very likely have nothing at all to do with the vaccine that we're going to pull the trigger so quickly as to keep stopping and stopping and stopping i think this is an unusual occurrence of a serious adverse event that you want to make sure before you go forward you investigated thoroughly and that's exactly what they're doing they're pausing so that they can look at it more carefully think you. are not about 20 feet i mean now. given that they have had a chance for a man between the ages of 18 and 48 should women under 50 be excluded from getting the gene take us on the question you're asking gets back to several of the questions here that's the reason why the c.d.c. and the f.d.a. want to take a look at this and say is there are there some categories now where people outside of that categories don't have any of the factors so would be ok to go on it is entirely conceivable making no predictions that there may be some restriction in an

age group but no we don't know that now that's the reason why they're working very hard to answer the question you're asking and let him political advice firm people who have recently received the change in that scene and may be concerned that you know a lot well i mean if someone recently within days i would tell them to just 1st of all 'd don't get any reaction because remember it's less than one in a 1000000 however having said that pay attention do you have symptoms headache you have shortness of breath chest discomfort do you have anything that resembles a neurological syndrome and obviously if you have something as serious as a seizure i mean you know that's pretty clear but the manifestations of this are that headache is the very common component of it because the sinus from both sees that they have is the draining of the blood in the brain and it will. was enough

symptomatology to make you notice it just tell people to just watch out for not feeling very well and hungry. this whole term difference aides told us this morning you're really caught off guard by this announcement they were ready to put shots into even his arms and had to scramble here explain that chain of communication when and how did you notify the states that they might have to write well as i said we didn't know about anything terms of the announcement last night and we didn't even know the content of the announcement told us when you and everyone else read it as soon as we got that we our team farmed out and started contacting folks to make sure that everyone knew that that was now announced by the f.d.a. and c.d.c. tuesdays the day that i had my regular governor's call so that was fortunate that that was at 11 am we had all the governors already lined up with their teams and we had doctors felt she and doctors will and ski join that call and the teams will continue to support. the state wide efforts the federal channels the community

health centers to make the adjustments so i think the message got out very clearly and quickly. there was no heads up here. you know it was made this morning you know it's kind of just good to put the 1st one in you know the answer to this we have a timeline in terms of homes is going to we're talking days record of my complaint about how long are we in the circle over jet fuel understand what you're saying on the macro level related supply who has talked to local officials during your shop because of storage because it was one shot was considered a crucial component in rural areas and kind of understood fusion how does that not the timeline that you guys are in terms of actually getting shots and. during one of the questions which was asked i believe of the c.d.c. the and that the question was just yours and i don't know what they're going to be doing what i heard from the previous press discussion was it's going to be more

like days 2 weeks rather than weeks to months. we have plenty of supply and we have plenty of vehicles for delivering that supply whether it's through the federal pharmacy channel whether it's mobile units community health centers and all of those are equipped to deliver. the madonna and pfizer back scenes will make sure that because units continue to grow in number because you're right we need to reach people where they are and the mobile units in the community health centers are particularly essential for those and they have been receiving the dern and pfizer doses since p.p. and both those programs it's no different just fascinated it was a mass executions and heard some of what you're going to run now they're going to turn and pfizer vaccines you know cheetos vaccines so it's important people come back for their 2nd dose 3 weeks post their 1st dose of pfizer and for we expose their 1st dose of the term but all of our units all of our delivery channels are

equipped to deliver both pfizer and there really was not other areas where has it easier. to dominate at this point time based on what you're going to soon do to change your message do you have to do something different to address hesitancy in a way to something that he continue to be transparent about what science is telling us that's what brings us here today there's as dr thought she said there's been tens of millions of doses of pfizer and madonna. administered over the last several months and millions of people both in the us and around the world there have been safely vaccinated i think it's important that you know we have here the f.d.a. and the f.d.a. is the gold standard for ensuring the safety and the effectiveness of the vaccines in today's action i think it's clear have it. it's that they're taking every step necessary to ensure the american people have clear and transparent information about the safety and effectiveness of the facts seems so the bottom line is the vaccines for the dern it and ties are that are now being administered are clearly

