Toolbox. Johnson johnson now set to file for Emergency Fda approval within a matter of days as the u. S. For the first time confirms two cases of the South African variant believed to be more dangerous and the current vaccines dont seem to protect as well against it. What Public Health experts are recommending ahead. And any minute now were taking you live to the White House Briefing room. We expect to hear from press secretary jen psaki. The next steps getting set for pushing that covid relief bill forward with or without republicans. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson in washington along with tom costello dr. Nahid bhadelia and Stephanie Gosk in West Virginia. Photograph give me if i interrupt you, but talk about those new vaccine trial results. Good news here, the Efficacy Numbers arent as high as weve seen in other vaccines, but this isnt like a bad situation here. Lets give you the Bullet Points before the briefing because theyre important. 72 efficacy in the United States with the n
looks like he s moving that direction. joe, the clip you just played and we are sitting here and still doing that. this is a different and aggressive new strategy here. we heard from the white house yesterday and deputy karine jean-pierre, it s time to do this and schumer threatening more for next week and marco rubio who s been holding up one of the ambassador china s pick. that s good news. his predecessor in the first year, donald trump had 73% and george w. bush had 90%.
president having meetings making that clear as well with leader that is she s been meeting with and advocates. so he s going to continue to talk to congressional members, he s going to continue to talk to the american people to make this very clear that this is an attack on our democracy. we should have, you know, the right to vote. everyone should have the right to vote and do it freely and not have to come up against all of these obstacles that we re seeing in these several states across the country. white house principal press secretary deputy karine jean-pierre. earlier we asked why are you awake? one viewer writes up way too early making sure po gets her fresh water what i get ready to trek to the bronx. jessica tweeted this, i get up early because it s the only time i can have the whole house
his picks is really trying to undermine the committee, saying that this is a partisan hack job, and that s been their message ever since yesterday. you can see that continue. they re going to really try to undermine the commission. let s remember it was the republicans and senate who scuttled the 9/11 bipartisan commission of what happening on january 6th. still ahead, with some olympic competition already under way, a few athletes are a step closer to winning the gold, while one heavy favorite, one team suffered a stunning loss. later in the show, white house deputy karine john pe jea will be our guest. ierre will be our guest.
criticizing republican-led attempts to curb voting rights but refusion to call an end to filibusters. joining us now, karine jean-pierre. thanks for getting up early for us. hey, jon. we were talking about the vote which failed yesterday, but there are thoughts and hopes that things will pick up again for early next week. so you tell us. what does the white house think about what happened yesterday and how hopeful do you remain that this bipartisan deal can get done? hey, johnathan, so happy to be with you this morning. it is definitely way too early, but happy to be here. way too early. but, look, jon. we were encouraged yesterday by senator mitt romney s letter that included 21 senators of both sides of the aisle stating