tony fauci, our chief covid medical advisor. javier becerra, our nominee for secretary of health and human services, our nominee for surgeon general, dr. rochelle walenski and dr. marcella nunes smith. and jeff stein's and natalie quillen. yesterday during my inaugural address i offered a salient prayer and a silent prayer. it was both salient and silent. i thought it was important people understand what had happened, that we all pay tribute to our prayers for those 400,000 americans who have lost their lives in this pandemic. on tuesday jill and i, kamala and doug, we stood at the reflecting pool in front of the lincoln memorial and joined americans all across the country to remember those 400,000 mom and dads, husbands and wives, children, sons, daughters. and i said at that moment that to heal we must remember. to heal we must remember. it's important to do that as a nation. we must also act, not just remember. yet for the past year we couldn't rely on the federal government to act with the urgency and focus and coordination

and tony fauci should be telling us what the science is.their teachers. in fact, they get less infected than their parents. they are not a risk. and these teachers are the only, it is the only line of work where you can sit at home and not go to work and still get paid. it is pathological.ho that video you showed of those people prancing around,gi it's sociopathic, to be doing that when children are committing suicide because they can't go to school.s they are trapped. and we are just betraying their futures, throwing them away, and joe biden has this unique ability to connect with the teacher unions because he is the teacher union guy, he is the union guy, and he has the political capital at the moment because he's not donald trump. he just won the election. he could actually go to those unions who will listen to him because he does have that moral authority from his unionll background, and tell them that they should stop scaremongering, listen to the signs he tells us is so important, understand that they are not going to get sick from th

talk about tony fauci unleashed. >> yeah, absolutely, nicole. good to be with you. and it was certainly we saw a very different fauci commenting on how it's okay to say he doesn't know and taking some subtle or not so subtle jabs, but i think he really did have, i think, his best moment in that you could tell he was able to say anything he needed to, had not had to prerehearse that and candidly, let the reporters pummel him with what are really technically difficult questions to answer but only dr. fauci can do that. only him -- only he can explain cushion effect of, you know, immunity in vaccines so it was incredible. i think what was also noteworthy is jen psaki's tone about getting back to people, being pretty respectful in just a very different way, but also being clear about how hard this job is going to be ahead of them, and i think dr. fauci did the same. >> i want to play some of dr. fauci. i had the same thought, though, that you couldn't fathom dr. fauci under the previous administration being so technical and taking his time, detailing how difficult and h

. >> reporter: tony fauci is a firm believer in being his p.r.e you done an interview with the farmers almanac yet? [laughter] >> we need to get accurate information out. >> reporter: love him or hate him, tony fauci is a force to be reckoned with, coming up on "sunday morning." >> pauley: of course, we can all saddened by the passing of board of director larry king, who interviewed all sorts of folks. lee cowan looks back. >> larry king now. >> reporter: he had a broadcasting carrier that spanned 68 years. why don't you do more interviews? >> nobody invites me. >> do you ever own a jacket? >> i own a jacket, but i just like this look. >> reporter: he schmoozed presidents and even smooched marlon brando. we remember larry king later on "sunday morning." >> pauley: seth doane sends us a postcard from italy about fashion artisans hit hard by the drop in tourism. and ben tracy looks back at his 10 years as our cbs news white house correspondent. mark whitaker catches up with ma mark fetterman on this "sunday morning" the 24th of january 2021. and we

tony fauci. our chief medical advisor. our nominee for secretary health and human services.neral, dr. michelle rowinski, the director for the centers of disease control and prevention. and jeff and natalie who are managing the whole effort. yesterday during my inaugural address, i offered a prayer, a silent prayer, i thought it was important that people understood what happened. that we all pay tribute to our prayers for those 400,000 americans that lost their lives in this pandemic. on tuesday jill and i, kamala and doug stood near the reflecting pool to remember the 400,000 moms, dads, children, sons, daughters, that are gone. to heal we must remember. it is important to do that as a nation. we must also act. not just remember. yet for the past year we could not federal government to act with the urgency and focus and coordination we needed. and we have seen the tragic cost of that failure. 3,000 to 4,000 deaths per day. to date, more than 24 million americans, 24 million americans have been infected. to put that in context, america makes up 4% of the world's population. b

