not really about the virus. >> it's such a major piece of legislation. it's the most significant change for middle class people, for poor people, people trying to get into the middle class in decades in a very long time. it has amazing things in it. >> if everybody is vaccinated by june, then it's clearly not related to covid. there is $350 billion for state and local government. california is getting $41 billion. that $41 billion is not related to covid, it's related to kind of helping a blue state. >> meanwhile, a humanitarian crisis is growing at the u.s./mexico border. fema ordered to help shelter and transfer a record number of child migrants. the biden administration addressing this situation last hour right here on my show. >> when you look at the past four years, just the rule inhumane way that the last administration moved forward with immigration, it did not enhance our security at all. and so now we're in a situation where, you know, this president and the administration, they want to make sure that we move forward with a humane immigration system that's also lawful. and so that is what we are working towards. >> and jury selection resumes tomorrow in the murder trial of derek chauvin in the death of george floyd. seven more jurors are needed after seven jurors have been seated. four thus far are white, three are people of color, two are women. later on this hour we'll take a look at the jury's makeup and how that could make up the trial. we have nbc reporters in place with all the details from wilmington to washington. we'll begin with monica alba in delaware. monica, what can we expect to hear from the biden administration during this tour? >> reporter: well, really, alex, the aim is for it to be more of an educational one as opposed to, they say, a victory lap even though they're going to tout this legislative success. the president, the vice president and others are going to attempt to explain to the american people exactly what's in this giant $1.9 trillion covid relief package. they believe many people are familiar with the headlines, the $1,400 stimulus payments and some of the other things but maybe not everybody understands the full extent of the child tax credit or enhanced child tax credit or the money directed to schools for vaccine distribution. so they want to get into the specifics and nitty-gritty on this and go to places outside of washington, d.c., in order to do that. there is a strategic decision-making reason to do that. they're going to states where there are competitive senate races for democrats in the next year and a half. they're setting this up to be beneficial in addition to, of course, the policy play. and you heard earlier on your program, white house spokeswoman karine jean-pierre talk about that and why they want to hit the road in a way we have not seen this white house do in the first 50 plus days. >> this is a critical moment. this is a moment where we have to make sure that the american people know what's in this plan. and so there's so many things in this bill that meets the moment that we are in that he's going to hit the road as well with the vice president, the first lady, the second gentleman. respectively they're going to crisscross this country and talk about the plan, talk about how we're going to implement this plan, talk about the funding that's in this plan, the resources in the plan that's going to move forward even further. >> reporter: the first event actually takes place at the white house tomorrow, alex, where they're going to be discussing the implementation. the white house hasn't announced yet, though, who they're going to put in charge of that process. back in 2009, the then vice president, joe biden, was the one in charge of trying to roll out the recovery act. but even he admitted just in the last couple of weeks that they made some mistakes with that process compared to where they are now. that's why he wants to get out and talk to americans, he says, in order to not repeat what they did in the past. we're not clear if that will be somebody like vice president harris tasked with that giant order of business or somebody else in the administration. that's something the white house has not revealed yet but we do expect to learn in the coming days. >> monica alba, thank you very much so much from wilmington. let's go from there to capitol hill where fresh off their first legislative victory, democrats are now plotting their next move. let's go to nbc's amanda golen who joins me right next. what is next on the docket, amanda? >> reporter: in light of the $1.9 trillion covid relief bill there are a number of things to push forward on but as we saw, there was no republican support and very narrowly were all democrats on board. we saw those fractions take place within the democratic party between progressives and moderates. so as congressional democrats are moving forward, a couple of key issues they're looking to address in the coming weeks, infrastructure and immigration. we heard from pelosi in the last few days around infrastructure. she wanted chairs within the committees of the house to work with republicans in order to craft that legislation. that's a real indication they are trying to get bipartisan support. we heard from senate majority leader chuck schumer hearing about how he wants to put forward a few priorities for senate democrats. they want to address climate, racial and economic inequality as well as democracy and saying that infrastructure would fit into all of those three areas. but they would need bipartisan support to push any of this through into law. we got a real snapshot of that from senator john barrasso on the sunday shows earlier this morning as to whether or not he thinks bipartisanship can actually be accomplished. >> i'd really like to see bipartisanship on infrastructure because i chaired the committee in the last congress that passed the highway bill. we also did the water bill, all of the issues of water as well as highway infrastructure. it was bipartisan. bernie sanders voted for it and so did i. we got it to the house and what did the house do? they replaced our highway bill with the green new deal. if they would take the model that we came up with in the committee in the senate for highway and transportation, i think that's a very good start. >> reporter: so you hear some optimism there from barrasso saying that he thinks it can move forward but the house is pushing progressive ideas and legislation that wouldn't make it through once it gets to the senate. this all comes as the house this week is taking up a few immigration bills addressing dreamers' citizenship as well as visa programs for agricultural workers in the united states. but again, once it gets over to the senate there needs to be bipartisan support to push things forward. they cannot use that reconciliation process to go it alone just as democrats. they can't use that process for every single piece of legislation. >> let me ask you about gop lawmakers heading to the u.s./mexico border. what's in the ether about that? >> reporter: we've seen unaccompanied migrants coming through and a 28% increase of illegal crossings in the last month. those numbers are just over 3,200 unaccompanied children at the border currently in cbp custody. dhs is putting fema forward to start intervening to help