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Because it is so clearly what american families need right now. i'm going to turn this over. there's more to say, but maybe i've said too much. i want to have an interchange with you guys, but now i want to turn it over to brian to begin this meeting. we'll move -- i may have some questions, in fairness. >> great. thank you, mr. president. we will move immediately to the first section of the agenda to focus on ports and logistics, the progress made and additional steps to go forward, and we'll hear from -- >> let's bring back kristen welker and monica alba. kristen welker, an important message...

Year. are you still sticking with that prognostication given the supply chain issues and now the inflation issues and now this new covid strain. >> well, hi, alisyn, thanks for having us. i think the new covid strand, the obvious question there is, as you've already discussed earlier in the segment, how effective are the vaccines against it, how transmissible is it. those are all things nobody knows yet so it is appropriate to be cautious but let's wait and see what we learn. as far as inflation and supply chain go, you heard jeff gannett of macy's and retailers that were able to do it did inv...

So democrats started fighting with each other about the tax cut. it seemed like another thing that might torpedo the whole bill, but guess what? it turns out that the congressional committee made a mistake and they had to issue a correction. the new corrected analysis shows the build back better package would raise taxes on millionaires by about three percentage points. and you may or may not think that's good policy. but polls show that it's very popular policy. and for democrats, this corrected analysis removes what briefly looked like a looming political disaster. now obviously not every hu...

>> reporter: exactly. this has been a tough one for the white house to message on. on the one hand, president biden doesn't want people to lose the forest from the trees in terms of the overall strength of the economy. and so you hear the president talking about, look, unemployment claims down to the lowest level in half a century. and even on inflation you hear jen psaki saying that the cost of a turkey is up about a dollar which is not great, but not exor tabts. and talking about the fact that shelves will still be full, retailers ensuring people that they will have goods. but on the other h...

Manchin, but certainly with this appointment he's trying to show that he wants -- he's happy with the policy that has been going on in the past and is looking to powell to help put a check on some of those inflation issues. >> talking about the grumbling from progressives. this continues. can they get joe manchin on board and alexandria ocasio-cortez saying we're not trump is enough. we're up against political annihalism because as long as i live in the bronx no one is going to fight for me. that's why we take some of these risks for our base. liberals getting discouraged. they don't even thin...