in a moment we'll go to cnbc's kayla tausche live at the white house. first our senior congressional correspondent ylan mui is on the hill where they are -- well, ylan, where are they >> well, shep, it's either going to be a breakthrough or a breakdown tonight on capitol hill the house is now standing in recess until at least 9:00 p.m. as democrats try to figure out if there is a path forward on the infrastructure bill. democratic leaders told us they just started whipping or counting the votes today and when asked if she has enough support to pass this house speaker nancy pelosi said only "we're working on it." now, we watched a parade of lawmakers, progressives and moderates, going in and out of her office today they told us the tenor of those conversations was positive, even if there wasn't really any movement here's the head of the congressional progressive caucus, pramila jayapal. >> we've been working very closely to make sure she understands where we are, to be transparent. listen, nobody should be surprised that we are where we are because we've

a cybersecurity summit at the white house. the push to reveal a secret space weapon >>> and why this famous baby is suing nirvana. >> announcer: live from cnbc, the facts, the truth "the news with shepard smith." >>> good evening with only six days left to evacuate as many as 1,500 americans are still in afghanistan. that was the rough estimate today from the booid biden administration as it struggles to figure out exactly how many u.s. citizens are actually in the country as time runs out of those 1,500 the u.s. government is in contact with about 500 americans who they say want to get out. and the remaining 1,000 or so may or may not be in afghanistan anymore. according to the secretary of state, tony blinken. >> for the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had who may be americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we're aggressively reaching out to them multiple times a day through multiple channels of communication. phone, e-mail, text messaging. to determine whether they still want to leave. >> the "wall street journal's"

shep >>> cnbc white house correspondent kayla tausche now. there's real pressure on the white house now to do something about this. >> shep, good evening. the white house has said reversing this trend is a top priority it's studying every option available. and today in baltimore president biden touted the bipartisan infrastructure deal he will sign monday and broader package still being negotiated as the fix. >> along with other plans i'm advancing, this bill is going to reduce the cost of goods to consumers, businesses and get people back to work. >> senator joe manchin, a critical vote for mr. biden's agenda and nominees, issuing a broad side on twitter saying inflation is not transitory, an attack on the favored term of the chair of the federal reserve which fights inflation, lambasting the inflation tax from the grocery store to the gas pump senator dan sullivan, republican from energy-rich alaska, says the biden administration's private agenda is making it worse. >> it makes no sense and it's really hurting working families. we are seein

one of the republican senators is with us now from the white house. senator bill cassidy of louisiana. sir, thanks for coming we appreciate it should the american people be less or more optimistic about a deal after your get-together with the president >> i think they should be more optimistic there was common ground. that we've got to take care of the american people. the president said listen, we may disagree on some things, but we're not going to disagree on the need to take care of those in need. now, republicans offered for something more focused, but another bit of common ground is that we're talking about data. what does the data show that we need and the president's going to have his staff get back to us, and we'll kind of compare our data points. that's good news. >> the meeting went much longer than we had anticipated anyway were you surprised, and what was the reason for that? expect jerry >> i'm not surprised in retrospect jerry moran said at one point, i enjoy talking to people. and the president said, so do i. and everybody laughed, unde

i saw that report from the white house. obviously any time you have a white house report talking about a u.s. variant it's concerning they are basing that on the fact we've seen exponential growth and so many infections across the u.s. that they're worried there may be a u.s. variant. but we don't know because we're not doing genomic sequencing of the virus the way the uk and other countries are. so we are flying blindly and guessing there might be a u.s. variant. i have no idea and none of us know until we are do sequencing. we've got to get our act together and start doing this so we can know if there's another variant circulating in our country. >> it's really incredible how much that we can do that we don't do, that most major countries around the world do routinely. is it a communication thing? is it just the white house won't move what is it >> it's stunning like we are technologically one of, if not the most advanced country in the world we have so much capability to do genomic sequencing and other kinds of things. b

so it's in and out a bit from the white house pool coming through the gate. and about to enter the entire motorcade on the move and a live look -- at the hall we have notice from the white house pool it gives us all the direction on a big night. this is the spot where we were told at just this moment the senators would begin filing through the hall on their way. as i mention we watched it for years. it's never ever looked like this covid is still with us there is a light at the end of the very long tunnel tonight he says the white house says the president will say america is on the move again turning peril into possibility crisis into opportunity. normally the side that likes the president is going yeah, and the other side goes -- what are is the opposition most upset about now? is it the border, the big spending, what >> you got the two i would say the order would be the border and clearly president biden is most vulnerable there that's all the surveys show. and second once people hear about the 4 trillion additional spending on top of 1.9 trillion that has

