movement for women's rights. we do want to start with the president and covid as well. tomorrow president joe biden and vice president kamala harris and their spouses are going to start a whirlwind tour fanning out across battleground states to promote and explain the coronavirus relief package. with that i want to go to monica alba who's in wilmington, delaware, for us standing by with all this information. monica, good to see you this afternoon. talk us through some of the first stops of the president and the vice president and what we're expecting from them. >> reporter: well, this is really where you're going to see the policies start to intersect with the politics. you're going to see the president, the vice president, their spouses, cabinet officials, really fanning out all across the country from nevada and colorado to states like pennsylvania and elsewhere to tout what's in the covid relief package. everybody has seen the headlines at this point and the white house feels that most people know about things like the $1,400 direct payments but may not know about other things that could directly benefit them. that's why you're going to see the white house really go have all of these different kinds of events in a way we haven't seen before. that's because in large part the white house has been very careful because of covid restrictions with domestic travel. they're still going to maintain that awareness in the next couple of days and weeks. they'll have much smaller events. but they say these are opportunities for the president to really do what he does best, and that's to meet with americans and have face-to-face conversations and try to put people in the focus and centerpiece who really stand to gain from the american rescue plan. take a listen to what karine jean-pierre said on our air earlier today about the reasoning for this tour. >> 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 that 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, how about how we're going to implement this plan, talk about the funding that's in this plan, the resources that's in the plan that's going move forward even further. >> reporter: all of this is going to kick off, yasmin, with an event at the white house tomorrow where they're going to talk about the implementation of the $1.9 trillion but the white house has not announced who is going to lead that effort. they have said they're going to put somebody in charge much like then vice president joe biden was in 2009 with the recovery act. so it will be curious to see if that goes to somebody like current vice president kamala harris or somebody else. but it is also quite notable here because they admit that they made some mistakes back then in not touting or selling this bill enough, something this president has even admitted. so they're trying to rewrite some of those wrongs and that's what you're going to see here in the coming weeks with this all-out blitz, yasmin. >> we're seeing that across the board, kind of rewriting the mistakes that they made back in 2009 with that relief bill. monica alba for us, thank you, great to see you. coming up at 4:00 p.m., california congresswoman jackie speier on how the relief bill will impact her constituents as the golden state makes strides in reopening. speaker pelosi is calling the situation along the southern border a humanitarian crisis. now the biden administration is getting fema involved to help, as this issue is gaining steam in congress. a lot of folks are committing to wanting to go to the border and check on what's going on. i want to bring in ali vitali. great to see you. talk about the scope that we're seeing of possible fema assistance here. >> reporter: unaccompanied minors coming over the southern border right now. last night what we heard was department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas asking fema to lend some assistance both in terms of sheltering these unaccompanied minors because space is a problem but also trying to expedite the process for them, getting them out of border patrol custody and into hhs processing. this is all in response to surging numbers. there's a few factors that go into this. of course there are the factors pushing these migrants out of these home countries and the poll factors in terms of why they're coming to the united states, there is a perception that because the biden administration has promised more humane policies that there will be more tolerance for immigrants coming over the border illegally. that is of course not what the bind administration is saying, but in talking to a congressman yesterday who said he went to one of these migrant facilities, that is not the message many of these migrants are getting. they are thinking the biden administration is in power now, they may try to come over the border. this just presents while there might be a new administration, this is still a system that is vexed and bogged down by just the sheer number of people trying to come into this country. what we're going to see this week is happening on two fronts. things happening at the border and things happening on capitol hill. in terms of what's happening at the border, we've already seen some delegations from the white house going down, surveying the situation. we're going to see house minority leader kevin mccarthy lead a delegation of republicans to texas. that's going to be happening tomorrow. house speaker nancy pelosi responded to that here today basically saying i don't know what mccarthy's purpose is, but i do know that the biden administration is trying to fix the broken system that was left to them by the trump administration. we know and from following joe biden on the campaign trail and during the transition, this was a huge priority for him as he cobbled together his cabinet but also as he prioritized the ways that he wanted to reverse what his predecessor