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and later, as the u.s. finalizes its withdrawal, new warnings from officials that afghanistan could fall to the taliban. potentially in a matter of weeks. much earlier than feared. welcome to "meet the press minute" daily, i'm andrea mitchell in for a few moments for chuck todd. right now, within 18 months of the pandemic and several months after vaccines in the country, delta is breaking, and major debate about masking in schools. states from texas to missouri, arkansas, louisiana and florida all seeing hospitalizations surge to record or near record heights. the number of people hospitalized in florida is now larger than any state has ever seen during this pandemic

surpassing the surge in new york last year. that is a remarkable statistic, because 50% of florida has been vaccinated. that new york number came at the start of the pandemic. long before the vaccine was created. that gives you a sense of just how contagious this delta variant is. thankfully, though, fewer people are dieing, because many vulnerable americans have been vaccinated. still, the dangers are very real. the federal government is sending hundreds of ventilate toers florida, as its hospital system is pushed to its limits. the state has now also broken its record of pediatric hospitalizations. that scary statistic comes as governor ron desantis has gone to great lengths to oppose mask mandates in the state and threatening to withhold salaries of public school officials who defy him. some local summits and mayors are defying the governor, imposing mask mandates in schools to keep children safe. we're going to speak with one of those mayors in a moment. that comes as new polling suggests a majority of parents

support school masking policies. the kadhja family foundation found 63% of parents favor masking unvaccinate students and staff to wear masks. happening in florida in cases and hospitalizations and in terms of kids and controversy over masks has become a microcosm of the crisis from other parts of the country, just across the united states. as we enter yet another dark chapter in this pandemic. nbc's kerry sanders is in riviera beach, florida. i know where you are, kerry. you know where were you are. one of the places where the school district requiring masks. also with us, broud county mayor steve geller and nbc's dasha burns where children are heading back to school without mask requirements, and another place where cases among kids are rising. kerry, first to you in riviera, florida. talk to us about what's going on there. >> reporter: yes. talk a little about the schools and what's going on here.

first of all across the state a 24% increase in the last week of children testing positive for coronavirus. so that is significant. then wrap in, i just want to go back to the stick you shar stat the top. florida's now has more people in hospitals with coronavirus than at the peak in new york. so that underscores how much this has changed and shifted to the new epicenter here in florida. with the backdrop of kids going back to school this week here in palm beach county. other counties. broward and dade later this month, and so what they are looking at is potentially kids coming to school and spreading the virus. we see that percentage in hospitals. video here inside joe dimaggio is heartbreaking to see children in the icu and emergency room here who are fighting coronavirus. the governor says he will not only withhold the salaries of school superintendents and

school board members if they defy his order of no mask mandate, but he will restrict the state money that goes to counties. that's about $9,000 per student in a year. this county here, 179,000 students. talking serious money and we're just talking about palm beach county. so here they've decided, kids must wearing a masks, but the parents can sign something and they can opt out. 's in broward county, the decision will be, there's no opting out. you must -- you must -- go to school with a mask when school starts later this month. listen to what some of the parents had to say about government telling them what their children must do for safety purposes. >> i want them to be protected when they go back to school. i don't want to send them into an unsafe environment. we knows mask kids safe. >> people want to wear masks, it's their choice to do that, but as a parent who does not want their kid wearing a mask we should have a choice as well. shouldn't just be one-sided. >> reporter: this is very much a

political debate in the state of florida and the best way to reflect that here on "meet the press" daily look at the counties that pushed back against the governor and look how those counties voted in the presidential election. the counties coming up with either opt out or defying directly that there will be absolute mask mandates, those counties voted for biden. of course, andrea, as you know, florida now more of a red state. voting for trump, but in these counties that are pushing back against the republican governor, ron desantis, those are the ones that voted for joe biden. at the end of the day here, and in palm beach county, we'll see this elsewhere. one of biggest challenges for teachers themselves. they then become police officers in the classroom of this one's mot wearing a mask, this one is wearing a mask. should this one not wearing a mask, should they are ways it? teachers here in palm beach county don't get a list of kids that opted out. so how are they, then, supposed

