Incident obviously on the capitol, his name is preston fairland. He once actually led Michelle Obamas security detail. A secret Service Agent as you said once led Michelle Obamas security detail. She even mentions him in her memoir becoming. She talks hubt him briefly in the book. She also attended a Memorial Service for their father who was a Police Officer and died in a motorcycle accident. Now as for Scott Fairland whos charged with his participation in the capitol insurrection, whats really interesting, pam, one of the charges hes facing is an assault on an Police Officer. Hes captured on video that the fbi now has and they say on that video you see him pushing and shoving and hitting a Police Officer. He is the brother of this secret Service Agent, preston fairland iii. A lawyer who represents Scott Fairland says that the brother knew nothing about this, didnt even know that he was coming here. So theyre saying that the brother had nothing to do with this obviously. But certainly disturbing details here when you learn of this mans connections to Law Enforcement and what hes charged with here now. Yeah, what hes charged with against a Police Officer. Very disturbing. Shimon shimon prokupecz, thanks for bringing us this breaking news. And cnn has learned Trumps White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced she will run for governor of arkansas. Im joined now by cnn political analyst josh dossy. Tell us more about this news that you broke. Reporter hi, pamela. Yes, sarah, has been back in arkansas for some time plotting her run for governor. And weve learned this weekend that she will announce tomorrow that shes running for governor of arkansas. She was the president s press secretary, former governor Mike Huckabees daughter, a long time political operative. And she announced on video shes planning to post in the morning that she will be a candidate for governor of arkansas. I remember we were both covering the white house at the time when she left the speculation was she would take this move, she would run for governor of arkansas. As you pointed out her father was the governor between 1996 and 2000. As president trumps former press secretary, how much do you think that helps her in the state . How popular is she there . Sarah sanders remains popular in arkansas, and the president s numbers still remain good and fair in the state as well. One of the upsides she has there is that shes so closely linked to the president. And a republican primary against others there, see thinks shell do quite well. Sarah has been plotting for some time to run for governor. She lost back in 2018 as you know as press secretary of the white house and has not been one of those folks i guess in 19 to distance herself from the president. Shes been in the orbit and shes planning to run. You would imagine you have to wonder if we would get a tweet from the president if he still had access to his twitter right now. But what do you think . You think somehow well hear from him, hell weigh in . I dont know. But i know pamela she still remains close to him. She speaks to him fairly regularly, and she was the press secretary that folks in his orbit thought did a good job as press secretary. She obviously was very famous from her role there. And shes wellknown back in arkansas from her time as being, you know, the daughter of a governor there, mike huckabee. Sarah is someone who people see in arkansas as quite a formidable candidate. You know, shell obviously have to answer for many of the things she said and did in her role as press secretary there. But shes putting out a video in the morning, and shes ready to go. All right, thank you very much for bringing us the latest on that front. Thank you very much. Well, as america surpasses an appalling new bench mark, more than 25 Million People infected with coronavirus, you have to wonder where we might be right now if the Trump Administration had taken the science more seriously. Instead former White House Coronavirus response coordinator dr. Debra birx says there were deliberate attempts to placate the former president. I saw the president presenting graphs that i never made, so i know that someone or someone out there or someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president. I know what i sent up, and i know that what was in his hands was different from that. You cant do that. You have to use the entire database. Who was doing that . To this day i dont know. And joining me now with more is cnn medical analyst dr. Jonathan rhiner, professor of medicine at George Washington university. Dr. Rhiner, good to see you. Earlier you were on with our cnns ana cabrera and had some very harsh words for dr. Birx. You called her complicit in the coronavirus pandemic here in the u. S. Its been said the First Casualty of war is the truth, and whats clear now is the First Casualty in this horrible pandemic in the United States was the truth. The American Public was purposefully and repeatedly lied to. The president admitted this to bob woodward. We heard this today from deborah birx. But when i hear dr. Birx who i have tried to give the benefit of the doubt to for a long time because of her many years of distinguished service particularly in her work with the global aids crisis over many years. But when i hear her talk about parallel data streams, that has a horrible resonance to alternative facts. And the public was told this was a hoax, the pandemic which was blow away would go away when it got warmer. You can wear a mask, not wear a mask, the president s not going to wear a mask, states should open quickly. Then they brought in a radiologist who pushed this herd immunity nonsense. And all along we knew that dr. Birx knew what the public was being told was garbage, and she stayed silent. That makes her complicit. If the public knew in march when she was sort of boasting about the president s prowess to synthesize data because hes a businessman, if the public knew how serious this was, perhaps the public would have taken this more seriously and masked up and perhaps, you know, a quarter of a Million People in this country who are dead now might still be alive. So silence equals complicity. She doesnt get off. When you compare how dr. Fauci responded to the white house attempts to downplay the sul verity of the pandemic, how did he do correctly . We know he managed to disagree with donald trump, and he still kept his job. What do you think about that . I think what dr. Fauci was asked direct questions he gave direct answers. The problem with dr. Fauci is that he was basically muzzled for many months, prohibited from doing media interviews. Dr. Birx had an opportunity to stand up and refute these socalled parallel data streams but decided not to do that. Perhaps she femt she could be more effective from within the administration than if she stood up and left. But if she told the public how serious the pandemic was, now early on in very early on in the pandemic the doctor who was the head of the respiratory and immunization section at the cdc told the public that the virus was going to be bad, it was going to be community spread, and they should get ready for disruptions. She told that to the public when there were only 14 cases of the coronavirus in the United States. And she was never heard from again. So what the public needed to know was the truth. Dr. Birx knew the truth, but she did not stand up and tell everyone in a loud and clear voice. I want to ask you about the vaccine rollout. That is on a lot of peoples minds. As we all try to get back to normal. I had a doctor on earlier, dr. Celine gounder who said she was predicting midsummer to late summer before healthy majors would be able to be vaccinated. Do you agree with that time line . And what would you say is the Biggest Issue with this rollout right now . I think people are just confused as to what the deal is. Well, first of all, the Biden Administration is placing a ton of resources on getting vaccine into arms. It doesnt matter if we have vaccines if they dont become vaccinations. And the Biden Administration i do believe understands this. The problem is the Biden Administrations goal of a million shots a day for 100 days is basically what were doing now. It would be as if the Biden Administration came out and said that the goal for the administration should be to get the employment rate to about 6 Unemployment Rate to about 6. 