the house returns tuesday, april 13 for legislative business. speaker pelosi announced that later this month, she expects the house to work on equal pay for women legislation as well as the suspension of the 2% across-the-board cut to all medicare payments until the end of the year. president biden's infrastructure and jobs package is not expected on the house floor until later in the spring or early summer. watch live coverage of the house on c-span, the senate on c-span two and follow our congressional coverage anytime at www.c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> coming up at the top of the hour, secretary of state antony blinken will speak about the covid-19 response, watch live coverage here starting at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at www.c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. .

thanks very much for being with us. this is the headline from the associated press. vaccine passports are the latest flashpoint in covid politics. they are being developed to verify covid-19 immigration status and inoculate people to travel and dine, the latest flashpoint in the perpetual american political wars with republicans host: again, that story from the associated press. on one of the sunday shows, a

doctor from minnesota was asked about the possibility of a fourth wave, he called it a category five, comparing it to a tropical storm. [video clip] >> at this time we are in category five hurricane status with regards to the rest of the world. we will see the highest number of cases reported globally since the end of the pandemic. in the united states, we haven't even really begun to see this surge. over the course of the past year we have had a surge of cases in the upper midwest, the northeast, big increases through the southern sun and it subsides. northeast, midwest comes back again. we are in that cycle where the upper midwest is just now beginning to start the fourth surge and it was a wake-up call yesterday when michigan reported 8400 new cases and we are seeing an increasing number of icu hospitalizations for individuals

between 30 and 50 who have not been vaccinated. host: that from "meet the press," one of the five shows that we re-air on c-span radio. this from twitter, what's wrong with carrying a card that says you are not fully vaccinated? the headline from usa today, our question is whether or not there should be vaccine passports. dr. scott gottlieb responded to michael oser home on the threat of a fourth wave in the country. >> i don't think it will be a true fourth wave. we have delayed the point where we can get this behind us. with the rate that we have right now, 4 million people a day, that will reach 5 billion people per day.

level of immunity, we have probably infected about 130 million americans. i think that there is enough immunity in the population you won't see a true fourth wave of infection. we are seeing pockets and younger people who haven't been vaccinated. also school-age children. michigan, minnesota, its outbreaks in schools and infections in social cohorts who were maybe doing a better job sheltering and now they are out and about eating exposed and infected. the infection is changing its contours. host: this from jim on twitter, we are open to discussing the passport, you had to be asleep at the switch not to see it coming. carol is joining us from texas. you oppose the idea of passports. why?

[video clip] that's because -- caller: that's because, steve, there are a lot of people who have decided not to take the vaccine. the real reason i call, steve, i watch every morning and when i heard your voice i said that's steve, that's steve. steve is back. god bless you, steve. i miss you every sunday, steve, glad you are back. host: thank you. more on the idea of vaccine passports, they are typical, typically an app with a code that verifies whether someone has been vaccinated or recently tested negative and they are in use in israel and underdevelopment and parts of israel -- parts of europe. they mirror measures already in place for schools and overseas travel that require proof of immunization. lawmakers are already taking a

stand against the idea. in pennsylvania, they write that the associated press -- they write that -- they are writing legislation to prohibit travel passes from being used to bar people from routine activities. next, bill, orange park, florida. caller: what good is that going to do, to know when we all had our vaccines when the biden administration is letting in all these people that have the virus? do the democrats think it's only going to kill republicans? i don't believe this. thanks for the call. stephen is next from massachusetts. what about this idea of vaccine passports? caller: i oppose the idea. host: why? caller: it's not necessary. host: thank you for the call.

