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

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

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

cnn's joe johns has more. >> so how does joe biden stack up to some of his predecessors, and he's coming in ahead of donald trump but substantially behind barack obama and george w. bush, and the question is why is that? the answer is the country has been polarized since trump left office. it's clear that most democrats give joe biden high marks and most republicans do not. it's going to be a big week for joe biden, and the capstone of it will be the speech on capitol hill, the address to congress. even before that he's expected to layout some of the facets of his plan for american families on tuesday, and then on thursday he is expected to fly out to georgia to celebrate what he sees as the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office. joe johns, cnn, wilmington, delaware. >>> joining me now is cnn political analyst, sabrina saddiqui, and he's a analyst for "the wall street journal." >> thank you for having me. >> joe biden's approval rate something at 53%, and that's 13 points above former president donald trump but below other presidents. what do you make of the number with most am

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

. >>> 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

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

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 will speak to lawmakers in a joint session of congress on april 28th. he got the formal invitation from house speaker nancy pelosi on tuesday. she asked him to share his vision for addressing the challenges and opportunities facing the country. pelosi had said she held off inviting the president amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. >>> and a likely hot topic at that point session of congress, afghanistan. later today president biden is set to announce u.s. forces will leave the country by september 11th. that will be two decades since the 9/11 attacks and the start of america's longest war. but despite trillions of dollars and thousands of lives lost, afghanistan remains extremely volatile. many observers fear a hasty exit by the u.s. will be a win for the taliban. the militants could erode basic rights, especially for women, and bolster a safe haven for terrorists. >>> for the latest from afghanistan cnn's nick paton walsh joins us live from kabul. nick, what impact will a withdrawal of u.s. troops in september likely have on the lives of afgha

. >>> joe biden does what no u.s. president has done before, calling the mass killings of armenians a century ago a genocide. i speak to the former u.s. ambassador to turkey about the potential fallout. >>> debris from a sunken submarine in indonesia is recovered. >>> great to have you along this hour. we begin with signs that the coronavirus vaccine supply in the u.s. may soon outstrip demand. more than 225 million doses have been administered across the country, but daily vaccination rates are starting to taper off. now this comes as the government cleared the johnson & johnson vaccine to resume after a brief pause over reports of a rare blood clot. now that's putting even more doses back in the supply chain. so the drop in vaccinations is concerning health officials. as you can see here, the u.s. is far from reaching herd community. i want to go straight to polo sandoval, looking at what might be behind this drop. >> reporter: as johnson & johnson's covid-19 vaccine is cleared to go into arms again, a slight but on

. >> let's start with joe biden. now, i get criticized because the joe biden i see now i can show you tapes of him in 2016. i can show you tapes of him in 2012. and to me he looks extraordinarily weak, frail. i think it's very transparent he's struggling cognitively. in fairness his aides said the wind -- it was very windy. did the wind ever blow you over? >> well, air force one is a very big plane. usually what they try and do is shield the wind. >> let me ask the question from this perspective, there are hostile regimes and many hostile actors on the world stage. i'm sure they're studying joe biden. knowing what you know, things i don't know, are you concerned about their perception of an american president that seems somewhat frail and weak? let me ask this, joe biden has been in washington 50 years. he's the ultimate swamp creature. >> if there is anything newsworthy from this mean girl group chat, it is donald trump telling his skeptical supporters whose vaccine hesitancy may prevent the u.s. from reaching herd

it's going to be a big week for joe biden. the capstone of it will be that speech on capitol hill, the address to congress. but even before that, he is expected to lay out some of the facets of his plan for american families on tuesday. and then on thursday, he's expected to fly out to georgia to celebrate what he sees as the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office. joe johns, cnn, wilmington, delaware. >>> "nomadland" is the biggest winner at the oscars. it won several academy awards, including best picture. >> we thank the academy and we thank our brilliant fellow nominees, and we thank all the hearts and hands that come together to make this movie. >> the film's director chloe zhao won the best director. she is the first asian woman to win that category in oscar's history. and the center of "nomadland," francis mcdormand, who won best actress for her celebrated performance as van-dwelling woman who roams the american west. for more on all of it, i want to bring in michael masto in new york. he is a journalist who ha

