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

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

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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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

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

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

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