from morris & dickson. there in the warehouse back in early december with the first batch of vaccines distributed in the state it was an emotional moment paul, great to have you on the news line right now. you saw a huge up tick then a drop off. we were going back and forth the other day. what have you seen in vaccine orders in recent days and recent weeks? >> good morning, brian we've seen a huge, huge increase in the last three weeks. tripling by the day. very good to see louisiana up tick in vaccine so we can help crush the delta. >> can you give us some kind of context as to what those orders have done? have they gone up by 10% have they gone up by 50% >> sure. to give rough ballpark we were doing 2,000 to 3,000 doses across the state several weeks ago. now we are doing 40,000 doses a week we are on track this week to do another 40,000 doses easily. ten times or more. >> wow i want to really highlight that for our audience because 2,000 to 30,000 or 40,000. these are exponential type jumps in vaccinatio

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here is the senate judiciary chairman dickson durbin earlier on msnbc. >> a lot of information we would like together for mr. clark to bring some clarity to this situation. it certainly raised a question, mr. rosen understood that mr. clark was waiting in the wings and if he didn't do president trump's quest, comply with those requests, he very easily could have been replaced. >> donald trump abused his office. for anyone with eyes or ears, before the 2016 election, you could see the potential for abuse was high -- so it's possible even more alarming that trump's abuses where the abuses of the people around him. from people who were not gold toilet drifters like trump. people like jeffrey clark, who were all too eager it seems to break the law for a man who lost the election. before we start sanctifying jeffrey rosen, reacting internal general, note that he sat in silence for nine or ten months before speaking out against these abuses. forever jeffrey clark willing to subvert the law, they're someone like, this alexander vindman who risked his career to provide the evidence that led to

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. >> you've come a long way from that small town in illinois, dickson. and the protective warmth of your mother. what is your earliest memory of your mother's influence, what she taught you to do? >> she was a major part. i had a brother, a couple of years older than i am, for in our family. mother and father. and she was probably the kindest human being i have ever known. looking back, i know that we lived in poverty or pretty close to it. but we didn't know that at the time because the government didn't come down and tell us we were for. and she was always finding someone worse off. that we would help. and i remember that about her. it was kindness known, and at the same time she could be firm, like in a smaller town, where i was born, 800 people. and we lived across a little park from a railroad station. and in those days, the biggest tree wasn't the ice cream wagon. it was the ice wagon. and kids we get chips of ice from the iceman who is chipping out the pieces, from the ice box. and the ice wagon had pulled up and my brother and i saw it. and he to