but we do need to be working with cdc and we are not there we are lower than that. it's about continuing to make sure we make progress on it. we need to work with cdc and public health laboratories to learn the optimal percentages.al those surveillance it's about making sure is distributed across the country at the strong surveillance system and then using those surveillance system where pockets are happening across the country one you lead >> thank you. doctor abraham, community centers like the one you lead play a critical role to provide health services to underserved populations.le in wisconsin there are nearly 20 federally qualified health centers providing care around the state. last month the biden administration established a partnership with community health centers to expand their role with covid-19 vaccinations. in wisconsin 16th street health center and milwaukee was named a participating site. are the successes you are having at teefour being replicated across the country or do you think your experience is unique and more needs to be done serving to hel

we lost the presidency. we lost the senate. we lost the house. we lost governors, and we lost legislative bodies. for four years, by any estimation, it was a bad time for republicans. it was not a total of ejection of republican values or total acceptance of the progressive emma craddick values. i think it was a rejection of donald trump, and the longer he stays involved and all of this, you know, conspiracy theories and this vitriol and anger and frustration and attacking republicans, it's not a road to success for my party, and, you know, i'm a republican elected in the bluest state in america twice by being just the opposite of that and by winning over large numbers of black voters and suburban women and independents and democrats twice in a state donald trump lost by 30 points twice. i think i have something to add to the conversation about how republicans can have a winning message and how you can go about winning more people over to our side of the argument. i really think successful politics is about addition and multiplication, not about

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we need that and we needed very well. if you think about it, not too long ago, if someone had aol in their home, that was their only connection to the internet and the only vulnerability they had from the outside world. now your refrigerator is a computer, you have cell phones, all kinds of electronic devices, your tv's are smart tv's. i would venture to guess most homes have dozens of devices that are attached to the internet. we have government systems and business systems that have a tremendous amount of fortune to be had from the bad guys, but also material that is transacted. we have to make sure they are safe and protected. i have five pillars i talk about all the time. i won't go through all of them right now, but one of the central things i think we need to do is have a quarterback for this. we do not have a quarterback on the team. we need to have sisa overseeing all of the events from the start, but also being a quarter back for our cyber hygiene and resilience going forward. i think we need to take that and bal

we will serve anybody that we are able to serve in any jail that we operate in. i want to say san francisco gives us the greatest access without question. we can get to them, we can serve them. l.a. is pretty close, alameda, it's jurisdiction by jurisdiction. it's important if we leave we recognize while we're sitting on principle, we're harming somebody else and allowing them to access something that they were denied from when they were younger. >> commissioner alexander: let's say it comes up -- let's say that one of the instructors is in communication with an inmate who is undocumented is afraid that the sheriff may be communicating with i.c.e. what guidance do you give instructors? are they able to refer that person to a community agency that can help? i guess i'm more interested in that? >> i should also say that, it's never come up that we haven't been able to serve undocumented persons in the jails. that's never been an issue. there's a fear of i.c.e. in the jails. that is a real thing. if somebody has concern about an inmate, one of our staff has a concer

we are spending as much money as we are spending trying to respond to the crisis because we have not put in place the kind of infrastructure care, to echo heather mcgee because we are afraid we are going to be giving out stuff to undeserving people and that usually maps onto poor and black and brown. it reveals the contradictions at the heart of the country. we have the courage and fortitude to respond in time. host: why do you think there is not enough unity and commonality between porky -- rural poor people as well as in similar economic conditions, why over the course of history have those two populati >> we will eat this discussion here. you can see in its entirety at our website c-span.org. taking you live to capitol hill were acting u.s. capitol police chief yogananda pittman is testifying before house appropriations subcommittee on her agency's 2022 budget request and capital security. especially in light of the january sixth attack. we join this at the start. >> if there's a technology issue will move to the next member until the issue is resolved and you will retain the bala

we want to see we have leadership— harris. we want to see we have leadership which is stepping up.he tough issues as well. thank you so much for joining forjoining us. i don't have a twitter account any more. much better for my mental health. and i am not sure my postings were of much value, and certainly not as valuable as one particular tweet. indeed... well, the twitter founder jack dorsey's first ever tweet has just been sold for the equivalent of almost three million dollars — the tweet, which said , "just setting up my twitter,", was first published on march 21, 2006. $3 million for a spelling mistake. they compared their purchase to a mona lisa purchased wasn't really? anyway it's sold is a nonrefundable. i hate that term it sounds like fungus. hello there. the weather story's been fairly straighforward in recent days with high—pressure keeping things dry and quiet. but the weather story is changing, it's turning quite messy actually over the next few days. rain or blustery showers and then a brief cold spell for all of us on friday. the first signs of trouble is moving its

