right white house press secretary jen psaki admitting to the c.n.n. podcast the x. files that she tells president biden not to take questions from the media by any measure that is you know who's a president of the united states being advised not to stray off script and not to answer nonce cryptic questions from the press but it wasn't news not even at c.n.n. with a podcast originated and why wouldn't psaki want biden to go off script oh i don't know let's take this example from biden's recent amtrak press event there was an article my guess my 4th or 5th year as president vice president said biden travels 1001300000 miles an air force one and i used to see the secret service didn't like a place to like to take the train home my mom was sick and i could try to come home most every weekend is vice president to see or are you following this here's more on the train and angelo negri came up to go to joey baby and he grabbed my cheek sort of squeeze it like you know you did and i thought this is going to be a shot and i'm serious and i said no no he's a friend he said jo

right white house press secretary jen psaki admitting to the c.n.n. podcast the x. files that she tells president biden not to take questions from the media by any measure that is you knew it was a president of the united states being advised not to stray off script and not to answer nonce cryptic questions from the press but it wasn't news not even at c.n.n. with a podcast originated and why wouldn't psaki want biden to go off script oh i don't know let's take this example from biden's recent amtrak press event there was an article my guess my 4th or 5th year as president vice president said biden travels 1001300000 miles on air force one and i used to see the secret service and wanted to place them like to take the train home my mom was sick and i can try to come home almost every weekend is vice president to see or are you following this here's more on the train and angelo negri came up to go to joey baby and he grabbed my cheek sort of squeezing like you know you did and i thought there was going to be a shot and. i'm serious and i said no no he's a friend he sa

right white house press secretary jens psaki admitting to the c.n.n. podcast the x. files that she tells president biden not to take questions from the media by any measure that is you knew it was a president of the united states being advised not to stray off script and not to answer non scripted questions from the press but it wasn't news not even at c.n.n. where the podcast originated and why wouldn't psaki want biden to go off script oh i don't know let's take this example from biden's recent amtrak press event there was an article my guess my 4th or 5th year as president vice president said biden travels 1001300000 miles an air force one and i used to see the secret service and wanted to place them like to take the train home my mom was sick and i could try to come home almost every weekend is vice president to see or are you following this here's more now on the train and angelo negri came up to go to joey baby and he grabbed my cheek sort of squeeze it like you know you and i thought he was going to get shot and. i'm serious and i said no no he's a friend he s

right white house press secretary jens psaki admitting to the c.n.n. pod cast the x. files that she tells president biden not to take questions from the media by any measure that is huge news a president of the united states being advised not to stray off script and not to answer not scripted questions from the press but it wasn't news not even at c.n.n. with a podcast originated and why wouldn't psaki want biden to go off script oh i don't know let's take this example from biden's recent amtrak press event there was an article my guess my 4th or 5th year as president vice president said biden travels 1001300000 miles an air force one and i used to see the secret service and wanted to place them like to take the train home my mom was sick and i can try to come home almost every weekend is vice president to see here are you following this here's more on the train and angelo negri came up to go to joey baby and he grabbed my cheek sort of squeeze it like you always did and i thought this is going to be a shot and i think i'm serious and i said no no he's a friend he sai

right. >> white house defendant the summit between president biden and frederick.wo nations. >> president biden and vladimir putin says to meet in geneva on june 16th as the biden administration seeks to stabilize relations with moscow. the white house saying a range of issues will be discussed from iran and north korea's nuclear capability storms control, climate change, covid 19 and more. the two leaders coming face to face after biden, russian president to, quote, killer. been sass questioning why they are rewarding with a summit and calling biden too week for agreeing to meet. jen psaki defending the move as good diplomacy. listen to this. >> without regard the meeting as a reward. and raise concerns where we have them, it is a stable and predictable relationship by the russian government. jillian: the meeting is set to take place two days after president biden participates in the nato summit. a source familiar telling fox news biden will speak with allies, with regards to russia before speaking to it. after the meeting they expect the us and moscow to continue

