this morning it might not be joe biden or zee others. how about joe manchin. he's putting himself in the middle of passing the $2 trillion bill. he indicated overnight he's opposed to passing key legislation on strict party votes, that he is alarmed by that process. and since we haven't heard any republican saying they support the white house infrastructure plan just yet, that puts it in serious, serious peril. later this morning the president will announce his first executive actions on guns in response to the latest flurry of mass shootings. >>> meanwhile the united states reporting more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases. hospitalizations climbing to their highest level in a month, and the cdc confirming that the highly contagious variant which was first identified in the united kingdom is now the most common strain of the coronavirus here in the united states. despite that, the cdc director says she believes all children will be back in classrooms by september. let's beginning with jeremy diamond who's live at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: sen

they tried to paint joe biden as a crazy liberal. this was tried during the campaign where the russians and the trump campaign tried to paint joe biden as not mentally competent. and he still won. so, why would this work now? >> yeah. and i'm glad you noted, there are two things here at play, right, john? it is sort of the notion oh he's this old out of touch guy. so other people have to be in charge. and it's the and other people are in charge that are going to be so much more extreme and liberal than joe biden presents himself to be. they're trying both in this one line of attack. to your point, john, i've seen no evidence yet that it's working. obviously we lived in -- we live in very polarized times. and there's some benefit that animates the republican base with these lines of attack. but i see no evidence that broadly with the american people that joe biden has suffered in any way because of this line of attack coming from republicans. and i think they know it, which is why they're continuing to search. i mean, john cornyn is s

it's joe biden let's move. it's clearly joe's push. some think it's odd to be putting all of his muscle behind infrastructure right now, but that's clearly joe biden's decision. there is a certain decisiveness here with him on these actions, evan, and i'm curious why you think that is. >> you know, what we're seeing in some ways is a guy who's been thinking about what it means to be president for a very long time. he's thought about presidents who have had a big imprint on history and those who did not. he's met recently with historians. he thinks about what it is that could actually change how americans think of one another and of our relationship to the government, and so that's what drives a lot of these choices. he knows that a lot of them are politically, in some cases, difficult, they're risky and might not work, and ultimately whether he can achieve these is going to come down to whether he can get the votes. but he really believes over the years democrats have often negotiated against themselves, carved down their ambitions, re

my question now is this really joe manchin's world and joe biden is living in it? >> well, at the moment, yes, but also understand, you know t biden white house does have the opportunity to break down bills in smaller chunks and remove the excuse that republicans have of saying, oh, it's too much spending too quickly, this stuff is not useful. and then that probably puts the pressure a little bit more on joe manchin, who would then be presented with the reality of course look, the white house has tried to work with these folks, they've refused to, we need to fix bridges and roads and take care of other things, and how do you vote. but at that stage of the process, it could be coming. >> toluse, do we know what would trigger that? to go to the very thought out skpaems, i think this is really a fines doubled work zone ahead moment. >> yeah. i think the senator from west virginia is going to eventually have to decide whether he wants the senate to do big things in his state and across the country when it comes to fixing the infrastructure or whether he'll allow gridlo

. >> reporter: earlier, president joe biden sending this message from the white house requesting, quote, peace and calm. >> the anger, pain and trauma that exists in the black community in that environment is real. it's serious. and it's consequential. but it will not justify violence and/or looting. >> reporter: indeed the pain is real and this physical damage you're seeing this morning is a result of outrage, frustration and anger. but we want to make sure we keep the focus on why this is happening. this is all happening because of the death or the killing of daunte wright and his name is written here in spray paint. there's graffiti all over these buildings, but daunte's name is appearing on some buildings here in brooklyn center and, john, this is all happening at a time when the relationships between members of the community and the police is teetering on the edge. john? >> adrienne broaddus for us in brooklyn center, minnesota. thank you so much for being there for us. you heard daunte wright's aunt in that piece. well, she spoke with don lemon overnight about the police departmen

they liked the idea of trying to hobble joe biden. this is more than hobbling him. this is increasing distrust in democracy. >> maggie, the president, joe biden, is meeting with some republicans in this bipartisan group in the white house to discuss infrastructure today. you know, infrastructure -- there were many infrastructure weeks on the schedule in the last administration. there is this notion there does appear to be bipartisan support on. is there an extent in which the biden administration is dictating the playing field? as long as the deal involves the infrastructure, they're in a decent place. >> i am a little more skeptical. i think we've seen biden is trying to redefine what bipartisan means. he tends to look at it as getting a chunk of republican voters and sort of if we have to go it alone without lawmakers on the republican side, so be it. i think there are aspect os thf plan that appeal to republicans. i don't think the way it is right now they'll be able to get enough votes, but i think biden is setting the goalposts very far and on his way back hrk

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>>> president joe biden will hold his first in-person cabinet meeting today. socially distanced in the east room. it comes after the president unveiled part of his ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan. john harwood live at the white house with all the details. john, this is big by any measure. not just in the dollar amount, but in the ambition of the proposal. president biden comparing it to the moon shot, the interstate highway system. break it down for us and put it in perspective. >> well, those are the right points of comparison. what we've seen in this country, john, as you know, is that there were points in the post-world war ii era where the united states was investing very heavily in future economic growth. dwight eisenhower's interstate highway system was part of it. john kennedy's space program was part of it. lyndon johnson's great society program was part of it. during the 1960s, the federal government's investment was about 6% of gdp. that has since been squeezed, both by the growing share of the federal budget that's gone to entitlement prog

