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Attempts to push disinformation out there. but for the president, the most important thing to convey, and that hes conveying to his team, is that no talks without -- no talks about europe without europe. no talks about ukraine without ukraine. we had these discussions with the russians today, they are important conversations that will be happening on the 12th in brussels and the 13th in vienna. and this is just one part of a three-set series of discussions happening this week. peter, ill come ba...

Expanding access to free tests to make it easy and more accessible for americans and we are going to build on what we have done today. >> the president talked about a winter of severe illness and death. at the rate you are going, the tests will not be available until spring. will you admit that these free tests you guys promised are not going to be ready until after the omicron surge? >> i think i gave an update earlier well have tests out the door in the coming weeks, very soon. and again, that...

There in your question. there are several components of this. we want to ensure that there is not only the physical tests but the ability to distribute them which is what we are working through right now. we expect that the contract are structured in ways to require that significant amounts are an aggressive timeline, first of which should be arriving early next week. all contracts awarded over the next two weeks and then americans will begin being able to order these tests online later this mon...

Sure the market was growing, thats what we have been working on and increase access to supply and thats what we have been doing. >> the tests you are talking about require people to go somewhere and make an appointment or wait in line. the c.d.c. guidance, if you think you have covid you are to stay home. you said you were going to mail free tests to people that need them. the president on television is talking about winter of severe illness and death. hes saying that publicly, why were you not ...

Their own ethics rules and requirements. new rules in place in october, but the presidents expectation that all including independent agencies are held to a high standard, with high ethical standards, avoiding conflict of interest speaks for itself. >> and covid, we know that the, we know the rapid tests, they have gone to companies that procure materials as opposed to companies that are manufacturing the tests. are you satisfied that theres adequate testing of manufacturing capability in place ...

And other parts of the country as well. an unprecedented demand for tests. so what we have done over the course of the last few weeks even before that, is the president quadrupled our testing capacity since the summer. we opened 20,000 sites across the country and also opened additional federal sites, including one in d.c. only recently. hes also provided, we have also in the process of sending 50 million tests out to community health centers and rural health centers and now we are in the proces...