as you indicated, the white house bettingfield, those questions are being discussed in the white house now. are they going to send more troops, are they going to expand the operation? now, no. the president does not want to do that. that is a question facing him as he goes into the weekend here. are they going to do more outside of the airport. he's scheduled to address the nation this afternoon, was planning to give what they saw as good news overnight. there are planes running. they sent some 16 planes out overnight. but as we've seen with our own eyes on the ground there through clarissa's great reporting, things are still very bottled up there. so no matter what they say at the white house, that doesn't change what happens on the ground. >> and that there's empty seats. there are empty seats. >> and that's the logistical issue. rhetoric never addresses reality. natasha, as we've seen, the taliban holding back is really one of the reads this entire situation holding on. if that situation escalates or devolves into further violence, all betts are off in what is a transfer. you've bee

reportedly rejected the white house's call. you heard from the senator today. there is this back and forth. what do you expect to hear when the president takes the podium? >> jen psaki should walk into the briefing room any second now. we should also hear the press secretary begin with news about covid. the president was meeting with his covid team this afternoon. that's one explanation, my guess is, for the delay. of course, the president giving his big speech on this tomorrow. the other thing these kinds of delays prompt questions about is, indeed, whether or not we're waiting for a phone call to happen, maybe between the president and senator manchin. there is no indication -- >> do you have any signs that -- okay. when you say things like that, it makes me think maybe you're hearing something. >> you're the memoli whisperer here, so you may have the right to be suspicious, hallie. i think the big thing we'll be watching for as we see the press briefing begin is whether the tenor from the podium today matches that pretty str

monday morning, daniel lippmann previews the week ahead at the white house. then we will talk about the impact of covid-19 on back-to-school efforts with roll call health care reporter, and how covid-19 is affecting young children with aman

he also place to open new testing sites, but need to report say, the white house hasn't even actually signed any new contract for job delivery. leaving that it is unclear just how those could be made available, testing sensitive, actually been shutting up shop because of shortages of staff. for example, 13 of close the new york and new jersey. the lines are growing here in new york city. and so is the frustration. 13 different coven testing centers throughout the city close down to day. all while demand for tests is rising amid and increasing infection rate. we spoke to some people who are waiting to get coven tests here and manhattan. that is a horrible, honestly, you know, you see how many people are on this line right here. and most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get tested. i've had to wait on the line for hours to get tested. so it makes no sense to be that's not good, probably why i'm standing on line and the 26 degree weather, the end of the day. it's the holidays. we have a search, we have to be vigilant, active, and we do need more testing centers.

we are also working with fema, the white house and our delegation to ensure we get everything new yorkers need. this is just the beginning. we are making more announcements about the resources from the federal government. during the peak of the storm, we lost power, we still have about 7800 people without power at this time. there were many rescues. i want to thank our new york state team working with local government for rescues, our swift water teams work directed, deployed, on the ground, where they needed to be, rescuing over 100 people between rockland county and westchester the previous night. the deaths that have been confirmed would be 15. we have two right here in westchester. there is an individual missing, now confirmed dead. it is hard to read those numbers , because those numbers are people. we have shelters open, we are serving people at -- i will visit this afternoon and see what people need. uninhabited homes everywhere, this is something we have to deal with, this is our hour of need, are our to take action and be there for them. this is not the worst road, you can see wh

has been hesitant to call this a coo white house. so foreman said that a thorough legal analysis would 1st be required, but that if this is determined to be a coo, then us a to, to need, could be on the line that's totaled 1400000000 dollars. since the countries revolution in 2011 much of that money going toward the military and security expenses. heidi, thanks very much indeed. it's hydro capital talking to us from washington d. c. well, best, more money is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada. and she says the president's takeover is not the solution to chin as he has difficulties. the article of the constitution is really about extreme situations and not to to sort of discount enormous economic and socio economic challenges that are facing. and we've seen protests on and off since january. certainly i don't think this really qualifies. i think it really was written in the spirit of being sort of an external threat or an internal catastrophe. this is not one of them. and i also add that the fact

