Why doesnt anyone seem to know whos supposed to give us that data . And what is so important to haggle over on this relief bill that is important enough to risk not getting money to hardhit hungry families for christmas . Remember, this isnt a battle about how big the budgets are and who gets how big of a tax cut so you play it up to the brinkmanship. This is survival. Let me show you today in fort worth, texas. Look at this. Look at the line. You know what thats for . Its not a line for xboxs. Food. Lines like this all over the richest country in the world. Hours and hours online to get food. The poverty rate in our country is now 11. 7 . A Census Survey shows more than 85 million of us live in households where money is scarce. Almost a third expect someone in their home to lose their income in the next four weeks. Kids, kids in this country arent just dreaming of an xbox or an sc bike that you cant find anywhere anyway. America is quickly becoming a nation of tiny tims, asking santa for food, asking santa for protection from covid so mom or dad or both can go back to work. This isnt about just outrage. Its not about anger. Its just about pain. How does this reality not hurt you, not hurt you enough to demand better and more . It pains me so deeply that with all my access to tv and radio, i havent moved anyone from the madness of this moment and in action. We have to demand that people blocking relief tell you why. Its not okay to play it up to the last second to get the best deal, not now. Senator ron johnson held hearings about irregularities that he knows are fake. And now the retrumplican refuses to address pain that he knows is real. You dont like the criticism . Tell us why 1,200 stimulus checks are not necessary. We will not have learned the lessons from our very hurried, very rushed, very massive earlier relief packages. Well just do more of the same, another trillion dollars. We are mortgaging our childrens future without reforms, without targeting. So, mr. President , i object. So youre worried about it being not well thought out and not a good use of money . The national debt, youre worried about it . But you werent worried with that fat unpaid tax cut for the top 1 , right . I didnt see you holding your hands out like a preacher on that one. But now in a crisis, now you find an appetite for austerity. And where is the president who used to pride himself on the best economy ever . Best dealmaker ever . He will leave with an economy on the brink. He is obsessed trying to illegitimately keep power. Yet he doesnt use the power he currently legitimately has. Our intelligence agencies are reeling from the scope and scale of a suspected russian hack. They still dont know how deep putins pawns got into our government. Where is the trump who said this . Nobodys been tougher on russia than i have ever. You can ask putin. Nobodys been rougher on russia than donald trump. Okay . Nobody been tougher on russia than me. And nobody has been tougher with russia than donald trump. No one tougher . So why are you silent . Although, thinking more about it, silent may be better than trump pushing his last day the remember this do you sey . He wanted to work with russia on cybersecurity in 2017 forming a unit. This was an idea even his boy senator Lindsey Graham called pretty close to the dumbest idea i have ever heard. And that takes us to this. This image, right . When it first happened, this was just awkward. Now it is instructive. This is a depiction of trumps efforts to literally choke out our democracy with election nonsense. Fortunately, he has no proof, and we have strong institutions. So his chances of ringing the life out of our democracy is as small as his hands. He was impeached a year ago today. Imagine what history will say about a presidency where an impeachment was not the most scandalous aspect. We have the lawmaker who led the impeachment effort, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, i want to talk about russian attack, i want to talk about the chance of relief before christmas and what happens when congress meets to certify the electoral vote on january 6th. And those are all good questions for congressman adam schiff, democrat, california. Welcome back, sir. Thank you. Good to see you. So lets start with the hack. Do you believe and what can you share with the audience about reason to believe it was russia and reason to believe it is worth all the worry were hearing projected from the intel agencies . Well, let me start with the second question, is it worth all the worry, and the answer is yes. This is a massive hack of our National Security infrastructure, our critical infrastructure, both private and public sectors. It was done in a very sophisticated way. It will take weeks, months, perhaps even longer to know the full extent of the losses. It will be very hard to purge this foreign bad actor from those systems. Because the trade craft is so advanced. And one of the things that we need to consider when we look at the depth of the loss here is what else has this actor done . Now, if its russia and im not sure at this point able to make attribution, but if it is russia, then you have to consider it with other russian hacks and attacks in the past, both in terms of you know how