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Of covid-19 cases which is being felt in every state, including heavily in louisiana. the highly transmissible delta variant a key driver in that surge. and now "the new york times" reporting that top health officials are advising the white house to dial back a plan to roll out booster shots later this month. the president today blaming the delta variant for a slowdown in job creation. susan just mentioned this. adding that he intends to announce new measures to stop the spread. >> we need to ma...

Wages are up especially for working-class americans. even so, even with the progress weve made, were not where we need to be in our economic recovery. there are two critical tasks ahead this month to get us closer to our goal and to take the next steps in our recovery. the first, we need to make more progress in fighting the delta variant of covid-19. this is a continuing pandemic of the unvaccinated. since becoming president ive ramped up testing, secured enough vaccine for every single america...

Americans. even so, even with the progress weve made, were not where we need to be in our economic recovery. there are two critical tasks ahead this month to get us closer to our goal and to take the next step in our recovery. first we need to make more progress in fighting the delta variant of covid-19. this is a continued pandemic of the unvaccinated. since becoming president, ive ramped up testing, secured enough vaccine for every single american and gotten 175 million americans fully vaccina...

Working class americans. even so, even with the progress weve made, were not where we need to be in our economic recovery. there are two critical tasks ahead this month to get us closer to our goal and to take the next steps in our recovery. first, we need to make more progress in fighting the delta variant of covid-19. this is a continuing pandemic of the unvaccinated. since becoming president ive ramped up testing, secured enough vaccine for every single american, and gotten 175 million americ...

Not be critical of the folks working behind the scenes in many respects. are you saying you think the biden administration is dropping the ball, not working hard enough, fast enough when it comes to this? >> again, i think both sides of the aisle deserve a lot of credit. both administrations deserve a lot of credit. the biden team has been very ford forward about vaccinations. since youre bringing up testing, again, the facts speak for themselves. testing is down substantially since we left offi...

Reporting that testing companies are once again struggling to meet demand, days long waits for results again. you were in charge of testing for the trump administration. why as a country have we still not gotten this right? >> well, its hard for me to imagine why testing has gone down 60-80% under the biden administration and we now have billions leiterally of tests pe months. why the biden administration is not sending free tests to areas that have outbreaks in their home, in their mailboxes. a...

Truth of our government at the outset of this pandemic. >> he clearly has major differences and problems with the trump administration. what do you say to that? >> well, i disagree with that. i can tell you dr. bright, i worked with him at hhs, but he was really not involved in any of the decision making and certainly i dont know how you can criticize the vaccine rollout. you know, we had secured 900 million vaccines before we left office. on the day of inauguration of president biden, 1.5 milli...

On, the former hhs employee, a whistleblower to sued the trump administration and is also in charge of the office that was involved in developing a covid vaccine before he left. he levelled some heavy charges this morning, saying if the trump team, which of course you were part of, had done things differently, he says hundreds and thousands of lives could have been saved. let me play this from rick bright. >> if we had initiated testing, a really robust nationwide testing strategy to tell people...

The cdc put out updated back to school guidance. the priority is getting kids back in person in the classroom. beyond that it seems like the guidance sort of varies widely. what do you think? >> i was pleasantly surprised by the guidance in a good way. i think they have a difficult balancing act. i believe its really important to get kids back in school full time, 100% come the fall. i think the cdc did a good job of saying we need to have mitigation measures in place like indoor mask mandates f...

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