all recognize the importance to the process but they want to hear their voices too. one is congresswoman lisa socket. she was on the show last week saying she felt like the president wasn t engaged enough to certain lawmakers. too much attention paid to those jurors. she also said she wants the reconciliation to come first. she told the president her message today. what do you think about opinions like hers, and she s not alone, you need to reach out with us too? he s reaching out to say wide array of democrats, today, all across the spectrum. and we need to make sure everybody s voice is heard when we emerge on compromise, consensus. this is what the people sent president joe biden to washington to do be democrats and, frankly, republicans if they voted to come along as well
facebook, but facebook certainly, play an incredibly important role in the sharing of misinformation, and that s a huge problem. it s across the board. obviously what we learned about how much they knew about how damaging their algorithm was particularly to young girls, young women, on top of on top of everything that they ve done to spread misinformation unchecked on the vaccine, for example, it s incredibly dangerous. he s said they have a responsibility, and he believes that as part of the ecosystem, they need to be the self-regulation that we are seeing is not sufficient. so he s looking at different options, and look, they re also one piece of the media ecosystem. i think in addition to social media, obviously there are irresponsible actors in broadcast media, in cable media, in print. this is not a problem that is unique to facebook alone but it is one where facebook plays a critical role and the president believes there needs to be additional checks put on the way
but that s between them and their voters. but president biden is engaged directly. he s making sure we re hearing from inch but he s driving towards his vision. this is his belief we need to level the playing field. we need to make sure working people in this country have breathing room and we re going to work through the details. we re 99% of the way there. and he will make this direct case. willie has the next question. great to see you this morning. we have the facebook whistle-blower up on capitol hill today. she appeared on 60 minutes two nights ago, appearing before a committee about the impact of facebook and instagram and those products on children. bigger picture, as you look at some of the challenges you all faced in beating back covid has been so much of the bad information that flows from facebook, prevents people from getting vaccinated, allows the disease to spread. what responsibility does the president think facebook has in where we are in a country right fough?
guidance for the vaccinated. potentially very big news. also president biden making a case for his economic and legislative agendas. in a bipartisan investigation of the january 6th insurrection but his primary focus was fighting the resurgence of coronavirus. it s real simple. we have a pandemic for those who haven t gotten a vaccination. it s that basic. it s that simple. if you re vaccinated, you re not going to be hospitalized. you re not going to be in an icu unit, and you re not going to die. there s legitimate questions people can ask they worry about getting vaccinated. when will children under 12 be able to get vaccinated. soon, i believe. they are doing the examinations now, the testing now and making the decision now. the cdc is going to say that what we should do is everyone over the age of under the age of 12 should probably be wearing a mask in school.