all the hours spent behind the white house press briefing room podium, what is your perspective? igh: he was caught in a life four pinocchio's bright left-wing paper, "the washington post." but the completely mixed messaging coming out of the white house. yesterday the press secretary was asked, did president biden call for this? she said, no he didn't cope with this. in fact, let me give you context reading one of his quotes. she perceives to read i'm very supportive of the idea of a boycott, which underscored the point that it is calling for this pair the same sound white, this is jim crowe on steroids ae cites the facts biden disagreed with this law. he absolutely had a part in the spirit over the state department, their spokesperson saying we will not give that advice to do with china but mlb, that is fair game. totally mixed messaging and they should be called out for this in the briefing this afternoon. >> emily: ari this is commander in chief calling for economic punishment for citizens over lawfully passed legislation. your thoughts. >> ari: and over issue in which he is f

white house correspondent kimberly helka tells law the by the administration's response. as a ron accuses israel of being behind the attacks on its nuclear facilities i asked the white house press secretary john psaki about whether the white house is concerned the alleged actions of a u.s. ally could do rail the discussions to limit iran's nuclear program and bring the united states and iran into compliance under that agreement the white house press secretary fused to comment on whether israel was involved only to say that this was in her view a speculation on causes take a listen we've seen the reports we don't have anything more to speak to as it relates to the causes or who is responsible our focus of is of course on the diplomatic path forward we've not been given any indication that attendance at the discussions and that will proceed on wednesday has changed now the white house press secretary did confirm that the united states was not involved in the attack asked for the impact the attack could have on the diplomatic discussions jen psaki saying that she will focus on the diplomatic path forward at the terms of how she expects that these talks will perceive she says the u

did you note biases within those white house press briefings? guest: we did not really track the questions by he was asking them. -- by who was asking them. that might be something we dig a little deeper, we might look at. at this point, we just have the questions, topic of the question. host: what are the thoughts of yourself and your students on the role of the white house press corps these days? guest: they are still doing a good job and you have to keep in mind that the job of the press is not just to ask questions about what the public is interested in. it is to ask questions about issues that are important. it goes back to what walt whitman wrote. when i look at immigration being right up there, the second most number of questions, and when you look at opinion polls, when the public is asked what they feel is the most important issue for the president and congress to address, immigration is in the middle. that is important. things that are happening in china, korea, ukraine are affecting us. host: pew reported earlier, top priorities for t

white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more on the reaction from the biden administration as iran accuses israel of being behind the attacks on its nuclear facilities, i asked the white house pressretary jen whether the white house is concerned the alleged actions of a u.s. ally could derail the discussions to bring the united states and iran back into compliance under that agreement. the white house press secretary refused to comment on whether israel was involved, only to say that this was, in her view, a speculation on causes. take a listen. sec. psaki: we have seen the reports. we don't have anything to speak to as it relates to the cause or who is responsib. our focus is on the diplomatic path forward. we have not been given indication that attendance at the discussions that will proceed on wednesday has changed. kimberly: the white house press secretary confirmed that the united states was not involved in the attack as for the impact of the attack could have on the diplomatic discussions, jen psaki is saying that she will focus on the diplomatic path forward and in terms of how she expects these talks will proceed, she says the united states expect them to be difficult and

we're talking about the vice president i want to get your reaction to this exchange, in today's white house press briefing. between jen psaki and our colleague, peter ducey. >> do you know why that is and if she's making any money off of that? >> the president or the vice president? >> the president's book. >> they are talking about if they go to shelters or -- >> a welcome kit apparently, there is a copy of her 2019 children's book, super heroes are everywhere. i would have to check on that i hear it's a good book so the vice president's children's book being given to children in these migrant shelters. what do you know about this? >> it's an interesting setup, you have to ask, who is paying for it and if she's getting paid for it is that coming out of the taxpayer till or is she simply giving away those books. they are available on amazon. you can pick one up for $11. the ultimate goal is if you're suggesting as a policy we're simply giving away good books for good kids there is nothing wrong with that but the real question, of course, that is, is she making any money off of this? jen psaki too

i even interviewed tony when he became bush 43 white house press secretary. >> over the seven plus years is there one show, one sunday that stands out? >> september 11, the united states had a name of ambition tempered by piety and we want for a nation with friends and we are again today. chris: and in 2008, we pay tribute to tony when we lost

