of the taliban regime, that s why the assets are frozen. i do think, though, we have to be part of finding a humanitarian solution to avoid a humanitarian crisis in afghanistan and it s something we re working on here everyday. okay. ron klain, i really appreciate your time tonight, thank you very much. thanks for having me chris, i appreciate it. all right. we have a new name to add to the january 6 committee s potential witness list, ivanka trump, now seen a fair share of letters, subpoenas from the committee, i have to say they re not all created equal, some just lay out information we already know, summation of public reporting, you read them, i follow closely, it s nothing new. then there are the ones we have like tonight that have a lot new that pull back the curtain on things we ve largely been in the dark about. namely, what was donald trump doing during the attack? new details from that letter including a potential conversation between trump and vice-president pence on t
having me chris. great to be here as always. look, i think the numbers that you cite are telling of where we are. which is that our economic plan has done an excellent job of raising incomes. of getting people employment. when we got here, there were 20 million people on unemployment. that is down to 1. 7 million now. people are back at work. as you said, they re saving accounts are up. their value of their homes are up. they feel well off personally. we have to be realistic, they are living in an economy where there are still people are really back at work full-time. there is all kinds of dislocations. although these disruptions caused by the pandemic. the anxiety of the pandemic hangs over people said. that is with the president said yesterday in his press conference. i think that is a realistic appraisal of where we are. part of the job, part of the job here, is really addressing that pandemic. we ve made a lot of progress on that. 210 million people fully vaccinated. 210 million
was precisely what you re prescribing there. john will still thank you that was very helpful. thanks for having me chris. still ahead members of congress gunk-ing it out with nationalists as they showered praise on vladimir putin. that s coming up. they showere praise on vladimir putin that s coming up that s coming up that s coming up since i left for college, my dad has gotten back into some of his old hobbies. and now he s taking trulicity, and it looks like he s gotten into some new healthier habits, too. what changes are you making for your type 2 diabetes? maybe it s time to try trulicity.
vulnerable populations, and truly, the entire eligible population with their booster dose. because we know that especially against this omicron variant, we need extra levels of vaccine protection in order to remain safe from severe disease and death. and so we are working to support more vaccinations and more booster doses. and really to make sure that we can maintain our hospitals so that they are not overwhelmed and that we can maintain regular hospital services. so that, in my mind, if we can decrease the amount of cases, get more and more people vaccinated and boosted, and decrease the surge on the hospitals with low rates ultimately of disease i think that we can come out of this search successfully. all right, doctor rochelle walensky, director of cdc. thank you for making time with us tonight. i really appreciate it. thank you for having me chris. before we go tonight, have you heard of nft s? i hadn t before a few years ago
head of public health in new york city. to understand what this variant is doing? thank you so much for having me chris. yes, we are following data not just day-by-day but often by multiple times a day. the key is our epidemiological data, following the numbers of data and hospitalization and death. but we are also following our vaccination numbers very closely. as well as the proportion of cases that are estimated to be omicron. which right now and the new york city area is about 92%. 92%. it s interesting that you said the. because starting about a week ago, something has started happening in new york which is that everyone is starting to get covid. i have never seen anything like it. having reported through and lived through the pandemic multiple times. it was clear that something new was afoot.