. >> that was principle deputy press secretary karine jean-pierre last month, holding her first officialriefing. it was an historic moment. karine jean-pierre became only the second black woman to hold a white house press briefing and the first out gay one. she was named to president biden's all-female communications team last year alongside another queer woman of color, peely tobar, white house communications director. >> karine jean-pierre, peely tobar, thank you very much for coming on this special and for allowing us to be here. >> well, thank you so much for coming. it's good to see you. it's always good to see you. >> it's wonderful to be here with you. and peely, i'll start with you, and just ask the simple question. for you, coming through those gates every morning, what's it like for you? >> i think, first of all, it never gets old, right? also, the weight of all of the people that you're carrying on your shoulders is pretty clear on a day-to-day basis. but, you know, there's so much work to do that at times it's just a rush, rush to get in, because there's not a minute to spare

joining us now, karine jean-pierre.ut the vote which failed yesterday, but there are thoughts and hopes that things will pick up again for early next week. so you tell us. what does the white house think about what happened yesterday and how hopeful do you remain that this bipartisan deal can get done? >> hey, johnathan, so happy to be with you this morning. it is definitely way too early, but happy to be here. way too early. but, look, jon. we were encouraged yesterday by senator mitt romney's letter that included 21 senators of both sides of the aisle stating essentially that they're making progress, they've been working closely together as we've seen the last several weeks on trying to resolve some of the issues. so they feel very confident that they will have something to share, to move this process along. what we saw yesterday from senator schumer, which we wholeheartedly supported, was a process to move this forward, right, which is a process to get that vehicle going, get that motion going and making that commitm

when peter doocy asked the white house deputy press secretary karine jean-pierre about lockdowns, she didn't rule them out. charles? >> griff, thanks very much. let's bring in our panel, ari fleischer, dr. mac siegel, shannon bream anchor of "fox news at night" and andy mccarthy, fox news contributor. dr. siegel, i have to go to you first. what do you make of the new steps? >> well, i think that the goal is to get more people to take the vaccine. but it seeming more like the stick than the carrot. there's not enough flexibility to the idea that, you know, maybe people that got over covid have anti-bodies. maybe after one shot somebody had a side effect. maybe somebody is afraid of vaccines and needs to be talked to. so the mandate aspect of it is -- i don't think legally there's a problem with the emergency use authorization. people feel like there's a problem. so there's that issue. i definitely think federal employees should be vaccinated before the president starts ordering the rest of the country what to do. but i think the thing that they've done wrong from the beginning and they

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. >> martha: that was karine jean-pierre, not jen psaki. the administration is saying we're just trying to save lives. you pointed out many times that masks are very, you know, ineffective unless you have an n-95 mask which are ineffective. this concept of pitting people against each other, the vaccinated against the nonvaccinated, your thoughts on that. >> well, you know, i was just looking at that today in terms of risk. i have to tell you this taking of moral high ground all the time doesn't work. we're calling people dumb or saying people don't understand or its misinformation that doesn't work. you have to ask people why they're reluctant. what is the concern they have. we went over some of it already. maybe they had a reaction to a previous vaccine or a bad reaction to this vaccine. maybe they're not seeing the figures the way you're seeing them. you can't be a school principal all the time. jen psaki comes that way too often. again, masks are certainly useful if you haven't been vaccinated. if you have been vaccinated, they're of lim

today, deputy white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said that leaves president biden no choicee supreme court's ruling >> in light of the supreme court's ruling, the president is going to work with congress to make that happen. and if that's something they're working on, well, we'll probably hopefully be working closely with them on that. >> woodruff: a u.s. census bureau survey has found that 3.6 million people could face eviction in the next two months. in northeastern afghanistan, the taliban says flash floods killed 150 people overnight in a mountainous region. it is the latest such disaster this summer. just nine days ago, extreme flooding hit central china. today, officials raised the death toll there to 99. the area got a year's worth of rain in three days. a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of alaska last night. the quake hit 56 miles offshore, with a magnitude of 8.2. but it caused only minor damage. sirens wailed as people evacuated the coastline, heading for higher ground. tsunami warnings went out, but were canceled later. the u.s. congress gave final approv