and i think they think they're doing some sort of political jiu-jitsu with this or something, somehow trying to turn this around on democrats and pretending that they care about something that they have more than demonstrated that they don't care about. the fact is this issue is far more complicated than it's being presented. it is not -- nobody wants to have families come into this country, nobody wants to have their children come into this country and go through a very unsafe process unless they're absolutely desperate. and that's the point. it's not -- it's not caused by the president of the united states. it doesn't matter who the president of the united states that people come here. they come here because they're desperate and that they're trying to get a better life. so it's on us that when they get here, to treat them as humanely as possible. >> kirsten, 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 chuck schumer, kirsten gillibrand. but president biden and the house speaker nancy pelosi say the investigation should play out. why is that? >> well, because i think that that -- you know, that's their position that they feel like they learned through the al franken situation that a lot of people felt that they had pulled the trigger too fast and that they hadn't let the investigation take its course, and there was a huge backlash from democratic voters. and so their position is have a real investigation. get to the bottom of it. find out what actually happened and don't make any premature decisions until you have all the facts. >> yeah. kirsten, john, thank you so much. i want to bring in now cnn's sara murray with the latest on the republicans' growing assault on voting rights. sara, good evening to you. thanks so much for joining. there are more than 250 bills in 43 states trying to make it harder to vote. governor abbott of texas is the latest republican to join this effort. but aren't his plans based on lies about fraud? >> reporter: well, you know, don, it was interesting listening to governor abbott today because he said that these bills, you know, two dozen had been introduced by gop lawmakers in texas, are important so that they build trust and confidence for constituents in their elections. he doesn't mention that 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 today in front of the cameras and say there was widespread voter fraud. but of course that has not stopped republican lawmakers and in texas we're seeing a number of bills that would do things like limit early voting and make it harder to get absentee ballots or return your absentee ballots. a lot of this is pushback to what we saw in houston in the last election where they set up those early voting places that were open 24 hours, drive-through polling sites and that kind of thing. >> you have new reporting on what democrats are doing to push back against these measures in the republican-led states. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: that's right. this is a big campaign. essentially what they're doing is going national. it's a bunch of left-leaning groups that have teamed up together and citizens united national democratic redistricting committee, and they're going to pour $30 million essentially into 12 to 15 states where they're going to convince senators to get this bill that already passed the house of representatives, this sweeping election bill, and get it through the senate. the course the reason this is a challenge is because this fight over what is going to happen with this election bill is going to coalesce and coincide with this fight over what's going to happen with the filibuster. the argument these groups are making, these left-leaning groups, is this bill has to pass the senate no matter what. we don't care how you get there. we don't care if it's with republican support. we don't care if you have to make a procedural change to the rules to get around the filibuster. we just want this bill to pass. >> we're also hearing that voting rights groups in georgia are calling on corporations to speak out against voter suppression. what are you hearing about this campaign? >> reporter: right. no surprise. georgia is one of these states where republican lawmakers in the state have pushed forward a number of measures to try to make it more difficult for people to vote in that state. obviously we saw a lot of democratic wins there that republicans were not too happy about in the last election cycle. so voting rights groups have put up these billboards where they're going after companies like coco cola, home depot, delta, these big companies that are based in georgia and essentially saying, we need you guys to speak out. you've said in the past that you support voting rights so it's time for you to speak out aggressively against this kind of specific legislation that is moving right now through the georgia legislature. >> sara, always a pleasure. thank you so much. >> reporter: sure. stacey abrams calling voter suppression 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. ♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes your stomach for fast relief and get the same fast relief in a delightful chew with pepto bismol chews. hi. i'm wolfgang puck when i started my online store wolfgang puck home i knew there would be a lot of orders to fill and i wanted them to ship out fast that's why i chose shipstation shipstation helps manage orders reduce shipping costs and print out shipping labels it's my secret ingredient shipstation the number 1 choice of online sellers and wolfgang puck go to shipstation.com/wolfgang and get 2 months free republican-controlled state legislatures all across the country moving to create what looks like a whole lot of the new jim crow. there are more than 250 bills in at least 43 states that will result in restricting access to voting, and a lot of those bills targeting black and brown americans. let's discuss now with cornel west. he's the professor of public philosophy at harvard. good evening, sir. so good to have you on. >> always a blessing. again, salute for tomorrow, my brother. this is the fight. this is the fight. >> thank you. i appreciate all the love i'm getting. dr. west, we have you on because you're an expert on this. we are seeing gop efforts to restrict voting access in states all across the land. a lot of it is based on this election lie, that it was stolen. there was some sort of fraud, widespread voter fraud and so on. you know there was none of this. they claim they want election integrity, but what do they