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KPIX Face The Nation July 13, 2024

Brennan the president is increasingly anxious to get the economy back on track. President trump vaccine or no vaccine, were back. Brennan and vows to have a vaccine by the end of the year. Chairman Federal Reserve Jerome Powell says thats what the economy fully needs. For the economy to be fully back, it may have to wait the arrival of a vaccine. Brennan and well ask health and Human Services secretary secretary alx azar if having millions vaccinated in a year is realistic. The house passes a 3 trillion bill full of pandemic relief, but Senate Republicans say it is dead on arrival. Well talk with House Speaker nancy pelosi. Former white house Economic Advisor gary cohn will also join us and well take a look at the skyrocketing number of americans who ned eding their f. All of that and more is just ahead on face the nation. Brennan good morning. And welcome to face the nation. Bythe end of today, 48 states will have reopened businesses or loosened stayathome orders in some form. Yet none of them have met the federal guidelines of having had two weeks of a declining number of cases. At this point, its hard to know what the impact is yet of the reopenings. Either on the number of cases or on the economy. Cbs News National correspondent rk strassman reports from atlanta. Mark . Reporter good morning, margaret. Georgia is one of 48 states to reopen this weekend, every state but massachusetts and connecticut. Coinessures. This weekend the reopening america included beaches and parks, whether it ise, is your judgment call. This Northern California restaurant defied a county order to shelter in place. Ive had it, so has all of my costumers, so has the state of california. Lets open up. Reporter crowded as it was, virtually no one wore face masks. I saw the people in there sitting next to each other, i dont know what theyre thinking. Reporter theyre thinking that the economy keeps taking casualties. 36 million workers filed for unemployment in the last two months. Since the crisis began, more than 100,000 Small Businesses have shuttered for good. Theyre also thinking in the last two weeks americas new covid cases have declined. But reopening renews worries about a resurgence. How you act will determine what happens to you. Literally. [yelling] reporter behavior is a wildcard. Everybody is doing their best. Reporter like this scuffle in san antonio, store employees confronted a customer who refused to wear a face mask. Texas reported its highest total number of cases with more businesses set to reopen tomorrow. Health experts still dont know how far the virus has spread. Only 3 of minor americans have been tested. And they shutter imagining a reopened america looking like this crowded park in san francisco. Reopening safely takes discipline. This weekend will show whether people have it, whether they respect the viral threat by following all of the safety rules. With memorial weekend just ahead. Margaret . Brennan mark, thanks. We go to london and cbs news senior Foreign Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer. Reporter margaret, all over the world the dilemma is the same how and how fast to lift the lockdown, certainly in countries where the infection rate is declining, and also in some where it is still climbing, like russia. Moscow was doused in disinfectant has president putin announced he is planning to ease restrictions, even though russia now has the second fastest infection rate in the world after the u. S. Another epicenter is brazil, where Health Workers and grave diggers know this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. [applause] reporter but in a small victory, Brazils Covid belittling president has finally started wearing a mask, sort of. By contrast, in europe, the number of covid victims is going down and thinreg. It is a calculated risk, but life can return to normal, or normalish, without provoking a fresh coronavirus crisis. Even the Largest Church in the world, st. Peters in deleefore itsot a final reopening tomorrow. The exception is the u. K. Wait reporter a handful of protestors did demonstrate in london yesterday against the continuing lockdown. But they were outnumbered by the police and the rest of the country, which is opting for continued caution. On the other side of the world, after a parched 53 days, pubs reopened in northern australia. It is delicious and its cold and it is the first one. Reporter and in kiev, nurses cared for 51 tiny babies, all of them born in the pandemic to surrogates. No one wants borders to reopen more than the babies parents, who are desperate to get to the judiciarukraine to pick them up. And the city of wuhan, where the virus originated and which almost managed to stamp it out, is now going to test all 11 million of its inhabitants, it is an attempt to find and isolate carriers before they can set off a second wave. Brennan Elizabeth Palmer in london. We want to go to health and Human Services secretary alex azar. Good morning, mr. Secretary. Good morning, margaret. Good to be with you again. Brennan good to have you. Operation warped speed, which is what the white house is calling this push to have a vaccine by the end of the year, 300 million doses is the promise can you be clear here is the pledge that all 328 million americans will be able to get a shot in their arm by the end of the year . Well, margaret, lets be clear, thats a goal. I think the gretzkys once said you fail to achieve 100 of the goals you dont set. It is not a pledge, but it is a goal of what were going to mobilize the entire u. S. Government and private sector to achieve. These Drug Companies and vaccinemakers said it is going to make this amount of time because theyre using their traditional approaches. You do phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 in series, and then the manufacturing. And the president said