election interference. here at home today, new covid tremors, 770,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, a week to week increase and it s more proof of the pandemic s continuing wrath. plus, the case count, and its trajectory is, again, causing alarm. 17 states on the u.s. map now trending in the wrong direction. air travel topping more than a million passengers for seven straight days. the president later today delivers remarks on the vaccine race. one in eight americans are fully vaccinated, 1 million shots is a goal the president wanted to meet, and perhaps today, 40 days ahead of his campaign promise. progress, yes, but some jitters too. this morning the biden health team warns variants, and vaccine hesitancy, could pull the country down into another covid spiral. and there was this. listen, the tense fight between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul over masks and if wearing one still matters once more americans are vaccinated. when you
it sounds like it s not much of a difference but i imagine that it will be, that it s sort of less of a burden but of course schools still have to make sure the children wear masks and perhaps the most challenging part of this is they need to come up with testing strategies. dr. rochelle walensky has said that this week, that she wants to see more robust testing systems in every school in the united states. it s been impossible actually i think to keep kids six feet apart in some cases considering the confinement of the classrooms, so perhaps this is going to make people feel like they are actually operating within the guidelines. elizabeth, thank you so much. elizabeth cohen. just two days after the shooting rampage, another minority group is being forced to reckon. the president ordered flags at half staff for victims killed in the atlanta area shootings. and tomorrow he and his vice president plan to meet with asian-american leaders when they visit the city. and today th
interior secretary, making her the first native american secretary. all of this as two men accused of attacking capitol police officer brian sicknick who later died from his injuries with bear spray during the january 6th riot make their first court appearance later this afternoon. joining us, correspondent kara lee, covering the white house, and nbc correspondent garrett haake in el paso, texas. and the co-author of the political play book. great to have you with us. the president saying they re hitting their goals in the pandemic. then there s this. a new poll finds 30% say they will not get the vaccine, 47% of trump supporters say they will not get vaccinated. he was asked about that a short while ago. what does the biden administration plan to do about the hesitancy. look, they have been planning to do a broad national campaign, ayman, and meantime have been doing smaller, more targeted efforts to constituency that show high rate of vaccine hesitancy. when the president
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manufacturing jobs and china joined the wgo. right now china is not happy with me. but i have great respect for president xi and for china. it s not their fault that our leaders were stupid. for decades, our politicians ran for office pledgeing to crackdown on unfair trade. but they never did anything. but once celebrielected they di absolutely nothing and our workers and our country got ripped off like no country ever before in the history of the world. we got ripped off. it was a massive transfer of wealth to other countries. the politicians just watched as other countries stole our jobs, plundered our wealth and got the [cheers and applause]. probably will never happe
you have the privilege to pay a fortune as a penalty in order to not pay a fortune for bad health care. is that a good thing? i don t think so. you know how many people have comeme up to me and said thank u very much for getting rid of the individual mandate? it sounds so nice. isn t that the beautiful term? individual mandate is wonderful. i m acting presidential now, the individual mandate. it s a disaster that sounds good like the affordable care act was not affordable. remember when bill clinton got up and he saidd the problem with the affordable care act is that it s not affordable. andd then you didn t hear from him for two weeks because he got the hell knocked out of him. for two weeks he went dead silent, they wouldn t let him out of the house.
i think they are incredible, they have a t harder job than al of us, the women did great and we did great with the women. i remember on election night, they said how the hell did this happen?? the veteran s unemployment rate has reach