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

joe biden is swinging for the fences. you look at this speech, this is a once in a century opportunity to reset the american system. you're talking about a free community college? you're talking about child care. you're talking about family leave. you're talking about the family economics that are on display here will change people's lives in a real way. so i think nobody has really put it together yet. this is a big reveal. you put all the stuff together. you've got the deferred maintenance taking care of for how this country can work for more people. i think it's a big deal. >> evan, you wrote the book on joe biden. are you surprised by the direction he's moving? >> he feels this moment calls as van said for something larger than an ordinary set of policy items. in his inauguration address 99 days ago, he mentioned democracy more than any address in history not only because we were two weeks after the insurrection out capitol. it's because he really sees there is a risk if americans don't believe democracy can deliver f

>> i think the joe biden is misreading his mandate. it was to normalize and stabilize the country and govern ourselves. which has done with covid. and high marks for that. i don't think the mandate was this to go this big. 6 trillion in spending in the first year. he's misreading that. these proposals are not quite as popular as he thinks they are. i think he's taking a great risk given the fact he has such narrow majority in the house and in the senate. he's taking a great risk. and willing to go this big and forsake the house because he fig yirs he won't get anything in the second two years of the term. he's taking a huge gamble with the go big proposals. i don't think that's what the american people voted for. they wanted to get rid of trump. they want rest not a revolution. they're getting more of a revolution. >> different flavor of revolution. emphasis tonight on january 6. january 6th is a weak spot for the right in terms of caring about law and order. i say it on my show. i don't want to hear about blue lives matter if you don'

and president joe biden has the will and the courage to act. [ applause ]. as a united states senator, joe biden took on the gun lobby not once but twice and he won. in 1993 he worked to pass the brady handgun violation prevention act. this law established a background check system and has kept more than 3 million firearms out of the hands of dangerous people. a year later he worked to pass another law to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines for ten years. and as vice president, joe biden led the obama/biden administration's efforts to reduce gun violence. in fact, we were just reminiscing that he and i talked back then about his work because i was attorney general at the time of california. and his work resulted in nearly two dozen actions from narrowing the gun show loophole to expanding funding for mental health services. and as you will hear in a moment, president joe biden is a leader with great will, great determination and even greater empathy. he has seen the grief of all of those who have lost a loved one to gun violence. it is for them,

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

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

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

joe biden flipped jae. joe biden flipped arizona. it's incumbent on you to come more toward us but we don't live in that washington. >> no. and it was pretty clear that from day one, given the way joe biden was brought into office and what happened on capitol hill with the insurrection and the storming of it and how those republicans that you just saw there acted in response to that, including kevin mccarthy of course who has made several comments in recent days, deflecting the former prepo president's responsibility. brought the question of what the bipartisanship was going to look lick. the white house has invited republicans over to meet about certain proposals, the coronavirus relief bill and you saw those republicans come to the mic and ever since they've had those meetings we have not seen republican lawmakers come to the mikes to speak to reporters after. they're trying to navigate this relationship with the white house while appearing like they are putting forth proposals but the big question is does joe biden get what he wan

that is no different for joe biden tonight. what is different, though, is the impact of the pandemic on all of this. tonight's address will look very different from previous presidential addresses in the house chamber. usually some 1600 people will be filling the room. you know the video i'm talking about. tonight only 200 will attend in person. chief justice john roberts will be present to represent the high court. only two cabinet members will attend. no need for the morbid assignment of one cabinet member, there will be no designated survivor this time. also no first lady's box and no other guests in the house chamber, no unmasked faces except for the president. one historic and long overdue change, two women seated behind the president of the united states for the first time, house speaker nancy pelosi and vice president kamala harris. also important, remember that president biden will be speaking tonight at the site of the violent attack on american democracy, the site of the january 6th insurrection. a lot is going on ton

you have another problem for joe biden. you've got actually a group of moderate democrats who maybe they're the moderates that don't like the price tag but there are some moderates who want this bill to repeal what's called the s.a.l.t. tax, which affects high-income states like new york and new jersey and a handful of moderates say we want this repealed, otherwise this bill doesn't fly. where does this situation stand right now in terms of negotiations? >> well, i think that the moderate democrats feel like they had to put a line in the sand very early as they start having these negotiations with their leadership. i talked to representative josh gotheimer about his position and he said, yes, this does affect high-income earners but it also affects middle class earners in high tax states, california, new jersey, new york. those are places where middle income family get hit by the fact that they cannot just deduct all of their state and local taxes, they can only deduct up to $10,000. this was a major issue for democrats bac