tony fauci, or chief covid medical adviser.ary of health and human services, or nominee for surgeon general. dr. rochelle walenski, and jeff zients, and natalie quillen, who are managing this whole effort yesterday, yesterday during mire inaugural address, i offered a salient prayer and silent prayer i wanted for people to understand what happened, our prayers for the 400,000 who have lost their lives on tuesday, jill and i, kamala and doug, stood at the reflecting pool and joined americans all across the country to remember those 400,000 moms and dads, husbands and wives, children, sons, daughters, and i want at that moment that to heal, we must remember to heal, we must remember. it's important to do that as a nation we must also act, though, not just remember. yet for the past year we couldn't rely on the federal government to with the urgency and focus and coordination we needed and we have seen the tragic cost of that failure. 3,000 to 4,000 deaths per day. to date, more than 24 million americans, 24 million americans have

. >> reporter: even 33 years ago, tony fauci had a wide national following.d to the best of my recollection, he not yet inspired any videos, t-shirts, coffee mugs or suggestions of impending saint-hood. >> oh, my goodness, my nones in lady of guadelupe in brooklyn would turn over in their grave >> reporter: then we have the other kind. if you can see it over there. >> i believe dr. are fafauci ha manufactured the corona virus. a tucertain part of the country believed the hoax aspect. the fake news ask pictpect the half was longing for facts and truth. for better or worse one ren or the other. i was a symbol that was unrealistic that was st. anthony. that was great, that was not reality. on the other hand, i have had people who threatened myakg pub health measures. >> reporter: we have got some video, tony, of you and your wife walking with a security detail. it came to that? >> yeah, yeah, it came to that. it triggered such animosity, i have to have armed federal agents with me like all the time. >> reporter: your children have been threatened. >> i have to t

i didn't even know what to do in that moment. >> brennan: sometimes people say tony fauci, when that him, he would gently come back up to the podium and set the record straight. >> doctor: well, he was given the opportunity to do that. >> brennan: and you don't feel that you were given the opportunity to -- >> doctor: not until he turned to me and said, could this be a treatment? and i said, not a treatment. and people want to define you at the moment. i understand how perceptions go. i understood that to go into the white house and try to support a comprehensive coronavirus response by utilizing the strength of the federal government would be a terminal event for my federal career. which is part of the reason why i didn't want to do it. >> brennan: a terminal event? >> doctor: a terminal event. i know i wouldn't be allowed to continue successfully within the federal government. you can't go into something that is that polarized and not believe that you won't be tainted by that experience, or how people interpret you in that experience. so i knew that part of it. i didn't want that t

today, chris, with all the pronouncements from president biden himself, vice-president harris, tony fauci, an assorted cast of characters, and ten new executives signed this morning in addition to those signed yesterday, the sum total of all of it is we're going to go from having had an epidemic that was run, if you want to say it even was in it an organized fashion, was run by the states with the federal government being hands off except to occasionally throw supplies their way. and for operation warp speed to make a vaccine get manufactured. now we're going to flip this whole equation so that the federal government's in charge, and the states will be given clear instructions, priorities will be set. other prevention parameters, everything related to try and slow this epidemic down will come from the federal level and filter down. the only shortcomings i saw in this more than 100-page strategic analysis that was released today by the president, there were just a couple of lapses. one, they don't say anywhere they will seek to actually standardize testing. under the trump administration,