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

joe biden is evidently a man of great faith. do you think there are the seeds to help heal this political divide over faith in america? >> yes, there is. in fact, you mentioned reverend warnock, my good friend. and in fact, i worked on joe biden's first campaign in '72. but the fact of the matter is the black church has always been the conscience of the nation. and even on this matter again, you see the black church, black faith leaders rising to call the nation to task and to its conscience. i remind you, nothing with the advancement of blacks in this country has occurred without the leadership of the black church. >> poignant reminder at this particular season. thank you, bishop jackson, for joining us on "new day." got to find a way to heal on these fundamental issues. >>> the u.s. capitol police inspector general issuing a scathing report about what led up to the deadly insurrection. it finds that the capitol police department failed to act on the intelligence in the days before the siege. cnn's whitney wild is live in washi

america, we're going to be creating good paying jobs and joe biden wants to lead us into that. >> let me ask you this. i have all the numbers of where this money is allocated. and there is a significant amount of roads, bridges, lead pipes, water, bridges. do you think it would be prudent to split that off into its own bill around 600, $700 billion as supported by even senator roy blunt and get some republican votes on that and then portion the other part off which deals with elder care, child care, into a second bill that maybe you have to push through reconciliation but at least you have republican support on something? >> listen, yesterday the president called a bipartisan meeting of members of congress. republicans and democrats sat down in the oval office with the vice president and said, let's be honest. let's bargain. can we reach an agreement? that kind of spirit and approach is -- >> but two bills? you want two bills? >> i'm not going to presuppose how this negotiation will end, but as long as there's a good-faith effort to move us forward, take advantage of the economic oppo

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

when they conducted a massive influence operation primarily against joe biden to help former president donald trump, so what the biden administration did was to sanction 32 people and entities for the 2020 election, not just in russia but globally, africa and pakistan as well. the u.s. also sanctioned six technology companies that are connected to russian intelligence. ten diplomats, including some known spies, are being expelled from the russian embassy here in washington, d.c., and then separately, for russia's annexation of crimea, eight people were sanctioned. interestingly, there was no punishment for those bounties that were reportedly put on the heads of troops in afghanistan. that was a big thing for trump during the campaign. the white house said the intelligence community only had low to moderate confidence in that assessment, poppy. >> that's right. before you go, alex, the biden administration also did importantly reveal new information about connections between a russian agent and the trump campaign. what can you tell us? >> yeah, this might have been the most interesting

obviously yesterday joe biden in pennsylvania outside pittsburgh laying out his massive, more than $2 trillion infrastructure plan. you did a recent event with secretary of transportation buttigieg about the infrastructure investment highlighting the impact of increased rail particularly for virginia. look, americans love their cars, i know virginians do. there's always a question outside the northeast how much folks will use the public transportation and the rail lines. tell us what impact that could have on improving people's lives and business climate in virginia if it goes forward? >> first of all, john, it's great to have a partner in washington that believes in infrastructure and transportation and really takes care of their words with actions. we've been working on this for a number of years. again, we know it's very important to our business community. and so we made an announcement with secretary pete two days ago where we really opened up rail, expanded rail through a public/private relationship with amtrak and csx. there's a bridge that crosses the potomac river called the

joe manchin, the senator for west virginia is the linchpin for biden's legislative future. he's the person who's going to determine just how much joe biden can get passed through the u.s. senate, and that even comes when there are bills they can pass, which is the simple democratic majority. here's what he told me in a wide-ranging interview. the other joe who holds the power in washington, clear and unequivocal. >> would you be willing to pass the for the people's act by killing the filibuster? would you be willing to carve out an exception on that bill? >> i'm not killing the filibuster. >> not ever. >> i think if you read my op-ed, it was very, very clear. >> reporter: the reason, manchin tells cnn, the insurrection at the capitol. >> january 6th changed me. i was very clear with everybody. i never thought in my life, i never read in history books to where our form of government had been attacked at our seat of government, which is washington, d.c., our capitol, by our own people. now, the british did it, but not americans. so something told me, wait a minute, pause. hit

there was some hint of that by joe biden. there was talk of that by anthony blink enwith women. he will get a taste, i think, of quite how worried people are with what comes next, the taliban literally in the last hour or so putting out their second statement in 24 hours saying that the americans are not leaving fast enough. the most recent one says they're breaking the dough har agreement. that's the one they signed with the trump administration which said the american troops would leave by may 1st. that's just 15 days away. impossible, frankly, to do that. may 1st is now the dade that president biden said the withdrawal will begin. the taliban said because the americans are violating the agreement, they may have to take countermeasures and america will be to blame for what happens. that's essentially the broad atmosphere here. peace talks are supported to start saturday week. antony blinken will be hearing more of that now. poppy? >> thank you very much. nick live in kabul, afghanistan. let mess bring in delaware senator chris coons. thank you for being with us. you have appla

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

it imperils president biden's agenda. it puts in jeopardy the huge infrastructure plan he wants to pass. so the day that comes out, our lauren fox is in west virginia with joe manchin and got this exclusive interview. i want to play a little bit of that. listen. >> january 6th, i was very clear with everybody. i never thought in my life, i never read in history books to where our form of government had been attacked at our seat of government, which is washington, d.c., our capitol, by our own people some of something told me, wait a minute, pause. hit the pause button. something is wrong. you can't have this many people split to where they want to go to war with each other. >> did the biden administration talk with you before rolling out the infrastructure plan and do you have other concerns besides the tax rate. >> they have been very, very kind. we do talk. we have communication. >> how often? whenever i like. >> the president directly. >> whenever he calls me, we have a good conversation. we have a good relationship, h