i have to be honest, listening to joe biden, i think he accepts that it will be ugly. i don't think he believes that this is necessarily going to lead to dancing in the streets and general harmony across afghanistan. quite the contrary. but for him i think he has calculated that the 1% of americans who have been involved in this war, the 99% just have an opinion on t they have been bearing the brunt here and if he's not able to have the questions he asked of his military leaders why are we staying? what can we achieve? he doesn't get good enough answers he can't keep asking americans to come here and potentially die here as well. there's been over 2,000 deaths so far. he said he carried a card in his pocket with the exact number with him every day. so a deeply personal decision as a commander in chief and one that longer term strategists might say, look, frankly, american needs to fight tomorrow's wars not keep fighting yesterday's wars. they've tried everything, surging, withdrawing troops down, counterterrorism missions to peace talks, the one thing they haven't trie

president joe biden is walking a very fine line right now. he is faced with the most prominent protests of his administration, his short administration of three months, following the killing of a black man at the hands of police in minnesota. he is trying not to inflame the situation, but he is acknowledging that there needs to be accountability following what happened on sunday with the killing of daunte wright. the 20-year-old black man who died at the hands of police in minnesota. in his vice president kamala harris actually went a step further to call for accountability. she said that daunte wright's family deserves an explanation for why their child died on sunday. and joe biden met with the congressional black caucus yesterday in the oval office where he said that this week has been very painful for minnesota and for the country and he is vowing for real change on how police interact with black americans. here is what he had to say yesterday in the oval office. >> we're in the business all of us meeting today to deliver some real change

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

all of this is part that have task force that president joe biden set up in his first few days in office. that task force intended to identify and reunify families who were separated under the trump administration. on that latter part, the reunification, the official couldn't provide a timeline as to when that's going to happen but said they're going through those files and buttoning up systems to make sure they can do those reunifications smoothly when it is time. still a long road ahead. >> speaking of reunification you are also learning that the parents of 445 migrant children separated at the border under trump have still not been found. now, thankfully that number is actually down from 506, if you can believe it. where do the lawyers believe that the parents of the rest of the children are? i imagine these are probably the hardest cases that are left, right? s>> all right. looks like we may have lost priscilla alvarez there. we thank her for her coverage on the immigration issues. >>> rudy giuliani's son andrew says he plans to run for governor of new york next year. his candidacy c

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: president joe biden and vice president kamala harris can speaking with them on the phone tuesday. >> we're all so relieved that guilty on all three counts. it's really important. >> reporter: biden and harris later addressing the nation but the president warning that while the verdict may be a moment of, quote, significant change, it's not enough. >> we can't stop here. in order to deliver real change and reform we can and must do the lreduce the likelihood of this happen. >> reporter: this morning, i spoke with his aunt they said that darnella frazier's courage that led to this moment. her 9-year-old cousin, she testified at the start of the trial about a month after floyd was killed, she told me that the entire day she asked darnella to take her to the store because she wanted to purchase some starbucks and she said, finally, okay, let's go. the little girl told me, if we didn't go to the store at that time on that day they would still kill us. i said who is "they"? she said police. through the 9-year-old she saw the magnitude of the video that captured. >> a heavy burd

that's the same date by which president joe biden has said 90% of american adults will be eligible to get their vaccine. today nearly one in four american adults is fully vaccinated. >> reporter: i'm tom foreman in washington, d.c. where the mayor's office says as of may 1st this town will be opening up a good bit. live entertainment, business meetings and conventions will be operating at 25% capacity, recreation centers, museums, galleries and more will also be operating at 50% capacity. yes, the mayor's office expects some bump in infections following spring break and the easter holiday, but they think overall because of vaccinations and other measures the numbers here will keep coming down. >> reporter: i'm stephanie elam in los angeles county which is being downgraded to the orange tier as part of the state's four-colored tier reopening system. this means that there is a moderate threat of the coronavirus here in the county. this means that restaurants and movie theaters can open at 50% capacity and indoor playgrounds and amusement parks can reopen with modifications. this also go

