That they not only have to focus on the science of it but they have to restore basic trust in science. Yeah. Unfortunately so much of the misinformation around the coronavirus came from the previous president , President Trump and many other white house officials. So the first goal that the Biden Administration is laying out here in theyre National Strategy to combat the coronavirus is restoring public trust and one of the ways they intend to do that is with regular briefings that we used to see under the Trump Administration, but without the misinformation coming from the former president. They will start today at 4 00 p. M. With dr. Dr. Fauci joining the White House Press secretary for a briefing on coronavirus. The other goals here, mount a safe and Vaccination Campaign issuing guidance to help schools safely reopen, taking the politics out of the Coronavirus Response and focusing on the science. Now President Biden is going to be addressing much of his coronavirus strategy today at 2 00 p. M. Is when were expecting to hear from the president on this new strategy. And where hes expected to offer more details. Hell also be signing ten executive orders all aimed at the coronavirus. So the president s first full day in office entirely focused on this pandemic, on combatting this pandemic. And some of the main goals that theyre looking to accomplish here and the reason why it is such a stark contrast from the Previous Administration is theyre labelling a federally coordinated strategy, lacking in the Previous Administration where so much of this including Vaccine Distribution. There was a federal plan to distribute to the state but then from there it is left up to the states and that is changing now under President Biden. But that is why were hearing from sources close with knowledge of the biden plans here, that they are starting from scratch. As it related to Vaccine Distribution. Not to say there was no plan at all under the Trump Administration. But it certainly wasnt working as effectively as it should based on the number of people who have been vaccinated already. So were seeing a sharp turning of the page today and again a focus on the pandemic throughout the day. And based, by the way, on the Trump Administrations own stated public goals for vaccinating people. Here we are january 21st and well below that. Thank you very much. Well President Trump is dismantle executive orders working to undo some of Donald Trumps signature polies. John is at the white house. Assign from orders on covid, what are the biggest reversals in course that hes taking here. Reporter well the president is trying to generate momentum and make change where he can on issues that go beyond the covid19 and the economy. But the further you get away from those immediate crises, the choppery political water you get into this. He has executive orders on rejoining the paris climate accord, praised by Boris Johnson for that step today. But he also is canceling the permission for the keystone xl pipeline. Some resistance from canada, the president will talk to Prime Minister trudeau today and that is one of the topics that will come up. More politically problematic is going to be the issues related to immigration. So hes got an executive order strengthening protections under daca for the dreamers, revoking the president s attempt to divert funds to the construction of the border wall and also eliminating the muslim ban travel from majority muslim countries and the attempt by the president to exclude noncitizens from the census. Now all of those steps are overwhelmingly popular within the democratic party. And they have majority support nationally. President trump faced resittance from both courts and some republicans on the steps that he took. But these go to the heart of the questions of National Identity that fueled that insurrection that we saw two weeks ago and those are things that are going to become a flash point for the administration the more they focus on immigration. One key question is going to be does the administration insist on pursuing the broad immigration legislation the president plans to introduce or a narrower approach which democrats are pushing to focus on permanent protections for the dreamers, that is something that donald trump agreed to as president but never followed through on. That is one of the decision points for both President Biden and the democrats in congress. Such a different political environment than it was when they got close to comprehensive Immigration Reform years ago. Thanks for the reporting. New this morning, were learning from a Senior Administration official that President Biden intends to keep fbi director Christopher Wray in place in his post. It is not unexpected, jim, right, but it matters . Does. Typically they have ten year terms meant to straddle administrations and not political but it is none Important Role today. Also happening on capitol hill, that is live. You might recognize that man. President biden transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg testifying before the Senate Commerce committee. The first Senate Confirmed lgbtq cabinet secretary in history. A lot of firsts. With us now, jessica dean. A slow start no question. One cabinet pick in place. Will this pick up in the coming days . Reporter well the biden team is certainly hoping that it will pick up. Right now what the hang up is the democrats and republicans still havent hashed ott their power sharing agreement so there is disorganization in terms of committees and that sort of thing. But as you see, happening right now, transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg is going through with his Senate Confirmation hearing. Hes going to be introduced by one of his home state senators, senator todd young who is a republican. And if you read into that, having a republican introduce biden nominee, that reads pretty well for Pete Buttigieg going into this confirmation hearing to get that support from that indiana home town senator who is a republican. We also obtained a look at buttigiegs remarks from later today and he is going to talk a lot about infrastructure and how that is something that will keep people safe but could grow the economy. So that is what were expecting to see out of the buttigieg confirmation hearing. And jim and poppy, another important thing to keep an eye on today, what were watching is also this house vote on retired general lloyd austins waiver to serve as secretary of defense. He needs a waiver because hes not been out of the military for a full seven years. That is the law. So he needs the house to confirm he could do that, to give him that waiver. I got off the phone with a source telling me the biden team feels very confident that will happen and now sources say that the majority whip congressman jim clyburn did say on a call today they have the votes to get that waiver for lloyd austin and that had been something that the biden team was very focused on. There has been a lot of outreach to memberss offices to make sure this gets done so that is something to watch. It comes later today and then well continue to see if the senate will take up the votes on others who have already had their confirmation hearings. So a lot of moving parts as they try to work the nominees through the system. The waiver same as was given to jim mattis when trump tapped him to be his defense secretary early on. Jessica, thank you very much. Joining us to discuss, david gerrity, great to have you on. Good to see you. I wrote an oped released on wednesday and