minutes with foreign minister lavrov. lavrov saying that he s going to wait for the u.s. response to the russian proposals that they put forward and see what the u.s. says about them. for his part, secretary blinken said there s no trade space there, none. okay. so what happens now? some see europe on the bring of war, a moment not seen since world war ii. others question why we would send billions to ukraine for this effort. former national security adviser robert o brien stands by. victor davis henson joins us. first to benjamin hall in geneva where this meeting took place. good afternoon, ben. good afternoon, martha. there were no major break throughing in geneva today. the bar had been set very low. the one thing that did come out of it is this u.s. concession. secretary blinken finally agreeing to give russia the response to his demands and his concerns. a few days ago, secretary blinken said he would not give a written response because they were not true or based
dollars so that they could stay open, be prepared, open safely, all of that. no many of them are saying we ll have to go virtual again. so the president criticized specifically some of the states and he s asking where did the money go? we also back then included an $10 billion for testing for schools. that money went out to the states. states and the school districts have spent the money well. many of them. unfortunately some haven t. martha: unfortunately some haven t. there s the podium. we re waiting for jen psaki that will probably get questions about this in terms of the accountability. where does the money go? if the money is supposed to be for testing and safe open schools, we don t we have that in some cases? we ll dig into that. that money was allocated for those specific things. why are we still seeing challenges? $72.8 billion allocated to testing and detecting the virus in an ample fashion over the course of 2020 and 2021. edward lawrence digging into this. he
Cdc couldn t help people if they should get tested in isolations. they would get tests andblow back to the administration. again, the cdc makes these decisions. i expect them to make the guidance. go ahead. can you give us an update martha: we re going to duck out for a moment to bring in dr. paul offett from the children s hospital of philadelphia. thanks for being with us today. i guess my first question to you, just jumping off of what we listened to there at the white house is what is fully vaccinated and should the cdc recommend that a booster is what makes you fully vaccinated? so the question is what do we want from this vaccine? if what we want from the vaccine is protection against serious illness, the kind of illness that causes you to seek a doctor s care or go to the
thank you. martha: so let s dip in to the press conference. we re finalizing things, the contracts. i expect to share details soon. we hope to do that. we re on track to start seeing movement on the awards through the rfp this week. so the first delivery from manufacturers will start later this month. that s our expectation. when we have those deliveries in hand, we will put the website up, make it available so people can order tests at that point in time. secondly, do you have anything to share on what the president s message will be on thursday when he goes to the hill for the anniversary of 1-6? sure. i can give you some highlights at this point in time and the president is still working through and reviewing his own remarks. on the afternoon what you can expect, i should say, is that the president will speak to the
It goes beyond snacking and snapping. it s a serious learning loss. puts us at a disadvantage for students, emotional and serious mental health ramifications for kids across the country. martha, i saw it first hand with my kindergartener, with my second grader, particularly my 6-year-old where they re not built to be learning online. attention spans are short at that age. perhaps they re behind. we re trying to catch up for lack of a better term. and my kids are now going to school. she said i can t remember a time being in school before the pandemic. i couldn t believe it. it was remarkable for an 8-year-old to say. it s true. the only existence that she s none. this goes back to when she was in kindergarten. in this case, we need to look at the data and the precedent. i found a story from march of 2021. this is after school first