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Are threatening to derail president biden's agenda as he approaches his first full year in office. let's dig in with tonight's panel. with got former biden campaign surrogate kevin walling and project 21 cochair horace cooper. but even to both of you, thanks for staying up with us. kevin -- >> good evening. >> gillian: kevin, as the president of the you know returns from delaware, we are now three days into the new year, he is facing a whole host of sort of spiraling crises. there is the nationwide testing shortage, there is inflation. what if none of these sort of abates ahead of the midterms...

Been awarded to try to buy those 500 million tests, and we now know they will be sent out to americans for free through the usps through a website that's still being built, although the administration is still targeting a rollout date hopefully sometime this month for that, but that testing shortage coming as a group of former biden advisers had been warning it may be time for a new strategy that's about dealing with the new normal of covid, as rochelle walensky, the cdc director said this week that she envisions covid-19 being an endemic virus in the future. president biden asked whether he a...

>> a very interesting conversation. thank you. that he four minutes after the hour. new york city is a race baits formula to allocate covid tests and treatment. we will tell you who was is being prioritize amid a massive testing shortage. plus the big apple is looking to turn the page and covid and crime. >> our government has been dysfunctional for far too long and it created this crisis long before our covid. former nypd detective speaking here. he's got more of the transition with mayor de blasio. that is next.

Website to get delivered to their homes. the administration certainly does hope that that will help alleviate some of the pressure that you were seeing with this testing shortage around the country, but that will be a major test. we know that the last administration that president biden was a part of when he was vice president struggled with the healthcare-related website, obamacare, of course, and this will be another key test for this president and his administration's coronavirus response. we know that certainly this has -- it's dented president biden's response to the coronavirus, the fact...

Like leyla showed us and dr. anthony fauci talked to our colleague earlier this morning. he did not mince words. it shouldn't be like this. >> we had a conflation of high demands because of the omicron which is justifiable. the hightriggered by the hot holiday season. hopefully that will get better. >> reporter: poppy this testing shortage is happening against the back drop. let's look at the dramatic rise in cases in just the past month. if you look at the left, that was 75,000 cases a day. now more than 200,000 cases a day. hospitalizations are not rising as dramatically. you see from that l...