i believe if we invest in the right places, we can be stronger than we were before.na: you mentioned the herd immunity is a key part of this and president biden said last week that the united states should be able to get people vaccinated by may. the question is does everyone want one? one poll found 42% of republicans said they do not plan i getting a vaccine. a psa came out this morning that featured four out of the five previous presidents, and notably absent was former president donald trump. how do you as governor, and estate donald trump how do you one, see politicized vaccines? what do you have to do to get people to show up for vaccinations to move into herd immunity? gov. cooper: first, our mission with vaccinations has been fast and fair. we need to get them off the shelves and into arms before the next shipment comes, but i want those arms to look like north carolina's population. there was natural, understandable skepticism of vaccines in our black communities, latin-x communities. so, we did in north carolina was different from most other states. we buil

in fact, when we do that, we have to make sure we are being intentional about the ways we revitalizethe infrastructure. and particularly, as we heard over and over again today, far too often, there are communities left out. because whether you are in urban areas like kansas city, kansas or in more rural areas like stillwell, kansas, everyone deserves access to transportation and infrastructure. like many of my colleagues, before i go to my question, i want to make sure you know you have a standing invitation to visit kansas. come to the third district. you can see the opportunities and the needs of the district and enjoy some of our kansas city barbecue, which in my opinion, unbiased opinion, is the best in the country. with that, i would like for you to share with us a bit about how you think this new infrastructure investment can help link the diverse communities we have been hearing about today. sec. buttigieg: thank you first of all for the invitation. i remember encountering somebody with a kansas city barbecue society i.d. number tattooed on their calf, and that is when i under

what do we change? what do we not? all the people who oppose the quotas russian, we thought, the war we have to overturn the, quotas they lose, but within this debate there are many debates about not true lies asian for asian immigrants. people in the middle of that are japanese americans who saw their parents placed in determine plants during the war. they were going to fight and ate regiment in europe, they died for the u.s. even though they are japanese, and their parents cannot naturalize. in 1950, to they are part of the debate as well. within this outcome which reaffirms the quotas, as the people who want to overturn them lose very badly, and it is the huge loss for them. within, that there is though this development that evasion immigrants are allowed to naturalize. this is the result of a very powerful lobbying from japanese americans who say i thought in the. war my brother -- there is a man whose brother dies in the, were i risked my life. my mother here who is a japanese immigrant is getting older and i want

we are doing everything that we can, using the evidence that we have, and i am optimistic we are going to make a difference. rep. clark: thank you, and along those lines. mr. stringer, before the pandemic when you're there were estimated 120 million people who live in areas without adequate access to mental health care. the vast majority are people of color, and rural communities. can you elaborate a little bit on how we can target federal support to help state and local public health officials, like yourself, in getting mental health care out to underserved communities? mr. stringer: an interesting question. my approach is in taking treatment to individuals. it's different how you take treatment to somebody in st. louis compared to how you take treatment to someone in northeast missouri. in a very rural area. the technology that we are enjoying now during the pandemic, and it is really having a big effect, if we can keep that technology, that allows us to take treatment out into rural areas. that to me is the answer. again, in inner cities, is probably more of taking treatment in pers

we will serve anybody that we are able to serve in any jail that we operate in. i want to say san francisco gives us the greatest access without question. we can get to them, we can serve them. l.a. is pretty close, alameda, it's jurisdiction by jurisdiction. it's important if we leave we recognize while we're sitting on principle, we're harming somebody else and allowing them to access something that they were denied from when they were younger. >> commissioner alexander: let's say it comes up -- let's say that one of the instructors is in communication with an inmate who is undocumented is afraid that the sheriff may be communicating with i.c.e. what guidance do you give instructors? are they able to refer that person to a community agency that can help? i guess i'm more interested in that? >> i should also say that, it's never come up that we haven't been able to serve undocumented persons in the jails. that's never been an issue. there's a fear of i.c.e. in the jails. that is a real thing. if somebody has concern about an inmate, one of our staff has a concer

