places and the vaccinations are highly effective. i do want to go to a place where others have also been vaccinated. i think you re going to see more public pressure over time for where that will happen. people want to go on the a cruise. everybody s been vaccinated. they want to fly on an airplane. be in a plane where everybody s vaccinated. i think the 70% or more vaccinated will start to drive public policy in ways we haven t seen happen yet. jonathan, the white house has been so focused on depoliticizing the covid policies and all of its pronouncements. passport seems like the next front that republican governors are politicizing. is there an idea to enhance you can make it noncommercial to
diplomacy and likely easier for the biden team on that issue but this is a transitional moment in israel away from a netanyahu dominated era and we have to wait and see what the future looks like, lapid s centralism and bennett s more hard line approach which is a continuation of what we have seen under netanyahu. jonathan, is there any reaction from the biden white house yet? and two, it s made clear to me that the president navigated the conflict there with a relationship with netanyahu. any reporting on his relationship with the new leadership team? no reaction yet from the white house. officials were pressed repeatedly as to weigh in on the situation and chose to say
the political controversy oftt e day. this is the one thing we can t afford to get wrong. i m glad you have remained very focused on it yourself. no. i mean, it s a conversation all three of us will continue to th have. if you believe recovery starts withie admitting you have a adm problem, you have to read this book to understand and really appreciate the scope of the problem we have.lem we ben rhodes, congratulations on the book. it s, as i said, haunting is the best word i can come up for it. jonathan, thank you for spending the whole hour with me. ben s book is out now. we will continue to talk about it. the next hour of deadline: white house starts after a quick break.ick don t go anywhere. we are getting started. t go any. we are getting started
biden and the work and the policies overwhelmingly embraced by the vast majority of the country with republicans failing repeatedly to coalesce around a line of attack on policy. the best hope they may have left is to cheat, rewrite the rules and make it harder to vote. to scheme to way to a victory that s increasingly difficult to win based on hearts and minds. this is where we start with some of our favorite reporters and friends. white house reporter jonathan lami ree is here, charlie sykes and donna edwards is here. donna edwards, both parties tend to extrapolate too much from a win or a loss but this size of her win seems to be a sure sign as if we needed another that the republican attacks just aren t landing. i think that s true and also