more people could have been prepared. if people had worn a mask and if he had listened to scientists and not fired the scientists or diminished the scientists like birx who were trying to, in fact, reduce the spread, a lot of lives would have been saved. so it is really a tragedy of 2020. well, birx also testified in the fall of 2020 that white house officials narrow focus on reelection distracted them from the pandemic. she tried to get them to reengage and implement a plan but got nowhere. she says after that trump was focused on the big lie. what did losing that time mean for the overall fight against covid? i mean that was a very critical time. well, i ll give you one example. jared kushner said to me in the book that you referred to, preventable, that the president was going to take credit for opening up the economy in april and then he was going to leave it to the governors to take the blame if and when things went poorly.
infrastructure. listen to this. what we said consistently and we ve been really clear about this is we want to vote both bills. now, you know, we are willing to if there s agreement on the senate moving forward and the president has, you know, an iron clad commitment from all 50 senators, we will vote both of them out of the house. congresswoman jayapal just said a framework agreement is not enough to vote for the i think it is. so other progressives echoing the need for a firm commitment. where do you stand? well, i think this is a lot of conflict over proceduralism. here is what i think will happen. there will be a deal announced. we will all go to the white house, those invited. i don t know if i will be invited. we will go to the white house, we will say we have a deal. that s what i think will be the message. it takes maybe a week to actually write the language into a bill to get a vote, but the key in my view is that the president before he goes to glasgow needs a dea
are, this billionaire s tax and a corporate minimum tax, which are different ways to raise revenue to pay for these programs. it seems the white house is double indown on a fairly generous slice of the bill directed to the environment. bernie sanders saying, look, some has to cover medicare coverage for hearing and dental. so what everyone s positions are now pretty clear and the question is whether joe biden can draw on the senate and bring everybody to the fen issue line. democrats need this win. there must be a way to reason together, and it looks like while the devil is always in the details they re closer than ever. we will see. john harwood, the president hitting the trail for terry mcauliffe who needs a boost, john avalon just mentioned it. he needs a boost, right, because it is deadlocked in virginia in the governor s race. biden is hammering glenn youngkin for his ties to trump. watch. terry s opponent has made all of his privilege pledges of loyalty to donald trump, but
was the real issue. two people are dead here. so why can t the prosecution call them victims? the question is where is the justice in that? ultimately, it will be up to a jury to decide and selection begins on november 1st. former president s covid coordinator testifying today, saying that he put elections above people s health to the detriment of some 130,000 lives. stay with us. (man 1) oh, this looksike we re in a screen saver. (man 2) yeah, but we neeto go higher. (man 1) higher. (man 2) definitely higher.
coronavirus crisis whether he did everything in his power to slow the spread and save lives. her answer an unequivocal no. joining me andy slavitt, the former biden white house senior adviser for covid response and author of preventable, the inside failure of leadership and politics and selfishness doomed the covid virus response. good to see you. dr. birx told the committee 130,000 lives could have been saved if the trump administration had mask mandates, reduced indoor dining and family gatherings. where would we be today if the trump white house listened to the science? well, many more people would be alive today. i think he is right about that. it wouldn t have been asking a lot of the president. what he would have had to do is, number one, tell the public the truth as soon as he knew it. if he had warned people in january as soon as he knew a deadly pandemic was coming, many