safe and are saving lives and every american should get vaccinated when it's their turn. the his new jersey production going to continue during this cause and secondly is the bottom initiation considering 40 more devices of pfizer major not given i mean just in case this is a problem with changes comes prolong it so j.n.j. production issues in baltimore obviously be separate set of issues and those are being worked out through the f.d.a. process with the companies on the production of those vaccines could be in need if and when the have to a authorizes that facility the 2nd question was you know we really have thought of this is a wartime effort from the beginning which is why we purchased excess supply so we'd be ready for any contingency and we'll continue to look at every possibility in terms of making sure that we always have enough supply for the american people but

just to clarify on the danger of production not related to the bar high for just the overall changes is that going to cause while this pause on to misread doses occurs or is the production going to continue production is really centered around that baltimore facility the vast majority of that is that baltimore facility. that . you want to take after a very dry prayer you grow your heart for various things to be. removed from the market and then are you going to run out i think are you expecting it to be greener out. of those. you know i think it would be premature to comment on that and that's the reason why the poor's was done so that they could take a good look at it very carefully look at every if in fact i wouldn't want to speculate as to what what would happen often when you see things like this that you pause and come back whether or not that happens now i can't guarantee it but i can

tell you that's exactly what the c.d.c. and f.d.a. people are going to be deciding on and looking at very carefully get to that. partly down to you know this is the problem that you can start on with. that theme something that's out there for if in fact that how do you have to start her breath but instead of just more effort to really ensure that the message stedfast there and to me personally go to the plate think that that's a debate where the best thing that's nationwide is very low oh we it's your 1st question and. you know we consistent with it being a wartime effort we've planned for that because there is the contingencies so we have enough supply of maternity and pfizer to ship the targets that we've set the 200000000 shots in $100.00 days and to. head toward the 4th of july that we've talked about as

a country or normal 4th of july clearly part of that is making sure that when it's done americans turn she'd get vaccinated they get vaccinated we do need to continue to build confidence and that's done at the community level people are trusting of their local doctors their faith leaders their neighbors the why it's which is why it's important when people do get vaccinated they not only it themselves accident it but they spread the word about the safety and effectiveness of the axioms. there's no doubt one of those you know that there's a hope that to be in a supply on hand for the country by the end of may is that still a lot. now in the wake of this pause and the 2nd question is you can submit surprising to learn that you believe yourself that about this this morning view which good her sooner. did i learn about it last night that there would be an announcement not the specifics of the announced no because as that's said the science we want the science agencies to lead with science and there's no reason for us to be involved in any of the scientific decisions we bring nothing to the table

that is the f.d.a. role that is the c.d.c.'s role and their lead by terrific leaders with great teams to do the science in this administration will be led by science yes she your 1st question we believe there's enough vaccination does that scene in the system adarna in pfizer for all americans who want to get vaccinated by may 31st to do so. i think you could remind us around the hesitancy question here is are going to just ask you directly do you think the announcement of this cause increase or decrease vaccine presidency hesitancy in months of all group of people is a challenge and we need to be addressing it and we are as i talked about going to to meet people where they are to follow all that we've learned about people trust to offer local doctor their nurse. their faith leader and i think that you know

there's tremendous track record as dr fox he's talked about with tens of millions of doses of pfizer and turn the f.d.a. acting the way they did today shows that they are indeed the gold standard and i think that should reassure the american public that they will be very diligent and conservative in how they approach the vaccines because they do this trip wire as a trigger that should give americans more confidence in the overall vaccination plan certainly about around how safety and efficacy are being monitored by the gold standard folks at the. if you. are a moron well let them know that jeff you said there is a gold standard for ensuring the safety and efficacy of the teams to what extent it goes to their use that urgency to the power of getting a permit nominee confirmed to have you know really it's always an important post

