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started. you are for that reform and bringing back the filibuster. i am. that s what it was supposed to be. the idea is almost getting to the point where there is, you know, democracy is having a hard time functioning. maria: democrats have been pushing to kill or reform the filibuster since with biden took office knowing it is truly the republican s last line of defense against their radical agenda. but they heard biden s comments this morning and now they cannot wait to get to work. biden s remarks are a major shift in his position. he has given new energy and potential movement to the reform effort. he recognizes his program will be stopped unless we reform the filibuster. maria: don t like the rules of the game? change the rules. apparently that s the democrat motto when in power. mitch mcconnell has seen it happen over and over again. so i guess where they stand depends on where they sit. and so when they are in a position to advance the ball, they don t ....
never had on the border. it is going to get much worse. what you are seeing now is very bad. record numbers, but it is going to get much, much worse. we had very few people coming in and we stopped human trafficking. when i say stopped it, made a tremendous dent never made before and drug trafficking. we did a lot of things. all of that is now eroded. harris: also stunning new numbers today show border agents encountering an average of 565 unaccompanied minors every single day that s up from 313 children per day just last month. trending higher. there are now more than 4200 migrant children in custody. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell will be with me to talk about it later this hour. plus the escalating battle over the filibuster on capitol hill. it could, in fact, change the government that we know in america in an amazing way depending on your point of view, not good. first, casey stiegel is live along the southern border in mission, texas. casey. and harr ....
down, we are still at roughly 55,000 new cases a day and more than a thousand deaths. what s more troubling hot spots have begun to pop up in places like michigan, minnesota and right here in new york city. also today, brand new homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. he ll have to explain how the administration is coping with the massive, at the border. he said don t do it. i can say quite clearly, don t come over and the process of getting set up and it s not going to take a whole long time is to be able to apply for asylum in place so don t leave your town or city or community. more on all of that in just a minutes, but we have got to start our morning with a string of deadly shootings down in georgia. i want to go straight to my colleague blaine alexander. blaine, what is going? stephanie, right now there are a lot of moving pieces in this and a lot of questions we still have. here s what we do know. we re talking about three different shootings and th ....
lots to cover. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, former fbi special agent in charge and jim cavanaugh and georgia state representative. great to have all three of you with us. what do we know about the victims and how did law enforcement catch and identify the suspect so quickly? well, ayman, it really is a painful day here in atlanta in the wake of this massive shooting spree. we know eight people were killed. six of the victims were of asian descent. one person was also injured. this took place in about an hour or so yesterday around the 5:00 hour. initially, the first shooting location was in the cherokee county area of georgia, about 45 minutes from where we are right now. officials have just released some of the victims names. they include delaina ashley yaun, 33 years old, paul andre michels, 54, xiaojie yan, 49 and daoyuo feng, 44. they range in age from 54 to 33. how were they able to capture the suspect so quickly? apparently his parents alerted offi ....
hiring. they are not stopping there. as if we were not spending enough already, plans are underway for a new deal-style infrastructure plan costing trillions of dollars and then they will try to pass it without a single republican vote. but ultimately, [inaudible] maria: of course, hr one, a sweeping election reform law making mail-in ballots the standard and do away with need an i.d. to vote. this will fundamentally change the way this country votes and solidify power for the democrats. it has already passed in the house, but it is due in the senate unless democrats vote to end the filibuster. progressives want to get rid of that as well. rather than protecting the balanced system, today s filibuster throws the system out of balance giving one half of one branch of government what amounts to veto. it promotes gridlock, not good governance. maria: it is amazing how the definition of good governance changes in just three short years. this was him in 2018. th ....