rounds. you are a big golfer as am i. >> sandra: you were watching spieth, right? >> bill: spieth crude >> bill: -- screwed it up. he was classy in his speech in england. >> sandra: we need more of that. >> bill: see you at 1:00 with j.r. see you then. >> harris: a washington nationals game thrown in chaos when shots were fired near the ballpark. players and fans running, trying to escape the stadium for their own safety. people could hear the gunfire near the game in washington over the weekend. officials halted the game during the sixth inning. at least three people were wounded in that shooting.

the nationals manager getting emotional. >> this is crazy, we all know that. we all want to feel safe. i can tell you that inside this ballpark i feel safer than ever, i really do. we care about each other. we don't want anybody getting hurt. i try to protect as many people as possible. >> harris: d.c.'s police union with a scathing tweet welcome to washington, d.c. where violent crime permeates everything. it is a tragedy that elected officials won't let us do our jobs. less than 24 hours before all of this happened d.c. police say a 6-year-old little girl was killed in a drive-by shooting. five other people were hit including the child's mother. the city's police chief on that shooting. >> i want everyone to look at this. 6 years old, southeast d.c. was struck by gunfire and did not

survive her injuries. we have a collective responsibility to insure our children have every opportunity to be safe from violence. so i am asking that we all stand together and say no more. i am sick and tired of being sick and tired. >> harris: i wonder who he means that message for. we'll have to see. is it the officials in charge in david spunt with the news in washington, d.c. david. >> these are just two instances of a long-growing list of crime problems out of our nation's capital. a $60,000 reward being offered for information for the person who killed the 6-year-old girl. and talk about the shooting at national park saturday evening. authorities hoping money talks. a $10,000 reward leading to information to those suspects. this happened about 9:30 p.m. halfway through the sixth inning saturday evening.

people were enjoying the nationals padres game saturday night. when they heard the shooting many people read to the dugouts to take some sort of cover. we're told that victims are expected to be okay. we also know, harris, this shooting happened about three miles away just after the 6-year-old girl was killed. her grandmother talked about that shaongt and the fact she was shot and killed while police were on the scene. she showed up quickly after the first of several shots were fired. >> they were there, the police were present and i feel like if they were that bold to do that, why not get out of the vehicle and walk up on your person that you are trying to hit instead of shooting into a crowd with

children in it? >> harris, in march uber eats driver was killed after a carjacking by two teen girls aged 13 and 15, not far from where i'm standing now. authorities arrested both and in jill until they are 21. the d.c. police union recorded its 100th homicide this month. it was back in 2003 when they did that before. more than 200 carjackings and union president said more than 300 officers have turned in their badges in 12 months as the d.c. city council is looking to make reform legislation for the d.c. police department. the union says it hamstrings officers and changes the way they can go after suspects and also the way they can question suspects. clearly, clearly a fight here between these two groups in our nation's capital. >> harris: i took copious notes

there. one obviously the loss of life is heartbreaking and prayers to those families of anwrs and little courtney. the 300 number. that's hard for any police force to absorb that much in terms of loss of officers on the ground. thank you very much. jason rantz, seattle radio talk show host. i want to start there with what it means when you lose people who can be present and basically fight the battle on the ground with officers turning in their badges like that in our cities. >> there is no pro-active policing. we know the people who are committing these crimes will not do so in front of a police officer. when you don't have police officers or the expectation that they are going to be in your neighborhoods in your cities all of a sudden you have given the opportunities to these criminals to feel a little bit more empowered and even emboldened to commit these

crimes knowing they won't get caught. that's really what this is about. we have embraced a system in which we are telling folks we will not punish you if you are caught. we will put you into sort of justice programs, art therapy, painting. this is not going to get at this issue. >> harris: art therapy? >> that's part of restorative justice programs in this country. with all due respect to all the artists and musicians it won't get a gang member committing these crimes to stop. >> harris: also, too, you say they don't do these with cops around. one of the shootings were there and handling a situation and one person was shot and killed and five others wounded, a little girl. also the mentality of criminals. we know not as many of you will show up because you are leaving. >> 100%. the underlying issue that people need to pay attention to

