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and will he or won t he play? that s still a question for novak djokovic and the australian open, why his travel documents are now taking center court. thanks for being here, everyone. let s begin this hour with the cdc director, dr. rochelle we wa len ski and dr. anthony fauci facing congress. the top republican on the committee set the tone early when senator bird said today is going to be a tough hearing. the senate committee has just started grilling officials about the federal response to the resurgent pandemic and the confusing messaging coming from the cdc on things like testing, face masks, and isolation guidelines. this also comes as the united states shattered another pandemic record. more than 145,000 americans are currently hospitalized with the coronavirus. the vast majority of them unvaccinated. the previous high was set one year, a year ago, and this number more than doubling since christmas. we re also following the aspects of this pandemic and the fallo ....
generation vaccines and anti-virals and therapeutics as well. we re in the process of working with dr. fauci s team to develop a unified nir research agenda and budget to address these issues to identify candidates that might already be in the pipeline to help support the research into candidates that are just starting in the pipeline so we can accelerate the availability of next generation vaccines and therapeutics. thank you for that answer. dr. walensky i would like to ask you a question about access to testing and in particular what is the cdc doing to make sure that testing capacity is robust in rural america and also among community health centers in disadvantaged parts of the country? thank you, senator kaine. we have this program increased community access to testing in collaboration with as per as well. this is a program that has collaborated with fema to increase surge testing just over the holidays. we ve increased testing, federal testing sites for pcrs ....
yes, absolutely. i think we all see the need for next generation vaccinations and anti-virals and therapeutics as well. we re in the process of working with dr. fauci s team to develop a uniied research agenda and budget to address these issues to identify candidates that might already be in the pipeline so we can accelerate the availability of next generation vaccines and therapeutics. thank you for that answer. dr. walensky, i d like to ask you a question about access to testing and in particular what is the cdc doing to make sure that testing capacity is robust in rural america and also among community health centers in disadvantaged parts of the country? we have this program increased community access to testing in collaboration with asper as well. this is a program that has collaborated with fema to increase surge testing. just over the holidays, we ve increased federal testing sites for pcrs, 12,000 testing sites doing thousands of tests over the holidays. w ....
branch to bear on this issue. eddie glaude jr., we deeply appreciate you being here today. it was 365 days ago when we saw an attack on the u.s. capitol and the attack of this heart of this nation s democracy, we ll be remembering it all day today on msnbc. thank you for waking up way too early with us, thursday morning, january 6th, morning joe starts right now. democrats are hopeless, they never voted for anything. not even one vote. we ll try and give our republicans, the weak ones, we ll try to give them the kind of pride and boldness they need to take back our country. let s walk down pennsylvania avenue, i want to thank you all, god bless you and god bless america. the president bares responsibility for wednesday s attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have denounced the mob when he saw it unfolding. quell the brewing unrest and ensure president-elect biden is able to successfully bin his term. when i talk to president trump, i was the first perso ....
now and too frequently been visited on this floor that is not conducive to the exercise of free constitutional politics. former leader of my party, dick gepheart said that democracy was a substitute for war. that we should settle our differences peacefully and nonviolently. the speech that has been the subject of this resolution wills away at the rule of law and the stability needed to constructive debate. indeed, violent words and images are too often a precursor to the practice of violence. we ve seen that. we saw it on january 6th as the president of the united states incited and urged people to come to the congress to stop democracy in its tracks. and people wanted to hang the vice president of the united states as a result of those words because he was not doing that because he thought it was not legal. he wanted to follow the law. my friend gabby giffords and senator kelly know that all too well that violent words and images are too often a precursor, as does repr ....