did. trump ran on a harsh, hard line immigration policy. biden touting more humane policies, but it takes a while to reverse and unravel a lot of the actions that the trump administration took. then in terms of what's happening in washington here, we're going to see the house take up two bills that would offer protection for dreamers and for farm workers. this is different than the comprehensive immigration package that biden is asking the senate and house to undertake. i talked to a democratic congressman yesterday about what we're going to see this week and why this is different from comprehensive immigration reform. why that's vexing too. >> the full immigration reform, we still don't have the votes in the house yet. remember, it's a democratic caucus. but i think we are going to get there. but once you get over to the senate, can you get 60 votes, which means ten republicans. if you don't compromise, it's not going to work. i think the dream act, daca, guest worker plan have a good possibility. the other will be a little more difficult, full comprehensive immigration reform, even though i support all three of them. >> reporter: look, this is just another reminder of democrats have a big list of policy agenda items that they want to tick through. technically they have majorities in both the house and the senate, but in the senate it is a 50-50 majority. kamala harris is the 51st if she's brought in to break those ties but this is the reality here on capitol hill. there might be a lot democrats want to get done, but it's going to require a lot of bipartisan buy-in first, yasmin. >> that shows how complex the immigration system is in this country and how broken it is and has been for so long. ali vitali, great to see you, thank you. let's talk new york for a moment. senate majority leader chuck schumer is making it crystal clear that his state's governor should resign. the new york democrat says the allegations of inappropriate behavior surrounding the governor are, quote, an awful crisis. take a listen. >> there are multiple serious, credible allegations of abuse so that governor cuomo has lost the confidence of his governing partners and of so many new yorkers. so for the good of the state, he should resign. >> senator majority leader saying governor cuomo has lost the confidence of many new yorkers. i want to bring in kathy park who's following this investigation for us. great to see you, kathy. talk us through first the latest on where we are with this investigation. >> reporter: hey, yasmin, good to see you as well. the stage has essentially been set for two investigations to move forward. i'll start with the one from the attorney general's office. as you know two outside attorneys are now on the case looking into the sexual harassment allegations. it looks like there is some movement. the deputies have created a website so more potential victims could come forward with their count and also as early as this week, charlotte bennett could be sitting down with the attorneys for some questioning. and then there is the other investigation with the state assembly judiciary committee, and they will be looking into not only the sexual harassment allegations, but also the nursing home scandal, the undercounting of nursing homes. so there are, as you know, a pair of scandals that the governor is embroiled in right now. right now for both of these investigations, it appears that there is some movement but it's still very early on in the investigation process. >> all right. nbc's kathy park, thank you. great to see you, kathy. so the disappearance and death of a young woman in the uk has sparked a global outcry over violence against women. hundreds took to the streets today in london protesting action taken by police during last night's vigil for sarah everhard. clashes erupted between those there and police. the men charged with her death, a london police officer. i'm joined by nbc's matt bradley who's been following this for us. matt, talk to us about the tensions right now between the public, the politicians and the police. they have been growing really since this story broke, and now there are calls for london's police chief to in fact resign. talk us through this. >> reporter: yeah. a lot of politicians actually on both sides of the aisle have been very critical of what they saw in those images that you're probably seeing on your screen right now. these protests are continuing today as a matter of fact. they're calling on -- some people are calling on the met police chief, they are calling on her to resign because of this. she's actually come out just today, just in the past couple of hours and said she will not be leaving. the minister of home office has said that she stands by the met police chief. you know, this is putting the police in a very, very uncomfortable position because they essentially were the ones being faulted for escalating. the police are saying they're simply trying their best to enforce covid regulations, and everybody knows that. this has been going on for a year now, these lockdowns. it's no different here in britain. in fact the problem is still quite acute here. but they said they weren't able to come to an agreement with the organizers of this vigil and so that's why they dispersed the crowd. now, there is a very reasonable excuse for trying to disperse a crowd of people in the middle of a pandemic but a lot of people are wondering why such force was necessary. four people were arrested. and it's important to note this wasn't really organized as a protest. this was organized as a vigil a couple of miles from where i am right now, which is near where sarah everard was last seen alive. this wasn't meant to be a raucous protest. it wasn't meant to be overflowing with righteous anger. instead if you look at those images, it looks like to a lot of brits that it was the police that escalated