the white house covid-19 response gordon nader -- coordinator talked about that. [video clip] >> on osha, the team has been working to develop the emergency temporary standard that covers employees with over 100 employees -- employers with over 100 employees to ensure workers are fully vaccinated or undergoing testing on at least a one time per week basis to stop the spread in the workplace. the agency has submitted the text of the emergency temporary standards to the office of management and budget. while we do not have a specific time to provide today, the rule will be finalized soon. we know businesses are already acting. we have seen major companies and small businesses and other organizations step up every day with vaccination requirements. host: daniel suhr on that osha rule and what you're looking for when it does come out. guest: as soon the osha rule is published, we will see the biden administration in court. it is illegal and unconstitutional. the act is meant to protect people in their workplace against toxic substances. these emergency rules are only

local mayor spoke yesterday at the white house in my district. acquanetta warren, who represents small and mid-sized cities. she gave credit for doing this. she's been talking about infrastructure for years and wasn't able to get done. until now. and so she was there with us celebrating because this is going to be mean good-paying jobs. this is going to mean so much help in our communities and we got it done in a bipartisan way. and so, you know, we reject that, you know, this isn't -- this isn't popular. maybe a couple words, you know, folks don't understand in a poll. it's our job. that's why we're going out in our communities. that's why the president and the cabinet are going out in the country to educate folks about what's in these bills and to talk with them about the specific improvements in bridges and waterways. issues with climate and electrifying stations. those are the things that our communities are going to want to want. reporter: house the -- select committee -- mr. maloney: it's our job to tell people what we're doing. it's our jo

and why do you think the white house wants to drive up these prices? mr. bryce: well, sir, i can only speculate. but what i do know, when you look across the country, and particularly in california, and other places where this electrify everything push is under way, you're forcing -- you're imposing regressive taxation on the working class, on people who don't live, as jennifer hernandez said, in the keyboard economy. the people that have to drive to work. the people that pump the gas, who pour the coffee, who serve the food, those will be hit the hardest. as you point out in rural america, those are the people that will be hit hard. on the electrify everything push, in the federal register, the department of energy published data showing that the cost of electricity on a per b.t.u. basis is four times that of natural gas. so this push to electrify everything that is under way in california is just a form of regressive taxation. by prohibiting the use of natural gas in homes, in businesses, and forcing consumers to use electricity instead, you're effective

the white house, in the senate, what could we do for this world? we could have working people, we could turn around bad foreign policy and replace it with strong foreign policy. we could say yet again, israel is the best friend of the united states. jerusalem will always be forever the eternal, undivided capital of two -- the jewish faith. choose wisely. think hard. work like your country depends on the outcome because it does. thank you for what you've done for me and people like me for all these years. i'm here to tell you, our work is going to pay off. i will see you in jerusalem. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> sheldon adelson was so much more than a businessman and philanthropist. he was a businessman, patriot, proud defender of zion, jerusalem and the united states of america. [applause] let me say from my heart, may all who mourn this extraordinary man be comforted with the thanks and love of the country and the people he did so much to some court. especially to miriam. [applause] may his memory be a constant source of blessing to you, your children,

what is the vaccine uptake at the white house? do you have that data? over the weekend, the secretary of transportation suggested that the domestic vaccine mandate for domestic travel was off the table -- is that the case? is it no longer under consideration and why not? jeff: let me see if i can go one by one. as i said, 95% of federal workers are in compliance. 90% are already vaccinated. this is continuing to build. the deadline is this evening. even once the deadline passes, it's not a cliff. it's not an endpoint. we will continue to work with people and answer their questions and provide counseling and education to get more people vaccinated. the full agency by agency report will come out this wednesday. as to the exhibit of office of the president, which i believe was your second question, we have reached 99% of employees vaccinated, so 99% vaccinated in the executive office of the president. the message today i think is quite obvious. vaccination requirements work. they are implementable, without disruption's, and they boost dramatically vaccinat