tony fauci, our chief covid medical adviser, xavier becerra, our nominee for secretary of health ands, mr. vivek murthy, our nominee for surgeon general, and the dr. marcella nuÑez smith who will be leading our equity would, and covid response. and who are managing this whole effort. yesterday during my inaugural address, i offered a salient prayer and silent prayer. i thought it was important that people understand what had happened, that we all pay tribute for our prayers for those 400,000 americans who have lost their lives in this pandemic. on tuesday jill and i, kamala, and doug, we stood at the reflecting pool in front of the lincoln memorial and joined americans all across the country to remember those 400,000 moms and dads, husbands and wives, children, sons, daughters. and i said at that moment that to heal we must remember, to heal we must remember. it's important to do that as a nation. we must also act, though, not just remember. yet, for the past year, we couldn't rely on the federal government to act with the urgency and focus and coordination we needed. and we have see

that broker america's doctor tony fauci president biden's new chief covid medical adviser. he was able to survive in trumpdom without becoming a patsy, without having to echo lies to survive. we have him for the straight talk about what could not be said freely then. we go forward with three goals, transparency, responsibility, and accountability. those must be our guiding principles to get to a better place. together, you and i can make sure that the power of the people controls the people in power. we need to heal culturally but just as important have to get well physically. only when we can live our lives, fully function, work, school, home, then we can deal with everything else that ails us. and if the pandemic is handled with a sense of equity, urgency, accountability, a lot of other problems that we have will be addressed in that process. now, president biden's first full day in office comes a year to the day after the first covid case in america was identified. he sent a clear message. this rounding the corner bs stops now. >> things are going to continue to get wors

tony fauci he and the team and other experts put this team together. our national strategy is comprehensive. it is based on science, not politics. it is based on truth, not denial. and it is detailed. you can review this entire plan, this entire plan, by going to whitehouse.gov. it is so detailed, it is 198 pages. complete detail, what we are going to do. our plan starts with an aggressive, safe vaccination campaign to meet our goal of administering 100 million shots in our first 100 days in office. we are on day one. this will be one of the greatest operational challenges our nation has ever undertaken, and we are committed to getting it done. as i explained last week, we will move heaven and earth to get more people vaccinated for free. brent: a dramatic difference to what the world has been used to coming from the united states when it comes to fighting the pandemic. let's go to our washington correspondent who has been following this story for us. oliver, if you could, just walk us through what is in this plan, the highlights. we know the president

as tony fauci said this was always going to be the most difficult rollout in history even if it wasn't superimposed on a surge in the holiday season. i want people to understand that 4 million vaccinations reported being delivered by the end of the year when many of the people who were saying it was a failure were saying we wouldn't have any vaccinations by the end of this year is something we can build upon and commit to continuing to build upon that. i've been traveling and working w with the states and governors. if anyone has suggestions we are listening and the task force is working every single day to figure out how we can help the states $300 million delivered to the states and thank you, congress, for delivering on that. we want to make sure they have the resources, the commission corps which i helped lead with the admiral giroir is delivering. not polyannish. we are going to work to improve with the states and i commit to the american people that you've got 100% of my focus, my attention and the commission's corps focus and attention to make this happen. >> unfortunately, we d

. >> i know tony fauci very well and i think his words were well chosen. this is liberating.t is so heartening to hear that we are rejoining the community of nations are rejoining the world health organization. now we will lead with science. now there is a federal plan, not just a free-for-all at the state and local government with planning and coordination. so i feel like we are in a position now where the grown-ups are back in the room. we've got a strategy and we are going to follow it. it will be a long time, but i do believe we will get to the end. >> one of the things that biden has promised is 100 vaccination -- and 100 days. do you think that is overly optimistic or not ambitious enough? those who say it is too optimistic point to the fact there is a lack of manufacturing capacity, and there are huge logistical challenges that the u.s. has been going through. reporter: it's interesting, i just tweeted about this. my view is that it is not bold enough. i think we can do a lot better. just to give you an example, we already on some days, like yesterday for example, we v

and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor tony fauci, director of the institutergy and infectious diseases, and we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that, i just wanted to say to everybody, thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year, we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual

