lisa: heather boushey, thank you for being with us.oushey is a member of president biden's economic council, discussing some of the plans coming up and she is the former president and ceo of the washington center for equitable growth. some headlines crossing talking about vaccine nationalism and how johnson in the u.k. was encouraged by the fact that the european union does not want to see a blockade from the astrazeneca vaccine into the united kingdom. he also says a third wave of covid in europe is likely to reach the united kingdom. it seems like an outlier risk -- people have shrugged off the idea that we could get a resurgence with some of the mutations of the coronavirus 19 virus. this has been a concern. meanwhile in markets, you see a nasdaq outperforming as yields come down. nasdaq of 96 ahead of the open cap the dow up six. yields off of their early lows. built into a week of 200 $6 billion of treasury auctions. i am lisa abramowicz. jonathan ferro on the open in a couple of minutes. tom keene back next week. this is "bloombe

we'll discuss with white house council of economic advisers heather boushey. "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen andrew is off today but we've been watching the u.s. equity futures on this monday morning you're going to see right now it looks like the dow is still down but it's made improvements it's down 25 points below fair value. s&p futures have picked up a bit, five points above fair value. and the nasdaq is hanging in there. 95 points above fair value which is in part because of what we've seen the treasury yields if you're watching the ten-year, you'll see the yields have been kept at bay below what we were last week. sitting at 1.88% we got just above 1.885, that's the number above 1.7% when the nasdaq was under pressure. technology stocks as you saw yields push back up. but this morning 1.886%. we'll also show you the "squawk" stack, along with the nasdaq and dow futures we've got a few other things in there, tesla amid kathie wood's operating target that stock is up 4.25% then the turkish lira which we'll be talking about

. >> heather boushey, appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> we just heard how the white house says the covid relief package will help americans. but what do people actually need? and will this plan deliver it? i'll talk to the mayor of denver, colorado. that is where vice president harris is heading today. we'll talk about what his city needs and how this could help. first, though, some breaking news on this tuesday. a brand-new bold claim from the biden administration. we could see more people crossing the southern border now than we have in the last 20 years. how they plan to transform an entire texas convention center to deal with it. ♪ you come and go ♪ ♪ you come and go-o-o ♪ ♪ loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams ♪ ♪ red, gold -- ♪ [ tires screech ] [ crickets chirping ] for those who were born to ride there's progressive. with 24/7 roadside assistance. ♪ karma-karma-karma-karma-karma chameleon... ♪ sales are down from last quarter but we are hoping things will pick up by q3. yeah...uh... doug? sorry about that. umm... what...its...um... you alright? [sigh]