signature. the president has signaled he continues to promote the bill. indeed, he has plans to travel about the country to talk more about it while moving on to the rest of his to-do list. today, members of the house wasted no time trying to define the bill and what it represents. >> we promise to put vaccination shots in arms for every single american. mission accomplished. we promised to put money in the pockets of every day americans who have been struggling through the economic trauma of the pandemic. mission accomplished. >> that is the biden american rescues plan. it will be followed by the recovery plan. >> this is bipartisan legislation. may not satisfy to partisans. >> we could have had a bill that was -- you know, a fraction of the cost of this one. we would have gotten bipartisan approval and support. >> it's not focused on covid relief. it's focused on the agenda. and people recognize that the agenda is bad for america. >> a great man once said, so it goes. the bill headed to final passage, the white house was announcing an increase in the number of vaccines shipped out. 600,000 additional doses sent out this week. the seven day average for shots administered is over 2 million a day. there was a development on another front as well. the fbi released new video that shows the president planting pipe bombs that were found at the republican national committee and the democratic national committee headquarters. the president is seen walking on the sidewalk in areas outside the dnc and rnc. the identify devices were planted between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m. on the 5th of january. and the insurrection needs to go beyond federal law enforcement. >> i'm surprised it took us two months to see video. the area probably has more video cameras than most places in the country. just highlights the need for a 9/11 style commission. indeed tonight, the pentagon approved continued national guard presence at the capitol. some 2300 members of guard will remain there on post through may 23rd now. merrick garland who has vowed to make the capitol riot his priority. the final vote on garland is expected tomorrow. senators also voted to advance the nomination of the secretary of housing and urban development. the vote is scheduled for tomorrow as well. amid all of this, the white house continues to face a huge test of what it describes as a more humane immigration policy. despite promises and plans to end family detention, the policy is still in place, and still carried out. a record of children in custody. today, the white house senate was aware there was an increase in migration. >> we are continues to work to convey that this is not the time to come. that the majority of people who come tomt the border will be turned away. we are not turning kids away at the border. unaccompanied children. we are not ripping them from the arms of our parents. we are thought trying to close our borders. we are trying to create an effective, moral, humane system. >> axios is reporting tonight that kevin mccarthy plans to travel to texas with a dozen republican members of congress, get a firsthand look as they call it of the situation at the border, a photo op by any other name. greg abbott was on the screen of making predictions. >> this is just the beginning. the month of march is when it begins to increase. the influx will continue to grow. the signal has been send to central america and other countries across the word that people can come across the border now under the biden administration. >> we are also following the trial of derek chauvin, in the death of george floyd today. three jurors were seated today. there is security around the courthouse. concrete barriers, armed guards. and let's bring in the lead-off guest, ashley parker, pulitzer prize winning senator, and michael oosterhall, the center of infectious disease and policy at the university of minnesota. and a covid adviser to the biden transition team. good evening and welcome to you all. ashley, the covid bill hag coast, depending where you read, in terms on of new deal. but to localize it a bit, is it to biden what aca was to obama? >> in terms of the republican opposition? there is a lot of it. it doesn't seem though as of now at least that republicans will be able to successfully message against the bill the way they were able to message against obama care. if this bill does what president biden wants it to do, and that is what the biden administration is counting on. their thought is that yes, the bill is big. it's 1.9 trillion. they say it needs to be that big because of the magnitude of the crazies. if it gets shots in the arms of americans, checks in their pockets, in the banks, it helps jump-start the economy, offers relief. americans are not going to care that it passed through a budgetary process known as reconciliation, that it is going to be popular. it is popular right now, and it is going to be something that republicans are going to have a hard time arguing against. that is the belief of the administration. >> remember the reaction to aca. went across the country like a prairie fire. get your hands off my medicare. let it sink in a bit. but the tea party gave us 37 freshman members of the house. and ashley's point, there probably won't be that kind of resistance to this. but let me ask you, theoretical, knowing the republican caucuses as you do, what if there are a ton of stuff that the republicans wanted in this? would there be cross over voters? would it be truly bipartisan or would they opt to stay on brand? >> i don't think we know what would have been offered by the white house or the senate majority to the republicans that would have been accepted. and whether or not they are determined -- most of them, not all of them, to be in lock step against this. they don't really have to message against this right now. i mean, as ashley points out, they don't know how to. because polls are showing that trump voters are looking for these checks and are in support of returning to schools and getting most of the population vaccinated. but you can sense a real fear from 2009. they have to present this repeatedly in detail as a benefit. the voters, they hope will feel, and the negative polarization will take over enter you won't