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

president joe biden says what is happening to him is unfair and inappropriate despite the physical danger, he is sticking with it and one of his colleagues tell us why. >> it's the last measure that an inmate can apply in this circumstance. it's not something that people do lightly and put their life in danger. all that he requests is that he is given proper medical care with a doctor of his choice. his recovery last ought is not really complete. and now we're joined from moscow. they are putting out some dire founding warnings. what can you tell us? >> without any ind -- independent medical assessment we can't say, but according to sources witness his movement, they have seen the result, and they say that sound indicate that he is in emanate danger were or danger from a dance rouse or potentially fatal heart condition. we cannot get any kind of a respond out of the russian authorities nor any ind dependent medical treatment. it is still in recovery from an at attack. they denied responsibility with that attack, but it is coming at a time when his movement is spacing socially being banned

british prime minister boris johnson also said what joe biden is proposing is ambitious. he said, look, this is not a discussion for elitist, in his words bunny huggers, he said this is an urgent conversation that must be had for businesses and others around the world. interestingly as well, of course, russian president vladimir putin making an appearance at the submit, as did president xi jinping of china. clearly their emission goal is much different but the fact that they were participating in this meeting convened by president biden means that the united states after four years of denying climate change is back at the forefront of leading this fight. the hard work now, though, continues by cutting emissions here in the u.s. by half by the end of the decade. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. >>> ending global addiction to fossil fuels will take time, money and sustained commitment and obviously that's the challenge. cnn's bill weir has our report. >> the signs are unmistakable. the science sun deniable. the cost of inaction keeps mounting. >> reporter: you could call

. >>> president joe biden spending his first full weekend at the white house in more than a month. he's prepping for a full-court press when lawmakers return and look for much-needed support on his $2 trillion plan. let's go to cnn's arlette saenz. >> president joe biden stacked his day at the white house today full of meetings with members of his senior team. i am told that one of those meetings that president joe biden and vice president harris had focused on climate issues. we also saw the special presidential envoy for climate, john kerry, and tony blinken arriving here at the white house this afternoon. this climate meeting comes as the president is preparing to host a virtual summit on climate later this month with world leaders, initially inviting leaders from around 40 countries, though that list is still having finalized, but russia and china were included on that list of invitees for their climate summit. on top of the meetings that the president is having here at the white house today, his immediate focus heading into next week will be infrastructure as he will soon star

and joe biden acknowledged that. he said he would, indeed, support the decisions that these companies and organizations are making on their own, whatever those decisions are, but he understood the other side of the coin of this, as you note. this is why stacey abrams has been reluctant to go full bore and call for these boycotts. >> there is more than 360 bills across the country that would make it harder to vote. what's happening in georgia will it have an impact in other states pushing these bills, do you think? >> everyone's watching this. and it gets extremely messy because, as we learned and we know, all of the states administer their own election law. and so what i have been talking with people about and trying to encourage people to advocate for whatever the gold standard is in voting rights policies, because you look at a state like georgia what they are pushing and then republicans get upset. why are you seeing georgia when new york has more restrictive laws. maybe there is a landing place for the corporatio

. >>> and joe biden overturns a trump-era policy. the u.s. will give more than $200 million in renewed financial support to the u.n.'s palestinian refugee agency. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm paula newton and this is "cnn news newsroom". ♪ >> so the ninth day of testimony is just hours away in the trial of former police officer derek chauvin for the alleged killing of george floyd. witnesses yesterday detailed what floyd may have said just moments before he died, both the defense and prosecution asked the lead investigator what he believes floyd was saying in a clip of police body cam footage. the answer wasn't all that clear. cnn's omar jimenez is following the case from minneapolis. >> you are still under oath. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: today's testimony, more cops taking the stand against former officer derek chauvin. >> in your opinion does defendant's use of force during that time period need to be reasonable within the entire time period? >> ye

