testify before congress about the administration s response. and later, governor phil murphy will join me as hard hit new jersey sees the highest level of hospitalizations since the start of this pandemic. just as the governor s covid emergency powers expire. welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd. right now you are looking live at atlanta, georgia, where we expect president biden to have just landed as he prepares in fact, there he is as he prepares to deliver a manger address on the issue of voting rights. it will come less than a week after his remarks on the one year an verse of the january 6th insurrection when he vowed to protect the democracy from former president trump and what he has been trying to do. as biden left for atlanta he spoke to reporters about the political risks facing him on this issue if he gets nothing done. i risk not saying what i
trading stocks with knowledge about covid that other people didn t have. it s the same in congress. you can trade on information, that comes your way as a member of congress and make money out of it and that is legal. but there are moves to stop this kind of thing happening. brian: jon ossoff is pushing at it, a democratic. listen to speaker pelosi who made zillions along with her husband on these stocks. she was asked this on december 15th. listen. should members of congress and their spouses be banned from trading individual stocks once they are in congress. no. we are a free market economy. they should be able to participate in that. brian: stuart, but she said policy. she sets policy. she gets a head start on everything. this hats got to stop. it s just not fair. people who have that kind of inside information should not be allowed to profit from it competence of the rest of us who do not have that information. i have no problem with the
classes. and have just a mask mandate but still be able to be in person before any vaccine or therapeutic. and now the fact that we have another mandate for another booster shot, it s frustrating for me in particular. brian: you in particular. you have to make a decision whether you are going to go and do this. you have about 100 signatures of other students who said enough, you already mandated the vaccine. here is what siena said to us when we asked them what your deal is they said given the arrival of the omicron variant along with the evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of covid vaccine wanes over time. vaccine booster for students as they become eligible so they can enjoy a full siena experience. you mean like a.o.c. fully vaccinated and got the virus anyway and whoopi goldberg and dana perino? what proof do they have about the booster? that s right. again, brian, i m a sports guy. i will bring kyrie everybodying in as an example.
steve: biden administration taking a patient s race into account when distributing potentially life-saving covid treatments. according to the fda s official guidance other medical conditions or factors, for instance, an example, race or ethnicity may also place individual patients at high risk for progression to severe covid-19. fox news contributor and civil rights attorney leo terrell joins us right now. leo, it sounds like because things are the administration completely botched the readiness for this, they are having to ration these monoclonal antibodies and other they re pe. their pew dicks.
alignment, if you will? reporter: well, you re exactly right to point out that in covid he has and it s been sort of a real standing point of the scheduling of the white house he has been out there every week talking about covid. as much as voting rights is a consequential issue right now, this is a white house that also knows he s going to be judged ultimately based on how he handles covid. so that was the high priority. but what was number two on that list? it was infrastructure and build back better and what is stalled and also seemingly unable to be revived at the moment? it s build back better. and so this is actually a helpful pivot to another issue, but albeit one that there is no sense that they can succeed on. but the other issue here, chuck, is i think it was illustrative to hear what jim clyburn said, he told the washington post today, he reminded the president and the public that on election night well, not election night because it was election week as we remember, b