authorization would be necessary for the cdc to extend the moratorium past july 31st. that's what the white house is saying is blocking them from acting. there's no question that congress can do something about this. you and speaker pelosi tried at the end of last week to get enough support within the caucus to do something about this. you could not do that. why can't you get the democrats, alone, to do something about this? >> well, it's too late to even talk about it that way. the democrats are out of session. yes, we did try. we were not able to get my bill up on the floor. and so as we were working it, we do know that some of our members were asking questions. they were not ready, et cetera. but that's behind us. what's before us now is the emergency. and we're all working together with the president to move forward and to get this extension. and i am confident that the president understands the seriousness of this. and i do believe he's going to

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