eastern, here how first ladies worked to preserve the historic nature of the white house, exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> i remain of the view that the worst arguments made for the lockdowns were the initial ones. they said we have to protect hospitals from an overflow. wait a second. who needs to be forced to avoid behavior that might result in hospitalization? then there was an argument that they predicted two point 3 million americans would die unless we took away freedom. what if they predicted 30 million? what amount of force from government would have meant anything at that point? >> sunday night at q&a, the director for the center of economic freedom on his book, "when politicians panic," on the impact the lockdown had -- the pandemic had on the economy. you can also listen to q&a the podcast. find it wherever you get your podcasts. >> former vice president mike pence spoke at the faith and freedom conference in florida. at the beginning of his remarks, protesters interrupted the former vice president. here is a look. >> this cr

tell us about his week ahead. >> guest: it's back to basics at the white house. the more basic, less glamorous job of legislation. when lawmakers left town there was significant progress being made on bipartisan progress being made on three different things. infrastructure as you mentioned, voting rights and the police reform bill. we have a meeting today with the white house, president biden meeting rswith financial regulators. we don't know too much other than it will focus on regulatory priorities including financial risk and agency action. then on wednesday there's an interesting meeting that's the president will be doing on crime prevention. there's been a lot of clamor around the country and the president has avoided althis so far. it's been a grepublican talking point that he is now going to address this and have a meeting with stakeholders on wednesday. on thursday he will be traveling to north carolina to promote vaccinations and on friday he will deliver remarks on pride month and also meet with the president of afghanistan about the withdrawal. as you

the white house to take action. grocery prices are up nearly 3% in the last year, but beef and pork up more than 10%. >> i see it every week in the grocery store. you look at prices and you're almost stunned. >> reporter: at a briefing wednesday white house officials took aim at the big meat companies. >> it raises the concern about pandemic profiteering, companies that are driving prices that hurts consumers. they say four companies, jbs, tyson foods, cargill and national beef packing company control most of the market and data shows they've been raising prices during the pandemic while generating big profits. >> those companies have seen record or near-prorecord profitn the first half of this year, and that has coincided where we have seen disproportionate price increases in those segments. >> reporter: although the industry has faced unprecedented costs due to the pandemic, the companies may now be price gouging. >> our job is to make sure that the farmer gets a fair price and that when i go to the grocery store

so it's a big victory for the white house right now. they've got that major traditional infrastructure bill passed the senate. but again, bill from hurdles to go before this could even become close to becoming law. i. kimberly, thanks for that. kimberly how can live 1st there in washington and staying in the us. we are just getting some breaking news now that the governor of new york state andrew cuomo has just resigned. he had been too intense pressure off to be states attorney general alleged that he had sexually harassed multiple women. this is the moment he announced his resignation. answers the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let the government get back to governing. and therefore that's what i'll do. because i work for you and doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you. because as we say, it's not about me, it's about way, jackie, hope. all right, so near governor andrew cuomo announcing there that he would resign as governor democratic governor of the 3rd largest states in the u. s. something of a surpr

so how much of a misfire is this p r wise for the white house? well, i think it kind of goes to show just how out of touch people are, you know, if it was a democrat or republican, you know, i don't think either of them would be more in touch with the way people need to balance their books and things like that, you know, trump visibility and air biden, i'm sure has millions of dollars and there hasn't really been a president in a very, very long time that has taken be taken to consideration the effects of their policy is on the workers. and i think that's the most important thing to take away from this place. they really think that $0.16 is amazing, and we're going to go out to the streets and, you know, show our love for president biden over $0.16. it's insulting and this isn't something new, i guess is my point that i think it's very blatant just how out of touch they are now with this p. r failure, i suppose reading about 7 months in no way. are there any green shoots from biden's economic plan? yet, well, you know, in his speech before congre

many border state residents feel like the white house just doesn't care. it's been over 85 days, but vice president comma le harris has still not visited the border. i write to invite you to the u. s. southern border to observe the ongoing humanitarian crisis and show the perspective of americans who live the i encourage you to join me and other members of congress. while we visits with the people on the ground who deal with these issues every day house democrats were able to block a bill, but forward by republicans that would have actually prevented comma le harris from taking any international trips until she visited the border. pri of border state residency is one of the outrage at government mismanagement. what i believe is that the democrats are playing a long game of obscure and confuse while they try to get as many illegal immigrants . i'm still going to call them back into the country as possible. well, the democrats haven't taken any action that will actually solve problems on the border. those are actions that trump took during the ministration t