right? white house says don't worry.see sticker shock from gas, inflation, consumer prices. what do you say you just heard, the inflation part of it too? >> eggs are up 16%. dairy is up 15%. lumber is up 50%. when you spend five trillion dollars under the auspice of covid relief and spend two million dollars as congressman mace said on, we're debasing our currency. the consequence is you get inflation. when you get a economy in the world you devalue your currency, you don't get economic growth and wealth, you destroy our economy. that is what the biden administration is doing right now. my concern, family raises don't rise if you have hyperinflation, don't rise at the level of inflation. households have less income they have now with a more stable economy t does shock families. elizabeth: we've already seen hyperinflation in the cost of college tuition. inflation in the cost of health care. now at the levels you're talking about too, commodities, soybeans, corn, lumber, diapers. you see the explosion of government cash i

right. the white house says that in a phone call with prime minister netanyahu. president biden expressed his support for a cease-fire. but more than a day later, the fighting is still raging on. and so now some democrats on capitol hill say president biden should demand that cease-fire. but republicans say he should instead show more support for israel. the white house and secretary of state antony blinken say president biden is working to de escalate. the conflict between israel and gaza. >> our goal to bring the current cycle of violence to an end as quickly as possible. and then bring the parties back to the work of building lasting stability. >> rockets launched from gaza have killed 12 people in israel, including at least one child while israeli airstrikes have killed 215 palestinians, including 61 children. more than 25 democratic senators are calling for an immediate cease-fire and now some house democrats are questioning whether a previously approved arms sale to israel should move forward the chairman of the foreign affairs committee. >> he's indicated

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right. the white house is eagerly watching friday's jobs report hoping the nation added more jobs in april ataster pace than we've seen in nearly a year part of the reason for the optimism from the white house is the nation's covid-19 vaccination program with more than 105 million people now fully vaccinated, the administration is trying to get that number up around 70% getting at least one shot and the president announced that pharmacies will soon allow walk-in vaccinations without an appointment changing up distribution, too, sending more vaccines to states that need it. it comes as the administration gears up for a fight with republicans over its infrastructure bill. republicans countering the president's $2.3 trillion plan with a much smaller $600 billion bill focused on just things like roads, bridges and railroads >> summing it up, we're happy to take a look at an infrastructure package that's what basically both sides agree is infrastructure and we're not willing to pay for it by undoing the 2017 tax bill. >> it is about what we must and can do to pursue innovation for the sake of maki

white house. this is incredibly alarming, right by the white house. what more do we know about these cases? members of the national security council were affected right by the entrance to the white house facility. one of them was walking from their car and going through an unmanned gate and entering the white house the day of the election this person was sort of struck by these strange symptoms. another was a few weeks later near the white house grounds. >> do the officials have any idea what is making people sick? >> the short answer to that is no. the cia director is getting briefed quite literally every day. while there's some talk it might be russia, it might be china, because they don't have a good sense of what the technology being used here is, they're not sure whether they can definitively call this an attack. there's some thought it may be an adversary trying to collect data out of cellphones and they have the juice turned up too high. it's truly a mystery. >> would thain involve some sort of line of sight to the victims of these attacks? >> so one of the difficult things about this

trading the proposals back and forth, including this morning, to show what is a priority of the white house rightow. sheri: white house reporter justin sink with the latest on the white house budget. inflation is contained, but jp morgan's jamie dimon warns that the economy will overheat in 2022. >> we are heating up. we are not boiling yet, but we are putting more fuel in the fire in my view is that we will get to the boiling point. i don't know that for a fact, but i just think that with 6 trillion dollar stimulus, all the quantitative easing, recovery, the balance sheets which are raring to go, there is a. david: good chance to see overheating sometime in 2022. sheri: he was sharp on criticism of the biden tax plans as he and other ceos were grilled by house financial services committee lawmakers. we have someone in new york with the details. jenny, good to have you in the studio. what was different from yesterday? jenny: it was much bigger committee today and they had lots of different interests, but there were some common themes. overdraft was the common enemy. these banks were pushed on how