tony fauci was asked about the newer vaccine. >> even the numbers when you compare to mild to moderate, 72% versus 94 to 95, clearly 94 to 95 is better. but from a practical standpoint, what you want to do to keep people out of the hospitalle and prevent death, this is value added, not only in the united states but particularly in other countries. it's a singing dose. i doesn't have a cold chain. you can keep it in a refrigerator. it's relatively chief and the company can make billions of the doses. so it will have value. >> j and j is expected to ask the fda for that emergency use authorization as early as a week from now. if approved, doses could start rolling out in late february. that would be a big help. there are 160,000 new infections, 3600 deaths in our country today. overall, we are at 26 million total cases. we lost 437,000 souls. this afternoon, joe biden made his first trip as president over to walter reed medical center to meet with wounded service members. he toured the vaccine distribution center there. he was asked if democrats might go alone trying to pass a nearly $2

is somebody going to pull tony fauci aside, this big ego to media trollop who is on the hunt for anothermself? this hurts. this was a classless move. he got tweeted by the biggest hack at cnn. i hope that made him feel tingly on the inside. >> sandra: greg? >> greg: let's not forget, juan brought up the vaccine. the vaccine was on trump, not on foundry. trump was the one that got that rolling and got it out faster. that never would've happened if you relied on fauci. if there's lies, how many people have died because of cnn's lack of candor? anderson cooper initially compared -- not initially, but within the first month or so -- talked about how it was like the flu, or the flu kills more people. it was an ignorant comment. also, they didn't carry the briefings! talk about lack of candor. you can say "we are not showing the briefings, because trump uses it politically." it doesn't matter. it's news. you had experts there. cnn chose not to carry them. lack of candor. could that have killed people? factory, on technical terms, and i take this from a medical encyclopedia, is what you call a.

the pandemic consists of my transition team task force, tony fauci and the team here today put this plan together. it is so detailed. it's over, 198 pages. complete detail what we are going to do. we will make sure that science and, scientists and public health experts will speak directly to you. wear a mask, no vaccines. the fact is it's the single best thing we can do. more important than the vaccines. >> bear in mind this is with a teleprompter. he is just as unsteady on his feet and incapable of retaining basic facts as he ever was. this was a covid event so as you might expect masks came up. >> yesterday i signed an executive action requires masks and social distancing on federal property. >> only one problem, laura, he wasn't wearing a mask there and then the night before at the lincoln memorial, biden appeared confused on federal property without a mask. very sad. >> laura: it's okay, raymond. biden's press secretary had a fabulous explanation. >> why weren't president biden and all members of the biden family masked at all times on federal land last night? >> he was celebrating a

it's just as effective especially with these evolving variants, i will be happily in the camp of tony fauci who says there is no evidence it can do this. guy: dr. fauci has a bit of a problem which is the sequencing in the united states which is significantly behind were other parts of the world are, particularly in europe and the u.k. market. how big a problem is this for anthony fauci and quick -- and how quickly will he fix it? if he doesn't know what he is dealing with in terms of the way these variants are moving, doesn't he have a problem in figuring out how to treat it? >> not really, what you don't want to do is to create a whole bunch of people who have not strong immunity with just one dose of the vaccine. you want to give them the second booster to get really strong immunity. the immune react -- reaction of the two doses is strong enough that when you would have a sixfold reduction of the south african variant, the new still have antibody levels that are high enough. assuming the antibodies are what you need to protect you, then you don't want to start at a lower point. guy: my p

tony fauci said he doesn't think it's appropriate to eliminate the second dose or push it back at thisnd, again, in we double the number of doses but still not uptick it's not going to make a difference so have to deal with uptick and hesitancy in the quarters where that matters and increase avaluability in the places that will matter and we're working on that and see that happen today. we have a governor's call where we'll talk to the governors and always said tell us what you need and we will give it to you and when you actually question governors directly very few will tell you that they aren't getting what they need when they ask. many of them call me and i've responded immediately and pick up my phone 24 hours a day. >> i know you've spoken out about the hesitancy in the black community and minority community about taking the vaccine and now a survey shows a third of essential health care workers also have hesitancy about taking the vaccine so how do you plan to address this? what do people need to know again about this vaccine? >> gaeyle, hidden within what yu said is the fact th