well, joe biden has big plans for his next-100 days in office. the u.s. president delivered his first address to a joint session of congress, just a few hours ago. touting an ambitious economic plan, costing $4 trillion. on top of the nearly $2 trillion, already, approved for covid relief. his new american families plan would include money for a host of bread-and-butter issues, like paid-family leave, childcare, preschool education, and free-community college. the president calls it an investment in the future, that will create millions of jobs and trillions, in economic growth. he is hoping to capitalize on the success of his covid-vaccination efforts. and americans' approval of how he's handled the pandemic. >> and inherited a nation, we all did, that was in crisis. the worst pandemic in a century. the worst economic crisis, since the great depression. the worst attack on our democracy, since the civil war. now, after just-100 days, i can report to the nation, america is on the move, again. >> and the president's address has americans feeling optimistic

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

i can do that again with your help. >> so, amy, is joe manchin helping joe biden be the president he campaigned to be? >> right. he's getting pulled to the center from his own party, not from republicans. interestingly enough, you can argue this happened during the obama era as well. it was -- there were so many more moderate democrats at that time, from places like nebraska and north dakota, and louisiana, pulling the party further to the center than it was republicans, of which there were still just a handful that were helping to moderate the party. now it's just joe manchin and i think, again, at the end of the day what democrats want to see are "w"s on the board. interestingly enough, i think what i'm also not hearing about is any discomfort from moderate democrats in the house. at least not yet. nancy pelosi has a very narrow -- narrower than she had on election day -- because there are still special elections that need to happen, she can only afford to loose a couple of members on her side too. >> jonathan is back with us. i want to play a little bit more from our interview wit

i know that as well. >> i know joe biden does. i have to tell you, those were three people that were sort of a very emotional night that way. >> yeah. good to see you, congresswoman. thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you. >> long negotiation ahead. appreciate it. coming up for us, a judge denies request to release body cam footage from the shooting of andrew brown jr. for now. one of andrew brown's sons is our guest next. their only friend? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends. can you help me out here? no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting at $79 a year. well, we're new friends. to be fair. eh, still. if you have this... and you get this... you could end up with this... unexpected out-of-pocket costs. which for those on medicare, or soon to be, is a good reason to take charge of your health care. so consider th

joe biden is president. but seven in ten republicans still say the president of the united states is an illegitimate president, seven in ten republicans say that and 27% of independents say that. imagine how much this complicates president biden's efforts to talk to the country when 70% of republicans think he doesn't deserve the job, that he has. now, you would think, months would pass, the election is over, this would fade. it has faded some. but not much. in 58 -- in january 58% of republicans said there was solid evidence, not just donald trump says, but solid evidence biden did not win enough votes. that's down to 50% among republicans but still half of republicans still say they believe there's solid evidence. like to see it, because there is none, but that's what half of republicans believe. this complicates joe biden's job, trying to talk to the american people, all americans and it's part of the reason republicans are doing this. republicans still say there was all this nefarious conduct in the 2020

line against joe biden. you saw this on issues over and over where he would concede. yeah, joe biden seems like a good guy, but he's pulling the country apart. he promised to lower the temperature. obviously he's lowered the temperature from donald trump. if you look at the polling, the most significant thing he's done, he's getting broad support from the american people. on race, tim scott, african-american senator from south carolina, was making case that, yes, i understand what racism feels like. i understand what discrimination feels like. but then pivoted to the argument that is pretty widespread within the republican party right now that it's white people who are being discriminated against. so he's saying, kids are being taught, if you're white, you're an oppressor. he didn't say white, but that's what he meant. that is an argument that many republicans believe, but when you look at the context of american society and the history of america as we've evolved to this point, that's a hard argument to sus