but me, the reports are saying that the white house hasn't yet actually signed any new contract for such job deliveries, leaving it unclear how they'll be made available. and 13 testing clinics in new york in new jersey recently had to close because of a lack of staff. the lines are growing here in new york city, and so is the frustration. 13 different coven testing centers throughout the city, close down to day. all while demand for tests is rising amid and increasing infection rate. we spoke to some people who were waiting to get coven tests here in manhattan. that is a horrible, honestly you see how many people are on this line right here. and most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get tested. i've had to wait on the line for hours to get tested, so it makes no sense to be. that's not good. probably why i'm standing a line in the 26th degree weather the end of the day. it's the holidays. we have a search, we have to be vigilant, active, and we do need more testing centers. i mean, look at these lines. there's a 100 people on this line. i think it's making the l

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nbc's mike memberly joins us now from the white house. yesterday he was surrounded by funnel cakes and ferris wheels. now it is back to the normal run of the mill everyday white house stuff. >> a different scene here. >> the barriers are down. tell us about that. were they taken down for the celebrations tonight? >> the timing is speck use on a day when you see pedestrian foot traffic anywhere close to the marl malmuch higher than it has been in the last few weeks. a u.s. secret service spokesperson simply saying they remain committed to both guaranteeing the security of their protectees, in this case the president, as well as ensuring public access to these areas. what we have seen really is a gradual draw down of what could be called only a fortification of the areas north of the white house over the last year. slowly they began to let people into lafayette park, the park just north of here. now people actually allowed to have access to pennsylvania avenue. it was striking to me i have got to be honest, as i saw people at the fence of t

then, former white house chief usher recalls events in the white house walls after the terrorists crashed into the twin towers in pentagon. book tv authors discuss their latest nonfiction books. we will continue a look back on 9/11 with a historian and his book, "the only player in the sky\\\ -- " the only plane in the sky." watch american history and book tv every weekend on c-span two . find a full schedule on your program guide or visit c-span.org. >> i had a meeting at 7:30 in the morning on 9/11. we were meeting because we do this diversity program and dinner every year. i immediately jumped up and i was sitting next to a woman, pam woodward, because her company had a business in the building. we did not know then what the true story was of what happened. i left and went to my job and was listening, watching tv and i was really panicked because my best friend worked in the city -- and am from new york -- and my best friend worked in the city building down there, and my mom had told me the day before she was going down there for some business. i immediately tried to start call my fami

we know members spoke with the doj and the white house office while they were crafting the letters. were you involved in any of these conversations? >> out be happy to have our staff follow-up with you on that. >> when the secretary testified before this can -- committee, i asked him about schoolteachers and whether they could be charged with harassment if they say there are only two genders, male and female. i asked the secretary how many genders there are and he could not answer. can you tell me how many genders there are? >> i would rather talk about the vigor value around our students -- >> you are saying that teachers could be investigated for harassment if they state the biological sex as two genders. are you saying that teachers could lose their jobs over this? you cannot say how many genders there are? >> we don't make decisions at the local level about teachers. >> this came from the department of education. this is not local. if it was local, i assure you regular americans are furious that the department of education is promoting the teaching of gender identity in school.

suppose president biden called you and want to do to come the white house. would you prefer to work for the biden edmonton -- administration or prefer to run for governor of maryland? for me this is not about i want to go into politics, for me, it is about the executive role controls the budget has the opportunity to change things for the future. tell us something you doing where you have failed so that we don't feel like we are walking someone superhuman. is there something you can say you are not good at? there is plenty i am not good at or have failed at, but one thing about me is that i am not afraid to fail.