and, of course, if the party and the president in the white house is not popular, they can be quite bad, some simple notes from the past, really only three times since the civil war where the party in the white house has gained seats. that was in 1934 before we had polling, 1998 and 2002. there in those races president clinton, president bush, 60% or over approval rating, very, very popular, gained a handful of indications, in the other cases, something like 34, they have lost seats and sometimes very large margins when you have lost many, many seats. it's true also in the state legislatures where that pattern falls almost exactly, two of those elections have gone for the president in the white house. so i think the obvious point is, with close margin, it's hard to see midterm elections going well for democrats. if the word terrifying is used. what does joe biden look like next year in 2022, that's what i say about the governors and michael about the senate, certainly about the races where if joe biden is where he was today or last week where democrats had a roughly 12% move against

i heard a story about how that decision went down in the white house, wherever it was it went down. it was not an unanimous decision. i imagine you had a number of institutional folks expressing what they had to do for the folks they represented, that this would be problematic, that the world would come to an end. the arab world would rise up, etc. i'm told that your voice was the last voice before the president made his decision. mr. pence: second to last. norm: can you give us information about that now? mr. pence: i think it was an extraordinary example of presidential leadership. i mean, four different presidents when they were candidates for the office had promised the american people to republicans, to democrats, that they would move the american embassy to jerusalem. jerusalem is the only capital in the world where our embassy was not located. to say that every leader in the world opposed president trump moving the embassy to jerusalem would be an understatement. literally, i was there in the oval office many times when the calls had come in from heads of state, one after ano

that's according to the white house. among the reaction to minority leader mccarthy's speech, representative grace meng said, "i delivered a baby less time. step aside and let us deliver real change to american families." "it is 1:25 in the morning. our colleagues have gone home and we are just getting started. the american people will know what is and bill back broke. keep it up, minority leader." that full speech available on a website and the c-span now video app. robin in alabama, independently. -- independent line. caller: i love this show. i have a couple of comments into question. the comments are one party, when one year. the republican be two-part -- the republic can be two parties, three parties. why can't we spend some of the money we have already signed into law and see if there is any left over and put it toward some of these things everybody is worried about? the children and stuff like that? my question is, pedro, how long were those stilettos that nancy hello seek -- nancy pelosi wore? host: i don't know.

i think it's quite dangerous to put everything in the white house for whatever president. there must be a law. presidents do push the envelope. president obama knew that he was pushing the envelope. if you channel everything into the white house, even deregulating nuclear power, there is a level of expertise that you want. i would be nervous about, i understand because of the unitary executive and the notion that the president alone has the executive power, the problem is the president is literally never alone. hate to tell you that, but he's got a massive entourage, even when he sleeps. at the president alone is operating for the nation and there are lots of internal rules about when he does things for the nation and when he does political stuff but that line is tenuous and i'm nervous about giving folks in the white house more power than they already have as opposed to agencies, i think it would aggravate political partisanship. >> i can't resist following up on the chairman's point, the idea, if we are going to have delegations, the idea of deregulatory delegations is i

president, for inviting us to the white house. thank you to vice president harris, my colleagues in attendance, all of you, and senator sinema and speaker pelosi. for years, americans were promised that an infrastructure bill was coming. today, we're telling the american people that an infrastructure bill is finally here. thank you, president biden! [applause] senator schumer: at the start of this year we told american families we'd meet our challenges, the challenges of our time with boldness and with courage. now they're getting one of the largest infrastructure bills ever. to paraphrase one of my favorite former vice presidents, it's a big f'in deal. there isn't a community in america, not a city, not a town or rural hub that doesn't have some glaring infrastructure problem requiring immediate intent, immediate attention. busted roads make it harder for people to get to work. delapidated schools make it harder for kids to learn. overtaxed sea ports and railways makes it harder for goods to get to market, raising prices for cons

