support to communities, and make sure more shots get in arms. >> so the administration now begins a seven-week sprint to open vaccine access to all american adults by may 1st. cdc reports 100 million doses of the three approved vaccines have been given out. white house announced latest plan to get more shots into arms. >> over the coming weeks we'll deliver vaccines directly, up to 700 additional community health centers that reach underserved communities. we'll work to double the number of pharmacies participating in the federal pharmacy program. we will make the vaccine available at more than 20,000 pharmacies across america. >> now to a big unraveling story in world of politics, new york governor andrew cuomo who drew national attention for handling of the pandemic early on, facing a growing pressure campaign over allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior on the job. seven women have now accused cuomo of misconduct. both new york senators and majority of the house democrats in new york have called on the governor to step down. cuomo photographed today on the phone wrapped in blanket outside the governor's mansion in albany, new york, said he's not going to resign and denied harassing or abusing anyone. >> i did not do what has been alleged. period. politicians who don't know a single fact, but yet form a conclusion and an opinion, are in my opinion, reckless and dangerous. people know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture, and the truth. i'm not going to resign. >> late today both of new york's u.s. senators, gillibrand and schumer, released a statement that read in part quote, due to the multiple credible sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, it is clear that governor cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and the people of new york, governor cuomo should resign. cuomo faces impeachment inquiry for the harassment allegations and accusations of misconduct related to his office's handling of coronavirus death data in new york's nursing homes. meanwhile the already massive federal investigation into the capitol riot and looting continues to expand is testing the resources of the justice department. asking for more time to prepare before bringing cases to trial. new court filing says quote the investigation and prosecution of the capitol attack will likely be one of the largest in american history, both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and nature and volume of the evidence. document notes prosecutors expect to eventually charge over 400 people and have served more than 900 search warrants. numbers get bigger. investigators say they've received 15,000 hours of video, 1,600 electronic devices, more than 210,000 tips from citizens and 80,000 other types of reports of what took place on the 6th of january. as you take all that in, consider the latest comments from loyal trump ally senator ron johnson, republican of wisconsin and conspiracy theorist, he's already insisted what happened on 1/6 was not an armed insurrection. here's what he had to say today during a radio interview. >> i'm also criticized because i made the comment that on january 6th i never felt threatened. because i didn't. mainly because i knew that even though those thousands of people that were marching to the capitol were trying to pressure people like me to vote the way they wanted me to vote, i knew they were people who love this country, truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, so i wasn't concerned. joe, this will get me in trouble, had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been a little concerned. >> he said the quiet part out loud. bring in leadoff guests on the last weeknight of the week. shannon penny piece at nbc news digital, josh wynn grove for bloomberg news and susan -- veteran gop strategist and former special adviser to governor andrew cuomo. good evening and welcome. shannon, does the white house view their victory this week, however one-sided, however partisan, as any kind of a mandate for the future? >> well, it's certainly a victory and they're going to sell it. there's aggressive travel schedule that president biden and vice president harris have this week to try to do the sales pitch. democrats are latching on to this to try to use this as sales pitch in 2022. already seen some democratic groups put out big ad buys promoting this bill. i'm told to expect more to come. lot of surrogates from the white house are touting this. grabbing on to this, trying to leverage and use it again republicans as they can. but there's understanding and acknowledgment in the white house it only gets harder from here. much of a slog this was to get over the finish line, it was easy in a way. only needed 50 votes, it was clear crisis, there was lot of focus around it, it was incredibly popular. white house has signaled stronger next they want a bigger infrastructure bill, republicans have shown opposition to additional spending, so odds of getting republican votes on infrastructure is looking like a hard haul. could do reconciliation another time. but immigration reform, gun reform, issues campaigned on, you're still in dynamic where you need 60 votes and progressives are itching for a fight over the filibuster, which is will be difficult because might not even have democrats in senate united behind that. >> josh, walk us through the pivot. national tour to tell the americans kind of rescue they can expect, and laundry list of issues that shannon ran through, how does that work begin, and do they keep up the talk as they have to of bipartisanship? >> we don't know how it begins, not going to begin it right away, not going to step on the news cycle for this bill. jen psaki has gotten frustrated with the