reporter phil wegmann from real clear news asked the white house press secretary if you're so adamantut major league baseball boycotting georgia, why are you not calling for a boycott of winter olympics in china? psaki did not like the question. >> great point. she did not like the question at all. businesses doing business in georgia and the united states, condemning this law, making money, doing business in china where they have no voting at all. where is the fairness? where is the equity in that? there is none. elizabeth: how is the law not racist? >> well, first of all, it is not racist because we provide dropbox. we provide access. we provide expanded hours. we provide voter i.d. for free. how can any of those things be painted as racist? it is not racist in the least, not the very least. in fact we've had record turnouts in minority voters in all categories. so how can we be suppressing votes? it is simply not true. elizabeth: well, it is good toe toe to see you sir, good to have you on. georgia senator butch miller. great insight. next up, republican strategist ford o'connell w

the white house press secretary was pressed no matt pressed on this topping and jen psaki would not elaborate what t meant when he said overwhelming referring to the evidence in the case. nor would jen psaki explain why he decided to take the highly unusual step of weighing in on an ongoing criminal trial. but now that a verdict has indeed been reached within the last few minutes, bret, we learned president biden is, indeed, going to be delivering remarks from the white house a little bit later tonight. exact time tbd, bret. >> bret: kristin fisher live in the narrow gnomic north lawn, kristin the social media and the family said the president had a cold before family and their attorneys moments ago after the verdict was read. cities around the country have been bracing for protests prior to this verdict. a congressional correspondent chad program has that part of the story from capitol hill, good evening, chad. >> good evening, bret house democrats face a choice defend maxine waters or vote to punish her after judge peter cahill said waters comments could be grounds for an appeal. democrats

non-existing news agency called white house news several white house officials even followed her on twitter montagu then asked credentialed reporters in the white house press room so a pass on her questions because she couldn't make it there to code the regulations and stuff like that and they did no credentials no background check nothing and this laziness or incompetence or whatever you want to call it on the part of the white house press team is exactly what led montague to do all this in the 1st place i love journalism and i think the press corps is doing a pretty bad job at the moment so i decided i would ensure some transparency and ask some questions me and some friends wanted the answer to and she's not the only one fed up with real journalists ever since biden circa office the pres briefings in the white house have turned into a game of softball a police compared to the way the media behaved during the true. but ministration back then everyone suddenly had a sense of journalistic duty to ask the hard questions and grill the administration over everything and anything this president like go ahead you think candidate we're going to question bill pre

press secretary is what you would _ biden's press secretary is what you would expect from any white house press but as you are _ and hoping things to quiet down. but as you are saying, joe biden is very passionate — as you are saying, joe biden is very passionate about his irish roots and feels _ passionate about his irish roots and feels america's role in helping prolong — feels america's role in helping prolong the peace process in northern ireland very keenly and there _ northern ireland very keenly and there are — northern ireland very keenly and there are broader politics over that intervention from the us government from boris _ intervention from the us government from borisjohnson and intervention from the us government from boris johnson and joe intervention from the us government from borisjohnson and joe biden is probably— from borisjohnson and joe biden is probably going to make his first visit as— probably going to make his first visit as a — probably going to make his first visit as a precedent to the uk which is hopefully, going to take place in cornwall— is hopefully, going to ta

also this the white house press secretary jen psaki downplayed the seriousness of terrorist being caughtthis is uncommon, also homeland security depleted a press release about the terrorists, we border patrol stopping 19 suspected terrorist at the border since 9/11 including isis, the pakistani taliban, people are saying if you talk about this, it's hysteria, no, dick cheney says just one needs to get through to create a problem. do you think it's overreacting to report about terrorist being caught at the border and why did homeland security delete the press release about it. >> homeland security is doing a lot of things, gag orders unofficially, they did not want us to take pictures and some of the facilities, they don't want to talk about people being apprehended and that are on the terrorist watch list or no-fly list, they don't want folks to know what's going on because they know what it is an absolute crisis and its stem directly from the policies that president biden reversed of president trump. then when he handed off the border issue two kamala harris when asked if she's going to