that is not acceptable. We want to make the Development Side faster to get to safe and affective vaccines, and at the same time, were going to scale up commercialsized manufacturing and produce hundreds of millions of doses at risk. They may not prove effective, but well have it so we can begin an administration right away. Brennan you said hundreds of millions of doses, that is not the same thing as saying hundreds of musical millions of vaccines ready for the public. You said the entire American Population could receive vaccines by january. Thats the goal. We have hundreds of millions of people, so 300 million is the goal. And by january, that we would set, whether by one or multiple vaccine candidates to be able to have. Brennan but is this lets look at having the vaccines developed,. Brennan absolutely. Clearly youre going to have a lot of people wanting this vaccines. Will it require booster shots . Are you sure 200 million, 300 million doses are sufficient . Those are great questions, margaret. Thats part of the Development Programs that you study, do you use a single shot . Do you have a multiple with a booster . What type of immune response do you get . Thats why you dont go into battle with just one target here. We had 100 candidates originally, weve narrowed it to 14, and were going to narrow it down to four, five, six that we really place the big financial bets behind and drive on. We might act ttings aee thenes, somed data get generated here. Brennan President Trump said on monday, we have prevailed. On that same day, may 11th, all 12 of the different models that the c. D. C. Uses projected that there will be over 100,000 deaths by june 1st. How can the administration say weve prevailed when you see a death rate climbing like that . Well, margaret, as you will remember, the president clarified that in response to a question that by prevailed, he meant to testing, by building a novel diagnostic system here in the united states. He did not mean the Disease Burden, and he clarified that you could never speak of prevailing or success when there is even a single death. Gi the Disease Burden here and across the world has been horrible. Weve worked to minimize that. We believe that our actions to delay and flatten the curve saved hundreds of thousands of lives that otherwise could have been lost. Toeinrats still nothi for the president or fr nnan given thates are starting to reopen part of their economy, and there is a lag time of two or three weeks before you see the virus show up, how much of a sense do you have whether reopening is reinfecting the populous at large . These will be really important questions, margaret, for us to study through our comprehensive surveillance system. A critical part of reopening is influenzalike su surveillance as well as syndromeic testing, and that will be really helpful with this federal system and the approach the president is taking, having each state take localized decision, and it will give us really good data brennan we dont know the risk of reopening, but youll be monitoring. Weve seen george reopening and florida reopening it is still early days, but we think the tools are there. This gets set up as a health versus economy. And it is actually health versus health. We see reduction in cardiac procedures, cancer screenings, pediatric vaccinations there is a very real Health Consequence to these shutdowns that must be balanced against as we try to reopen this economy and move forward. Brennan absolutely. Eblowice on 60 minutes. He specifically names you in his complaint of having downplayed the catastrophic event. The last titl time you were with us on face the nation was march 1st, and you said what americans need to know is the risk to average americans remains low. Do you take responsibility for any missteps you have taken . I think if we played the entire clip i was using words that dr. Fauci told me i believe what i said is the risk to the average american at this time remains low, but that could change rapidly. I was always focused on learning that the situation would change. At the moment, the risk was low to any individual american. Brennan right. I stand by that in the sense thats what the Public Health people said. I go with what fauci and redfield and others say because theyre the Public Health experts. Brennan but they report up to you. The c. D. C. Has bting do you take responsibility for that . So we were confronting a situation here that is completely novel. There has never been a national immediate testing regime across public and private sectors. We have had to literally build this from the ground up. Thats what most folks dont quite understand here. The c. D. C. s role is to develop an initial put through the Public Health test that public labs will do for initial diagnosis. But we depend on the private sector to scale them up. These tests normally take brennan so you dont take responsibility for any problems that the c. D. C. Has admitted to having had . What problems did the c. D. C. Have . The c. D. C. Had an issue as they scaled up manufacturing of tests to em ao contamination on the third part of the reagent that never led to false negatives or false positives. But it prevented some of the scaleup for a couple of weeks. That was never going to be the backbone of broad testing in the united states. That depends on Companies Like abbott and roche. Brennan youre colleague has said that the c. D. C. Let the country down. Do you take responsibility for that . What do you think about that . I dont believe the c. D. C. Let this country down. I believe the c. D. C. Serves an important Public Health role, and what was always critical was to get the private sector to the table. Brennan thank you for your time. Face the nation will be right back with speaker of the house nancy pelosi, stay with us. The kind of a crack that comes from the loss of a job; from life plans falling apart. We didnt ask for it. But