he has been tasked with delivering the republican message, response, to president joe biden's address to the joint congress next week where biden will lay out the priorities of his administration. so it's a big job, as i said, and, you know, i can't imagine anyone else doing it other than tim scott. it's incredibly timely because he is currently negotiating on behalf of republicans on police reform legislation given derek chauvin's guilty verdict this week. right now scott and congresswoman karen bass who is negotiating on behalf of democrats are working on a bipartisan bill to pass through the senate so that they can get ten republicans so sign on to this legislation. they are still trying to reconcile their differences on this issue. for example, scott opposes democratic efforts to lower the legal standard to prosecute individual officers and congresswoman karen bass is pushing to change federal law to ensure that police officers can be charged for reckless misconduct rather than willful misconduct under existing law. right now it's about trying to lower the threshold needed to pros

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

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

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

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

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