secretary of state tony blinken is on his way to the middle east right now. white houseng saying he will travel to israel and the west bank and egypt and jordan. it comes as the fragile cease-fire is holding for a fourth day. the state department says blinken will meet with israeli and palestinian leaders to discuss the causes of the crisis and the process of rebuilding. erin mclaughlin joins me live from tel aviv. what does the trip mean for the region? what are we doing at this point to try to rebuild gaza as well? >> reporter: well, at this point, maintaining the cease-fire is seen as hugely important for the region. according to a senior state department official ahead of blinken's visit, saying that that will be a primary focus of his tour here, solidifying that cease-fire as well as providing aid for gaza. in that briefing, the senior state department official was asked about the possibility that aid could end up in the hands of hamas, re-weaponizing hamas. he says the united states would work with the palestinian authority as well as the united nations to make sur

right now, jim. and what you're seeing is the white house is hoping americans will swipe right on vaccinations, and they'reof the most widely used dating sites in this country. the white house is partnering with sites like okcupid, match, hinge, bumble, tinder. many dating apps they're working with to try to encourage people to get those vaccinations. in these apps you can actually have badges that show you've been vaccinated. you can set filters so you're matched or connected with people who have vaccinations, and they're also trying to offer some premium content like super likes and super swipes to try to encourage more people to get vaccinated and share with others they've been vaccinated as well. in these sites you can also register for those vaccine appointments as well. and this is something that the white house is clearly having a little bit of fun with. take a listen to the covid briefing yesterday where they talked about this initiative. >> people who display their vaccination status are 14% more likely to get a match. we have finally found the one thing that makes us all more attractive, a vaccin

right. the white house was under a lot of pressure, specifically president joe biden. and pressure that many say he brought upon himself because so many people were saying, even people within his own party were saying that he was very slow to react to this over the past 11 days. and it was pretty clear that the white house started to realize early this week as the images of the suffering of the people and god. so we're, we're being played over the television here in the united states, over and over again. and getting pressure from people within his own party that he needed to continue to pressure in turn, prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he wanted to de escalate the situation because he knew that the sustained conflict was untenable. and what you heard, basically from biden was a couple things here, said that he spoke to benjamin netanyahu. this had been the 6th time since the conflict began, and he did not give any details about what the fire will look like. other than to say it was going to be mutual and unconditional as we heard. but he also showed support for isr

and other countries had opposed anyway but of intellectual property rights the white house press secretary explaining the change in position clearly is these decisions are weighed we take intellectual property incredibly seriously and we also though are in the midst of a historic global pandemic which requires a range of creative solutions and we're looking at it through that prism while the pharmaceutical industry had argued strongly against the waiver there were many in president biden's own party who insisted that he uphold his campaign promise blocking access to vaccines as any humanitarian any diplomatic and it weakens their credentials for the girls on the global stage and while the biden administration continues to step up efforts to vaccinate as many americans as possible the potential impact of that decision on the global stage cannot be understated i think it's an incredible moment in american history the president biden has essentially said to the world is this is a moment for the global community to come together to form a global response to this pandemic it is unprecedented it

right? this white house. this race against the variant as they've been putting it, excited that we have been getting closer and closer to that bright light at the end of the tunnel, as it's been put multiple times by members of the administration. that's something they are constantly focused. on how can we make sure that's happening? not just about america, there is this global vaccination effort we as a country are going to have to engage in, and possibly lean on. that's also what we've seen. you didn't really see a lot of people talking about it indefinitely got really bad. the administration promised to send vaccines. send a 95 masks, oxygen, things like that over there. those are the kinds of things people in that country and others are going to need as the variants start popping up. frankly, a lot of people around the country and planted in this country have let their guard down. we have been dealing with this for more than a year and it's longer in other places around the world and i think that part of

both sides to cease the violence let's go live down to our white house correspondent kelly how kids what's the administration saying about this right now. it's clear that the white house has been working very hard in the last 24 hours doing an enormous amount of our reach to both israeli as palestinian officials at a number of different levels within those organizational structures in order to convey one singular message and that is de escalation and what we know now from the secretary of state anthony blinken is that if you order to try and achieve that because it appears that those public as well as private statements to nudge israel to deescalate specifically have not been effective as a result the secretary of state announcing that the deputy assistant secretary of state for israel and palestine affairs is headed or will be heading very shortly to the region to meet with israeli as well as well as palestinian leaders in order to try and achieve containment of the violence to get it to stop and now we also know al-jazeera has spoken to a senior administration official about whether or not within these phone calls and communicati

