As a surge in cases of a more contagious Covid Variant is worrying Health Officials there and now here at home. Thanks for being here, everybody. Happening rival at this hour, President Biden is meeting with nato allies in brussels. The president will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of this summit. This is President Bidens first inperson gathering with nato leaders where this morning he is calling the alliance critically important and a sacred obligation in stark contrast to his predecessor. This all comes ahead of bidens highly anticipated meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin on wednesday in geneva. Lets begin with jeff zeleny live in brussels for us now. The president has already had some tough words just today for russia and china. What did he say . Reporter well, President Biden has been repeating that message everywhere he goes throughout his European Tour here about the rising aggression from russia and the rising threats from china. Hes doing the
As a surge in cases of a more contagious Covid Variant is worrying Health Officials there and now here at home. Thanks for being here, everybody. Happening rival at this hour, President Biden is meeting with nato allies in brussels. The president will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of this summit. This is President Bidens first inperson gathering with nato leaders where this morning he is calling the alliance critically important and a sacred obligation in stark contrast to his predecessor. This all comes ahead of bidens highly anticipated meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin on wednesday in geneva. Lets begin with jeff zeleny live in brussels for us now. The president has already had some tough words just today for russia and china. What did he say . Reporter well, President Biden has been repeating that message everywhere he goes throughout his European Tour here about the rising aggression from russia and the rising threats from china. Hes doing the
As a surge in cases of a more contagious Covid Variant is worrying Health Officials there and now here at home. Thanks for being here, everybody. Happening rival at this hour, President Biden is meeting with nato allies in brussels. The president will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of this summit. This is President Bidens first inperson gathering with nato leaders where this morning he is calling the alliance critically important and a sacred obligation in stark contrast to his predecessor. This all comes ahead of bidens highly anticipated meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin on wednesday in geneva. Lets begin with jeff zeleny live in brussels for us now. The president has already had some tough words just today for russia and china. What did he say . Reporter well, President Biden has been repeating that message everywhere he goes throughout his European Tour here about the rising aggression from russia and the rising threats from china. Hes doing the
yeah. and on the point of vaccines, if folks see that the vaccines are slightly less effective against this covid variant, someone s going wonder should i get a vaccine in the face of this. does it mean it s not protect vaccines aren t protecting us at all against this variant? help us with that. no, it doesn t mean that. remember, vaccines are most powerful because they prevent moderate and severe disease. what s severe disease? hospitalization and even death. so if you have an 80% efficacy or effectiveness rate against this particular delta variant, that s better than your natural immune system could do against it. so if that s the decision rubric or the decision point that people are considering, you re safer with the vaccine. maybe even more of a case to get the shot now that we can get this detail coming out. i want to play for you what former fda commissioner scott gottlieb said about this