There were misunderstandings from the beginning but we should forget about them and focus on our vaccine being one of the best. Donald trump is accused of summoning a mob and aiming them like a Loaded Cannon at the capitol according to pre trial documents from democrats were pushing for his impeachment. And tributes are pouring in for Captain Sirtom and tributes are pouring in for captain sir tom moore who has died at the age of 100. He is remembered for raising tens of millions for Coronavirus Workers in the uk. We begin in russia, where a court has ruled that Alexei Navalny will go to jail. A three and a half year suspended sentence for fraud from 2014 has been converted to a custodial sentence. Hes expected to spend over 2. 5 years in prison that allows for time previously spent under house arrest. This is Alexei Navalny arriving in court to hear the verdict he used his appearance to castigate President Putin, and said hed go down in history as someone who poisoned people. This was
today the president s going to be highlighting the fact that despite all the concerns about our supply chain disruptions, many americans are getting christmas gifts delivered on time. we re going to see that when he meets with executives and the like. this issue of testing is one that is a new problem they re continuing to confront. a lot of questions about why more wasn t done sooner. doctor, what do you think about the president s plan? is it meeting the urgency of the moment? thank you so much for having me. i would say it s a first step, but it s not adequate. yes, there was a focus on testing, on increasing the infrastructure of testing and getting rapid tests out to americans, but 500 million tests in january, think about it. there are 330 million americans and rapid tests have to be taken often. that is not enough. so we need more aggressive strategy, and we need it to happen right now. i would have also liked to have seen some federal guidance around data driven mask polici
administration official who was at the height of covid-19 and some of the production and partnerships with the private sector and he said to me abbott basically stopped producing tests at such a large scale in about june or july because they could not get a read from the federal government as to whether or not they would be buying tests. his direct quote i thought it was pretty revealing how do you allow abbott to scale back and almost stop producing rapid antigen tests. president biden told us in the basement he had a secret plan. he said president trump, you don t have a plan, quote: i do. well, there was clearly no plan. there was a focus, as you said, lawrence, on vaccines but where was the focus on testing? where was the incentive incentivizing from the federal government saying produce, private sector it, just simply didn t happen. will: i think i might have a little bit different opinion than the two of you on this. i am not going to indict biden for failing to provide the
close contact. it is tough to get one. so, part of what the president just said they need to do better on testing, we are making improvements, adding federal sites for testing. did you hear what you wanted to hear or what you needed to hear from the president? yes, i sure did. i would have loved to hear it a month ago before omicron came out, but i actually also googled covid testing near me, and click on hhh.gov, you can put in the zip code. so important to have testing, easy access and availability, but i also think it s available we don t solely focus on testing. the president also talked about boosters and vaccines but did not talk about the fact we need to ensure other countries, third world countries, india, asia, they need vaccinations as well. even if everyone in the united states is vaccinated, if another variant emerges in another