and savings, not a bad thing but not its intended purpose. secondly, it didn t reach nine of the ten poorest americans who didn t who don t work, who don t have tax records, who don t know how to interact with the treasury and the irs, and so it even missed its mark there. here s the challenge. hold on a second. it didn t hold on a second, sir. it didn t exclude those people. if those are people who don t currently file taxes, if they don t communicate with the irs, it hasn t reached them yet. it s going to take some time to get the process to work. it s not that they were excluded. perhaps. but right now, nine out of ten are not getting help. secondly, do we really, at a time we desperately need workers, are we smart to send about 1.5 million people exiting the workforce with the child tax credit no longer tied to earnings or work? this is not the time to be erecting barriers to reconnecting the jobless to a
potential side effects, especially as winter approaches which could lead to an up tick in cases. that s what one pfizer official warned. if you just look at our track record in terms of predicting the epidemic, we ve got done particularly well, given that the winter season is coming, the delta virus is still out there. you still have a large number of susceptible children. there s every reason to believe that the rate will not be at the nater. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has been watching this meeting closely. this vote could happen at any moment. what are we expecting to learn from the meeting, though? it could happen at any minute. all eyes are on this panel of fda vaccine advisers. doct doctors, professors, infectious disease doctors, who don t work for the fda. they work for universities. they are looking at every bit of data that pfizer is supplying.
privilege is meant to cover what, generally speaking? and i say that because this is an inherently political event we are talking about. potentially, criminal event where you are talking about the insurrection. but it s electioneering at this point, correct? i mean, what is executive privilege supposed to be, david? well, john was the white house counsel and can answer this more properly than i can. but my understanding was it was to cover legitimate consultation between the president and his aides. it is meant to allow free and full discussion around issues of policy and legitimate decisions that presidents have to make. as i said earlier, it s not there to shield discussions about potential criminal activity. it s not there to shield discussions about aiding and abetting an insurrection. and, john, as far as i know, it doesn t cover people who don t work for the president in any capacity. certainly, not in the government. so, steve bannon hasn t been in government since 2017.
privilege is meant to cover what, generally speaking? and i say that because this is an inherently political event we are talking about. potentially, criminal event where you are talking about the insurrection. but but it s electioneering at this point, correct? i mean, what is executive privilege supposed to be, david? well, john john was the white house counsel, and can answer this more properly than i can. but my understanding was it s it was to cover legitimate consultation between the president and his aides. it is meant to allow free and full discussion around issues of of of policy and legitimate decisions that presidents have to make. as i said earlier, it s not there to shield discussions about potential-criminal activity. it s not there to shield discussions about aiding and abetting an insurrection. and, john, as far as i know, it doesn t cover people who don t work for the president in any capacity. certainly, not in the government. so, steve bannon hasn t bee
from all kinds of sources i have in the intelligence communities and in russia. saying, wow, wow, did he eat your lunch. how big a deal was that, and why? well, i was hearing a lot about it from the nato allies who were really spun up. so, yeah, it was a big deal, and it was a sign of somebody who wasn t prepared for that meeting and didn t know what he was walking into. you know, chris, i am a little tired of this notion of putin the negotiator who is omnipotent. he loves to play games, but all negotiators love to play games. russians are pretty good at it. but i think that it s not necessary to consider him some kind of negotiating god that you can t handle because i think joe biden can. so what does that look like? when he sits down and putin says to him, hey, i don t have anything to do with your elections. this is all hype from your media. and ransomeware, i don t know who is doing what any more than you know what people in the united states who don t work for you. what s his