we are waiting to hear the view of the supreme court on the issue, lawsuit of people are interested in it and will be impacted by it, we will be watching, carrie severino appreciate your time. griff: this as the data set for the state of the union and a disappointing december job s report is released lucas tomlinson is live from the north lawn, hi, lucas. lucas: the president in las vegas attending harry reid s funeral and things will get better despite record setting in the nation nearly two years into the pandemic. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay but covid as we are dealing with now is not here to stay, the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools that we are
well, let me bring in the six former administration advisers or officials who say that the administration needs to start doing the work to hasten that day, to transition from the pandemic to the endemic, they published these pieces just yesterday. let s start with this from zeke emanuel, it s potent and concise, without a strategic plan for the new normal with the endemic, more people will experience morbidity, and mortality, health intequities. the tests you talk about, they re not linked to the right data, the test results, they re not linked to the outcomes overall. there aren t enough of them. they re too expensive. you say what? well, i think first of all, i think those are not former administration officials. i think those are all people who worked on the transition. all smart people. all with good public profiles,
vasht there s been lags, frustrations when it comes to lack of testing. there s questions about what those tests, that rollout is going to look like of the right now the white house is really trying to balance their plans while also hearing these words from former advisers on how they feel. and so the challenge for the president, seung min, number up, get your ducks in order or get your people loyal or be quiet until you fix the problems and covid is a global pandemic. a lot of this is out of the president s control but his political standing rises or falls with how he handles this pandemic. listen to his take today on is covid here to stay? no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be. the new normal doesn t have to be. that s the president s hope that we come out of this winter and things are in the spring as w
is on the way, despite a record-setting number of cases nation wild. no, i don t think nationwide. no, i don t think covid is here to stay, but having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many nutalls that we re developing new disease tools that can contain covid. reporter: of course, that s not what we heard in the runup to the 2020 election. i m going to shut down the virus. i ll shut down the virus, not the economy. i m not going to shut down the country, but i am going to shut down the virus. reporter: earlier this week the u.s. recorded over one million new covid cases in a single day, shattering the previous record amid a testing shortage. the white house has signed two contracts with the industry to boost the number of tests workinging towards the president s goal of procuring
that no one can answer. the unfortunate answer here is no, there is no single solution. there is silver bullet. i used to hang my hope on the former president just coming clean and doing what was right and telling everyone that the election was legit but look at what happened when he told everyone that the vaccines work and he s been boosted. he s a pariah. that s the point of metacizing so far. it becomes this kind of colt-herd mentality. it s going to take a long-term effort to reensagegagereengage. i do think covid made this last grass root reality and these rabbit holes and qanon and other