if you support the idea of a vaccine passport, call (202) 748-8000. if you oppose it, (202) 748-8001 . you can also send us a text message at (202) 748-8003. catherine, you are next in tennessee. good morning. caller: good morning. good morning. yes, my comment is just about the passport. i do think that we should have something to identify that we have had the vaccines and what i did was i had both of mine two months ago i guess, both of them. i just use my phone, of course it wouldn't work for people without a smartphone, but i used my phone and took a picture of the finished card that has the date i got my vaccination, the county in my name. the second date has a little stripped down below that tells that. and it's on my, it's on my

phone. i have my drivers license of course to identify that i am the name of the person on the card. host: thank you for the call. robert has this on twitter, saying vaccine passports, are you kidding me? democrats don't believe that you need an id to vote. calls and comments in a moment. elena train covers the white house for axios, thank you for being with us. guest: thanks for having me. host: this centered on the sunday shows yesterday, the infrastructure plan outlined in pittsburgh by the president and whether or not it will be bipartisan. will it look more like the covid-19 relief plan or will there be bipartisan support? caller: steve, having covered the current congress, seeing the way it's operated the past year, i find it hard to expect any republicans to jump on board. particularly the way the plan is

now. $2 trillion in spending for this infrastructure package, republicans across the board are already ramping up their counter programming on the bill. calling it a progressive wish list, saying there's far more than roads and bridges. the plan for president biden is to still try to find some kind of compromise. senator kunz this morning said he didn't think any republicans would vote for the entire package but they could vote for some part of it. that is how the white house is looking at it, splitting it up to get to get the bill passed with bipartisan support where it addresses climate change in a reconciliation package. host: of course, a big part of that is raising the corporate

tax from 21% to 28%. guest: it's a big push. a lot of republicans are also criticizing that. it's interesting that over the past few years, raising the corporate tax rate or raising taxes on the wealthy in general has become much more popular and we are seeing progressives really pushing for that and trying to pay for this by raising taxes on the wealthy. janet yellen, the biden treasury secretary will announce today in a speech that she is working on a global minimum corporate tax rate that could provide biden with some cover for the bill. there is going to be a lot of criticism about this. president trumper lower the rates from 35% to 21% and he said he wanted to make the u.s. more competitive when other countries have a lower rate.

i know that the biden administration is going to take some criticism for it in the way that he thinks he can pay for the bill. moderate democrats have to get on board. joe mansion -- senator joe manchin said that he's not comfortable raising it and he needs to get on board if they want majority votes. he would be a key person to pass it that way and there will be a lot of negotiations happening in the weeks to come as they continue to roll out different aspects of the bill. host: let me go back to that corporate tax rate. if it has risen to 28%, based on

the timeline, the infrastructure plan would take 15 years to pay for assuming the tax stays in place. guest: that's the assumption and that's another part of the criticism and it is ambitious, you know. normally when you look at paying for a massive package like this you try to factor it in over 10 years or so and the biden administration is looking to go further than that. you are right, of course, another president can come in and reverse that. that's a lot of the internal discussion in the administration and the top lawmakers on capitol hill are discussing it. corporate tax rate is one of the main things that the administration is driving home and it is going to take several years to pay for this. at the same time you have people on the left like congresswoman because io cortez --

congresswoman oh because io cortez -- congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez calling it emergency funding right now that's being pumped into the economy and we should be doing more over the next several years . that is where progressives are. of course the moderate stance amongst the rest of the democratic party and republicans are not on her page with that. a lot of factors that the administration needs to factor into the negotiation and that is what the bill, what the president rolled out last week, it's intended to be an opening offer, not the final thing. there will be a lot of talks about how they can change this to make different parts of the democratic party and even some republicans happy with the bill to see how they can get on board. it's -- host: this headline,