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and we expect joe biden to affirm that as a way of going into this 100 days commemoration, this speech of the joint session of congress showing, yes, we're making progress. we're getting back to normal. joe biden trying to take credit for that and use that as part of the sales pitch for the next phase of his agenda with which is his big infrastructure plan. >> john harwood, thanks for being with us. >>> the head of the world health organization calls india's mounting coronavirus outbreak heartbreaking. hospitals in india are running out of oxygen and icu beds, and the surge of deaths forced families to wait in line to have their loved ones cremated. cnn is on the ground in new delhi. >> these raging fires will continue all day and through the evening. the surge in cases has been so much that there's a waiting for these bodies to be put on the fire by family members. there's a queue outside just waiting for the final rites to end for family member who has died of covid-19. body after body being brought into this crematorium in new delhi that's seen a huge surge not only in cases but fat

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 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

president joe biden has revealed his jobs cabinet. they will be in charge of selling his new $2 trillion infrastructure plan and that will probably be as hard to do as it sounds. we will explain. >>> and north dakota is facing a wildfire emergency with an entire town forced to evacuate. that's ahead. stay with us. lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of illness-causing bacteria detergents leave behind. proven to kill covid-19 do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. our friends sold their policy to help pay for their medical bills and that got me thinking. maybe selling our policy could help with our retirement. i'm skeptical, so i did some research and called coventry direct. they explained life insurance is a valuable asset that can be sold. we learned that we can sell all of our

joe biden is doing it, again, i think, politically as necessary. perhaps a little bit reluctantly and we'll see who makes the next move, victor. >> yeah, the return of earmarks. we'll see if that influences some senators. errol louis, thank you so much. >> thank you, victor. >> christi. >>> a senate report from capitol police failures exposes more failures. according to a report, the department of homeland security warned capitol police two weeks before the attack that they were posted on a pro-donald trump website. the report also suggests that the department's leadership failed to stay on top of routine house keeping items. the summary shows shields were not stored at the correct temperature rendering them ineffective and armory was expired. the captain of capitol police is expected to testify on capitol hill next week. >>> friday's witnesses, the testimony in the derek chauvin's trial, the medical examiner took the stand was what he said enough to convince the jury that derek chauvin's knee on floyd's neck was the cause of his death? ♪ ♪ ♪

that was the effort that joe biden was involved in, then. and the -- even though the polls are overwhelming on this, the politics haven't changed. this has become, sort of, a cultural issue for the right. you know, it's a bit like masks. it's freedom, versus public health. and they haven't really lifshif much on this. so, i -- i -- i -- it is numbingnumbing to be sitting here, again, talking about these stories. they come so fast that you can barely remember last week's mass -- mass shooting. but, the politics is not -- is not shifting. and i am not optimistic, that a compromise will be reached. chris murphy, the senator from connecticut is working hard, apparently, to find -- find a compromise. i -- i do think that the white house is spending most of its political capital on the infrastructure plan. that is the biggest thing in front of them right now. and i think joe biden has a sense -- a realistic sense of what's doable here. >> yeah. yeah. i mean, gloria, david talked about, you know, chris murphy. the lead sponsor of the background-che

." ♪ >>> 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

. >> reporter: it means a turbulent few months ahead and when you heard joe biden speaking there there was deep eloquence of a decision formulating in him over decades. never a fan of long-term investment here because he saw the problems here too deep-seeded to be fixed and americans have tried everything from invading to losing to surging to drawing down to camped terrorism to only to peace talks. the only thing they haven't tried is not being part of the problem anymore so there was an element of the commander in chief knowing that the decision he had to take would lead to bad consequences, but he had the responsibility to have a strategy and to know frankly when to stop maybe, to have the courage to call that particular moment. he also pointed out the 1% of americans who do the serving, who do the dying and being injured in this particular war, and that's a key element because as a commander in chief you clearly have to know why they are there, know why they are enduring that. he did suggest that the drawdown would begin by may the 1st. that may pander to part of the taliban's agend

