jen kates, welcome back to the newshour, and thanks for being here.h the differences we're seeing state by state, broadly speaking, why are some states so much better at getting the vaccine that they have out the door and into people's arms than other states. >> it is good to be here. i think what we're seeing right now, if you look across the country is a pretty complicated labyrinth and you know, it's different everywhere, so there is no similar experience happening in any county, really, compared to the next county. and part of the challenges that states, wee starting at different places and dealing with a whole range of issues to try to figure out the most complex mass vaccination campaign ever. and we're already operating from a deficit of having a lot of, you know, challenges just dealing with covid. so what we are now seeing is states pushing out doses to different eligibility groups, using different systems to alert people and it's pretty complicated. >> so that first eligibility group, the folks who live in nursing homes and long-term care fa

amna: jen kates, thanks. judy: india celebrates republic day tomorrow, a holiday observed with elaborate military parades. is year, hundreds ofhousands of protesting farmers are planning their own tractor parades. for months they have camped just outside the capital, delhi, demanding the repeal of new laws that deregulate agriculture -- which directly employs nearly half of the country's 1.3 billion people. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro has our report. it's part of his series, agents for change. reporter: the police have used tear gas, batons, and near freezing temperature water cannons to keep protesting farmers from entering central delhi. still, they traveled hundreds, even thousands of miles and encircled a capitol, protesting the end of a season of subsidies and price guarantees that for decades have provided certainty, though hardly a comfortable livelihood. most visible in the crowds here are sikhs from the breadbasket state of punjab. their turbans more evident than face masks. >> they are s

jen kates, she worked on a recent report detailing how states are doing, how states are doing with theirccine. also with us "morning joe" chief medical correspondent dr. dave campbell. all right. so, dr. dave, am i right in saying that the rollout is incredibly slow or cumbersome? >> you're correct, but it's also increasing in speed every single day and week. and this next phase that you've just described is, in fact, what has come out this week from secretary aczar and backed up with comments by cdc director dr. redfield. yes, it's been slow. it's been disappointingly slow for everyone. there was the prediction and hope that by the end of the year there would be 20 million doses into people and it's only been 9. by now, it was only three at the end of the year. so, yes. slow but increasing in speed. but at the same time, mika, so is the surge in the number of new cases. the number of hospitalizations and the number of deaths. so this is a race with vaccine going into arms as the as their coronavirus problem mounts exponentially every single day. >> dr. kates, the thrill of the approval

kate. i've reached out to several white house officials and have not heard back. i would expect when i do, i will hear something to what jensaki said at his briefing yesterday which is this is a decision for the senate to take and that the senate could do other business at the same time as it is doing the impeachment trial. now, republicans who don't want to cast this vote, obviously would be difficult for them to cast a vote given the actions that occurred before that insurrection. but also the strength of support that president trump has among elements of the republican base. so they want to avoid it and say if we have this trial we can't do any nominations or legislation for the new president while that is going on. democrats want to have it quickly and want the trial to be over quickly. and they're negotiating on all of those things and negotiating on the organization of the senate under the new democratic majority. so all of this is a bit contingent, but the white house obviously has an interest in getting nominees through and has a strong interest in moving the covid relief package forward that got a meeting with the