families still remain separated tonight and immigrant advocates say the white house needs to move faster to reunite them. lester >> all right geoff bennett at the white house, thanks. >>> with the u.s. withdrawal in afghanistan officially under way, there are fears that the departure of american troops could prove especially dangerous for the country's women and girls. richard engel is in afghanistan tonight. >> reporter: the ade school is part of the new afghanistan. boys and girls learning together. for 20 years the american security umbrella has allowed education here to flourish but as u.s. troops leave, the taliban could return with all its repression the islamic fanatics didn't allow girls to go to school and despised girls with ambition like nejla. the 17-year-old wants to be a gynecologist and treat women and girls for free what do you think american troops leaving will mean for you? >> taliban are people that don't understand about the future they just know about islam. i am muslim. islam doesn't say don't go to school they don't give any value to the girls i'm just worried about that >> reporter: the taliban force

statements its belief that israel has a legitimate right to self-defense and has condemned the rocket attacks by hamas so 2 on thursday at the white house press briefing i asked the press secretary whether the biden biggest ration also believes the palestinians have that same right to self-defense here's what she had to say. in the state. policies also have a right to sell and for their attacks not coming from hamas to consider hamas the palestinian leadership let me rephrase the question you forgive me in the statement damn right it does the white house does it by ministration them down to it being. palestinians from the home but he is looking to that in our readouts and certainly our national security advisor has raised and we have raised many levels the importance of. addressing the building in these in these communities and the fact that you know in order to move forward and move toward deescalation that's an important issue to address that has been that has come up i think we've got to move on and let you wrap it's clear that democrats in washington have coordinated their message the top democrat in the house of representatives nan

right? the white house covid advisor andy slavitt saying vaccinated adults don't need to wear masks outside.l word on that, ford, right, mixed messaging? >> it is the mixed messaging it creates greater fear. it means fewer and fewer people are going to get vaccinated. you need to reward people for getting vaccinated. if you say they need a max we'll not get vaccinated to a 60, 70% clip like we hope to. elizabeth: she is saying vaccinated people are not spreading covid. that is what andy slavitt said. final word, take it. >> all right. i gotten vaccinated. i hope every else does it as well. elizabeth: got it, ford. coming up janice dean with her reaction to powerful senate republicans demanding that the senate finance committee investigate new york governor andrew cuomo over his coverup of nursing home deaths tied to cuomo's order putting covid patients back into senior facilities. janice dean next. this past year has felt like a long, long norwegian winter. but eventually, with spring comes rebirth. everything begins anew. and many of us realize a fundamental human need to connect with other

about 60% of the adult population has received one covid-19 vaccination right now the white house wantsden administration is coming up with all kinds of incentives they have turning to dating apps from match to bumble with badges to disclose vaccination status >> i think this is genius. this suggests there are young people in the biden administration who understand the key driver of this particular demographic which is fomo fear of missing out on hooking up with someone after maybe a year and change inside is an absolutely genius move to get vaccinated >> morgan. >> what does that mean in. >> it's great. you're vaccinated against one disease. what other diseases are there when talking about dating? that's all i'm going to say about that this gets at a bigger issue, a bigger debate that's going on and the rate of vaccinations are slowing. you can genuinely start to have the debate about whether we're going to hit, as the federal government defines it, herd immunity and what that looks like you have governors that are getting creative we talked to ned from connecticut. governor justice of

washington our white house correspondent kelly how good is that the white house white house press secretary has been speaking with in the last few hours what she had to say about all of this. that's right the white house press briefing delayed a couple of times and now we know why we know that they were monitoring the situation in and around jerusalem and in israel what the white house press secretary said this is just moments before she came out to. brief reporters that the president was receiving an update on the situation from his national security advisor engagement in terms of monitoring the situation that has been going on for many days the press secretary saying that it is the position of joe biden that israel has a right to defend itself and the united states condemning the ongoing rocket attacks by hamas and other groups but at the same time is the belief of this administration she says that jerusalem should be a place of coexistence and she said that the united states is urging israel to work towards restoring calm but the primary focus of the united states is diplomacy dialogue and ask aleisha having said that something that we did hear that was a little different from what