you covered the white house, the white house on capitol hill will be focused on moving its infrastructure package and moving its human infrastructure package, the budget reconciliation bill that will be a vehicle for that. how much room is there for a push on new gun reform measures including the background check bills that passed the house back in the sing that -- in the spring that are awaiting action in the senate. cracks in the reconciliation package which is basically who determines what's going to be in that is senator joe manchin a senator from west virginia and senator kyrsten sinema from arizona since they are the most moderate democrats that biden needs to pass that reconciliation. they will have a few -- they don't want a huge liberal package, they want something more targeted. for a senator like joe manchin, west virginia, i have not checked the stats, but there is not that many nature -- major cities which are bearing the brunt of this type of increase in violence, it's a rural state so i'm sure he is under less pressure to put in more background check laws and try to take il

joe: do you think the white house is taking seriously enough this idea of expansion of supply-side capacity? >> i think it once since they are at least putting out the prospect that these type of investments can be really good for longer-term standard of living, lower your cost of living. in some ways, there is room to connect the dots even further. we think about something like the used-car shortage. the used-car shortages something that you see and you say, that may be a sign that demand is just too hot. if you look at the guts of it, it is mostly about, we can't produce cars. a lot of companies that liquidated inventory had to buy it back quickly. there is not as resilient a system as you could have if you had more transportation options. a lot of this is how do you reduce people's cost-of-living over time? if we can't produce cars for a even moment, are there other transportation options? there is actually room to maybe make it a little clearer that, if you have this type of infrastructure, capital stock in place, there is more that is possible, more available to do, and price pressures

but media reports are saying the white house hasn't yet even signed a contract for such jump deliveries, leaving it unclear just how they'll be made available and testing center. i've actually been shutting a shop because of staff shortages. for example, the team closed in new york and new jersey. the lines are growing here in new york city. and so as the frustration, 13 different coven testing centers throughout the city closed down to day. all while demand for tests is rising amid and increasing infection rate. we spoke to some people who were waiting to get coven tests here in manhattan. that is a horrible, honestly you see how many people are on this line right here. and most of my friends have to wait on line for hours and hours to get started. i've had to wait on line for hours to get tested, so it makes no sense to be that's not good. probably why i'm standing on line in the 26th degree weather the end of the day. it's the holidays. we have a surge, we have to be vigilant, active, and we do need more testing centers. i mean, look at these lines. there's a 100 people on this line.

so humans effectively estimating mass suicide, or species is becoming interesting in the white house, with pepper on president biden. and his administration been how they treated president trump. this is the white house is actively working with reporter to reshape the coverage of the current economic hardship which are causing it precedent by his approval ratings. to continue thinking we will discuss and it's a small world, especially at hollywood, did a high profile network anchor. do anything wrong when he did not disclose his role and shipping off jessie small as that he was being investigated by police will give you some answers. and advocates begin pushing for white own properties, which were seized from a black owners in decades past to be returned to them after a landmark poor case in california returned a stretch of co sign south thousands of cases potentially could be filed next. but while they have the same outcome, we're going to bring you all of the details i'm going to use in this story and more on today's new use right here on our t america. ah, thank you for joining us.

i asked for white house about that today. since this was something that the governor of the states, said he didn't want to, this is not the case of federal officials trying to snake something pass the state level officials? >> secretary psaki: i am confirming here that tennessee is near the middle of the country, and some kids have to travel through there to get to their destination. we have been very clear that our objective is to treat these kids humanely. >> peter: that kind of talk is not satisfactory to republican lawmakers who represent tennessee in congress, who want more answers, because they feel like their rights, as a state, have been violated. >> it's a violation of tennessee's tenth amendment rights. no one was notified, not your state, your federal, your local officials. no one knew this was happening. >> peter: they know about it now, and it's a part of the official white house record. we expect that record -- and a south korean president moon and president biden will have a joint press conference scheduled for

carol lee is covering the white house. ron allen is in new york city. ron is keeping an eye on vaccination shortfalls in the region. i want to bring in dr. patel. dr. patel a medical contributor. former obama white house health policy director. carol, let's start with you. the briefing will be the first of what we are told will be regular briefings from the covid response team. how does this fit into the biden administration's larger covid messaging push? >> in a couple of ways. there you showed, it's virtual. in that sense, it sends the message that we are in the middle of a pandemic. they are taking some very keen precautions on that. also, just that as you noted the president will not be there at this briefing. >> the biden administration says it's ordering 200 million more doses of the vaccine. andrew cuomo said the white house told governors they will get 16% more doses starting next week. what more do we know about how the white house is trying to meet demand? >> they expected that this program, this vaccine distribution program was going to be ba

