evidence for it. really it s just a little t test to donald trump. so when they say i believe don trump is really a president i think joe biden is there illegitimately they don t really believe that. but they think that this is how they will demonstrate their subservience and their loyalty to donald trump. it s just a very scary thing for a modern political party to operate that way requires people to suspend critical thinking skills. we have to squeeze in a break here, before we go quickly. on the schedule of junior six committee, televised hearings have we ve been hearing june as a possible start time for that. what will those hearings be will they be witnesses that you have already heard from in private sessions in the committee? well we live in an age of you know a lot of media and good tv as you and rachel maddow and a well. so we have to tell this story in an interesting way. we understand that.
a test. dana: people know how to do google. that is a very, very tough message. i know on the five last night can you imagine if president trump said google, just go out and google where you should get a test? you see the lines, you see the manifestation of what is going on and people who can t test and cdc rule five days, quarantine from 10 to 5 and then the back and forth over whether or not you should get a test at the end of that and raises the obvious question asked in the press briefing is the reason you aren t requiring a test at the end of five days because you can t guarantee people will find them? it is a bad look. trace: the whole take on the chicago school district shutting down because of covid and here is mayor lightfoot. when our district was fully remote our children suffered. there is no disputing that reality. we can t forget about how disruptive that remote process
we re also following the aspects of this pandemic and the fallout from it. big news in chicago. the teachers union and the school district there reaching a tentative deal to get kids back into the class after a fight over covid safety protocols left students and families stranded. cnn s elizabeth cohen is standing by for us watching the senate hearing with the nation s fop health officials. let s start there. elizabeth, what have you heard so far? kate, they ve just had the opening statement, they re now beginning the questioning. and what we heard was the cdc director dr. rochelle walensky doubling down on the cdc s advice that if you have covid, and you re feeling better, or you re asymptomatic, that after five days, you can get out of isolation, even if you don t test, dr. walensky says look, a part of our point of public health here is to get essential workers including hospital and health care workers back to work. so she doubled down on that. we also heard dr. fauci talk about
now in chicago with the teachers voting to go virtual. that s because they couldn t test the kids. and now the city locking them out. t it s leading to some dramatic situations. one final area, craig, that he highlighted in the interview was vaccinations. the rate for 5 to 11-year-olds is still very low. about 20%. he said the administration is urging more vaccine clibices that can be set up in schools but it s going to take partnerships with local labs, local health departments. yeah. we talked about the test to stay policy with regards to not being able to afford the tests. a lot of districts around the country can t do that. gabe, mr. gutierrez, i know you were at a testing facility that s running some 25,000 tests a day. and i understand that you found 100% of those tests showed that it was the omicron variant. yeah. that s right. well, this testing center was
or are we going to hunker down and hide from it or use the knowledge that we have in order to live effectively with it. we have some very effective therapeutics. we need to be concentrating on early therapy, making it available for people. it should be the same kind of urgency that we had in terms of getting out the vaccine. that s what needs to happen. martha: i want to go back and ask you. are you suggesting that people shouldn t test and they shouldn t doesn t matter if they know they re positive or not by the first comment you made there? i m saying that we need to be more measured and who we re testing. to just go out widely and test everybody when you have spread that is spreading this first and you don t have a plan to deal with it, all you re doing is adding to the confusion. yes, certainly people that are at risk, those are the people we