to enforce the rules? we know eventually, andrea, kids are kids. they're going to get into fights over things like why am i having a mask, why is he not wearing a mask? back and forth. >> of course. kids are kids. adults should be adults. kerry sanders, thank you. mayor, the broward board voted to keep masks in school defying governor desant is' order. the only one to do that so far. what's your reaction to what he said today. >> understand that that is the school board, separately from the county commission. although i agree with what they've done. you've talked about setting records. i remember we -- it was only about two weeks ago that florida set a record of 10,389 new cases, new hospitalizations. today, as you said, we're over 15,000. not only is that a new record, it's 50% higher than the old

record, which was set only a couple of weeks ago. if you look at the number of new cases per 100,000, which is one of the major ways of measuring, it should be under 10. over 10 you're in the red zone. june 15th we were at 6. july 1 at 14. july 15th we're at 37. july 30, we were at 85. today we're at 118 new cases per 100,000. again that should be under 10. the numbers are horrible. you mentioned children. at joe dimaggio children's hospital, i think kerry mentioned -- or somebody mentioned -- if you look at just the number of children that were admitted -- excuse me. the pediatric emergency room justimaggio children's hospital. as of -- as of earlier in june,

the number was -- in june it was 36. july, 27. 190. by end of the month, four days later, it was 240. that's children that are going to the emergency room. if nothing else is going to get you to wear a mask, you're not going to wear a mask to protect yourself, your friends, your family, your community, your country. wear it to protect the kids. >> it does make a lot of sense. but -- the governor doubled down today saying actually positive signs in florida's numbers that you could be turning the corner soon. you're not seeing any indication of that in the data you've been citing? >> yes. if you look at the day-to-day, today may be lower than yesterday. yesterday may be lower than the day before. i haven't checked, but if you look at the week to week, every

week it's going up. the only silver lining, and it's a small one is this is also caused an increase in vaccinations. we had been at our peak, at almost 175,000 vaccinations per week. we had gone under 10,000. now they're vaccinations are going back up, three weeks ago it was 16,667. two weeks ago 26,434. last week 28,245. so the tiny, tiny, dim, silver lining in this horrible expansion that we're having is it's causing people to get vaccinated again. i do not understand why people won't protect their friends, won't do the patriotic thing, and get vaccinated to protect their country, and if you won't do it for any other reason do it to protect the children.

>> and is the governor's messaging hampering your efforts to get the virus under control in your county? >> yes, ma'am. i mean -- one. things that bothers us -- you know, i was in the legislature 20 years. always have a great deal of respect for the office of the governor, but we've heard the governor and the legislature insistently tell washington. washington, please, give local governments the opportunity, because what works in new york doesn't work in north dakota. well, when i tell the governor, the legislature, what works in bradford county, population of 28,000, doesn't work in broward county with a population of 2 million, crickets. i mean, they don't respond, and we're just asking them to be consistent. the same way that they asked the federal government not to exert total control over the states. we in local government would like the ability to respond to

local conditions, and, again, if they're not prepared to do a state-wide mask mandate, let us do it locally. i promise you, we're not talking about doing another economic shutdown. we're not planning on closing businesses. we want to protect our people and the business community, in many cases we would require masks. i keep hearing about, oh, we have -- freedom! you do, but there are limits. you may have freedom to drink, but you don't have freedom to drive while drunk. and that's what we're trying to explain to the anti-maskers. that, yes, you have certain rights, whatever you want to do when you're home, but when you're running the risk of infecting the general public, it's no different than driving while intoxicated. you're endangering the public. >> and does it make any sense, returning to schools for a

moment, to have mask mandates in schools without vaccination mandates for teachers? >> nothing. i would support vaccination mandates for teacher, understanding, again, the same issue we have in local government. which is, we all have union contracts and you have to negotiate with the unions, we think, before you're able to mandate that, but that's a school board issue. what doesn't make sense to me, not as a school board member, because i'm not, but, again, if you are letting some people wearing a masks and some people not, you need to remember. masks are protecting other people. so you're not wearing a mask or your child not wearing a mask, is certainly endangering the other students in the school, if your children have covid. that's one of the reasons why everybody needs to really be wearing masks in order for that to work.