he was doing this joe biden as a candidate. i remember last summer talking to him who after the george floyd tape came out, he said after watching that video that hate hides and it can come roaring back if someone in power gives it oxygen. he was very aware the prior occupant of the white house didn't use the language of grief or inhabit that space with the public and biden felt it was something people were hungry for and he began to talk about it as a candidate and he talks about it now. it's delicate. you can get it wrong and say things that feel like you're being politically opportunistic or if you say something bland like thoughts and prayers. people don't want that they want real humanity. >> you can't question his sincerity in these moments we see it over and over. thank you very much. coming up, capitol officer voiceover: riders. wanderers on the road of life. the journey is why they ride. when the road is all you need, there is no destination. uh, i-i'm actually just going to get an iced coffee. well, she may have a des

appreciate it, sam. >> president joe biden is increasing the immigration cap at a low level and that sparked fierce grit schism. >> president biden acknowledged on friday he would increase the number of refugees allowed into the united states after some back and forth on that number on friday. but the white house said friday that the president would keep a current cap of ref frees which is at 15,000. this was count tore what president biden promised in the campaign and earlier when he said he would be lifting that number to over 62,000. and this announcement from the white house faced fierce and swift backlash. within a matter of hours the white house reversed course and announced that the president would be announcing a new figure for the refugees allowed into the u.s. by may 15th. they told advocacy groups that number could come much sooner. and the white house said they don't believe they will reach that number that the president had originally proposed. it highlights some of the problems that the admin administration -- the minors and the migrants coming to the southern border. t

joe biden as vice president was asked by president obama to focus on the northern triangle. and he has asked me to do and to carry on the work that he did. and, you know, you get back to the question that you've asked, we're making progress, but it's not going to evidence itself overnight. it will not, but it will be worth it, and i will tell you, part of my approach to this is we've got to institutionalize the work and also internationalize it, which is why i'm working with ambassador thomas greenfield, and we're going to be increasing the requests we're making of our allies in the united nations. again, this is about the western hemisphere. we are a neighbor in the western hemisphere, and it is also about understanding that we have the capacity to actually get in there if we are consistent. part of the problem is that under the previous administration, they pulled out essentially a lot of what had been the continuum of work, and it essentially came to a standstill. >> you're rebuilding it. >> we have to rebuild it and i've made it very clear to our team that this has to be

president joe biden said gun violence, quote, pierces the very soul of the nation and is an epidemic for the u.s. and called for congress to take action and finally ban assault weapons. >> this has to end. it's a national embarrassment. it is a national embarrassment what is going on and it's not only these mass shootings that are occurring. every single day, every single day, there is a mass shooting in the united states if you count all of those who were killed out on the streets of our cities and our rural areas. it's a national embarrassment and must come to an end. >> tensions have been rising in cities across the u.s. after several fatal police shootings. hundreds of protesters gathered in chicago outraged over the death of 13-year-old adam toledo last month. as night fell there were some standoffs between police and protesters. anger has been reignited after body cam video was released showing the moments officers shot and killed a teen during a chase. ryan young looks at the split-second decision and warns the video is disturbing. >> reporter: this video released by chicago p

turning now to a clear sign from joe biden that the biggest threat to the u.s. lies in cyberspace and not the mountains of afghanistan. the president carving out a foreign policy marked by new sanctions on russia aimed at protecting against hackers and election interference. now, this comes as the top u.s. diplomat, antony blinken, made a surprise visit to afghanistan one day after the president announced he would pull u.s. troops from the country starting may 1st, and they would be out by september. mr. biden meanwhile will welcome japan's prime minister to the white house later today, a signal to china that the two countries are united in their opposition to recent aggression against taiwan. >>> and u.s. climate envoy john kerry will wrap up meetings in shanghai on friday, testing china's willingness to cooperate on environmental issues. but those new u.s. sanctions on russia, they're sending a clear message to the kremlin. here's cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. >> reporter: president biden is vowing to hold russia accountable after four years o

