i m laura jarrett. happy friday. happy friday. i m christine romans. nice to see you. march 12th. 5 a.m. exactly in new york. start the clock. president biden offering this hopeful path out of the pandemic and he s giving a time line by early summer. in the first primetime address he urged all-americans to do their part. if we do all of this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th there s a good chance you, family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard, neighborhood, have a cookout, barbecue, celebrate independence day. here the president urging all states to make all adults eligible for a vaccine available in two months. jasmine, we have dates here. vaccines on the way for everyone. lay out the president s goals. reporter: well, last night, laura, the president really did two things. he tapped into the empathizer in chief role that we are getting to know from him so well meeting with americans, as you said, to do their part. he
welcome back, everyone. joining us now for yesterday s plunge on wall street, dominic chu. the dow experienced yesterday its largest interday drop. what happened yesterday? so yasmin, ayman, it was the biggest point drop the in dow history. and it s an important distinction. the point drops will be bigger as the market rises, but they re not as big on a percentage basis. not the biggest move lower in history on a percentage basis. a lot of what is driving the market right now is this idea that we ve been floating for so high for so long without any kind of a pullback that all of a sudden we are seeing a bit of a correction, a pullback to levels we typically would see in a normal market. what s happened over the last few years has not been