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Growing pressure to deliver with many people having to wait for hours to get tested during the holiday rush. now after promising to distribute tests the president wishes he had done it two months ago. rich edson starts our coverage live at the white house this morning. good morning, rich. >> good morning, julie. the white house is trying to get those tests out some 500 million of them where americans will ideally be able to go online early next month, order them, get them delivered to their homes. they still have to get the contracts signed and get all those tests out. this was the omicron var...

Order one to be sent by the government. that may mean ohm one to two tests per person. the white house is still building this plane as they fly it. they don't yet have the contracts where to get those tests. they don't have the website built where people will order them. they can't exactly tell us when those tests are going to be available to people, although they say hopefully sometimes in january. i think it's fair to say at this point that the white house put a lot of their eggs into the basket of the vaccines. remember last year when we were tall talking about herd immunity, if we could fo...

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. >> ...

You've been calling for more testing and more at-home testing for a year. what does a half billion rapid at-home tests being sent out mean if they're delivered sometime in january? >> to me it represents forward momentum and forward motion from the administration to start taking testing as a public health tool in this pandemic seriously. i think 500 million tests spread out over a few months is not going to make a major dent, but if it's just spread out over everyone in the u.s. my hope is the tests will be used strategically, something we haven't done yet in this pandemic, is really create a ...

That have killed millions of people worldwide. >> what they've done is taken a protein and 24 different surfaces of that protein are similar to different aspects of the coronavirus so you are getting a lot of different levels of immunity not just to the spike protein. >> that vaccine is reportedly in phase one clinical trials. dana, back to you. >> dana: thank you, jonathan. have a good afternoon. senate majority leader chuck schumer tells colleagues he expects to vote on a revised version of bidens social spending plan early next year. president biden appears to be on a different pace as memb...