have republicans saying, see, the schools still didn't open on time. they didn't have a great organizational capacity. things are not that great and we're really in debt. don't be surprised if some of them say you have more under the trump check on the biden checks. there so there is a lot of a ptsd as you can sense. they really have to travel the country and make their biden is explicit in what is being delivered and the hope that voters feel it and they feel it before the midterms in 2022. and one nonprogressive adviser put it together, they know the voters that they have won in 2018 and 2020 might flee if schools are not open by in this fall and that will a sthau stays in voters' mind from fall of 2021 to fall of 2022. >> and speaking to the nation thursday and he will put miles on air force one to go and do some proof testing what's in the bill. you used vivid imagery on sunday and we repeated your comments on the broadcast monday, compare writing we are to the eye of the hurricane. having covered many of those, i have seen many hurricane eyes and you can see how ancient folks celebrated that the storm was over only to learn it was fixing to storm again. it's a long way of asking you again where are we in this in your view? >> well, i said on sunday, we are still in the eye of the hurricane. we've obviously been through a rough year, that is the first wall, and now we have vaccines coming and there is surely a bright day ahead, there is also a variant, 117 and that particular variant is one that is a grave concern to us in terms of the threat in the united states. we're beginning to see it pick up in a number of different states in terms of the number of invex infections occurring, and now in kids, and spilling over to adults and in 6 to 12 weeks, we will see an increase in cases here in the united states just like we have seen in europe. >> ashley parker, back to politics. here now, a sampling of lindsey graham on fox news. we'll discuss on the other side. >> the children today, they can easily be terrorists tomorrow. it's as embarrassing and painful it will be for the biden administration, they need to understand what trump did on the border worked. >> yeah, but will they will be terrorists like what we saw on 1/6 when they took over the capitol. when fox news wasn't eviscerating meghan markle, is there a chance how ugly it can get, how quickly when weaponized? >> they are quite aware. what biden's governing agenda will be, and it's quite ambitious. it's quite bold. a lot of progressive priorities and one of those, of course, is immigration, and immigration, more than others, more than infrastructure, more than perhaps some climate, is an incredibly difficult issue that going back to the george w. bush years, presidents of both parties tried to solve the problem. bush couldn't do it. trump didn't want to do it, and it's one of the issues where they're aware the activists and the progressive community will be pushing them to do something on it. it's something that biden has laid out a plan, and it's an issue where if he brings it in a form of legislation, he's going to be asking democrats to take an incredibly difficult vote, and the vote of lindsey graham was under obama pushing for reform how much it will be weaponized and how toxic it will become. >> tomorrow is day 50 for the biden presidency. that puts us halfway to the 100 days that is an important benchmark for all americans to take an instant assessment of any new presidency. i'm convinced it was to sell magazines back in the day. but where is your record card? >> well, i think the biden administration came in with a focus to crush the virus, stand up the vaccine program. 100 million in 100 days. they are exceeding that and to try to stabilize the economy. the quick passage before the deadlines of the programs expiring on march 14th of the covid relief package. it meets a promise, and as i said before, they will end up delivering but it's impressive they avoided a lot of infighting and they were able to get it done and the hard work comes with selling it. but this was never going to be 100 days of legislative blitzing in the 100-year health crisis and a down turn. so i think he wasn't expected to come up with all the bells and whistles that previous new presidents have. >> michael, i think a.b. but it perfectly, this is a 100-year health crisis. so i saved the toughest question for last, and the toughest question for you. everyone's been pushing forward to the idea of a vaccine. i need you to be able to tell the viewers how they should live once they are fully vaccinated? the folks who want to take that vaccine freedom out for a spin. do they need a mask through the city or town, on a bike ride, going about their day? why can't they travel, since airlines and on board ventilation has gotten so good at preventing spread. what should the guide to life be for those who have been full by vaccinated? >> well, being fully vaccinated should offer real personal and infectious disease benefits. and you're going see over the course of weeks, the cdc is allowing for more of that being in the public and feeling protected. the one caveat is that we do have new variants of the virus that may challenge the effectiveness of the vaccines we have now. we are seeing the spread of the virus in brazil right now. and should it be part of the picture here in the united states, unfortunately, we're going to have a different game we have to deal with, and that's the challenge we have right now. but in the meantime, we need to -- allow people to find the benefit of being vaccinated in the ability to be able to do many of the things they haven't been able to do for the last year. >> can't thank our big three enough for coming on and taking our questions tonight. ashley parker, a.b. stoddard, michael oosterhouse, thank you. and the every day americans who have left us in such painfully high numbers over the past year. our next guest knows exactly how. nicolle wallace with us with a look at the lives well lived. and a former president to stop people from voting in the country. two standing by to weigh in as well. all of it as the 11th house is just getting under way. she'll say she's got goals. and since she's got goals, she might need help reaching them, and so she'll get