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: tony fauci, who is a doctor and authoritative announced today that he is thrilled ourth organization. he owes them a deep debt of gratitude. >> i join my fellow representatives in thanking the world health organization for its role in leading the global public health response to this pandemic and as such, i am honored to announce that the united states will remain a member of the world health organization. yesterday, president biden signed the letters retracting the previous administration's announcement to withdraw from the organization. >> tucker: pretty amazing statement given all we know about the world health organization. thank you so much for coming on. just lay this out for us if you would crisply. the world health organization has led the fight against covid? is that true? >> it's absolutely not true. in fact, they actively fought against the world knowing what china was doing early on. they actually colluded with the chinese to claim that covid cannot be transmitted. then they claimed that they were doing a great job trying to contain the virus when in fact i

>> tony fauci has said this weekend he believes we could have an approved j.&j. vaccine within two weeks, that would be a huge boost and adding more vaccine to the pipeline. then the trick going forward is to stand up mass vaccination centers. mabrey on the national guard, bring on fema. every city should have a big place delivering thousands of vaccines -- of vaccinations per day. that's how we're going to do it. then getting vaccine out to the pharmacies around the country who have promised a very, very robust effort to vaccinate people. >> thanks to dr. jonathan reiner. >>> the former coordinator for donald trump's white house coronavirus task force, dr. deborah birx, says she always considered quitting the job because her colleagues believe she had become too political. in an interview with cbs news birx also said she had no idea where trump was getting some of his information from. >> i saw the president presenting graphs that i never made so i know that someone or someone out there or someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were

so does tony fauci, by the way. >> neil: you're right. i heard of that too.e in the tri-state area, new jersey, new york and connecticut. they have three different rules there. that creates a confusing policy. if it's a standard that anyone 65 and older can get this, anyone with let's say in a nursing home or a treatment center gets this. to we need to make it that ex-mive and that clear so there's no ifs, ands or buts? >> we have to make it very clear, neil. you know how the public is and how states are. everybody is doing their own thing, particularly in new york state where things haven't gone very smoothly. that is really important. it's important to do it right and do it with one rule. identifying the subgroups are very important. >> neil: do you get a sense, doctor -- i know the incoming cdc chief expected half a million deaths in the u.s. by february. at the rate we're going, they may not be far off. what has happened in the very end of this? is it more testing? it seems to be out of control when you hear those type of numbers. >> i think, neil, people

. >> sometimes people say, tony fauci, when that happened to him he would sort of gently come back upe podium and set the record straight. >> well, he was given the opportunity to do that. >> you don't feel you were given the opportunity to respond? >> not until he turned to me and said, could this be a treatment, and i said, not a treatment. >> yeah. that was it. that was the opportunity to respond, to tell people not to ingest or inject bleach. it was as glaring as a blinking neon sign and she missed it, and after that moment, she defended trump's musings on fox. >> he gets new information, he likes to talk that through out loud and really have that dialogue. so that's what dialogue he was having. i think he just saw the information at the time, immediately before the press conference, and he was still digesting that information. >> when asked by cnn's jake tapper he blamed the media for focusing on it essentially calling it old news. >> as a doctor, doesn't that bother you, you have to even spend any time discussing this? >> well, i think -- it bothers me this is still in the news,