little deterred they are from interfering or acting through the cyber space to go after us. But also whatever data they may have been able to exfill trait would be combined with other data that theyve stolen, and that has an additive impact using big data analytics, both in terms of restricting our intelligence capabilities, in terms of the privacy of americans, in terms of potential theft of trade secrets and corporate data, as well as risk to our infrastructure. Congressman, are the republicans and the democrats really playing this relief bill down to the wire just typical brinkmanship, even in the middle of a crisis . Is this really just about getting the best deal . You know, i think where this all starts out, chris, because, as you know, we introduced a followon bill six months ago and it sat on Mitch Mcconnells desk until after the election. The reason why its been so hard to get to an agreement is more than half of the republicans in the senate and those are Mitch Mcconnells constituents, are like ron johnson. They dont want to do anything more. They think weve already done too much. And as you point out, they had no problem spending 2. 2 trillion on a tax cut for very wealthy families and large corporations, but extending unemployment, theyre not particularly interested. Small businesses, you know, they dont pay the campaign bills so theyre not particularly interested. And so Mitch Mcconnell felt, if you brought it up before the election, it would divide his conference, it would pass in the senate with a majority of democratic votes and minority republican votes. So he put it off until after the election. And now i think the outcry has been sufficient he feels compelled to act, but they want to keep this as small as they can. And thats why this has been so drawn out. And i think its a terrible travesty when people are hurting as much as they are. Do you think it gets done before christmas . Oh, yeah. No, i think it will be done this weekend. I think the political heat is too great on mcconnell now. He is talking in a different way than he was before the election. So, yes, i think we are going to get this done within the next 24 to 48 hours. Life doesnt work this way, but it can be beneficial for analysis. If two months ago you knew what you now know about where this was going to wind up, would you have pushed to take a deal sooner just to get something to these people sooner . You know, i think that frankly getting something sooner even if its smaller is probably more important than waiting longer and getting a little bit more. But ill tell you this, chris. What were going to do in the next 24 to 48 hours is absolutely not going to be enough. And it will be important in the new administration to come back and give a level of relief commensurate with the economic catastrophe. And the republicans are already signaling good luck with that. But the National Need is going to be so great because as we all know, we are in the midst of this dark winter and things are going to get tougher before they get better. They will get better, but theyre going to be lots of businesses that are permanently out of business if we dont act before then. Im with you. I just hope the lesson is learned that if youre just talking Budget Priorities and which agencies get what, i get why youre trying to maximize policy prospects. But in an emergency, somethings better than nothing. So, unless go ahead, please respond. I completely agree with you, chris. The difficulty is if youve ever been in negotiation where the other side doesnt want to do anything, its very tough to do something meaningful. And we need to do something meaningful. We dont want a fig leaf. We dont want something thats just a bandaid when people are suffering as much as they are. So, when its not good enough for something, when you need everything is january 6th. Do you think there is a legitimate chance that everybody will wind up voting on whether or not to certify the Electoral College . Do you think theres a chance that republicans will break ranks in the house and the senate and put it to a vote . I think there will certainly be republicans in the house like moe brooks who want to make a statement. They are willing to do anything for donald trump. I do think that its strongly in Mitch Mcconnells interest that no senator supports that because if one senator does and he forces the other senators to go on record either doing their constitutional duty and confronting the president or voting for the president on the basis of completely fraudulent claims, thats a terrible situation for mcconnell to put his people in. Particularly some of his marginal senators who are going to be in tough midterms. So i think in this case Mitch Mcconnells going to do the right thing, maybe not for the right reason, but hes going to do the right thing because he doesnt want his senators to have to make that kind of a vote. You know, when you have a year where an election doesnt even mention the fact that the sitting president has been impeached, it really tells you that youve had a tough year. What do you think the lesson of 2020 is for you as a leader . Well, first of all i think youre absolutely right. The reason why the impeachment seems so long ago is weve lost 300,000 americans