>> well, yeah, voters did vote for it when they voted for joe biden and kamala harris and against one of the most divisive presidents in history. right now january 6th which is proof that we all don't have the same facts of what goes on in this country and mitch mcconnell's party is perpetuating the big lie even though that election had been over for months. voters voted against all that. mcconnell is trying to distract this from all this matt gaetz problem and all the marjorie taylor green and donald trump is still the leader of the republican party. this is all a distraction. he's starting the war for christmas earlier. >> a lot of these are distractions from serious issues. i think that's really important. let me ask you one other thing because i know a lot of people are talking about this and thinking about this. the original new york times 1619 project included a core claim that the u.s. reserve aleutian was launched to maintain slavery. they issued a clarification s saying it was not the primary motivation for colonies. t that can be part of a curriculum but not its core. please

here you've got republicans fighting with one another when you have joe biden beginning to launch the most massive movement toward big government and sky high taxes and they don't even have time to talk about that because they're fighting amongst themselves. they keep this up, they're going to jeopardize their ability to win the house in 2022. >> two republican lawmakers have told cnn that congresswoman cheney's words this week were no helpful in any way, shape or form. >> i don't know if she's on an island, but she may be digging a moat around herself. i talked to a republican today who said it's not helpful because every time she's asked about trump, she answers how she honestly feels. they believe in the house caucus that either you're with them or you're not. and if you're not with them in your attitude towards donald trump, then you ought not to be leading the caucus. i think liz cheney is thinking about bigger things. perhaps she's thinking about a run for the presidency. she's not shy about how she feels about donald trump. internally now, republicans in the house have a proble

his approach >> you won't hear him yelling or sending angry tweets because for joe biden actions speak louder. >> now those ads are part of a multi-million dollar advertising campaign trying to rally support out in america, but, jake, the question is what effect will it have in the congress? will any republicans come on board with this big spending plan? infrastructure is one area where they do believe they can get some republican buy-in but like will the not for the entire plan. you know, the question also can they keep democrats together? next week there will be meeting is at the white house i'm told. this is a central challenge and test facing the administration in the coming months. jake? >> all right. jeff zeleny in the great city of philadelphia, thank you so much. appreciate it. one activist says it's an attempt to prosecute black americans for calling out systemic racism. we're going to take a look at what's going on with all these laws to limit protests across the country. that's next. not all 5g networks are created equal. ♪ t-mobile america's largest and fastest 5g network

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joe biden press expressing confidence that all schools should probably be able to open. >> there's not overwhelming evidence that there's much of a transmission among young people. >> reporter: moderna is preparing to have their vaccine authorized by children, while the authorization for the same age group could come soon. the hope of expanding vaccine eligibility intensifies as vaccination rates slumps to its lowest level in weeks. a new cnn poll shows 26% of american adults still don't plan to try to get a shot at all. >> we are now increasingly focused on other groups that will take time to reach. and we expect the number of shots administered each day to moderate and fluctuate. >> reporter: all the vaccines we currently have on the market were brought here by emergency use authorization from the fda, dut dr. fauci is saying very soon we could see full fda approval for the pfizer vaccine and the moderna vaccine, and officials are really hopeful that that could help to boost confidence among some who are still hesitant. >> thank you so much. >>> still ahead, rudy giuliani, we're hear

our poll shows 7 in 10 republicans do not think joe biden got enough votes to win the presidency. this comes at rz republicans once again auditing the 2020 ballots in arizona's biggest county as they push the push the lie that the election was stolen from donald trump. >> reporter: this is yet another tally of the nearly 2.1 million ballots in maricopa county. but this so-called audit is unlike any other. these are ballot counters heading into a shift. have you ever done election counting before? >> no. but it's -- there's nothing to it. it's -- it's pretty obvious. >> no thanks. >> reporter: most don't want to talk. others -- we're just trying to do a story. openly partisan, as you see what they displayed and what they say. >> what news group are you from? >> reporter: cnn. >> okay. >> reporter: one american news network is the small far right-wing outlet that has promoted false claims that donald trump won the election. they are also livestreaming the event. its hosts have help raise funds for this exercise. we were initially told we could not enter the publicly owned arizona st

biden politically. cnn previously reported that the white house and congress had received briefings that giuliani was receiving misinformation from foreign nationals. but we have not confirmed "the washington post" report that we just received a comment from giuliani's attorney robert costello and he denies this. he says in a statement the story is totally false according to giuliani, never received any such briefing. >> let's discuss with carrie -- a former doj official, and a cnn legal and national security analyst. carrie, beginning with giuliani's legal troubles, listen to this from his fox interview last night. >> that warrant is completely illegal. the only way you can get a search warrant is if you can show that there's some evidence that the person is going to destroy the evidence. or is going to -- or is going to run away with the evidence. i've had it for two years and i haven't destroyed it. >> is that how warrants work? >> no, that's just not correct and it's pretty surprising to hear somebo

