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Returned immediately. chris: but your own department's inspector general said that your testing policy and the failure to test a lot of people who end up in this country, that you rely on local or state officials and a lot of people don't get tested, has put communities in this country at risk. >> we conning curred with those repses. we made -- recommendations. we made improvements. that is also nothing new. that is exactly why we have an independent review of our operations to see where we can make improvements, where we can strengthen our processes, and that is exactly what we did here. chri...

Returned immediately. chris: but your own department's inspector general said that your testing policy and the failure to test a lot of people who end up in this country, that you rely on local or state officials and a lot of people don't get tested, has put communities in this country at risk. >> we conning curred with those repses. we made -- recommendations. we made improvements. that is also nothing new. that is exactly why we have an independent review of our operations to see where we can make improvements, where we can strengthen our processes, and that is exactly what we did here. chri...

Understanding and asking questions about what is happening within schools. what type of mitigation strategies are they using. do they have a universal mask mandate for schools and day cares? what is their testing policy? physical distancing? what is the status of ventilation and filtration in the schools and i would also ask about the percentage of their teachers and staff that are vaccinated as well. so all of those factors would absolutely influence whether it would be safe to send your children to day care or school. >> dr. blackstock, dr. lahita, stand by. we're going to answer some more q...

Tonight, dr. anthony fauci saying the biden administration is still considering a vaccine mandate to travel. >> requiring vaccination for travel is something that is on the table for discussion. it has not been decided yet. >> that includes things like getting on airplanes. well, it comes as on overwhelming majority of republican governors publicly criticized president biden's policy saying it's counterproductive and saying it will lead to further vaccine hesitancy. the republican governor of arkansas ahutchinson. i know you oppose the covid vaccine policy on businesses over 100 and weekly tes...

With you tweeted you're more concerned about sending your children under 12 to school this year than last year. talk to me about why. >> thank you so much for having me. and i wanted to convey to people as a physician and as a parent my thoughts about this coming school year. i know that there are a lot of parents out there that are concerned because most schools are returning to full in-person learning without remote or hybrid option. and we have a highly transmissible variant and classrooms will be even more crowded. and so it is just very important to share my concerns an make sure that par...