since then. Because of the incompetence of this administration weve had the worst performance during the pandemic of any nation on earth. And so that tragedy really just subsumes everything else. But we did warn, i have to say although we didnt know the proportion, that if republicans found him guilty and many acknowledged that he was guilty but still voted to acquit that he could do enormous harm to the country in between then and months later when the election came. But the damage hasnt ended with the pandemic. What he is doing now, what 126 of my republican colleagues shamefully joined is the most serious antidemocratic effort to overturn an election to install the president even though he lost, and that is just further damage to our democracy. Ill leave you in case i dont see you between now and the new year. I wish you and your family the best. Ill leave you with a tip. This effort, its not under your purview right now, well, it is as a member of congress but not your committee. This distribution of this vaccine is going to be a problem. Nobody even knows and im not going to put you on the spot because youre not supposed to know. Its not your committees oversight, but nobody even knows who is deciding who gets what, congressman, let alone how it really gets there. I know perna is a trustworthy general of operation warp speed. But im telling you im hearing from states and im hearing from people in and around the administration that they dont know why there are shortfalls. They dont know what the plan is of how you get things out. Its going to be a problem. It is going to demand attention. Chris, youre absolutely right. And the First Priority of course is to make sure all the states and all the families, individuals, get the vaccine as soon as possible, and that they take it and that we fight all the misinformation that will be out there. But when its all over, we really need a 9 11like mission to analyze everything that went wrong in the handling of this pandemic. Congressman adam schiff, thank you for making the time. If i dont see you again, i wish you the best for the new year. We all need it. And you too, sir. The good news, the fruit of operation warp speed, remember, pfizer didnt take the money, operation warp speed gave money to moderna. So, now that vaccine has been authorized. Does it even have the same safety constraints. So good news. Could see people getting it in days. Could. Why . Because we dont know what the hell is going on with the distribution. Theres already confusion and problems. Why . People cant tell us why. They cant tell us whats happening. 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Well, one, trump thought the less you say about the pandemic the better a chance it doesnt really matter, the better a chance it doesnt hurt the economy, the better chance he wins. And, second, i really believe that what we learned from an hhs staffer in that email that they wanted herd immunity so they didnt care about pushing the right messaging about prophylaxis masks, social distancing, having those rallies. Because whats the down side . More people get sick. Good, herd immunity. Thats where their heads were. I really believe it on the basis of the evidence we have before us. Specifically you look in florida. Governor desantis, mini me for trump just forced to release reports hes been getting from the Coronavirus Task force. Forced to be transparent. Why . The Orlando Sentinel quotes the task force insisting florida must reestablish strong mitigation statewide and efforts should continue to include Wearing Masks in public, avoiding or eliminating the opportunities for maskless crowding in public including bars. But bars are open in florida. And desantis went out of his way to weaken mask rules. Its because of horrible decisions like that that we have to do better when it comes to the vaccine. Especially given that even more states are now saying they arent getting what they were promised. And they dont even know who to blame. We showed you when idaho was first to raise a flag. Last night it was six states. Now at least 18 states. The list keeps growing. The reality is now shouting from headlines on the local level governors from both parties get no more answers from the white house than we do. At this time its not clear to us why the shipment amounts have been adjusted. Were certainly frustrated. I still cannot get a straight answer out of the Trump Administration about why michigan, like many other states, is receiving a fraction of the vaccines that we were slated to receive. To show you how frustrating it is to get a straight answer out of the feds, the cdcs own socalled vaccine tracker only shows allotments for each state. How many doses are they scheduled to get . Not how many have actually been delivered. So, this doesnt really tell me what theyve done. It just tells me what somebody had suggested they might do. Even then, the cdcs numbers dont square with what the states say theyre being told is coming. So where did that original number come from . The states say, well, we gave them that number. So hold on a second. The states told the fed this is what we need, and that was their base number . But thats not whats scheduled to now go to them . And, in fact, the states dont know what