inappropriate behavior. that is the latest individual that cnn is reporting on, anderson. we ll have more on this shortly. right now a first for the first time in a long time, the covid milestone we crossed today was neither a cause for sadness as it was for half a million fatalities or an occasion to remember what our world used to be like a year and a day ago. instead, this latest marker for where we stand signals better times ahead. today the country crossed the 100 million vaccination mark. tonight more than 101 million shots have been administered. the goal was reached on the day president biden signed the covid relief package. day 52 of the administration. days ahead of the schedule he set and eight days ahead of the original version he revised last night. when i came into office, you may recall, i set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. i said i want to get 100 million shots in people s arms in my first 100 days in office. we won t meet that
to see how successful. and terry has been focusing on donald trump and so has gavin newsome. fears have been a motivator for democrats in 2020 and 2018. i do think at this point that may be the strongest thing they have. a fear of trumpism and what the party may need from them. ramp ant right now in the gop. asking you about the blow back at shore including this piece who argues that dems are preparing to abandon black voters again. what is your take? how would you rate how democrats have done with some of the core
pervasive, scary epidemic and it s ramp ant. again, i just want to applaud all of the people and the men too who have had the courage to come forward and be part of this fight. do you have some thoughts on what you d like men to do? i do. i have some thoughts. i don t want men to be afraid to compliment women. okay? that s not what this issue is about. these stories that are coming out with assault allegations, they re not just accusing people and then people are losing their jobs. these stories are investigated. they re vetted. they re asking witnesses. i mean, they need proof before they re printing these articles. so don t think walking down the street i m sorry, not walking down the street. don t think in your office if you say oh, you look pretty today that we re going to sue you for sexual hairs am. that s not what this movement is about. this movement is about sexual harassment and sexual assault.
financial collapse, the american economy bears its scars. you know the drill. ramp ant foreclosures, lending bottoming out, stalled employment. a perillousily fragile financial market. no yield for retirees by the million. and yet so many of the banks responsible are not only surviving, they are thriving and bigger than ever. that is except for one. if the major banks had been on the tv show survivor, lehman brothers was the one when it came down to it that was voted off the island. but why lehman? and why did they uniquely, when all the banks were wound out, hyper levered and out of cash did the fall? and what did those involved in that process learn that we can benefit from today as so little has been fixed? our next guest rode literally on the back of the beast on the derivatives side in the stock market side. you guys are having a fantastic