we have already mandated in all county buildings, you must wearing a masks. >> mayor geller in broward county, florida. thank you very much for being with us today. and turning to dasha in washington county, tennessee. school open a week without mask mandates. you're in appalachian, a part of tennessee a state that fired its health commissioner lot too long ago. what do you see as the challenges there? >> reporter: andrea, i've spent a lot of time in the appalachian highlands over the last year, spending a lot of time with health workers here who not only have been dealing with the crisis of covid-19, but also a crisis of misinformation and plit politicization around the vaccine, and now say it's the kids that they're most worried about. one of the larger hospital systems in this region yesterday

reported that 29% of positive covid cases in their system were among those under the age of 18, and, andrea, washington county schools reopened here just over a week ago and have already reported 50 positive cases among students and staff, and 194 are in quarantine, and despite these numbers, there is no mask requirement here. there are no social distancing requirements and no strict protocols around quarantining students who have been exposed at school, and, andrea, these trends are terrifying to health workers that i've been speaking with, scared of what's coming in the next couple of weeks. i want you to hear from the ceo of valid health's children's hospital here. take a listen. >> i think the hardest port for a part for me personally is trying to get people to understand. you know i stood in the pediatric intensive care unit last week and watched everything

that was unfolding, and it was just heartbreaking. it's important we try to relay that message to the community. again, to counter some of that misinformation and the things out there that just aren't true. this is affecting children. >> reporter: and, andrea, i have spoken to parents who are scared to send their kids to school. one mom with a son who's immunocompromised feels like she is putting a mask on him, and making the choice to give him a mask, but doesn't know what happens once he walks through those doors. i spoke to the superintendent here, who says that they're re-evaluating the situation every day, but he says end of the day it's going to about local decision, and a personal choice. it's an important factor here. andrea? >> dasha burns, thank you so much in tennessee. and this friday at 11:00 a.m. eastern msnbc will have a special hour devoted to answering your back-to-school coronavirus pandemic questions.

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work on a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget resz lugz. the fate of essentially the entire white house's agenda tied up in both of these bims. taken all hands on deck to sell them especially on that budget resolution, senators manchin and sinema bristling on the price tag. early blueprint contains about a decade of priorities taken from president biden's campaign platform. moments ago majority leader schumer said everything is on the table when it comes to the reconciliation package. as long as details are in flux, the message is as well. leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill and peter baker, of course, an msnbc political analyst. peter, president biden is about to make his first sales pitch on reconciliation, and many of seeing the price tag on this signature bill. so how is he going to sell this especially to those senate moderates and active moderates

in the house, as we know, nancy pelosi only has a three-seat margin. >> exactly right. you know, basically, president biden has lumped his entire domestic agenda practically into this one package. it's as if we're doing the entire society with one bill. and doing it, as you point out correctly. climate, immigration, medicare. universal pre-k. community college for free. all of these big priorities wrapped into one. very big, expensive package. back to this sort of kind of defining debate that washington used to have over the size and scale of government. right? very, very familiar, those of us who covered this going back decades, democrats advocate for a more robust view and republicans say tax and spending gone amok. the problem for president biden, barely a margin in the house and only a 50/50 senate with no votes to spare in the senate, meaning a big dance. already heard, you rightly point

out, senator sinema and manchin, voted to advance it, not happy with bottom lines. too expensive. trying to pull it back. schumer trying to balance feelings on part of the moderates, bernie sanders, the aoc wing of the party, one chance to get this done. let's not be anything than the most ambitious we can be. something you don't know how it's going to fall it will take weeks if not months to play this out. >> and leigh ann, story the next couple of months that price tag. the scope of moving on this senate bill with reconciliation just passed. wheren they starting? must be exhausted. they were up all night. >> reporter: senate was up all night and our capitol hill team covering all of this. as far as moving forward, the price tag at this moment, this $3.5 trillion. now, that is the ceiling, not

the floor. speaker speaker schumer said they want to dot more. how big are democrats willing to go. he said as peter pointed out some members wan wanted more thanes 3ds.5 million and heard joe manchin say $3.5 million is too much. another thing schumer said in a press conference, did knoll rule out coming below that if he has to, if that's what it takes to get all of his members together pap very complicated dance he and house speaker nancy pelosi are starting on, and we also were just told, two democrat sources on a conference call with speaker pelosi, she doubled down on her timeline of passing these two infrastructure bills. she is going to hold off on this