. >>> president joe biden is attempting to do what his predecessors could not, end the longest war in u.s. history by bringing troops home from afghanistan. president biden announced this week that the withdrawal will begin on may 1st and likely be completely september 11th, on the 20th anniversary of al qaeda attack on the united states that prompted the beginning of the war on afghanistan back in 2001. the reaction has been mixed. critics say the threat of terrorism could be compounded. but our next guest welcomes the withdrawal, saying in part, quote, continuing the u.s. intervention in afghanistan out of the fear that the government might be overrun by the taliban is the same mind-set that has bogged us down for two decades. this problem could be solved militarily, it would have been done before now. withdrawing our troops will allow the united states to refocus on diplomacy as our foreign policy tool of first resort, a key biden campaign promise. joining us now to discuss is one of the authors of that opinion piece, congressman ro khanna of california. sir, thank you so much for

he was senior adviser to president obama and also worked closely with joe biden. as someone who has had so many years working side by side with biden in the white house, i wonder if his bold moves surprise you and what you expect tonight on that front. >> well, he has the value of experience. he spent eight years in the white house, as you mentioned, at president obama's white house, really as a partner in that administration. and he saw how events unfolded in that administration. and i think that he was determined to strike quickly and to strike as large as he could in his first -- in this first year and in the first half of his term. there's no guarantee, poppy, that there will be a democratic congress in 2023. and biden knows that. with redistricting and the census. so, you know, he needs to get done what he needs to get done now. he's probably at the peak of his popularity right now. and he's taking advantage of that. and the fact that we had a crisis. and that crisis created a mentality that we needed to move. so all of that is at play here. so i'm not surpri

there's no relationship with this study from a year ago and what biden is calling for. >> joe biden is not calling for this full stop. so who has been spreading this nonsense? >> so, as so often fox news had a big role. this went from a "daily mail" article on thursday night to a whole bunch of fox personalities on friday and saturday. listen to some of what they've been saying. >> say good-bye to your burgers if you want to sign up for the biden climate agenda. that's the finding of one study. >> they can't have a steak on the grill or hamburger on the grill july 4th weekend. >> americans would have to cut red meat consumption by a whopping 90%. that means only one burger a month. >> so this is all inaccurate and there are other fox personalities too. then it went to members of congress, a congresswoman from colorado and georgia and north carolina, donald trump jr. amplified the claim a whole bunch of other right-wing ininfluencers made the claim. again, this is completely invented out of whole cloth. it's striking to see how complete nonsense has gone from british paper to fox to the

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

russia mounted a huge influence campaign during the election to den great joe biden in favor of donald trump. when biden came into office he called putin a killer, so this relationship did not get off to a good start but here we have a phone call that happened today. president biden we understand proposed a summit between him and the russian in the a third country, not in russia or the united states. it's unclear when or where that would happen. the white house said that it was looking to make the relationship stable and predictable, to focus less on the adversarial side of things and more on the issues. they are looking to make that summit happen. it's not quite the reset we saw president president barack obama and president medvedev back in 2009 but it does look like the president is trying to lower the temperature a little bit. >> let's see what happens and where they meet. thanks, guys, very, very much. >>> coming up, why the u.s. and china are both flexing military muscle right now in the taiwan strait. cal: our confident forever plan is possible with a cfp® professional. a cfp®

there are other lines that joe biden is not all there. it's been said repeatedly. former president trump said it repeatedly. he would also say, i'm asking a question or doing a retweet or putting it out there. that was a very ery familiar statement from him. it should have been clear to the congressman. he had ample opportunity to clean it up, and i didn't see it. >> it's a blanket defense for any question you can ask in the world. i'm just asking a question. >> was there really a moon landing? >> does maggie haberman really hate puppies? i'm just asking. i'm just asking. >> it barely suggests anything. it suggests it's fine to have done, and he sort of got there again when he said, i was in no way suggesting. but once he puts that tweet out, everyone's going to see it, and we'll see the "sunday morning" interview. and there's the phrase biden is not all there. i'm using that phrase specifically. >> there was a policy, track, backtrack, and track again with what the president wants to do on the refugee cap. he promised to raise it, and then the administration said,