and the nationals game shootings makes the point. we have more and more people going out into the world again. covid is starting to become a memory, still an issue but people are getting back to normal. well, the crime is still going to continue. so now there is more opportunity for innocent people to end up becoming victims. they aren't the targets necessarily but bad guys don't care. they are firing indiscriminately at another target and don't care about the people around them. that's an issue we will have to face. >> harris: that stadium is something we're used to seeing in other countries. i think about the granda concert and people know that we have to get out of here. it really does leave a stain on our public events when this sort of thing can happen and very sad. i'm glad everybody is okay from the stadium. chicago under siege by violent criminals. it has been a bad 2021 there.

another weekend and more blood loss. lives lost. at least 56 people were shot. 11 of them killed. 44 shooting incidents across the city. and an 8-year-old little boy among those hit. many in the city blaming gang wars. democrat mayor lori lightfoot pushing for federal gun control. >> you have heard me talk at length about the fact we're awash in guns in this city. fundamentally why is there so much violence in our city? aside from the guns it is because we have an absence of hope. >> harris: so do we really think gang members are going to gun shops and filling out forms and learning the first name of the gun shop owner? where is she coming from? >> they aren't doing the whole ghost gun issue which we are pretending is a problem in this country.

we have the exploitation all the time of these murders or injuries coming from gun violence. we see it often coming from the democrats after a school shooting. rare but do happen. instead of talking about ways to stop bad guys from getting guns we say let's get rid of the guns. in this case i suppose i'm glad she is talking about it. before she was complaining this was all a narrative being made up by folks on the right. there is not actually any issue. i guess glass half full there. but they will look at this to exploit it for a political purpose. instead of actually helping the people who are the victims and who will become victims in the future let's say let's take away people's guns. the reason why nothing will happen. we don't get rid of the second amendment. it won't go away. the focus should be on the underlying causes why the crime surge is happening. it is to look in a mirror, democrats and say your policies, defund the police movement, your embrace of criminality without any

consequences, that is what we're seeing happen in our cities across the country. >> harris: all right. chaos in another democrat-led city, jason, that you were just talking about. violent antifa activists fighting with police in los angeles during a counter protest over the weekend. one appeared to spit in an officers' face. the l.a.p.d. made several arrests and police found discarded weapons including a stun-gun, knives, pepper spray. can't gun control your way out of that. the unrest there centered around a spa where a transgender woman allegedly undressed in a locker room in a room with teenagers and young girls. what's unfolding there? >> top line thought the country in which we now live because of our indifference in the antifa violence we've seen in the past. one thing you will see in these images from this weekend that you haven't in the past is cops

actually push back. when police officers are allowed to engage with the antifa thugs who are committing acts of violence to silence people with whom they disagree with politically guess what? it sends the message you can show up and protest. there is no problem with the protest. you can't show up with the intent to get violent. if you do cops will push back and make arrests. these people are hiding their identities because they know they are breaking the law. >> harris: so there is that part of it. the hiding of identity. they aren't shy about pointing things at the police and doing things. we've seen it for about three summers now. pre-pandemic that negative rhetoric against police officers turning into violent action by some of those on the ground. antifa crowd here, many confirmed to be that, not shy at all about engaging with cops with whatever weapons they needed. >> it's because they've been allowed to get away with this

the entire time. you talk to any officer. part of why officers are leaving because of the summer of love allowed them to be victimized. in seattle antifa thugs tried to burn down a building with cops in it while using quick dry cement to seal shut the door and no one in the city said anything. cops are saying you are making us the sitting ducks with these laoun -- lunatics and we need to start pushing back. i'm glad they did. >> harris: there is so much crime to get into nationwide. not just a local problem but a problem across the country. thank you, my friend. the director of the national institutes of health once discounted the wuhan lab leak as theory but now they say it's worth further investigation and china needs to step up and cooperate. plus there is this. >> i thought -- all the struggles that we made to get

to where we are today and knowing there is a possibility i might have revert back. >> harris: the cafe looks lovely. anger and confusion as some on the west coast in counties enforce new mask mandates even if you are fully vaccinated. local officials say it's not punishment but try telling that to small business owners who barely made it through the lockdown back on their feet again being told not so fast. what will happen next? dr. marc siegel bringing him back into focus with all of that and his exclusive interview with the n.i.h. director. you don't want to miss it.

