abide no administration is facing a covid testing shortage now just as millions of americans are returning to work after the holiday and millions of kids are getting back to class. here s white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. unclear whether president biden thinks the revised cdc quarantine guidance should have included a testing component. i will be talk about that later. after his two top public health officials make conflicting statements about whether it s necessary. pcr test after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks. so that is not going to be helpful. if you got a rapid test at five days and it was negative, we weren t convinced that you weren t still transmissible. why not test people at that time? i myself feel that that s a reasonable thing to do. now the administration is floating more possible policy changes in response to public pressure. there has been some concerns about why we don t ask people at
american are at stake here. and if you want to stop legislation to guarantee every eligible voter has an opportunity to vote, then for goodness sakes do more than just phone in your opposition. stand at your desk and defend your position. be prepared to do that as long as necessary. if you want to do this by absentee ballot, you are on your own situation as a senator, that is wrong. and a talking filibuster which says if you believe it, stand up and defend it, otherwise don t stop the progress of the body. important to remember that that is senate tradition, not what we have today. senator dick durbin, thank you for joining us on your holiday to pay tribute to your friend harry reid. my honor. up next, more on the life and legacy of the legend john madden, we ll talk to a man who worked closely with him through seven super bowls. and president biden with a covid testing shortage he vowed to fix.
which allows people to order tests shipped directly to their homes, delivering those 500 million tests is the u.s. postal service. i ordered them yesterday. it took me about 12 seconds, folks. it s easy to do. we should note the postal service is, of course, an agency already facing major delays. thousands of postal workers either sick from covid or quarantining. we take a look at how the mail is preparing to deliver all those tests. reporter: this morning the new government website covidtest.gov is up and running. with just a name and address, families can deliver four free tests to be delivered to their home. it comes as the biden administration fapss growing pressure to fix the covid testing shortage. we re looking forward to getting free tests out to the public. reporter: the white house says they have tens of millions of tests ready to go and are spending $4 billion to deliver the first 500 million.
developing the ordinance they ve received feedback from business owners. i spoke with a business owners and say it may cripple businesses in the area. they may have to raise prices and automate some jobs. there you have it. it will be difficult for these business owners and they have already suffered so much with the pandemic. julie: kelly o grady. thank you so much. ben. benjamin: some media outlets are giving president biden s covid testing shortage less scrutiny than president trump in the early days of the pandemic. what one msnbc said in 2020. trump is why we have barely tested any americans. trump is why it s almost impossible to get tested at all for most americans. benjamin: let s bring the hill media columnist joe concha and fox news contributor.