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Rules and regulations coming from the administration and going through governors and mayors, we cannot function as a society without those testing results. my family members, one family for example, they could only get two public of a test for their five people. that was a family of five with two testing positive. what happens to the other three? they stood in the snow for hours to get their task. that is one family of millions across the country and that is what we are talking about, that is what we are talking about in this building over the water cooler and at lunch is a lack of testing. yo...

Record-setting number of cases almost two years into the pandemic. >> no, i don't think covid is here to stay, but having covid in the environment and in the world is here to stay. covid as we're dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn't have to be -- we have so many more tools we're developing and continue to develop that will contain covid and other strains of covid. >> reporter: earlier this week the u.s. recorded over one million new covid cases in a single day, neil, shattering the previous record. it comes amid a testing shortage. the true number of cases might be e...

>> todd: an old tweet criticizing shortage of covid tests coming back to haunt white house chief of staff ron klain as the testing shortage rocks the nation. in june 2020 he tweeted "testing still isn't fixed, testing still isn't fixed, testing still isn't fixed. we are richest country and testing still isn't fixed, testing still isn't fixed" and announced they will buy tests after the president admitted his testing plan isn't enough. ashley, i'm pretty sure ron klain wants that back. keep in might beed, when ron

That money for a minimum of nine months and suddenly we have a testing shortage? one of the questions is, was that money spent for other things. if it was, how do you justify that if you're the administration and the department. >> martha: you know, this administration told the american people that they were going to solve covid. that the prior administration had done a terrible job. in this administration, things were going to be very different. so i think that members of congress and the american people sort of signed on for this tremendous expenditure of u.s. taxpayer dollars to fix what pe...

The necessary protection. julie. >> julie: david lee miller at laguardia airport. thank you, david. >> benjamin: the white house is pumping the brakes on mass mailing half a billion covid tests and lines stretching for miles at testing sites across the country. lucas tomlinson is live in washington with the latest. >> good morning. the record setting surge in cases hitting during a testing shortage. the true numbers could be much higher. the president promising half a billion tests for free beginning next month but his covid czar says the contract hasn't been completed. >> the white house is g...