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

joe biden the radical socialist democrats would immediately collapse the economy. joe will drive the market into a depression. everyone knows that if biden gets in, this market is going to crash. >> so, the market has actually been breaking record. chief business correspondent christine romans is here. day after day. >> just because somebody says something over and over again and loudly and scarily doesn't make it true. right? that was the dark warning from president trump less than six months ago in this tweet even, even a trump super boom or a biden depression. the reality is we're at the beginning of a great american comeback. fact, a spring surge fueled by vaccination, warmer weather, reopenings, those $1,400 stimulus checks. fact, a stockmarket at record highs, riding the wave of central bank support and stimulus mon from congress. the dow and the s&p 500 ended last week at record. the dow is up nearly 12% this year. the s&p up a little more than 11%. that crash trump promised if joe biden were elected, the opposite has happened, when he bragged about his own

but if you listen to what joe biden actually said, there is quite a lot of scope for u.s. assistance to continue in the months ahead. he did say they would continue funding afghan security forces, that's a vital thing here, frankly, throughout which much of it would stop. there was a suggestion possibly that if the u.s. forces or the afghans were attacked during this withdrawal period that the u.s. would respond, that could potentially mean air strikes if the taliban move forward at some point. a lot potentially the u.s. can still do in these forthcoming months. you have to also realize the key element in this is the taliban's reaction. so far publicly it has not been good. it has persistently said that it will not attend peace talks in istanbul on saturday week which the biden administration hopes will kick start moves towards a transitional government which may eventually lead to a new constitution and the ultimate political resolution in all of this. in fact, yesterday the head of the biden speech it said that the u.s. had 16 days to get out. while the troops, biden sai

officials will answer questions on how president joe biden plans to remake u.s. climate policy. that's on friday night at 10:00 p.m. eastern, saturday morning at 10:00 in hong kong. >>> and joe biden could become the first sitting u.s. president to declare the massacre of more than a million armenians by the ottoman empire a genocide. the move could further fray relations with turkey, but would fulfill a promise mr. biden made during his campaign. both presidents trump and obama avoided the term to avoid angering turkish president ra jip erdogan. president biden hasn't spoken with him since taking office. turkey argues turkish muslims and armenian christians died in vie lance in world war i and the death toll sin flated. >>> this just in from hong kong, investigative journalist troy has been found guilty of making false statements after searching a public database to expose details of an attack on pro democracy act choices and uncovering possible wrongdoing in the crack downs of the protests. choy could face up to six months in prison. it shows how press freedom

president joe biden will welcome his first foreign leader to the white house in just a few hours. japanese prime minister suga arrived in washington thursday evening, he is scheduled to meet with president biden this afternoon. the topics of discussion are expected to center around the two countries' opposition to china's recent aggression against taiwan. two the leaders will also hold a joint news conference. let's bring in blake essig who joins us from tokyo. blake, the prestige of being the first leader to visit the biden white house, what message is that sending to china and to japan? >> reporter: you know, kim, it really speaks to the importance of the u.s./japan alliance, a relationship that here in japan has been called the cornerstone of diplomacy and security. this is the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders and president biden's first visit from a foreign leader since taking office in january. now, the summit between president biden and prime minister suga on friday is expected to cover a wide range of topics including covid-19, the climate crisis, the olym

saturday's statement from the white house fulfilled a campaign promise by joe biden. it also signaled a renewed emphasis by the u.s. on human rights. president biden's statement reads in part, "each year on this day we remember the lives of all those who died in the ottoman-era armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever occurring again." well, turkey quickly denounced the president's declaration and summoned the u.s. ambassador to complain. arwa damon is in istanbul and she's covering the turkish reaction. hi. what more can you tell us, arwa? >> reporter: good morning, robyn. well, not entirely unexpected at all given that turkey has historically disputed the categorization of the mass killings that took place as being a genocide, arguing that the events that took place more than a century ago need to be put into historical context. also arguing that hundreds of thousands of other people who were not armenian were killed as well. and some of those killings happened at the hands of armenians. now, the turkish president did, howeve