london breed: so today, we celebrate, we remember, we get excited about the future, and we show one another support, because we're all in this together. we remember that all of us are sacrificing, all of us are dealing with something, and as we began to reopen our city, dr. colfax, hopefully sooner, rather than later -- dr. colfax doesn't want us to have any fun. he's like, well, i know the state said we can do this, but unfortunately, i'm going to hold off. but i did also say to you, dr. colfax, that i heard dr. fauci said, let's not move too fast, and this has been one of the most conservative department of public health departments anywhere, so we do appreciate that because it has made a difference. so thank you to our essential workers, thank you to the san franciscans that sacrificed. thank you to everyone who will continue to do their part, and there will be a time where we will be able to come together again and actually talk without wearing a mask, and i am looking forward to the day when that happens. thank you all so much for being here, and with that, i want to introduce dr. gran

we seen a lot of area we were in. i could see where we were. we were in north korea mostly, so we couldn't get in there, but we were up to the 38th parallel where most of the main line resistance was, and i could see the highest mountain there and that's where we were a lot of times. i could see, it was about 20 miles away or something like that, you know. i couldn't get on it. that's part of north korea now, so -- it's real gratifying to go back there and see it. i'll never do it again now because i'm too old, but i did it. >> how did your wartime experiences affect your life? >> oh, i don't know. it's -- i guess i can't say it's really affected my -- you know, like i say, i carry some guilt. i suppose that affected my life. but, you know, i'm pretty proud of what i did, i mean, we all are. we stopped communism in that country. so that's something to feel good about. i don't have anything else as far as affecting my life. i guess i'm always thankful of y not being able -- not being wounded or killed, you know. i had a lot of close calls over t

we could also think about how do we restart the full system. we also know that covid has taught us how important it is to make connections outside of the downtown area and keep those connections strong. we also know that downtown will continue to rebound, and so reintroducing express service will also been needed at some point. so these are some of the tradeoffs that we'll have as we move forward. so that's basically the kind of bulk of the transit service and the transit restoration. it leads, i think, in an important way, to roads and streets and roadway safety. i'm going to turn it over to tom so he can talk about some of the investments and how they connect, and you'll have an opportunity at the end to talk to us both on kind of how our work programs inter-relate and support one another. >> chairman: okay. thank you, julie. >> as julie said early on, this is the year in which the m.t.a. has worked as seamlessly across all of the different domains and divisions within the agency more so than i've ever seen in my almost seven years here. the

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we did go to intel communities, dod long before we went plug -- public with public disclosure, we will work with the u.s. government rep. bush: do you think you should be required by law to do it? mr. mandia: if you are a first responder to intrusions, we recognize right away it we were set up for this sort of thing and it happened to us. we did feel -- and i took the oath to defend the constitution of the united states 30 years ago. i did not want the government to communicate with me at that point. i did not know the scope and scale of this, but for first responders, absolutely getting the threat intelligence -- because of the time we were telling people what we did not know what happened. that was enough we had to tell the government entity we worked with. rep. bush: the answer is no. mr. mandia: we do not have a legal disclosure to but we still have an obligation to. rep. bush: would you say anything as change since that that would make us trust private companies more now? mr. mandia: when you see a breach like this you do not want the attacker to win twice. they broke into solar w

we cannot do that. when we have this and flex. we have the exact same facilities that were built in 2014, yet we were accused of putting kids in cages and we do not hear that same rhetoric now now that a different administration. that extremely frustrates us. we end up getting politicized by both the right and the left and it is strictly to make a political point when elections are coming up. we have 22 midterm elections, they will be coming up shortly and of course, you will see the democrats with their rhetoric and the republicans with their rhetoric and what that does is that puts us in the crosshairs of board -- of both parties. host: i'll give the phone numbers. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8002 for independents. a special line for border state residents. that number is (202) 748-8003. start calling now for brandon judd. we heard over the weekend that the biden administration is deploying fema to the border to help respond to the surge. how's that going to work? do you think that is

we don't have pension funds we need to put the money into and we don't have a budget we need to put money into and it is about that investment for the future and they will give us the money which we have and that's how we want to invest it. >> with no strings attached. >> absolutely. folks ability. >> what does getting back to normal look like for arkansas. you talk about using data to lift the mask mandate but is there something in your mind that will signal for you back to normal. >> i have already converted our business mandates into guidelinessi, more flexibly thee for our businesses but they will continue to be careful and watch the guidelines and the spacing until we get large% of our population vaccinated and that has to be the whole focus whenever they're talking about 70 or 80% in terms of vaccination rates and that means we have to really move through the population quickly and that will allow us to get back to normal. i follow -- i thought the cdc it was meaningful when they said if you are vaccinated and you have a family unit and you associate with another family unit or visi