bipartisan bill until there is passage in the senate from this big reconciliation package. so that timeline does not seem to be shifting in the house of representatives at this point, andrea. >> and, while that gives her, i guess, leverage on both side, but is it all or nothing? >> reporter: well -- it -- we'll see what is happening. i mean, so there is a group of moderates who have said they want to vote on this bipartisan bill immediately, and she's having to weigh that against the progressives. there seems to be a lot more progressives saying, wait a minute. no. we need to see that this reconciliation, thises 3ds.5 trillion human infrastructure bill is able to pass the sflat senate before we're willing to give this a win. that's the prevailing position in house of representatives, and

she can also count votes. knows for the time being, month are people on that side of the position than there are of the moderates who want a vote immediately. so she is insistent that she is doing the right thing, and in getting her party together. as we all know, speaker pelosi has been masterful before in unifying her conference. we'll see if she's able to do it again, andrea. >> i would never underestimate her. never have. peter baker, how active is the president going to be, because a lot of people are saying that, that first bipartisan package would never pass. he had not been out campaigning for? >> i think that's right. the challenge for him is different this time. right? the challenge before proven he could reach across the aisle and bring republicans onboard. he succeeded doing that at least in the senate so far with this physical infrastructure bill. the question now on the human infrastructure bill, using the term they use, can he bring his

own party behind it? bring progressives into the fold and moderates into the fold? they don't plan to get any republican votes, and need almost every single democrat he has out there. that's the big challenge for the president now. >> and leigh ann, what about the senate republicans? they vote ford the bipartisan bill, but where do you think they are? absolutely against this next bill? the reconciliation bill? >> reporter: absolutely against this reconciliation bill. they are willing to go home to this bipartisan -- take this bipartisan bill back to their states and show the transportation projects that are about to be,s that could in the near future, if this reaches the president's desk, be started. and they are also very happy with -- with the democrats taking all of the heat from them on this $3.5 trillion bill they

say is bad for the economic, will increase inflation and a political loser. they feel very comfortable where they stand. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell sided with the democrats and 18 other republicans on this bipartisan bill, and you know, senator roy blunt, member of his leadership team said mcconnell's, you could call him an infrastructure republican. he knows the infrastructure is good for his members, good for the country, but that is where the bipartisanship stops for leader mcconnell. especially on this big, major human infrastructure proposal, andrea. >> thanks to leigh ann and peter. leigh ann, hope you get some rest at least the first part of this recess. as all who know this hour i am not usually here at 1:30. chuck is have the technical issues with his studio. as we continue to work on them heading off to garrett haake

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welcome back. thank you for your patience with msnbc musical chairs. i'm garret headache picking up msnbc coverage and with the u.s. expected to withdraw a month from now, the country may look a lot like when troops first arrived 20 years ago. taliban grows by the day, captures several capitals just since yesterday. the collapse of afghan capital of kabul could come sooner than expected, possibly within a matter of weeks. a sense how quickly the taliban is regaining control, the foundation for defense of democracy's long war journal posted a timeline video since april. look at this. areas under taliban control in red. areas under government control in gray. you can see just how quickly that map transforms from gray to red. our own kelly cobiella joins us

from kabul. what are you seeing in afghan's capital and what they are watching what's happening in the rest of the country? >> reporter: yeah. you really see the impact of that rapid advance by the taliban, when you go to some of these parks in kabul, and talk to the people who have been displaced. because all of them say they came with next to nothing, and these are people educated. had good government jobs. had homes in their hometowns and villages and cities, and they had to leave literally in the dead of night, at times. with a moment's notice. and make a very harrowing journey down to kabul. a lot of them are talking about what the situation was like when the taliban rolled in. in some cases, government forces, they say, completely gave up. in others, they actually did put up a fight and quite a long fight. what's happening now is, that because so much fighting is ongoing in different parts of the country, as people continue to flee to kabul, this is sort of the safe space in the

country, and thousands of people are coming in to the city. they're coming with nothing. they're homeless, and it's becoming a real problem and a potential humanitarian catastrophe. today the vice president ordered the minister of hajj to open the mosques in order to allow these displaced people to at least have a roof over their heads and something to eat and drink at night. a lot of children. a lot of women. we spoke to one student today it has been over a relative id r period of time. is it just a matter of time before the taliban controls off of afghanistan? >> reporter: talking to people

