. >> reporter: victoria baptiste is henrietta lacx's great-grandfather.is a rare award only given by the united states congress. >> i believe that henrietta lax is deserving of a gold medal simply because she's a miracle, and her cells continue to live long after she left us in october. >> at 31 years old lax was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer at johns hopkins hospital on the day she died, the research committee announced they discovered the first mortal cell line and they're now known after lacks. >> this is a great way, the great efforts she's able to do without being here with us, and it's also a way our family is reclaiming our story and trying to get more people to be aware. >> those cells have been responsible for remarkable research leading to polio, research in parkinson's, he though ya, leukemia, and hiv. >> her family was not informed or compensated. >> the part that makes me the proudest is how many she's been able to help and heal all over the world with the advances we have in science today because of my great-grandmother, and as a n

henrietta: i think you could ask jd vance about that.here are individual senators, people running for office who are, especially on certain sides of the aisle, trying to figure out where the american public is on this. it is evolving very rapidly, and the collect support for engagement in support of ukraine is unlike anything we have seen an american history in quite some time, where it has been so fractured and polarized. so you can see where the pockets of poland, ukraine, other eastern european regions are in the united states, across ohio and the midwest, based on how those individual congressmen and folks running for senate are responding. in a couple of cases, they have had to recalibrate whether quickly once they get response from their constituents and see that even though this is costing americans at the pump, inflation is high, and we are all coming off of the pandemic come of this is a global rally. there's a healthy amount of questioning from experts, in particular military folks, to say how long is this going to last, how lo

right now, henrietta treyz joins us on washington. go to the gentlelady from baltimore, not san francisco, and that is nancy pelosi. she sounded like a republican yesterday. how close is nancy pelosi to powering the house to a stricter tone against mr. putin? henrietta: i think there is an option for votes in the house and even the senate for a resolution today. we don't want to import oil from russia anymore. we want to get on record. it is the same parallel i saw a month ago when everyone out was that's when everyone was coming up gung ho -- when everyone was coming up gung ho. but the reality is the private sector is self sanctioning. the crude and russia is not being purchased. they are concerned about secondary knockoff sanctions, or they want to promote domestic production. i think speaker pelosi is basically getting free money here, free political play, just as every other member is saying. let's get aggressive on putin, hit him where it hurts, and the white house is saying we don't need to. nobody is buying it anyway. so i thi

henrietta: great question. know from the 2018 to 2020 period there is unlimited capacity to shift tariffs around, to carousel through a rotating basket of tariffs. that is something the speaker of the house has introduced in the last couple of weeks, to strip russia and belarus -- i have even heard that there are some in the democratic caucus which would support stripping china as well -- of their normalized trade status across all goods that are imported. that is everything from alloys, agriculture commodities, imports of shoes, backpacks, have a particular product lines come in. the difference between column one and column two on the tariff schedule is robust. 2.5 percent is the import tariff on a number of goods coming from russia, if not zero. if you move and column two, you could see that rise to 18.5%, 45%, or even higher. that discretion is something they will leave with the administration to permanently be able to cycle through as they see fit and as the war escalates. the tariff move in particular is s

henrietta, the u.s. consumer is highly sensitive to oil prices, to gas prices. how big a risk as the president running here, or is this simply just the right thing to do? >> i think the american public in consensus you can see from president biden's improving polling numbers in ukraine and its russian invasion suggests that he is making the right political tactic was. i think his commentary about key producers and drillers in the gulf of mexico region really look into the heart of some of the talking points that specifically say this is not price gouging, this is a time to unite, stand up against russia and i think the american public strongly supports those moves. you have a bipartisan consensus of support in the house and senate and that gives president biden all of the weight he needs to run with it. >> let's talk about what other leeway congress may give the president. we heard from goldman sachs earlier that this potentially raises the likelihood of spending making it through the legislative body when it comes to renewables. do you think we could see some o

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