and tamara keith of npr. >> nawaz: and welcome to you both.s talk about the fresh challenges. >> tamara: well, last week there was a bit of celebration, there was a bipartisan bill, mr. president, walked ou with a group of senators, and it gave way to republican anger after president biden said he would only sign it if it was paired with a larger reconciliation bill. he walked that back. and he said this: "i gave my word to support the infrastructure plan, and that's what i intend to do. i fully stand behind it without reservation or hesitation." there is more. here is senator romney on sunday. take a listen. >> i am totally confident that the president will sign it if it comes to his desk. the real challenge is whether the democrats can get their act together and get it on his desk. and i think the battle that is going on is not with republicans. >> nawaz: tam, what is going on? is the infrastructure bill still on track? >> tamara: the only reason senator romney was able to go on a sunday levision show saying he thinks things are on track is

that's amy walter of the cook political report and tamara keith of npr. welcome to you both.lk about those fresh challenges now. last week there was celebration. there was a bipartisan bill. you saw president biden walk out with a group of senators. an infrastructure bill moving forward quickly gave way to republican anger after president biden said he would only sign that infrastructure bill if it was paired with a larger reconciliation package. i want to show you one thing. saturday president biden walked that back, said, the bottom line is this, i gave my word to support the infrastructure plan. and that's what i intend to do. i fully stand behind it without reservation or hesitation. here is senator romney on monday. >> i am totally confident the president will sign it if it comes to his desk the real challenge is whether the democrats can get their act together and get it on his desk. i think the battle that's going on is not with republicans. amna: what is going on, is the infrastructure bill still on track? tamara: the only reason senator romney was able to go on a sun

first question, will go to tamara keith at npr. >> thank you very much. the question i have is about boosters. i know you've been asked about this many times before, but the question is whether you have planned to buy vaccines to be used as boosters or whether you already have enough purchased. and what specifically is the plan to determine if boosters will be needed? how much of this is relying on the pharmaceutical companies and how much of it is, you know, cdc process? or how was i going to work? >> why do we first go to your question on the plan for the whether we need and when we would need boosters, if we do need them. dr. fauci? >> jeff here well, whether or not one needs it is going to depend on two things. it's going to depend on the durability of the protection. and it want to emphasize, by durability i don't mean that the vaccines now are not effective. we are talking about though lens of the protection which we know is very high right now. that can be determined either by looking at the correlates of immunity in making sure that an individual,

tamara keith is away. it is so good to see both of you.up where we left off with lisa on this big voting rights piece of legislation. amy, to you first. with joe manchin weighing in now and saying he's not going to go for something that doesn't have republican buy-in, where does that leave voting rights? >> the other thing that senator manchin said in that op-ed and he has said publicly is he supports voting rights legislation that's more narrowly tailored. there's one of those in coress right now that he supportsthe john lewis voting rights act. and he says this does have some bipartisan support. it has one bipartisan cosponsor. that's lisa murkowski, senator from alaska. you know as well as anybody that does not get you 60 votes. you need 10, not just one other republican, to get something past the finish line. the discussion right now is about the filibuster. would joe manchin support ousting the filibuster to pass something like a more tailored voting rights bill? the answer he seems to give every five minutes is no. he's not intereste

here to analyze that and more are tamara keith of npr. and lisa lerer of "the new york times."nk you. tam, i'm going to start with you. how different are these trips than the ones we saw president trump met, and if seen as a success, could this translate into something? tamara: so i was on former president trump's international trip, when he went to nato, and there was this big question, will he or will he not reaffirmed the u.s. commitment with the treaty, and he never said the words, and that was just one encapsulation of the drama that swirled around every trip he made to an international summit. it was very different with biden. his first words almost when he got to nato was to say, "we are totally solid. the u.s. is all in on article 5. " in terms of whether this will translate domestically, foreign trips, international relations are part of a critical part of the presidency. it is one of the most powerful parts of the american presidency, and yet, it does not necessarily get a lot of benefit back home. one sort of funny thing is that "build back better" is his infrastruct

tamara keith, lisa lerer, thank you both, we appreciate it. >> you are welcome. >> woodruff: quiara alegrialitzer prize- winning playwright who's also known for her collaboration wi lin-manuel miranda on the tony award-winning musical "in the heights," just released in a film version. now hudes has written a deeply personal memoir called “my broken language” about navigating life as the daughter of a puerto rican mother and jewish father in west philadelphia. now, she gives her brief but for us she has this brief but spectacular take on unearthing family stories it is part of our arts and culture series canvas. >> i have said that the story of my family is the american story. there are so many americas and in the united states there are so many americas. and i t to read about some of them growing up. some of those books were assigned to me in high school. but my job as i became a yeung woman and a young artist was to learn about more of this nation, including my own history which i had never read, was never assigned to me. >> when i decided to really start writing, i wanted to interview my