here there's definitely that worry. people are terrified, frankly. they see what's happening in other parts of the country, and they're really, really worried that it is only a matter of time. we spoke to a teacher today who said, you know, i don't understand how this is happening. how could we be in this position again? and she said she fears for her life and for the lives of the young female students who she's been teaching now for more than ten years. on the flip side. the government is definitely not saying that they're giving up, and you wouldn't expect them to. there was a shake-up in the army today, and in addition to that, a number of warlords have been called in to muster their militias and join the fight. in fact, one, a former vice president, left for the north from the capital to the north, late last night. his men are with him, and he, his spokesperson tells us that he's actually

the charge tonight. they're going to take on the taliban in the city of -- or in the surrounds of mu sari sharif. ap city of about 500,000 people. so the fighting is going to intensify. >> after 20 years training the army we are calling on warlords end of the war to back up government forces. kelly, thank you. as we await the remarks from president biden coming up, the latest on the political fall of andrew cuomo as new york state is about to meet its first female governor in history. live in albany, next. ions of vus struggle to get reliable transportation to their medical appointments. that's why i started medhaul. citi launched the impact fund to invest in both women and entrepreneurs of color like me, so i can realize my vision and give everything i've got to my company, and my community. i got you. for the love of people.

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timeed by one accuser and for the other ongoing investigations? what about what's next for the state of new york itself? as it face as resurgent virus on top of the current political turmoil, and new yorkers just want to move forward. many of those questions are now going to be asked of lieutenant governor kathy hochul. about to become new york's first female governor ever. expected to hear from her for the first time since cuomo's resignation announcement in about 20 minutes. joining me from albany, yasmine vossoughian. what are you hearing on the ground how local lawmakers are reacting, what's next for governor cuomo? he'll still be the governor another two weeks? >> reporter: yeah. a lot of "what's next?" i'll try to answer as many of those questions as i can. >> take your time. >> reporter: in the two minutes or so i'm usually allotted you well know. talk impeachment first. right? the big question. are they going to continue to pursue impeachment. i'm hearing before both

republicans and democrats speaking to, resignation doesn't necessarily satisfy accountability. heard that from a new york state senator, said that to me specifically. we heard from the judiciary chair levin monday. even if he resigns continue on with this impeachment investigation and mary beth walsh member of the judiciary i spoke to earlier who echos that sentiment. part of the republican caucus here. what she had to say. >> people are calling my office saying, i lost a loved one to covid in a nursing home, and a i don't want -- if the governor did something wrong if he fudged the data or if he rewrote the report, whatever choices that he did, i want him held accountable for that. but i worry that the political will to actually go through with the impeachment is starting to wane on the majority side. >> reporter: so you got to remember the impeachment investigation was not just about sexual harassment claims but a

controversy surrounding nursing homes during the pandemic and early swing. the mario cuomo bridge and seems those are continuing on. a couple day tosses look for. one friday. when the deadline for the gorner to submit his countermaterial for the impeachment investigation and then monday, the judiciary meets. more information then. talking about the criminal investigationing in five separate areas of new york state. criminal complaint filed in albany continues on. this resignation doesn't affect that. criminal investigations in five separate areas of new york continuing on as well. this resignation does not affect this. then you ask, what is ahead for new york state? >> yasmine have to set aside new york state for a moment as the president of the united states is at the podium. let's listen. >> -- seventh largest month of job creation in u.s. history. making the administration the first ever to add 4 million jobs in the first six months in

office. and then in the past 24 hours, we've seen the senate advance two key pieces of my economic agenda. the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the budget resolution that is the framework for more build back better plan. today i'm pleased to share more in guz with the latest report on consumer index is down by nearly two-thirds from its pace over and when you take out the goods directly impacted by the pandemic, like cars and airplane tickets, and month, the monthly core consumer price index that is less than two-tens of 1%. here's where we stand.

