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We are joined by the director of the national institutes of health, dr. francis collins, dr. collins, appreciate you being with us. so experts at the highest levels of the administration had been saying they hadn't seen data indicating the general public would need boosters right now. can you talk about the new data and what's changed? >> well, i was one of those experts and as recently as three weeks oago, i was skeptical too. the newer data, some of which is published today by the cdc and some of which comes from overseas, especially from israel, does show a waning of the effect of vaccines ...

Can you talk about the new data and what's changed. >> it's some of what's published the data especially from israel. >> they do have infections they call symptoms. they're not ending up in the hospital. they're not ending up severely ill. you can kind of see the trajectory. i think putting all of that together, those of us looking at it and trying not to wait until the last minute sort of said let's work on this over the

Whatever, i'm going to gravitate toward that. then we replace the fathers, we have so many men who want to stand up. before we bring in the feds and anyone else, let's work on the resources we have right now. >> martha: let me ask you for a bit of your personal story. what turned you around? you have a bullet lodged in your head, correct? >> correct. >> martha: what made you decide to leave gang life? >> you know what, it had been my fourth stint. i had been to jail, i was a three-time loser. the fourth one woke me up. when i get out -- and this was right before i got shot. i got shot, and i f...

This manner, the country is judged by how we take care of the people that need us the most. america has to do better. we have to do better. take care of the people who are calling on you. take care of the people you say you are supposed to represent because otherwise you are just propping yourself up and we don't need that. we will make sure we do the work to vote you out, and you know that i will -- look, how did i get here? we can mobilize. we can galvanize you out. take care of the people. forget worrying about where the money is coming from. we got over $40 billion sitting, waiting. let's ...

President has put on the table. the path forward right now does clearly seem to be trying to get 60 votes for an infrastructure bill. if they can get those, then they need to move on to a reconciliation bill that has to be 50 votes and it has to, once again, pass the joe manchin/kyrsten sinema test which they need more numbers in the senate if they want to get through some of these big items that they want, and that's just the reality of it at this point. >> but yamiche, what about the white house? president biden has been very, very clear he wants a bipartisan deal. i reported myself, i talke...