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I'm not kidding! even if you could get a test, there is nobody from the administration who cares about us the people enough to even want to teach us how to do that. those contracts that should have been signed, have not been signed, to get those half-billion test into the flow, we are weeks behind being where we need to be. this, from the interview that emily just mentioned, the testing czar, admiral bright gerard from president trump suggested the number of covid cases, on "the faulkner focus" he said were not even closer they are. >> we underestimate the accounts of this country by about a t...

Secretary for health and white house testing czar in the trump administration is here now. i want to talk about the significance of the testing shortages this far into the pandemic. it doesn't matter all that much? are we over blowing it or not enough? >> thanks for having me on. i do think it's very significant that we have shortages right now. you are seeing the consequences of that right now, question marks about isolation, quarantine, getting back to school. the fundamental issue was the biden administration did not place orders and security industry between about january and september, so...

Admiral brett giroir former coronavirus task force member and testing czar for them. i want to put up the number on the board. 162 cases were reported from cruises the first half of december. but in the second half it was 5,000 cases. that is really illustrative of how contagious omicron is. >> i agree with the previous commentator i feel safe on cruise lines and one of the safer places as long as they keep the protocols. everybody has to be double vaccinated. testing before you get on the ship and after you get on the ship and testing multiple sites. omicron is contagious. if you look at the ...

The store shelves are actually empty. >> that includes the shelves carrying at home covid tests in many places. >> all of this covid so-called covid relief, the money didn't go for testing where it was supposed to go. >> whatever happened to the website where the white house says people can request some of the 500 million free at home tests? >> the website should be available -- should be online by this weekend. >> peter: thomas is on leave from johns hopkins and will be the white house testing czar in charge of coordinating all those free tests once they have been ordered. >> the contracts ar...

>> trace: thank you, jackie. >> president biden: i'm directing my team to work with pfizer to double our order from 10 million to 20 million treatment courses on testing. i know this remains frustrating believe me, it is frustrating to me. but we're making improvements. in the last two weeks we've stood up federal testing sites all over the country. >> dana: president biden yesterday trying to ease anxiety over the pandemic as the u.s. shatters a single day record. a million new cases recording monday. the fast spread is creating chaos for air travel and leading for hours of testing. let's bri...