Page 5 - Playing Catchup News Today

Real concern is making sure we have enough medicine in times of crisis, the real concern is anticipating protective personal equipment, ppe stockpiles and other things critical to our economy and critical to our homeland security this administration seems to always be playing catchup and not anticipating and having those discussions. in other words, while joe biden works with the unions to have them work overtime, so that we can get the stuff, at the same time, lets bring those jobs back to the ...

Another thing. we got a problem. we dont have enough workers who can drive trucks. we dont have enough workers in the warehouse. thats another problem. and let me tell you one other thing. the international carriers. theyre in ripoff mode. that is something that the administration could do. their profits have gone up 2,000% and they break contracts when it comes to containers. theres many, many things that can be done. frankly, were behind the curve. now, lets hope that we can get people driving...

Coming from the white house now, will be playing catchup when we do finally hit that that inflection standpoint. >> and you are right to stay on top of it. thank you both so much. when we come back, speaking of vaccine mandates, the nba vaccine success story is being undercut by just a couple of high profile superstars, some speaking out about their ongoing skepticism, that reporting next. ♪ ♪ ♪

Pushing bidens agenda? >> yeah, they really are. yeah, the drama is just out of control. i mean, "the new york times" last night claimed biden had been humiliated because this artificial deadline passed. the new yorker called it a civil war. come on, very complex negotiations for a very complicated piece of legislation. one of the largest, you know, this country has ever seen. the press is really, this is what happens when you stick to a narrative, one you want drama in and a story line and ark ...

Have been. the one thing that i do take some comfort this is that we finally have our domestic and he cans such as the fbi, homeland security, i think that they are now very focused on domestic terrorism and extremism. be they are playing catchup. >> and brittany, im curious your opinion on this, because im trying to my hardest to ignore these people. i dont really care, i dont want to spend time talking about them, about should we ignore them? we have to cover them a little bit, but i want to f...

Early 20s are sort of the native users of the app. for people who tend to be older, the app might seem like something they just dont use every day and arent particularly fluent in. people of the age demographic who focus on law enforcement and extremism research are going to be very comfortable with apps like facebook and twitter. with tiktok, not so much. thats why with this report i view it as dhs kind of playing catchup, trying to scramble to stay on top of the way social media is changing, t...

I assume youre hoping that gets cleared up a little today. >> yeah. as we talked in the past, chuck, i thought the two mrna vaccines were a three dose vaccine and the j&j were two dose vaccine. part of the problem wasnt messaged from the very beginning. and so now were playing catchup on that. and to add to the confusion, we dont have a lot of data in front of us to know the extent to which immunity is declining. >> why is that, why do we have this data issue. >> all the data is coming out of is...

We have learned in this pandemic is that we really need to prioritize public health and resources because we cant afford this to happen again the way it is happening. >> yeah, the testing, i mean, we blew it from the start, didnt we, at the cdc. seems like we have been playing catchup on the testing front and then the surveillance front basically from the start of the pandemic. dr. hotez, dr. blackstock, two important, comforting voices to have on here to help guide folks through this. thank you...

Home runs. and so even the lesser storms it might just, quote, hit 20 home runs are now hitting 40. so, yeah, were watching the hydro logic cycle on steroids. >> john, youre warning about how quickly these storms can intensify. we know in new orleans you kind of need several days to actually order an evacuation. that was one of the main issues with ida. people here in new york and new jersey and pennsylvania were caught off guard by getting the remnants of ida. and we heard officials talk about ...

And state in folks first that were not pregnant. so that is why the first six months of 2021, reams of data, tens of thousands of individuals, pregnant, not pregnant, have been studied to seestephanie just raised which that these studies show that the vaccines are safe and effective. but youre right, there was that information vacuum. weve filled it but were playing catchup to address those conspiracy theories. >> thanks to you all. much appreciated. and coming up, the terror threat looming ov...