so far the white house has imposed sanctions on 76 different saudi individuals. the biden administration spared the crown prince himself in an interview with cnn, the press secretary jen psaki said the u.s. does not impose sanctions on foreign leaders. >>> a huge iceberg breaks off and floats away, and a military government brings charges against a leader it overthrew as we go around the world in 80 seconds. >>> myanmar, the court announcing new charges against democratically elected leader d suu kyi, using communication equipment, the second causing fear and alarm, the military arrested her after seizing power in a coup last month suu kyi appeared in court following the bloodiest day of protests yesterday, police fired tear gas, rubble bullets, and stun grenades for to clear hundreds of her supporters un officials say at least 18 people died. >>> russia, the government has moved the kremlin critic, alexei navalny to a penal colony. he's set to serve his two-year sentence 60 miles east of moscow a local rights activist with a prisoner's rights group described con

fauci spoke today at his first white house briefing since president biden took office. he says he feels free to talk about the virus under the new administration >> the idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what evidence, what the science is and know that's it. let the science speak. it is somewhat of a liberating feeling. >> think of that the top scientist says that he can now tell the whole truth, that it's new, and it's liberating dr. fauci also addressed the new covid strain spreading all around the world he says there are plans in place, if vaccines need to be modified, but he says, new report out today show the vaccines do, indeed, appear to be effective against all of these new strains. mitch mcconnell. he wants a delay on impeachment. the senate minority leader proposing a mid-february start date for the former president's trial. no word from the democrats yet on whether they'll agree to that that's just one road block and president biden's push for bipartisanship kevin mccarthy slamming the administration on his day one orders >> within ho

house back in early may, but the white house only green lit this program this past friday, according to a senior administration official who was involved involved in these stdiscussions. they were reluctant. and recent polling showed vaccinated and unvangted americans shared the view that foreign travelers were to blame for the rise of the delta variant. the new rule also fake effect in early november, which jeff zients says will allow airlines and the traveling public time t prepare. it comes after the eu took off restrictions on the united states and boris johnson who was poised to raise this issue in a call with french president emmanuel macron, still reeling from the decision with australia. the timing of that call has yet to be finalized. >> p president biden is set to adrelts united nations >> one theme is ending a two-decade war in the middle east while open aing a new chape on diplomacy it comes a the a fairly difficult time for theu.s. as is trying to revive credibility france's foreign minister called it a brutal unilateral and unpredictable decision that reminds him a lot

eamon javers now what's going on between the white house and the secret service? >> reporter: well, contessa, it's not every day you see a dispute emerge between the white house and the secret service, but that's exactly what happened today. at issue here was the word stolen and whether the bether way to describe what happened is potential fraudulent activity, including fraud but also things like overpayments or money sent to the wrong address what is clear here is that a whole lot of money has gone to people the government says committed crimes in one case an oregon dentist allegedly took $8 million in business loans for restaurants located in sarasota, miami and daytona beach. in another case a new jersey man allegedly helped file 100 phony unemployment claims but in massachusetts. that one resulted in more than $1.2 million in payouts. two men in michigan were part of groups that filed 500 false claims for unemployment benefits and were able to take more than $1.7 million in relief funds roy dodson is the new head of the secret service's pandemic fraud effort h

at the same time the house is trying to move forward with its work at the white house, though, as you described it inciting violence and now the president has been blocked from twitter. what is a democracy to do about a president whom you say incites violence >> well, we have 14 days, i believe, left of this administration. >> a long time. >> a long time there is one legal recourse. that's the 25th amendment, which i know the different individuals have talked about, legal scholars have talked about that would require the vice president initiating that with more than half the cabinet to essentially remove the president with the concurrence of the congress that's an option we've never tried it before the we never had reason to but we've -- because this is so unprecedented we never had to think about it but the 25th amendment was put in place, i suspect that wasn't there, when they did it, it's a fairly recent amendment as you know within the last 50 years to deal with all situation, so that's one option that we would have >> well, you know mike pence can you see him doing that >> no, i