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>> harris: what a journey we're all on. first the world health organization acknowledged it

was too soon to rule out any connection between covid-19 and the wuhan china laboratory. now the official said the lab leak theory must be taken seriously and calling for a thorough investigation. dr. siegel your initial reaction to suddenly interest in wuhan lab. >> exactly. i spoke with dr. francis collins. one of the world's greatest geneticists about the coronavirus. he said he was fairly certain it wasn't bioengineered and started in nature and asked him about gain-of-function research. >> we have not done that kind of so-called gain-of-function research on coronaviruss at all.

it has been done on influenza but very careful circumstances. the idea is if you poke the virus to see if there are ways it might be even more virulent and transmissible under the most extreme containment conditions you learn what you might want to look for that nature could be sending you the next time around. so that you are better prepared. again, we have never supported that for coronavirus. there is a lot of risks there. >> n.i.h. clarified dr. collins was talking about nih research but not at the university of north carolina and others. collins spoke to me about the challenges he faces both now and going forward. >> so how do we end up with an international system of cooperation which isn't politically under somebody's political thumb? >> that is a challenge when we have governments that are particularly authoritative and want to control all the aspects

of what their scientists are doing. it shouldn't have to be that way. bugs don't really care about country boundaries. we need to work together on something like a pandemic. >> how about a statement from china about it might come from frozen food. >> i don't know how to put any kind of value on something that seems so fanciful and others, of course, have looked specifically at that argument. it doesn't seem to have a whole lot of support. we need a more vigorous expert-driven investigation and china needs to be more cooperative or we'll never really know what happens. >> he agrees we need to know what happened but will we find out, harris? >> harris: i caught a couple of things there. first of all why won't people on the top just call it a lie. why do they use words like fanciful when it comes to china. they're lying.

why can't he just say that? he also said we have authoritative governments so you can't get politics -- authoritative governments. that wouldn't be the last one with trump, right? the big thing against him from the left was you don't have enough going on to control different entities to make a mask mandate nationwide. this would be a punch at biden. >> that's for sure. we see that a lot right now with the mandates and with threats of reinstituting lockdowns. with authoritative we won't get any answers out of china here. you can talk about international cooperation all you want. china is going to comply. that's the whole problem. w.h.o. hasn't been able to or wanted to get them to comply. >> harris: we've been talking from the beginning and i was getting tagged on twitter by the curators on twitter that by asking questions about the wuhan lab it was problematic and stickering the heck out of me. what we were asking at that point was why don't you get in

there now and pressure china now, right? do it now a year and a half into this? who thinks they will not make stuff up? i don't know, they are the communist country. apparently some other people might be fanciful about how they operate. move to th. you talked about the mask mandates. i want to get into it. los angeles county resurrecting the indoor mask mandate and getting immediate pushback on this. the l.a. county sheriff says he won't use his department's limited resources to enforce a rule not based on science. county officials are defending their decision. let's watch. >> it is not punishment, it is prevention. we still have 4 million people out of 10 million that haven't been vaccinated and many of them are young people and we're seeing that this transmission is so highly contagious that it will cost more in the long run if we have to see our hospitals being impacted, our icu units as well as healthcare workers.

