Good evening. Im Mehdi Hasan. Youll hear many ways by which to measure the first 100 days of the biden administration as the president gets ready to mark that arbitrary, though symbolic period this coming wednesday with a joint address to congress. One measure stands out to me. When Joe Biden took office one out of every 11 americans was hungry. Today, that number is down to 1 out of 7. We talked about in the abstract what the biden administration has achieved so far. Remember, we live in an age in which so many people have written off politics and politicians, in which 80 Million americans didnt vote in the last election, possibly the most consequential election in living memory. Truth is that, politics can bring about meaningful change in peoples lives. Today four more people out of every 11 struggling with Food Insecurity in this country are no longer hungry because of actions taken by this new government. Thats a real accomplishment, a progressive achievement. Luckily most american
[applause] mr. Kaufmann ok, now we have more guests. You were with us in Des Moines a few years ago, and you were a big guest. They laughed more at your jokes. I think you fired up the crowd more than i did. I have moved past that. Seriously, i dont know if you remember this, but this says a little bit about Tim Scott. I was catching a tram, it went by, but you meet hundreds and hundreds of people, and you said to me, how is the chairman for iowa . You know what, that says something. Not that he has bad taste in friends, but he heard us. He was listening to us. He came, it is a long week, you have a lot of stuff to do, and he came here. I know Senator Grassley, our governor being reelected, and keeping the legislature republican, and on behalf of the republican party of iowa and iowans in general, welcome to the hawkeye state. We are honored for you to be here. [applause] we will start with some words of wisdom from Senator Scott, then bring up Senator Ernst and governor reynolds and h
[applause] mr. Kaufmann ok, now we have more guests. You were with us in Des Moines a few years ago, and you were a big guest. They laughed more at your jokes. I think you fired up the crowd more than i did. I have moved past that. Seriously, i dont know if you remember this, but this says a little bit about Tim Scott. I was catching a tram, it went by, but you meet hundreds and hundreds of people, and you said to me, how is the chairman for iowa . You know what, that says something. Not that he has bad taste in friends, but he heard us. He was listening to us. He came, it is a long week, you have a lot of stuff to do, and he came here. I know Senator Grassley, our governor being reelected, and keeping the legislature republican, and on behalf of the republican party of iowa and iowans in general, welcome to the hawkeye state. We are honored for you to be here. [applause] we will start with some words of wisdom from Senator Scott, then bring up Senator Ernst and governor reynolds and h
thousands of new hospital beds. that s what was going on. that s why the cdc and that s why cms made those decisions, and at the time cdc, cms, they were white house task forces. the they were daily briefings. everyone was focused on this issue. this was not a little issue. the all the best minds were looking at it. fact. of the 613 nursing homes, we have 613 nursing homes in the state, 365 received a person from a hospital. of the 365 that received a person from this march 25th guidance which was then superceded in may, 98% of those 365 already had covid in their facility. covid did not get into the nursing homes by people coming from hospitals. the covid got into the nursing homes by staff walking into the nursing home when we didn t even know we had covid. staff walking into a nursing home even though they were asymptomatic because the national experts all told us you could only spread covid if you had symptoms and they were wrong. covid may have been brought into a nursin
when you see reopening early. we re conveying that clearly to governors but we re also conveying that to businesses, to local leaders. even in states where governors have rolled back these requirements, there are businesses, there are mayors, local leaders who are keeping them in place because they know it will save lives it will help return the communities to normal p. . let s talk about your big announcement today on infrastructure. this is part one and what we believe is in it. you can correct this if it s wrong. it s $650 billion for physical infrastructure. $300 billion housing infrastructure. $300 billion manufacturing. $300 billion to work on the electrical grid. $400 billion for home care takers, care for the elderly, disabled. and the cost of part one is $2.25 trillion. so just quickly, what s the price tag for part two? we re not quite there yet. in a couple of weeks, the president will roll out that proposal. but the second proposal will focus on more on child