president to be so, taking a stand against the big public health agencies the fda the cdc and with tony fauci write at the moment but -- >> guest: part of it is the presence is changed so dramatically in a 20 sentry particularly in the new deal imposed world war period so the rise of the modern presidency comes after the first age of epidemics and pandemics in american history. there is a wonderful quick in the field of public health that the 19th century was followed by the 20th century and followed by the 19th century again. so the return of infectious diseases and the reemergence of some and new ones has put 21st century president and a 19th century setting. that's a new phenomenon for us. >> host: what a great point john. they are really fighting at the moment and some vaccines get really good treatments. we are fighting with 19th century tools. where quarantining and contact tracing. we don't have a vaccine. we are locking down cities and i'm going to get to lockdowns later on but let me start now by drilling down a little bit into your wonderful book. you talk about the police powers an

that's i think the impression that tony fauci left when he talked about this. if you have to, he and everyone else wants us to do it the way the fda authorized it, which is you get either moderna or pfizer and you wait the prescribed amount of time. so three to four weeks depending upon which one you get. but he also knows this is a very unusual situation and this may be the one time that authorities say, you know, you don't have to go by what the fda says because this is such a difficult time. let's take a listen to what dr. fauci had to say on this. >> sometimes the situation is stressed where it's very difficult to be exactly on time. so we're saying you can probably do it six weeks later, namely, two additional weeks. quite frankly, immunologically, i don't think that's going to make a big difference. >> so again, try to do it the way the fda says, but if you can't, he's offering these options. if you have to. jim, poppy? >> yet one more challenge to vaccinations. vaccine hesitancy. these are people reluctant to or refuse to take the vaccine when offered. w

. >> just to your appointment, tony fauci looks ten years younger just being able to tell the truth andlf -- itself, even when it isn't a good picture. governor cuomo, i have an offer for you. the new president and his team tend to speak between 4:00 and 6:00, if you're ever interest and had not busy, please join us and help us make sense of it. i think it's this piece that has never before existed since we've been in this time of coronavirus between the federal government and the states that everyone knows, literally, our lives depend on at this point. so, we really appreciate your insights. thank you, sir. >> thank you, nicole. my pleasure. >> thank you. >>> joining our conversation now, jonathan lemire, nbc political analyst, also joining us, elizabeth neumann. she's also the co-director of the republican accountability project. boy, do we need that. and dr. kavita patel, msnbc medical contributor and former obama white house health policy advisor. jonathan lemire, i'm going to tern to you because i have pulled up your name and searched all the headlines from your feed and the associ

tony fauci, our chief medical advisor, have yarbrough sarah, our nominee for secretary of health andmichelle wilensky and dr. marcel and inez smith who will be reading our equity work in covid a response. jeff sainz and natalie quinlan who are managing this whole effort. yesterday during my inaugural address i offered a salient and silent prayer. i thought it important that people understand what happened. 100,000 americans who lost their lives in this pandemic. on tuesday, jill and i and kamala and doug stood at the reflecting pool and joined americans all across the country to remember those 400,000 moms and dads, husbands and wives, children, sons and daughters. i said in that moment that to heal, we must remember. it's important to do that as a nation and we must also act, not just remember. for the past year we couldn't rely on the federal government to act with the urgency and focus and coordination that we needed and we have seen the tragic cost of that failure. 3-4000 deaths per day. to date more than 24 million americans. 24 million americans have been affected. to put that

it has me and tony fauci he and bill gates in some area 51 labs sticking microchips into the vaccines and 5g links. you can imagine, saying the vaccines contain aborted fetuses or aborted fetus material. all of that needs to be diffused. part of the problem is in the united states, we have never really mounted a big counter to the disiormation campaign for anti-vaxxers. we have never taken a seous effort to dismantle the empire. i think that is something we're going to have to look at if we are going to be successful at this. nermeen: dr. hotez, your forthcoming book is titled "preventing the next pandemic: vaccine diplomacy in a time of anti-science." sling what you mean by vaccine diplomacy. in the facts were just talking about of anti-science. where does this originate? you've said these anti-vaxxers are opportunists, but what do they stand to gain from opposing the vaccines that might in fact save them? >> the book looks at a lot of 21st century forces bringing back disease. started writing about a year before covid 19. it looks at things like war and political collapse, depleting