"the capital target all the time." how will lawmakers be addressing capitol hill security? guest: it's tough. my thoughts and prayers will out to the family of the slain police officer. but also, following the january 5 insurrection, it has been, the security the past several weeks, they had initially taken down the fencing and the barbed wire surrounding the capital complex very recently and of course we saw the attack on friday with the driver who drove his car into one of the barriers. what a lot of people are paying attention to is does capitol police insecurity have what they need in place? a rehired officer yesterday said that they will need more

manpower, more police officers on the job and they will need the national guard to stay in place a bit longer. as a capitol hill reporter who has covered congress for many years now. it's not normal. the capital is supposed to be a place where people from all over the country are supposed to be able to come in. we haven't seen that as much since covid but it has been accessible in public and most lawmakers want that to remain in want people to access congress freely but in a way that is safe. right now, with so much heightened tension on capitol hill following the january six attack and the political nature of the environment and the united states right now it makes some of these security concerns a bit more worrisome so i think they will have enhanced security in place for a longer time after what happened. but who knows how long the

presence will remain. finally, if tradition were to hold true, the easter egg role would seem different today because it would only include remarks from the president. guest: you are right, normally we would have the easter egg role. we are not having that because of pandemic, talking about easter. president biden is a very religious man and he was at camp david to celebrate the holiday. a different kind of celebration, given coronavirus. tomorrow he will be giving a speech in virginia on the vaccine rollout plan. the president has said that by may 1 most adults in the country should be vaccinated. we have seen the numbers increasing steadily over time. there's a lot of potential on that, something that everyone is

looking forward to, having a more vaccinated population. later this week he will be giving remarks on infrastructure and we will be hearing that over and over again from the president and other senior administration officials over the several not just, but months. this bill will take a lot longer to pass. i think it will be several months to get the parts of this plan through. he will be trying to sell that package to the american public and get as much popularity as he can. host: have a great week, thanks for reporting with us on this monday. guest: you, too. host: steve on twitter says it's one more tool for opening the economy and lessening their spread of the virus. that it need not be a government run program. mark joins us next from minnesota on the idea of a

vaccine passport. actually, new hampshire. go ahead, mark. caller: i've been on homework -- on hold for a long time. i'm opposed to the vaccine passport. i don't understand why i need to prove i had a vaccine but i don't have to prove who i am to vote. this is topsy-turvy, completely crazy. i have a question, with all the numbers of deaths that we have reported from covid, what happened to all the malpractice deaths that happen every year in this country? 300,000 people die from malpractice every year. where does that number fit into the covid numbers? everything that we hear on a daily basis is opposite, upside down, and changes every 24 hours. host: thank you for the call. this text message from maryland, and says she supports the

passport and that it will allow for the safest and most responsible reopening. only a vaccine passport can put the pandemic you hind us. jim joins us next from illinois. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. i support the passport but i have a few concerns. the way people are getting vaccinated right now, it's kind of staggered. everybody's going to want to get renewed at different times. how do you know when to get renewed? have they decided that it is nine months? a year? my concern is that it is going to be all year-round. if you forget are like a week late on your passport, i can just think there's going to be huge problems in the fall and winter of next year. and you have to get a regular flu shot, a covid shot, and if

another flu thing comes up in the fall, just like a lot of shots just to satisfy the government. host: this is the headline from politico.com, u.k. to pilot covid certificate for nightclubs . "britain will start granting access to selected venues, including sports stadiums and nightclubs as ministers mull over ways to reopen host lockdown. people who have been vaccinated get a test or have excellent immunity after recovery from last month. sports venues and nightclubs. they go on

host: the next call is from susan in massachusetts. good morning. caller: hi, mr. scully. steve, first i want to welcome you back. it gives me great joy to make this call and have you be the moderator this morning and welcome back get yes, i do support a vaccine passport. by the way, i just got my pfizer shot here in boston at the fema site. host: how do you feel? caller: i feel great. i had a pretty sore arm. just some mild achiness but really within 15 hours, less than 24 hours it was all good and i'm older. older people don't have as

severe a reaction because their immune system is diminished as they age. i was very pleased with it and more importantly i commend the fema operation here in boston that was just set up in the past couple of weeks. top-drawer. glad you are feeling -- host: glad you are feeling good. caller: i am. but back to the passport, back in the 80's i was lucky enough to be able to travel all over south asia and pakistan, india, parts of the himalayas. before i left, it was exhaustive, i had to retrace all my childhood inoculations to see if i needed boosters and then i had to go to the tropical medicine clinic to get a bunch of those shots and i had to do malaria prophylactic treatments and i had a yellow booklet i had to take with me everywhere and i couldn't get into any country without it and i called it my