press asking what's next, what's next, would like to have moment on this bill. start touting that. joe biden and kamala harris going to atlanta. only reason they got it through is georgia voters handed them those two seats in first place. got direct deposits coming this weekend, great news for a lot of families in need across the country. i think we're going to hear that as top line message in that tour as they sort out. not just what they like about this bill but it's specifically aimed at the pandemic. what biden wants to talk about. does not want america to let up on the management of this, still wear masks and distance. had a big announcement this week, july fourth, more of a carrot on a stick right now, notion of normalish independence day if they stay the course. for all these reasons not going to move to phase two, infrastructure, immigration, what have you, for a little bit. and couldn't agree more with shannon, landscape gets a lot tougher here on in. >> susan, it's great to have you. i looked it up, dr. seuss is neither a doctor nor a member of the u.s. senate but he's sure been talked about a lot this past week, that tells me that republicans, especially in media on the right, are having a tough time rebutting this bill. why do you think that is? >> because they don't have a plan of their own. and they haven't. this has been a consistent team, started in campaign when president trump tried to go after joe biden and couldn't find something that stuck, even a nickname. republican senate has nothing to attack joe biden on, he's not socialist or progressive liberal they're trying to paint him, people don't buy it. republicans are doing anything else because that's all they've got. at this point president biden is smart doing this road trip, not just promote it but gain trust among independent voters, right of center voters that can say look, joe biden is getting the job done, maybe create a little opportunity for infrastructure down the road if he builds enough good will with those groups. >> shannon, want to play for you an exchange from today's white house briefing with jen psaki on the subject of vaccines. >> there are more than 10 million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine in u.s. that can't be administered here but could save lives in europe and other places in the world. company has appealed to them to allow them. why not agreed? >> astrazeneca is not yet approved by fda. we also want maximal flexibility, that we're oversupplied and overprepared and have the ability to provide whatever the most effective vaccines are to the american public. >> we heard the question, and doesn't take a ph.d. in political science to know in trump administration this would cut that president and white house are putting america first, looking out for american's health and safety first. how will this cut now and here? >> this is interesting issue. i know right now so many are scrambling to get vaccine ourself, so idea of giving them to another country when we're trying to get our own feels like stretch. but biden administration has said by the end of may we'll have enough vaccine for everybody in this country. great. but after may still at least 100 million vaccine doses planned to come. made a deal for 100 million doses from the j&j vaccine that would come after this may deadline. and if astrazeneca is approved, there's still questions and haven't soon the final data, we have a contract for 300 million more doses and ap was pointing out we have a stockpile of astrazeneca we can't use because it's not approved. what is u.s. going to do with hundreds of millions of extra vaccine doses if things go as planned? are we going to give them to other countries and should we be sitting on doses now when people are struggling to get the vaccine because it's not approved yet. interesting dynamic and doesn't seem that relevant right now with so many people struggling to get vaccine but when we talk to doctors and public health experts in june and july, that's big question, is the u.s. going to supply vaccine to other countries? right now china is doing that in a big way, and it's another way, when you look at geopolitical map of things, for china to get influence. it's not only is u.s. going to help other countries out from humanitarian perspective but our own geopolitical structure, and of course it's a global pandemic, variants raging in another country, only a matter of time before they get here. there's public health incentive gets vaccines to other countries as well. >> josh, the vaccine business has proved lucrative, and i don't think anyone disagrees with them being rewarded for this advance in science and getting it on the market and into arms. what else is going to be lucrative around july 1, hot dog, hamburger and bun business because the president has set our sights, lofty goal, that we'll be able to have cookouts with friends and family perhaps. what is the risk of a strategy that offers a glimmer of hope around july fourth? >> it depends on what happens before july fourth. get your hot dogs, steaks, whatever, it's the size of the crowd that will shift, you can still cook. they have a big wave of doses coming. don't want to drown people in numbers but without astrazeneca that's not authorized yet, they have enough orders for 500 million americans to be fully vaccinated. big number. nearly double what they need, lot of wiggle room built in there. three big questions, number one do people wear masks and distance and avoid risky behavior in the meantime and cases keep coming down? great news last few days when cdc had been warning that decline in cases had levelled off, stalled, it's resumed again, great news. other thing is the variants, some look more dangerous, more contagious