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Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
CBS News
3.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Face the Nation" with moderator Margaret Brennan, America's COVID crisis: a closer look at the health and wealth gaps exposed by the pandemic. Plus, infections on the rise are we in a fourth wave? We hear from former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Friday's jobs report saw a surge in hiring, with over 900,000 jobs created in March. Biden's top economist Friday's jobs report saw a surge in hiring, with over 900,000 jobs created in March. We'll talk to President Biden's top economist Cecilia Rouse. New York's Ritchie Torres represents the poorest district in the US. He faults existing digital divides as contributing to racial disparities in vaccinations and vaccine access, saying those in the Bronx with no access to the Internet have no ability to register online for vaccines. What’s the biggest impediment for the largest vaccination campaign in human history? According to Gavi Vaccine Alliance CEO, Seth Berkley, it is access to the vaccines. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez discusses the Biden Administration’s efforts to address concerns - like a lack of running water - in Native American nations. And Sister Norma Pimentel, who group, Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley receives migrants after they’re released from the custody if the U,S Customs and Border Security.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hargan women seemed to have it all. |
| 0:02.2 | We were blessed. |
| 0:03.3 | My mom was amazing. |
| 0:04.6 | But detectives would soon discover. |
| 0:06.6 | Inside the house, there were the bodies of two women. |
| 0:09.2 | A story of betrayal you would struggle to believe if it wasn't true. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm just praying a guy, this is a sick joke. |
| 0:17.3 | From 48 hours, this is blood is thicker, |
| 0:20.2 | the Hargan family killings. |
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| 0:30.0 | I'm Margaret Brennan in Washington and this week on Face the Nation the COVID pandemic |
| 0:36.4 | amplifies inequality in America. |
| 0:39.4 | It's powerful, pervasive and growing. |
| 0:42.3 | So what can be done? By some measures the gap between the |
| 0:46.4 | halves and the have-nots today is bigger than it has been since the Great |
| 0:50.8 | Depression and divisions between race and gender shape every aspect of American life. |
| 0:57.0 | The pandemic only made the divisions so much worse and more obvious. |
| 1:02.0 | President Biden put equity at the center of his pitch for a new $2 trillion American infrastructure |
| 1:08.7 | and job plan. |
| 1:10.3 | Too often investments have failed to meet the needs of marginalized communities left behind. |
| 1:15.0 | But can he get another massive spending bill through Congress? |
| 1:19.0 | We'll talk with Cecilia Rouse, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. |
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