we think we are very well provided at this stage and we will see normalization at the cost to risk overhe course of the month ahead. that said, we are very much back in the lockdown status at the moment. restrictions are needed. we want to see those case numbers coming down. they are coming down. want to see that vaccine deployment over the course of the next number of months. we expect to have the population vaccinated in terms of first dose by the end of june so i think the prospects are brightening as we move to the next quarter of 2021 and indeed to 2022. anna: we look ahead with more optimism perhaps. there seems to be a lot of things happening at the moment. give me a little bit more detail on your interest in ulster bank's commercial loan book. any update on how significant this is going to be, and the timing? colin: we signed a memorandum in february, releasing it to the proposed acquisition of 4.1 billion euros worth of commercial loans that are currently sitting within ulster bank. we very much are focused on finishing those negotiations. we hope to do so over the course of th

we come up with it. >> but the idea of where we were in 2012 and those in the white house are we dining back part of his i have never understood the challenge they put forward because they don't have the problems from net neutrality we always need paid pressurization at a certain level in you a can see with networks wiping that is no longer a problem so i am not quite sure we are rehashing concerns from a decade ago. will we go back to the battle? >> there is a lot that has changed in the relatively short time since we last or first went down the misguided title to path so to your point the one difference in the world of 5g and those that can come from 5g there are versions of title ii net neutrality that don't seem to be consistent with proconsumer but then with that use case but and then over the beneficial's cases that is one thing that is different but the dynamics politically and technically with what is going on in the network is very different. the idea 2015 or 2016 that the greatest threat to a free and open internet is them mom and pop isp the heaviest of heavy-handed regulatio

we think -- >> we think the market sing and waiting.ld be cleared monday, tuesday next trick. >> everyday longer, obviously, that will grow and the disruption to the supply-side will intensify. >> we think it will be some kind of a global speed limit on the seas and especially through these canals. >> as the ships get bigger, we will hope they will also get more efficient. it may be that over time there are changes to the trade flows. >> we've got supply systems and supply chains that are under quite a degree of stress and when a system is under stress, mistakes and accidents happen. anna: i'm fascinating very importantly, two thirds by see, i understand. how disruptive is this to the commodities world? >> it is not what it was for oil shipments. this is more of a story for the container industry than for oil. oil prices are up today, but there is an argument today that partly also that is because the demand picture, the latest round of lockdowns, this is affecting the demand picture. also the pipeline option. this is much more a story

do we get a boom, then do we get a bust? i think you need to go out to the individual commodities that have their own unique microeconomic fundamentals. relative to the investment and the change in demand profiles for certain economies, with people fixated on carbon and carbon illumination -- carbon illumination -- carbon elimination, those are the ones that are really going to lead from here. crude oil next year is something that is interesting to us. it has been tighter to a greater discipline than we expected. i think you will see really strong markets for that, especially wti, over the next 18 months. grains have had a really solid move. we are still positive for them in the back were dated markets -- the backward dated markets, but it is tough to see something more than 10%, which is going to take commodities higher from here, but you need an incremental catalyst to get a massively higher percentage boost. alix: aluminum, i will have to start saying alu-minum now. some of those in which you invested are actually going t

today we are at 97%. we are finding 97% of it. because we have invested aliens of dollars, tens of thousands of people. i want to be clear. 3% on facebook is still much too much. our goal is to find it and drive those numbers down. and make sure that we are not having hate at all. pamela: thank you. good to hear. let's pivot for a moment -- matt: that was sheryl sandberg and maxine williams of facebook with pamela hutchinson at the bloomberg quality summit. facebook pointing out that sheryl sandberg pointing out that facebook is against hate. they don't want you to fight on their platform and be divided and partisan. and also, apparently against nudity. you can get coverage of that on bloomberg.com, bloomberg television, on bloomberg radio, as well as bloombergquint take. definitely an important summit. as we await the fed decision, we will discuss this year's spac boom. it eclipses fundraising in a single quarter. this is bloomberg. ♪ amanda: this is bloomberg markets. i'm amanda lange with matt miller. there is a lot to talk abo