joe biden is president. but seven in ten republicans still say the president of the united states is an illegitimate president, seven in ten republicans say that and 27% of independents say that. imagine how much this complicates president biden's efforts to talk to the country when 70% of republicans think he doesn't deserve the job, that he has. now, you would think, months would pass, the election is over, this would fade. it has faded some. but not much. in 58 -- in january 58% of republicans said there was solid evidence, not just donald trump says, but solid evidence biden did not win enough votes. that's down to 50% among republicans but still half of republicans still say they believe there's solid evidence. like to see it, because there is none, but that's what half of republicans believe. this complicates joe biden's job, trying to talk to the american people, all americans and it's part of the reason republicans are doing this. republicans still say there was all this nefarious conduct in the 2020

damaging to joe biden. now cnn previously reported that the white house and congress had been given these kinds of do you havive defensive briefings. but the new reporting from post says that giuliani was briefed in 2019 and then following that briefing, giuliani then went on a trip to ukraine and met with some of the officials who were later identified as being actors of russian intelligence. giuliani's attorney has not responded. >> so what is giuliani saying about this investigation and the raid? >> yeah. so last night giuliani was on fox. he gave the first interview about the fbi raid at his apartment just behind me on wednesday. and giuliani said that the officials there had seized seven or eight electronic devices. they came banging on doorthe do first thing in the morning. he was looking for dirt on joe biden and where he was pushing for the removal of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine. the question that prosecutors are looking at was that part of the effort that giuliani was undertaking on behalf of th

there i'm remundinded of someth that joe biden believed, first lesson of being president. you can set an agenda but it is impossible to be able to follow it day to day. simply because of things coming down the pike. in this case, there is a level environment legislative unpredictability that he is contending with that is going to make it very difficult. i wonder if you believe that he is pushing back a bit at this sort of caretaker idea. joe biden, veteran politician coming in. quiet things down post trump. i have a legacy here. i'm going big on family stuff, health care, gun reform, immigration. >> yeah, i think so. it's interesting. i started to hear that tone from him last summer. he started the cam ppaign sayin he wanted to be the caretaker tra transitional president. he said, no, i see myself in the challenge that fdr was facing. i think at the time people said how does that actually work? this is something he doesn't want to go down in hist rich. he didn't meet the challenge or the moment. that is why you begin to hear from him this much more ambitious and some ways,

even if you compromise and get a bipartisan deal they're voting a joe biden opportunity. is there actual republican interest in compromise? >> you're absolutely right the political incentives make members of both parties tack hard to their base in seeking consensus and compromise. there are voices there. the problem solvers caucus is working right now on an infrastructure plan like they did last year on covid relief that became the foundation for ultimate agreement. they need to do the same thing now. there are people who want to do infrastructure on both sides. they should let the centers, the manchins, fitzpatricks and others, let them negotiate a deal. the leaders should embrace it. the leaders are also very afraid of their own bases in many respects. they get a lot of pressure from their caucuses and the senate has to really drive this thing. if they do, i think we could see some results. >> chuck schumer, he has his own challenge within his party in 2022. he has to be conscious of the base as he's making these deals. we will see. it may be a necessity for biden becau

biden, and candidate joe biden to hurt his campaign. how big of a deal is a briefing like this? >> it's a big deal, john. it doesn't happen without a significant amount of information that basically proves to the fbi that this sort of nefarious contact is underway. so you go to the person and you explain to them -- oftentimes you can't share all the confidential or classified intelligence you have, but you explain to them, hey, this person or these people are actually acting on behalf of a hostile foreign service and they're targeting you. after that fact, the fbi steps back and waits to see how you handle that briefing. if you cut off your interactions with them, that's a good sign. if you continue to sinteract wih them, which we know rudy giuliani did here, that's a very bad sign. you now are acting with these foreign agents and you are aware of the fact that the u.s. government thinks they are hostile intelligence agents. that is very serious. >> yeah. and perhaps very telling. andy, thank you so much, andy mccabe. >>> rudy giuliani,