on thursday, the white house deputy press secretary with asked about the decision from opec plus . as you remember, we engage with relevant opec plus members a few months ago as well. urging a compromise solution to allow proposed production increases to move forward, which they did, but more can be done. now is the time for majority country producers to stabilize energy prices and ensure high prices do not hamstring the current global economic recovery. and joining us out discusses kirk edwards, the former chair of the permian basin petroleum association. kirk, i want to get to the white house here in just a few minutes, but i want to start with this opec decision. and we gotta get to the why. what is the rationale behind the refusal of opec plus to increase production as prices continue to rise? they were 1st of all, thank you for having read again or to visit the on this. but you know, to me, opec, seeing all the commodities across the world, they see still you're seeing coal, you're seeing the refrigerator is everything going up and cries and so all gases, donovan price to so i

white house saying that it rejects the actions of the military. it calls for the immediate release of not just the prime minister, but also others that are currently being held in house arrest. and the united states continues to strongly support the sudanese people demand for a democratic transition that this is the will, the sudanese people in the united states support that effort in terms of aspirations for peace, liberty, and justice. so now what is being evaluated according to the white house is how best the united states can help the sudanese people achieve that goal though. what so troubling for the united states and all this is that what has transpired is exactly what the united states spent. 2 days in terms of meetings of the region with the various parties trying to avert. and so that is why the white house now looking at next steps in order to try and assist the sudanese people and the goal of democratic process as well as piece the circus president read to play a burden on says no foreign diplomats can remain in the country unless they

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 >> another big one, picketing the white house. no one had ever done this before 1917. this was the national women's party idea. not only is picketing the white house now incredibly common -- this is an image from this summer when there were so many black lives matter protesters that they started adding their signs that the white house put between the fence and lafayette square. but also, what are

let's go to jeremy diamond who is live at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. president biden will have clear messages for the american public today. one for the unvaccinated, making very clear there is a high risk of serious illness and death as covid surges are surging across the country. but he will also have the message for those who are vaccinated, telling them they can go ahead with holiday plans, and that they are well protected, particularly if they are boosted from those worst outcomes of the coronavirus, and they'll likely just experience mild symptoms if, indeed, they are infected. he will also make clear that he is not looking to lock down or shut down the country. then, he will be announcing a series of new steps. you mentioned one of them. 500,000 rapid test that is the white house is going to be purchasing and beginning to send around the country beginning next month. americans can go to a website the white house is setting up to request those tests. it is not clear exactly how long, though, it'll t

house you know if you read in the paper that said short of the white house well does that mean that a reporter went to mcdonald's across the street and interviewed somebody that person would technically be geographically close to the white house that's what it certainly seems like with some of this reporting well and you have to also ask about the motivation what they were seeking when they actually went in that morning to your father's place and obviously what their their and game was invented by your father was about intimidation or was it about finding dirt on possibly members of the trump family that being said there's political life and there's personal life prior 2015 you know that the giuliani name was held high mostly by everyone by both political parties you know compared to now you have a very you know back then you only had a very small percentage of haters you had them your father was actually america's mayor was the term kind again john prior to the support even with the early ones he came out swinging in fact he was still swinging when people were out there running for

the white house or any place. the ranch in this case where we left from, it's not set up to sneak the president out. especially when we did the second ones at the white house. and mrs. bush will recall on the second one when the president, i went up early in the morning, he had his sunglasses, and ball cap on, maria said he was in the hallway, i took a peek, i said sir, i'm ready. i said the glasses. he said shush. he said we're sneaking out, i don't want barney to know. i wanted to say, just get into the elevator. in the elevator he said nick, you know like chill, i was like i don't know if i could do any more of these because this was the second one. the planning was when you are secretly doing it. when there were secret service people, we couldn't share information with, let alone folks on the detail. it wasn't a want to know, it was a need to know. we had to safely, successfully take the president out, so that the president could fulfill his. mission did i want to go there? of course not. but that's not what w

