and we re not going to solve this crisis with half measures - or middle of the road ambitions. we need to go big. but will a pledge to go big actually deliver? african countries, and others, will want to see vaccine supplies arriving at a faster rate before passing judgment. hugh pym, bbc news. i m joined now by unicef s head of advocacy for health, vaccines and pandemic response, lily caprani, in new york. great to have you on newsday. i want to start by asking. great to have you on newsday. i want to start by asking, we ve great to have you on newsday. i want to start by asking, we ve heard - great to have you on newsday. i want to start by asking, we ve heard of - to start by asking, we ve heard of that significant booster number from the us, but we have seen the us pledging large numbers of doses before. only really delivering a fraction. is this time different? well, it s right, we ve seen pledges made today on top of many pages made
deserve to keep control of congress. i spent the day touring the still fresh damage around my district from the recent storms. we have dozens of people dead here in new york. failing infrastructure, climate change events that are becoming more and more evident every day. what we are going to do is focus on real problems like that and we will get them done. the military guy say is that the only way out is through. the only way out of these problems is politically, to deliver on policy and get results for the american people. to go big, do it now, to make sure people feel it and tell them that we did it. and make sure that they know that the red team has lost their minds and they are engaged in things that are racist and violent and dangerous, like conspiracy theories and the kinds of nonsense we have seen from that party. but we will fix heart problems and we are going to do it because it is the right thing to do. we will do it because it is the best politics in the. and congressman
party no longer believes in democracy as it stands? and so, that s i think, that s the question now. and i think democrats should give up on this idea of bipartisanship. just forget it and just basically say we re going to do what s right for the country. if that means it s democrat, versus republican, we re going to do what s right. and remember, the 14th and 15th amendments to the united states constitution were completely partisan. and that s the only way they were able to get through. so the standard that others want to apply today back then, we would have never had the 14th and 15th amendment. so, i say democrats highlight this, go big, and just go as far as you possibly can to get to the truth. well, amanda, you are talking about other people. you know, he said we focus on trump a lot. let s talk about the leaders in the republican party. in your latest piece, you eviscerate gop leader kevin mccarthy and his record on trump, the insurrection, and this committee. mccarthy went
the bag. they can potentially turn this into see, gop is an obstructionist. this is what we would do if we had more democrats in the senate, so they re also looking to the midterms. you raised a critical question. do they have a strategy is the question? again, i don t say it lightly. this is hard. this is hard. you have a divided family. you have progressives who say we have two years, who cares if we have a narrow majority. bring things to the floor, vote, go big, go bold. and the progressives say the republicans would do it. if they had the same math they would bring things to the floor and vote. in the national review this week, an important point, democrats oppose donald trump, happy he s not president. beyond trump, however, democrats are all over the place. senate filibuster isn t the democrats chief obstacle. coherence is. biden is pretending he has 60 votes on the liberal wish list, the reality is he doesn t have 50. they did lose seats in the house, and only because of the
jobs away from america. shannon: starting point wanting to do it for whatever was their priority. chris, as you said, these are priorities. i want to read something from national review. it notes that there is different coverage of a budget. a trump budget versus a biden budget saying this the new york times, 4.4 trillion in spending on a republican is an irresponsible boom dogle. while $6 trillion under democrats represent a bold new competitive vision for the country. chris? look, it s time for us to understand what our priorities are. and yes, i believe that the trump budgets were a boondoggle. he gave all of our capital, all of our resources away to a very few people, few people in this country and did it not help the vast majority of americans. what biden needs to do is go big. obama s mistake was not going big enough. and i think biden is not going to make that mistake twice and i think democrats will approve, maybe not [audio cuts out]