and finally tony fauci and joe biden.nk might theorize about an attempt to sully an honor others have received. it was telling when devin nunes received his medal today, no media were allowed at that event. on that note, that is our broadcast as we start a new week and a consequential one in our country. i'll see you tomorrow morning starting with our special coverage early in the evening, something about two runoff senate elections in georgia. for now for us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it's really, really nice to be back. whether or not you were able to get some time off over the holiday -- and i hope you did -- i unfortunately have to break it to you now if you don't already know that this week, now that we're all back, this week is going to be nuts. but because this week is going to be nuts, because i can guarantee that this week is going to be nuts, because we're

a who's who in the world of covid but the world to find quite broadly including everything from tony fauci to tina fey last weekend the new cdc director well on monday, i'm interview to the world's expert on the mutations in the new couple days to be the people who we're focusing on la and what's going on in la so just a great opportunity and i'm i feel privileged to be in that position do that for the next 4 months congrats we've got overtime to 5 seconds it any symptoms from your peers set second shot here. >>i feel fine i feel fine after my first shot my arm. >>it felt like somebody slapped my on the next day really a big nothing burger and you should get the vaccine. the minute you have a chance to get it. >>you're clear on that pre shut your time that is doctor bob wachter the chair of the department of medicine at ucsf and now most of a podcast in the bubble have a good night have a good weekend. thanks so much appreciate it. >>thanks start to have fun of the right. let's take a another look at the forecast let's have a little fun with that yeah lawrence karnow here you can host a po

and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor tony fauci, director of the institutef allergy and infectious diseases, and we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that, i just wanted to say to everybody, thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year, we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual format, and in doing so, we had an honest number of events and had 26 signature events, 26 signature events normally in a year we might have 12 or 13 and -- in person events. we had 78 guests in our 26 signature events and 13000 people watch the events live and then about 2.7 million who watched our youtube replay of that. who watched our youtube replay of that. we have a lot of people watching what we did last year and want to thank you all and sponsors particularly and the members for participating and i want to thank mary grady and her entire team for doing a spectacular job of converting a organization that was used to doing in-person events to an organ

if you remember, tony fauci at the beginning of the summer was hopeful that we might be able to get aeffective. so even at the levels that johnson & johnson is reporting today, it is still an extraordinary accomplishment. that said, these variants, which are inevitable. they are part of a natural process of mutations that are inharnl to these viruses, they will potentially pose a real challenge. and the risk that an emergent version significantly less us is he saidible to the vaccine will put us on our heels again. this is a race against time. we have to bring this virus under control before it evolves in a direction that makes it that. more challenging. >> some have been saying this may become our new reality that every year we get vaccinated for some type of a covid variant. right now though, are there any factors about this outbreak that you think people are not focusing on but should be? >> well, i think there are a couple. one, we first have to appreciate that the biden administration is well on its goal toward achieving 100 million vaccinations within the first 100 days. i'm sor

and finally tony fauci and joe biden. a good shrink might theorize about an attempt to soil an honor others have received. it was telling when devin nunes received his medal today, no media were allowed at that event. on that note, that is our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week and a consequential one in our country. happy new year to all. thanks to my friends for filling in over the break. i'll see you tomorrow morning starting with our special coverage early in the evening, something about two runoff senate elections in georgia. for now for us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> tonight on "all in," trump goes down to georgia looking for an election to steal. >> so what are we going to do here folks, i only need 11,000 votes. give me abreak. >> 16 days from the inauguration of president biden, and president trump won't let go. >> the will of the people prevailed. we won three times here. >> tonight, calls for a criminal investigation of the president, the sedit