little vaccine passport. i'm a big believer in this. one, it just gives people the assurance that the people around them are vaccinated. just one more thing, steve, since i got you, my dad served in, i believe that since we haven't had the draft in over 40 years, i think that this is one small thing we can do for our country to step up and report for duty and get our vaccines. my dad served in world war ii. he at that time was being sent to the pacific as a part of the army air or and he talked about this near the end of his life, he had to get all kinds of crazy experimental vaccines and at that time it was either take the vaccine or get court-martialed. you had to take a vaccine. i think about that and these

covid vaccines, i'm in the industry and i can speak with authority on this, the safety protocols, the vetting, people can have full confidence in these vaccine. thank you, steve, and welcome back. host: you mentioned india, they surpassed 100,000 new cases in one day for the first time. dr. seth berkley is the head of the alliance. he talked about the vaccines in india and here's part of what he said. [video clip] >> by volume, they are the largest vaccine supplier in the world and because of the outbreaks right now they have stepped up their vaccination programs, meaning that they have required more doses, meaning that they have made less doses available for the rest of the world. we had expected in march and

april about 90 billion doses and we suspect we will get much, much less than that and that's a problem. but we are in a race because we also see wealthy countries beginning to cover much of their population and the hope is that they will begin to make the vaccines available to the rest of the world, including ones they may not use. for example, the u.s. not only has moderna, pfizer, and j&j, but also vaccines from novavax and astrazeneca. those could be made available and it would make a big difference in terms of the supply to the world. host: that from "face the nation." marlene, vaccine passports, what's your view? caller: i oppose it. i believe that text message from steve, who said we don't even have to show proof to vote,

which really bothers me. everyone should have to show a license. but as far as this vaccine goes, no. if we aren't going to do it for voting, we shouldn't have to do it for the vaccine either. host: this is from jersey girl in pennsylvania saying she's undecided. what is the proposed timeline? we are in states where we will not have a chance to be vaccinated until late spring or early summer. this comes into play after all of us have had the opportunity for vaccination, then yes. athens, georgia, good morning. caller: i want to start out first, steve, thanks to our steadfast leader brian lamb. steve, we work rallying behind you after the incident. i don't usually call, how much do i love c-span, steve scully. listen, steve scully, how poignant is it after the easter

weekend and the rise of jesus christ, we have the lamb of c-span back. let's get straight to the suspect -- subject. i oppose the vaccine passport, steve. why? because this is america. we are not forced to abide by any tyranny of the government. i understand that there's a global pandemic. with a global pandemic we can't give up our way of life any more than we have. give me liberty or give me death. i believe that we, the american people, we shouldn't ever give ourselves, give our freedom over to tierney. steve, greta -- glad to see you back at the table and we would

love to hear from you and see you more and more. thank you, sir. host: on our facebook page, on the idea of a vaccine passport, donna smith has one word, unconstitutional. the headline from the associated press, california, covid cases begin to flood and she, sports and theater venues opening again. as cases -- "after a year-long ban on most indoor seating, they set the stage friday host: more details available

from the associated press. back to your phone calls. juanito joins us from illinois. good morning. caller: i've never called him before, good morning. host: we're glad to hear from you. caller: i don't see any reason why people are so afraid that they -- afraid to show they have the vaccine. i wish there was a way of really getting people to take the vaccine because it is not hurting them. it's preventing the virus. all they are doing is they are just walking time bombs walking around by not having it. i'm sorry to say that my children are some of them. i just want rid of this covid after being locked up for a year. i'm fed up. i had mine. i haven't had any side effects or anything from them. i'm all for it. host: who do you think should administer this?