david remembers this as well as i do, after new town joe biden was put in charge of getting some form of gun regulation put under president obama and i heard the same frustration from him then and he did not succeed. he tried to get universal background checks. he tried to do even more than that and he could not do it and here we are all these years later and he is saying exactly the same thing. now he's president, yes. now he has an agenda, yes. but i think he's right. i think you can do more than one thing at a time, and we don't know yet whether the ground has shifted a bit. the nra has been having its own problems. the democrats control both the house and the senate. will they be able to get some kind of a compromise? yes, maybe a little less than what democrats want but will they finally be able to do something and will the president of the united states say enough is enough and maybe we have to end the filibuster so not everything takes 60 votes to get through the congress. >> david, you've seen this from the inside. what did you learn? >> i learned to be very deeply skeptical a

. >>> plus, president joe biden issues a plea for action to a divided congress to tackle an epidemic of mass shootings. >>> and, thousands are evacuated from the caribbean island of st. vincent as officials say a volcanic eruption may be imminent. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i want to welcome all of our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm paula newton and this is "cnn newsroom." ♪ so we start with the murder trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. the main witness on thursday, dr. martin tobin, a renowned expert in pulmonary critical care. he testified george floyd died from a lack of oxygen after being placed on the street on his stomach with handcuffs, a knee on his neck and a knee on his back. dr. tobin saying even a person without medical conditions would have died. cnn's sara sidner reports. >> reporter:. >> that's the moment the life goes out of his body. >> reporter: the prosecutor's expert medical witness did not hold back. >> mr. floyd died from a low level of oxygen and this caused damage to his brain that we s

i will make this assessment with humility, somebody skeptical that joe biden was going to win the nomination in the first place, i think it is highly unlikely that they get significant republican support for this package, certainly not with the full opposition of mitch mcconnell. we haven't gone much signed people on the edges of the republican caucus are embracing anything of the scale joe biden wants. i think the question now is once they go through the theatrical exercise of demonstrating they tried to get republican support and couldn't, do they try to see if they can move this package in smaller bits or do they end up rolling it together in one big package that they try to push through with democratic votes alone as they did on covid-19 relief. >> speaking of money, let's talk about this big "new york times" article that talked about all of the devoted donald trump supporters who thought that they were making one-time donations to president trump's at that time struggling financial campaign or at least that's what he said but ended up having money sort of siphoned from their bank accoun

the republicans are also in line with the chamber and other keyishes including joe biden's push to pay the corporate tax for his massive infrastructure plan, but still, brianna, it's real. the republicans could take back the majority particularly by the next psych >> we just heard that. a former republican congressman just told john that as well. manu raju, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> this weekend democratic maxine waterses with asked what would happen if the jury does not deliver a guilty verdict in the case of derek chauvin. her response? >> we've got to stay active, get more active, more confrontational, make sure that they know we mean business. >> she didn't say what type of confrontation. still, this is not the language that business owners in minneapolis want to hear or people calling for calm including president or the family of george floyd. all public schools in minneapolis are going remote this week out of concern. they don't want physical confrontation. house minority leader kevin mccarthy called it incitement of action and said he will take action if speaker nancy

