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130 in just a week or so because of migrants that leaked over are not being tested at all. in del rio, we have had over 10,000 cases of covid over the past week with 233 deaths, and hhs is saying they are testing about 20% of them testing positive for covid. in other words, of the migrants 20% of the families in the unaccompanied children are positive. by john, i dont think it is 20%. its probably more like 40 or 50% when you have the migrants plus slim and close together and there is not hygien...

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They have paid. some of them are coming from chile. they just speak spanish. theyre coming from brazil. they have worked there. so this is all something that the federal government as a whole must work through. and so now that we have no envoy we need to find another one. >> do you want to start seeing some resignations from the biden administration for this? homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas for example? >> no. he has worked very closely with us. oh, no. i consider him as a partner...

Element to this? >> well, first off, lawrence, it was exciting the announcement the president made today stating we will be able to purchase an additional 500 million bringing our total to about a billion well be sharing for the next year. youre right. there are challenges with regards to readiness that we need to consider as well and that was also part of todays covid summit discussion. when we think about issues like refrigeration and other logistics those are certainly issues that were focuse...

The total population is fully vaccinated. in africa around 4% of the total population of that continent has been fully vaccinated. africa has the lowest vaccination rate of any continent. the five african countries with the lowest vaccination rates are the democratic republic of congo, tanzania, chad, south sudan, all with less than 1% of their population fully vaccinated. president biden has made the united states the worlds leader in distributing free vaccine to other countries. joining us now...

Prepared, of course, in any event of any contingencies we see this as a routine step and one just to be prepared in any event of what could happen. >> theoretical but would the administration be in support of, lets just say a cut out, a cr just for health and human services, for other departments that are critical to the pandemic response? >> i dont think im going to speak to that steve. our objective here. there is a c.r. that passed. there is a debt limit that passed raising a debt limit that ...

Package, having had these meetings yesterday, does the president think the house should vote on the infrastructure bill in the beginning of next week or does he think that there might be a benefit to waiting? >> the president is going to work closely with leadership to determine what the next best steps are. >> he also may need republican votes. does he intend to bring house republicans over to talk about infrastructure in the next few days? >> we are really deciding day by day on what can be mo...

Ceiling, over 30% of that debt was run out by the trump administration. what he wants to do is add both that number to that bill, so they can totally mislead the american people into suggesting that, in the reconciliation bill, it costs trillions and trillions. that is the political play. and i dont think he should fall for that. >> senator chris van hollen, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, great to be with you. >> coming up, tonight the fda authorized a third shot for people over 65 who ...

Vaccination rate of any continent. the five african countries with the lowest vaccination rates are, the democratic republic of congo, tanzania, chad, south sudan, and king of hostile all with less than 1% of less of their population vaccinated. president has made the united states the world leader in distributing vaccines. joining us now is lois pace the director of the global affairs, and department of health and human services. thank you very much for joining us tonight with, what are some of...