joining me now white house correspondent with reuters and a good friend to us. good to see you. the white house has reiterated israel's right groups. that building just folded. what can the white house do under these circumstances? >> well, i think lauren said it well. it's certainly a big foreign policy challenge for president biden. and he's facing pressures from within his own party about how to deal with israel. he was critical of president trump's policies towards israel when he was a candidate, when biden was a candidate. and now of course he's president and it's his job to set u.s. policy. you mentioned that he said israel has the right to defend itself. that is a long-term u.s. position and it's essential the position of the biden white house. but in terms of what he can do going forward, i think you are going to see and already have seen more pressure as well from this president on prime minister netanyahu and how he deals and how israel deals with the palestinians. >> but timingwise, what's your sense covering the white house? did they expect to have to deal with this just as our country is emerging from the pande

at the same time this is not the priority that this administration wants to be working on right now a white house correspondent kimberly how could live in washington kimberly many thanks to the palestinian authority is set to meet in the coming hours to discuss the escalating violence soldiers there is need to abraham reports now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. one. the palestinian leadership is focusing on is. trying to reach out to the international community heard from several palestinian officials who say that the international community's response has been. as they hope for we've also heard from the palestinian prime minister. who says that this is an explosion because the reason for it is that israeli crimes as far as. palestinian president has been holding calls with different leaders of the world including jordan. as well as that off the president's. use of joseph. for. a quick break get a weather forecast on al-jazeera we'll be back with more coverage of developments out of the biggest escalation of violence since the 2014 war. it's time for the gin in the winter storm supply qa

to israel to protect itself that has a legitimate right to self-defense they condemn the hamas rocket attacks so i asked the white house press secretary in the press briefing today whether or not the by the administration believes that palestinians also have the same right to self-defense given the a vixens they have been facing in occupied east jerusalem here's what she had to say. in the state. policies also have a right to some or the attacks not coming from hamas to consider hamas the palestinian leadership let me rephrase the question you've repeatedly in the statement damn right it. does the white house does the buy the ministration sit down to give the. palestinians. in unison can 2 that in our reading. it's significant. and let's go straight live now to us said to secretary of state anthony blinking in there with his australian counterpart speaking at the white house being asked about the crisis in israel and gaza let's listen in. in vienna because of that finally according to diplomats the u.s. stopped the security council meeting due to morrow on the middle east why does the united states not see this as usef

horrific campaign against palestinians but the white house is denying this the white house press secretary joe psaki had this to say. israel has the right to self defense our focus remains on continuing to use every lever at our disposal to deescalate the situation on the ground i think it's also important to remind people hamas is a terrorist organization hamas does not represent the views the families the people who are suffering all of the palestinian people who are suffering as a result of this violence but there is no justification for 1500 rockets coming from hamas. but many members of the democratic party including walking castro a representative are saying is that this is a question out of proportion or disproportion in this case and that the united states is exacerbating a cycle of violence and that it needs to stand up for the values of human rights that it claims to cherish now the white house says that it nothing has changed in terms of its foreign policies with respect to that and that's where they have said this lower level envoy to the region and in addition continue to make phone calls to many of their partners and allie

brand new developments right now as the white house admits that it's dealing with a cluster of crises. that is just one of them. the middle east is on fire and on the verge of a war. then a southern border situation. now seeing escalation of migrants getting in despite the administration claims. >> the border is closed. we are expelling single adults and families. we will not expel unaccompanied children. >> martha: more in a moment. a russian cyber attack and now more than 1,000 u.s. gas stations have no fuel at all in that region of the country. leaving drivers on edge. watch this. >> it's a little nerve racking. >> it's crazy. >> this is my third gas station. we finally found one. >> martha: a stunning new economic report shows that throwing trillions at the covid economy while it was starting to reopen is starting to drive prices higher at a rate not seen in over a decade. lots of warnings that this would happen. pretty much everything you buy is seeing rising prices. david asman and brian kilmeade are here on the couch with me, which is an interesting experience. looking forward