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

a couple of interesting things, though, in the details of what joe biden said. he talked about how they're going to begin leaving on may 1st. the taliban have said very clearly the u.s. has 16 days for a full withdrawal and then they might think about joining peace talks. and biden was very clear to say if they are attacked or their allies or partners are attacked during that withdrawal, then they'll strike back. it potentially provides a month's long period where the u.s. could hit taliban targets under the premise of this particular scheme as well. kaitlan also pointed out the sort of way he threw a lot of decision-making back towards president trump saying he wouldn't necessarily have done it this way himself. but i have to say i was broadly struck at a man who's lived this entire experience. he pointed out the salient fact so many people forget when they talk about u.s. troops serving here. the 1% of americans have been involved in these wars and the other 99% most often have opinions about what should occur next. he's seen himself the sacrifices, clearly fe

president joe biden. history certainly repeating itself but i have to say, paula, north korea has not missed a summer games since they boycotted the seoul olympics back in 1988. so certainly a set back for south korean president moon jae-in. near the end of his term, this probably would have been the last opportunity to get something going for the north koreans. >> it did seem like an opportunity there and will not come to fruition. thanks for the report. >>> president joe biden is keen to push forward with his infrastructure plans. coming up, we tell you why it isn't just republicans who have a problem with it. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry direct to learn more. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. our friends sold their policy to help pay for their medical bills and that got me thinking. maybe se

joe biden as a candidate campaigned as the strong gun sense champion in history. and what he showed this week he's going to govern like the strongest gun sense champion as president. he said this is the beginning, that's true. and we expect more from the white house. but really, right now, the shift has got to be from the senate for them to pass lifesaving background check bills. what he announced were three things. one was he nominated david shipman who is a 25-year veteran of the atf to head that agency. the second is, as you mentioned, he's going to provide hundreds of millions of dollars to tackle on a block-by-block community-based level a scourge of gun violence. really, we've an epidemic in a pandemic year. let me back up and explain what they are. these are kits that you can buy online. within a half hour or hour, a screwdriver or another tool you can turn them into fully functioning lethal firearms. but under current regulations, they don't carry a serial number. and you don't have to passe background check to buy them. and that's just plain dangerous. an

the question is, is joe biden going to do that? >> and this will be a big test. can he get it through? he has to keep the democratic caucus in line here. you talk about leadership, as you know, there is a battle within the republican party. we saw that in this republican party conference this weekend and you saw former president trump speaking in terms that we're familiar with right? even about other republicans, like mitch mcconnell. you have a long history with former speaker john boehner. you guys were founding members of the gang of seven in the early 1990s. john boehner has been withering. we'll play a clip on "cbs this morning" and get your reaction. >> i'm a republican. but we've got some people in the party who believe more in making noise than they do with making policy. i went to washington to serve in the congress. not because i wanted to make noise, but because i wanted to do something on behalf of our country. i think if republicans begin to focus more in on the policies, that we all believe in, we can unite the party in a place that americans will r

this is an issue joe biden has been working on for decades. he was involved in the first shault weapons ban and tried to get universal background tracks while he was in the on operation administration. it's an issue he accusers about and frustrates a lot of people and the pioline there is pm and bring it up now because he knows knowing will pass the senate until sock of these republicans sign on and get enough republicans to get a filibuster proof majority to do something that the public is very much in favor of such as universal bc ground checks. >> u.s.-japanese relations very strong, agree on a hole host, and how the uighurs of have are being learned. is the president. united states coming up a lot of iyke, who are very upset that he's bringing away from an earlier problem to increase the number of refugees to cause to the united states. >> of yeah, wolf, you're right. it's been a roller coaster of the day for the white house on this issue, and what they are making reference to the cap at refugees, the cap set at 15,000 refugees to be admit

he has been tasked with delivering the republican message, response, to president joe biden's address to the joint congress next week where biden will lay out the priorities of his administration. so it's a big job, as i said, and, you know, i can't imagine anyone else doing it other than tim scott. it's incredibly timely because he is currently negotiating on behalf of republicans on police reform legislation given derek chauvin's guilty verdict this week. right now scott and congresswoman karen bass who is negotiating on behalf of democrats are working on a bipartisan bill to pass through the senate so that they can get ten republicans so sign on to this legislation. they are still trying to reconcile their differences on this issue. for example, scott opposes democratic efforts to lower the legal standard to prosecute individual officers and congresswoman karen bass is pushing to change federal law to ensure that police officers can be charged for reckless misconduct rather than willful misconduct under existing law. right now it's about trying to lower the threshold needed to pros