president joe biden has promised to get troops out of afghanistan by september 11th, putting an end to america's longest war. but many are warning the taliban will seize on a u.s. exit and could launch a bid to topple the central government. >>> and the 2020 olympic games are approaching fast but not everyone in japan thinks they're a good idea as the country declares their third state of emergency due to a surge in cases. >>> also what it means for health care workers to be called heroes during a pandemic. why a psychiatrist says doctors need to also talk about being human too. (man) so when in doubt, just say, "let me talk to my manager." next, carvana's 100% online shopping experience. oh, man. carvana lets people buy a car-- get this-- from their couch. oh, how disruptive. no salesman there to help me pick out the car i need. how does anyone find a car on this site without someone like us checking in? she's a beauty, huh? oh, golly! (laughter) i can help you find the color you want. that sounds nice. let me talk to my manager. (vo) buy your next car 100% online. with carvana. their

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 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

." ♪ >>> 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

they said it's time to get out just as joe biden says. what is your reaction to those criticisms? >> well, you know, in it is highly possible, if not probable, there will be bad outcomes of the u.s. leaving. the question is whether the outcomes would be any better if we leave in a year or two years or five years. i mean, i think ultimately what biden was saying is that we cannot solve this problem unless we are willing to, you know, essentially stay there forever. that is the gamble that he is making. >> very quickly, to russia now, the biden administration says there will be consequences if kre kremlin critic navalny dies in prison as a result of the hunger strike. what might the consequences be? where could the issue take relations with russia? >> i think this is, you know, the clearest turning the page. one of the clearest turning page. trump found a way to kind of tempize on russia and not excuse their behavior. biden is making very clear he wants to respond forcefully to it. i would assume there would be significant sanctions. as you know, the eu is talking about this, as wel

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,

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

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®

. >>> president joe biden is expected to lay out new guidelines later today for anyone in the u.s. who is fully vaccinated against covid. a federal official tells cnn that will include a plan for unmasking outdoors. cnn's nick watt has the latest. >> reporter: the president expected to announce major tweaks to the covid-19 guidance on who can do what and where. >> certainly what one can do outdoors, vis-a-vis masks, is going to be one of those recommendations. >> reporter: allowing the vaccinated to go maskless outside might be an incentive to get the vaccine. >> people who have been vaccinated have wanted some reward from this. >> reporter: closing in on one-third of the u.s. population is now fully vaccinated, still far from herd immunity, but apparently normality is nearer than that. >> you will reach a point even before then where you will start to see the number of cases going down dramatically. it's going to be a gradual getting. with regard to what you can do outdoors, what you can do travel, outdoor sports, stadiums, theaters, restaurants. >> reporter: even european vacatio

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

president joe biden says all adults in the u.s. will be eligible for a covid vaccine in just 12 days. >>> and -- >> i respect them when they make that judgment and i support whatever judgment they make. >> i just think it's stupid. >> now the president and the senate's top republican have, as you can see, very different views on the companies weighing in on georgia's voting law. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers in the united states, canada and right around the world. i'm paula newton and this is "cnn newsroom." ♪ so in just a few hours court resumes for derek chauvin's trial, the former police officer accused of killing george floyd. an expert police witness is expected to be back on the stand. on tuesday an officer who trained chauvin testified that he did not use a proper neck restraint when holding floyd down. cnn's omar jimenez has more from minneapolis. >> what is proportional force? >> well, you want to use the least amount of force necessary to meet your objectives. >> reporter: more than