5 . People would say thats where he is now, what kind of a goal is that . Well, we need to do better than a million shots per day. Most of the shots were giving now are new shots, but as we go forward more and more shots every day will be the second vaccinations. So the number of new vaccinations is going to start to drop until we get to a point in the nottoodistant future where every day the shots that are given are 50 followup and 50 new vaccinations. We need to do better. We need to vaccinate about 2 Million People a day. That should be the goal. We can do that. The manufacturers are delivering every week somewhere between 12 and 18 million doses of the vaccine. But were barely administering, you know, 8 to 9 million doses. We should deliver every dose of vaccine that is given every week that is delivered every week. I think people hear that and its so confusing because theres so much demand, right . Youre like wait a second theres just all of this vaccine, these doses of the vaccine that are just sitting there and theyre not being used . I think it was at last check around 21 million had been administered, and there were 40 million all together that had been administered. So, all right, dr. Jonathan rhiner, thank you for coming on. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Thank you. Well, right now california is the state hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. While the u. S. Surpasses 25 million confirmed cases of the virus. California is now the first state to record 3 million covid19 infections. And new cases, they keep coming. More than 24,000 new cases reported in california just in the past 24 hours. Lets go to cnns Paul Vercammen in los angeles. Paul, get us up ptodate on th situation there and if there are any signs of improvement. Reporter you pointed out the 24,000 new cases so the numbers are awful, but theyve also been worse. Lets also look at the death count. 429 covid deaths at the last report and 17,810 hospitalizations. In that a glimmer of hope that number has been coming down grudgingly. That could be good news. But in all of this, with this mounting death toll, extreme unyielding pressure on funeral directors. Lets go to boyle heights. In this neighborhood the funeral home thats been here for 90 years. In order to make up they have added employees. They have now have a 24hour answering service, unheard of. Theyve also mandated that all viewings be outside. And for these mortuary owners, its just stressful. Its been really hard turning people away, and just, you know, especially when theyre upset and you have to tell them that, you know, i can put you on a wait list and, you know, well get to you when your number comes up, which is thats unheard in our history. Ive been doing it 25 years and ive never had that this happen. Reporter and perhaps some relief. Late this afternoon l. A. County numbers, only 98 deaths. Now to the vaccinations. They say if l. A. County doesnt step it up, it has another week like last week, well see people still receiving coronavirus vaccines into 2022, pam. Paul vercammen, thank you for bringing us the latest there from los angeles. Just tough news to share i know. Well, some more breaking news into cnn this hour. Mexicos president announcing on twitter he has tested positive for the coronavirus. He says he has mild symptoms but is receiving care. Hes consistently shunned wear masks even while Holding Events around the country amid the pandemic. Hes even gone as far as saying hed wear a mask only once there was no more corruption in mexico. His diagnosis comes as mexico is seeing a surge in new cases which is pushing many hospitals to capacity. Well, democrats now lead all branches of the government, but there are divisions within the party how to wield that power. How that could affect president bidens 1. 9 trillion relief plan. 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Well, President Joe Biden is making moves to address the economic toll of this pandemic. Today sending a top economic official to call a group of bipartisan senators who could help support his 1. 9 trillion covid relief plan. Cnn White House CorrespondentArlette Saenz joins me now. Arlette, did the Biden Administration make progress in swaying reluctant republicans . Reporter well, pamela, biden dispatched his top Economic Advisor to try and make the case to that Bipartisan Group of senators and at least one republican who participated in that meeting said shes not quite convinced yet she will support that 1. 9 trillion covid relief package. Senator susan collins, a republican of maine, says she believes its premature to be talking about a nearly 2 thrill k trillion package. She left the meeting feeling that exact same sentiment. She believes that Bipartisan Group can put together a more targeted approach than what the Biden Administration is currently proposing. One of the issues the republicans have with this bill is they just passed a bill at the end of year so some are hesitant to pass such a large bill going forward. White house officials have made it clear they do want to get bipartisan signon for this package. They want to be able to do it with support from both sides of the aisle. President biden has said that. But theyve also said they will leave all tools available to them as this process unfolds. And some democrats are already urging the administration to use something called the reconciliation process, which would only require a simple majority to pass this measure. So right now that meeting that was held today with brian dees and that group of 16 senators, its just 1 of several meetings that has been unfolding behind the scenes by the Biden Administration. As the president has made clear that getting this covid relief package passed is top ticket item for him in the opening days of his administration. Pamela . All right, Arlette Saenz, thank you for that. And het me bring in democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california. Shes the former chair. Thank you so much for coming on. I first want to get your reaction to something we heard from senator Bernie Sanders this morning. Lets watch. Were going to push joe as the president as far as we can. But given the fact hes been in office for less than a week i think hes off to a good start. So hes only a week in, but what is your take . Has the president s first week been progressive enough in your view . Well, pamela, first of all congratulations on your show. Thank you. Im really honored to be on your show during your first weekend. So thank you for having me. Thank you so much. You know, i think the Biden Administration is off to a good start. First of all, people are dying. The covid pandemic has wreaked havoc on the lives and livelihoods of american families. And so its so important that we unify and pass a bill whi