Policy. When we host the summit of democracy early in my administration, to rally the nation, to defend democracy globally, to push back the authoritarianism, it will be more important to shore up our own foundations. Theres no longer a bright line between foreign and domestic policy. Every action we take and our conduct abroad, we must take with american Working Families in mind. Advancing the Foreign Policy for the middle class has to center on economic renewal. Thats why i immediately put forth the American Rescue plan. Pull us out of this economic crisis. Thats why i signed an Executive Order strengthening our buy american policies last week. Its also why i worked with congress to make farreaching investments in research and development of trans formidable technologies. These investments will maintain jobs and ensure all americans share in the dividends. If we invest in ourselves and our people, if we fight to ensure American Business is our position to compete and win on the globa
vaccinated. and new vaccination rates, they re plummeting steadily downward. nevertheless, the mouthpieces of resistance are more and more proudly resolute. you can look no further than the recent cpac where writer alex barronson got the crowd to applaud the fact that president biden had missed the fact of vaccinating 70% of america. the government was hoping that they could sort of sucker 90% of the population into getting vaccinated. and it isn t happening, right? younger people sucker. so what s to be done? frank luntz, the republican pollster and strategist known for his fox news focus group, advising the biden administration in overcoming the vaccine s political divide. this week, he pitched to cnn s don lemon that president biden should ask president trump to film a psa with him, giving him credit for the vaccine, and
secret soldier. in it, the major character, john wells, a cia agent, and functioning around the rural in the middle east. not unlike what we re seeing playing out in real life in many middle eastern countries. great to have you on, alex. thanks for having me. it s interesting to see the similarities. what do you make of the real world version with egypt and libya? i ve never been to libya, but i have been to egypt. and the level of poverty, the level of desperation that was on the streets was so clear that it was not a question of something like this happening. it was only a question of when it was going to happen. the secret soldier is set in sob, it s the real saudi arabia and king abdullah. people have said, is there going to be a revolution in saudi arabia? the truth is i don t think so. it s a richer country than egypt or libya.
highlighted what you re talking about about billions of dollars, or tens of billions of dollars being wasted by contractors. and some of the reason behind it. they talk about waste fraud. but they say that some of it may be well-managed but doesn t fit culturally, politically or economically into the society it s meant to serve. this is to the tune of tens of billions of dollars as we re talking about these austerity measures back at home. oh, the word is massive enterprise. not the guys on the front line. they make the least money of anybody. if you read reports about corruption at the top of the afghan government it s very distressing. our guys are smart. they see what he see. they go out every day, put their helmets on and do their best. it s a great book. alex barronson, thanks for joining us. calm down. i know that it is not your job.