theyre going to get . Who made those decisions . Here we go again. Lack of leadership. So now its the private sector is our best chance to try to figure out whats going on. Johns hopkins is running its own tracker. But where are they going to get the data . Even only they can only focus on one part of the equation, how many doses are being administered. They only have data for a grand total of nine states. So 41 states arent reporting . For all of those celebrating how quickly we got the vaccines approved, and it is impressive. They deserve credit. But now do your damn job. The scientists made the vaccine, not you. You put up the money, you created the initiative, but this is where youre supposed to do the job. We must keep demanding answers. This is not nitpicking. Ill telling you we will waste the value of getting a vaccine as quickly as we did if we dont distribute it just as quickly to those who need it. Now our next guest cowrote an oped suggesting just one dose of a covid19 vaccine may provide significant levels of protection from the virus. His name is dr. Michael meana and he joins us now. Good to see you again, doc. Thanks a lot. Do you believe one dose is enough . Or you think it may be enough . Maybe. I think we need to run trials to see if one dose will be enough. There was some tantalizing suggestions in the data that suggests that one dose might be enough. But to be very clear, we have to do the trials. Right now the best evidence suggests that two doses is what we need to confer the appropriate amount of immunity. But we should start trials today to see if one dose is enough so that we could potentially accelerate the doses of the vaccine not just across the United States but really across the whole globe. But once we get people vaccines, what do you say to people who say, hey, listen, this was such a pain in the butt getting the vaccine, im just going to get one. What do you say to them . At this point i would say that all of the data suggests that we should be getting two doses. Everyone who is getting a vaccine right now should absolutely plan to get their second dose. If you want to be protected, that is what the data shows. And until we know better, it wouldnt be responsible for yourself or for the people around you to just get a single dose at this point. Is there downside to getting two doses . Is there a better chance that you get sick from the vaccine or that something bad can happen . Well, weve seen when you go to get your second dose, some people are getting more response to the vaccine, the inflammatory response and the immunological response is greater. But that does come with more side effects, whether they be headaches or pain. But these generally are not severe. Theyre generally mild. And so we havent seen any reason why the vast, vast majority of people should not at this point be planning on getting two doses. Is one of these vaccines better than the other . I wouldnt want to say that. I think so far the data is almost identical to be honest. The Pfizer Vaccine and the Moderna Vaccine. There is a major difference though in that the Moderna Vaccine is going to hopefully have a better time being distributed. All of the things equal, the cold chain is not as serious for the Moderna Vaccine. Are you suspicious at all at these problems with pfizer . Do you think its just because theyre not part of operation warp speed . Or do you think theres any reason to believe that pfizers being disadvantaged or not dealt with because the government prefers moderna . I dont have the right information to answer that accurately. But i do think im not particularly suspicious of that. I think that we need to get our logistics in place immediately to ensure that we can get all the vaccines out. And im watching, the same as you, as we are seeing difficulties rolling these vaccines out getting the right allotments to everyone. And i think that should be a concern. And like you said, we should have answers at this point. Dr. Michael mina, i appreciate it. As you see something that gives you a better indication on which way to go, one shot or two, let me know. Lets bring in a member of president elect bidens covid19 task force rick bright. You heard what we were just talking about with dr. Mina. Good luck on what youre doing. The country needs you guys. What do you make of Michael Minas kind of hypothesis that maybe one shot will be enough . Well, chris, thanks for having me back on. I would love for that to be true. It would simplify so many things. Unfortunately they just did not evaluate that in the Clinical Trials so we dont have enough information to know if one shot would give you a Long Duration of immunity or immunity thats optimized or finetuned to provide the most protection possible against the virus. So, unless they test it in the clinical trial, we wont have that information or data. And short of that information i think that we would be compromising the potential full immune response that we need from the vaccine to protect us from this virus. Cant we just start a trial now . They could start a trial now. They could expand some of the Clinical Trials that they have ongoing now. Theres a number of options that they can consider. Of course that would take additional funds and resources and