right. thank you very much. at the white house, i think i misspoke.n clearly see. anyway, i want to go to congressman roh canning that to get his view on the origins of the virus. it doesn't look either way, congressman, like the chinese are going to cooperate. so is all this a moot point? >> neil, it's very concerning. we need transparency, and there are a lot of unanswered questions of where it originated and if it did originate in the lab, why did that happen? was it an accident, or was there any intentionality to developing a biological weapon. so there are a lot of unanswered questions. i absolutely support a full investigation. neil: you know, up until this week, congressman, the president had sort of put his faith in the world health organization to continue to try to investigate this, but he has skewed that, instead going to a -- to explore. is it a sign that he lacks faith in the w.h.o.? do you? i have have the most trust in our intelligence. they're the best in the world, and i think the president is right to ask them to do an investigation.

so that's where we are right now with the white house. >> all right, shannon petsypiece and damon palota less than two hour away from a cdc advisory meeting where they are expected to formally approve the pfizer covid vaccine for kids ages 5 to 15. joining me is dr. paul offit and i want to go first to allison barber in georgia where the state is allowing anyone 12 or older to get it. allison, why are they doing that? >> georgia's actually one of three states already allowing 12 to 15-year-olds to get vaccinated with the pfizer covid vaccine if they want to. the other two are arkansas and delaware. so some health care systems within the state are planning to do that until the cdc advisory board will issue additional guidance, but the georgia department of public health said they made the decision after the fda's emergency authorization on monday that they would go ahead and let those 12 to 15-year-olds get vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine at a dph-run or associated vaccination site like this one as long as they had a proper consent form from a parent or legal guardian. they were worrie

to support human rights violations but white house press secretary james psaki insists they're working hard behind the scenes. what our role is is to play the most be as constructive as possible in deescalating the violence bringing an end to the conflict we've done again more than 60 calls over the past week with a range of partners in the region so our objective here our role is not to do political analysis or or or provide motivation for any actions but to take steps we can take as a leader in the world as a as a country with deep relationships in the region to discourage the escalate the violence on the ground let's get more from 0 to 0 as john hendren who joins us now live from washington president by the spoken to israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the past few hours what we know of what was said in that phone call. well president biden has responded to a number of his democratic party critics by doing exactly what they wanted him to do and that is to call out for a cease fire in a readout written by the white house press office after the meeting with netanyahu over th

you're doing it right at the white house's backward. ocation was specifically chosen to send a message. >> right. it's a frightening detection but at the same time it's like thank goodness it was detected, right? >> absolutely. again, how are we going to deal with this? how are we going to investigate it? there are a lot more questions than answers right now but we've got to get to the bottom of this because it's happening on u.s. soil now. >> jonathan, thank you very much. always good to see you. >> thanks, fred. have a great day. >>> still ahead -- a new chapter in the matt gaetz scandal. a former associate of the congressman pleading guilty to sex trafficking charges. we'll have the details next. buy a car-- get this-- from their couch. oh, how disruptive. no salesman there to help me pick out the car i need. how does anyone find a car on this site without someone like us checking in? she's a beauty, huh? oh, golly! (laughter) i can help you find the color you want. that sounds nice. let me talk to my manager. (vo) buy your next car 1

he was basically implying that the white house is not going to do the right thing. protect the country. so california needs to take the lead. that was the moment she learned that the white house was listening in on calls, and also the moment when she realized just how lost and desperate the people at the top were, end quote. joining me now is the aforementioned author, michael lewis. thank you for being with us and congratulations on your new book. i have to say, i always wonder to myself what could this have been like. we have almost 600,000 people dead in the united states. what if we did this right from the beginning. there's one line from your book that stands out. none of the people who had been involved in the last 15 years of thinking about pandemics were in the conversation. they were deep state. meaning trump and the administration thought of them as deep state so they didn't do the obvious thing and bring the right people into the conversation from the beginning. >> that's true. and it's stranger than that because in the very beginning of the trump administ