we tried, we went to the white house and the president was very gracious in listening to us but did not accept our proposals. we have before us a piece of legislation that has the benefit of only one party. there are some errors in that and some things i think we need to fix. one is in regard to states and localities. the president -- at the time the president put his bill out, it was an assumption the states had massive losses. the data that has come out has shown the states did not have those kinds of losses. 21 states are seeing rising revenue. states like florida don't need more money, oklahoma does not need more money, utah does not need more money. california has record surpluses, billions of dollars in surplus. under this legislation, california at the state level gets $26 more. -- $26 billion more. this is on top of their surplus here. think about that. we will be asking the american people to let us borrow money from china and others, passed that to our kids and grandkids so we could send money to state that california who don't need the money. host: congressman, your argument

control the white house adviser to gain seats in midterm elections. do you think republicans can win seats in the house in 2022? >> absolutely. i hope they do. i hope by winning back the suburban voters and suburban areas, the more traditional republicans that have been repelled by the coarseness of the trump era. >> thank you all very much for being here. >>> coming up, next, we do have a little bit of good news on the covid front after the worse month ov the pandemic. case numbers are beginning to drop as more people get vak si nated. >>> the ongoing covid challenges for america's schools. are students and teachers ready to go back. do districts have enough protocol. >>> here is a look live as 110 million people are getting pummelled by a powerful norester. that's a lot of snow. we'll go live to one of the places that's hardest hit. >>> plus, the one and only al roker joins us with the upper dated track for this storm, coming up. the upper dated track for this storm, coming up. ♪ it seems like everything is getting thinner. but my bladder leak pad

it is a political nightmare for the biden white house. there's nothing more treacherous for a politician than parents worrying whether kids will be safe in school, worrying about the virus spreading because of policies at the state and municipal level in these communities, and the central tenet of biden's campaign for president was that he was going to tackle covid, he had the skills and the bipartisan relationships to effectively cut through the crap and address the pandemic in a way trump did not, and the fact that covid numbers are rising now, the fact that the delta variant is so potent and the fact that getting the vaccines into some of the communities has been such a challenge is really spelling political trouble for biden at this hour. >> do they have the covid task force, ron klain, do they have new ideas to tackle this or feel as if at this point, even though they know they're taking on water politically, a lot of people at the end of the day say they're going to blame the top. ron desantis has poor poll numbers right now too, i

like i collation of the white house that was mind-blowing. they still need joe manchin's vote on literally everything, they are accusing him of being a liar and acting in bad faith. in that same interview there is an interesting quote that i will read it. he was talking about his place moving forward within the democratic party and he said, i would like to hope that he still belongs to the party but talk about progressives, if there was no democrats like me then they come up meaning the progressives, which is an eyebrow raiser, is it not? a >> kayleigh: a great find with that guy. not just progressive but the media, do you remember when the media called essentially john mccain a maverick for stopping president trump's bill on obamacare? you pointed this out on twitter and all of a sudden joe manchin is the one they are after and they are going to attack. we have this tweet, what's worse, that manchin is killing the legislative the legislative agenda and perhaps a future of democracy, too, or that he wasted most of this year to do it or half o

. >> white house press secretary jen psaki will briefed reporters today. she's expected to be joined by treasury secretary janet yellen to talk about the economy and other financial issues. that's now set for 12:30 p.m. eastern. we will be live from the brady briefing room when they begin here on c-span2. also watch live online at c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> it is also near the end of teacher appreciation week so i i thought we would ask you the questionon about that and also some testimony this week from the education secretary miguel cardona and wee will show you some of that in this first hour in addition ring from you and your thoughts on how your school system did during the pandemic come this is reporting a "politico" from thisng week. biden hits 100 100 the schol reopening goal but reopening difficulties persist. they write president joe biden hit his 100 day goal of reopening. the majority of k-8 schools for in i person learn in march. statistics from white house ordered school learning census indicated thursday yet the

reporter: and on this hearing today, i know the white house pulled neera tanden to be o.m.b. director. there has been push by some democratic leadership in the house to have ms. young be the new nominee for o.m.b. director for the biden administration. is she somebody you could support based on what you heard? senator johnson: she has come with good recommendations from senators i respect. o.m.b. director is incredibly important position, especially for myself, another accountant. numbers matter. and we need information. that's the main thing i'll be looking for from the nominees is to make sure i get a commitment from them they'll provide congress, particularly this senate, with the information we need. right now i don't know how much that $1 trillion or how much that $4 trillion isn't unspent. that we've been told it's close to $1 trillion. it would be nice to have that information real time every day of the week but we don't have that information. reporter: you haven't heard anything yet from ms. young? senator johnson: the process has just begun. reporter: ok, thank you.