you said if President Biden wants to truly start healing the nation, hes got to get to work and im quoting you bring concrete results and reinvigorate the economy and the like. It is going to be about results. Absolutely. And i think hes got the capacity to meet at least one goal and that is to get 100 million vaccinations within the first 100 days. Public Health Experts say that is within reach. So i think in that case hes underpromising and doesnt get ahead of himself. If he said i want 150 million and got to 110, he would look like he failed. So i think that kind of concrete result in regard to covid, because you cant get the economy, that we learned once again today when the jobless numbers came out, 900,000, that is a sluggish economy, you need to get the vaccination done to get the economy rolling and then everything could pick up. But there is one other aspect that i think is important coming out of yesterday. And that was a mood and the tone that the president said and the rest of his team set. Ive been going to these as you have for a long, long time. Yesterday was the most successful launch of an administration that i could remember. The speech was well put together. This young woman Amanda Gorman blew the socks off of everybody and last night was extraordinarily professional. There was a confidence about things as well as a theme about unity and about getting results that i thought got off to a good result. And why is that important . It is important because biden was such thin majorities in the house and senate. He needs to have the public behind him , if he could hallie the public and tell the republicans hey, give the man a chance, that could improve chances for governance. That is such a good point. And exactly to that, the line in his inaugural address yesterday when he said politics doesnt have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. We forgot that, i think, over the last absolutely. Four years and then the question then doesnt become okay but could you bring most of america and congress along with you in that belief and that practice. I think hes done a good job so far of getting the country behind him. The first numbers ive seen he was up around 60 approval. That is far higher than what trump never broke 50 . So it makes a big difference. If youre going to get the republicans to come and play with you and work with you, they have to see that it is in their political interest. And if you have high numbers as president , theyre more likely to work with you. He needs them to reach out in order to make this work. And weve had four previous president s in recent years who have made a very stirring inaugural address, appealing to a very inspirational way, appealing for unity and we had the two bushes and well as bill clinton and barack obama. And in all four cases theyre inspiring words didnt really do the trick. There was not enough followthrough. Yep. This is the first time i think we have a president in a long time that has an opportunity, an opportunity, the window is open, cracked open to make progress and to really get things done. So it is a test. It is a test. It is a huge test and i think that the trouble if i could add because were running out of time, the country occupies information bubbles. That have two completely different realities. You look at the covers of the newspapers, fine, big moment, et cetera. I looked at the fox news website and it was a different world, right. And that is how significant portion of the country is getting its news and views colored. Can you have that coming together at least with a a decent majority when you have these two information streams, right . Totally contradictory. Youre absolutely right to be skeptical. Lets not give up hope. For a change we have some real hope and that is encouraging. But what im looking to, jim, my sense anecdotally talking to people around the country yesterday, there was were a lot of trump people who did not tune in. They werent interested in hearing the message and that is where i think the real problems arise. But that is why it is so important to get concrete results like the vaccinations. David, so good to have you on a day like this. Thank you. Thank you. Take care. Still to come, 17 freshman House Republicans have written a letter to President Joe Biden pledging to work with him but if some didnt agree with his win and voted against it, its easier said than done. Plus democrats planning to send over the article of impeachment maybe by tomorrow, republicans now pressuring Mitch Mcconnell to vote against convicting trump or some say he will face backlash. And one year after the first known case of covid19, imagine that, were seeing in this country more than 400,000 dead americans, many of whom loss of life could have been avoided. 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Dr. Gupta reported. Reporter january 20, just outside of seattle, george diaz was about to become the first doctor to care for a covid19 patient in the United States. He and his team had already been running disaster drills anticipating the worst. Remember, even though the official word out of china was that it was unclear if the coronavirus was spreading from humantohuman, we were also seeing incredible and terrifying images of entire Hospital Systems being constructed. Yes, we knew it was coming. But we couldnt yet see it. Feel its power. We couldnt be convinced to hunker down and take cover. On january 20th, samples were confirmed by the cdc you are looking at images of where the first patient confirmed with covid19 in the United States was treated. Transported on a special gurney in an isolation room. This robot being used to communicate with him. How sick did he actually become . Around the fifth day or so he started developing oxygen requirements. He became more short of breath and said it was harder to breathe and we did an a chest xray and saw the development of pneumonia. He was discharged after two weeks by by february 26th, the United States reported 15 cases and then President Trump tried to reassure the country. The 15 condition a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. This is spreading and it is going to spread within communities. It may. It may. Does that worry you. No. Because that no, because were ready for if. It is what it is. R were ready for it. We werent prepared. Not by a long shot. 15 did not go to zero. About a year later, 15 went to more than 24 million cases. The worst in the entire world. Make no mistake, this did not need to happen. We had met the enemy and it was us. Starting with our faulty tests. It wasnt working as expected. Reporter march 1st, the cdc had officially counted 32 confirmed cases in the United States but according to some estimates that there were already 28,000 cases or more around the country and nearly 10,000 fold difference right out of the gate. We had no warning signs before we saw the terrifying outbreaks in Nursing Homes and in cases exploding in the northeast. Hospitals were overrun, short on even the most basic personal protective equipment. It is like were going into a war with no protection. Reporter but while Health Care Workers were begging for more masks, many minute public refused to wear them. Were not antimask or for masks. Were for choice. Reporter march 16th, for the first time nearly two months after the first patient was diagnosed, more of the country started to worry. Weve made the decision to further toughen the guidelines and blunt the infection now. Reporter but a theme also started to emerge. Personal l