jobs are up, and monthly price increases have come down. economic growth is up. the fastest in 40 years, and unemployment is coming down. so i would argue the biden economic plan is working. and historic investments are on the way as well. this isn't accidental. it's a result of our strategy to get shots in arms, grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out and it's the rest of the result of the american rescue plan and everything else that we've done. and it's a result of the grit and determination and really hard work of the american people. even with all of this progress a lot of families are still feeling a pinch. family budgets remain tight, and paychecks don't go as far as they need to. that has been a realityolds acr america for too long. that's why i want to talk today about what we're going to do to try to ease the burden on

families right now, and wa we need to do to help them succeed over the longer term. first, for millions of families, help is on the way right now. thanks to the american rescue plan. on friday, about 40 million families will receive their second monthly payment as part of our tax cut for families with children. $300 for each child under the age of 6, and $250 for every child 6 through age of 17. that's money for diapers, food, rent, school supplies, fees and equipment for the child to join sports teams and dance class. most of all, as my dad used to say, it gives a parent a little bit of breathing room. the money is a game changer. and so i would argue for some it's a life saver. economists tell us those kind of

tax cuts boost test scores, college attendance and life-time earnings for children. a win-win, and that's why i'm glad that early this morning congress took at important step to make sure that this tax cut for families with children does not expire next year. so let's keep this tax cut going. and not raise taxes on middle-class families. the second point i'd like to make is we're talking about taking action that alleviate global supply chain challenges that keep prices higher than they should be. for example, we're tracking congestion at the ports of los angeles and long beach. the largest ports in the united states, where increased shipping traffic and the challenges of operating safely in a pandemic are creating disruptions. those disruptions impact everything from how much our food costs to when deliveries arrive. so my administration is bringing

together port operators, shipping lines, labor unions, trucking companies, railroads and others to speed up the ports' operation. right now our experts believe the major independent forecasters agree as well that these bottlenecks and price spikes will reduce as our economy continues to heal. well, today's consumer price report points in that direction. we will keep a careful eye on inflation each month, and trust the fed to take appropriate action, if and when it's needed. third, i've directed my administration to crack down on what some major players are doing in the economy that are keeping prices higher than they need be. take your grocery bill. when big agriculture operations consolidate, they put a squeeze on small and family farms, making them pay more for seed, paying less for what they produce, and raising prices on what your groceries, what you

pay for your groceries at the grocery store. my executive order opens up competition in the agriculture business. gives more farmers a chance to compete, which will give americans more food choices at lower cost. fourthly, we are taking action to address gas prices as well. today gas prices are lower than they were earlier in this decade, but they're still high enough to create a pinch on working families. one key thing about the infrastructure bill that just passed the senate, is there are no gas tax increases. no -- gas -- tax -- increases. i made that absolutely clear that i would not raise gas taxes, and i'm glad everyone in the senate seemed to agree with that, but that's not enough. recently we've seen the price of oil companies pay for a barrel of oil begin to fall. cost of gasoline at the pump for more american people hasn't

fallen. that's not what you expect in a competitive market. i want to make sure that nothing stands in the way of oil price declines leading to lower prices for consumers. so today my director of the economic -- national economic counce imasked the chair of the federal trade commission to use monitor the u.s. gasoline market. and address any illegal conduct that might be connected or contributing to increases at the pump while the price of barrel prices are going down. we made it clear to opec, the major oil exporting companies that there is a global economy recovers to lower the prices for consumers. the child tax credit stepping in to address the supply chain challenges, and my competition

orders and the ftc competition and the price gouging are some of the immediate steps that we are taking to put more money in the pocket to make that money go further and bring down the costs that are squeezing the costs for family month after month and year after year, and make the economy work better for the families in the long run, and these challenges were long before the pandemic, and long after we left office, but as we recover, now is the moment to put in place the long term plan to build back america better. a plan that will increase the opportunities with better jobs and with the higher wages. a plan that will lower the everyday costs that strain our budgets and our nation's families today, and long into the future. it starts with making the investments that we know will make the economy more productive and lead to more growth over the long run. bringing down the cost, everyday

costs that have been taking a bigger and bigger bite out of the middle-class families' incomes, and the expenses that keep parents up at night and rob seniors of their dignity, health care, prescription drug cost, child care, education, housing or caring for an elderly relative or a loved one. for those who get their health care through the affordable health care act, the american rescue plan allowed us to cover more people at lower premiums and lower premiums by an average of 40%. in my build back better plan, we want to build on that progress. or lower prescription drugs. right now, we pay the highest prescription drug cost prices of any developed nation in the world, the highest. my plan will lower the prescription drug costs by giving medicare the power to

negotiate the price of the drugs they purchase for the american people, and saving the americans hundreds of billions of dollars. on top of that, my plan would add hearing, dental and vision benefits to medicare. right now, there are hundreds of thousands of americans who need home and community-based care services. my plan expands home care for older americans and people with disabilities while improving the jobs and the pay for the workers who care for them. my plan will also provide access to quality affordable child care with new and upgraded child care facilities across the country. and middle-class families will pay no more than 7% of their income for highly qualified care for children up to the age of 5. the most hard pressed working families will not pay a dime.