shelter and move along the children into other kinds of protective care but it's becoming a political issue. we're seeing house minority leader kevin mccarthy is going down to the border just near el paso, texas, tomorrow with a group of republicans to try to shine light on this issue and blame it on president biden. biden and democrats are trying to work through this process while at the same time keeping hold and upholding their promises around trying to make the immigration systems more humane. i spoke with speaker pelosi as she came by to do morning shows earlier today and she said she didn't know what his point was going to do this trip of leader mccarthy. so trying to move forward, she wants to address that this was also an issue under the trump administration that now the biden administration is trying to pick up the pieces with as opposed to mccarthy trying to put blame onto the white house, alex. >> okay, amanda golden, thank you so much. joining me now congresswoman sherri bustos who serves on the appropriations and agriculture committees. nice to see you again. let's talk about the next big item, infrastructure. after you saw the republican opposition to the relief package, which definitely had widespread popularity among americans, do you have confidence that not just infrastructure but potentially any of your caucus legislative goals can be passed on a bipartisan basis? >> well, i have hope, and we always have to continue to try. keep in mind, alex, i come from a congressional district as a democrat that donald trump won both in 2016 and 2020. there's only seven democrats left in those double trump districts, so i can tell you to our core, because of the places that we're from, i'm talking to today from moline, illinois, we understand the importance of the american public wanting us to work together. so i think we absolutely have to try. if you look at all 435 congressional districts, all 50 states and our territories, there's no place where there are not deep infrastructure needs, whether it is rural broadband or severe deterioration of our roads and our bridges. mississippi river is right out here to my left and literally if i look out my window right there, i can see a billion dollar bridge going up right now from the state of illinois to the state of iowa. i can tell you we need much more of that all over this country. we've got to come together on this. >> let me make an observation. if you managed to survive an election with donald trump winning both of the last presidential elections in your district, you're doing something right and your people must really like you there, your constituents. let me ask you about the reporting today from nbc news about how some of your democratic colleagues in the house are drawing the line at working with republicans. those who voted not to certify the election. do you think you can't work with republicans for the same reason? >> well, you know, i have a saying, and i always attribute this to bobby kennedy. i can't verify that it is bobby kennedy, but it's forgive and remember. i share that because, look, we've got to -- as we move forward and increasingly there will be a requirement that we work together because of our very, very narrow majorities in both the house and the senate. you know, we can't forget what happened on january 6th. i was on the house floor that day. i've never -- none of us had ever been through anything like that in our lives, unless you're a combat veteran. and thank god we had some combat veterans among our colleagues who helped us get through that, along with capitol police who saved our lives that day, along with the national guard who helped give us peace of mind afterward. but we've got close to 140 democrats who didn't vote to certify the election results. i think that was incredibly wrong that they did that. it was not healthy for our democracy, but we've got to move forward and, again, i -- that's where i come from. it's my politics to try to do my best to move forward and figure out answers to things. i think we have to -- again, when i see some of these -- i don't even wanting to bring up names, but there are some people who practice this performance politics as opposed to results politics. we've got to get to results. i think if we look ahead to the midterms two years from now, if we as democrats are going to hang on to this majority, this very narrow slim majority in both the house and hopefully grow that 50-50 split in the senate, we're going to have to show results. i think we can take a page out of president biden's playbook and say, hey, let's get past the name calling, let's get past the hyperpartisanship in washington, d.c., and let's get results for the american public. >> change the tenor there in washington. let's take a listen to what senator barrasso said about the covid relief bill. here it is. >> to call this covid relief is really false advertising. only 9% of the money goes to defeating the virus, only 1% of the money goes for vaccines. this is a nancy pelosi payoff to the liberal left. >> what's your reaction to that? speaking of nancy pelosi, she said wrong. 90% of this covid relief bill goes directly to the constituents relative to covid. how, for example, will this bill directly benefit your constituents? >> well, as we sit here and have this conversation, we right now have 113,000 kids who have not been back to school full time for the past year. it was exactly one year ago today, this is an anniversary day today where we had our first covid case in this congressional district i serve. we have families hurting. we have 26,000 children who live in poverty. this bill lifts children out of poverty. it gets kids back to school. it helps our small businesses that desperately need our help. i could not disagree more with senator barrasso. it's time to get past calling everything a pelosi plan or whatever they want to do. i cannot be labeled as somebody who's this far left whatever his name calling was. it's time to get results. this bill, despite the fact that we did not get any bipartisan support, is going to help our towns, our cities, our states, red or blue states. democrats or republican governors. it's going to help give us a sense of normalcy. what was most exciting to me to listen to president biden speak on thursday was when he talked about fourth of july, and how his hope that we're going to be able to get back together. it's like the first image that comes to mind for me is the old saying christmas in july. you know, when he leaned in and said i need you. i need you and he's bringing in the american public to say we've all got to come together on this. i'll do a shoutout to senator barrasso and others. let's come together, let's be results oriented. let's stop this name calling and stop acting about everything in this is partisan. this will help democrats, republicans, small famiies and businesses. it does not matter if you have a d or an r next to any of those. help is not only on its way, we are all here. >> and we are all americans. congresswoman bustos, thanks for your time. drilling down on the jury selection process in the derek chauvin trial. what you haven't heard about how it's going, next. ut how it's going, next lur when they jumped the median. there was nothing i could do. 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