it. yasmin. >> some startling images coming out over the last 24 hours or so. matt bradley, thanks for following this for us, appreciate it. still ahead, everybody, the question of quality over quantity. that is the argument from a gop lawmaker who does not believe, vote, all votes matter. it is just the latest verse in a very familiar song from the republicans. but why is the chorus getting even louder? >> i don't want everybody to vote. as a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite literally goes up as the voting populous goes down. >> if we accept this universal mail-out balloting to people who didn't even request ballot, i don't think republicans will ever win another national election again. >> now i'm focused on restoring election integrity because we will never win again. will never win again that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 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president, donald j. trump. his former attorney turned public enemy michael cohen has already met with senior officials seven separate times and now the office is asking him for in fact an eighth interview. according to cnbc, fueling speculation that a criminal case against trump could in fact be filed sooner rather than later. we also got a fight brewing in republican-led state legislatures over voting rights. in arizona, for example, state representative john cavanaugh was criticized as being pro jim crow when he told cnn this. democrats value as many people as possible voting and they're willing to risk fraud. republicans don't mind putting security measures in that won't let everybody vote. but everybody should not be voting, he said. arizona is not the only state trying to change voting laws. at least 250 new laws have in fact been proposed in 43 states across this country. that could make it a lot harder for minorities to vote. jeremy peters has been covering the voting challenges and is joining me now. great to see you, thanks for joining us. it seems like we've got the republicans saying the quiet part out loud over and over again. we had saw some of the sound from matt gaetz. if more people vote, republicans are going to lose. i don't even know what to take away from that. democrats are essentially saying that voting laws are in fact protected by the constitution. stacey abrams herself saying this. let's hear a little bit from her. >> we are watching seven times the number of bills permeating across state legislatures than occurred in 2020 during an election year. we know the u.s. senate much like the u.s. house has the sole responsibility under the elections clause of the u.s. constitution to regulate the time, place and manner of elections. that is something that we have to accomplish. it would be best if it was done in concert with republicans. >> so, jeremy, where do these challenges to voting rights standing as of now? >> so it's pretty broad. the reason for that is that it has tremendous popular support among the republican party. you're talking about 70% of republicans who believe that the election is stolen. you know, when that happens, it creates tremendous incentive for outside conservative groups, state republican parties and even the national party itself as we've seen to push for what they euphemistically call election integrity. they can raise a lot of money off of it, generate a lot of attention, and that's precisely what they're doing. you took the words right out of my mouth when you said they're saying the quiet part out loud and now openly acknowledging that what it would do to have more people vote is hurt the republican party. i'm not sure that that's always true, and i think you can look at states where republicans did quite well this year. like in iowa, where they're still trying to restrict voting rights. so it seems, according to the people that i've been talking to, at least some of them, to be a very short-sighted policy, and one primarily aimed at raising a lot of money, because so many republicans believe that trump lied and the election was stolen from him. >> raising a lot of money and bolstering donald trump, it seems. much of this is the love affair the republican party has had now for the last four years with donald trump. in fact he is now being declared the greatest of all it seems by the alabama legislature. i've just got to read this. they're going to honor the former president as one of the greatest and most effective presidents in the 245-year history of this republic. here's what perry hooper jr. said on fox news, a former state representative. the resolution just basically talks about the greatness of donald j. trump. how he made america great again and how i hope other states will in fact follow suit. >> i'm sure they will. donald trump remains the center of gravity in the republican party and will probably be until he decides that it no longer suits him. i don't know if that's going happen any time soon. i think if the election were tomorrow, he absolutely would run again. that's what i'm told by people around him who are speaking to him but the election isn't tomorrow, yasmin. so we have a lot of time before we really learn what his intentions are. but the bottom line is the party remains his. his issues, his grievances, his annoyances, all become the republican party's. that's exactly what you saw happen with the stolen election myth. he says it, his followers believe it, republican lawmakers, many of them, know it not to be true but they have to go along with it or risk alienating their voters. frankly what you have right now is a party whose leaders are absolutely terrified of misunderstanding and misreading their voters, so they're really overcorrecting here by pushing these policies to restrict voting. >> yeah, not only do they go along with it, they dig in and really run with it. by the way, jeremy, thank god the election is not tomorro