>> harris: former surgeon general jerome adams says he is in favor of the renewed restrictions and advises against wearing masks early in the pandemic. the emerging data suggests cdc should be adviceing to vaccinate and mask in cases of rising cases and positivity. ted cruz responding no, no, no, hell no, his words. dr. siegel. >> there is a big difference between the word advising or recommending and mandating. you talk about l.a. county. over 60% of people have had two shots. only a 1 in 10,000 chance per cdc, harvard and hopkins they could actually get covid even if they didn't wear a mask. you are punishing the vaccinated for the 40% unvaccinated instead of saying to the unvaccinated if are you in public places we recommend that you wear a mask. that's the problem with a mandate. people will wear it around

their chin and they won't do anything. >> harris: like lebron james with a drink under his chair? surgeon general murphy defending the cdc's decision to relax mask guidance. look at this. >> i think the cdc's guidance around masks was intended to give flexibility to individuals and to localities recognizing that in this next phase of the pandemic as we move into more of a local and regional response based on people's vaccination rates in communities that guidance around what to do with mitigation measures like masks would be tailored locally. >> harris: this from louisiana senator cassidy. his state's low vaccination rate is because of people not trusting the white house. i remember one of those came from vice president kamala harris who said if it came from

the trump administration she wouldn't get the shot. >> yeah, i think, harris, the key is the word misinformation they are throwing around and president biden threatening facebook. the word misinformation makes it sound like they know and you don't know. they are smart and you are not. this is an evolving science and it is about talking to people directly as equals, not down to people. i think that is getting them in a lot of trouble and what people are calling partisan. it's like we know and you don't know. >> harris: quickly "new york post" reporting today that a third of people in medical care, the front line workers including some in nursing homes are refusing to get vaccinated. can you talk to us about why that is and if that's a problem? you would be taking covid right back into the tender areas. >> i'm very concerned about this because of what you just said. some patients are immunocompromised.

nurses and doctors are involved. it has to do with personal decisions people are making that are putting patients at risk and we have to figure out a way to get all healthcare workers to take this vaccine if we want to public to comply as well. >> harris: all right. big picture. are we headed back into a zone where there will be widespread lockdowns? would it be authoritative as dr. collins told you from the n.i.h. but other things, could it be authoritative and come top down? >> it could be and it would be a huge mistake. if the virus is already in the communities locking down only spreads it especially among people who can't afford a summer house on the water. it will spread anyway. it will spread anyway. they are worried about the delta variant. lockdowns are a big mistake. >> harris: i worry about the small businesses and from what i hear you saying make it an advisory, not a mandate among

those not vaccinated and keep plugging along as we all have together. dr. siegel, thank you. a former pta official getting major pushback over comments she made about opponents of critical race theory. hum, what she is saying now. and this. >> here are individuals that maybe they would not have this issue with covid if they were here doing their job but they are being hailed as hero but undermining our representative democracy here in texas. >> harris: more fallout over those runaway texas democrats who fled to d.c. to avoid voting on republican state election bills. stay close. e cash.y into because home values have climbed to all time highs. and so has your equity. turn it into cash now, while mortgage rates are near all time lows. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value.

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who tested positive for coronavirus is up to five. and look, we don't know how many of them have been vaccinated. normally they require everybody to wear masks on a flight. these guys did it differently. they're rogue, there they are. the issue now though is that they did spend some time with the vice president of the united states and at first her office had told media they were not going to quarantine her. and now we have learned the "new york post" editorial board pointing out that reaction would be much different if the parties were reversed of the first this quote. imagine if three republican lawmakers who fled a state flying maskless in a private jet rather than vote on a bill they didn't like tested positive or caught covid and they met with a republican vice president who then refused to even be tested for the virus. the problem as it has been this entire pandemic is hypocrisy

like the george floyd protestors last year. it is okay for the liberal lawmakers to fly into a super spreader because their cause is just. meanwhile los angeles county is making everybody vaccinated or not, we talked about it on the program mask again. mayor bill deblasio has ordered the schools completely masked, even though everyone over 12 can get a vaccine. senator lindsey graham said maybe he will skip bail to skip vote on a democratic vote. >> we may learn something when it comes to avoiding a 3 1/2 trillion tax and spend package. leave town. hell yeah, i will use everything lawfully in my tool box to prevent rampant inflation. a 3 1/2 trillion infrastructure package. >> harris: it is on now. kayleigh mcenany joins us now from the turning point usa student action summit in tampa.