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

. >> the polling shows that joe biden is doing well, at 53% overall. that's remarkable compared to where donald trump was. normally, though, during the first hundred days we give presidents big honey moons. they rack up approval ratings in the 60s and seven percents. we are not seeing that with joe biden, which reminds us what a deeply divided countries we are. but i think history is going to look well on what joe biden has done. he has evened the temperature of our country. he calmed things down. he responded with dignity after the horror of the january 6 insurrection. he works daily with kamala harris, historic first person of color as vice president. he's pulling us out of afghanistan. was able to start really getting shots in arms. i mean, the covid rollout, all things considered, are going very well under joe biden. failures with immigration, but overall, it has been a remarkable 00 days with joe biden, and they should be proud of where they are. they have got their cabinet by and large confirmed, which is also a good thing. >> now, arguably, the

joe biden is the polar opposite. he really respect the tradition, obviously jimmy carter is the oldest president and he was going to georgia, but he's reached out to george w. bush and he talks, i'm told, regularly to former president obama. this is classic joe biden, alisyn. >> the president is in georgia to sell the legislation that he fleshed out for the american people yesterday, and, of course, we heard immediately after that the pushback from senator tim scott as well. where do the potential -- where is, i should say, the potential for any bipartisan movement forward on this, which we know senator manchin says he will need at least an attempt at to support it? >> yeah, it's a complex die tp dynamic to say the least, and there's the $2.25 trillion plan from last month, and you have seen a group of senate republicans put on the table their own physical infrastructure proposal, considerably smaller, $600 billion, and white house officials believe it's not going to be enough, but the staffs have been going back and

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

but joe biden here, i think, kim, at the same time is living up to an election campaign pledge, three bs, building back better. he thinks this is instrumental in terms of u.s. economy and i think it was interested that he targeted 13 million jobs but for the lower middle class and the poor. 75% of the jobs will go to those that don't have a four-year university education and this is excellent in terms of job creation going forward as well. and i noticed here, kim, the other thing is that if you look at the market reaction around the world, whether it's in asia and europe, we've had a rally because even though there's $5 trillion of stimulus spending on the pandemic, another $2 trillion in infrastructure is getting the nod of approval because people think it's the right thing to do. corporate tax, it's interesting that joe biden went the midway point, not 21% of donald trump, not 35% under president obama but something in the middle at 28% and closing the loopholes for corporations not to leave their profits overseas and lower tax havens like ireland and singapore. he wants to repatria

did joe biden's justice department go after the former president trump? no. they stepped out of the way and stopped blocking as evan's reporting and "the new york times"'s reporting, stopped the effort to impede the investigation and that's a fundamentally different thing? >> susan, this is extremely sensitive for joe biden and his administration. for federal prosecutors to move forward with it, what does it tell you about the risk reward there in the doj and white house on this? >> i think you are right to bring that up, absolutely. the bottom line is that everybody involved clearly understood the political stakes because the warrant was previously blocked by the previous administration. nobody is under any illusions that rudy giuliani is a private citizen here. he brings the story into the office, and giuliani is the guy that got donald trump impeached not once, but twice, and in the ukraine, the question was also was skwrgiuliani acting on behaf some cukrainian interests, in addition to donald trump's interest, and i think that's why it has always been mys

our poll shows 7 in 10 republicans do not think joe biden got enough votes to win the presidency. this comes at rz republicans once again auditing the 2020 ballots in arizona's biggest county as they push the push the lie that the election was stolen from donald trump. >> reporter: this is yet another tally of the nearly 2.1 million ballots in maricopa county. but this so-called audit is unlike any other. these are ballot counters heading into a shift. have you ever done election counting before? >> no. but it's -- there's nothing to it. it's -- it's pretty obvious. >> no thanks. >> reporter: most don't want to talk. others -- we're just trying to do a story. openly partisan, as you see what they displayed and what they say. >> what news group are you from? >> reporter: cnn. >> okay. >> reporter: one american news network is the small far right-wing outlet that has promoted false claims that donald trump won the election. they are also livestreaming the event. its hosts have help raise funds for this exercise. we were initially told we could not enter the publicly owned arizona st

joe biden? >> no, actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that wothe dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> reporter: they threatened to withhold military aid to ukraine and withheld a white house visit for the newly elected ukrainian president in order to furth ir their efforts. the main focus of trump's first impeachment trial. investigators also want to know if giuliani acted as an illegal lobbyist on behalf of ukrainian officials. for example, giuliani's insistence that the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovich be fired. trump did eventually fire the ambass ambassador. >> our ukraine policy has been thrown into chaos. >> reporter: two ukrainian associates of giuliani's were indicted in 2019 on several charges, including illegally funneling foreign money to pro-trump political groups. igor f