even for people vaccinated, that's a big "x" factor. but biggest one, one of biden's covid advisers say it's not when we get the rush of shots but when we run out of arms to put them in. vaccine hesitancy part of america is lurking in every corner. we don't know the number of americans willing to put this shot in their arms. this whole pandemic we've had trouble seeing around corners collectively. right now the problem is huge shortage of dosage, demand is much bigger than supply. that will not be the case pretty quickly here. we'll have to level off pretty soon, we'll have more shots than people willing to take them. >> susan, you get last word, want you on record on governor cuomo, seemed like a moment when gillibrand and schumer issued the statement today, a political moment. is this sustainable? how long can he hang on by your reckoning? >> no one does defiance better than andrew cuomo, that's for sure, brian, but even he cannot keep taking this heat. he's governed in such a way he wanted people to fear him instead of love him. now they don't fear him anymore and he's alone. i think at this point he's seeing the writing on the wall. personally wouldn't be surprised if it's as soon as monday because i don't see how he makes it through this weekend. >> wow. okay. we'll take that as our final word with our thanks to big three guests on friday night after week we've had, shannon pettypiece, josh wingrove, susan dell percio, thank you for leading off us. can the president deliver on other bold promises of vaccines and perhaps some normalcy by july, and can he convince americans that government is good. two smartest observers of history and politics standing by to join us. for many, surviving coronavirus is just the start, one woman who received vaccine shares the challenges she's still facing physically one year later. all of it as "the 11th hour" just getting under way this friday night. deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. riders, the lone wolves of the great highway. all they need is a bike and a full tank of gas. their only friend? 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>> i call it both, and before i do, happy birthday, gene, thanks for being with us, tonight. >> thank you. >> it's not roosevelt's or johnson's birthday but it is gene's. i think you have to look at what happened this week and say this is a moment we'll be reading about and learning about for a long time and so will our grandchildren. because here's a moment where joe biden has to deal with crises and challenges of a kind almost no other president has had to deal with. a pandemic killing more than half a million people. an economic problem that's caused people to starve and be without their jobs, all at the same time as terrible racial division, only lasted for four centuries or so, plus a crisis of democracy that we almost lost on the 6th of january, and also our public school system is in crisis at this moment. all this at once, almost like fdr in 1933 when he had to deal with banks, bad economy and total loss of faith in government. if this all works, joe biden can be a great president. if it doesn't, and people feel that he fails, there's a very good chance that the democrats in 2024 could have a very hard time keeping the presidency, which may then go to strange conspiracy theorists. >> eugene, because birthdays make us take stock, however much we don't like them when they come around, take stock of this past year of the pandemic. we marked a year of it this week, lost year of the coronavirus pandemic, but this is the week we also learned help was on the way. help us put it in perspective. >> this is a -- this is the first moment i think when we can really have some optimism, when we can really not just know intellectually that yes, we'll get to the other side of this, but we can almost see it, we can see the vaccination rates picking up, and numbers of vaccinations, there have been -- we passed 100 million shots in arms, some double, some people twice vaccinated, but 100 million, that's a marker. we -- cases are still low, not low enough, but we want them lower. we have the relief plan, package, going to start immediately producing effects and results, and so we can look ahead to the fourth of july, we can look ahead to a fall that's not completely normal but that's much closer, and we can see an end to this. and i'm really hoping that actually this is an even bigger deal. you know, talk about birthdays, my wife, when i was much younger, we went through the great society period of lyndon johnson, and an era where we believed and knew that government could do big things and great things, and then we went into the ronald reagan era, that's really when it started, when the prevailing view was government was too big, and government was not a solution. that it's really the private sector. if this works, if the relief plan works, if we get out of this, and we see that government was instrumental in doing it, i wonder if the pendulum might not be swinging back in the other direction, and we might look back and say this was a time when people realized once more that government's not just a necessary evil, that in fact it could be a real force for good. >> thank you for that, gene. michael, let me invoke another name, jonas salk, who i saw on your twitter feed. i fear we're living so fast and our current politics has cheapened so much, that we're going to rely on historians like you to remind us someday in the future, holy cow, this vaccine was rolled out and delivered in no time, what a towering achievement. and of course it has us thinking of the salk vaccine rollout as well. >> absolutely, which completely revolutionized the country and came out as you well know, brian, exactly 12 years