said -- the white house should have had a press conference and said good news, everybody. instead the restrictions we have now for a milder strain of the virus and are we have immunity, the researchers are now worse than before. >> biden is the worst role mode. if you work triple vaxxed -- that, keeps going. the, goes forever and is taking your kids with it. >> if they tried to do that to my kids, i would be one of those periods at the school board hearing getting arrested. fox news cameras would have to be there. i would make a scene to make sure how angry i was. the government has told us to during this pandemic, don't go outside in the summer but go outside in the winter. and then we were sitting in the commercial break, we don't have got the money, we can't by $1,100 park is. a lot of times of the children we get something up the bracket macy's and we hope they don't freeze to depth. it's probably mild in washington dc right now, 50, 45, but wait and tell he goes to the 20. but see up little jen psaki pressed a child still has the same idea. my kids have breaks in the

house. but at this point, people are wondering, will this be able to have an impact? will this wave of anti asian violence be able to be stopped because right now on the street. so we continue to see footage of what is taking place. it's very brutal, very disturbing. and it doesn't appear to be stopping us killing just mentioned, there are volunteers who are giving whistles to elderly people throughout the u.s. in san francisco. though the project has been dealt a blow for some 700 whistles meant for distribution were stolen. but amid the increased violence targeting asians in america streets, some are looking beyond violence to country. misses of a publisher has pulled the children's book over its the picture of a martial arts instructor called muster wall that some have deemed offensive on the form of pus of racial stereotyping. others have called it a pointless exercise. and virtue said, really bypassing the real problems, facing people daily. now we spoke to historian gerald, torn about

the white house says biden was near the staff member friday on air force one. the president tested negative sunday and monday. he'll be tested again tomorrow. >> this omicron variant is stunningly transmissible. it is really ripping through the united states at an incredible rate. >> reporter: later today president biden will reveal new steps to fight omicron. the highly contagious variant causing cases to explode across the country. that plan includes mailing 500 million at home rapid tests to homes around the country. setting up testing and federal vaccination sites, the first in new york city by this weekend and ramping up the deployment of medical military personnel to overwhelmed hospitals. covid cases are up 96% since october. most are now the highly transmissible omicron variant. in new york state cases have tripled in one week. but new york city's mayor expects the latest spike to last weeks, not months. >> we're going to see a really fast upsurge in cases. we're going to see a lot of new yorkers affected by omicron. >> reporter: he says he'll make a de

so not only is picketing the white house now incredibly common. this is an image from this summer when there were so many black lives matter protesters that they started adding their signs to the fence that the white house put between the historic fence and left a square. but also what are these women doing? they are making a message go viral. this is the 1917 equivalent of a tweet. sure it reaches the people who are standing in front of the white house on left a square but it reaches many more people in a picture in the newspaper. that's why that banner is on really easy to read sulfonate and dark against a white background. that is all about how it is going to reproduce. >> watch the full program and thousands more at c-span.org/history. >> did you know all of c-span's american history programs are available online? c-span org/history and type in your search in the box. >>> next time for lectures in history. this week, indiana university bloomington's professor steven andrews teaches a class about conspiracy culture in american history. >> thank

a. >> and they were taking precautions when the official positionon e of the white house. you have some strong language in the book about the importance of messaging and being honest in the public, telling the truth, stepping up to that and then you tell about when the white house went over a remark made by a low level official. a. >> the book is critical. we can look back when the president was reluctant to take steps early and there was lost time and we were at the point every week mattered but ultimately i met before they announced the mitigation. they made the decision and then an unprecedented shutdown and followed it with 30 days after thatsp so they were taking aggressive decisive steps and. a. >> if we did have the testing and place it could have been at the places where -- >> the point about the diagnostic testing is important because we didn't have the diagnostic test available, we didn't know where the virus was spreading and we didn't have a representative number of people with flulike symptoms testing negative to turn over the cases and in fact in seattle they

