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Unclear. by the way, we still have a testing shortage for those who need it quickly. joining me now is andy slavit. i was talking to a former public health official for a fairly large state earlier today who is of the mind -- basically wondering what more can be done. what's realistic given our environment, our political divide, given the public's exhaustion. and i'm curious before i get into some specifics about whether it's time to deal with this as an endemic, is there something we haven't tried that you think we should? >> well, a lot does rest on today's court case, because i think this i...

Election season and with the president's approval numbers slumping, it's going to get harder and harder to legislate and get his party on the same page. let's discuss, van jones, i want to start with you and that letter from a group of senate democrats criticizing the testing shortage. it was signed by mark kelly of arizona. joe manchin of west virginia, jon ossoff, jackie rosen, kyrsten sinema. what do you make of this public crit criticism from democrats of biden. >> it's not -- if the republican party has a leader that is not always loved but is always feared, democrats have a president w...

Is on the way, despite a record-setting number of cases nation wild. >> no, i don't think -- nationwide. no, i don't think covid is here to stay, but having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay. but 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 nutalls that we're developing -- new disease tools that can contain covid. >> reporter: of course, that's not what we heard in the runup to the 2020 election. >> i'm going to shut down the virus. i'll shut down the virus, not the economy. i'm not going to s...

Prepare for fauci and others to conspire to ruin your reputation. >> the april 2020 e-mails fall called possibility of lab leak a shiny object that will go away in time. back to you guys. >> carley: ashley, thank you. staying on the covid topic, the white house is promising to distribute five million free rapid tests to schools each month to help k-12 schools stay open. it comes as many districts cancel classess and revert to remote learning due to teacher shortages. biden is facing backlash for a testing shortage with people waiting in miles long lines to get swabbed, biden administration fac...

There is such a dire testing shortage despite congress having allocated more than $80 billion over the last two years to expand testing. senators burr and blunt wrote to hhs secretary how they are becerra demanding answers. at the white house, jacqui heinrich, fox news. >> gillian: the new york city health department says it will consider race as a risk factor now in prioritizing treatment for covid. correspondent lauren green has the details tonight from new york city. good evening. >> good evening, gillian. the battle against covid has proven to be an uphill fight as new york's health depart...