but how much of a solid does this news know personnel announcement to make today the f.d.a. has extraordinary group of scientists experts at least these types of efforts who want to put in director the you know. i think that the f.d.a. does an extraordinary job and the teams that are that are addressing these issues are experienced teams in fact the acting director is a very experienced leader so i would i think the experience of the f.d.a. . and the expertise of the f.d.a. is indeed the gold standard. not her any. harm done to say because of this because you can't guarantee that every person with a reservation he wants to get reschedule the matter of days yeah as i said there's there's already in certain locations people who are scheduled for today are already rescheduled so we'll do anything we can to support the states on the logistics of

rescheduling. and you know the same time the most important thing is that the supply exists to continue to vaccinate 3000000 americans today and there's enough supply to actually celebrate that there's tens of millions of doses in the system and as i said today we announced 28000000 more maternal and pfizer doses our bill to order this week. but i don't have the use of that there was a no reply from the other 2 vaccines this like this question might be if he's to be obvious but i can you verify that i mean. if there were no involvements what caused the symptoms and the disappearance of all those facts and. there have been no serious events to call attention to anything that would relate to a poor us why would it be here when the window in his brain works even if you have a fever but that's because if you're going to vaccines i think you know when you

examine everything in general the fact that you've have you know 120000000 doses and individuals have received at least one dose and as you subtract add of that 121000006.85 you're talking about you know 1140 so 1000000 individuals have received at least one dose and no negative red feels red flag signals that tells you you're dealing with a really safe vaccine and i think you know apropos of the several of the questions that people asked about hesitancy you know when you want to talk about safety this is an extraordinary safety record that the others have and the fact that applause was done i think just as a testimony to how seriously we take safety and why we have an f.d.a. and a c.d.c. that looks at this very carefully and hopefully will resolve it pretty soon within days 2 weeks after both of your question so i think it's

a very strong argument for safety actually that actually think we just thank you thank you everybody. thank you. but there are always welcome own problem ok. i know there's a lot going on today and you also have a column time so we'll try to get through as much as we possibly can but i did want to give you a couple of updates. obviously the president met yesterday with a bipartisan group of members who are at our work at work on committees of jurisdiction i could talk a little bit more about that. but i also wanted to give you an update on the work of our jobs cabinet which will be very which will be central to our efforts and especially in this period of time where now a lot of these members are going to go back they're going to work with their staffs they're going to work with each other to see what the path for it is so so far cabinet secretaries from our jobs cabin i should say have made $27.00 calls to members including 7 republicans those are the when they connected of course our

legislative affairs team have has made $139.00 calls to members their chief of staff and staff directors 35 of those $99.00 calls to the house were 2 republicans along with 15 of the 40 calls into the senate this is obviously ongoing and we will venture to provide you regular updates so you have a sense of what's happening we've held 26 house and senate staff briefings and 9 member level briefings including with republican leadership and 5 bipartisan groups and this is clearly picking up senior administration officials that also engage with rural leaders faith communities and the private sector they've helped briefings with bipartisan groups of over a 1000 mayors and county elected officials and i've had one on one conversations with governors from both parties. i also wanted to highlight that this week is black maternal health week and in its honor today the vice president and domestic policy adviser susan rice are hosting a roundtable with women who will share their experiences with complications from

pregnancy childbirth and postpartum the impact of postpartum. post push our birth as well as their work in advocacy and research highlighting the disparities that black women face in maternal health this i think this actually started around 1230 so i should say there there at the event is ongoing we also announced initial actions we are taking to address the maternal health crisis in the united states including significant funding to reduce maternal care was going to depend on that press briefing in the white house just to discuss what we've heard there that was the. that was dr anthony face she the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases speaking with the white house corporate response coordinator jeff zients. we're talking to the press after the johnson and after the c.d.c. rather than the f.d.a. announced a pause on the johnson and johnson single shot covert vaccine that pause

was to a low to further investigation of some very rare instances of blood clotting. the figure is were around 6 cases in. well over 6000000 but still there wanting to have this pause in order to investigate the rules instances of blood clotting dr virtue was saying expects that pause to be days and weeks rather than weeks and months bourse very keen to insist upon safety there and acting in the scientific interest let's say cross the road to kimberley it's our. white house correspondent kimberly you're listening to the press conference there. the way her school for to coordinate so there were keen to stress. to him the same message really they are following the science on u.s.