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the biden white house seeking a five year extension. on other matters relations with moscow are, well, tense. "the washington post" reported president biden will ask his director of national intelligence to review russia's interference in the 2020 election the massive hack of america's top agencies blamed on russia, and the recent arrest of the russian opposition leader alexi navalny. vladimir putin and president biden have met on the world stage before when he was vice president. his view of putin, well, he calls him a kgb thug michael mcfaul now former u.s. ambassador to russia thanks for being here. let's start with the nuclear treaty criti critics argue that five years is too long, that gives up some of our leverage what do you think. >> well agree agree with that. i know the critics are from the trump administration and they had that leverage for four years and they didn't do anything with it my own view. >> i helped negotiate this treaty back when i worked on the obama administration and it is expiration makes the united states wo

[music playing] the first official press briefing of the biden administration live from the white house. i'm shepard smith, this is the news on cnbc >> america turns the page to our next chapter in our nation's history. >> democracy has prevailed. >> joe biden sworn in as the 46th president of the united states, and wastes no time getting to work. >>> top of the agenda, a deadly pandemic, an economic crisis a nation divided we break down the difficult path forward for this new administration >> so help me god. >> kamala harris, the first woman ever to become vice president. tonight, the significance and lasting impact of this milestone. >> we lift our gaze not to what stands between us but what stands before us ♪ >> plus, the sights and sounds of an inauguration day like no other. >> good evening, democracy has prevailed and today is america's day. those words from joseph r. biden jr., the 46th president of the united states, the leader of the free world pledging to unite a deeply divided country, while dealing with the worsening pandemic as one nation at 11:48 a.m. today in washingto

so is the white house's plan working? two of america's busiest ports vowed to operate 24/7 to handle that record breaking, massive backup of cargo ships waiting in line to offload their goods. cnbc's white house correspondent kayla tausche checks in to see if the situation is improving. what about it? >> the white house continues to urge the private sector to incentivize workers to fill ships to get goods out of the ports and onto doorsteps and officials are pointing to some progress the white house's top economic official thanking union pacific for expanding its hours and reducing rail wait times by more than half. but those on the receiving end say they're not seeing much difference steve lamar represents an apparel and footwear company. >> it hasn't gotten better over the last week. it's probably gotten worse and it's taking any length of time we say we're kind of in the planes, trains and automobiles phase of this crisis where people are looking at any mode of transportation they can t get their goods in, clear their

kayla, has the attention of the white house -- this clearly has it now but what can they do about it? >> reporter: well, shep, the administration has said it will use every tool in its toolbox to curb energy prices but it doesn't have many tools available. the energy department tells me it has no immediate plans to release oil from the country's emergency reserves or limit exports of oil and gas those were two options raised but officials are worried they could do more harm president biden is now linked to higher prices at the pump. look no further from this message at a wawa in delaware. that's his hometown. a recent cbs poll found 66% of respondents blamed the government for higher consumer prices and 60% said it is not doing enough about it. the white house is talking to producers in the middle east and investigating price gouging in the u.s., but energy-rich states like louisiana where agencies have enacted policies to limit drilling activity, they say it's a manufactured crisis. >> the end of the day, i don't think that the administration can create a problem and then, declare an

cnbc white house correspondent kayla tausche is with us what are your sources telling you? >> shep, i'm told chinese officials have canvassed foreign policy experts to see how such an invitation would be received. and the answer is not well g7 nations are currently reporting a coordinated boycott of the game where athletes participate but state officials with stay home no final decision on attendance has been made senators want an upcoming defense spending bill to block funding for government travel to the games. with that backed up, a potential invitation from president xi would be something as a dare to biden who he has known for a long time. decline and imperil a relationship with beijing that's already on fragile footing as winds on trade and climate are short-lived and tensions over taiwan and technology are high accepting, however unlikely would anger allies and undermine president biden's own administration's messaging on human rights and democracy ahead of a white house summit on that topic in december. president xi hasn't left china since the pandemic began, and wo

the white house says 45,000 of america's bridges are in poor condition. same for 20% of all the nation's highways and major roads that amounts to about 173,000 miles of road. pennsylvania ranks among the states with the most need. it's 11th worst for the interstate system and 12th from the bottom for bridges according to a research nonprofit. so that's where cnbc's valerie castro went, to investigate how something as small as a pothole can cause a huge financial hole. >> it bent the rim and it broke. i've never seen anything like that. >> reporter: ibrahim fixes tires and rims at his shop on the outskirts of the city. most days he sees at least half a dozen customers by noon. >> all with the same problem >> always. a broken rim every day we have cars coming in with cracked rims, bent rims, because of the potholes. >> reporter: road conditions are so bad in pennsylvania a national transportation research group estimates drivers pay an extra $620 in vehicle maintenance and upkeep. >> it's a serious problem. >> what do customers tell you? >> they're not happ

