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Shadings of the truth were noble, that for instance, saying that masks were not particularly efficient for helping protect you back in the beginning of the pandemic so that they could be in greater supply for health workers, that the end result was okay. but it did seed distrust of him with good reason. he also has admitted saying that when it came to herd immunity, he looked at polling to base his statements on how much herd immunity would be the threshold that we needed. these two instances ar...

Threshold that may trigger the need for a booster? >> reporter: he did. the pfizer and moderna vaccines are more than 90% effective. he said if it dropped to the 80s or 70s, they would need a booster. but he said its too soon right now. and some fully vaccinated staffers from the white house to speaker pelosis office have tested positive. and the urgent plea, mitch mcconnell saying do not listen to the misinformation, urging the unvaccinated to get the shot. rachel scott is at the white house....

News contributor from austin, texas. congratulations to your home state with the lift-off with bezos and his team west of you. so how is this working out? they went from a paid charter to a zoom chat in washington, d.c. >> this isnt working out very well because they are telling a falsehood. chris turner, the state representative said it makes it harder to vote. thats a lie. it expands the number of hours for early voting in texas both on we can days and weekends. it lowers the threshold that yo...

Dont have to do that. were, i think, the only state in the nation that didnt letter lurch over the past 16 months. i hope not to do that here. if we have to, we will. >> so if we have to, we will. at what time from your perspective does states move back to broader masking? is there a threshold we should be looking for? >> yeah. great question. i think that we also have to do it with candid support in the counties and states that are putting them in place. these are blunt policies. nobody wants t...

Poll watcher can become -- provision in the texas law which is not a high threshold so just intimidation is not efficient so to the elections judge must observe the actual behavior. and so a voter alone reporting this behavior has suspicions rise that threshold and so the poll worker most of already given that one warning. moreover, it adds a new violation for poor workers to refuse to allow a portrait to be there even if they know that that poll worker, poll watcher has been problematic in the ...

Explain the carmen line. its not a term i had heard much about before, but obviously given -- they pointed out richard branson did not go above the carmen line. its an imaginary line. >> it is the internationally recognized boundary of space. but the u.s. government and the u.s. military, the faa, they recognize it a little bit lower. so virgin galactic says, hey, we were all astronauts. we became astronauts because we crossed the threshold that the u.s. government recognizes in space. blue orig...

In the bill that are egregious. but i want to speak to the provisions that involve partisan pollwatchers. provisions that empower untrained partisan pollwatchers -- while at the same time -- to control their behavior. the only way that they can remove a pollwatcher is if they violate a certain provision in the texas law, which is a high threshold. so just intimidation alone is not sufficient. the elections judge must observe the actual behavior. so a voter alone reporting this behavior is not su...

Point, that was certainly a hope that many of us had for a very long time. and at the beginning, with good reason. ithink time. and at the beginning, with good reason. i think at this point, the chances of reaching a lasting herd immunity threshold — that is to say a point where enough immunity exists for a long enough period of time — and notjust any immunity, but transmission blocking immunity is so unlikely that we are unlikely to reach that threshold whether or not we vaccinate kids. so ...

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Adjusts to your top eligible spend category, up to $500 spent each billing cycle. we are going back to wall street now, because weve told you at the top of the show the stock market was going down. you can now see the dow down nearly 800 points, more than a 2% drop. that is in some instances the threshold that experts say this is something we should pay attention to. so lets pay attention to it. you have all major indexes down, we can show you that graphic here. cnbcs dom chu is back with us f...