Today on Velshi, we'll go live to Ground Zero in the fight for American democracy, Atlanta, Georgia,

how the battle lines have shifted since a Democratic lawmaker fighting voter suppression was hauled

away in handcuffs. Plus, a certain minority leader is apparently still very unhappy that

his team lost in 2020. Cue up the world's tiniest violin.

And legal fallout continues for the poor, unfortunate souls who advanced the failed former president's big lie about the election being stolen.

Find out who's in hot water for lying this time.

Velshi starts now.

Thank you. Good morning. I'm Ali Velsi. It's Saturday, March 27th. As a country, we have by now grown accustomed to settling morbid records during the past pandemic year. But now for some good news, more than 3.3 million doses of COVID vaccine were administered in a single day this week. That's a new record. In total, nearly 137 million doses of COVID-19

vaccine have been administered in the United States. During his first solo press conference,

since assuming office, President Biden doubled his original vaccine goal.

Today I'm setting a second goal, and that is we will, by my 100th day in office, have administered

200 million shots in people's arms.

Even with the positive news on the vaccine front, COVID-19 deaths remain above 1,000 a day,

a number that's slowly decreasing but still represents enormous pain and heartbreak for families across the country.

And now new cases of COVID-19 are rising, averaging around 57,000 a day.

One of the reasons for the continued high COVID-19 numbers states relaxing or eliminating pandemic health restrictions.

Consequently, that's playing a part in some other good news. Weekly jobless claims were just $684,000 last week.

Still a huge number, but the lowest level in more than a year. In fact, it's the first time during the

pandemic that we've seen weekly claims below 700,000. The situation is also aided by Biden's

newly enacted relief package, which zero congressional Republicans supported. Not a single

solitary GOP soul could get on board with helping American people who are still suffering

under enormous economic pandemic pressure. Instead, many Republicans have been attacking

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