right now. this certainly seems to be a -- results seem to be triggering controversy in economist circles and among the white houseas been really stressful for working parent this is past year. as a father of a five-year-old, it's been stressful for me, too. because i've kept my job and taken care of my children. second of all, i think expanded preschool and child care are really important i agree with the white house on that but if you're trying to explain right now why we're 10 million jobs short of where we should be, child care and parenting aren't playing a role for the simple reason that there hapt been a large difference in employment declines for parents and people that aren't parents >> what is playing a role based on your research >> i think the biggest thing is probably the pandemic itself and it takes time to find new jobs i think it's also most certainly the case that expanded unemployment insurance benefits which are going to a large number of people paying about what they were paying when they were working have slowed the process of reentry into the labor force. >> that's been some -- sparked some d

this is the ellipse just south of the white house, which you can see right there. the most secure places in the country. you have u.s. secret service, u.s. park police, d.c. metropolitan police and yet a white house staffer may have been targeted just steps from the white house. alex marquart, cnn, washington. >> thanks for that reporting. joining us now to discuss the investigation is cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd. a senior counter intelligence official and fbi intelligence advisor. these accounts are disturbing. the attacks first happened in havana back in 2016 i believe. now they've happened twice reportedly here on american soil near arguably one of the most secure places on earth. that's alarming. i'm curious from you how these attacks actually work, what kind of defenses might prevent them. >> i mean one of the problems you're looking at in terms of preventing them is we don't know who's doing them, why they're doing them and what exactly is happening there. as you heard in the report just a moment ago the national academy of sciences did not say th

and this is a big part of the biden white house thinking. rightthan chasing every news cycle, to be content with not always leading the news, but delivering on a few things that people see, care about, and frankly, that they can get credit for. >> so let's talk about something coming up next week on one of those fronts. the president had set a deadline of may 25th, the one-year anniversary of george floyd's death, as the time when he wanted a deal on police reform to have been passed. the negotiators on the hill are still working on this. they had sort of said to the president, you know what, we're good if you don't get involved here. what's the thinking in the white house right now about how president biden can best push or not on that set of negotiations and how optimistic are they that they're actually going to get an outcome on that? >> optimism on an outcome. and kasie, we're seeing a biden strategy here. that letting congress lead, letting congress be the face of it, while the white house is working behind the scenes. and kasie, axios has ne

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right. the white house is pushing to expand vaccinations for eligible children. will more parents now get shots for their kids if they can ditch the mask after? david lee miller is in new york city with the latest. david? >> charles, the new mask guidance from the cdc is yet another reason for children to be vaccinated. it's too soon to tell if hesitant parents are now going to change their mind and give their children a shot. all kids between the ages of 12 and 15 are now eligible for the covid-19 vaccine. wednesday, cdc advisory committee gave the green light for adolescent use of the pfizer vaccine days after the fda gave its approval. the shots are voluntary for the kids. the vaccine has only emergency use authorization. because of that, many legal experts say it's unlikely school districts or states will impose a mandate. that could change in the vaccine gets full federal approval. those on both sides of the issue cite concerns about their child's well-being. >> i have some safety concerns as a parent that i don't want this for my daughter and i don't want i

one of those special places is where i am right now, the white house. am standing at the north front door and here is fun fact, did you know that there is no backdoor to the white house? so whenever you walk in, whether it is from the north, south, east, or west doors, you are always walking in the front. we have a lot more fun facts in store for you during this discovery education virtual field trip. so that you and other students can go behind the scenes and learn more about our capital city, the city of us. ♪ what do you think about when you picture washington, d.c.? how about the president of the united states? >> congress and the supreme court? >> how about the monuments, famous americans? >> how about the fun things in the museums. >> cherry blossoms and fireworks on the fourth of july and a ceremony every thanksgiving when the president pardons a turkey. >> washington, d.c. is all of these things in a whole lot more. >> did you know that washington, d.c. is not the only capital we have had. new york city and philadelphia were also capitals before