the white house says better days are coming out of that the infrastructure bill has passed, but is it too late? how has inflation affected -- impacted your finances? we will open up regional lines. in the eastern or central time zone, you can call (202) 748-8000. if you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, your number is (202) 748-8001. you can always text us at (202) 748-8003. we are always reading on social media on facebook, at facebook.com/c-span, on twitter, @cspanwj, and you can always follow us on instagram, @cspanwj . inflation is surging. let's start our conversation by seeing what is going on with the inflation rate. we will have a story from usa today that tells you about what the numbers are now. their story says this. "inflation over the past 12 months surged to a high as rising prices undercut president joe biden and hurt consumers despite evidence the u.s. economy is rebounding from the pandemic. the consumer price index increased by 2.09% in october, the u.s. bureau of labor statistics reported, leaving inflation 6.2% higher than a year earlier, the largest 12 mo

he was effective in operating in hostile white house and president. a state department when he was basically pursuing a pro-israel policy. he had to maneuver with a lot of maneuvering. he was successful in it. when he became secretary of state, he became dominant there. nixon was preoccupied with watergate and had to resign. through the period, he was the president. kissinger was. he did not have any experience and kissinger became dominated because of those particular circumstances. none of those things apply today. part of the reason for writing the book, although it is focused on the middle east is because i wanted to resurrect the kissinger approach. i felt there was a lot we could learn from it in an era when geopolitics is returning. competition between superpowers is dominating the international system again. ivo: i think you succeed in doing that. the irresponsibly -- the responsibility of not having to think strategically because we had the strength. figuring out how to manage the white house, the state department's's which kissinger was uniq

they then went down to the white house, talked to the white house, and the president worked with them. and they agreed so this is a bill that the president, 19 republican senators, 50 democratic senator, agreed was good for america. that's what we are enabling tonight. the nation unfortunately has long underestimated -- underinvested in the infrastructure and social needs and been slow to the re-- slow to respond to the threat posed by climate change. our national security apparatus, including the four-star generals who lead our various service arm, have said the most existential threat to the security of the united states of america is climate change. global warming. this bill deals with that existential threat. it also -- the policies being considered would direct the benefits of the stronger growth to lower income americans. that may be why it's sort of not what my republican friends think ought to be done. although the whip talked about that somewhat. that's not what their bill did. it addresses the long-running skewing of the income and wealth distribution in america. the richest

once again, former white house advisor steve bannon was charged on friday with two contempt of congress counts. what are your most important political issues? let us start with ava from columbia, mississippi on the republican line. good morning. caller: yes, i heard that about steve bannon. how come it is only republicans get held up when do stuff, like hillary clinton with emails and all of that, whatever she did? how come they ever go up? we need an attorney general for the people and not for himself. the fbi has been used to do the dirty work for different parties, i think we need a justice department that is fair. thank you. host: charlie calling from roslyn heights, new york on the independent line. good morning. guest: hat -- caller: hello everybody, i am on the independent line but i consider myself a progressive because that benefits the freedoms of the american people today. i do not support you distinguishing between progressives and identity politics and cancel culture and all the other baloney. the mainstream media to puts that -- seems to put that into the progressive camp

. ♪ announcer: now today's white house briefing with secretary jean-pierre and pete buttigieg, who answered questions about the infrastructure legislation that was signed into law on saturday. >> hi, everybody. this is all for pete, i know. secretary pete. good afternoon, everyone. good to see everybody. joining us today as a set -- is the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, who is here to talk about the president's bipartisan infrastructure deal. i don't want to steal his tundra, but as you all know, the once in a generation bill is the largest ever federal investment in public transit, clean energy transmission, and electric vehicle infrastructure and clean drinking water. it delivers for the american people i rebuilding our roads, railroads, and railcars, bridges, buses, ports, and airports, all while creating good paying union jobs. with that, we'll will turn it over to secretary buttigieg. this isn't his first time at the podium, i think this might be his third time. but it's his first time joining us as a father. so on a personal note, congratulations to you on the birth of gus

