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Kits to all-americans. heres jonathan reiner. listen. >> yes, thats exactly what you should do. mail these tests out to everyone. the trump administration missed an opportunity to mail masks to everyone. this administration should be mailing tests to everyone. this notion that people are going to submit their -- the receipts for their $24 test to their insurance company is fanciful. imagine what would happen to vaccinations if people had to pay for it up front and then bill their insurance compa...

The way we did the first two doses, that was because we in emergency. ive talked to a lot of scientists who indicate that actually we should spread out the second dose, and weve seen no guidance on that either. >> right. so no guidance on that either. definitely there is evidence that spacing out those primary doses does lead to a stronger and more prolonged immune response. obviously thats something we need to study more, but has to be revised in those guidelines and hasnt didnt one yet. i do t...

Olds. so, i want to make sure that if there is a recommendation, its based on really good data and i can recommend it for my patients and make a decision as to whether i think its the right way to go. and it puts more pressure on the importance of vaccinating adults who are around children, encouraging them because that is the buffer that will protect them. it puts more pressure on getting testing into schools which has not moved forward in a very effective way at all. >> i want, dr. besser, thi...

Responsibility, individualistic perspective, and i think in terms of ending the pandemic, we need a collective response. what i would like for the cdc and white house to think about in terms of messaging is that we are all in the same boat, the idea of the pandemic of unvaccinated, we have seen that it is not just the pandemic of the unvaccinated, when hospitals are at capacity, both people with covid and noncovid problems are impacted and we have cases across the country. we need a reset in ter...

Americans have one more step towards a better country. >> there will be health care debates, some democrats still want medicare for all. joe biden campaigned, you mentioned the primary, that was a testing issue early on, medicare for all or make obamacare better. this will continue. >> bernie sanders who is the senate budget committee chairman is trying to work health care pieces into this budget resolution that is mostly supposed to be about infrastructure. some human infrastructure as nancy pe...

To reopen the country. and dr. fauci saying the testing situation in the u.s. isnt perfect by any means? >> reporter: he says the testing issue in the u.s. is not perfect, but well get there. he said by the end of may, early june, everyone who needs a test should get one. he says thats what hes being told. as you can see with the line behind me, people in new york have been waiting hours, and they dont want to wait until may, or june. >> tom, thank you. we stay focused on the americans that ne...

Back to north korea itself, indeed, as you pointed out, the verification and monitoring is crucial. there is nothing more extensive than what exists in the iran deal. thats the template for what you need in north korea and i dont believe at the end of the day that north korea thinks denuclearization means destroying its stockpile of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. >> all very interesting. is it possible that donald trump in his tweet is aware of the history here, of the testing issue an...

Will say the u.s. isnt a reliable partner. he will break the transatlantic relationship and europe will be trying to keep the deal alive with russia and china. and coming back to north korea itself, indeed as you pointed out, the verification and monitoring is crucial. there is nothing more extensive than what exists in the iran deal. thats the template, what you need in north korea, and i dont believe at the end of the day that north korea thinks denuclearization means destroying its stockpile ...

Denuclearization means destroying its stockpile of nuclear weapons and long range missiles. >> all very interesting. is it possible that donald trump, in his tweet, is aware of the history here of the testing issue and their claim of nuclear progress and that hes sort of playing a three dimensional chess and outsmarting the north koreans? just kidding. i dont think thats possible. what will happen now that hes tweeted this? >> i think what will happen is that we will head towards the end of this...