the white house press secretary jen psaki answer questions about whether the president will still ask americans to wear masks after his first 100 days in office. >> he is working and in discussions with our health and medical experts about what we need to do to get the pandemic under control. so i don't have any update on that at this point. >> all california residents are still required to wear face coverings in public. the cdc is examining whether it is necessary to wear masks outside with vaccinations on the rise. moderna ceo says the company is working to develop a booster vaccine to help protect against coronavirus variants. the company hopes to have the booster approved by late summer or early fall. it's currently in test trials. moderna's current vaccine is already more than 90% effective against the virus up to 6 months after the second dose remains unclear. how long community from the virus last earlier this month. pfizer also said a booster shot was likely necessary. just in to the kron 4 news room, a former elementary school teacher in san jose has been charged with assault

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let me first just say as someone who was the white house reporter on friday, i stand firmly behind the white house presse in the same boat and work to get information out of whatever administration it is. so i don't fault my colleagues at the white house in the least bit. and if we look at the motivation, why did this person -- whoever they are, i think it said they're a gamer who wanted to get in there, it reminds me back during the obama/biden years when you had tareq and mikhail salahi who crashed a state dinner. we all remember that. do you remember that? the couple crashed this dinner, and then they wanted to brag -- there they are, look at that. >> yeah! [laughter] >> they got a reality tv deal out of it in the end. mikhail left poor tareq and ran away with neil schoen, the guitarist for journey. [laughter] so that didn't work out so well. -- >> [inaudible] >> maybe the questions are relegit, but it's like why don't you just leave the job of covering the white house to the journalists in there. now, this will probably lead to more scrutiny of those with access. but, you know, at the end of the day

enterjen psaki, white house press secretary. the voice of the administration.olicies. hagar chemali is a former colleague from the obama administration. she always listens and takes recommendations from the experts. that is a real personality, she is very easy—going and easy to work with and very affable and gregarious. she's fast becoming known for her careful yet exacting communication style, and her hashtag. i don't have anything more for you. you don't appreciate putting words in my mouth, that wasn't what my effort was. jen psaki cut her teeth in this building as a spokesperson before moving on to become president obama's medications director. i travelled with her as part of the diplomatic press corps that followed then—secretary of state, john kerry. she was friendly but firm and she ran a tight ship. we intend to very directly to medicate with the iranians about the complete and utter outrage that is the unjust unlawful detention of american citizens. jake sullivan is a former debate champion and state department alumni. former australian prime minister

been dead for 10 years a decade ago and now that threat has metastasized in the words of the white house press secretary joe biden saying that they are now concerned about areas like somalia where al shabaab is operating. in syria and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula so the u.s. president saying that if there is a resurgence that the united states will address that but at the same time the large military footprint that has been very large in the past generation is coming to an end and of course the drawdown will start in may and is due to finish on that very symbolic date his isn't a complete live and 2021 of course 20 years after the attack all on the twin towers if we have some kind of i guess picture of what is going to happen over those over those months obviously the troops will withdraw but when it comes to putting anything in place to help the afghan government after that withdrawal. well we heard from the president that his intention is that the sort of u.n. process that is continuing to be sort of. worked out in terms of the. the taliban and the afghan government will continue and th

white house press secretary jen psaki asked about this yesterday at the white house press briefing, andstration. listen. >> it took us some time to see and evaluate how, how ineffective or how trashed in some ways the refugee processing system had become. and so we had to rebuild some of those muscles and put it back in place. >> reporter: and just a few hours later the white house out with a clarification from press secretary jen psaki after that pushback. we inherited the burdens on the office of refugee resettlement. his initial goal was 62,500, seems unlikely. with that done, we expect the president to set a cap for the remainder of this year by may 15th meaning we will see a higher number than that 15,000 which received pushback. an important clarification, the numbers we're seeing on the southern border of people coming through to the united states and asking to seek asylum, refugees specifically are folks that are all over the world, sometimes from from africa, sometimes from asia with, europe, all different countries who are actually vetted in their home country before they're g

joining us to talk more about this is white house press secretary jen psaki.hank you so much for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> we got some specifics about the tax increases that president biden would like to see in order to pay for what he wants to do. and i'm hoping that maybe you can just shed some light on this. axios, hans nichols at axios is reporting that this would be for individuals with the threshold being $400,000 but again in that top tax bracket you'd have families at $509,000. is that a correct representation of individuals versus families of who can be affected by these tax increases? whang >> the president is ensuring that his bold proposproposals, university pre-k, families, young people across the country can get two additional years of community college, extend the child tax credit, 12 weeks of paid leave which we all know, working moms around the country need. he proposed a way to pay for it. his promise is that nobody making -- individuals, families who are filing, filing their taxes making over $400,000 -- under $400,000 a y