funds and resources for this pandemic are in short supply as vaccine right now. True. A lot of discussions need to happen right now. Right. But, rick, im obviously no clinician. But simple math. If you were to find out that one shots enough, you cut in half how many how much vaccine you need. That would mean you would double the amount of distribution you could do. That would mean you could double the amount of doses that you have, the amount of distribution you can do. But they do need to conduct those clinical studies. And you would have to show that again in a very large Clinical Study in a very diverse group. So it takes some time. I think in the meantime, chris, we need to focus on what we have in hand is manufacturing, scaling up production of the vaccines we have so we can meet that twodose capacity. Were seeing trouble already in staggering numbers. And thats quite concerning. And thats where they should focus their attention is making more of what they can and getting it out of those freezers and into the arms of people. Those vaccines in the freezer arent doing anyone any good at all. Im really concerned when i hear about those stories. We need to be vaccinating people urgently. A couple of questions on that. One, do you know who is in charge of deciding which states get how much . I wish i did know that. I do not know that. One of the things that were missing a lot in this pandemic unfortunately is transparency. I dont know who to call and i dont think the states but, seriously, rick, im not blaming you because youre not in there yet. But how is somebody supposed to hear that right now . I mean, they can just google you. Youre no dummy. Youre there for a reason. And were lucky to have you. You are on bidens covid19 task force and you dont know. Youre not alone. I spoke to five members of congress about this. They dont know. I talked to a member of operation warp speed. He didnt know whos making the decision. What does that say . It says we have a lot of work to do. January 20th we have a new team coming in. We need to get all the nuts and bolts in place. We need to make sure we have a smooth transition and a strategy in place. A National Campaign to vaccinate people needs to be put together really quickly. Transparency is critical not only for an efficient and Vaccination Campaign but to build the trust from people that we need to line up to take the vaccine. So these questions further erode trust at a time when we should be celebrating, a item when vaccine is on the horizon. But people are hearing more questions and its not doing a lot yet to build their trust and confidence. And thats where we need to be investing our energy right now. We are going to vax track every day. Time on the show is precious. We only have an hour. But i make you this pledge. I will let you come on whenever you want if you promise to give us the data about what is going where and to whom so we can track it from you to the states so we can keep an eye on how this is done to make sure its fair and efficient. Deal . Thats a deal, chris. Rick, thank you very much. In the meantime, chris, wear your mask. Remind everyone wear your mask this holiday season, please. Wear your mask, distance when you can. If you dont have to travel, dont. I know that sucks for the holidays. Believe me, im hearing it at home myself. 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Go online to transfer your services in about a minute. Get started today. For days now law maars have said theyre closing in on a covid release now. Even in a crisis, even with people hungry, now they had hope, why . Well, because the shutdown deadline that loomed tonight would kind of force them to do something. But for the second time in two weeks, theyve passed whats called a stop gap measure, meaning they just bought themselves a little bit more time so they can keep talking, which means not getting it done. I want to bring in democratic senator joe manchin. Hes been spearheading these bipartisan efforts. Welcome back to prime time. I know youre busy. I know youre tired. Thank you for keeping my audience in the loop. And, senator, my suspicion about this that it does feel like the ordinary brinkman ship of, oh, were getting down to the wire, its about to end, i dont know if were going to make a deal, i hope we do. Even with people hungry in the streets all over america were playing the same game . Let me say this, chris. Its always good to be with you and to keep people apprised with the transparency they should have. See this bill . This bill that we worked on in a bipartisan bicameral way was delivered on monday. This is a template of what should be put together and how we take care of the Emergency Needs of america. Its just an emergency till april 1. Well, its turned over to the four corners. Now when the four corners get it, thats the leadership in both the house and the senate. And then you have them regurgitating everything. Maybe what they didnt want in or what they wanted in or what someone else has encouraged them to do. And they start finnicing with it, if you will. Youve got four different staffs going at it. These staffs havent gotten along well over that period of time because always comes to the end. Let me always tell you why it always comes to