great job there. watch it on fox nation. kaleigh, your initial reaction to what the post and others are calling hypocrisy. >> that's lewd hypocrisy. i've been on commercial flights and had to wear a mask at times for eight hours at a time on two flights in one week. federal regulation requires that. here are these democrats, yes, they were chartering a plane but doing something all americans cannot do, go on aviation and not wear a mask. the results are indeed covid-19. you point out as you said how many of them are vaccinated. if you are vaccinated you won't get covid-19. we don't know the answer to the question you posed. >> harris: with the vice president first no, not going to quarantine or get tested. she has made a reported trip to the doctor. the texas congresswoman who posted this picture of her

underwear drying while bemoaning their situation fleeing the state is facing a lot of brutal mockery online. one critic wrote we're in awe of your sacrifice. i can't fathom how you are staying strong. a true hero. another wrote there are no laundromats or fluff and fold service in a large city like d.c. bizarre. see this one time my washing machine broke so i took my clothes to this big store with lots of washers and dryers and put quarters and soap in and solved the problem. after the backlash they took to twitter apologizing for distracting from the real message. >> the hotel apparently has a laundry service i would have advised her to do that instead of airing garments over her shower and taking a picture. what is galling to me. the current vice president kamala harris says these are

the selma marchers and marched for civil rights and the 1913 women voting for civil rights. these people posting picture of caesar salad, undergarments, these are the selma marchers. give me a break, kamala harris. >> harris: kayleigh mcenany i'll see you live next hour on "outnumbered." can't wait. the war of words after president biden accuses facebook of killing people as the white house admits working with big tech to flag what it calls misinformation by all of us on social media. power panel next. announcedy just their lowest rate ever. the two and a quarter refi. two and a quarter percent. just 2.48 apr. save thousands every year.

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let's watch together the president. >> president biden: for three months before i was sworn in. but now six months later we've changed that. we've gone from 60,000 jobs per month to 60,000 jobs every three days. more than 600,000 jobs per month since i took office. more than 3 million new jobs all told. that's the fastest growth, i'm told, at this point in any administration's history. another prediction that is my favorite one, i must add, if i got elected i would bring the

end to capitalism. i never understood that one but we've heard an awful lot. well, in six months into my administration the u.s. economy experienced the highest economic growth rate in nearly 40 years and we know -- and now we knew that we needed to launch a wartime effort to get the america vaccinated and pass a powerful american rescue plans. we did both those things. forcastor doubled their projections for growth in the economy of 7% or higher. u.s. is the only developed country in the world with growth projections today are stronger than they were before the pandemic hit. at the same time, companies across the country are giving workers a raise, unusual thing and the number of new unemployment claims has been cut by more than half since i took office. by the way, two weeks ago i issued a major executive order

promoting fair and open competition, the cornerstone -- the cornerstone of american capitalism banning non-compete clauses that suppress workers' wages, lowering the price of things like hearing aids, prescription drugs, internet service, along with dozens of all other actions. capitalism is alive and well and making serious progress to make sure it works the way it is supposed to work, for the good of the american people. for all those predictions of doom and gloom six months in, here is where we stand. record growth, record job creation, workers getting hard-earned breaks. look. we brought this economy back from the brink and designed our strategy to provide for a temporary boost but to lay the foundation for long-term boom

that brings everyone along. you know, that's why we designed the american rescue plan to help not just all those -- everyone that wants but over the course of a full year and beyond so we can help families and small businesses weather the ups and downs as the economy recovers from the historic pandemic. there will be ups and downs. we saw a great example of that just last week. for the first time monthly payments began going out to nearly every working family raising a child in the united states of america. thanks to the expanded child tax credit in the american rescue plan, $300 a month going out for each child under the age of 6 and $250 for every child 6-17. every month for the next six months with more coming in the spring. that money is a game changer. for some it's a lifesaver.