the white house is now bracing for a bad cbo score. bad in this case meaning it would cost more than the money brought in under the legislation. a lot of discussion about what that nonpartisan congressional budget office scoring will show. senator john cornyn with his thoughts on how democrats are handling the cbo score in a series of tweets this morning for our program when on the air. route the process, senator cornyn said, many argued there was no need for a cbo score in the white house and treasury had provided enough information about the bill. he said the beltway has been transfixed by the process of getting congressional budget office scores for the build back better act, which is now scheduled to be released, he said, on friday. he said now the attitude has shifted from neglect to disdain as the white house has begun to preemptively attack cbo's professionalism in anticipation of getting a bad score. we will cover, of course, the reaction to the cbo score does come out at some point this week. back to your phone calls. mike, hy

in 2018 and the white house in 2020 but republican voters saw him win in 2016 and saw republicans come close to winning back the house in 2020 and they think this kind of politicking can work, so it is hard to make the case that this was a failed experiment when there are so many pieces of evidence politically that it worked in so many ways, even though it had negative repercussions for republicans in other ways that is why i think it when he 24, whether trump runs or not, but especially if he does, you will see every candidate in some fashion or another try and tell trump -- tell republican primary voters they will be the next trump. host: you say a lot, in your book -- influence over his four years in office. you write in particular that even after trump engineered a hostile takeover of the gop, he was suspicious of the party that he led and did not have a very high opinion of it and that is why after leaving the white house in 2021, he sent cease-and-desist letters to the nrsc, now under the chairmanship of 2024 contender in florida senator rick scott, demanding excessive permission

for a while, the white house tried to downplay the problem. president biden and his team told american families that the costs were not revising as much as it seems. or that, ok, costs are rising, but it would only last a few months. for some liberals argued, to remove food, housing and transportation costs, inflation wasn't all that bad. some have tried to argument rapid inflation is actually a high-class problem to have because at least we are not in a recession. i'm not kidding. i guess they think working americans should be grateful things aren't even worse. but the sad irony is that inflation is just the opposite of a high-class problem. inflation is likely a huge regressive tax that hits the middle class, the working class, and the poor far more than it hurts wealthy people. the three biggest drivers of the inflection plate -- inflation rate last month warehousing, transportation and food. these are not luxuries, they are essentials. and they take up a much bigger share of family budgets than the middle class. host: mitch mcconnell yeste

house tribal nations conference. watch washington journal at 7:00 eastern sunday morning -- monday morning. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. >> axios jose discussion with tim scott on financial inclusion and what steps the public and private sectors are taking to expand access to capital and services for those who have been excluded from the financial system. watch live coverage monday at 12:30 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or watch full coverage on c-span now, our new video at. -- cap. >> the chair of the national committee took questions from reporters on the 2022 and 2024 election cycles at an event hosted by the christian science monitor. she was asked about the role of former president donald trump within the gop and upcoming elections, as well as the party 's strategy to bring back which arteries in the house and senate. this is just under an hour. an [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> all right. good m

my team at the white house will provide me with daily updates this week. on thursday, i'll be putting forward a detailed strategy outlining how we're going to fight covid this winter, not with shutdowns or lockdowns, but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing and more. i promised every american that there will always be the latest vaccines available and the booster shots available to them and for free and everywhere available. every single american, free of charge, and i will keep that commitment. but we need to do more than vaccinate americans. to beat the pandemic, we have to vaccinate the world, as well, and america's leading that effort. we've shipped for free more vaccines to other countries than all other countries in the world combined, over 275 million vaccines to 110 countries. now we need the rest of the world to step up as well. let me be clear. not a single vaccine shot i will always make sure that our people are protected first. this gives us one more tool and how we need to meet our moral obligation as americans. they all emerge

guest: there was an announcement this morning from the white house that they are going to radically rethink about how they reward benefits related to classic exposure issues, some of the other war zones of the last 20 years. in the past, this has been a process where they get scientific studies, they take a long time, they connect things and award benefits based on some of those we're connections. but especially with burn pits, that has been a real problem. there were not air monitoring stations going in a lot of these bases overseas. we know it was toxic smoke, but all sorts of waste was being thrown in there. the smoke was going across bases, getting into troops' lung s and giving them respiratory illnesses and cancer. the biden administration says they will take a look at a range of respiratory illnesses, a range of cancers, and take a more generous look at whether or not they should be giving financial benefits to these veterans for injuries that they believe are connected. host: we are talking with leo shane about the veterans issues and the biden administration, how they are respondin

