i m alex marquardt. president zelenskyy is speaking exclusively to erin burnett in ukraine. take a listen. mr. president, you said it s a completely different set of traits and different periods. now he s faced a rebellion and attempted coup from evgeni prigozhin. have you seen any changes in how you think he s acting, in his behavior since the attempted coup? translator: yes, we see the reaction after certain wagner steps. we see putin s reaction. it s week. firstly, we see he doesn t control everything. wagner is going deep into russia shows how easy it is to do. putin doesn t control the situation in the regions, he doesn t control the security situation. all of us understand his whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there. that s why it s so easy for the wagner troops to march through russia. who could have stopped him? putin doesn t understand the regional policy and doesn t control all those people in the regions. so all that vertical of power he used to
military now to provide f-16s. the president discussing the possibility of us being involved there for a year to three years out at this point. so john kirby will join us from the national security council. lots of questions on covid, china and ukraine in just a few moments. winter weather await reaction from the white house as the department of energy joins the fbi in its thinking that covid-19 may actually have leaked from the lab in china, the wuhan lab. virology lab. it s the latest in several collapses of the covid policy that locked down, masked up and mandated the united states for over two years. this is a big deal. one of the biggest revelations that the naysayers now have is a 180 or natural immunity. a new study finds that one bout of covid is better than two covid vaccine shots in protection. that is published in lancet. remember, early on they were singing a very different tune. they said absolutely didn t come from the lab. we re talking about why they might h
major complaint. what can you tell us? today a civil rights group filed a complaint with the department of education saying that harvard s legacy program harvard has a pretty high preference for legacies, that that is, in effect, discriminatory because most legacy students are white. they say under civil rights law, that policy has a disparate impact against black and brown students. now, this claim was just made today. the department of education isn t saying anything about it. neither does harvard. harvard has always said it does not practice race discrimination at either end and this is going to become part of the department of education s overall look of how campuses can remain diverse in a fair and equitable way. but the legacy issue is big. you know on these elite schools, they really do favor the alum night. they certainly do. two major rulings.
trend of the three letter managerial bureaucratic explosion in washington d.c. what has happened, each of these departments were created for a time and place for a specific need. once that need and that moment has passed, those three letter bureaucracies continue to exist. the problem is you can t just reform those top down. i love that president trump appointed betsy devos. a great thinker. but if you have an agency that shouldn t exist, that is a formula for disaster. that s why i favor shutting them down starting with the department of education. martha: i can t understand why the crisis going on right now why catching our kids up after covid and making sure that we don t have school districts that produce one proficient reader, why the department of education isn t screaming about this and making it their mission every day. if they re not, it s hard to understand why they exist at this point. vivek, i hope we can continue our conversation. great to have you here.
you need to be in the classroom and with your teachers so they get anxious and frustrated what they don t understand. they go back to school and things are overwhelming. i don t know why the department of education isn t having a national conversation about anxiety in students and how to address it and how to catch them up. we look ahead to this year to 2022. perhaps we need extended school hours. catch-up time for kids falling behind. dana: some are saying let s not have school on fridays because teachers need more time to plan. the kids need to have benchmarks. they have to catch up and give them opportunities or summer or vacations. this is a desperate situation as a country we have fallen behind. kids are depressed and they re behind in their work which puts us behind as a whole country. bill: great points. as a mother of three you would