children representing one out of every four new cases and the president planning to focus on vaccinating the unvaccinated on booster shots, keeping schools open, ramping up testing, mask mandates and a new push toward mandating vaccines. so let s begin now with jeremy diamond live for us at the white house with our top story. what is ahead? what are we going to hear from the president, jeremy? reporter: good morning, brianna. president biden is expected to outline a revamped strategy for tackling this coronavirus pandemic in a speech this afternoon. the president will be pushing for new vaccine mandates as well as increased testing across the country. those are a couple of the six pillars that white house officials disclosed to us so far for what the president is going to be focussing on. you can see they re vaccinating the unvaccinated. further protection for the vaccinated. expect to hear about booster shots in that portion of the speech as well as also looking at the economic reco
didn t president trump politicize the military? i think there s a long history of many presidents politicizing the military. and honestly what i really want to speak about, though, is this administration s decision to do so versus decisions made by previous administrations because it s important in this moment now to accept what s happening because this has not been happened before. this is an unprecedented move by a president to dissolve all boards, all appointees and label them all as being unqualified. okay. so, i want to ask you a little bit about that because you say it s about focussing on what biden is doing, not what trump is doing. you obviously were an adviser to the campaign, former president trump s re-election campaign, when it came to veteran and military family outreach. you have recently been very outspoken about what you talk about and, look, many people have talked about as the moral injury of the evacuations from
people, of course, on these boards who have supported or stood by silently while their former boss supported an insurrection. that s not really okay with us either. you re right, there s a span of individuals on these boards. it s really not more complicated than the president, his cabinet and team wanting to be able to appoint a fresh layer of people. as far as you re concerned, are they effectively off the boards now? have they been fired from these boards as of this morning? well, they ve certainly been it s been conveyed to them as you know yesterday that they were asked to resign in terms of their exact status this morning, i don t have an update. again we re confident in our legal capacity here. white house press secretary jen psaki, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. still ahead, we ll speak live with a school board member in los angeles about today s potentially landmark move to require covid vaccinations for students. and one part of the country
specific details for security reasons, john, but what i can tell you is that one of our focuses, the focus of our secretary of state who has been on the ground the last couple of days and our diplomats in the region, are working overnight every night all night is to get these planes, get this airport operational. and qataris, the airlines, they have been a key partner in this. what we re working to do is get flights in and out of the airport to help people who want to depart depart. people who are eligible for different programs we have from the united states, special immigrant visa programs and others. so, this is what we have been working toward. every moment of everyday and it s something we hope will be instrumental moving forward. the wall street journal reports that the biden administration is going to sue texas to try to stop their new near abortion ban from continuing. what can you tell us about this? well, the president on the day this announcement was made in texas, the
put yourself in this category, someone he s being honored as a graduate of west point here soon. do you think that it makes sense that some of these people should have been scrapped but that you re not one of them? how are you seeing this? so, i can only speak for myself. i haven t met the individual that you re speaking act. we haven t had a board meeting since the election because of the suspension of all the board. so i ve never worked alongside him or know him personally. so again i can only speak for myself. and what i can you megan, megan, let s not dodge that. because you don t have to work alongside someone to know that they promote replacement theory or that they attack women being in military roles that men are in. i mean, you know, you know the record of some of these people. so do you think that it makes sense that some of these people would be scrapped? so i think it makes sense that any president can look at those that are appointed and make the decision to asse