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

. >>> joe biden narrowly won arizona in the 2020 election. now it's the latest state to craft a bill that critics say is voter suppression. the bill is known as sb-1485 and it would remove voters from the state's permanent early voting list who have not voted in the last two election cycles and who do not respond to a final mailed notice within 90 days. it seems certain to be headed to the governor's desk but then one republican state senator unexpectedly blocked the bill setting off this testy exchange with the bill's sponsor. >> i am committed to fixing the problems in this election system in arizona, even if it means my name is in red on this board and you guys can say it's a temper tantrum. you want to see a temper tantrum, i can show you one if you really want to see it, but i will not. >> excuse me. >> who here has addressed the chain of custody? who here has addressed the sd cards that have zero chain of custody, that have the results that come out of the dominion machines? does this bill -- >> to your point of order. >> point of order

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

first, what is your reaction to joe biden's declaration? >> well, it is been trailed and my overall reaction i suppose is it is a political move, nothing much is actually going to turn on it. the difference between the u.s. and turkey has not been the facts that large numbers of armenians were killed around 1915. but what to call that act of killing and for many decades turkey has objected to the use of the g-word, "genocide" and it is a motive word and their point haves very simple, the word genocide was only invented in 1945 by rafael lemkin and inappropriate to use it for something that occurred three decades earlier. >> explain to us why in your view the word does evoke so much of a sense of kind of horror. is the holocaust? because the term that people otherwise use for something like what the chinese are doing in xinjiang is crimes against humanity. why is genocide seen as so much worse than crimes against humanity? >> you have to back to 1945. before that, there was no genocide or crimes against humanity. they were invented at the sa

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

president joe biden is making infrastructure and jobs his next major legislative push. last week he unveiled a massive plan addressing both issues. this week he's focussed on whipping up support and countering those critics. we have more. zplr after spending the holiday weekend at camp david, president biden will return here to the white house on monday. he'll get right to work on pitching his american jobs plan. that sweeping $2.25 trillion investment in infrastructure and jobs. the president has indicated he believes there will be changes made to this proposal. as he's looking to not only get republican sign up on but ensure his democratic caucus stays together to support this proposal. now the president has said he'll invite both republicans and democrats into the oval office to talk about their ideas for the plan. he's also dispatched five of his cabinet secretaries where he's calling his so-called jobs cabinet to pitch this plan to the american people and to get in and hold discussions with lawmakers on capitol hill. they're reaching out to mayors and local governo

politics to the extent most irresponsibly of all, you might think, supporting the proposition that joe biden has stolen the election and not legitimately the president, and that's directly connected to the violent assault on the united states capitol, a shocking event and one of the darkest days in america's political history. >> you, mr. turnbull, seem more disturbed by the attack on the u.s. capitol than a lot of people here in the united states. a lot of conservatives are trying to deny what happened and pretend it was not that bad. i appreciate you saw it for what it was. >> well, it was an adulssault o democracy. you see, what murdoch has delivered largely through fox news in the united states is exactly what vladimir putin wanted to achieve with his disinformation campaigns, turning one part of america against another, so exacerbating the divisions that already exist in american society and undermine the trust americans have in their democratic institutions. that's the -- that was the objective of that russian disinformation campaign, and that's exactly what is being delivered fr

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.

you have joe biden and kamala harris running on the most significant gun control laws in history, and the polls show the country is with president biden and harris. now we can't not find as a nation -- the institution of congress can't say we don't have the answer to millions of americans whose kids are scared to go to school and they are scared to go to work, if we are not able to do something, to pass universal background checks, supported by 90% of americans, and the politics is on our side. the nra is in disarray and they will pay the price. >> that raises the question, shannon, how much power and sway does the nra still have? i have interviewed lawmakers that say the reason why more republicans are not getting onboard is because of the power of the nra even though they have been weakened significantly, and how much is that factoring in the republican senator resistance to want to support the background check bills? >> well, you know, if that's something they are thinking about they are thinking about the wrong things because the nra is weaker than it ever has been and the gun saf