and we hinted that we have a major launch coming.e people working on this yet-to-be-announced product than on any of the other products i just mentioned it is a source of great excitement internally but i am sorry to disappoint, i can't announce right now. >> keep smiling if it is auto insurance. >> does that count >> there we go i think we got it. >> it is involuntary >> i think you got your answer just -- just in terms of our model, i mean you are obviously growing very fast. it is asset light, i digital, a.i. focused is that what is making it so hard for the traditional insurers to compete with you >> i don't envy the traditional incumbents really going into the 21st sentry when the world has changed so dramatically. and they were engineered for a different era. insurance incumbents in the u.s. are huge, they are also not so young. the average age is about 125 years old. so they were built during the a of the horse-drawn carriage. of course the world has changed so much. you just wouldn't build a company in the 21th accept tree th

we know we have some areas we can actually make progress in immediately because we have been working on that for the last couple of years in one way or another. discipline and separation. we of course have had over the past year or two a great increase in data around how discipline and separation are racially mediated for the most part in our departments. they do have some activities happening at dhr around the issues but we are starting at the level of the managers and it's going to be a significant amount of manager training going into this. and that's combined with standardizing some of the activities around discipline. the manager s are going to be trained to use the system being developed for how they discipline and how they feel about the probation period. the leadership training is the racial equity health equity fellowship we had in place early last year. we still have the curriculum and we're going to make a companion series that is really about managing for equity. that's more about referralble skills that could work in any place and the health equity training is going to b

we have longer-term issues we are worried about.t seemed like we had positive momentum into the weekend. i'm not sure how we seem to have turned more negative. anna: yeah we have. nasdaq futures -- when i got into the office, it is not as negative as it was right now. march has been driven by treasury markets. you have been thinking about that a lot in recent days just like the rest of us. you pointed out a piece where cameron talked about whether the bond market moves have now been done. whether that is now in the rearview mirror. a lot depends on where inflation goes i suppose. he makes the point that if these moves are done, positioning starts to matter a lot. anna: -- mark: the main thing he is saying is that for now, treasuries no longer look disproportionately expensive which they have done throughout the whole last year because of monetary policy. given where inflation is, where expectations are, the premium that we have for treasuries looks roughly right. we are at 1.57%. he has a model for the curve. that is saying that the

x % think we are too left and x% think we are too right and x% think we are just right. everybody has an opinion and that is good, part of being a community. >> it's interesting because we live in a world where in a stereotypical way, we say a news outlet is of this or that perspective. many times, we go to that news outlet to support what we believe about the world. in some cases, we want to find out about a different perspective that we may or may not agree with. in the community, the j, basically, encompasses the diversity, it sells. a diverse community has diverse opinions and when it comes down to this, on an editorial level, time to time, when somebody is literally reading something, how do you decide a particular perspective at any particular time, about anything that is happening in the world. be it an election or a country like israel or a situation in another part of the world with a jewish perspective? >> you've touched upon the central delicate balancing act that i, as the editor and j, as a jewish publication, has to engage in every day. we have two roles. w

we don't do enough to bring them together. but we should. because the more that countries with complementary strengths and capacities can unite to achieve shared goals, the better. that's the idea behind the group of countries we call “the quad” -- australia, india, japan, and the united states. president biden recently hosted the quad's first ever leader-level summit. we share a vision of a free, open, inclusive, and healthy indo-pacific region, unconstrained by coercion, and anchored by democratic values. we make a good team. and our cooperation will strengthen parallel efforts to ensure security in the east and south china seas and to expand safe, affordable, and effective vaccine production and equitable access. deepening nato-eu cooperation is another example. greater collaboration on issues like cybersecurity, energy security, health security, and safeguarding critical infrastructure will help build our resilience and preparedness against present-day threats. it also makes us stronger when we stand up for our values. consider the sanct

and we think we will get there. we have a break of trading.ril, as investors go back and look at the data come a we have a big nonfarm data trend this week. treasury yields will look low. we think things will keep widening which will make assets look less attractive. anna: alberto, thank you for joining us. alberto gallo, head of macro strategies at algebris. 1.76% on u.s. 10 year treasury. coming up on the program, it is finally on the move. the giant ship blocking the suez canal has now been freed. we have the latest on that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: welcome back to the european market open. we are 13 minutes away from the start of the session. u.s. futures are looking a little more mixed as we focus on the reopening trade in the u.s. and the vaccine rollout. that is the dominating theme. ships have started moving through the suez canal after the ever given was pulled for a. it make take -- it may take several days to clear the backlog. our middle east energy reporter joins us now. what is the status of operations in the suez? >> as y

