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eastern on c-span, or listen on the free c-span radio app. c-span shop.org is the online store -- go there to order the congressional directory with contact information for mems of congress and the biden administration. you will get it special -- get a special discount on your purchase. >> what has economic advisor, brian deese discussed the push for capital gains tax increase for people making more than a million dollars a year. he joined press secretary jen

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coverage of the house on c-span, the senate on c-span2 , and follow our congressional coverage anytime at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: c-span shop.org is the new online store. go there today to order a copy of the congressional directory, a spiral-bound book with information for every member of congress, including biographies and committee assignments, and contact information for state governors in the biden administration cabinet. order your copy at c-span shop.org. every purchase supports he spends nonprofit operation. >> hello and welcome to this conversation about vaccine confidence in the united states. i am a senior fellow with the csis policy center. i direct the women school. a high-level panel on vaccine confidence, misinformation, and national security. in july of 2020, csis joined with the london school to convene experts from public health, cybersecurity, public opinion research, social media and communication. to assess the implications of misinformation and vaccine covenants -- confidence in the context of national security. the panel is cochaired by steve morrison, senior vice president heidi larson, professor of anthrop

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you can go to c-span shop.org and there you can purchase one of her-s books and part of that supports the c-span mission. c-span shop.org. please go ahead with your question or comment. it is a common disease [inaudible] you might be right about that latter point and that is what the family was concerned about when i talked to them in 1994. and there was much more of course. that is what they said. it's a question that i've been asking repeatedly about many people including medical researchers that attend not to get their due if they are african-americans and that is an excellent question. but in terms of this test, i am concerned what test is this. i have to say this is news to me. i had no idea that there were tests that were being administered on a racial basis is still. can you tell me a bit more about it? >> host: ron is gone. i apologize. t >> guest: i wish i knew what he was talking about. maybe he will want to come back or text us to let us know because it is something i don't know about. and a lot of people know early in the design of blood storage, blood in this country and a few other countries was indeed being categorized byed race with blood from african-ameri

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c-span shop.org you can purchase one of her books part of thatt purchase price supports the c-span mission. ron from san diego go ahead with your question or comment. >>caller. >> my name is ron brown. i was calling about the racial bias. i recently found out that when i had a blood test they had a blood test for blacks and others. why is that? and also with harriet a lax - - harriet the lax, why don't they had any how many diseases has this lady cured? she gave more to medicine than anybody that ever lived qassem soleimani - . >> you might be right about the latter point. that is what her family was concerned about as i talk to them in 1994. talking about what i knew about, that's what they said. she was a benefactor to the entire a world. why don't they admit this or talk about this? is a very good question. i have been asking repeatedly about many people including medical researchers who tend not to get their do if they are african-americans. they, are ignored. excellent question. but with the blood test what exist? this is news to me. i had no idea there were tests that were administered on a racial basis. can you tell mee more about that? host: i apologize. he is gone. >> i wish i knew what test. text us and let us know i don't know anything aboutut it. as a lot of people know, early in the design of blood storage, blood in this country was categorized by race with blood from african-americans being cap separate from white americans. and charles was working on blood storage in the uk but initially did not want to work in the us for that reason. based only on racial superstition absolutely no medical basis at all. it is shocking to think back is still be happening today. host: ron if you want to text and include your name and your city. barbara from new york city, good afternoon. >>caller: good afternoon. to questions. regarding "carte blanche". a local newspaper hear a woman wrote an article about vacillating vaccine she's refusing to get the vaccine shot and at the end of her article she made a statement implyingng it is the duty of people to get the shot you talk about how individuals are told it is a moral responsibility to participate in research. can yououu speak about if we hae a duty or a moral responsibility to take the covid vaccine? you also talk about murder to sell theer body to the anatomist. one documented incidents ofha that.wh can you explain when and where that happens? host: why did you pick up "carte blanche"? >> i saw she was going to be on your show i rushed out to get it. i have her other book medical apartheid. i think she is wonderful. . . . . by accepting the vaccination against the coronavirus you are protecting other people whether that means the person is and i see that even though they are well-designed and they may not work for certain ceople. and so the more people who are vaccinated, the better the chance we have at the community and as a country and the argumentnt issues should be vaccinated to help's other peop. and it's hard to argue with that because that argument has moral authority. but going from that, saying that it is imperative, that we should force people to get the vaccine, that is quite a step. it sometimes they should be saying hey, i am not equipped to say whether it's something we should mandate by lawul or not. i think that mandating a by lars thing that weby should better. so i am not sure that we should do it. so it is kind of a tricky thing. the problem is that, americans, we love ourdo freedom. so how many things that we invoked in the name of freedom of speech? that people in other countries would not necessarily see us freedom of speech? so we love our freedom. and we do note take kindly to being told that we have to do something. yet at schools and in public health -- i sometimes think that w

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c-span shop.org. every purchase help support c-span's nonprofit operation. >> the c-span cities tour travels the country exploring the american story. since 2011 we have been more to 200 communities. like many americans, our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next, a look at one of our cities tour visits. >> the 50's first district encompasses the western half of shearing county. all the way to the montana border. we have a little bit of everything. blue-collar neighborhoods in my district, lots of miners who live in my district, ranchers as well. >> how would you describe to someone living in a different state some of the things you are concerned about regarding this district? >> i think the concerns i share are similar to a lot of people throughout the county and the rest of the state. we are facing issues of economic diversity -- how do we make sure we have high-quality, high paying jobs for the next generation? >> one of the things i was reading about people are concerned about in the state is the economy. can you describe to us what it is they are concerned about and what is going away that needs to be replaced? >> it is no secret. we are an extractive industries state. they have treated a

c-span's shop.org is our new store. order a copy of the directional -- the congressional directory. it includes contact information for state governors and the biden administration cabinet. order your copy. every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operation. >> earlier this morning the spacex crew dragon successfully docked at the international space station. four astronauts are on a six-month mission. we will watch the final phases of external docking for a few minutes, followed by a welcome ceremony aboard the iss. coverage is provided by nasa tv. >> you can see on your screen crew dragon slowly approaches the port for docking. >> we are 13 meters and closing in a slow and methodical approach to the docking port on the forward in of the international space station on the docking adapter where crew dragon has docked once before. >> 10 meters. >> copy, 10 meters. [beeping]. >> crew dragon is 10 meters away from the international space station as it continues its approach for docking. >> docking will occur in two phases. there will be a soft capture followed by a hard capture. hard capture means that 12 of physical hooks will connect the dragon to the space station. >> dragon is just six meters away from the station. 2