the russians were trying to damage then candidate joe biden ahead of the 2020 election. joining us now, cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andy mccabe. andy, these defensive intelligence briefings that were given to rudy giuliani and then ron johnson, how big of a deal is this? what does it tell you? giuliani and johnson are trying to dismiss it as not a thing. >> it is a thing. one, if the fbi sits someone down to give them a briefing, they're essentially telling them they think they've been targeted by a hostile intelligence service. they don't do that without a lot of very clear information that indicates that's going on. this isn't just something they do as, you know, maybe a just-in-case sort of measure. they only do it when it indicates it's necessary. the second thing is once giving a briefing is seeing how a person reacts after the fact. most will curtail their activities or cut off their contact with the person or persons in question. if you don't do that, it really sends a very strong message to the investigators that now that you

giuliani believed she had been blocking his effort to dig up dirt on joe and hunter biden. they are looking into his communications with ukrainian and american officials leading up to her firing. >> it was a focus of former president trump's first impeachment and that's one of the scandals swirling around giuliani who was also involved in trump's other impeachment and could face charges for his role peddling election lies in georgia and inciting the capitol mob. when they look into this, this now opens up everything, right? officials -- the fbi can look at everything here what they find on this material. >> sure. and i think that there's a lot to unpack here for rudy giuliani but the big question is who is he working for? he says he never represented a ukrainian before the united states government. he's saying that but he knows because it would be illegal unless he had registered as a foreign lobbying agent with the justice department, something he didn't do. we also know of course he was the president's lawyer then. he's working for trump. so the question is who exactly is

. >> reporter: and on president joe biden's 100th day in office there would be no rest. biden fresh off his first prime time address to congress marking the milestone moment by hitting the road, touching down today in georgia the first in a series of trips over the next ten days as the white house tries to shape its next 100 days. biden has proposed more than $6 trillion in new spending, his latest $1.8 trillion proposal now on the table, laying out transformative changes to education and the social safety net for families. >> my fellow americans, trickle down -- trickle down economics has never worked and it's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out. >> and already drawing strong gop opposition. >> even more taxing, even more spending to put washington even more in the middle of your life from the cradle to college. >> reporter: but with the narrow west of majorities it's democrats the white house is keeping the closest eye on with crucial moderate senator joe manchin telling manu raju he's reviewing the proposal but its scale is in his words a lot.

. >>> that as the president, joe biden, is marking 100 days in office on the road in georgia, promoting his multi-trillion dollar package of plans for jobs, infrastructure, and american families, calling his ambitious ideas a once-in-a-generation investment in america. tomorrow he heads to pennsylvania, also saying today that he does not believe the american people are racist. >>> and rudy giuliani slamming the raid and seizure by federal officials of electronic devices from his home and office. tonight in a tv interview, claiming the warrant was illegal and denying he did anything wrong. there's lots to discuss now. cnn's senior political analyst nia-malika henderson joins me and political commentator amanda carpenter. i'm so happy to have both of you on. i got the "a" team tonight. good evening. amanda, let's start with this new daily beast reporting that congressman matt gaetz's friend wrote a confession letter saying he and the congressman paid for sex with several women including a 17-year-old girl. the letter was an attempt to get a presidential pardon from trump with the help of

which, joe biden won fair and square. which party? and they voted to overturn those results, while the destruction at the capitol was, still, being cleaned up. which party is behind the nationwide effort to suppress the vote in future elections? the assault on voting rights. simply, because their guy lost. which party? which party just passed voting restrictions in florida? a key-swing state. including, limiting the use of drop boxes. and adding more-i.d. requirements for absentee ballots. which party? which party is it that passed a law in georgia making it a crime to give food or water to voters in line. come which party is that? which party is it, whose governor signed that law behind closed doors while a duly-elected state representative was literally locked out and then arrested for knocking on the door. >> for what? under arrest, for what? for trying to see something that our governor is doing? >> hi, tim scott. mirror. which party? do you know which party is trying to rig elections, in the future? you know, like i said. we have

what joe biden laid out yesterday was a very expansive role of the federal government and a huge price tag and just a ton of details that congress has to fill in. on top of the $1.9 trillion that covid relief has already been approved, we're talking about $1.8 trillion in the american family plan as well as $2.25 trillion for the american jobs plan. those last two measures still need to move through congress and there's some bipartisan basis to move forward but also democrats trying to cut out republicans and move it on their own. if they try to move it on their own, they have to win over west virginia senator joe manchin. he has been one of the most effective senators in wielding the influence of an individual senator as he wants in a 50-50 senate. any senator has power to use leverage. joe manchin is doing just that. when i talked to him earlier today, i asked him about his concerns, if he had any, about the role of the government that joe biden laid out and he made clear he is concerned. >> are you concerned about this push for a more expansive government? >> oh, most certainly, yea