we are rising to meet it. And how far weve come isnt even close to how far wgo. We just have to remember how patient we were. How strong we can be. how strong you can be. and remember this; theres a crack in everything for a reason. How else can the light get in . Tomorrow starts today. Brennan we go now to capitol hill and the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. Madam speaker, good morning to you. Good morning. Brennan i want to talk about this 3trillion package you just passed, but i want to get your reaction to one white house advisor saying that the c. D. C. Let the American People down with testing. You heard the health and Human Services secretary saying he does not believe that is the case. What do you think happened here . Did the c. D. C. Let the American People down . The c. D. C. Was grossly cut in the president s budget. But setting aside how we got here, lets talk about how we go forward. It is important for us the American People want the economy to open up. We all do. We want our society to open up. We all do. In order to do that, we have testing, tracing, treatment, and isolation. And that is the path. Thats what the scientists advice. That is what we do in the heros act. We talk about how we can get there with a plan. We havent had a plan. Lets go forward in a bipartisan way to have a plan, a plan to test. We have no idea of the size of this challenge to our country because we have not sufficiently tested. Lets test so we can diagnose and we can treat and decrease the number of people who have died. 90,000 almost 90,000 americans have lost their lives to this awful villain. We, whatever our differences are, have to join together to fight this enemy for the livelihood hood of the American People. 90,000 people we send our condolences and our prayers to their families. We will always carry them in our hearts. Sadly, the number is projected to even grow. And nearly a million and a half people infected. So we have a common enemy. And as we go forward, lets do so with a strategic plan, a plan that has a timetable, it has a goal a timetable, benchmarks and the rest to get the job done for the American People. Brennan i want to ask about your plan. Because you mentioned the heros act is a 3 trillion bill you just passed. The americans are saying the Unemployment Benefits that exist now dont expire until july, and lets see what reopening looks like and what a new package should be tailored to. Why do you think there is no merit to that argument, that a few more weeks before crafting a bill could be more affective . No. Time is of the essence. In the past bills, they put forth their proposal, and then we worked in a bipartisan way that we anticipate. Now, across the country, republican and democratic mayors and governors and the rest, all want this bill to happen in terms of the investments in state and local and tribal and territoria g eo tary ortant. We have lost time. Again, setting aside how we got here, we cannot take a pause. They may think it is okay to take a pause, but people are hungry across america. Hunger doesnt take a pause. People dont know how theyre going to pay their rent across the country. We have to address this with humanity. Brennan has there been any republican response, any counteroffer, or opening to begin negotiations since you passed this bill that the white house says has no chance of becoming law. That isnt so. No bill that is proffered will become law without negotiations, so, yeah. Again, we had four bills, all bipartisan. The bill that leader mcconnell put forward, the cares one, was his offer. Nobody said it doesnt have a chance because he just put it forth. The interim p. P. P. Bill is his brennan has he reached out to you . We just passed the bill a matter of hours ago. I do have confidence because the governors and mayors, as i said, in a bipartisan way know we have to support our local government. Thats where we have health care workers, fire and first responders, our teachers and sanitation workers theyre at risk of losing th js. Many of these people risked their lives to save lives and now they may lose their jobs. By the way, i think it is important to note that everything sounds like a big number, but everything that we have in the state and local column there is less than the republicans put in their tax scam to give 83 of the benefits to the top 1 . Brennan the republicans say it is their red line to get what you want, what will you give on that . We had no red lines. But the best protection for our workers and their employers is to follow very good osha mandatory guidelines, and we have that in our bill. That protects the workers, protects their lives, as well as protects the employer if they follow the guidelines. Remember, when people go to work, they go home. They could bring it home to their children, or they could bring it home to a Senior Living in theird just the individual at work. Brennan madam speaker, late friday President Trump sent you a letter, saying that he was going to remove the Inspector General of the state department, steve linick. This is the fourth i. G. To be removed in six weeks. Why was linick removed . What is behind this . Well, this is new to us, and typical of the white house, announcing something that is very unsavory, and they would do it late on a friday night. The fact is, as you indicated, it is the fourth Inspector General. Inspectors general, that office was created after watergate to make sure there was integrity in the departments, the agencies of government. They are supposed to show cause. Even republicans in congress are concerned unsavory, is that what you mean . Unsavory, when you take out someone who is there to stop waste, fraud, abuse or other violations of the law that are that they believe to be happening. Again, lets take a look and see. The president has the right to fire any federal emp

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