actually want, professor? >> they want power, and 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 in your text. james baldwin dealt with it. he raised these four questions that sit at the very center of this grammy we won yesterday. the four questions are what? how does integrity face oppression? how does honesty face deception? how does decency face insult? and how does courage face brute force? so anytime we talk about a white supremacist backlash, we don't want to become preoccupied with it. we've got to get fortified with our integrity, honesty, decency, and courage. you remember that line in james baldwin's letter to his nephew, which is tied to your letter to your nephew. what does he say? don't, comma, be afraid. >> don't be afraid. >> don't, comma, be afraid. don't get scared. don't get intimidated. straighten your back up. have spine. that's what our struggle is about, brother. that's one of the reasons why louisiana is so spimportant because the louisiana folks straighten their backs up. your parents straightened their backs up. they didn't allow hatred to come at them in such a way that they hated in return. no. they loved each other. they loved the truth. they loved beauty. they loved goodness. those of us who are christian, we love god. so when we talk about this white supremacist backlash, my brother, we don't want to become so preoccupied that we downplay our own strengths. we don't want to look at ourselves through the white normative gaze. we confront that gaze, and we confront it with tremendous determination. you see the points i'm making? >> yes, i see the point you're making. that you don't have to be like them, but you have to what? >> you got to be strong. you've got to be willing to fight. that's why we love stacey abrams. what's the name of her group? fair fight. >> fair fight. >> empowerment, enablement. that's what we were talking about with the grammy triumph yesterday. to institutionalize and mortalize that kind of attitude toward the world so that we never, ever become overcome by any kind of hatred or evil, but we get fortified to be a real force for good. i'm not talking about posturing. i'm not talking about acting as self-righteousness. i'm talking about serving folk, taking a risk, being willing to pay a cost. that's what our struggle is all about. that's why you and i are still here smiling, brother. >> i didn't get to go to church yesterday, so i'm happy to hear all of this. >> lord, we need some spirit up in here. >> let's talk about this. you know i do have to talk about the realities of this because black and brown voters, they could be disenfranchised right? they're trying to disenfranchise them. again, we don't want to forget our power and focus so much on this that we forget our power. but they put an incredible burden on black and brown voters. this is what stacey abrams described in the bill moving in georgia. here it is. >> it is a redux of jim crow in a suit and tie. we know that the only thing that precipitated these changes, it's not that there was a question of security. in fact, the secretary of state and the governor went to great pains to assure america that georgia's elections were secure. and so the only connection that we can find is that more people of color voted, and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction that republicans do not like. >> jim crow in a suit and tie. what do you think? that that's the white supremacist backlash i'm talking about. my dear sister's hitting the nail on the head. and the question is once you make that point, then how do you engage in the kind of organizing, which she has been doing for a good while. but she coming together with william barber, sister thea harris, coming together with all citizens of good will who want to push back this white supremacist backlash coming at us. >> don't forget latosha brown, too, black voters matter, who has traveled around in an r.v. registering people to vote and educating them about their power at the polls as well. >> absolutely. >> dr. west, we have seen, you know, what senator ron johnson is saying, that he would have been scared if it was black lives matter or antifa protesters there on january 6th. but the insurrectionists, he was, you know, he wasn't worried about them. we had senator tim scott saying that woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. can you put these comments into context of our history and where we are now? >> well, he becomes one of the voices as part of the white supremacist backlash. but i'm not worried about him. i mean i give him the weight of a mosquito on the behind of a rhinoceros. i'm talking about the strong voices that we have. i'm talking about the strong, moral, spiritual forces and figures that we need to be in order to respond to him. you see what i mean? >> mm-hmm. mm-hmm. >> that's the crucial thing, brother. because his voice and the others become strong only to the degree to which we are not fortified, we are not committed, we are not convicted enough to be able to resist. and that's why i love my dear sister stacey and the others. we've got to be part of this increasing wave against this white supremacist backlash. we have seen it as a cycle over and over again in u.s. history. and it's not just a matter of skin pigmentation. it's people who choose integrity, honesty, decency, courage. that is the moral and spiritual core and essence of fighting against the white supremacist backlash. and your voice has become a very important one. and march 16th, tomorrow it's going to hit the market. but did you choose the day after the ides of march with the assassination of julius caesar in 44 b.c. where the roman republic is going under, is that the march 16th dialect that you got working, brother? >> i would say yes, but then people would know i would be lying. but, listen, i live for your -- i'm going to call it a sermon, for your sermons and you stalking the camera on my show at least a couple times a month. thank you, professor. thank you. >> love you there, brother. you stay strong, man. >> you as well. thank you very much. so the defense for the former police officer charged in the death of george floyd asking for a trial delay, okay, after minneapolis agreed to a settlement with george floyd's family. is that settlement having a negative impact on the trial? we're going to speak with the family next. rogena® hydro boost. the #1 hyaluronic acid moisturizer delivers 2x the hydration for supple, bouncy skin. neutrogena®. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realize