joe biden is marking 100 days in office and promoting a plan for jobs and infrastructure and american families and calling his ambitious ideas once in a generation investment in america. tomorrow he heads to pennsylvania. saying today he sdnts believe the american people are racist and rudy giuliani slamming the raid and seizure by federal officials of electronic devices from his home and office. tonight, in a tv interview, claiming the warrant was legally and denying he did anything wrong. there is a lot to discuss now. senior political analyst joins me and also a political commentator amanda carpenter. good to have you both on. i got the 18 tonight. good evening. start with the daily beast reporting. the letter was part of the joel greenberg's attempt to get a presidential pardon from trump with the help of roger stone. we reached out. i got to say all of this stuff right so we can be responsible here. we reached out to greenberg's attorney. he said no comment citing attorney/client privilege. this is how matt gaetz responded congressman hasaying the following. okay. so this is gett

but you are hearing from people like senator joe manchin, saying they have questions how big joe biden is trying to go. but he is reasoning that, not in washington, but on the road today here in georgia for this first stop. he's going to pennsylvania tomorrow. he's got several more stops planned for next week, because what they're focusing on is selling it as -- i heard you talking about this transformational moment. they view it that way, but he sees an opening given the pandemic and given the economic disaster that followed that, see thing is a spot where they can succeed in getting a plan like this through with what he envisions. whether or not that happens still remains to be seen. how do american voters feel about this? we saw the polling on the coronavirus relief bill. that relief bill paired with the infrastructure bill and paired with the american families plan is about $6 trillion in spending. that's a whole lot of spending. so i think that is going to be a massive question facing them. but the way joe biden was trying to sell it here tonight, and what we are hearing from offi

. >> reporter: on president joe biden's 100th day in office, there would be no rest. biden, fresh off his prime time address to congress, marking the moment by touching down today in georgia. the first in a series of trips over the coming days. biden has now proposed more than $6 trillion in new spending with his latest proposal now on the table, laying out transformative changes to education and the social safety net for families. >> my fellow americans, trickle down, trickle down economics has never worked. it's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out. >> reporter: and drawing strong gop opposition. >> even more taxing, even more spending to put washington even more in the middle of your life from the cradle to college. >> reporter: with the narrowest of majorities, it's democrats the white house is keeping the closest eye on, with crucial moderate democratic senator joe manchin telling cnn he's reviewing the proposal. >> we're looking at everything to make sure that we just don't spend money for the sake of putting money and causing more debt an

a single member, like democrat joe manchin, could derail the biden agenda. are you concerned about this push for a more expansive government? >> most certainly, i am. i want to see the details. >> reporter: after approving nearly $2 trillion in covid relief last month, some in congress are getting sticker shock with biden's $1.8 trillion american families plan, which includes expansion of the child tax credit, funding for universal pre-k and billions to reduce health care premiums. on top of that, $2.25 trillion jobs plan, which calls for historic investments in roads, bridges and broadband and a sweep of other measures. to pay for it, tax hikes, including on corporations and capital gains. manchin is not so sure. >> we can't overreach to the point that we stymie investments and stymie growth for 2022, '23, '24 and on. >> and the price tag? >> it's a lot. we don't spend money for the sake of spending money and causing more debt and maybe increasing inflation. we can overflood the market. >> reporter: bipartisan infrastructure talks are ongoing. it's anyone's

joe biden is the polar opposite. he really respect the tradition, obviously jimmy carter is the oldest president and he was going to georgia, but he's reached out to george w. bush and he talks, i'm told, regularly to former president obama. this is classic joe biden, alisyn. >> the president is in georgia to sell the legislation that he fleshed out for the american people yesterday, and, of course, we heard immediately after that the pushback from senator tim scott as well. where do the potential -- where is, i should say, the potential for any bipartisan movement forward on this, which we know senator manchin says he will need at least an attempt at to support it? >> yeah, it's a complex die tp dynamic to say the least, and there's the $2.25 trillion plan from last month, and you have seen a group of senate republicans put on the table their own physical infrastructure proposal, considerably smaller, $600 billion, and white house officials believe it's not going to be enough, but the staffs have been going back and

still an open question as they are keeping that option open but one republican who approached joe biden on the floor of the house yesterday was senator rob portman, and i am told from a person familiar with the exchange with the president and portman, portman told the president, don't leave us out. so, a plea from a republican senator to continue those negotiations. we'll see if it leads to anything, and we'll see what democratic leaders ultimately decide. >> manu raju for us there, thank you so much, manu. kaitlan, stay with us. i want to bring in now evan, he's a cnn contributor, staff writer for the "new yorker" and author of "joe biden: the life, the run and what matters now." evan, thanks for being with us. i want to start on the breadth of what we heard from the president last night. and put it in the context of what he said during the campaign. he said, i view myself as a bridge, not as anything else. a transition to a new group of democratic political leaders. but the plans he proposed last night speak more to a leader who is not just in transition but willingly and intentionall