>> reporter: well, shep, the white house is trying to find additional housing for an influx of migrant children that under the new administration are no longer being turned away, reopening a temporary facility in carrizo springs, texas, that can accommodate an additional 700 kids a homestead, florida facility has provided up to 2,700 additional beds in the past as well, but both of those facilities have previously been criticized as unfit for children axios reports the white house may need as many as 20,000 total beds migrant children currently occupy 7,700 of the some 13,000 beds operated by health and human services, but that number has doubled since just the end of last year immigration experts say that's because of pent-up demand from president trump's policy to expel these children, but the biden administration is in a difficult position with capacity limited by social distancing >> these are children often fleeing from horrible violence so the administration is trying to strike a balance of wanting to allow them to come in but also not wanting to increase covid risks. >> reporter

and loss opportunity >> reporter: the white house points to president biden's hahn handling of covid. the president articulated a vaccination goal and he mobilized the full force to meet them in terms of areas of improvements, you can point to the immigration situation on the southern border. the administration struggled at times to respond to the influx of migrants. kamala harris held a meeting with the president of guatemala to talk about the root causes o f migration. the immigration is trying to address this right now as a diplomatic issue as well >> let's look ahead, as the administration tries to move to congress, what issues can we expect the focus to be on next >> reporter: i put this question to the white house's press secretary today. she says expect this white house to expand access to healthcare and of course they're trying to get behind this pracolice reform push happening on capitol hill the thing we'll be paying attention here is how involved he gets. as they try to hash out some sort of police reform legislation. how will the president involves himself and making sure

the white house says the american flag would be lowered and now it has above the white house and around the world we haven't seen a day this bloody in afghanistan for years. there has not been a combat death there since february of 2020 in the past two years combined, nine troops died compared to at least 12 in this single day. we can now confirm this news just in from the pentagon. pent. the pentagon now c the pentagon now confirms the death toll among the united states military troops has now risen to 13. and 18 u.s. military personnel are now injured and being treated either in hospitals or otherwise. nbc is live at the white house for us tonight mike, with the president vowing to retaliate but first he has to finish the orange sal mission with threats ongoing. >> reporter: that's right, shep. the white house press secretary confirming to me that this threat is still ongoing and that the white house is very closely monitoring but 565 days, that's how long it's been since the last combat death of an armed service member in afghanistan and now one of the deadliest days of the conflict

the time obama invited him to the white house, trump, instead, is going to leave with a snub. he will not leave with joe biden before he is sworn in as the president of the united states on wednesday and melania trump, the first lady you saw in the picture. she will not meet with her successor dr. jill biden either. instead of the planning meetings and transition progress reports. what the president has been focused on here in his final days has been planning a lavish sendoff at joint st. andrews before heading to florida ahead of biden's swearing in, guaranteeing his last flight will still bear the presidential designation air force one. as the trump family's possessions are packed, he is also working on a presidential pardon for dozens of supporters and high-profile figures as of right now, trump is not although, one source cautions, he could still change his mind as trump registers the lowest poll numbers of his presidency with 34% of the americans approving of the job he's done, the president is contemplating life as a private citizen, facing an impeachment trial that coul

to do exactly that white house press secretary jen psaki said the president's views have not change. in the past he said he supports decriminalizing weed but not legalizing it. now members of his own party, including the majority leader, chuck schumer, are rolling out plans to make pot legal at the federal level. nbc's gabe gutierrez sat down with the senators leading the push >> reporter: for years, state after state after state has given the green light to the cannabis industry. but now perhaps the biggest pot push yet >> there is an urgency to this because there are people all over our country seeing their lives destroyed. >> reporter: senate democrats are rolling out a draft of their plan to try to legalize marijuana at the federal level first obtained exclusively by nbc news, it calls for removing cannabis from the controlled substances act, expunging federal records of nonviolent cannabis offenders, and setting up regulations that tax pot products >> so do you have the votes? >> well, we're working on it >> reporter: working on weed are senate majority leader chuck schumer, new