there i'm remundinded of someth that joe biden believed, first lesson of being president. you can set an agenda but it is impossible to be able to follow it day to day. simply because of things coming down the pike. in this case, there is a level environment legislative unpredictability that he is contending with that is going to make it very difficult. i wonder if you believe that he is pushing back a bit at this sort of caretaker idea. joe biden, veteran politician coming in. quiet things down post trump. i have a legacy here. i'm going big on family stuff, health care, gun reform, immigration. >> yeah, i think so. it's interesting. i started to hear that tone from him last summer. he started the cam ppaign sayin he wanted to be the caretaker tra transitional president. he said, no, i see myself in the challenge that fdr was facing. i think at the time people said how does that actually work? this is something he doesn't want to go down in hist rich. he didn't meet the challenge or the moment. that is why you begin to hear from him this much more ambitious and some ways,

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

>>> a busy almost 100 days for president joe biden. >> today we did it. today we hit 200 million shots. >> his promises kept, goals unfulfilled and the challenges that lie ahead. we'll talk to two freshman members of congress, democrat cori bush and republican peter meijer about the president's performance and the first few months in office. almost a year after the death of george floyd. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty -- >> a verdict and accountability. what will congress do to fix the problems with policing. >> a measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice. >> plus how d.c. statehood went from a fringe cause to the top of the democrats' agenda. >>> welcome to "inside politics," sunday, i'm abby phillip and thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. joe biden once described himself as a transitional figure, for the democratic party but nearly 100 days into his presidency, his record is looking far bigger than bolder. his facing a deeply divided political -- politically divided nation struggling to fight back the pandemic. biden

what joe biden is going to say is, look, we got you these vaccines. we got you money in your pockets. we are restoring jobs in this country, and that is because government is on your side. >> yeah, normally there are about 1,600 people in the house of representatives for a speech like this. tonight there will be 200 because of the covid pandemic. nia, the president also plans to lay out what's being described as part two of his massive infrastructure plan, but already democratic senator joe manchin is signaling his discomfort with the price tag. so is tonight more about winning over republicans or getting fellow democrats on board? >> it's about both and more broadly the american people. you look at some of the polling like this, something like 60% of americans think that this infrastructure plan is a good idea. 80% of democrats, something like 70% of independents. so if you're joe biden, you want to maintain that good feeling that most americans have about this infrastructure plan and then explain it. this administration has a very broad idea of what

. >> reporter: and on president joe biden's 100th day in office there would be no rest. biden fresh off his first prime time address to congress marking the milestone moment by hitting the road, touching down today in georgia the first in a series of trips over the next ten days as the white house tries to shape its next 100 days. biden has proposed more than $6 trillion in new spending, his latest $1.8 trillion proposal now on the table, laying out transformative changes to education and the social safety net for families. >> my fellow americans, trickle down -- trickle down economics has never worked and it's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out. >> and already drawing strong gop opposition. >> even more taxing, even more spending to put washington even more in the middle of your life from the cradle to college. >> reporter: but with the narrow west of majorities it's democrats the white house is keeping the closest eye on with crucial moderate senator joe manchin telling manu raju he's reviewing the proposal but its scale is in his words a lot.

which, joe biden won fair and square. which party? and they voted to overturn those results, while the destruction at the capitol was, still, being cleaned up. which party is behind the nationwide effort to suppress the vote in future elections? the assault on voting rights. simply, because their guy lost. which party? which party just passed voting restrictions in florida? a key-swing state. including, limiting the use of drop boxes. and adding more-i.d. requirements for absentee ballots. which party? which party is it that passed a law in georgia making it a crime to give food or water to voters in line. come which party is that? which party is it, whose governor signed that law behind closed doors while a duly-elected state representative was literally locked out and then arrested for knocking on the door. >> for what? under arrest, for what? for trying to see something that our governor is doing? >> hi, tim scott. mirror. which party? do you know which party is trying to rig elections, in the future? you know, like i said. we have

