i m proud to announce that tomorrow, 58 days in our administration, we ll have met my goal of administering 100 million shots to our fellow americans. that s weeks ahead of schedule. the president says eight weeks ago, only 8% of seniors had received a vaccination. today 65% of people age 65 or older have received one shot. 30% are fully vaccinated. he continues to believe there will be enough vaccine supply for every adult in america by the end of may. so the white house says that s part of the reason why it s finalizing plans of sending millions of doses to mexico and canada. that vaccine important to note is not approved for use here in the united states. our first priority remains vaccinating the u.s. population and ensuring our neighbors can contain the virus is a mission critical step. we have seven million release able doses of astra zeneca. we re working to finalize plans to lend them to mexico and 1.5 million to canada. so the bottom line, charles, president
time to try to get away with it. he says, this just in response to your story in fact, it s time for the administration to take immediate action to enhance our deterrent posture in europe and protect our allies. he is outraged by this, what steps could the administration take if it wanted to? well, i mean, first off, the first step they have to take is fill some of these positions in the administration. they don t have a deputy secretary of state, they don t have a policy undersecretary in the defense department. they don t have a national security advisor, really. so they need to have a team that can begin to craft a strategy. the first thing they need to do is political. go to south korea and get them to act in concert. because all of these countries are the nations that would be potentially targets of this
of the great achievements of the trip is that he showed that america still recognizes that it is an asian pacific power. and when you look at the rise of china, the importance of china these days, i think he sent the right message that as you concerned yourself my asian friends with china the united states is here as part of the asian pacific community. we should not think that china is a nation to be contained because you re not going to be able to contain it. it s a nation we have to work with. every now and then china demonstrates its new found influence and power to the distress of some of the other asian nations and for the president of the united states to be in the region, to go to indonesia, go to south korea, japan, and to participate in the g-20 meetings that were held, in asia, i think especially in india, i think that shows that america still is engaged. people looked to us for leadership. looked to us for influence and the issues that he didn t
and when you look at the rise of china, the importance of china these days, i think he sent the right message that as you concerned yourself my asian friends with china the united states is here as part of the asian pacific community. we should not think that china is a nation to be contained because you re not going to be able to contain it. it s a nation we have to work with. every now and then china demonstrates its new found influence and power to the distress of some of the other asian nations and for the president of the united states to be in the region, to go to indonesia, go to south korea, japan, and to participate in the g-20 meetings that were held, in asia, i think especially in india, i think that shows that america still is engaged. people looked to us for leadership. looked to us for influence and the issues that he didn t achieve success with are still there and they have to be worked. we ll be back with general colin powell right after this.
and when you look at the rise of china, the importance of china these days, i think he sent the right message that as you concerned yourself my asian friends with china the united states is here as part of the asian pacific community. we should not think that china is a nation to be contained because you re not going to be able to contain it. it s a nation we have to work with. every now and then china demonstrates its new found influence and power to the distress of some of the other asian nations and for the president of the united states to be in the region, to go to indonesia, go to south korea, japan, and to participate in the g-20 meetings that were held, in asia, i think especially in india, i think that shows that america still is engaged. people looked to us for leadership. looked to us for influence and the issues that he didn t achieve success with are still there and they have to be worked. we ll be back with general colin powell right after this.