close allies when president carter was in office, and joe biden was the senator as well. they've maintained that relationship throughout the course of the last several decades. they will be checking in, saying hello. we'll see if we see them at any point during this visit. president carter did not come to the inauguration, due to concerns about his age and the coronavirus pandemic. he has been vaccinated up to this point so we'll see if anything comes out of that meeting. i think when you look broadly over all at what the president's doing today in georgia, obviously this is the first stop in what's expected to be about ten days of extensive travel, top administration officials and cabinet officials as well to sell what he laid out in that primetime address, his $1.8 trillion proposal, to really reshape education and the social safety net for families in this country. it is ambitious. there's no question about it but there's also a recognition inside the white house that they are going to need to sell this, and they're going to need to sell this to the public. if you look

but what joe biden is banking on in his democratic colleagues in congress is the fact that covid showed people you need government. you need government, in some sectors of your life, the private sector doesn't always work for you and he's trying to go big on that and transform the government in a way that we haven't seen in decades. >> dana says big, dan ball, bigger than in decades. you're right about that this morning. i want to read that, but first, the president looking the american people in the eye and saying i want a giant plan. it's a lot of money. he likes to use the word "jobs". >> american jobs will add millions of jobs and trillions of dollars to economic growth in the years to come. it is an eight-year program. these are good paying jobs that can't be outsourced. nearly 90% of the infrastructure jobs created in american jobs plan do not require a college degree. 75% don't require an associate's degree. >> dan, this is how you cast this in the post today, his speech was a reflection of his presidency to date, an appeal for big and bold action, described in the most work a da

i know that as well. >> i know joe biden does. i have to tell you, those were three people that were sort of a very emotional night that way. >> yeah. good to see you, congresswoman. thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you. >> long negotiation ahead. appreciate it. coming up for us, a judge denies request to release body cam footage from the shooting of andrew brown jr. for now. one of andrew brown's sons is our guest next. their only friend? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at $79 a year. well, we're new friends. to be fair. eh, still. if you have this... and you get this... you could end up with this... unexpected out-of-pocket costs. which for those on medicare, or soon to be, is a good reason to take charge of your health care. so consider th

somebody who served as president early in joe biden's senate career. was not a popular president. was dpeeted for re-election. but has become much more popular and beloved as a humanitarian since leaving the presidency. joe biden consistently tried to show respect to some of his peers or older colleagues over the years. bob dole has been ill and jimmy carter at 96, he's going to see him. mostly this is about trying to generate momentum for this economic plan, not a lot of time for new president to get the top items on his agenda through. he is trying to maximize it. >> john, thank you. let's bring in former white house deputy chief of staff. good morning, jim. >> good morning. >> i remember you talking about working so hard in 2009 in the obama-biden white house to get republicans onboard with what was then that stimulus legislation. and you said it was actually a mistake. so has that mistake been learned by biden? did you hear that last night sense of we can't -- when you said, doing nothing is not an option. basically, we can't wait. and republicans were going to go with or with

and joe biden is a student of history. i think we are not only in a moment of crisis and opportunity but as the president pointed out last night, we're in a moment of necessity. women took it on the chin in this pandemic. and we need to make sure we invest in child care. so many people feel left behind and blue collar blueprint of this president is tailor made to rebuild our economy from the bottom and the middle up. and that's where i think his secret weapon is. it's not going to be easy. no doubt about it. but i think he has the american people on his side. and the republicans continue to oppose this. i think at their political peril. they're on the wrong side of these issues. >> except, david gergen, to tom's argument. you have people like lisa murkowski who has just made a response saying, i think it makes it very difficult to be truly bipartisan. tim scott in his response pointing out that under the trump administration there were five covid related bipartisan bills passed on that front. and we saw straight partisan l

joe biden? >> no, actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that wothe dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> reporter: they threatened to withhold military aid to ukraine and withheld a white house visit for the newly elected ukrainian president in order to furth ir their efforts. the main focus of trump's first impeachment trial. investigators also want to know if giuliani acted as an illegal lobbyist on behalf of ukrainian officials. for example, giuliani's insistence that the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovich be fired. trump did eventually fire the ambass ambassador. >> our ukraine policy has been thrown into chaos. >> reporter: two ukrainian associates of giuliani's were indicted in 2019 on several charges, including illegally funneling foreign money to pro-trump political groups. igor f