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

. >> 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

from endpoints to everywhere. >>> for nearly 50 years, joe biden has been a spectator when a president makes an address to congress, a joint session. now in just a few hours, it will be his turn. not behind, not in front but at the podium for his first address to the joint session of congress. it will mark his first 100 days in office. president biden will call for another $1 trillion public investment, this time towards free education, child care, paid family leave. >> this joint session will look very different than previous ones with a much smaller audience because of the pandemic. for the first time, two women will be seated behind the president. that's house speaker nancy pelosi and vice president kamala harris. cnn's phil mattingly joins us. beyond those optics, what do we expect to hear from president biden tonight? >> it's day 99 of the presidency. obviously one day short of that 100-day mark that no one is sure why it became an official thing. i think that means the president is most certainly going to look back at his first few months in office and what he and the white house

you see how joe biden overwhelmingly won the election. a lot of people found a place in our tent because they were suffering from the economy. they were out of work because of the pandemic. and they needed a vaccine. and what has happened in the last 100 days? it's been a complete different spirit that is uniting our country. it may not be uniting congress. i'm not naive about that, but i can feel it out there where people see hope. they see a lighthouse on the horizon. >> let's talk about your book. this new book, you say you want to make "antitrust" cool again. really? how. >> well, because you have people all over this country that are starting to say, how come it costs so much to get cable? why did the epipen prices go way up like they did. or why is insulin so expensive? or how come we don't have any privacy or misinformation, real controls on social media? it's because when you have monopolies, they have no incentive to do those things. i think exhibit "a" is when facebook goes out and buys instagram and whatsapp. those companies co

and joe biden is a student of history. i think we are not only in a moment of crisis and opportunity but as the president pointed out last night, we're in a moment of necessity. women took it on the chin in this pandemic. and we need to make sure we invest in child care. so many people feel left behind and blue collar blueprint of this president is tailor made to rebuild our economy from the bottom and the middle up. and that's where i think his secret weapon is. it's not going to be easy. no doubt about it. but i think he has the american people on his side. and the republicans continue to oppose this. i think at their political peril. they're on the wrong side of these issues. >> except, david gergen, to tom's argument. you have people like lisa murkowski who has just made a response saying, i think it makes it very difficult to be truly bipartisan. tim scott in his response pointing out that under the trump administration there were five covid related bipartisan bills passed on that front. and we saw straight partisan l

and without him, chuck schumer, joe biden, they can't move forward with any of their key agenda items. obviously, that could be a problem when it comes to infrastructure, when it comes to guns. that could be a problem when it comes to voting rights. obviously, manchin very much recognizing his role, very much taking it seriously, even though he did joke with me, no, he doesn't particularly like always be the guy at the center of the spotlight. >> he certainly is right now. i understand senator manchin, lauren, also, as you know, all of our viewers by now know he has been very outspoken about his position as far as not, not eliminating the filibuster. what did he tell you today? >> reporter: well, obviously, manchin getting a lot of pressure from the left to give up on the filibuster, especially when it comes to that voting rights bill that he says he still doesn't support. here is what he said about the filibuster and how he's not ready to give up on it yet. would you be willing to pass the for the people's act by killing the filibuster? would you be willing to carve out that exceptio

here you've got republicans fighting with one another when you have joe biden beginning to launch the most massive movement toward big government and sky high taxes and they don't even have time to talk about that because they're fighting amongst themselves. they keep this up, they're going to jeopardize their ability to win the house in 2022. >> two republican lawmakers have told cnn that congresswoman cheney's words this week were no helpful in any way, shape or form. >> i don't know if she's on an island, but she may be digging a moat around herself. i talked to a republican today who said it's not helpful because every time she's asked about trump, she answers how she honestly feels. they believe in the house caucus that either you're with them or you're not. and if you're not with them in your attitude towards donald trump, then you ought not to be leading the caucus. i think liz cheney is thinking about bigger things. perhaps she's thinking about a run for the presidency. she's not shy about how she feels about donald trump. internally now, republicans in the house have a proble