so [speaking spanish] we are stronger than the person we were when we entered this. thank you so much for answering my questions. i'm really excited for you snow the writing of this next chapter. >> thank you to our student delegates and your continued hopes for all of this. we really appreciate it. commissioners, do you have questions or comments? vice president collins. >> vice president collins: thank you. i just want to appreciate our student delegate katiya for her words. i think she's right. this is a really tough time. i mean, i think we're even beyond pandemic fatigue. i think if there's another term, somebody needs to come up with it. and, but i do think we are turning the corner and hearing about vaccines and the fact that we have educators getting vaccinated and also now community members like walgreens and kaiser stepping up to make it easier to do that i think is such like welcome news and so i do want to even though things are hard, i think it's important our student delegates are reminding us too that we have to look at what's hopeful and what's new an

we lost the presidency, we lostr the senate, we lost the house, governors, and we lost legislative bodies the four years was a bad time for republicans by any estimation. it wasn't a total rejection of republican values or a total the acceptance of progressive democratic values. i think it was a rejection of donald trump. and the longer he stays involvea andcy the all of this, you known conspiracy theories and, you know, this vitriol and anger anu frustration and attacking republicans andparty, primaryin, it's not a road to success for d my party. that and, you know, i'm a republican elected in the bluest state in america, twice, by being just the oppositee of that and by winning over large numbers of black voters and suburban women and independents and democrats, twice in a state that donald trump lost by 30 points two times, i won by 15.re so i think i have something to add toca the conversation aboutt how can republicans have a winning message and how can you winning more people over to our side of the argument. and i really think, you know, ad successfulul politics is about n addition

as we can, before we go to vote. i'll recognize myself for another five minutes of questions. director, i became a congressman in january of 2013. in february of 2013 eric williams was killed. he was a corrections officer 34 yeast old at usp canaan in pennsylvania. he was patrolling on his own in usp canaan and he was jumped by a vicious, violent criminal by the name of jessie canui. he jumped him, he had a schiff and he stabbed eric williams over 200 times and eric williams died. i dare say, you have got to know don williams, eric's father since then, and you're very familiar with this whole story, but it happened in my back yard when i was a brand new congressman and it shocked me that eric williams was made to patrol on his own and there was no-- absolutely no doubt in my mind that if he had had a partner patrolling with him that never would have happened. so this question of augmentation of using statistics to talk about the correctional officer to inmate ratio has come up. and it's been a thorn in the side of th

we were all moving as fast as we could. we could not compromise safety. this was out of the question for the agency. the vaccine in the real world are going to healthy people. the trade-off might be that they are dying of cancer. the great news of today, the last few weeks and last few months is the vaccines have very high efficacy. your immunity needs to work with high-quality drugs and anti-bodies but this is great news. i believe the numbers we have seen over a great amount of cases is very exciting. every day, i checked the cdc website to see how many people have been vaccinated. this morning, we are at 73%. 18 and above was 73% this morning. i think this was a premium injection. that is really remarkable. i think the next four weeks or so will be incredible momentum in the country. i believe we will move from a world where people are lining up in the streets and at stadiums. i think it is four or six weeks out. mrs. smith: you mentioned how fast you went. how in the world was moderna able to go as fast as it did? mr. bancel: there are a few things. f

we can and we will get out of this together. but cases and hospitalizations and deaths remain high. and we have been fooled before into being too lax. so now is the time to double down and see this through. the most recent cdc data shows cases continue to fluctuate between 50,000 and 60,000 new cases per day, with the most recent seven-day average being more than 55,500 cases per day. the most recent seven day average of hospital admissions continues to decline, down from the previous seven days, to about 4900 admissions per day. we also continue to see around 1500-1800 deaths per day with the latest seven day average being just over 1500 deaths per day. i am encouraged by these data but we must remain vigilant to continue in our effort to get cases, admissions, and deaths down. we are making remarkable prosody -- progress on our vaccination effort. you have more than 64 million people who received at least one dose of vaccine and we are vaccinating millions more each day. this is our path out of the pandemic. as you heard last

we can build all the walls we want, but we cannot stop these viruses. other than being aware where they are and move quickly when you find them. the one thing, the reason i am so happy to have been able to be here, is science is back. for the longest time, not just as it relates to the cdc, science was viewed as sort of an appendage to anything else we were talking about. it is back. i just want you to have some confidence not only are the vice president and i and the team written large committed, the american people have moved. the american people have moved. this is a bipartisan effort. it is not showing itself in the way senators and congressmen vote. but the public, we were talking about it on an airplane. the public, in a bipartisan way, when i came up with this $1.9 billion for this whole covid. we were told it can never pass. we didn't get any help in the senate or the house. 55% of republican support you. 90% of democrats, the point is the public is thankful to you. it is about science. that is what they understand. we are not going back to the