the biden white house is still insisting. so join with us, accept this motion and stop it right now once and for all. i ask unanimous consent that the text of the amendment be included in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. brady: you know, americans need to know what's in this bill. and under this $4 trillion biden-pelosi scheme, let's look at a day in your life. so you wake up in the morning and pay a heat your home tax. you shower and get ready and pay consumer products tax. drop your kids off at childcare and pay a toddler tax. drive to work, paying a higher gas prices. take a break and pay a bigger nicotine tax. and work at a company and pay a made why america tax, a tax on your retirement plan. and the way -- on the way home, you swing through your pharmacy and pay a no generics tax. stop for grocery store. pay a biden inflation tax. you get your mail and you get a letter from the i.r.s. you're being audited. then, you're getting your kids ready to bed. democrats are forcing you to send $12,500 o

, and white house. there were some differences at the end, and we will deal with those as we go forward. what will happen is we have different committee systems in the house than they do in the senate, so this bill will be reshaped to their committees, and at that point, we will see where we need to reconcile, should we say, our differences. but at the end of the day, we will have a great bill. would you like to speak to that? >> the fact of the matter is over the last few months, particularly in the last few weeks, we have been working with the senators, not only manchin, but also with the chairs of the committees in the senate. i'll use two examples, one is on the drug pricing. we have been drilling down and getting sinema's input, and i do believe that the drug pricing provision you see is it. i guess there could be changes, but i do not think that they are significant. the fact we have negotiated pricings and we have savings, as the cbo showed, it means that this is a provision that saves money, and

. >> the white house covid-19 response team. gave vent -- a response to the president's mandate. >> today we will focus on booster shots. we'll start with the doctors and then i will provide an update. >> good afternoon. as always, i would like to start by walking you through the day. this is an 18% increase from last week's seven-day daily case average. the seven day average of hospital admissions is about 5600 per day. about a 6% increase from the prior seven-day average. and the seven day average daily deaths are about 1000 pretty. -- 1000 per day. i want to talk about the critical steps that we took last week in our country's vaccine booster program. i want to share with you what fridays regulatory action by fda and updated recommendations from cdc means for millions of americans. last friday, following cdc's advisory committee on immunization practices' unanimous votes, i fully endorse the committee's expanded recommendations for booster shots to include all adults ages 18 years and older, who received a pfizer biontech or

he said they came from the white house. that indicates to me that the white house preparation of a document only went to that point, to identify essentially half of what the money is being spent on. host: ok. there is details there too, but i don't want to belabor the point. guest: i think i understand what you're guest is getting at. right before i came on the show i was looking at headlines and trying to get more background info on the infrastructure bill and its passage, because i knew we would be discussing it. most of the headlines said $1.2 trillion bill passes and so forth, there were a couple of headlines that said $550 billion infrastructure bill passed. i ran out of time, but i think what you're guest is getting at the math is not getting up -- adding up. if it is $1.2 trillion, where's the rest going? that is something we will have to listen to joe biden and go through the work ourselves and see how this coverage lays out. host: akron, ohio, mike, independent line. morning. caller: yes, thank you for c-span. i am

in remarks at the white house, he called on americans to get vaccinated and receive booster shots. because -- >> good morning, folks. hope you all had a happy thanksgiving and were able to get together with your family and friends. it was great to see so many family getting together this thanksgiving after being apart last year, and with much to be grateful for as a nation. when i was elected i said i would always be honest with you. so today i want to take a few moments to talk about the new covid variant. first identified last week in southern africa. it's called the omicron and it is come to their credit the scientific community in south africa quickly notified the world of the emergence of this new variant. this kind of transparency is to be encouraged and applauded as it increases our ability to respond quickly to any new threats, and that's exactly what we did. that very day the world health organization identified the new variant, i took immediate steps to restrict travel from countries in southern africa. but while we have travel restrictions can slow the speed of omicron,