phil mattingly reports now from pittsburgh. >> reporter: christine and laura, president joe biden has made very clear with this administration whether it's coronavirus relief or what he's moving on to now, infrastructure and beyond, it's not just physical infrastructure, he is willing to go back and he is not willing to trim back the very ambitious proposals that his administration is putting on the table. none more so than perhaps the $2.25 trillion package he laid out here in pittsburgh on wednesday. yes, there is physical infrastructure in this package, $621 billion for things like roads and bridges, waterways and ports, but it is so much bigger than that. hundreds of billions of dollars for education infrastructure, for water, for power grids, for a fleet of electric vehicles, really kind of reshaping the united states' economy and how it operates. it's through that historic prism which the president is citing the effort right now. take a listen. >> it's a once in a generation investment in america. unlike anything we've seen or done since we built the interstate highway system an

president joe biden and they discussed getting more vaccines to canada. the president has said he would like to help out. 1.5 million doses of the astrazeneca vaccine has already been sent to canada. the united states has not yet approved that vaccine and has millions of doses in stock. canada would like those doses as it continues to go through a very tough third wave of this pandemic. >> reporter: i'm hadas gold in israel. it's hard to get a reservation at a restaurant or spot on the beach. the dme is open and masks are no longer required outdoors. that's thanks to israel's robust vaccination program. a majority of those eligible have received at least one dose of the vaccine so far. while there are still people out there that the government is trying to reach to vaccinate, health experts here tell me that they believe israel has reached a high enough level of immunity that a new outbreak is unlikely unless a new mutation that can overcome the vaccine enters the country. >>> what amazon and whole foods are doing to lend a helping hand at the register. s

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we all remember joe biden as vice president this is a bfd and it was. through the covid relief bill, he expanded subsidies and making it easier for people to afford obamacare and extended the amount of sign up time you can have due to the pandemic. he also increased the marketing for obamacare. what we're seeing on these exchanges is potentially by the end of the year, you could have more people signed up for those obama marketplace policies than we saw in the peak period of the obama presidency. he's also trying to get states, the 12 states that declined to expand medicaid under obamacare, which is a big source of additional coverage, try to provide incentives to do so. they haven't taken the incentives yet but the next phase of the infrastructure plan may include a mechanism through a public option for some of those potential medicaid recipients to get them covered, even if red states don't want to do that. >> i feel it was one of the more impactive pieces of the rescue plan but it flew under the radar. >> there's so much in there. it's a reminder of

biden praised these for-profit corporations yesterday for standing firm on their beliefs that these laws restrict voters in georgia. >> daniella, thank you so much. >>> well, a minneapolis police training expert testifying tuesday that derek chauvin kneeling on george floyd's neck was not a proper restraint tactic. he told the jury police are taught to restrain combative suspects with a knee on the shoulders if necessary and are told explicitly to stay away from the neck if possible. >> in addition to the classroom training you actually teach officer chauvin physically how to do these sort of neck restraints? >> yes, sir. >> at this time i'd like to republish exhibit 17. sir, is this an mpd-trained neck restraint? >> no, sir. >> has it ever been? >> not to -- neck restraint, no, sir. >> customers inside cup foods where floyd spent some of his last moments that day have been hanging on every word of testimony in the trial. cnn's sara sidner has more now. >> reporter: few are watching the trial more closely than the folks in the neighborhood where george floyd took his last breaths. >

joe manchin a democrat doesn't support this bill as it stands right now which is an issue for biden if he wants this bill to pass. bottom line here is that biden needs to work with members of his own party to be able to pass the legislation he wants. so the senate actually comes back next week so we'll see how these conversations proceed on these background check bills. >> and at the same time he's trying to get infrastructure done, he's got a lot on his plate. we will see where this goes. daniella, thank you. appreciate it. >>> okay. a big day ahead in the derek chauvin murder trial. a key witness is set to take the stand, jurors will hear from the medical examiner who performed that much debated autopsy on george floyd. this comes after powerful testimony thursday from a breathing expert who said floyd died from a lack of oxygen and not from preexisting conditions and drug use as the defense has been arguing. cnn's adrienne broaddus is live in minneapolis for us. adr adrienne, i was on the edge of my seat watching dr. tobin yesterday. i found it so compelling. it sounds like the jury