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Need to have society not disrupted, this was a good choice. meanwhile the number of new covid cases keeps climbing. the seven day average for new cases nationwide hitting levels we haven t seen since back in january when vaccinations still weren t widely available. joining me now from delaware, mike memoli, and in washington, d.c. where daily cases are ten times higher than just two weeks ago, and emergency room dr. spencer is with us. and mike, we ll start with you. the cdc s updated guidance on isolation and guarantee teams, cutting to five days from ten. and how much pressure was on the administration to adjust these guidelines and how are they messaging it now? reporter: yeah, i really want to highlight one word that you heard specifically from dr. fauci there in that interview with kristen welker yesterday, it was that word balance. ....
So it is somewhat of a compromise there. myself, i would make it vaccinate or not. but he was trying to be moderate in what his pronouncement was. jasmine wright is live for us in washington. good morning, you heard dr. fauci say the president is trying to be moderate there, but this is the most aggressive action yet when it comes to vaccine mandates. help us understand what it was like behind the scenes with the white house trying to have some sort of balance in this plan. reporter: yeah, well, that word balance is the right word because the reality is that any prolonged resurgence of this covid-19 pandemic impacts what the white house wants to do. it stalls the economy, it takes away from their focus on social issues, other parts of president biden s agenda. and now that growing number of americans have said that the messaging from the white house and cdc is unclear on the way forward on the pandemic, it impacts the direct success of this white house. so that is why you hear ....
following up on social mobile being slowed down, i remember you said at one point after the 2008 crash that one of the great threats to american capitalism was income disparity that we had to again we go back to that word balance. we have to remain who we are, celebrate free markets and capitalism. at the same time, we have to look at the separation between the wealthiest americans and the poorest. it s called a constusiitutio. it s remarkable how extraordinary and image native that piece was 1788, 1787. it s seriously changed the number of amendments, variations and interpretation has been remarkably similar, but it enabled us to go in changing conditions and so that the beginning of this republic was ....