. >> this is exactly what tony fauci told me last week that they should not be doing because it was criticalfollow the protocols of the testing. in particular, there are issues as to whether the amount of immunity without that booster shot within the time frame is going to be as effective, particularly for senior citizens. so there's a lot at stake here. obviously they have data that we don't have about just about how dangerous the spread is and what could be happening in the next month or two without immunizing more of the population. big decision today from the biden people. thanks very much, mike memoli. >>> and meanwhile, a top white house aide who resigned in december after the president kept denying his election loss tweeted during the rioting that the president should condemn the mob, that he was the only one who could stop it. she is now speaking out after he ignored those appeals. alissa farrah worked for vice president pence as well as at the pentagon. alissa, thank you very much for being with us. first of all, tell us what led you to say that the president should be condemning it

tony fauci, dr. rochelle, the new director of the cdc, dr. murphy, and others, who are true scientists and doctors, who really understand where things are. what we know and what we don't know. and you are going to be getting daily, weekly briefings from the scientists and government. and that's really what's going to guide the new administration's policy, as well. >> president biden pledged to vaccinate 100 million people in the first 100 days. you have this whole back and forth, over whether that is ambitious enough. i am not interested in that question. i am interested in understanding what it is going to take for us to get to the other side of this. >> well, part of it's supply. and we do anticipate talking to the manufacturers that supply will ramp up over the coming months. but that's not the only bottleneck. as i described, distribution continues to be challenging. and then, you also have questions of demand. so, it -- that's really in the form of, are people wanting to get vaccinated? >> right. >> what we are seeing is, already, as som

tony fauci over in the corner.erson and amazing scientist, probably the best known infectious disease doctor in the world and a great privilege to have him in this organization and he and i are spending a lot of time talking to each other over the last 13 months. so we're really glad that we can be the one to actually host you here for your second dose. first dose, i saw was in southeast dc, december 29th. so count out the numbers and the days here right at day 28. we do believe that's important and honored that you decided to come and visit with us. so welcome and please, if you would say a few words, there's a lot of people watching the video here. our 40,000 nih staff are incredibly excited that you're a part of our particular institution this afternoon. >> thank you, dr. collins and dr. fauci. i'm going to take my shot right now and i'll speak after so i can also describe what that experience was hopefully in encouragement that others will get their vaccination as quickly as they are able. so with that, and we

i know and you know and anybody who wants to check the record can know, tony fauci never said, wear twoks. >> right. >> he said, wear a mask, and somebody asked him about wearing two masks, he said, if you want to wear two masks, wear two masks. it reeks of this being a political football. fauci never said, wear two masks. the guidance is wear one. compliance is maybe 50% if we need it at 90%. is this just politics playing a role here again? >> i think unfortunately it probably is. it's tough to disentangle anything completely from politics right now. i think what also happens is that sometimes you have a certain situation, then you justify the situation. we don't have enough n95 masks, therefore, let's thought recommend them. we could have been in a very different position. this was a big topic for rick bright as a whistle-blower saying, we need to make tons of n95 masks, everyone needs to have them. the country didn't do that so we still don't have enough masks. i get this from a hospital, i can only get a new one if it gets ruined or soiled, that's when i can get a new one. there's s

tony fauci, probably the best-known infectious disease doctor in the world. it's a great privilege to have him in this organization. and he and i are spending a lot of time talking to each other over the last 13 months. we're really glad that we can be the one to actually host you here for your second dose. first dose, i saw, was in southeast d.c. >> correct. >> december 29th. count out the numbers and days here. you're right at day 28. we do believe that's important. and honored that you decided to come and visit with us. so, welcome. >> thank you. >> and, please, if you would, say a few words. there's a lot of people watching the video here. our 40,000 nih staff are incredibly excited that you're part of our particular institution this afternoon. >> thank you, dr. collins and dr. fauci. i'm going to take my shot right now and then i'll speak after. >> fair enough. >> so i can also describe what that experience was, hopefully an encouragement that others will get their vaccination as quickly as they are able. >> all right. >> so with that. and we have nurse