today, my council of economic advisers and the office of management and budget released a report showing how my build back better plan will lower the out of pocket expenses for families. for example, a family with two parents who together earn $85,000 a year and they have an adult daughter who lives with them and attends a community college, and care for an elderly parent who needs arthritis medicine which costs $5,500 every year and eye exam to get a new glasses and under the build back better plan, the daughter is eligible for two years of community college free. that will save them $2,400 a year, and this is like a $2,400 tax credit, and in addition, and i should say tax cut and not credit. and in addition, my plan would cap the out of pocket expenses and cost for their mom and dad's

prescription drugs saving that family another $2,400 a year, and the new vision benefit under medicare would pay for that eye exam and new glasses and lenses saving $450 a year. all totaled, my plan would save that family making $85,000 a year, 5,280, and the build back better plan will save your family better. there is a lot of misleading talk which is no surprise, i guess, about what i am proposing in the build back better agenda. it is not a short term stimulus, but it is a long-term investment in american families. our republican colleagues have argued that long-term investments and physical infrastructure will grow the economy and reduce inflationary pressures. i thank them for that.

they are exactly right. we agree on that. in the same time, it is true that long term investments that bring down the biggest cost that families face, housing, child care, education and health care, and these investments will lower out of pocket expenses and not raise them. they will spare more people who work by easing the burdens of child care and senior care, and that parents especially mother's bear and keeping them out of the job market. and they will spread out over the decade. they will make a huge difference for families. but they will only make up around one percent of the economy each year over the next decade. and they are going to be fully paid for. this is not going to be anything like my predecessor whose unpaid tax cuts and other spending added nearly $8 trillion in his four years to the national debt. $8 trillion.

they didn't even try to pay for the tax cuts which went straight to the largest corporations and the wealthiest americans. the investments that i am proposing are going to be fully paid for over the long term by having the largest corporations, including the 55 corporations that paid zero federal tax last year, and the super wealthy will begin to pay their fair share. they will make a lot of money, but pay their fair share. that means that we will actually reduce the national debt, improve our fiscal position over the long run. my build back better agenda is fiscally responsible. the fiscally responsible way to reduce the cost for families. in fact, you are hearing economists across the board confirm this. moody's has said that quote, worries that the plan will ignite, and this is moody's now, will ignite undesirably high

inflation and overheating economy is overdone. nobel prize winning economy joseph stiglitz said that there is no way it will have a significant way on inflation. and joseph harman of harvard university said that i don't think that the reconstruction bill will impact the national debt. so you should support this bill, because opposing this bill is against housing, elder care, and housing and prescription care and lower education plans.

i am committed to make sure that this reaches everyone, and eases the burden on working families and not just this year, but for the years to come. so thank you, and god bless you and may god protect our troops. thank you. all right. you have been listening to the president speak at the white house, and now we go outside of the white house to monica alba who has been listening, and we have been listening to him without a lot of the technical jargon, and white house who is keenly aware of the criticisms of the inflation and other criticisms? >> yes, garrett. this is a president who did try to speak directly to the american people, and knows that the families are feeling the pinch and the effects even

though the economy has had slow and steady progress in the last six or seven months of the administration, he knows it is not the case for everybody that things are obviously not back to normal, and given the coronavirus pandemic and he did say that the white house and in particular his administration is keeping a close eye on inflation, but he used that as a way to make the argument for his economic investments and not just the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the senate yesterday, but also this other piece of it, the $3.5 trillion so-called human infrastructure plan that is focusing on child care, elder care, and combat and climate change. he argued if that were to become a reality, that would ventually lower the inflation that we are seeing over the last couple of months, and that the predecessor and not naming him,