they are asking the white house to take care. to ask you consider all tools available to lower gasoline prices. they hope to consider these tools and others to make gasoline more affordable for al americans. officials are always trying to balance ways to be replaced supplying 55 percent of the statewide propane needs. they want this to go away entirely in the shutdown could mean about 45 percent less crud in pennsylvania. listen to what we just heard in the briefing. >> what is the best possible outcome for whatever happens with this reduced output? >> we hope to engage constructively in these negotiations as canada has a close ally in the energy trade. these discussions between the two countries should be viewed as anything more than that and certainly not an indicator that we are going to shut anything down it is something we do not plan to do as it relates to the current pipeline. >> as of yesterday gas prices were pretty high on average. propane is up 54 percent. natural gas up 30 percent. they did not have an answer on when

chaos in washington as gunfire erupted in a crowded tourist area near both the white house and the capital, suspects are seen taking off on foot, two people are shot and injured, witnesses say they heard as many as 20 gunshots, check out this exclusive video, two fox news producers were in a nearby restaurant when the shooting broke out and capture these images of fellow diners ducking for cover, packing into a corner for safety. clearly upset. the d.c. police chief says enough is enough. >> this really kind of speaks to the brazenness of some of the criminals in our community, this is unacceptable, that's the bottom line. we will find the individuals, we will hold them accountable. that's what we have to do as an entire city but when it comes to people who are not afraid to use guns in our community there has to be a measure of accountability and we have to make sure these individuals are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> dagen: this erupting just days after fans were forced to flee the washington nationals game after four people were shot outside the park and earlier in d.c

he was assigned as a white house fellow to the office of management and budget. wouldn't seem a natural fit for him, but that's nevertheless, where he ended up. and he and his boss was caspar weinberger, who was the head of that agency at the time. and the other person high up there was frank carlucci. and so when weinberger became ronald reagan's secretary of defense, he thought of bringing power. so in the military to be his, his mil at chief military aid. every secretary defense has a mid level officer who, who is his essentially for day to day life. his liaison, the military, he is his eyes and ears in the military. and so he became very close to weinberger. he was very astute, politically and, and by the time that carlucci became reagan secretary of state and was looking for someone to be his deputy. he went back to pal and said, come and be my deputy carlucci later left that office and break it. and power became regan 6 than last national security advisor. and i think acquitted himself well. he was still a military officer on pay dish military. and that was

also joining me nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli. the president is scheduled to tour in east elmhurst within the hour next hour. what have you heard from residents about what they're facing and what they need? >> reporter: they're facing a disastrous situation, ayman. people here were literally knocked off their foundation by a flooding wall of water in many instances. so much so that these streets, which you can't see behind me right now, this is a main boulevard, it's been shut down because of the president's visit here. they want him to be able to move freely and safely in order to visit the neighborhoods and stop at some of the homes here so he can hear for himself what it is that people are thinking. they're thinking that they don't know what they're going to do. listen to a man whom i spoke with who is on one of the streets where it is expected the president might visit, what he told me about the home where his elderly parents are living. >> this is what remains of the wall. so when the water came in here, it created like a swi

the white house refuses to ease. pandemic travel restrictions, cuba remembers fidel castro's revolution, but celebrations are more muted than usual after recent political unrest. ah. trinity widely regarded as the only success story of the arab spring a decade ago is now facing its biggest political crisis. president case said to dismissed prime minister, his mom a she she late on sunday. and now me she, she says he is willing to hand over responsibility to whoever side chooses to replace him. the president is imposing a nationwide nighttime curfew for a month, and the army is on the streets. president said, says he's following to new jersey as constitution, but he's being accused of a coup. so he does also remove the defense minister. i'm the acting justice minister. i'll just see it as bureau and jonas has been rated by security forces on his journalists have been borrowed from their offices, the speaker of the parliament, as well as the deputy speaker, and other leaders attempted to hold a meeting, but the army has stopped them getting into the parliament building, i said stepped in