think of the single mom struggling to put food on the table each month. the parent has to tell their kid sorry, honey, but we can't afford those dance classes or the sports team you want to play on this fall we can't do it. you know, it can't wait for the credit against their taxes to be coming next year as a tax credit. they need cash in their pockets today. for families with the least, this money will do the most. dramatically reducing child poverty in america and for millions of middle class families it will give them a little breathing room every month. that's just one example of how we're building an economy from the bottom up and middle out. despite that progress, we cannot afford to be complacent. we know our economic recovery hinges on getting the pandemic under control. you know, and by fully vaccinating 160 million

americans or 80% of our seniors, we fundamentally changed the course of the pandemic. for one the threat is all americans whose disease it has the most severe impacts on the unvaccinated people in the country. we can't let up. especially since and because of the delta variant, which is more transmissible and more dangerous. unfortunately, cases are now rising particularly in communities with very low vaccination rates. just four states account for nearly 40% -- four states, 40% of all cases last week. virtually all hospitalizations and deaths are occurring on unvaccinated americans. these tragedies are avoidable. the data couldn't be clearer. if you are fully vaccinated you have a high degree of protection against severe illness, hospitalization and

death. if you are unvaccinated you are not protected. so please, please get vaccinated now. it works. it is safe. it is free, it is convenient. you know, this virus doesn't have to hold you back any longer. it doesn't have to hold our economy back any longer. but the only way we put it behind us is if more americans get vaccinated. we also know that as our economy has come roaring back, we've seen some price increases. some folks are raised worries it could be a sign of persistent inflation. but that's not our view. our experts believe and the data shows that most of the price increases we've seen were expected and expected to be temporary. reality is, you can't flip the global economic light back on and not expect this to happen. as demand returns, there will

be global supply chain challenges. we've seen that in semi conducters that are used in automobiles. that global shortage has slowed vehicle production creating a temporary spike in car prices. that's a real challenge. my administration is doing everything we can to address it. but again, these disruptions are temporary. lumber prices are another example. they spiked early in our recovery but in recent weeks they ban to fall. they've fallen by more than 50%. hospitality industry prices are returning to where they used to be. economists called these transitory effects. and they account for about 60% of the price increases we've seen over the last few months. i want to be clear, my administration understands that if we were to ever experience unchecked inflation over the long-term that would pose a real challenge to our economy. so while we're confident that

isn't what we're seeing today, we will remain vigilant about any response that is needed. as i made clear to chairman powell of the federal reserve when we met recently, the fed is independent. it should take whatever steps it deems necessary to support a strong, durable, economic recovery. but whatever different views some might have on current price increases, we should be united in one thing, passage of the bipartisan infrastructure framework that we shook hands on. we shook hands on. and my build back better plan will be a force for achieving lower prices for americans looking ahead. another reason why the investments are so important. if we make prudent multi-year investments in better roads, bridges, transit systems and high-speed internet in a modern resilient electric grid here is what will happen. it breaks up the bottlenecks in

our economy. goods get to consumers more rapidly and less expensively. small businesses create and innovate much more seamlessly. if we increase the availability of quality affordable childcare, elder care, paid leave more people will enter the workforce. they will enhance our product activity raising wages without raising prices. that won't increase inflation. it will take the pressure off of inflation, give a boost to our workforce which leads to lower prices in years ahead. so if your primary concern right now is inflation you should be more enthusiastic about this plan. as we have fair competition in our economy through the executive order it will drive down prices even further. new businesses will get in the game, competing against the giant corporations who have been free to ramp up prices