they then went down to the white house, talked to the white house, and the president worked with them. and they agreed so this is a bill that the president, 19 republican senators, 50 democratic senator, agreed was good for america. that's what we are enabling tonight. the nation unfortunately has long underestimated -- underinvested in the infrastructure and social needs and been slow to the re-- slow to respond to the threat posed by climate change. our national security apparatus, including the four-star generals who lead our various service arm, have said the most existential threat to the security of the united states of america is climate change. global warming. this bill deals with that existential threat. it also -- the policies being considered would direct the benefits of the stronger growth to lower income americans. that may be why it's sort of not what my republican friends think ought to be done. although the whip talked about that somewhat. that's not what their bill did. it addresses the long-running skewing of the income and wealth distribution in america. the richest

we will take you now to a briefing by the white house covid-19 response team. >> the vaccination program for kids is hitting full stride this week. this includes pediatricians and family doctors offices, pharmacies, odorant hospitals, community health centers, rural health clinics, and school-based clinics. while the program is just fully up and running this week, by the end of the day today, we estimate that over 900,000 kids age five through 11 will have already gotten their first shot. through pharmacies alone, 700,000 additional appointments are already on the calendar at local pharmacies. parents and families across the country are breathing giant size of relief. we are just getting started. we will continue to work with governors, local leaders, health care providers and others to build on this progress. minnesota has stood up more than 1100 locations for parents to get their kids vaccinated including at the mall of america , which is the biggest mall and -- in the country and it can now vaccinate 1500 children per day. across the country, children's hospitals are offering vaccinat

house, senate, white house, and written. we made some changes since last week. people need to familiarize themselves with it. that was the purpose of our meeting this morning. made me very proud and inspired by once again hearing the depth of knowledge and breadth of vision of our colleagues. we'll let you know. i think many of you know i was really very unhappy about not passing the bill last week. i was very unhappy because we had an october 31 deadline. and i thought that that was eloquent, but not enough, i guess. now we are going to pass both bills. but in order to do so we have to have votes for both bills and that's where we are. reporter: thank you, madam speaker. you don't want members to vote on something that may not have a good prospect when it goes over to the senate. when it comes down to paid family leave which is included in this bill, senator joe manchin believes it shouldn't be in this bill. do you believe the president can convince him otherwise? what's your message to senator manchin on why it deserves to be in this bill? ms. pelosi: i don't

. ♪ ♪ >> next, the white house covid-19 response team gives an upright -- an update on efforts to vaccinate children. >> good morning. thanks for joining us. today, i will begin with a progress report. we are making important progress in our fight against the virus. vaccinations, testing, and ensuring our response is equitable and reaches the hardest hit communities and those most at risk. on vaccinations, or program for kids five through 11 is hitting for strength, with 20,000 trusted and convenient locations coming online. this includes pediatricians, pharmacies, children's hospitals , community health centers, rural clinics, and school-based clinics. while our program is just fully up and running this week, by the end of the day today, we estimate that over 900,000 kids five through 11 will have already gotten their first shot. through pharmacies alone, 700,000 additional appointments are already on the calendar. parents and families across the country are breathing giant size of release. we are just getting started. we will continue to work with governors, local leaders, health care pro

house under president carter was the author of president carter, the white house years. susan glasser, staff writer for the "new yorker," co-author with a gentleman to whom she is related but unrelated to the topic of her book, co-author with peter baker of the man who ran washington. secretary of state under george herbert walker bush. martin -- most recently just now the author of the highly acclaimed master of the game. henry kissinger and the art of middle east diplomacy. martin being the court -- of course the twl time u.s. ambassador to israel. this is a study that has attracted martin's attention all the way back to when he was a graduate student. i'm really thrilled we have martin, susan, and stuart together to talk about henry kissinger. the lessons they could draw from the peacemaking experiences in the middle east. i will invite all of you who are joining today's event to participate by sending questions in that we could use in our question and answer discussion later in today's program. if you have a question you would like to filter into the conversation, if