. ♪♪ up next on both tvs afterwards, former white house press secretary and fox news host reflects on career and offers life lessons. she is interviewed by former assistant press secretary for public affairs in the george w. bush administration. >> it is great to be here today with dana. i think it's been 10 or 15 years since we have seen each other in person. >> it is. yes. it has been a while for all of us. >> for all of us. there are certain things that people go through in life. i may not have seen in 20 years but we picked up like it was yesterday. i think it's true for people that work in politics as well. >> i think of those relationships as forged and fire. my memories of all of those years of the bush administration are very vivid. >> some of the bad ones i hope fade. >> yeah. it is funny. i am sure you get asked also about going back into at administration one day -- >> i am too old for that. that is a young person's job. >> i am so old, i go back to the reagan administration. atne one point when bush 41 was president, i got to work at the u.s. trade representative's job. ce

but again this is something that has been announced just in the last couple of hours by the white house press secretary and also we should point out that in the united states not only is 53 percent of the population been vaccinated but in some cases in urban areas now there is more supply than there is demand and so as a result of this reality here in the united states the white house making the decision that it was time to act and send some of that to other countries that are and struggling in need and do we have any more details of the phone call between biden you know that happening in just the last couple of hours the u.s. president speaking with india's prime minister modi the to discuss that they really expect that they will continue to work together as they confront the public health crisis that is a global scale standing shoulder to shoulder they said that they will continue to work together here's what the white house press secretary had to say just a short time ago. the president spoke today with prime minister modi of india committing that the united states and india will continue

but even as cuba threatened to caulk out of the oas, president eisenhower and his white house press conference ties and interests and left open the door for an easing of tensions. >> by no means do i want to admit or charge that this situation is irretrievable. could bea has been one of our finest friends. we conducted the war that set them free. and when they got in trouble, we set them on their feet and set them free. and we have had a long his industry of friendly relationships, and we've tried to keep our hands out of their internal political affairs. we have not tried to throw out someone we didn't like. so i would think that the very welfare of the cuban people finally demand some kind of composition between the american states on the one hand and cuba on the other. >> cuba's fidel castro arrives, a first in a parade of heads of government that includes nearly every iron curtain nation alive. all on hand for the opening of the united nations 15th general assembly, surrounded by security guards, his arrival speech is only a few words. >> to the people of the united states. i don't want to

white house correspondent can be harkat so kimberly looks like the u.s. have given into this pressure to release those astra zeneca vaccines. that white house press secretary shinseki talking about it in her briefing which is still ongoing was the decision of the by the it ministration that is your right has been under pressure for some time now to share its stockpile of vaccines with poor countries or countries that simply don't have enough of course india being one of the experience and one of the worst crisis with respect to covert 19 says this pandemic began and so as a result their decision has been made to release not only these doses but also the raw materials to be able to produce the astra zeneca vaccine which is known as copa shield in india moving forward now this is not the only material that's being shipped we also know that the united states is sending over ventilators it is sending over p p e that is personal protective equipment and also rapid test the feeling is that in the united states where the astra zeneca vaccine is not given because it has not yet been approved for use in the united states there is a portfolio of vaccines t

but even as cuba threatened to walk out of the oas, president eisenhower in his white house press conference open the door for an easing of tensions. >> cuba has been one of our finest friends. we are the ones that conducted the war that set them free. and when they got in trouble we had an occupation, and again we set them on their feet and set them free. and we have had a long history of friendly relationships, and we've tried to keep our hands out of their internal political effects. we have not tried to throw out someone they didn't like or anything like that. so, i would think that the very warfare of the cuban people finally demand some kind of composition of the difficulties between the american states including our own on the one hand and cuba on the other. ♪♪ >> cuba's fidel castro arrives at new york. the first of the parade of heads of government that includes nearly every iron curtain nation and russian align all on hand for the opening of the united nations 15th general assembly surrounded by a heavy security guard, he appears subdued. his arrival speech is only a few words. i w