the white house says mr. biden warned him directly that there will be a strong response from the u.s. and our allies if russia attacks recent satellite images show russia amassing troops at key strategic points along the ukrainian border national security advisor jake sullivan says president biden made it clear to putin that he's facing much stiffer consequences than he did back in 2014 when he invaded crimea >> president biden looked president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014, we are prepared to do now now, in terms of the specifics, we would prefer to communicate that directly to the russians, to not negotiate in public, to not telegraph our punches. >> sullivan says some of the consequences laid out by the president include strong measures against russia's economy, supplying ukraine with more military aid, and sending more u.s. troops to nato countries near russia. this is what a russian invasion of ukraine might look like according to an analysis by the ukrainian milit

cnbc white house correspondent kayla tausche. kayla, the president got a lot of backlash in the midday and then by afternoon, a change appeared. >> reporter: that's right, shep. the white house now says that president biden has until mid-may to raise the refugee cap and may still do that. that would apply to the fiscal year which ends in september but even so, a statement from the white house press secretary, jen psaki, said because the program was in her words decimated, that it seems unlikely that it could even process north of 62,000 refugees psaki said the president would keep his pledge to raise the refugee cap by nearly tenfold beginning in october but unlike most policy decisions, senior officials did not organize a briefing to explain the rationale for keeping the trump-era limit in place. the administration has been facing problematic politics as the pandemic plateaus and illegal apprehensions surge at the southern border. so then the walk-back late this afternoon right before a delayed press conference with japan's prim

here is senior white house reporter shannon pettypiece. >> reporter: today at the meeting with mayors and local police officials president biden urged them to use the $350 billion in state funding in the covid relief bill passed march to hire more police officers and fund public safety programs among the initiatives that biden said he'd like to see more resources go towards those to stem the flow of illegal guns, expand summer programs and help formerly incarcerated people re-enter the work force. his call for additional police hiring is a message that runs counter to the push by some democrats to cut police funding following the killing of george floyd. and among those at the white house today was the newly minted new york city democratic mayoral nominee eric adams, a former police captain who ran against call city fund the police. he said he told the president he supports adding more police if needed, but said systematic issues are needed to be addressed as well. >> it doesn't matter how many police officers you put on the streets. we can't continue to respond to symptoms it's time

this was back in early march at the time that i talked to the president, i think that the white house staff had brought me in to try to make the case that we needed to take more stringent action at that point the president was mostly sold on the steps that they eventually took it was shortly after that meeting that the president signed on to an effort to step up what we were doing. that was the 15 days to slow the spread, but at the point at which i talked to him he was mostly convinced that we needed to take tougher action i spoke to him again on another occasion about a month later about some of the therapeutics that were in development, particularly hydroxychloroquine, and at that point and that has been reported already, the president wanted to authorized the drug, more access to that drug and ultimately made a decision not to intervene to do that and left decision ultimately to the fda. >> dr. gotlieb, we've gotten a lot more data on boosters in recent days. are you concerned that the fda and the administration are putting out, i don't know, confusingings, sometimes conflicting m

what is the white house going to base this decision on? >> reporter: well, there is a covid-19 interagency task force which basically is taking in the information from a number of different agencies we reached out to the white house today, they gave us the same answer we have heard time and again, you've heard time and again. it's going to be based on science. right now the science does not say it's time to open up >> you've mentioned covid delta. are the airlines concerned >> reporter: not yet they're keep ac close eye on it. they are not seeing the delta variant impacting bookings, people canceling trips if you see shutdowns in regions around the country, then you might see people cancelinger that trheir trips if that doesn't happen, at least the at leisure travel will be on >> if you need a passport for your travel, get in line more than 2 million applications are held up because of the pandemic according to state department that includes new passports and renew also current wait time anywhere from three-to-four months when it normally