biden's watch. could this be a problem for democrats in the mid terms? could you be handing the republicans a gift if it's not sorted out? >> i think rpg will run on something. you can see them trying to figure out how effective the issue of immigration will be, but most of all, putting the politics aside, we have to get the solutions right. we're dealing with human beings. the biden administration is add provide much this not with a dark heart that donald trump and stephen miller did, but trying to solve it. they're try to go treat people humanely and also to change the system. >> congressman joaquin castro, thank for you that. happy easter this weekend. come on again sometime soon. we appreciate it. >> for sure. >>> coming up, surveillance cameras, body cameras, cell phone cameras, so many videos captured george floyd's arrest. and they're all playing a crucial role. we'll talk about it, coming up. (mom) good boy. (mom vo) we always knew we had a lot of life ahead of us. (mom) remember this? (mom

president joe biden actually spoke on this in an interview with espn last night. take a listen. >> i would strongly support them doing that. the very people who are victimized, the most, are the people who are the leaders in these various sports. and it's just not right. this is jim crow on steroids. >> now, look, jim, again this is coming because of all of that pressure from people in the voting r voting activist community. profiles encouraged here, this could have all been done leading up to the georgia law. they say they hope they'll be able to take this energy to other states and to potentially propel federal legislation like hr-1, s-1 in washington. >> thank you very much, dianne gallagher. p mun just minutes from now, powerful testimony in the derek chauvin murder trial. we'll bring you details as they come. mputers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your

president joe biden is set to unveil a major new policy initiative during his prime time address to congress, but republicans are already crying foul. all the details coming up. >>> new video shows the moments before andrew brown jr. was shot and killed by law enforcement. what the footage reveals about the deadly encounter. >>> and india's official death toll from coronavirus tops 200,000, but some say the real number is much higher. we will have a live report. ♪ >>> good to have you with us. well, it is an important day for joe biden as he prepares to deliver his first address to a joint session of congress. officials say the coronavirus pandemic will be front and center as he touts his administration's success in getting 200 million americans vaccinated in his first 100 days. the president will also talk about the attack on the capitol back in january, but he hopes to strike a unifying tone, similar to his inaugural address. the white house says mr. biden has a long list of accomplishments to be proud of. >> i can also tell you that while the major policy announcement in the speech is o

week where joe biden is expected to talk what about he wants to see in police reform legislation. so this is a huge job for scott that he's been tasked with. he's negotiated on behalf of it and will have to respond to the president on this issue. look, democrats and republicans are racing to cut a deal on this before may 25th which is the anniversary of george floyd's death. that's kind of where this stands right now on this issue. boris, christi. >> it's also a huge opportunity for scott, someone who may have 2420 aspirations. daniella diaz, thanks for reporting. >>> let's get into the legal brief here, former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin as we have learned will be sentenced june 16th for the murder of george floyd. chauvin is being held for second degree murder, third degree murder and second degree manslaughter. he could spend up to 40 years in prison for killing george flaoy. cnn's legal analyst joey jackson is with us. joey, thank you for being here. does this guilty verdict move the needle at all on what daniella was just talking about ending this qualified immun