the government? your drug store your doctor? who should be in charge? caller: i think the doctors should do it. i don't think the government has any say in it. they might be giving the shots and everything, but i don't think they have any say in telling us we have to carry something. host: the other question, how do you enforce something like that? caller: i don't know. this world today, it's just, i don't know, i'm 76 years old. i have never seen the country and the way it has been with the civil rights and everything. i believe in freedom for everybody. i don't have nothing against anyone and i believe everybody has the right or polity. to be treated right. host: don't be a stranger,

thanks for phoning in, we would love to hear from you again. caller: thank you. host: a lot of you, we get comments on c-span's page, this one says no, it's already orwellian and this would be a step in the step -- this would be a step in the direction. i've been vaccinated once already and i'm not comfortable with the idea of a passport. next is heidi in north carolina. caller: i'm not getting the vaccines. because of caesars and barbara saul, it's a bad reaction and that's discriminatory. isn't it? host: thank you. a little bit of feedback, but we heard your comment. erica, san diego, up early. caller: i have a passport

already. the covid-19 vaccination record card. what's wrong with that, it's the best thing to have in my hand? host: thank you for the call. next, randy. good morning, joining us on the phone from michigan. good morning, randy. caller: good morning, steve. first, i would like to welcome you back and i would like to thank you and all the other men and women out there for bringing us this great program. on this subject, steve, i think the passport is one step too far. i'm not against it, but i haven't been vaccinated because i live out in the middle of nowhere. i will get it eventually, but personally i want to see the kids at the grocery store get it, then people i got to come in contact with.

i just don't believe in the tracing. i just can't get comfortable with that. it seems like a step too far. i can't agree with that, steve. thank you for letting me put in my two cents worth. welcome back to the trenches, have a nice day. host: thank you. market, next here in new york city. you oppose the idea. why? caller: in the beginning someone was texting about what a good idea it was. i don't know about that, but it's like training, training and brainwashing. you know? host: thank you for the call. this is the headline below the fold in "the new york times," " white evangelical resistance code

yesterday they discussed why some people were reluctant to get a vaccine. [video clip] >> i don't think that there is any doubt that there is vaccine hesitancy across america in rural areas. we also had hesitancy early on across america and we are seeing significantly higher up takes their as each polling data comes in and we are seeing more and more americans willing to take the vaccine. we have approximately 535,000 mississippians fully vaccinated every day, another 300,000 plus that have received their first dose and i'm hopeful that as we move forward more and more of my constituents will recognize the importance of it and it is important. it's something i have done, something i family has done. i was able to see my grandmother recently for the first time in a year on her 90th birthday. the vaccine is our path towards normalcy and it is one that i hope more folks across the country will recognize. host: that from the governor of

mississippi with jake tapper. thomas joins us from pennsylvania. good morning, tom. caller: good morning. i am 100% for the vaccine. if it saves just one life. i mean we have lost too many already. i'm just thinking that other countries like taiwan, where everyone is on board, the rate is very low. they are constantly letting us get out of hand here by not complying with the things we should be. host: thank you for the call. this from a woman in california, please consider that the vaccine is life running for us. i would be -- for me it would be deadly, but in general i'm

supportive of a vaccine passport. this from "the wall street journal," "when will it be safe to show up at the office without a mask, sooner than experts are willing to admit if the coronavirus pandemic continues on trajectory, the need for masks outside local outbreak host: next up is don joining us. good morning.

caller: good morning, steve. a couple of things. first of all, the license, people are saying you don't have to show your license to go vote. i don't know what state doesn't make you hold some kind of license or id. the passport, i think it's a fallacy. i have a card, i have an appointment card. i got my second card, they stamp it, they put it on, that way when you do go somewhere if you have to, if someone is nervous about it, you can show them the card and say look, i got vaccinated. there it is right there. there is no thing out there that will come up to say you need to show your birth certificate to get a passport or get anything. still, i'm flabbergasted of people calling in and saying you don't have to show your license to vote. what state is that? because i don't, i can't find it. could someone there try to find

it for me? i think all of them make you do that. but the passport is already in your wallet. if you guys would go get vaccinated, you would see that. it's documented and everything is fine with that. my wife is getting her second shot next week. we can't wait. we haven't been to a restaurant in how long because why would we go and make somebody else sick or some elderly person sick and have that on our conscience? it doesn't make sense. thank you, steve, it's glad to have you -- good to have you back. host: this from our facebook page, vaccine passports are all about control, resist. the headline from the hill.com, republicans thinking that vaccine passports will backfire on democrats. we are asking you about the idea of vaccine passports, whether you support or oppose it.