the end. It comes to the end in a deadline because it takes all of us out. It takes a majority of a hundred senators out of play completely and left into the hands of a few. And that makes it almost impossible for us to have any input. So we delivered this on monday. This was a package that was put together by democrats and republicans. And we were hoping that this was a template. Now Chuck Schumer and the democrats have used this as a template and i appreciate that very much. But for some reason theyve gone off in so many different areas. The federal Crisis Response powers is whats Holding Everything up right now. And im begging and pleading with my republican friends, my republican senator friends. And Mitch Mcconnell and the majority leader for the republicans. Im pleading, please, this is not the place for that. It truly is politics. This has been in place since 2008 when we had the financial crisis. Now all of a sudden it comes in play. Its been in play for 12 years to where the Federal Reserve has the ability to infuse into the markets when needed to keep the market from collapsing. And emergencies from happening. Why all of a sudden because we have a change of an administration, president elect joe biden going at it. And now it becomes a big deal. If you want to take this out, if you want to do this and talk about it, chris, lets wait until april after we get through our first quarter. This is strictly an emergency. But whats their upside . This is not a do all end all. Why does mcconnell want to get rid of that . And do plain speak for me. What is that mechanism . Why was it in place to help the markets we know that was from 20002009. Why does he want that out and why is he asking for that out now . Whats his basis . I dont know unless its just pure politic its would take a tool away from the Federal Reserve with the Biden Administration going in. Theres nothing the Biden Administration would do any different than whats been under but what does it have to do with the pandemic . It has nothing to do with the pandemic. If anything, itll help the feds preserve a collapse. But i cant figure it out why this has come in. If that could be done away with, i guarantee by tomorrow morning wed have a deal. I think its ready to be done. Ive never even heard of this before. When did they ask for this . This has been happening for the last three or four days. It came into play. We heard about it two days ago. Never thought because it had nothing to do with any discussions, any of us ever had, chris. And all of a sudden im hearing this is the thing, this is whats holding us up now. They want this out. And i said why now . What has the feds done wrong . What have they abused . Its a tool to keep the market from collapsing. It allows the fed to inject if need be. And thats all weve asked for. Thats whats been there since 2008. How come all of a sudden now . I dont know. You tell me. I thought they wanted to get a bill done before christmas. Why would he put something in that would blow it up . Im just saying if someone has been basically misinformed, im begging my friends. Were asking for a relief package, an emergency relief package that the United States of america, my state of west virginia, all the states need help. Were talking about shelter. Were talking about food. Were talking about unemployment assistance. Were talking about Financial Assistance basically for businesses that arent going to make it. Its not the liability waiver anymore, its not the you dont get state and local funding . Liabilitys gone. State and local . Yeah. Its not state and local liability was a big hangup. Thats why we separated it, chris. Now they want to do direct payments. Well, at first they were going to take money away from the people that had none. So this has been a big thing. Youve been seeing some of my Senate Colleagues on the floor raising cane about why they had to have more money to direct payments. Everyone wants to get a check. But dont you think its an emergency and a crisis if youre going to lose your unemployment . Yeah. To feed your family and keep a roof over your head. Thats the unemployment emergency were dealing with. But, nope, they have to send checks out. I said im all for it. But in an emergency cant we come back when basically the first of the year and see what it takes to stimulate the market and send checks then if that really is what it takes . I just cant figure this out how these priorities, you know, it makes no sense. We dealt strictly, and ill tell you again. Strictly, all we dealt with was the emergencies. And now theyve thrown everything at it and now on top of that to say, well, we got to get rid of the federal Crisis Response powers because thats harming what is it harming . It gives the Federal Reserve the ability doesnt even have anything to do with this. And were still in a pandemic. Has nothing to do with it. So im asking everybody if you woman the a bill and get it done, call our republican friends, please. These are all good people. Im not theres some reason thats got everybody ticked off, it makes no sense at all. But please say, hey, put that off till february or march, fight about it then. Let this package go. Thats all were asking for. So, its not even that the democrats its awful. Are