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today, police departments across this country are taking steps to make sure the asian communities remain safe. it's a busy hour on the hill. the government's top doctors are making a house call. they are testifying as we speak. in a few moments, the cdc director's stark warning about one of the covid variants ripping across the country. right now, the secretary of homeland security is testifying before a house committee. his message so far about the increase of migrants crossing our southern border. all of that coming up. we start with that breaking news there in atlanta. police ...

and the $15 minimum wage that the house voted to include in the covid relief bill. but even with democrats in control, the possibility of any of this becoming law is nowhere near guaranteed. and without a change to the filibuster, much of this progressive to-do list will die. joining me now is senate majority leader chuck schumer of the great state of new york. leader schumer, thank you very much for coming to "the sunday show." >> good to be with you, jonathan. >> the old days back in gotham. so, listen, you were able to get the senate to pass the covid relief package, and as a resu...

account at the moment as covid relief checks are rolling out with president biden's relief plan now law. the stimulus is a huge help in getting america back to normal after a year of anything but normal. as the president made clear this week in his first prime time address to the american people, while this progress is huge, it does not mean we can lower our guards. >> if we do this together, by july 4 there is a good chance you, your families, and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or in your understand neighborhood and have a cookout, a barbecue, and celebrate in...

But i look back at 2012. the previous republican nominee, mitt romney, got 27%. so my question to you is what accounts for that variability and how can democrats turn the tide again with latino voters? >> well, one of the things that we saw in the 2020 election was that fundamentally was a referendum on the economy, reopening the economy and covid and all of those things kind of taken together. we know that latinos were disproportionately impacted by covid, the economics' effect of covid. so because we weren't actually talking about immigration in the same way that we were in 2016 and 2018, wh...

Mitt romney got 27%. so my question to you as, when it counts for that variability? and how can democrats turn the tide again with latino voters? >> one of the things that we saw in the 2020 election was that fundamentally a referendum on the economy, reopening the economy and covid and all of those things taken together. we know that latinos were disproportionately impacted by covid. the economics of covid. so because we weren't actually talking about immigration in the same way that we were in 2016, and 2018, and wish we can be real defining issue in those two elections. -- in a 2018, those ...