line against joe biden. you saw this on issues over and over where he would concede. yeah, joe biden seems like a good guy, but he's pulling the country apart. he promised to lower the temperature. obviously he's lowered the temperature from donald trump. if you look at the polling, the most significant thing he's done, he's getting broad support from the american people. on race, tim scott, african-american senator from south carolina, was making case that, yes, i understand what racism feels like. i understand what discrimination feels like. but then pivoted to the argument that is pretty widespread within the republican party right now that it's white people who are being discriminated against. so he's saying, kids are being taught, if you're white, you're an oppressor. he didn't say white, but that's what he meant. that is an argument that many republicans believe, but when you look at the context of american society and the history of america as we've evolved to this point, that's a hard argument to sus

joe biden is a moderate guy. he's not a proi depressive. he knows he can wheel and deal. he did that with president obama. i think they can argue that's a fool's errand. they're not going to be ashl to negotiate with republicans. let's ram through. we can. let's help america who's been beaten down during the pandemic and get what we can. >> according to "the new york times" this morning, it's a question of whether he's a transitional president, which gets to whether he was running on being the not trump or transformational, which is what he's proposing now. i was struck by the framing of the entire thing, not just the domestic thing, but making this a worldwide issue, making it we need to build roads and invest in our education so we can beat china. it's really interesting. >> it is interesting because it is competitive. how our country grows is job growth, equality, access to the middle class, things that other countries are thinking about and investing in and where we are losing ground, despite the fact that we are the most envied country in the world in so many respect

." ♪ >>> joe biden calls it the american families plan, a sweeping multi-billion dollar agenda meant to help with things like child care, preschool education, paid family leave and free community college. he outlined his vision last night in a address to joint members of congress. they say no one making $400,000 a year will see their taxes go up and says investing now in america's future will create millions of new jobs and trillions in economic growth. biden delivered his speech with two women sitting behind him, a historic first. vice president kamala harris and house speaker nancy pelosi became the first women to lead both the senate and the house during a presidential address to congress and president biden didn't let it pass unnoticed. >> madam speaker, madam vice president. no president has ever said those words from this podium. no president has ever said those words and it's about time. >> biden also commented on the january insurrection at the capitol calling it the worst attack on u.s. democracy since the civil war. >> as we gather here tonight the image of a violent mob as

president joe biden delivered his first address to congress. the hour-long speech was dominated by domestic issues from vaccines to immigration, but as you just heard, he also put world leaders on notice, especially china, that he intends to reestablish american leadership on the international stage. nic robertson is our international editor. he joins us from london. nic, biden mentioned four times i believe and president xi three times by name. he said he didn't want confrontation with china, but then basically said our entire democracy is at stake here. so take us through what he said and what it means beyond its importance for the domestic audience here. >> yeah, and i think probably the biggest headline if you're sitting in president xi's shoes today is president biden said he would defend united states interests. clearly, president biden laid out the reason and rationale why the united states needs to, as he said, make sure china and other big nations play by the same rules. he talked about the global climate summit. but he did. in that cl

well, joe biden has big plans for his next-100 days in office. the u.s. president delivered his first address to a joint session of congress, just a few hours ago. touting an ambitious economic plan, costing $4 trillion. on top of the nearly $2 trillion, already, approved for covid relief. his new american families plan would include money for a host of bread-and-butter issues, like paid-family leave, childcare, preschool education, and free-community college. the president calls it an investment in the future, that will create millions of jobs and trillions, in economic growth. he is hoping to capitalize on the success of his covid-vaccination efforts. and americans' approval of how he's handled the pandemic. >> and inherited a nation, we all did, that was in crisis. the worst pandemic in a century. the worst economic crisis, since the great depression. the worst attack on our democracy, since the civil war. now, after just-100 days, i can report to the nation, america is on the move, again. >> and the president's address has americans feeling optimistic

>> i think the joe biden is misreading his mandate. it was to normalize and stabilize the country and govern ourselves. which has done with covid. and high marks for that. i don't think the mandate was this to go this big. 6 trillion in spending in the first year. he's misreading that. these proposals are not quite as popular as he thinks they are. i think he's taking a great risk given the fact he has such narrow majority in the house and in the senate. he's taking a great risk. and willing to go this big and forsake the house because he fig yirs he won't get anything in the second two years of the term. he's taking a huge gamble with the go big proposals. i don't think that's what the american people voted for. they wanted to get rid of trump. they want rest not a revolution. they're getting more of a revolution. >> different flavor of revolution. emphasis tonight on january 6. january 6th is a weak spot for the right in terms of caring about law and order. i say it on my show. i don't want to hear about blue lives matter if you don'

