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>> good morning, christi. i am doing well. i feel healthy. you know, i'm speaking up because i want people to know they are not alone and feeling the way they are feeling if they are having some of the same symptoms that i had. i want people to know they are not alone and it's important to get help. >> i want to understand and help us all understand how you got to that point of knowing that you needed some help. in the beginning of the pandemic, you said that if patients were admitted to the icu, there wasn't a whole lot of hope for them to survive. how did that affect you day after day and week after week? >> this is like nothing i've ever seen before. in 18 years of my career, 15 being in the icu, you know, these patients were really thick, mixed with our own fear of getting ill, bringing it home to our families and we became very vocal as a collective, demanding the protection that we needed to feel safe to do our jobs be and that was a lot of work. demanding the adequate staffing we felt we fleed to do our job and that was a lot of work. add in the emotional toll of an already stressful job, that i had developed tools throughout my career to manage the stress of being an icu nurse. that is not new. kind of slowly, but kind of quickly, those tools stopped working for me and it was very confusing and nothing like i've experienced before. a lot of sleepless nights. i had trouble sleeping. i had trouble eating. i had racing thoughts were one of the biggest things that was the most uncomfortable that i had never experienced and some uncontrollable crying to the point where i had had enough, i couldn't take it any more. mix in regular life that so many of our fellow citizens, you know, had to go through and not knowing when my kids going to be back in school or go to school and a that was the regular life and and a perform storm of stressors and my coping tools not working any more. >> talk to us about how you were able to determine this is too unhealthy for me and i need to get help and where did you get that help, for people who might need it? >> so, you know, all of those symptoms had been going on on. i had become not functional at home with my kids in school and at work, i had been -- i didn't want to be there. i didn't want to be there. there was a lot of apathy. the big moment was driving to do some errands. i was uncontrollably in a crying fit that would come on and i had the thought that if i got into a really bad car accident, i would be okay with that. i don't want to die but put me in a coma and just let me not experience this. that really scared me. i called my husband. i have a great support system too. the other trick was i also felt like a failure for feeling that way because as i described, i had coping tools. i have a support system. i have a job. i have so many things to be happy and grateful for and why do i feel this way? that was confusing to me. >> did the therapy that you got then, is that what helped you stay in your profession? >> it has helped me understand what i'm feeling and process a lot of that. it has brought me through that. again, i am connecting with my patients and love what i'm doing because, for a while, i thought maybe this is the end of my nursing career, and in processing what i'm feeling, understanding that these reactions are normal reactions to what we have gone through. and this time is important, especially locally for us here in nevada, our cases are down and our hospitalizations are down and we, as health care workers, can breathe and that is when we process these feelings, so that can be confusing too. why am i still feeling this way? things are better. but it's in this processing that i've come to kind of understand everything i've been through and accept it, and be really compassionate with myself for anything i'm feeling. that has helped. >> we have to give other people grace. we always say that but we have to give ourselves grace too, because we are human and we have limits to what we can, you know, ingest emotionally and absorb and at some point has talking to somebody and having that outlet from somebody who is not in the business who doesn't know your family, just this third person in your life, so to speak. what exercises do you think you would recommend to people other than, obviously, themselves going to get therapy, but trying to grasp at some hope maybe you get somebody in the position now that you were in months ago. >> talking about it has helped me immensely and not sjust in therapy. admitting that i was okay and let out the pressure valve that i will be okay, be okay. that helped alone. making the appointment helped. i felt like oh, there is some hope. i'm going to get through this. and then, like i said just understanding that feeling this way is normal because a lot of my anxiety came from trying not to feel this way. so that is the processing that i've been doing. and learning to give myself grace, like you said. i've been talking about this with my other coworkers and i think that has helped me a lot. i'm vocal about it. people have come to me and told me their experiences and i have learned that we have to take care of each other. we have to be there for each other and take care of each other. you don't know what somebody is going through. >> you being brave enough to talk about it gives somebody else permission to be brave enough and talk about it. >> we are not alone. >> cecilia, thank you for what you do and what you've been through and for having the courage to talk about all of of this because there are a lot of people out there who are feeling some emotions that they don't understand, and i'm grateful for you. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> so glad that you're okay. >> thanks. >> if you or a loved one is feeling overwhelmed, would like to talk to somebody, there is help available. call the number on your screen there 1-800-273-talk. you can call any time, day or night. cell phone repair. did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? 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we know that republicans weren't really warm on that first part of this proposal that more infrastructure part. they didn't really want to support it so hard to see if they are coming along for this second part. also moderate democrat lawmakers are asking how targeted this is going to be and really how big should the party go on this issue. but still despite this criticism, president biden is pushing ahead. he will unroll this at that joint session addressed this week, really talking about his plan. also a bit of a victory lap and talking about how far this nation has come since biden has been in office on the coronavirus relief plan in this massive audience. and after that, he will take his sales pitch across the country starting in georgia on thursday. >> jasmine wright, we appreciate it so much. thank you. in the meantime, senate republicans have unveiled their counter to the democrats ruffle $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs proposal. the two sides very far apart. will they be able to come together and negotiate a deal? joining me now, is "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page and also the author of "madam speaker nancy pelosi and the lessons of power." susan, i got to say i'm a fan of the book. i've been reading it. it is compelling. you have gotten excellent reviews so congratulations on that. first, let's talk current events. this republican package, roughly a quarter the size of the