vaccine supply will not be affected it's the following of a science but they're also exercising an abundance of caution and given that there is still just a one in a 1000000 chance of this rare occurrence of blood clotting they believe that it was necessary to study this further particularly since it seems to target in terms of adverse reactions a select group namely women between the ages of $18.48 and in one case dr anthony confirming that that adverse reaction resulted in at least one death so this is why we know that there will be further discussion. ok kimberly we're just going to go back into that white house briefing because the press secretary is talking about developments in afghanistan let's listen in as input in this morning we put out a readout of that but let me reiterate a couple of the highlights for those of you who are following other pieces of news during this call they discussed

a number of regional issues and global issues including the attent intent of the united states and russia to pursue a strategic stability dialogue on a range of arms control and emerging security issues building on the extension of the new start treaty president vice and biden also made clear that the united states will act firmly in defense of its national interests in response to russia's actions such as cyber intrusions and election interference and he also emphasized the united states and leverage commitment to ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity the president voiced her concerns over the sudden the russian military buildup and increasing aggression on the border of ukraine and called on russia to deescalate tensions so as it relates to your question i will say that you know our approach to our relationship with russia is one where we certainly expect the relationship to remain a challenge we expect there will be continued difficult conversations and we are prepared to confront those but our goal is to have

a relationship with russia that is predictable and stable and having a conversation or a dialogue which the plans will need to be developed on this is the 1st conversation about it at that level of course the purpose of that is to of course be honest and candid where there are areas where they disagree and have concerns but also work together on areas where there is mutual interest and that may relate to. arms control as as we did with the extension of new start shortly after the president was inaugurated or even working together on pursuing an iran nuclear deal so they'll be a range of topics discussed as we get closer and details are finalized will show. goes with you but we are just at the early stages of the discussions it's back to russia's military build up the ukrainian border what he's on the table to respond differently doesn't back down her or her military options being considered well secretary blinken and secretary austin are both in brussels now they are having

discussions with their counterparts about a range of topics including the military buildup on the border so i won't get ahead of those discussions i expect they will do a readout when those discussions conclude any approach or engage with russia or actions would be done in court nation one are not going to stand republicans are talking as though the announcement has happened the return of all troops from september 11th incident to get your reaction to something mitch mcconnell just said he suggested it would put our need our partners ensure a fight that we have not yet done it would have ended and we're going to afghanistan articles freedoms and human rights will be in peril. he said that the administration plans to turn tail and abandon the fight in afghanistan. so what is your response to this criticism and criticism from other republicans that it's too soon to get out if it is to sort of mean teens debility there well again i will leave it to the president to lay out his specific plans for withdrawing troops the

reasoning and his commitment to focusing on the threats and opportunities we face around the world today but i will say that the president has been consistent in his view that there is not a military solution to afghanistan that we have been there for far too long that has been his view for some time well documented well reported on he believes that and he remains committed to supporting negotiations between the parties which many of you may be following are resuming next week and he also believes we need to focus our resources on fighting the threats we face today 20 years almost 20 years after. or the war began and so that's his approach and how he looks at this decision but he will lay out more specifics tomorrow. they go ahead and send you mention present system as a candidate told c.b.s. they saw a small or a photo printer should remain in afghanistan in the case terrorists grandmaster

capacity but now he's committing to trying troops to a number that is iraq can you explain that again i know we're doing a number of briefings with all of you where you will have all of these questions answered i will say that the president's approach and his decision that he made was done through quotes close consultation with military leaders with his national security team with partners and allies around the world and with his objective of mind in mind of ensuring we are focusing on the threats we're facing we're doing that in close coordination with our partners and allies and i will leave it to the briefings that you will be receiving and his speech tomorrow to outline more and more further detail go ahead oh god russia really rises for a good lead or deescalate tensions are making him or her partner have any reason to believe who will actually listen this time oh well i would say when it comes to