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the white house has helped us to purchase and johnson & johnson vaccines to purchase with our own money moderna vaccine's. our challenge now is in the delivery side and i believe the delivery challenges also the greatest opportunity we have. it allows us to build clinics, to build hospitals, to build the pandemic legacy. let's do something great. wouldn't it be great if senator coons and his colleagues would give us something out of covid that gives us hospitals and clinics and helps us use this new mrna technology, the miracle of it to deliver new drugs for malaria and other diseases? so, there is a silver lining from this great darkness that we can build something. we can't build back better because we haven't had it yet. but it is an opportunity to build something for the future. liz: i hear future legislation in the works. picking up on the same theme, there were a lot of warnings from experts about the potential post-pandemic and the world wasn't ready. but the private sector has really stepped up. we've talking about testing diagnostics, everyone talking about vaccines and technol

have you ever visited the white house? >> yes. >> so, you're aware there is a fence around the entire perimeter of the white house to prevent unauthorized individuals from entering the white house, correct? >> yes. >> and u.s. taxpayers are also funding a half million dollar fence around president biden's beach house, correct? >> i'm not aware. >> and your department is over seeing this construction. you should be aware of that. president biden obviously likes walls when they protect him. can you explain why this is effectival and necessary at the white house and the biden beach house but not necessary at the southern border? >> yes, i can. may i have that opportunity? >> up to the chairman. my time is expired. >> you may angser the question. >> there are thousands of miles along the southern border and i agree with what then senator mccain presented. which was there are difference solutions for the border because of its tremendous expanse. the great diversity in the terrains that it must cover. and therefore, the key, the

the white house said sunday evening, appearing on a talk shows, dr. francis collins questioned the americans on the emergence of omicron and a reminder that the pandemic is far from over. live coverage on the c-span networks this morning at 11:45 eastern. dr. fauci was asked yesterday about potential shutdowns and lockdowns. this is from abc's this week george: should we be expecting more mandates? dr. fauci i do not know. it is too early to say. we need to prepare for the worst. it may not be that we will have to go to the root that people are saying. we do not know a lot about this virus. we want to prepare, but it may turn out that this preparation may not wish us to the next level -- people talking about lockdowns let us see what the information tells us. we will make decisions based on the science and evidence. but you want to be prepared to do anything and everything. that is the reason why we are paying such close attention. host: georgia, independent line. caller: how much do i love c-span? happy thanksgiving. omicron, i saw the news yesterday

that that work continue in the white house. this is a historic slate of recommendations and it is remarkable they were developed really within just eight months since our first meeting. i am also extremely -- extraordinarily pleased to report the administration has already begun action online within 80% of the prioritized recommendations. much of that has been achieved through the white house covid-19 response and agencies across -- and hospitals but up and underscoring that. the gap among black, white and latin adults has closed. the latest cdc survey completed at the end of october, from the kaiser foundation, from the pew research center, these data collectively tell the story of what is possible. they can commit to equity at the center. progress was made possible because we called on society to join us and they did. this is a reflection of the work of partners and communities across the country ensuring access, prioritizing vaccination uptake. every step of the way meeting people where they are, leveraging and boosting reso

from the house to the white house. two, people like jamie and frank fonseca who live in inner city san antonio that go out and door knock and help candidates win at all different levels. we need more people, the republican party needs more people like jeannie and frank if we're going to take back the house. now i'd like to it turn it over to my good friend, julia letlow, from louisiana. ms. letlow: thank you. as a single mom of two, a former educator, and a concerned american, education is a topic that's near and dear to my heart. it is no secret that our nation faces tremendous challenges in education, and during the pandemic this last year, many of us joined our children in the virtual classroom and found ourselves concerned with the curriculum we witnessed. the other side's proposed solutions to nationalize the curriculum and push a one-size-fits-all approach to education has proven to fail time and time again and is clearly not the answer. as republicans, we believe that education is a true partnership between pare