biden plan. it focuses almost exclusively on traditional infrastructure. they are not looking at this broad definition that the white house is looking at. how realistic is a compromise here? >> well, boris, you're right, they disagree on how much to spend and what to spend it on and how to pay for it and not a lot of common ground there. on the other hand, there are still bipartisan talks going on. ten republican senators and ten democratic senators met on thursday to propose perhaps a third plan that might be somewhere between the republican plan and the white house plan. this is unfamiliar, you know? it's been a couple of years since we have had serious bipartisan talks on things like this big infrastructure bill. it's not impossible that something could pass in a bipartisan way in dealing with some of these infrastructure issues and that would be remarkable. you don't want to bet on it. the safe bet is always more bipartisan, more gridlock. not impossible in this case. >> the safe bet is gridlock. big moment coming up this week where the president is going to have his first speech before a joint session of congress. then after that, we are going to hear from tim scott, the republican from south carolina, the rebuttal. it feels to me like this could potentially be a preview of the 2024 race for the white house. what do you think? >> well, i think this is -- you're exactly right, this is a big speech. i think the tone will be a little different than the big presidential speech to a joint session which ended up with nancy pelosi standing up and tearing up president trump's speech text in half. a big moment for joe biden to set a tone. he hasn't done many news conferences or interviews in approaching the first hundred days in office. this is going to be an opportunity for americans to see him, to see what he proposes. i think what we are going to hear is he'll strike a bipartisan tone, but he has been proposing big, bold, very liberal proposals, including these big spending packages that jasmine was just talking about. let's see what kind of reception he gets at this speech. >> so let's get to the book. you did more than 150 interviews with a ton of people around nancy pelosi, including with the speaker, herself. there is one specific moment i want to bring up. you write this, quote. i hear you laughing. i'm curious about public perception. the iron fist in a gucci glove and whether that matches the person behind closed doors, especially around members of her own party that don't exactly fall in line. >> yeah. absolutely. it was a terrifying episode. i did leave, by the way. the episode, matter that we were talking about, i did include in the book but she forced me to defend myself in a way that was really quite -- it was kind of intimidating and i could imagine some member of democratic member of congress facing her when she wanted to get them to vote for the affordable care act and they were reluctant to do so. she has a gucci glove and she can be very persuasive and if she needs it, she definitely has an iron fist. >> all right. susan page, thank you so much. the book, again "madam speaker nancy pelosi and the lessons of power." it is available right now. thanks again, susan. >> thanks, boris. >> of course. alexei tnavalny ended his hunger strike after he looked in the mirror and said he looking like a walking skeleton. we are live after the break. 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53 souls on board has been recovered. >> sad news to report. thank you, blake essex, reporting from tokyo. news that jailed inmate in russia navalny ending his hunger strike. >> he made that announcement on his instagram account following a warning from his doctors he was close to death. sam kylie joins us from moscow. how is this news being received in russia? >> reporter: by the russian authorities, it's being ignored but received particularly by opposition supporters with some relief, i think. alexei navalny was three weeks into a hungry strike that an independent team of doctors had advised him, threatened his life. of course, that is coming on top of the nerve agent poisoning he suffered back in august last year which required him to seek treatment in germany. he is not fully recovered from that, i doesn't believe. he has got problems with feelings if in his hands and legs. his hunger strike was all about trying to get independent medical attention outside of the penal colony where he is langua languishing after being convicted on embezzlement charges he says was by the state. the nerve of the putin administration said he wouldn't be force-fed but he would if allowed not to die and presenting a couldnundrum there. with a lot of slogans being shouted at a protest, against the continued rule of vladimir putin, of course, managed to extend the constitution almost indefinitely to allow him to remain president. they do the opposition have all eyes on the september elections, but a crucial issue now, boris, is that on monday, the prosecution system here will begin an application to actually effectively ban mr. navalny's whole movement designating it as an extremist violation along islam violation groups and if that happens it will be difficult for the opposition to organize in any meaningful way at all. >> sam, we appreciate the report. thank you so much, sam. when we talk about the reset, we are talking about how we want to reprioritize our life after everything 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we are locked in that moment and can't see ahead of that. because of that we make potentially decisions that aren't good for us. pastor andy stanley is one of many who want us to make better decisions and fewer regrets. the title of his new book. he talks about the five questions we need to ask ourselves when making a decision and one of the questions is what is the wise thing for me to do? i asked him how do you know we are being smart about our choices? >> wise people connect the dots. that is what, do i do today impacts what happens tomorrow. the decisions i make today are going to show up in my future. life is connected. the decisions i make today are going to show up as consequences and results tomorrow. >> because we want to make wise decisions to our future it leads to the legacy question. >> the legacy question is what story do i want to tell? and the reason this is so important right now, one day, covid is simply going to be a story we tell and everybody wants to be the hero 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or two parties can decide they are going to what is best for the other person or the other party, there is basically nothing we can't overcome. >> thank you to andy stanley there. tell me how the coronavirus has changed you and your approach to life. i'd love to hear from you. you can find me on twitter, instagram, and facebook. smerconish is up next. we will see you in an hour. >> we will. before we go in today's food as fuel, cnn's jacqueline howard explains how eating chilly peppers can lower your risk of death from heart disease or cancer. >> reporter: there is a lot to chile peppers than their fiery hot flavor. chile pep irs have more vitamin c than oranges and a good source of invite b6 and has a compound c capcasin can have other benefits. i you can't get these benefits if you can't eat them. add to your dish some lemon or lime juice, chopped tomatoes or a dash of wine to cool it down. or add yogurt or sour cream. or harder cheeses can add texture and perfect for a bowl of 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