. >> i want to show our viewers, and have you react to the white house press secretary jen psaki last week on the challenges with raising the caps. >> i can say we have every intention of putting out an increased cap. we hope to do that soon in advance of may 15th. i'm obviously not going to get into private conversations between the president and members of his national security team, but i will say that one of the things that has been on the president's mind, that i think was covered in a number of the stories, are the challenges to our resources. we've talked about this a little bit. so one of those is refugee processing in a global, big global system. and there were muscles that have been atrophied over the last few years. it's not just the federal government but a lot of important organizations around the world that help address this. his concern was, in part, is that system prepared? by setting a larger cap, which we have every intention of doing, we are sending a message. get your muscles back in action so we can welcome more refugees and continue to strive toward the goal that

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white house correspondent kelly allocate has more now on the response from the biden administration. as ron accuses israel of being behind the attacks on its nuclear facilities i asked the white house press secretary gentz psaki about whether the white house is concerned the alleged actions of a u.s. ally could do rail the discussions to limit iran's nuclear program and bring the united states and iran into compliance under that agreement the white house press secretary fused to comment on whether israel was involved only to say that this was in her view a speculation on causes take a listen we've seen the reports we don't have anything more to speak to as it relates to the causes or who is responsible our focus of is of course on the diplomatic path forward we've not been given any indication that attendance at the discussions and the that will proceed on wednesday has changed now the white house press secretary did confirm that the united states was not involved in the attack as for the impact the attack could have on the diplomatic discussions jen psaki saying that she will focus on the diplomatic path forward at the terms of how she expects that these talks will proceed she says the

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. ♪ ♪ >> harris: the white house is being pressed over shocking video of two toddlers being thrown overorder fence as the migrant crisis reaches a whole new level. this is "the faulkner focus," i meant for harris faulkner today and thank you so much for joining us. there's new information on the disturbing video we showed you yesterday. smugglers dropping the little girls over a 14-foot barrier in new mexico and leaving them there with no homes nearby. fox now has a photo of those two little girls with a border agent who rescued them. she says the sisters are doing fine. gloria chavez also told this to "fox & friends" first. >> they kneeled down and wondered as they were talking to me what kind of experiences or nightmares they went through from ecuador all the way to our border that we don't even know about because they were the ones that were being carried by these ruthless smugglers with inhumane treatment of the most vulnerable population in the world, children. >> meanwhile, there is no end in sight to the chaos as border officials project as many as 184,000 unaccompanied children

earlier today white house press secretary general psaki laid out what president biden's planning to do next week. >> as he's thinking about what his speech is next week, he has every intention of using it as an opportunity to elevate this issue and talk about the importance of putting police reform measures in place. kennedy: what the return measures to the president proposed? the best solutions on this, joining me to break down the cato institute vice president for criminal justice, welcome, clark. >> good to be with you. kennedy: i touch on a few things but they are different areas and avenues that could be investigated and expanded to improve policing throughout the country because that's ultimately what we want to do, we want people to be safe and trust law enforcement in the communities and stop these abuses. i laid out a few things but you have other issues as well, what should the biden administration do in terms of qualified immunity? >> the two biggest things we are missing and need to talk about his work criminalization, criminalizing way too much activity that brings police

and the white house press secretary did the same and i think it has something to do with the fact that there are a large number of clandestine service members that are working in the region and those numbers are never given to the media or to the public or made public and then you also have to remember really from almost the beginning the united states has had a very large contractor presence there in other words sort of paramilitary forces that are not part of the traditional military and so as a result it makes things a little bit unclear those numbers have also at times been very difficult to decipher what we do know is that there will be a different mattick presence there is a belief that there is a need for that to continue because there is still much work to be done you heard there from the president he says that the the united states will continue to support the afghan government as it works on bringing about peace with the taliban but they recognize that there are some challenges but they believe that this can be done in the coalition of the partners and allies and that they ca

