On those new mask rules on the hill. On the january 6th select committee and for movement on infrastructure talks. We start with that updated mask guidance as every state across the country is seeing a surge in new covid cases. Mike memoli is outside of the white house. Shaquille brewster is outside of a medical center. I also want to bring in dr. Vin gupta. Thank you all for being with me today. Mike, it is a big step for the biden administration, walk through the rules and what they have played. They are indoors or outdoors. They were quick to go out of the rose garden that day. The cdc is announcing dwlaed in states with high or substantial transmission rates right now in terms of the covid virus, specifically the delta variant, they re recommended that individuals need to wear masks even indoors. They are potentially transmissing this to others and that is something they want to avoid. We should need is guidance and not mandates. When we talk about the federal workforce, that is an
news. pfizer now testing an omicron-specific vaccine, this as schools are struggling with how to handle high amounts of positive cases among students. we ll be speaking to one superintendent whose district has gone remote indefinitely. is this doing more harm than good? and we ve got other breaking news this morning. after decades of status quo, the s.a.t. exam making a huge change that could impact millions of high school students across the country. it might be time to toss your number 2 pen similars. we start with the tense standoff between russia and ukraine, tensions growing more urgent by the hour, the pentagon putting 8,500 troops on heightened alert as the u.s. weighs military action. none have been deployed as yet. but they could be moving from other parts of europe to neighboring countries like poland and romania. this comes after president biden joined a 90-minute video conference about the crisis with european leaders. the white house posting this photo of the p
Holdlers, folks crypto investors, and sometimes meme stock investors, whether it be game stop or amc that say hold, you have to hold. in some cases they say stack, you have to buy. this has been a real moment, an inflection point. you ve seen the price of bitcoin basically we re at about 50% off of its highs. i think it s raising some questions in that world for the first time in quite some time now about whether some of these more speculative investmentings as neil was saying are good buys. they clearly have not proven to be. if you spend enough time on some of these reddit boards, there s now folks asking those questions. i think there s a dynamic change that might be upon us, and as neil said, i think to some degree jay powell and the federal reserve may be happy about that. encouraging day traders to stack, lever up on crypto investments. we have seen this movie before. good luck to you. andrew ross sorkin, neil irwin,
The truth, we have the approachuations bills on the floors. i m always taking pride in the appropriations committee. we always try to find common ground. the president said that help is on the way and we can say with these bills that help is here. investmentings in jobs, opportunities, and working families. that unites us to the commitment to america s working families. and we are benefitting working families with investments in health, education, and national security. we re rebuilding the infrastructures. we take america into a draen energy future.
But as a general matter, even though the anti-depanti-despoti don t apply, it distorts the decision making process. we do know that he s had to fill out and a mend and revise his security forms and personnel forms multiple times to talk about his contacts with foreign officials and various investmentings. but it is very hard to stand up to a president of the united states and say no, this person can t have a clearance or is not you are not well advised by him. but it s almost impossible to do that when that person is a member of your family or your son-in-law. and this is just, to me, proof positive for why having jared and ivanka inside the white house staff, bad idea. now, this is in a family which is still involved in their business. don jr. is in india, one of the biggest markets in the world, doing business deals for the