we have gone very far very fast, do we continue? do we start to see them leveling off? is there a chance that they start to reverse, maybe not now but in six to nine months down the road? steve: there are three answers. over the course of the next year or so you expect to see rates move higher. we have an economy that is recovering. if you look at it in the speed of getting gdp back up to pace or the decline in some of the unemployment numbers, this is as robust as we have seen most of us in our careers. you should expect rates to move higher, but not at the pace that they have over the course of february. our view is that we are probably going to end the year somewhere around 1.75 which implies an upside at a measured pace and that is most likely path forward. alix: what do you protect yourself against? you protect the gains, against inflation, or you try for the opportunity? what is the first strategy? steve: i think you have a happy accident and that regardless of what happens with inflation if you have an economy that is recovering and entering expansion, where do y

we are working hard to make sure that we get vaccines for younger ages as soon as we can.robably not going to happen in the first half of this year but we are working hard for that to be the case in the second half. just as soon as we can run through the trial, we are testing different doses. because, on the very young, be a smaller dose. we are working on all aspects. and recognize that many people have young children and it is our responsibility to make sure we get as many covered. emily: when it comes to the next generation vaccines, the south african strain, the u.k. strain, can you give us any details on the timing of when we might see progress? >> the fda provided guidance saying we are not going to be required to do the same kind of trial we have to do with the original vaccine. that is going to be important to show, we expect we will be able to see over a short. of time. -- a short. bank of time. that will show the production of antibodies, particularly the strains. then we will be in the position to talk to regulators about the potential use of boosters. we expect

now we are where we are.before president biden became president put this plan in front of the country and said, this is what i need to crush the virus and get the economy moving. and congress has taken this large package and has passed it pretty much the way the president asked for it. i think it is a significant piece of legislation. it helps with our fight against covid, it helps the middle class, it will help get schools open, helps small businesses and veterans, it lower health insurance premiums -- all the things we need to do to turn the country around. anna: one thing that did fall out of the bill was the $15 minimum wage. what's your plan to get a minimum wage hike approved? it is a priority for progressives. do you think the president would be open to less than $15 if it meant getting to a deal? ron: our focus is on the fight for 15. president joe biden endorsed that in the campaign and that is what we will work on. we will talk with our allies, with democrats, hopefully some republicans in the senat

we get maybe two questions and then we are shoveled out. why hasn't he answered questions from the press, is it just that he is too busy? sec. psaki: i believe he is answered questions 40 times. his focus is on getting recovery and relief to the american people. he looks forward to continuing to engage with you and other members of the media who are not here today, and we will look forward to letting you know when the press conference is set. >> can you talk about how the president sees -- you talked about, establishing a specific framework. what is his response to someone like tim kaine who says the president should have to consult congress on something like the strike? sec. psaki: there is a couple of questions, so let me see i can address them all. we did consult and notify the gang of a which is a very appropriate approach, which represents many committee heads and leaders. we had ongoing consultations with members following the strikes and including classified briefings, which he offered quite broadly from the administration. we were a

but we are spending everything that we can and we realize the importance. now, the 1099-g would only come at the end of march and they are not yet at the pipeline. we will certainly let you all know that we will reach out individually and collectively and whatnot. >> thank you so much. and the commissioner estimated 2.2 american children will now be eligible for those payments and i'm so thankful for that. i'm so thankful for that, but they will not be in the system necessarily, and -- because thef were left behind from previous rounds of stimulus checks. how does the irs plan to reach . those dependent children? does the irs already have t taxpayer data available to reach those families?se too or will the irs have to establish some tools that they used for the first round of stimulus checks. >> the data we have comes off tax returns and then with respect to eip 1 and 2 we have the nonfilers portal.ot h we do not have the nonfilers firtal running currently.hat and that's to encourage people o to file income tax returns.f t many of these folks are also entit

we know we have work to do in this area, and while we are looking at the data we also know we don't need the data in order to improve because we know we have improvements to make. >> i raise my concerns about the initial decision with the first 250 sites, and the first 250 in new mexico was only identified with one center. dr. kessler and dr. walensky, can i get your commitment today that future programs focusing on vaccine equity will also focus in rural regions as well? >> maybe i will just chime in here and say i was pleased yesterday when cdc announced $2.25 billion in funding to go towards testing in areas that need it more with regard to health equity. this was the first time we have been able to give directly 19% to the funding in rural jurisdictions, and it is actually leaving a workforce capacity in those areas. >> can i get your commitment that future programs will make that commitment to rural regions as well? >> senator, the answer is yes. >> that's what i was looking for. i very much appreciate the explanation there. >> thank you, chair, and i yield back my time. >> thank yo

