their schools. the bottom line is the president wants the o see them in their ss and their school. it remains to be seen what this intervention from the white house, whether or not that is going to kind of ease the lock jam between the two parties as hundreds of thousands of kids continue to stay out of school. for the president's part he wakes up this morning in las vegas but yesterday when he was here in d.c., he tried to inject a bit of optimism to this administration's current fight battling the latest surge of the pandemic. when he was asked by reporters whether or not he feels that the covid in this ite ration is here to stay. take a listen to his answer. >> no, i don't think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment is probably here to stay but covid as we're deealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn't have to be. we have so many more tools we're