because they haven't had any real competition. look, the bottom line is this. what the best companies do and what we as a country should do is make smart, sustainable investments with appropriate financing. to make this nation more productive, to advance america's leadership in clean energy, to win the jobs of the future, while meeting the threat of climate change and insure that all working americans benefit from the growth they are helping produce. the independent experts who have analyzed my plans found they would do just that, expand output and enable millions of americans to enter the labor workforce. now, just this year, not just for the next but not just this year but for decades in the future, it is not temporary, this is the best strategy to create millions of jobs and lift up middle class families

and grow wages and keep prices affordable for the long term. what we can't do is go back to the same old trickle down theories that gave us nearly $2 trillion in deficits financed corporate tax giveaways and did nothing to make our economy more productive or resilient. the same people who cheered on that approach are now telling us it isn't a problem if big companies have actually to compete for workers and offer them a fair wage with some dignity. i could not disagree more. we can't go back to the old failed thinking. we need to grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out as i said before. the investments i'm proposing are investments the american people want and investments that our country needs. if we get this done, a wide range of independent forecasters have an incredibly

significant impact on gdp and jobs, good paying jobs with prevailing wages. a majority of these jobs will go to people without a college degree. i have said it before and it is true, this is a blue collar blueprint for building an american economy back. simply put, we can't afford not to make these investments. we will pay for them responsibly as well by insuring our largest corporations, the very wealthiest among us, pay their fair share. reforming our international tax system with a minimum global tax which we've led the world to agree to. let me close with this. when i arrived in office it had been a long time since the government had worked for the people. things had been great for big corporations and folks at the top. those 55 major corporations that paid zero in income tax

while making billions in profits had no complaints. when i took office, i made a commitment. a commitment to the american people that we are going to weo change that paradigm. so working families can have a fighting chance again, to get a gauge education, to get a job and a raise, to take care of the elderly parent and the child with a disability, and still be able to go out and earn a good living. to stop losing hours of that their lives stuck in traffic, because the streets are crumbling, or waiting for slow, spotty internet to connect into the world. that's what the economy we are building is all about. that's why we passed the american rescue plan, and that's why we need an investment in the bipartisan infrastructure framework and my build back better plan. our economy has come a long way. we can't slow down now. we can make this boom we are

experiencing today one that will ensure that all americans have an opportunity to share in it for years to come, and we can show the world that american democracy can deliver for the people. i look forward to continuing to build this economy. i am incredibly optimistic about what we'll be able to build together in the next six months and years to come. thank you all for this, and may god bless you. and i'll take a few questions. >> reporter: you said last week that facebook is killing people -- >> president biden: i'm glad you asked me that question. one, i had just read that facebook pointed out -- it was pointed out that facebook, of all the misinformation, 60% of the misinformation came from 12 individuals. that's what the article said. so i was asked that question about what i think is happening. facebook isn't killing people,

these 12 people are out there giving misinformation. anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. it's killing people. it's bad information. my hope is that facebook, instead of taking it personally, that they will do something about the misinformation. the outrageous misinformation about the vaccine. that's what i meant. >> reporter: have they done enough, in your opinion, to stop -- >> president biden: to be completely honest with you, i don't know what they've done. over the weekend i don't think they had, but i don't know the answer to that question. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> president biden: i'm not trying to hold people accountable, i'm trying to make people look at themselves, look in the mirror. think about that misinformation going to your son, your daughter. your relatives, someone you love. that's what i'm asking. all the way in the back. >> reporter: at what point would you consider inflation

unchecked -- [inaudible] secondly, why do you believe that the budget bill is appropriate legislation for a pathway to citizenship? >> president biden: first of all, i think we need to find pathways to citizenship. the budget bill is an appropriate way to get around the filibuster to be able to make a judgment as to whether or not they should have a pathway. that is for a parliamentarian to decide, not for joe biden to decide. the first part of the question was? >> reporter: inflation? >> president biden: there is nobody suggestion that unchecked inflation is on the way. no series economist. that's totally different. look, the stock market is higher than it's been in history, even down this month. i don't look at the stock market as a means by which to judge the economy, like my predecessor did. but he would be talking every day the