That is often how we get paid data pay data. But it is an open question of law to say, in your report you have to give us pay data and along those lines, we commissioned studies from the commission of science, if we decided to collect this data, clearly indicated that we may have that authority, what data do you recommend that we collect . How shall we collected . Collect it . That came in some time ago and we have not done anything with it yet. One of the things i learned when i came into the federal government things move slowly. It moves slower than i would like. Practically it is a different world. I shouldve gotten a passport and dictionary when i came into the government. And it is why i decided to give up my tenure at georgetown because there are things we started that needed more time. Stay tuned and i hope the commission continues acting in a bipartisan way, as much as we have in the past few years and wage should not be part of the issue. [applause] tonight, president obama a
Home. We begin with correspondent alex hogan on new yorks Staten Island tonight with news on the pfizer vaccine. Good evening, alex. Good evening, mike. Because of a supply chain era, pfizer will deliver only 50 million vaccines, which is about half of what it had hoped. Still, it says it will roll out more than a billion doses through 2021. We will soon be distributing vaccines to the american people. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar announcing states will handle the distribution of their own vaccines, as the country surpasses its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. Wednesday, more than 3,000 americans died. That is about 500 more lives than the previous record in april. Hospitalizations increased too, one week after the center the centers for Disease Control pleaded with americans not to travel for thanksgiving. The cdc is now asking again that people stay home for the upcoming holidays. But mixed messaging from health officials, the World Health Organizat
It is definitely way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show thats had to negotiate a lot of things over the past year, along with all of you. Youd think congress could do the same thing. Im kasie hunt on this friday, december 11th. Well start with the news. Pfizer passed a critical milestone after an independent panel of experts overwhelmingly voted in favor of recommending the fda authorize its covid19 vaccine for emergency use in people ages 16 and older. The vote came yesterday afternoon after the committee spent the day scrutinizing data for the vaccine, which indicates, so far, that it is safe and 95 effective. In all, 17 members were in favor of the authorization, four against, one person abstaining from the vote. One Committee Member urged continued studies after two people in the uk had severe allergic reactions after receiving the vaccine. According to federal officials, the initial shipment of 6. 4 million doses will leave warehouses within 24
Great state of new mexico. While she was head of the Democratic Party in that state, she helped flip that state to democratic control in the legislature. Deb holland ran for congress, herself, in 2018. She was able to run as, in her words, a 35thgeneration. New mexican. She won that race and she became one of two native american women elected to congress, both elected in the same year. Deb haaland has been a highprofile and sort of instantly Effective Member of Congress Since she got there. She was vice chair of the Natural Resources committee as a freshman. She was chair of the subcommittee on public lands. Now, as interior secretary in the Biden Administration, deb haaland will be in charge of public lands federally, as well as in charge of all the agencies that, the federal agencies that exert so much almost unimaginable amounts of power over the lives of native americans, including, of course, the bureau of indian affairs. Nominating deb haaland to be interior secretary, nominating
Meaning, buying influence. The question is how much access did they get . What intel do they have on joe and hunter . What did joe know and when did he know it . Harris a big dustup at a Senate Hearing yesterday over tech giant suppressing the hunter biden controversy ahead of the election. Of course we saw some of that live. Republican senator tom cotton is with me today with reaction to all of it. First, im going to start with chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel live with the news in washington, d. C. Mike . Mike good afternoon. Many republicans are concerned about the calendar when it comes to the hunter biden investigation. Recognizing january 20 is about a month away. Traditionally when a new president comes in, they fire all the u. S. Attorneys. If he wants to show that this is going to be a right, upstanding Biden Administration, and that they are going to actually let the cards lie where the cards lie on hunter biden he needs to leave the u. S. Attorney in place. Mik