. >> it's a fascinating framing that joe biden is undertaking here. he knows he has an enormous fight on his hands to try to get this massive infrastructure and human capital program through to congress. he's trying to take it out of the context of a fight within the united states between democrats and republicans but put it as an american fight with forces and the rest of the world like china that pits free countries, democrat cies versus awe to beingcy that's rule from the top down. this is how we compete with those autocracies. >> do you think china is waiting around to invest in this digital infrastructure or research and development? i promise you, they are not waiting. but they're counting on american democracy to be too slow, too limited, and too divided to keep pace. >> now, poppy, as you indicated, he's get something support from people like jamie dimon, the head of j.p. morgan chase who is saying we have been hobbled by bad policy. we're not rising up to meet challenges of inequality, climate change and the like. but people like jamie dimon,

a lot of business leaders are backing joe biden's call for massive infrastructure bill. even though he's proposed paying for it largely by raising the corporate tax rate. from 21% to 28%. which, by the way, would still be far lower than it's been since the end of world war ii. few corporations pay the official rate because of deductions, losses and loopholes which brings me to an eye-popping stat from president biden. >> you have 51 or 52 corporations, fortune 500 haven't paid a single penny in tax for three years. >> can that be right? let's do a fact check. as it turns out, mostly yes. in fact, there were at least 55 profitable companies among the fortune 500 and s&p 500 that paid no federal tax in 2020. that's according to the institute of taxation and economic policy. the number of businesses that paid no particular tax for the past three years is half that, 26. big businesses saying they're okay with a higher tax rate? what's next? >> dogs and cats living together. mass hysteria. >> no, it's not as bad as all that. it's just some businesses see biden's infrastructur

he didn't want to vote for joe biden, but he couldn't bring himself to vote for donald trump. he calls out loud voices who are i l isolationists. he didn't name trump, but that's who he meant. i guess it's the where are we question. >> yeah, well, it's a great question. and the real question for george w. bush is, what are you prepared to fight for these ideals. are you going to get in there and mix it up, are you going to support primary challenges. are you going to try to get factions of delegates into the next convention and change the party platform. if you're not willing to do that stuff, a long term institutional effort to take back the party, what you're going to see is that selected individual republican operatives and officials and conservative media are going to drive the conversation off the deep end. and there wading in the deep end is donald trump, who is more than ready to stage a comeback. if george w. bush is up for the fight, we'll see, but it doesn't sound at first glance he's prepared to do all of that work. standing up for principles, values, and past polic

i also heard that philonise got a call from president joe biden. what can you tell us about that phone call? >> we can't go into the details of the call, but, you know, the actual entire family was there. gianna, george floyd's daughter was there watching closings. we were all in the excess room. and it was a powerful moment. the entire room, the entire family all applauded when he ended with derek chauvin's heart was too small. >> what's the state of mind of the family this morning? the jury deliberated for four hours last night. they are waking up to a new day of deliberations. what's that like for the family? >> we're praying, like everyone in the country should be doing. this is a time period where you have to lean on your faith. that's the only thing we can do because it's in god's hands. it's in the hands of 12 jurors but it was a phenomenal job by the prosecution. >> the defense talked at great length about what a reasonable police officer would do and suggested that derek chauvin was a reasonable police officer. as an attorney yourself, wha

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first, you have infrastructure, you know, president joe biden already laid out what he wants to see in the first part of this infrastructure plan. we're expected to get more details on what he wants to see in the second person. the second expected to focus on education, jobs, health care, so we're expecting that, and then bipartisan negotiations have restarted in the senate on immigration. you know, senator dick durbin is leading that conversation in the senate right now. they met a bipartisan group of senators met this week to discuss the issue and senator dick durbin told my colleagues there's a long way to go on this. and then you have police reform legislation where congresswoman karen bass who spearheaded through the house is negotiating on this with senator tim scott, the only black senator in congress. and they're trying to find a deal, cut a deal before the year anniversary of george floyd's death, which is may 25th. they're working on that. and it's timely given that senator tim scott is working on this issue because he's expected to give the republican response to president j