>> i think joe biden did a great job. you know, in d.c., we often say that this night is a night that kind of lays the foundation for 2022 and 2024. but what joe biden did was really talk to people, who are suffering and who are in pain right now. and have been, for quite some time. but one thing that i thought was really interesting is, as i was listening to, particularly, like, that first-35 minutes, 40 minutes of the speech that really talked about the economy. it felt like that speech was written for women. moms and women, who have been impacted so much by this pandemic. being at home. really, bearing the brunt of childcare. and so, it -- it wasn't ironic, i don't think, that there are two women behind him making history. i also thought it was, you know, unique that he took the time to identify the asian-american/pacific islander community. transgender individuals. african-americans. immigrants. he really, really met the moment. i would -- my only critique would be, and that i was expecting a little bit more, he did t

joe biden again, 37 years in the senate. four decades thinking he should be the person delivering the state of the union address or it is not officially a state of the union address. but let's not forget history of tonight with the female speaker of the house and female vice president. that's a big deal. an optic for the country and the world. i do think, this is a competition of ideas. it is a competition of politics. we're sitting here at the end of april 2021. everybody in this town, and this is what america gets annoyed about washington, is already thinking about the mid-term elections. joe biden saying, i told you. i would reverse this vaccine will rollout. we would get vaccines in arms. i told you. now trust me as i want to do more. he's trying to get the american people to buy in. okay, the first 100 days worked. let's continue this approach. senator scott was trying to pull that back. he was saying, oh, no, no, we did some of this stimulus back in the trump administration. and president trump does deserve credit for

joe biden is swinging for the fences. you look at this speech, this is a once in a century opportunity to reset the american system. you're talking about a free community college? you're talking about child care. you're talking about family leave. you're talking about the family economics that are on display here will change people's lives in a real way. so i think nobody has really put it together yet. this is a big reveal. you put all the stuff together. you've got the deferred maintenance taking care of for how this country can work for more people. i think it's a big deal. >> evan, you wrote the book on joe biden. are you surprised by the direction he's moving? >> he feels this moment calls as van said for something larger than an ordinary set of policy items. in his inauguration address 99 days ago, he mentioned democracy more than any address in history not only because we were two weeks after the insurrection out capitol. it's because he really sees there is a risk if americans don't believe democracy can deliver f

it is much harder to attack joe biden. look at the poll numbers. >> absolutely. of course we all know if you look at the numbers, the tax increases whether you support them or not do not add anywhere up to the cost of spending. that's a separate talk for a separate day. >> senator tim scott is going to give the republican response, the other party gets the response. tim scott will give it tonight. he'll say and here is a quote we got from him "before covid we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime. that happens because republicans focused on expanding opportunities for all americans." >> so can tim scott and republicans turn the economy on biden here successfully? >> well, look let's give biden some credit for rolling out the vaccines although it is produced by the private sector and distributed by the private sector. he touched base with our allies and his tone has been good. erin, they spent $6 trillion in the last year. $6 trillion. look, i was the chairman of the budget committee and now they're saying what they're going to do is get all this money out

what joe biden is going to say is, look, we got you these vaccines. we got you money in your pockets. we are restoring jobs in this country, and that is because government is on your side. >> yeah, normally there are about 1,600 people in the house of representatives for a speech like this. tonight there will be 200 because of the covid pandemic. nia, the president also plans to lay out what's being described as part two of his massive infrastructure plan, but already democratic senator joe manchin is signaling his discomfort with the price tag. so is tonight more about winning over republicans or getting fellow democrats on board? >> it's about both and more broadly the american people. you look at some of the polling like this, something like 60% of americans think that this infrastructure plan is a good idea. 80% of democrats, something like 70% of independents. so if you're joe biden, you want to maintain that good feeling that most americans have about this infrastructure plan and then explain it. this administration has a very broad idea of what

join me and my team for coverage of president joe biden's first address to a joint session of congress. our special live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. as for now our coverage continues with wolf blitzer. he is right next door in the situation room. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. we're following major developments in the criminal investigation into president trump's former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. federal agents raiding his new york city home and office as part of the probe into giu giuliani's dealings with ukraine during the time he was working for trump. and there's breaking news coming in. we're also getting the first excerpts from president bi