angela, you oppose it. why? caller: i oppose it. i work as a registered nurse at a major hospital in the area. i got my vaccine, i got my second shot from pfizer back in january of this here because i want to be able to take care of my patients and make sure that everybody is safe and that i don't get covid and can continue to take care of my patients and i do have issues here in my rural area that i live at. a lot of people say you are not going to hit me with that shot, i'm not going to take the shot. they are scared thinking that their freedom is being taken away, or some type of conspiracy theories, i think, they have been listening to for a long time. yeah, i'm against the passport just because you know, we have our card that has our vaccination time and records on it, everything.

just show that card. people out here are so scared anyway because they think there is a big government spheres see. i live in rural northwest ohio and there is just not a lot of trust with the government for governmental people. maybe just saying you don't have to get a vaccine passport. just get your vaccine and you can have the card to show people and vaccinated and everybody can be healthy and we can get on with our life. host: thank you for the call. vaccine passports, this is the headline from "usa today." the headline on their website, with this text message from greg in cleveland, ohio. "i believe it's a violation of people's privacy, talking about papers to make sure they were free, calling it the same scenario as slaves with passport papers.

-- papers." louise, north carolina, you support the idea. why? caller: yes, you have to have your drivers license showing the different things. our country has become selfish. they use freedom of speech and everything else for this. if the president, our former president would have came out and told the truth about covid, we wouldn't have this problem. he also has been vaccinated. but is not really out there for the republicans, telling them to hear that. we have became such a selfish country. people have a right to not vaccinate, but they don't have a right to put everybody else's health where we will get sick.

i an african-american. there are more now that are getting vaccinated and were tested. i just, republicans and other democrats are doing the same thing. host: thank you for the call. this from stephen, saying that violation of human rights and hippo laws. -- hepa laws. what's your view? caller: i disagree with it. i mean i agree it's a public health crisis, this pandemic. but then, so his diabetes. what's next? blood sugar? passport panels? other markers for cardiovascular disease? i just don't see where it stops.

as far as your return, i do think that honesty is important in journalistic integrity and i hope that you do that going forward. host: thank you very much for the call. this is the headline in a second pandemic easter, christians gather to rejoice. joining us from columbia, maryland, good morning, paul. caller: it's kind of a violation of your rights. next is what, you have to prove that you got the flu shot? what's next?

other things? i have had both of my modernity shot and i still walk around with a mask regardless. thank you for taking the call. host: this from "the new york times," johnson & johnson claiming full responsibility for the vaccine mixup. the mixups boiled up to 15 million doses. dennis is joining us from williamsport, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: i don't see anything wrong with a vaccine passport. i have had both my shots. i have family members that won't get it, they are idiots. why should you be allowed to go some to possibly spread a deadly disease when you can get a

vaccine? by the way, these are the same people who are going to keep the restrictions on because the only way covid is going to be beat -- i know several people who have died from it. they think it's all a hoax. i quit bowling at a bowling center because they violated the were -- the rules, no rask's -- no mask or anything like that, i said that's it i'm done. by the way, these people think it's wrong for the vaccine passport. they are probably the same ones that think a baker shouldn't have to bake a cake for certain people. yet that same baker could let somebody and with a deadly disease. doesn't make sense to me. have a nice day.

