don't overreact. you can get a lot more done behind the scenes than you can on camera. that's who joe biden is. that's who tony blinken is. and we saw that this week. and it's also not this kind of relentless america has to be first, america has to, you know, pump its muscles on the world stage. you know, we do well because of our alliances, and that's one of the things that you saw because not only was biden and the whole administration talking to israel. they were talking to egypt. they were talking to jordan. they were talking to all of those powers that have something to do with it, so i think it's both a good first test and a win, but it also shows their style of diplomacy, which is all about diplomacy. >> making diplomacy great again, if you will. robert gibbs, it's also been brought to my attention that the asian-american hate crimes legislation was signed into law,
the only reason to happen is an exact point of social media. if you went out there today, the amount of anti-semitic hate in the social media environment and the online environment is enormous. it's massive coming from many directions and every time someone sees that that has a slight inclination they're mobilized around it so it's a two part chablg. one for the social media companies to throttle and recognize it. when you see a conflict break out in the world like israel and palestinian conflict going on you have to get there quick to metering that content so it's not out of control and second part is for law enforcement agencies is knowing their communities, having that outreach is there. we spent a lot of effort a decade ago to do that and build outreach but after the george floyd protests, the election conspiracies out there and now
commission essentially. >> denver wriggleman, this is something i heard from a senior official involved in the 9/11 commission saying we need to -- in the same way that never again, failing to connect the dots became one of the mission statements of post-9/11, counter terror and protecting the homeland and became integrated with the cia and the fbi and the creation of department of homeland security, there are pieces of reporting to never fail to as clint said turn in the day before like the reports from field office in norfolk and why it took three hours for the national guard to respond to an ongoing insurrection at the united states capitol. i wonder what you make of where we stand on those questions with as clint said no one beginning to establish a commission to
and hate between groups of all political, social, economic persuasions and each fraction mobilized based on the rhetoric from the 40% of americans who think they're justified to rise up based on a history that's inaccurate every time that happens that also creates a reciprocal movement because they feel i cannot protect myself. if you believe in antifa that also means that there's an fa in fascist and one begets the others and with the splinter what we are doing is watching our political leaders use violent rhetoric to divide us and every time they divide us there's a reprisal system to spiral out of control over time. >> it's just an unbelievable moment for our country and grateful to talk to you about
things are improving, and we are seeing this week after week as more and more people roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated, the number of cases and the level of community risk is decreasing. >> the cdc director today on the incredible progress the u.s. has made thanks to vaccinations. citing an average of about 27,000 new covid cases per day, the lowest in about a year, about 500 deaths per day, the lowest since the pandemic began. and a dramatic decrease since january in concern for outbreaks at the community level. in an article headlined "covid on the run," david of the "new york times" writes this. the virus is running out of places to be communicable. andy slavitt, one of president biden's top covid advisors told me. the sharp decline in cases over the past month virtually guarantees that deaths will fall over the next month. the pandemic appears to be in an exponential decay phase.
israel is losing, the media war despite the connections. she says what are the connections? he says deep pockets. she says what does that mean? he says they control the media. she then in the moment called it out saying i would call that an anti-semitic remark. when you have senior government officials trotting that out it's an extension and tail on soesh media. how do you -- what is sort of the whole of society pushback when you have one of the most seen your leaders in pakistan trotting this out and then down to a twitter account? >> you are exactly correct. we need a whole of society strategy to combat this kind of hate because from foreign ministers to the mobs on the
program that this administration has presided over, you know, it is sort of joyful in there almost, people not wearing masks, people not having to be six feet apart. we're seeing, today, first -- only the second foreign leader visit in the biden term and the first one that can be sort of a full visit with all the pomp and circumstance and certainly one befitting of a traditional ally like south korea. and of course we are seeing this ongoing push with the infrastructure plan, you know, the white house making a counteroffer to republicans today. it's not quite clear whether that will get a deal done, but they see the -- feel like the wind is at their back. public polling supports not just the infrastructure plan but biden himself. he remains very popular now four months into his administration, and they feel like they capitalized on the momentum, including with what was his first, perhaps, diplomatic triumph this week, quietly pushing israel behind the scenes to get to that ceasefire with the palestinians and hamas. >> rick stengel, how they did it, i think, is a story worth
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achievable, and i wonder, randi, how you help people make up who didn't have the wi-fi, who didn't have the technical expertise, who didn't have a parent making them do all the assignments. what is the plan for the fall for making sure that the people that have fallen behind, that didn't have sort of the resources to keep up remotely, how do we catch them up? how do we catch them academically and socially and mentally? >> well, there's two plans, nicole. one is for the summer, and one is for the fall. and in the summer, you have a lot of districts, and i spent a lot of time last week talking about this. you have a lot of districts who have used the federal money in a way to do academics in the morning and enrichment in the afternoon. but really inject a lot of joy and fun in their summer programs. you know, make it camp-like. have dance. have sports. have arts. so that kids feel a joy, not just a sense of, oh my god, look
let's bring in msnbc medical contributor dr. kavita patel, former obama white house health policy director and fellow at the brookings institute. rick stengel, jonathan lemire, and robert gibbs are all still here and are going to jump in on the questioning. dr. patel, let me ask you about this idea that it's running out of places to go. does that mean we're not in a place where community spread is happening anymore? >> yeah, and that really comes, nicole, from this question of, you know, if one person gets infected, in previous kind of surges, that one person could infect, exponentially, one, two, three other people and what we're seeing now is people are still getting infected, but they're largely staying kind of infected as a unit of one and not spreading it to other people. and that's kind of the classic definition of what we look for in herd immunity. i know we're trying not to get people confused or what's a certain number for herd immunity. the truth with herd immunity is