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Covid response briefing next hour. joining me now is nbc news correspondent, heidi przybyla, from mcclain, virginia, who broke that story. and dr. ebony hilton, a professor of critical care medicine at the university of virginia and also an msnbc medical contributor. heidi, what more can you tell us about the cdcs plans coming up. >> reporter: yeah, jose, this is just the first part of many considerations that will need to be made as we enter this new phase of covid, which is learning to live ...

Parents, grandparents, teachers are vaccinated around them, the kid does just fine. so there is ways to protect those for whom vaccines are not available at this point. that small group of kids under 5. >> my child in particular is around other unvaccinated kids under 5, but thats also -- you make the risk assessment and for us the schooling is so important. >> because the issue then becomes, dr. khan, the -- towns and states are making this decision based on the risks that they want their local...

Strange, scared, drug addicts, nazis. his rhetoric sounds like someone whos partially off the rails. >> yeah, interesting point. i mean you covered many aspects of this, the military situation, the localities as well as the type of verbal disinformation from putin which at times as you say might not find much of a landing anywhere including among sympathetic audiences in russia itself. general mccaffrey as always, thank you, sir. >> its good to be with you. >> absolutely. we have our shortest br...

Biden for the visit of that bridge, and other infrastructure issues. senator baldwin, after the president, of course, on ash wednesday as a roman catholic, went to mass and received those ashes that we saw on his forehead, he traveled to wisconsin with you to make this point about what the infrastructure bill is delivering for wisconsin. are voters of wisconsin actually getting that message today? >> oh, they sure are. we talked about the bridge, weight restrictions were placed on it. people hav...

Population count was largely accurate. what do you make of this? what should be the next course of action to address this issue? >> sadly, undercounting black, latino, indigenous communities is not new for the census bureau, especially anyone who doesnt speak english as a first language, anyone who faces housing insecurity has his torely been undercounted. some of the racist, harlful tack tibs the trump administration collecting information, threatening to add a citizenship question, shortening ...

Part of the decision? >> really what theyre saying is that this is not a permanent policy. this is a 30 day extension so they can figure this out, right, there may be tension. again, these are two different situations and the cdc put out the benchmarks that these localities should be using, so if in peoria, theres nobody hospitalized with covid, and in cleveland, the hospitals are on fire, what should the call be? this is really the questions that theyre dealing with right now, and they say, you...

Different states and localities are dropping their mask restrictions in schools and public places. you do have the new variant thats posing a threat there has been a different metric added to the cdc measure up when you should mask or not to focus more on hospitalization versus transmission. i think replacing is a talented communicator is smart because they had a lot of criticism that we never heard from doctor lewinsky had missteps and jeff was not as well its a natural point to replace him a q...

Getting the nitty-gritty for their record, their cases, what is going on at the granular level, in these localities. simply, they will stop making soundbites, and are going to be used for the 2022 midterms, and again in 2024 in the presidential election, to make this argument that the republican party is a party that is hard on crime. it is tough on crime. the democrats are soft on crime. that basically she is a pawn in, a political action, that is laid out over the next couple of months, and in...

Different states and localities are dropping their mask restrictions in schools and public places. you do have the new variant thats posing a threat there has been a different metric added to the cdc measure up when you should mask or not to focus more on hospitalization versus transmission. i think replacing is a talented communicator is smart because they had a lot of criticism that we never heard from doctor lewinsky had missteps and jeff was not as well its a natural point to replace him a q...

Holley out. heres the thing, josh hawley is not backing down. being dangerous, it is characteristic fascination, who is going to be confirmed. what is the take on what theyre doing. >> my take is that its not actually about ketanji brown-jackson. she is, as you say, a foregone conclusion. she will sit on the supreme court, and josh hawley knows that. what this is about 2022, in the midterm elections, and in 2024. it is ridiculous claims, and they were soft on crime, that democrats are soft on cr...