, on president biden and his son hunter that he was hoping to use to damage then candidate joe biden politically. as far as we know it relates to that, but as you know, these investigations start one place and then they go off into other directions. look back at michael cohen, former president trump's former personal lawyer who initially was touched on as part of the special counsel probe by robert s. mueller. that went off in a bunch of different directions, and cohen still remains the only person who got significant jail time in any of this. i think that that is the risk for giuliani is that these probes begin in a certain place, and as he knows better than anybody they can go off in a bunch of different ways. >> i'm thinking now and having a image of four seasons total landscaping in philadelphia right near the tacony-palmyra bridge and one of the main boosters of trump's big lie about the election, the false claim after false claim, bogus testimony around the country, that there was mass voter fraud in the election, take a listen. >> so over the next ten days we get to see the ma

joe biden, it may be that we learn when all the facts come out, that all joe biden's justice department did was get out of the way of an investigation that was rolling down the tracks to begin with. >> john harwood, gloria can borger, elliot williams, thank you all. we have much more ahead on this breaking news. >> we sure do. >>> plus, a judge has just decided that the family of andrew brown jr. will get to see the body cam video of his death, but the public will not. van jones joins us live to discuss. >>> president biden's first address to joint session of congress is hours away. would he give you a preview. ♪ ♪i've got the brains you've got the looks♪ ♪let's make lots of money♪ ♪you've got the brawn♪ ♪i've got the brains♪ ♪let's make lots of♪ ♪uh uh uh♪ ♪oohhh there's a lot of opportunities♪ with allstate, drivers who switched saved over $700. saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate click or call to switch today. this past year has felt like a long, long norwegian winter. but eventually, with spring comes rebirth. everything begins anew. and

from endpoints to everywhere. >>> for nearly 50 years, joe biden has been a spectator when a president makes an address to congress, a joint session. now in just a few hours, it will be his turn. not behind, not in front but at the podium for his first address to the joint session of congress. it will mark his first 100 days in office. president biden will call for another $1 trillion public investment, this time towards free education, child care, paid family leave. >> this joint session will look very different than previous ones with a much smaller audience because of the pandemic. for the first time, two women will be seated behind the president. that's house speaker nancy pelosi and vice president kamala harris. cnn's phil mattingly joins us. beyond those optics, what do we expect to hear from president biden tonight? >> it's day 99 of the presidency. obviously one day short of that 100-day mark that no one is sure why it became an official thing. i think that means the president is most certainly going to look back at his first few months in office and what he and the white house

did joe biden's justice department go after the former president trump? no. they stepped out of the way and stopped blocking as evan's reporting and "the new york times"'s reporting, stopped the effort to impede the investigation and that's a fundamentally different thing? >> susan, this is extremely sensitive for joe biden and his administration. for federal prosecutors to move forward with it, what does it tell you about the risk reward there in the doj and white house on this? >> i think you are right to bring that up, absolutely. the bottom line is that everybody involved clearly understood the political stakes because the warrant was previously blocked by the previous administration. nobody is under any illusions that rudy giuliani is a private citizen here. he brings the story into the office, and giuliani is the guy that got donald trump impeached not once, but twice, and in the ukraine, the question was also was skwrgiuliani acting on behaf some cukrainian interests, in addition to donald trump's interest, and i think that's why it has always been mys

that's where joe biden is strongest. where is he weak? non-call edge degree, men, whites and conservative. you would think largely the trump coalition, president biden has a lot of work to do to win them over there, if he can. campaign promises, so far the american people think this president, 6 in 10 americans think he's doing a good job of keeping his campaign promises, and by and large 6 in 10 americans say this president is keeping his campaign promises so far. let's bring into our conversation right now to share their insights, a republican pollster among the co-founders of public opinion strategies. this is the world we live in, right? joe biden is not going to have an approval rating like george w. bush or barack obama because we lived in polarized time. you focus on the middle of the electorate. why is that so important and how strong is this, 57% approval among independents? >> very strong, and even stronger, 60% among independents on covid, and we have independents for the first time positive on the economy, and they are the one

that is no different for joe biden tonight. what is different, though, is the impact of the pandemic on all of this. tonight's address will look very different from previous presidential addresses in the house chamber. usually some 1600 people will be filling the room. you know the video i'm talking about. tonight only 200 will attend in person. chief justice john roberts will be present to represent the high court. only two cabinet members will attend. no need for the morbid assignment of one cabinet member, there will be no designated survivor this time. also no first lady's box and no other guests in the house chamber, no unmasked faces except for the president. one historic and long overdue change, two women seated behind the president of the united states for the first time, house speaker nancy pelosi and vice president kamala harris. also important, remember that president biden will be speaking tonight at the site of the violent attack on american democracy, the site of the january 6th insurrection. a lot is going on ton