but you are hearing from people like senator joe manchin, saying they have questions how big joe biden is trying to go. but he is reasoning that, not in washington, but on the road today here in georgia for this first stop. he's going to pennsylvania tomorrow. he's got several more stops planned for next week, because what they're focusing on is selling it as -- i heard you talking about this transformational moment. they view it that way, but he sees an opening given the pandemic and given the economic disaster that followed that, see thing is a spot where they can succeed in getting a plan like this through with what he envisions. whether or not that happens still remains to be seen. how do american voters feel about this? we saw the polling on the coronavirus relief bill. that relief bill paired with the infrastructure bill and paired with the american families plan is about $6 trillion in spending. that's a whole lot of spending. so i think that is going to be a massive question facing them. but the way joe biden was trying to sell it here tonight, and what we are hearing from offi

his approach >> you won't hear him yelling or sending angry tweets because for joe biden actions speak louder. >> now those ads are part of a multi-million dollar advertising campaign trying to rally support out in america, but, jake, the question is what effect will it have in the congress? will any republicans come on board with this big spending plan? infrastructure is one area where they do believe they can get some republican buy-in but like will the not for the entire plan. you know, the question also can they keep democrats together? next week there will be meeting is at the white house i'm told. this is a central challenge and test facing the administration in the coming months. jake? >> all right. jeff zeleny in the great city of philadelphia, thank you so much. appreciate it. one activist says it's an attempt to prosecute black americans for calling out systemic racism. we're going to take a look at what's going on with all these laws to limit protests across the country. that's next. not all 5g networks are created equal. ♪ t-mobile america's largest and fastest 5g network

it is much harder to attack joe biden. look at the poll numbers. >> absolutely. of course we all know if you look at the numbers, the tax increases whether you support them or not do not add anywhere up to the cost of spending. that's a separate talk for a separate day. >> senator tim scott is going to give the republican response, the other party gets the response. tim scott will give it tonight. he'll say and here is a quote we got from him "before covid we had the most inclusive economy in my lifetime. that happens because republicans focused on expanding opportunities for all americans." >> so can tim scott and republicans turn the economy on biden here successfully? >> well, look let's give biden some credit for rolling out the vaccines although it is produced by the private sector and distributed by the private sector. he touched base with our allies and his tone has been good. erin, they spent $6 trillion in the last year. $6 trillion. look, i was the chairman of the budget committee and now they're saying what they're going to do is get all this money out

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

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

join me and my team for coverage of president joe biden's first address to a joint session of congress. our special live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. as for now our coverage continues with wolf blitzer. he is right next door in the situation room. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. we're following major developments in the criminal investigation into president trump's former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. federal agents raiding his new york city home and office as part of the probe into giu giuliani's dealings with ukraine during the time he was working for trump. and there's breaking news coming in. we're also getting the first excerpts from president bi

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

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

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president joe biden set for a look back but ready to press forward in a major way. >> he's thinking a great deal about what message he can send directly to the american people about what progress we've made and, of course, what challenges remain ahead. >> reporter: with a focus on more than 200 million vaccine doses delivered and more than 160 million stimulus checks deployed. >> what you're going to hear from the spapt call to consider these investments and the potential that they would provide for the country. >> reporter: but it will also set the thank for an ambitious agenda ahead, one centered on transformative economic proposals that would span more than $4 trillion. >> this is his vision for how we need to put in place a public investment agenda for the country. >> reporter: biden set to unveil the second part that have plan, a $1 been the 5 trillion proposal focused on what white house officials call human infrastructure with hundreds of billions of dollars directed to child care funding, education, paid family and medical leave and extensions of key tax credits and obamacare