tonight the white house with an urgent message i'm shepard smith. this is the news on cnbc >>> hate can have no safe harbor in america >> consoling the grieving asian-american community the president and vice president in atlanta as we learn more about the victims and the lives they were living. >>> states reopen even as several of them see rising cases and new victims in the hospital. tonight paying cash money to get more people to get a shot. >>> more allegations against the new york governor, andrew cuomo. now a current aide in his office speaking out publicly for the first time >>> this is our weight room. let me show y'all the men's weight room. >> plus, the weight of disparate. tonight pros weigh in and the ncaa responds. >>> live from cnbc the facts. the truth. "the news with shepard smith." >>> good evening violence against asian-americans is skyrocketing, and it must stop now that's the message today from president biden just moments ago, in fact, in atlanta, just days after a gunman went be on a rampage and killed eight people at spas ther

house back in early may, but the white house only green lit this program this past friday, according to an administration official who was involved in the discussions. the white house was reluctant to be relaxing regulations for international travelers while mask and vaccine requirements were intensifying here and especially since recent polling showed vaccinated and unvaccinated americans shared the view that foreign travelers were to blame for the rise of the delta variant. the new rules will take effect in early november which they said will allow agencies, airlines and the traveling public time to prepare the announcement comes weeks after the european union had restrictions on the u.s., ahead of u.s. prime minister boris johnson who was poised to raise this issue and president macron, who is still reeling from the restrictions >> president biden is set to address the u.n. general assembly tomorrow. what do we know about what he's going to say >> the speech that the president is going to give is centered around one thing that is ending a two decade war in the middle east while op

and the white house said it endangered the lives of passengers including u.s. citizens. >> this is a shocking act between two eu member states for the purpose of arresting a journalist, and constitutes a brazen affront. >> here is the track of the plane. from athens to lithuania you can see over belarus and over the border of lithuania, it made a sudden turn back and headed to minsk. they made up a fake bomb threat on the plane, and then escorted it to minsk. the arrested journalist has appeared in new video admitted that he helped to organize mass protests last year. the supporters say it is clear that he is forced to say that. matthew bodner in moscow. that. mat matthe >> reporter: several european nations avoided belarus entirely and so while we saw several of them in the u.k., and lithuania and ukraine move to formally ban flights in and out of that country, there is questions about the enforcement, but this is coming as the european union came to discuss sanctions against belarus in response to this act. it is important to note that belarus is under signif

>> well, we talked only a little bit about that counter programming strategy from the white house last week. those pictures of president biden welcoming him to the oval office, a bipartisan group of senators, mayors and governors from across the country. yes, the white house knew we weren't going to be paying attention with the senate impeachment trial going on, but they wanted to show the president at work. this week a very different story as we're going to see president biden hitting the road for the first time as president with events designed to show that the white house has support. he will travel to wisconsin, one of the hardest fought battleground states for a televised town hall meeting on thursdays going to that pfizer vaccine manufacturing plant to highlight what are some positive trends in terms of the distribution of vaccine. we saw vaccination rates the past few days of more than two million a day. that would be ahead of the pace needed for president biden to hit that goal he set of 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days this is shaping up to be a critical month ah

guidance. >>> today's transfer of power not just at the white house. there was a digital transfer of power as well. president biden takes over the @potus twitter account his old handle as president-elect no longer exists same for vice president harris, she's now @vp. jill biden holds @flotus and here's a new one, stw one, @secondgentleman. >>> for the first time the outgoing president did not stick around to hand over the nuclear football to the new commander in chief. the 45 pound black leather briefcase contains the equipment needed to launch a nuclear strike it's always by the president's side under traditional circumstances the outgoing president would have given the incoming president the briefcase at the inauguration of course that did not happen today. a military aide presidented a second briefcase with biden. the one were president trump was deactivated. >>> overnight, president biden expected to speak. part of a star studded presentation with tom hanks and so much more live. she was capturing the moment that words manwot ony n'so forget the po

cnbc senior white house correspondent kayla tausche now, kayla? >> reporter: shep, the white house said the july fourth goal is an aspirational one, not for concerts on the mall o large sporting events but to merge a few households, a time line they say is no foolproof but based on when they believe vaccines will be available. >> we'll have enough supply by the end of may, right? and it will be state to state. so we did not want to give a conclusion of when everybody will be fully vaccinated because it really depends on a couple of factors, some which are out of our control. >> reporter: among those factors, whether the white house can convince skeptics it's safe, and how effectively states can use the vaccine they're given. more than one-third of georgia's supply has gone unused in wisconsin, that's just 12%. the expansion of eligibility could bump some high-risk groups to the back of the line, an issue some states are already addressing michigan plans to open up vaccinations for all adults in early april but is telling providers to consider a pe