some help from fidelity, and at fidelity, someone will help her create a plan for all her goals, which means suzie will be feeling so good about that plan, she can just enjoy right now. that's the planning effect, from fidelity. for weeks now, we started our broadcast with numbers. how many people are infected, and sadly, how many people have died. but the numbers, the numbers are grandparents, moms and dads, sons and daughter, cousins, teachers, mentors, bosses, neighbors, friends. so to honor them, we will tell you about a few of them each day. >> that is just what my friend and colleague nicolle wallace has done every day. when she started the remembrance, the death toll stood at 5,800 people back them. as of tonight, confirmed cases in the country are over 29 million. we have lost over 529,000 of our fellow citizens in the pandemic. we are so pleased to have with us nicolle wallace, host of the 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. hours on the network. her lives well lived special broadcast airs tomorrow night in the 8:00 p.m. eastern hour, followed by thursday night, the year we meet again. nicole, welcome to you. it would be inartful to say i have grown to look forward to the segments. it's more appropriate i wait for them often with a knot in the pit of my stomach. they have so personal. they are touch stones. they are milestones. because i know you and we do the same thing if a living, i see you struggle with it. i am self-aware enough to know i could never make it through. i cannot make it through a bag pipe. what have you learned in. >> well, i remember asking will o'donnell on my team to take it on, and the first view, were actually people -- people i knew had lost, and i had a feeling we were not up and running yet in terms of having a national ritual for honoring those who had been lost to this horrific pandemic that was still new, still scary. but i think in the beginning, we had this sense that it was not going to last as long as it has. it wasn't going to take from us as many people as it has. it wasn't going to hit every generation, every gender, every age, every kind of person that has been lost, and i think there was a feeling that after 9/11, maybe the one thing that was never politicalized was honoring the men and women on flight 93. was reading the names at ground zero, the pilgrimage to shanksville, and i kept thinking, soon, somebody will take it over and there will be a please to have an abbreviated ritual for grieving. because so many people of the people died without their families around them. they died because of the heroic acts of nurses, not surrounded by family, and so many were in the able to have a funeral in a timely manner than faith or traditions could have them do. we started and hoped to stop but tragically, the country is still losing almost 1,000 people ma day. >> as you have been talking, we have been seeing some of those we lost, and thanks to your gift for description, they are faces i remember seeing, some of them in the past summer. you talked about politicalization, and because malpractice and mismanagement and denialism is responsible for the lion's share of the death, does the death make it more tragic to you? >> i think under the former management of the country, it made them unacknowledged. for whatever season, political considerations, refused to honor the individuals, but the sculpt and breadth of the losses. and i don't think it's something he was interested in doing. but we don't have a lot of comfort, i don't think, with sort of sitting in this kind of grief, this duration of grief, this number of lives lost. we thought to tell one story every day, one person who lost to family, community, or a school, decimated would be a contribution, but it is remarkable that before he was even inaugurated, president biden sought to hold the country and sit in our grief with us. something he has done publicly throughout his political career, and you will together covered both of those memorial services. there have been two. you had the idea of making a permanent memorial. but there isn't a conversation yet about how to honor the people take from us to quickly in staggering numbers and that may become part of the political discourse soon. >> and maybe because we have so much more ahead of us sadly before we get to the bright spot. nicole poll las, thank you for your coverage. thank you so much for coming on with us tonight, and taking our questions to our fewers. don't miss a special report, living well lived. tomorrow evening, 8:00 p.m. eastern time. coming up for us, another example of the growing rift, the republican party further apart as they watch. feel the cool rush of claritin cool mint chewables. powerful 24-hour, non-drowsy, allergy relief plus an immediate cooling sensation for your throat. feel the clarity, and live claritin clear. i have the power to lower my a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it. once-weekly trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. most people taking it reached an a1c under 7%. trulicity may also help you lose up to 10 pounds and lower your risk of cardiovascular events, whether you know you're at risk or not. trulicity isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. it's not approved for use in children. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have an allergic reaction, a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, changes in vision, or diabetic retinopathy. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. taking trulicity with sulfonylurea or insulin raises low blood sugar risk. side effects include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and may worsen kidney problems. i have it within me to lower my a1c. ask your doctor about once-weekly trulicity. guy fieri! ya know, if you wanna make that sandwich the real deal, ya gotta focus on the bread layers. king's hawaiian sliced bread makes everything better! ♪ (angelic choir) ♪ and here's mine! losing a tooth didn't stop you but your partial can act like a bacteria magnet, putting natural teeth at risk. new polident propartial helps purify your partial and strengthens and protects natural teeth. so, are you gonna lose another tooth? 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