holding out for the 1,200 checks and thats what the tension is. No. Youre saying its something that has nothing to do with the pandemic . Thats it, brother. I cant tell it any clearer than that, chris. And did it come from mcconnell . Or just appear . It came from one of the senators, one of my friends that we did a bill together and is still my friend. I dont know why hes all fired up. I really dont. And now i guess if Mitch Mcconnell can shut it down and say were not going to do it now, well do it later. So if theyre using that for a tool to trade back and forth, makes no sense. You know, people who dont know your history in your state, you and i first met during a mine disaster. And i watched you out there deal with people who were angry and they were scared and they were given Bad Information and false hope. And you kept people calm and settled. And that was the hope that you would go to washington and i remember when you went in there, i was like, well, this guy could deal with bad situations. I watched it in realtime. But you never expected anything like this. These people, there are people hungry in the streets and a guy that youll say is still your friend is putting something in there that may keep him hungry through christmas . I think maybe i dont know, but i swear to god i cant explain it to you, chris. This is beyond me how anyone could think that this is so important that if you dont do this, were going to hold this up and not send out 800 or 900 billion thatll keep the economy alive, and more importantly itll keep a lot of people alive. And i cannot believe this has become that important. But this is where its at as of today and you told me to come back and give you an update on whats happening. Im giving it to you to the minute. I will never tell you to do anything. Youre too powerful and youre too large. But i will always ask you and invite you. And i do have a bottle of the best tequila that im not allowed to drink anymore. And its coming your way if youre keeping your promise. Senator joe manchin, thanks very much. Merry christmas if i dont talk to you before and your family, please enjoy each other. If you can count your blessings, you can share your blessings. Amen and thank you, senator. And ill be talking to you. Thank you. Well be right back. 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Governments fiscally are suffering at record rates. Were bringing public and private partners together. With this chunky million meals challenge presented by target where we brought together the mikes of madden, nfl players, americas dairy farmers, is likes of doritos and bose and others, were pairing players with madden pros for the top individual madden players from across the country to get a moment to be drafted by these greats. In the process, they will not only have a once in a lifetime experience, they will gain for good and we will provide 100 million meals to kids in need. Chris, right now i have never seen circumstances like this in my career. We have truly forgotten about this generation and we have to step up and do something profound. And this tournament, this moment of bringing together these unlikely suspects is one way in which we can do that. All i can say to the viewers right now is our schools need our help. Our teachers need our help. If i said to you theres this one place thats a great equalizer in america, a place in which we teach our kids, in which we address their socioemotional, Mental Health concerns, and, by the way, we make sure that we set them up by success, right now those schools are fiscally insolvent and we need to do something to step up. This chunky million meals challenge presented by target and all these other problems i hope is going to do this. Let me tell you something, chris. You know me. Im going to going to rest until i call everyone to get involved. Ive called the eagles. I have miles sanders, say kwan barkley, i have called jury duty and the denver broncos. Ive asked all these greats and these teams to stand behind us in this effort and every one of them have said yes, what can i do, more and more more and more. Im so grateful for you for giving us this time to talk about this because were talking about frontline workers. But the frontline workers taking care of our kids every day are being ignored and it is shameful. And we have to do something about it. Look, if congress doesnt do it, you have to have people step up and do it. Its not just about teaching them, as alexis is telling us all the time, its about feeding them. So many kids, the only nutrition theyre going to get in school. Its something we should be addressing. Sounds like a great idea a great partnership. And im happy to give at you of time thank you very much. Your shot was unclear but your message comes banging through. Great, thank you, chris. Take care. Thank you very much for watching as you werent the weekend. I got a really great thing for you to watch right after this, the cnn town hall, the color of covid the vaccines right up after this. Chase freedom unlimited, you now earn even more. Then this is officially a takeout week. Thats a good choice rita. Bon appetit. Now earn 3 on dining including takeout and so much more. Chase. 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