. >> reporter: >> reporter: president joe biden delivers a head-on defense of growing criticism against his jobs package. >> we need to start seeing infrastructure through its effect on the lives of working people in america. >> reporter: as republicans savage the proposal for going far beyond the bounds of traditional infrastructure, biden explicitly to embrace the idea. >> to automatically say the only idea is infrastructure is only a highway or bridge, taz just not rational. it really isn't. >> reporter: along the way making clear he's open to bipartisan talks, but has no intention of scaling back his ambition. >> we will not be open to doing nothing, inaction simply is not an option. >> reporter: but the plan is facing significant blowback with the republicans firmly opposed in claiming key elements are not infrastructure at all. >> i would be open to it, but not what i think they're peddling. >> reporter: it playing a crucial policy role and lays the battle lines in the fight ahead. as senator gillibrand, cha child -- and former house republicans and potential pennsylvania senate c

joe biden only carried 509 counties. but those 509 biden counties account for 71% of the entire american economy. so these companies know what they're doing. and they are following their bottom line. they're following their consumers. the notion that mitch mcconnell somehow now or donald trump for that matter is andy corporate is kind of hilarious. opensecrets.org says mcconnell himself in his affiliated pacs took $4.3 million in corporate money in the last five years. so he should give the money back. if he is going to boycott, why doesn't he boycott their money and give it back? >> abby, to that point, mcconnell made clear he wants the money and says of course they should give money. but he has long been an advocate for corporations to allegedly have a voice in politics, as we pointed out, saying in 2012 corporations should be free to express themselves. it certainly does seem kind of remarkably hypocritical. >> yeah, many of us remember the citizens united decision which allows corporations to basically give unlimited

joe biden carried 509 the but they account for 71% of the american economy. these companies know what they are doing and they are following the bottom line and consumers, the notion mitch mcconnell or donald trump is corporate is hilarious. open secrets.org says mcconnell himself took $4.3 million in corporate money in the last five years so he should give the money back. if he boycotts, boycott the money and give it back. >> abby, to that point, mcconnell made clear he wants the money and says of course they should give money but he's long been an advocate for corporations to allegedly have a voice in politics as they point out saying in 2012 corporations should be free to ex stpress themselves. it seems remarkably hypocritical. >> yeah, many of us remember the citizens united decision which allows corporations to basically give unlimited money to certain political organizations. that's something that republicans like mitch mcconnell fully support to this day. they want republicans not only -- or they want corporations not only to give them money but to use

president joe biden went big in his first hundred days. now, comes the hard part. joined now by chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. so what is the latest you are learning about how president biden and the white house is preparing for next week? >> i think often, anderson, with these first addresses to congress, there is a lot to put in there. especially, of course, when you have taken over governing during a pandemic and vaccinations have been their number one goal has been pretty clear to everybody, as they have ramped up. but i think what you are going to hear from president biden next week as he does make this first address to congress is a lot about what he wants to see happen, in the next-100 days, because that's going to come, that address, one day before he hits his 100-day mark. and so, i think you will see him not only lay out that american family plan. that's that next part of, really, what he envisions in addition to following that coronavirus funding bill. the infrastructure proposal he's now laid out. this is going to be a part that's rea

. >>> any moment we expect to see president joe biden mark a new milestone for the covid vaccine efforts in the u.s., and he'll set a new public goal saying that every american adult will now be eligible for a vaccine by april 19th, that's just 13 days from now, and it's earlier than the previous deadline he had set may 1st. we should note more than 40 states have already stated that that's their goal. cnn's kaitlan collins is at the white house. kaitlan, i'm trying to understand this announcement because the vast majority of states were already planning to meet this april 19th deadline. is there something we didn't know about. did that happen because the biden administration had been previously pushing them behind the snooens is this because the federal government has been ramping up vaccine sites? is there more vaccine available because too many americans are vaccine hesitant? what's going on? >> reporter: well, jake, there are a few things at play. one, the white house is saying governors were heeding president biden's call to hit that may 1 deadline. can you see he'll be speaking any

a single member, like democrat joe manchin, could derail the biden agenda. are you concerned about this push for a more expansive government? >> most certainly, i am. i want to see the details. >> reporter: after approving nearly $2 trillion in covid relief last month, some in congress are getting sticker shock with biden's $1.8 trillion american families plan, which includes expansion of the child tax credit, funding for universal pre-k and billions to reduce health care premiums. on top of that, $2.25 trillion jobs plan, which calls for historic investments in roads, bridges and broadband and a sweep of other measures. to pay for it, tax hikes, including on corporations and capital gains. manchin is not so sure. >> we can't overreach to the point that we stymie investments and stymie growth for 2022, '23, '24 and on. >> and the price tag? >> it's a lot. we don't spend money for the sake of spending money and causing more debt and maybe increasing inflation. we can overflood the market. >> reporter: bipartisan infrastructure talks are ongoing. it's anyone's