and joe biden acknowledged that. he said he would, indeed, support the decisions that these companies and organizations are making on their own, whatever those decisions are, but he understood the other side of the coin of this, as you note. this is why stacey abrams has been reluctant to go full bore and call for these boycotts. >> amanda, there is more than 360 bills across the country that would make it harder to vote. will what's happening in georgia have an impact in other states pushing these bills, do you think? >> everyone's watching this. and it gets extremely messy because, as we learned and we know, all of the states administer their own election law. and so what i have been talking with people about and trying to encourage people to advocate for whatever the gold standard is in voting rights policies, because you look at a state like georgia what they are pushing and then republicans get upset. why are you seeing georgia when new york has more restrictive laws. maybe there is a landing place for the corpo

joe biden as vice president was asked by president obama to focus on the northern triangle. he has asked me to do and carry on the work that he did. you know, you get back to the question that you have asked, we're making progress. but it's not going evidence itself overnight. it will not. it will be worth it. i will tell you, part of my approach to this is we have to institutionalize the work and internationalize it, which is why, for example, i'm working with the ambassador and we're going to increase the requests we are making of our allies in the united nations, because, again, this is about the western hemisphere. we are a neighbor in the western hemisphere. 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. it essentially came to a standstill. >> you are rebuilding it? >> we have to rebuild it. i made it clear that this has to be a function of a priority that is an american priorit

president joe biden spoke with the floyd family by phone. he acknowledged that nothing can ever bring george floyd back, but he called out the outcome rather a giant step forward in the march towards justice. in a televised address a few hours later, the president called systemic racism a stain on the country's soul. phil mattingly reports now from washington. >> victor, president joe biden watched the verdict read aloud in his private dining room with his senior staff. one person in the room told me when all three charges were read, when the three guilty charges were read out, there was a collective exhale. those were the words used. but also a collective recognition shortly thereafter of just how much work there is left to do. it's something the president dealt deeply into in his stirring remarks in the wake of those verdicts to the country. take a listen. >> "i can't breathe." those are george floyd's last words. we can't let those words die with him. we have to keep hearing those words. we must not turn away. we can't turn away. we have

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

even if you compromise and get a bipartisan deal they're voting a joe biden opportunity. is there actual republican interest in compromise? >> you're absolutely right the political incentives make members of both parties tack hard to their base in seeking consensus and compromise. there are voices there. the problem solvers caucus is working right now on an infrastructure plan like they did last year on covid relief that became the foundation for ultimate agreement. they need to do the same thing now. there are people who want to do infrastructure on both sides. they should let the centers, the manchins, fitzpatricks and others, let them negotiate a deal. the leaders should embrace it. the leaders are also very afraid of their own bases in many respects. they get a lot of pressure from their caucuses and the senate has to really drive this thing. if they do, i think we could see some results. >> chuck schumer, he has his own challenge within his party in 2022. he has to be conscious of the base as he's making these deals. we will see. it may be a necessity for biden becau

. >> reporter: on president joe biden's 100th day in office, there would be no rest. biden, fresh off his prime time address to congress, marking the moment by touching down today in georgia. the first in a series of trips over the coming days. biden has now proposed more than $6 trillion in new spending with his latest proposal now on the table, laying out transformative changes to education and the social safety net for families. >> my fellow americans, trickle down, trickle down economics has never worked. it's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out. >> reporter: and drawing strong gop opposition. >> even more taxing, even more spending to put washington even more in the middle of your life from the cradle to college. >> reporter: with the narrowest of majorities, it's democrats the white house is keeping the closest eye on, with crucial moderate democratic senator joe manchin telling cnn he's reviewing the proposal. >> we're looking at everything to make sure that we just don't spend money for the sake of putting money and causing more debt an

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

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

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

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

joe, so how does president biden compare at his point of this presidency to his predecessors? >> reporter: right. well, did you the top lines there, fred, 52% according to abc news. if you add the last five poles and average them, he comes out at about 54%, which puts him at the low end of modern american presidents. he does come in ahead of donald trump, but significantly behind barack obama, george w. bush and some others. so the question is why. and one of the issues clearly is the polarization of the american electorate. what we do know is that democrats give joe biden some of the highest marks and republicans simply do not. so that is one of the biggest reasons why we see biden ending up where he is. the good news for joe biden and his administration is that he gets some of his highest marks on handling of covid-19, which is the number one concern for americans. he sort of breaks even on the issue of handling the economy and he breaks negatively when it comes to handling immigration. so those are some of the findings of the polls we've seen over the last several days, fre