obstacle in the way of president biden's infrastructure plan. announcing that he opposes a measure that would allow the legislation to pass along party lines. manchin wrote in an op-ed, quote, we should be alarmed at how the budget reconciliation process is being used by both parties to stifle debate around the issues facing our country today. i simply do not believe budget reconciliation should replace regular order in the senate. joining me now is white house communications director kate bedingfield. great to see you. look, i don't know, or i haven't heard one single republican senator say they support the president's infrastructure plan as is right now. not one, let alone ten. so joe manchin saying this, how much of an obstacle is this to getting the plan passed? >> well, one thing i would note is that republican voters all across the country are saying that they support the plan. we see polling that shows that a majority of republican voters, 57%, think that the american jobs plan is the right path forward. and these investments are necessar

the president ordered an executive action on ghost guns, and joe biden has a long-standing history about talking about gun safety laws, and i guess that emphasizes the point when he and i were in the senate, we were pushing for legislation. congress has to act, because we have to codify -- that's a fancy word for make permanent, make the law that we agree, we should have background checks. that's just reasonable gun safety laws. we should have an adult weapons ban, and assault weapons have been designed to kill a lot of people quickly. they are weapons of war. congress has to act, dana. i was recently in connecticut. senators murphy and blumenthal and the governor there, so many people, the families of sandy hook. i honestly thought -- i honestly thought, when those babies, 26 7-year-old children were slotted, and i thought that would be the thing and it didn't happen p happen. >> wow, what an interview. thank you for sharing it with us. >> thanks, pamela. >>> and up next, president biden gives an address to a joint session of congress. join us for cnn's special live coverage starting we

biden and kamala harris, ossoff and warnock. it's unfortunate we've been placed in this position. it's silly, unnecessary, and it will be devastating to millions of people across our state. >> atlanta is a city i love, as you well know. it was where cnn was born back in 1980. it's a great city you have. good luck, mayor couldisha lance bottoms. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, a lawsuit against donald trump accusing him of inciting the riot on the capitol. ten more have joined? later i'll speak with benjamin crump, an attorney for the george floyd family. we'll be right back. well, well, well. look at you. you mastered the master bath. you created your own style. and you - yes, you! turned a sourdough starter. into a sourdough finisher. so when you learn your chronic dry eye is actually caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation ...you take it on by talking to your eyecare professional about restasis®... ...which may help you make more of your own tears with continued use twice a day, every day.

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

democrats in the white house are trying to advance the center piece of joe biden's agenda. the roughly $2 trillion infrastructure plan and tax proposal. >> reporter: president biden holding the first of a series of meetings at the white house with lawmakers to try to build support for the infrastructure proposal. the meeting will include democrats and republicans as the president himself has said he's open to hearing ideas to improve this plan. now republicans have opposed that $2.25 trillion price tag and the way the president has proposed to pay for it. by raising the corporate tax rate. the white house said they're open to hearing other ideas but so far they haven't heard a suitable alternative. now this meeting is similar to the approach the president took with the covid relief package when he invited republicans into the oval office at the very beginning. though he ultimately went it alone without any republican support. one of the sfairts attending the meeting at the white house with the president, he said he hopes the negotiations will be different. >> we are willing

also tonight, president joe biden about to announce new guidance on masks ahead of his first address to a joint session of congress this week. i want to bring in now cnn's brian todd who lives in north carolina -- excuse me, he's live there. pardon me for my error there. we're still waiting for the body

president joe biden spoke with the turkish president on friday to let him know it was going to happen. an official statement from the white house is expected later today. cnn's arwa damon covering this for us from istanbul. arwa, it couldn't be a more touchy issue. tell us about the significance and the timing. >> reporter: it really is touchy, michael, to say the least. what's interesting is that in the readouts both from the white house and from the turkish presidency's office, this was not mentioned. cnn found out about this from a person who was familiar with these conversations, who also described them as being tense. but for quite some time now, of the many plethora of sticky issues that exist between washington and ankara, this has been one of the fairly significant ones. here's a look back on why we have reached this point. for decades, armenians have lobbied and pleaded to have the mass killings of their ancestors recognized as genocide. the exact number of armenians who lost their lives more than a century ago is in dispute, but experts put the numbers between 600,000 and 1.