diplomacy you don't stop calling for what it what are the right actions and the appropriate actions and the actions the global community believes are right just because you see a hesitation in taking those actions and there is what is different now is that there is coordination on the international front with our the europeans with our partners as i mentioned secretary blinken and secretary austin are in brussels now having a discussion about a range of issues including the aggression at the border and that pressure is different russia is an outlier in many ways in that regard so we will continue to work on our wooden partnership with our allies and partners and continue to put the . call for what's right. for older workers for. the real leaders such as the president curly hair dresser richard rogers was unstable for that's something he wants to work for. i think what we're working toward is predictable and stable we're not we're not looking for an establishment of trust as much as

a predictability and stability because there are range of threats there are a range of opportunities in the world and the president wants to have the bandwidth to focus on them and not on an adversarial relationship with russia. to decide who to vote for who has a little vision governor's office is the person who know that how true this is going to be with how the governor has managed to come up with her story recently well let me say philip as you know you've been covering it quite closely we've been at war with this virus for over a year now and governor whitman has been in charge of a state that has been incredibly hard hit by coded for that period of time and she's done a tremendous job in our view while facing an enormous set of challenges and she has been steadfast in her commitment to keeping the people of the state of michigan safe and a tremendous partner in the fight against cove it and if you go back more than a year ago she led that fight to make sure 1st responders in the state had p.p.

they needed when cases took off and she pushed for more testing when the federal government told governors that they were frankly on their own and to figure it out on their own had to endure not just a public health crisis and a hostile state legislator slater but friends who have passed from the virus armed aggression in state capital and threats against her life she's also had to coordinated sastre response to a faulty dam burst all while doing all of this and it devastated michigan community so we feel she's shown some serious grit fight and resolve we're going to continue to work with her on how we can help address the uptick in her state and help deploy the resources we have available. for. well given today the president you have to he was. voted for the difficulty voters of the groups which were is the revlon who is he put into not a reversal of that proposal that's the direction cardinals are well i'm not going to his only red line is in action and he is happy to hear from as he did yesterday

proposals that members have whether it is to have a lower increase i urge yes a lower increase of the of the rate on corporations whether there are proposals to pay for this plan in a different light he's open to hearing it his starting place is that we should pay for it but we're at the beginning of the discussions here and ultimately his only red line is investing in our infrastructure making sure we are putting americans back to work over the long term. i start hearing their own version the president proposing a summit with lawyers who would suggest that he's working to deescalate some tensions there so does that mean it's on likely the u.s. is going to enact harsher sanctions on russia sanctions or soccer. well well i'm not going to get ahead of any announcements we have on the consequences that we will invoke on the russian leaders for the actions they've already taken no it does

not change the calculations the the process the review that has been ongoing i expect we'll have more to say soon and certainly the president was clear that there will be consequences as he has said publicly some will be seen and some will be unseen as we often say and hopefully we'll have more to share with all of you soon one on nominations notice that the director for immigration and customs enforcement was not included in the trial that was announced yesterday that includes the u.s. c.i.s. so why it wasn't personally included in the trial well ok we're going to decide if that press conference that we jump back and see because there's some important. for impose these developments that she's taking a question on putin and joe biden's call on ukraine where we. will be hearing questions to the press secretary. about developments in afghanistan let's head back to the white house where we can join kimberly kimberly let's start with that

question she received on afghanistan the date of september 11th being food for a food troop withdrawal what more do we know. each well the data is obviously significant to americans because the september 11th of course the 20th anniversary of the attack on the twin towers as well as the pentagon and that is really sort of the catalyst for the invasion and sort of the fight by the united states that occurred in afghanistan now a generation later the fact is is that most americans aren't even sure now why there are still troops there and the argument being that americans are war weary this is an enormous cost to americans and in a pandemic particularly the millions of americans are out of work the tolerance level for perhaps holding troops.