president joe biden and vladimir putin the russian leader the white house press secretary gentz psaki not disclosing who initiated that phone call but we do know that the call resulted in the leaders agreeing to meet at a later date for a summit in a 3rd party country those details still being worked out so a very busy white house press briefing in terms of news headlines there absolutely is to stay there for us can believe sports it's a scar in the minutes but of course the crew virus. issues so very much to the forefront of people's mind right now let's speak. she is standing by for us i'd say the u.s. food and drug administration in silver spring. patty this polls of the the johnson and johnson vaccine pretty much where a lot of people's minds just give us a sense of what you know about how the polls has been introduced and what kind of impacts will bond have on the wider u.s. vaccine. well the biden ministration says the johnson and johnson johnson and johnson vaccine was the 3rd vaccine approved it's being used less than the other to the pfizer and they say they've seen no red fl

then, for a white house press secretary -- the former white house press secretary talks about her book. she was interviewed by victoria clark in the george w. bush administration. watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. >> next, we hear from the chair of the financial stability board on financial issues. this event was hosted by the peterson institute for international economics. >> good morning, everyone. welcome back to the peterson institute for international economics. i am the institute president and it is our pleasure today to host a virtual speech by the chair of the financial stability board member of the board of governors and federal reserve. chair for supervision of the system. we will introduce randy more properly in a moment. he has a long and distinguished career in the u.s. treasury and the federal reserve as well as the financial markets. first i just want to orient this talk in the midst of what we are calling macroweek or marched macromadness here at peterson. yesterday we had the privilege to host the talks of the first public speech by dr. christopher walken is a

>> as for the president, the white house press secretary says his view on packing the court is the same as it was during the campaign. >> i would not get in a court-packing. >> and we will see if the president changes his mind when the commission studying this issue releases its report in about six months. bret? >> bret: kristin fisher live from the north lawn. kristin, thank you. we will have details on that shooting at the fedex facility in indianapolis. we will take you there a bit later along with stories on the latest violence in minnesota, chicago, and texas. meantime, as we mentioned at the top, the biden administration is quickly backtracking tonight after president biden signed an order keeping the u.s. refugee cap at an historically low 15,000. that is the limit instituted by former president trump. correspondent rich edson is live tonight from southern texas with that story at first. good evening, rich. >> good evening, bret. it took only a few hours after widespread condemnation from democrats and aid groups. the white house now says by may 15th it will release an updated hi

by the way the white house press secretary jen psaki says bide listen leave it up to breyer as to when he'll retire. while the democrats have control of the senate so biden could then "appoint the first black woman to the high court." shannon? >> shannon: we'll see how that works, the progressive on ginsberg, still smarting over her decision to stay and that was her choice. it will be justice breyer's as well. kevin, thank you so much. ruling just in for the supreme court. literally minutes ago and a reminder of just how high the stakes are. the court ruling 5-4 siding with challengers to california's covid restriction banning in home religious gatherings, in some cases things like prayer meetings an bible studies so chief justice roberts said he wouldn't have granted the request and the courts lee left leaning justices wrote the descent so 5-4 blocking that ban on in home religious gatherings in california. also breaking, the biden administration is reportedly considering making cash payments directly to certain central american countries to try to stem the flow of migrants leaving th

then, for a white house press secretary -- the former white house press secretary talks about her book. she was interviewed by victoria clark in the george w. bush administration. watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. >> next, we hear from the chair of the financial stability board on financial issues. this event was hosted by the peterson institute for international economics. >> good morning, everyone. welcome back to the peterson institute for international economics. i am the institute president and it is our pleasure today to host a virtual

what does the white house think about that? press sec. psaki: i would point you to the state of california and local school districts to have the discussions. >> is the president going to change the way he talks about the new georgia voting law? in the interview you reference, he said the law would end voting at 5:00, when working people are just getting off and and voting hours early so working people cannot have their vote after their shift is over. the washington post gave that claim for pinocchio's, because that part of the law gives counties the options to extend voting hours. i am curious of the president will change the way he talks about this. press sec. psaki: fundamentally the president does not mean -- does not believe it should be made harder to vote. this bill makes it harder to request and return absentee ballots. it collapses the length of george's runoff elections, making a harder for large jurisdictions to offer early voting. it proposes rigid nude -- rigid new person -- rigid new restrictions. in his view, we need to mak