she was iconic in her leadership, from the white house to the speaker, working both sides of the aisle. and, yes, $150 billion. when i think of congressman bobby scott, i think of education and labor. there has not been a stronger voice in the congress than bobby scott in the congressional black caucus. you heard earlier from congresswoman sheila jackson lee. pell grants. h.b.c. historically black colleges and universities. billions of dollars going into our universities. and madam speaker, let me take a point of personal privilege, because i am a proud graduate of a hbcu. so i know what this means to young girls and boys and men and women who are me trick lating in our metriculating in our hbcu's. when we talk about the child tax credit, when we talk about universal childcare, this is so critical. breaking news, congresswoman -- $400 -- i want to say that again $400 billion into childcare. taking some 40% of our children out of poverty. we know how important our climate is to us. if we didn't, if you were out on that south lawn today, you clearly understood climate change. madam speak

what happens if the white house is again inhabited by someone who thinks a lot of the -- is negotiable? what happens if certain senators wake up in the wrong side of the bed tomorrow morning? there were questions asked with respect in which we had to answer with honesty. which is that with the leadership of nancy pelosi and the leadership of chairwoman castor, -- there is a lot of respect for that. but we left at a point where my sense was that the rest of the world was saying, we are asking know what the house can do, we are asking what america can do. the way that we come back to that table, the way that we save not only is the united states focused on what the scientists agree necessarily, vet that we actually deserve to be in a position of leadership because we are going to shoot not by our words, but by our actions that we are committed to this, there will redo this is passing the build back better act. we can look ourselves in the eye much like the rest of the world is looking at themselves in the eye after cop and saying the united states has now made the single biggest commitme

hearings, white house events and supreme court oral arguments. even our live interactive morning program, washington journal, where we hear yours -- your voices every day. download the app for free today. >> in the 2021 election, publicans -- republicans won the virginia governorship for the first time in 12 years. up next, a conversation about the 2021 election results and what they may mean for the 2022 midterm election. -- the biden administration agenda. the brookings institution hosted this one-hour event. >> good evening. i am the executive director of the institute of politics. we are pleased to welcome you to a discussion regarding a breakdown of this year's election results and a preview of the 2022 midterm elections. before one of our students introduces our guest, i want to introduce events we have. we are going strong into the end of the quarter. tomorrow, thursday, november 11, eric rcr, a journalist and author -- eric garcia of we are not broken changing the autism conversation and 10 alberta, a staff writer for the atlantic will be

i serve as an editorial writer and white house correspondent. i am also the author of several books, including eyes on the prize. i am going to be your moderator for today's panel and i'm going to introduce each of the panelists in greater detail in a moment. you should all know, get ready. you are going to learn and listen to amy walters of the political report, chris of american enterprise institute, john, dippy director of public management at brookings and the woman who put together this panel, elaine, who is director of the center for effective public management at the brookings institution. i would like to remind the audience they can submit questions via twitter at #election2021. let's get the party started. last tuesday, we had an off year election that rocked the political world. republicans won the governor seat in virginia and whoever controlled the legislature in new jersey, democratic incumbent who is thought to be issue in, barely squeaked by with a narrow win. in minneapolis, home of george floyd, a police reform measure was turne

caller: just like the white house up there. it is full of 200 and 300 people and they can't to people agree on one thing -- two people agree on one thing. when that takes place there is nothing that can be done. host: this is rory in california, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. basically they need powell to get him out of this mess. i think they know nothing about how to make money. they only use republicans to make the money so they can steal it later on for the leftist democrats. otherwise there would be nothing to steal, nothing to tax. powell is a good person, he knows how to do stuff. he will be more in control of the democratic party as a person who does finance. as for anything else, i think it's only a matter of time before biden and harris are both impeached. host: do you think the federal reserve chair delves into issues of politics rather than just monetary policy, or do you think that politics is part of it? caller: politics has become part of it under biden. at least with trump he let people do