Good morning, charles its a weekend away for washington, for President Biden after a week away in europe. The White House says next week, the president will be talking with democrats and republicans about the potential for an Infrastructure Compromise theres a group of Senate Democrats and republicans who were Negotiating A 1 Trillion infrastructure proposal, but there are significant disagreements, in particular, how to pay for it on one Side Youve got democrats who want to increase taxes, on the other Side Youve got republicans who want to use unspent Covid Relief funds. I, myself, do not think we should be taking money out of the pockets of people of unemployment or take money out out of the rescue package, because its there for a purpose his own proposal, as you know, is a huge new package, 2. 65 trillion with 2 Trillion of new taxes, particularly taxes on american businesses and american workers, which makes no sense coming out of this pandemic. Reporter and to close the week the
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. These are tough times in South Africa. Officially, covid has taken more than 55,000 lives. Researchers reckon the real figure is much higher and right now there are fears of a Third Wave of infection. But many minds in the Ruling Party are consumed not by this national health and economic crisis, but by Anc Infighting and mudslinging over corruption and accountability. My guest is Finance Minister Tito mboweni. Has the anc lost the plot . Tito mboweni, in limpopo province, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. I have been here before on hardtalk, but those days i was at the studios in london. This time i am speaking to you from limpopo province. Thank you very much indeed. Well, it is a pleasure to have you on the programme, minister. Last time you were with us on hardtalk, of course, none of us had heard of covid 19. Now your country is still in the grip of a national crisis thanks to the pandemic. How damaging, in that co
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. These are tough times in South Africa. Officially, covid has taken more than 55,000 lives. Researchers reckon the real figure is much higher. And right now there are fears of a third wave of infection. But many minds in the Ruling Party are consumed not by this national health and economic crisis, but by Anc Infighting and mudslinging over corruption and accountability. My guest is Finance Minister Tito mboweni. Has the anc lost the plot . Tito mboweni in limpopo province, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. Ive been here before on hardtalk, but those days i was at the studios in london. This time im speaking to you from modjadjiskloof in limpopo province. Thank you very much indeed. Well, its a, its a pleasure to have you on the programme, minister. Last time you were with us on hardtalk, of course, none of us had heard of covid 19. Now your country is still in the grip of a national crisis thanks to the pandemic. How da
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. These are tough times in south africa. Officially, covid has taken more than 55,000 lives. Researchers reckon the real figure is much higher and right now there are fears of a third wave of infection. But many minds in the ruling party are consumed not by this National Health and economic crisis, but by anc infighting and mudslinging over corruption and accountability. My guest is finance minister tito mboweni. Has the anc lost the plot . Tito mboweni, in limpopo province, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. I have been here before on hardtalk, but those days i was at the studios in london. This time i am speaking to you from limpopo province. Thank you very much indeed. Well, it is a pleasure to have you on the programme, minister. Last time you were with us on hardtalk, of course, none of us had heard of covid 19. Now your country is still in the grip of a National Crisis thanks to the pandemic. How damaging, in that co
Slowing down . Cnns senior White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly joins us so, phil, do we know how President Biden plans to get this done . Reporter yeah, look, alisyn, the administration knows, obviously, there has been a dropoff in the daytoday Vaccination Rate over the course of the last couple of weeks and it acknowledges a couple things, one, that theres the country in general is awash in Vaccine Supply and the people who wanted to get the vaccine or had easy access to the vaccine have for the most part to this point done so, and that means the Administration Needs to put in more work to reach those who havent been able to, maybe are from underserved communities and that will be a Key Component of what the president outlines today. The top line here is extremely important. An ambitious goal of 70 of u. S. Adults having at least one dose by july 4th. Remember, july 4th is the date he laid out in that march primetime address, the date that the administration has long been pushing