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

it's an interesting test for a still young administration on an issue in which joe biden, the former center has plenty of history, and tim scott, a key senator on this today believes he can work this out with the democrats in a couple weeks, and the question is should the president step back and leave it alone or call them down to the white house and try and nudge them to the finish line? >> that's his approach so far, john. we know he talked to the congressional black caucus as jen reiterated in the briefing today, but whether or not he called up republicans -- we know he has not had them for a meeting at the white house, as you just indicated, and whether or not that's something the white house plans to do, and they suggested it's not something they plan to do, and they have had meetings on the capitol hill with civil rights leaders and members of congress, and they believe it should play out in congress. >> you learn a lot when you have a long time in the congress, and many were skeptical of his record especially in the 1990s in the senate on justice reform. i want to read a littl

joe, what are you learn being how president biden is preparing for this monumental week? >> frankly, jim, it sounds like son of the things they want to do this week are being worked out. the capstone of the week of course is going to be on wednesday when the president gives that big spreech, the address to congress. but even before that, we are told to expect the administration to roll out the details of president biden's american family plan. a lot of democratic priorities in there, extending the child tax credit to 2025, billions of dollars in fact for child care. and even more than that. you know? there's the tuition issue for community colleges, making tuition free for community colleges. all of this, of course, is still being worked out, we're told, because democrats have their own priorities, and republicans certainly are concerned about the proposal -- the way to pay for it. that, of course, is tax increases, increasing the marginal tax rate back to predonald trump levels for example, and more. one other things we picked up, i think that is significant here over th

here's how joe biden put it. # #. >> i was clear with president putin that we could gone further but i chose not to do so. . the united states is not looking to kick off a cycle of escalation and conflict with russia. we want a stable and predictable relationship. >> that was on top of a huge consequential announcement, he's withdrawing all u.s. troops from afghanistan by september 11th, bringing to an end america's longest war. all of this just this week. joining me for perspective is david sanger, cnn analyst and also white house and national security correspondent for the "new york times." first on this first in-person meeting with the prime minister of japan, the framing and the reporting from my cnn colleagues is interesting, it's not just a show of a close friendship between the u.s. and japan. what do you think of this signal to china, and do you think it's effective? >> you know, the chinese are always concerned about the u.s. relationship with japan, since world war ii that's been the closest true american presence, where american ships are based, where american intelligence

. >> i'm really thrilled by the game changing announcement that joe biden has just made. >> reporter: as the president tries to re-establish america on the world climate stage, he'll have to reassure skeptics, sis his envoy john kerry acknowledged today. >> first words out of people's mouths is what are you guys going to do? you destroyed your credibility, left the paris agreement. how can we trust you? what's going to happen in the next four years? >> reporter: biden is convening dozens of world leaders virtually, including those he recently clashed with, like chinese president xi jinping. >> well-being of people in all countries. >> reporter: virtual summit may have made history but it also showed even world leaders can have technical difficulties. >> i now turn the floor to the president of federation excellency have load mere vladimir putin. >> how practical this goal they're setting today and whether or not they can really mean it because it's not enshrined in law and he could have a successor who comes around and reverses a lot of his climate policies. john kerry was asked if he

>> i think joe biden is off to a good start but he can't do it alone. he has to have republican partners. >> i appreciate you coming in, waking up for us this morning. big fan of your work. >> thanks so much. >>> with all the attention on policing and police reform in the u.s. right now it's easy to forget the way the american police operate it's not the only way to do it. so we thought it would be a good reminder for our correspondents around the world to explain how policing is done where they are. >> i'm nick paton walsh in london, police do not have firearms as a standard issue, they call up support when they need it. the number of people killed every year by police firearms is exceptionally low. most years you can count it on just one hand. in fact, between march 2019 and march 2020, police fired their weapons only five times. you heard that right, five times. and that contributes to a low instance of deaths across the united kingdom and england and whales only 26 people died from guns that year. >> i'm paula newton in canada where in one study the