we are a nonprofit. we are a public charity. we could qualify for 300,000 dollars through that program. we would never expect -- we would never accept government money. that would harm our mission. we are funded by people, individuals, foundations, we accept no government funding. caller: thank you. i am sorry, but it is blah blah blah, what you talk about. you are funded by wealthy people who have an agenda. the $1.9 trillion is for vaccines, but everything else, because of the covid crisis, the states and local counties need money. the revenue is down. everything related to covid, it is a covid relief. it is going to help us. the $3000 for the children who are poor, all of us are suffering. i don't think you get this. it is depressing to hear people like you talk like this. guest: there is real pain out there. this is a pandemic. we need targeted relief. america is rich enough to provide for a robust safety net. where there can be debate is when that safety net turns into a hammock and impinges the future. in terms of local an

we are not there yet but we are getting close.accines arched ordinary and we have been quite lucky to have three vaccines that are going to be able to keep people out of the hospital and keep people from dying. we should see that in the coming months. the limiting step is getting them into arms. tom: 4000 deaths and one series i looked at, 2000 deaths and even better statistics. what is the significance of getting to the next thousand? what does that mean for american society? dr. nuzzo: it is extraordinary. 950 deaths is too much still, but it is extraordinary, given where we were, which is one day we surged past 5000 deaths. it is important to look back and remember how bad it had been but also recognize we still have a long road ahead of us. it will start to get slower in terms of the reduction in deaths because one of the things we did was cover the groups that were most likely to die, like nursing home patients, which account for a third of deaths. that quick progress is important, but that pace will not probably last for all

after we peak, we started to come down, but we plateaued again. at a very high baseline, 40,000. we just now experienced the worst surge on the right-hand part of the slide. it is starting to come down in a very nice deflection curve. the issue is if you look at the very far right of the slide as dr. walensky has said, we are starting to plateau. i have blown that up in a little section which is now sitting in the middle of the slide. that plateau is about 60,000 to 70,000 cases per day. when you have that much viral activity in a plateau, it almost invariably means that you are at risk for another spike. in fact, as the washington post reported yesterday, many countries in europe have seen just that. they had a decrease in cases over a six-week period, they plateaued, and now over the last week, they saw an increase in cases by 9%. something we desperately want to avoid. how does that relate to variants? let me just go through this. i refer to it as virology 101. what it really is is some fundamental tenants of virology. namely, rna viruses like sars cov 2 tend to mutate. they h

we were told we can't because of covid restrictions. if in is a safe way to do this, to get reporters down there, to show the american people the conditions there where these unaccompanied children are being held, would you allow that? secretary mayorkas: i'm happy to take a look at that. i owe it to my people to understand the situation and the reasons why access was denied. i will share with you something -- another principle to which i intend to adhere throughout my tenure and that's openness and transparency. and that includes the -- i grew up as a journalism student but apparently i wasn't a good enough writer to make it the whole way. let me share with you what i communicate to the workforce and we'll leave it at that. because it's in the service of openness and transparency. don't shrink from criticism. just work very hard not to deserve it. thank you very much. oh, happy to take one more. sorry. reporter: what is the status of the review of the trump era visa ban for h-1-v visas and will they lift -- before they expire at the en

if we don't do what we promised to do or at least use every tool we have and every god-given talent we have to do it, then you all deserve to hold us accountable, and there are lots of ways to do that. send letters, and you can ultimately say, "we are going to make a change. we are not going to vote for them. we are not going to support them. we are going to send people to washington that do what they say they will." one of the things i am most proud of with president trump is he made promises and worked his tail off to get them done. [applause] i'm looking, i see matt back there. he had the same -- yeah, right? >> [indiscernible] [laughter] mr. pompeo: i almost kicked it to you. i was this close. ask mr. secretary, you mentioned wire and telecom. [microphone feedback] chinese technology into the grid. mr. pompeo: i had not seen them make that decision yet. i know they are reviewing the things we did with respect to wally -- huawei. we essentially banned it from the united states. i have not seen them undo that yet. i know they were reviewing it. it would be an enormous mistake to undo