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Of the midwest, south and northern perfect states. >> the spread of this highly transmissible variant means demands for a test whether they're done in a lab or at home are skyrocketing. amazon, walgreens and cvs are now all restricting the number of test kits that each customer can buy. tonight, during an interview with abc news, president biden was asked about the testing shortages and he defended the administration's response to the latest surge. >> i don't think it's a failure, i think you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago, i've or...

South and northern pacific states. >> this means demand for tests whether they're done in a lab or at home are skyrocketing. nbc news reports that amazon, wall green and cvs are restricting the number of test kits that each customer can buy. tonight, during an interview with abc news, president biden was asked about the testing shortages and defended the response to the surge. >> i don't think it's a failure. i think you could argue that we should have known a year ago six month as i go, two months ago, a month ago, i've ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills, excuse me, 500 mi...

And u.s. president joe biden is trying to ease concerns over covid testing shortages in an interview with abc news. he said he didn't think his administration's response to the current state of the pandemic has been a failure. well, in that same interview the president also said he hasn't given up on his sweeping economic and climate plan despite democrat's failure to get senator joe manchin on board. the president said he plans to speak with manchin next week and says they can implement the build back better legislation. he insists it will help lower inflation. we are now two weeks from t...

Vaccinated. they need to focus on getting vaccinated and boosted. the highest risk population and then from there we need to make sure that we have treatments available if and when they do get sick. carley: conversation almost exclusively on testing yesterday. is there such a thing as overtesting a population even asymptomatic people? >> carley, test something very important. that gives us an idea of what is going on and where the cases are. i can say though he is talking about -- they didn't expect the surge. they didn't expect to need some tests. i don't actually believe that to be true. >> ...

Platforms and people he says are spreading dangerous misinformation. >> look, the unvaccinated are responsible for their own choices. but those choices have been fueled by dangerous misinformation on cable tv and social media. you know, these companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies and allowing misinformation that can kill their own customers and their own supporters. it's wrong. it's immoral. i call on the purveyors of these lies and misinformation to stop it, stop it now. >> biden speaking as testing shortages lead to tremendous lines and long wait times. the president ...