thank you. host: from "the washington post," surprise of the biden presidency, harmony with the left, working through with congress. could it be a bipartisan bill? can joins us from lancaster. what is your view on a -- ken joins us from lancaster. what is your view? caller: please give me the time. new world order, this is working perfectly. you said it a few minutes ago, slaves having to prove their papers to be on the road from their master. this is the same thing. this virus, the drug, it's not fda approved or nothing. it's the emergency authorization act.

why did they pass it? it took what, nine months to get it passed? it used to take five or six years to get a vaccine past. they rushed this through. nobody knows. i'm not saying the coronavirus isn't real, but it should be a personal choice. a person is terrible for not having this paper? you probably have your papers like diabetes or the flu. then they say there's another one coming into thousand 25. they said the way to decrease the population of the world is through vaccines. host: julie has this point, supporting the idea on a temporary limited basis. this might be a good idea for cruise lines. usa today writing about stimulus checks, saying that some who lost jobs get more stimulus,

saying that the irs is putting plus up payments adjusted for tax returns. greg, good morning, what's your view? caller: if they had made it mandatory to begin with, we would be ahead of the curve. for our kids to go to school, they have to be vaccinated. that's for every child and that's for the good of the public. this is on the same line. host: thank you. this from sheila, she says to watch how fast counterfeit passports will be available over the net. we will be talking to nicole lewis to discuss coronavirus in american prisons. later we will talk to james cara bono of the heritage foundation with questions about the who report and why he distrusts china with much more ahead on the issue of covid-19 in the course of the program. danny joins us from tucson.

good morning, do you oppose the idea of a passport? caller: yeah. if you get the shots, there should be a card from them saying who give it to you, getting it stamped and sealed. you carry the cart around. you really don't need a passport . if you do have a passport why not take your little blue or yellow booklet with you when you get your shot and then fill that out so there's your shot record for this covid. people aren't making any sense, what they are doing. they got the things in place to do it. if you go into where you got a passport and you decide to go to south america or somewhere like that, you got to make sure that you got shots for malaria and all these other diseases down

there and they would put it in the shot record. you could do the same thing with these shots for covid-19. you could put in the shop where they have them give you the card that states you had the shot on this date. it would be real official like. you could just carry it with you. it's a tallahassee driver's license. that's me. i went to get my shot -- i'm going to get my shot in a couple of weeks. host: do you know which one you are getting? caller: i was thinking about getting the johnson & johnson because they said it's a one-time deal. out here in arizona, there are not that many of them. they have got many -- more of the pfizer and -- host: moderna. caller: fiona shots. host: this from a viewer, if you

choose not to have an id, you may not be able to purchase alcohol, same with a passport. if you choose not to get one, you may not be able to attend public events. this story breaking down online, the biden administration saying that there will be a goal met by the end of may despite the contamination of millions of doses at a troubled manufacturing vicinity -- facility in baltimore and that officials who spoke anonymously on the sensitive matter that officials had spoken for more than a week on the arrangement with johnson & johnson taking over the facility.

mill berry, massachusetts. caller: i am surprised that we need another bureaucracy. my main concern is the manufacture. i heard china manufactures 50% of our pharmaceutical products. it comes to mind, how come nancy pelosi didn't ok the $800 billion that donald trump did last year. he advocated putting that into it, putting it into the manufacturing of the pharmaceutical. could someone please answer that? host: jennifer, oak park, with this message, saying you have to carry a card to show that you are diabetic or to get a child into school. babies get over 25 shots if mandatory and they give you a card to show people if you don't want it, don't get it. this is al, joining us from michigan. good morning.

al, you are on the air. caller: this is alan, this is alan? i'm actually calling from hawaii. i don't know why you went michigan. host: good morning, up early. caller: yes. and welcome back to c-span, by the way, steve. so, here in hawaii right now, we are really moving towards the passports. >> we will leave this here to take you to a live event with secretary of state antony blinken. sec. blinken: since the united states recorded its first covid death, more than 550,000 americans have died in the pandemic. more than 30 million americans have been infected. millions of americans lost loved ones, often without having the chance to say goodbye. no one has been immune to the vi