The u. S. By end of march. All of these mutations, fauci emphasized can be stopped or slowed by increase in vaccinations. Viruses cannot mutate if they dont replicate. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possibly can will always be the best way to prevent the further evolution of any mutant, because when you do that, you prevent replication and replication is essential for mutation. Joining me now to talk about this is primary care doctor, a Public Health special iist. What do you think about 66 effectiveness . Im excited, brianne florida. Weve been spoiled with results from pfizer and moderna which is 95 effective as you just mentioned. Listen, this is still 85 effective in preventing severe disease and 100 effective in preventing deaths. The more vaccines, brianna, we have on the market the quicker we can vaccinate as many people. I always tell a lot of my patients, its not necessarily just the number of vaccinations. Its the pa
Pushed the dow into negative territory for the year. Joining the russell 2000 at this point. You got the dow industrials under pretty severe pressure. The s p and nasdaq up by 10 and 25 for the year, respectively. But they have seen their gains whittled away over the last several sessions too. The vix hitting its highest level since the turmoil in the regional banks earlier this year touched at about 20. Havent seen that in a while. Gr granted this is not the serious fear factor you get into, but we had an incredibly low vix for quite a while. Youre going to see that elevation, concerns about what happens next and people asking what are the odds of a Government Shutdown come november 17th. Thats the new deadline that is there and without a speaker of the house at this point, those odds jumped significantly. You also see that playing out in the treasury market where the yields pretty much across the board hitting the highest level since 2007 once again. You got the tenyear now at 4. 815
Scalise . Who do you think might have the votes to lead your party and the house . All three of those would be Excellent Choices and i think they can do an excellent job. Theyre honorable men, to me at least, and theyve never openly mocked me, anyway. They sure as heck have always kept their word to me. Theres several others that have whispered in my ear during all of this. And of course i dont want to out them, i understand that they have to keep their secrecy about them. But there are several Milling Around that are very interested in doing this. Mark green from tennessee is somebody that people have been talking about. So theres several out there that people are talking about. Im sorry, but i just find this so shocking. What exactly did he say to mock your faith, sir . It really doesnt matter. It was just the fact that i publicly stated on your station, i think, this morning that i was praying about it and i had two paths to go, either go with my friend or go with my conscious, and
8 00 a. M. Pacific, im jose diazbalart. The House Oversight committee is holding the first hearing of the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. The Committee Says this hearing is focused on the basis for that inquiry. House republicans are presenting evidence they say they have uncovered about the president s knowledge of and role in his familys domestic and International Business practices. The white house has rejected assertion that biden abused his office to enrich his family. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc News White House correspondent mike memoli and paul butler, former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at the Georgetown University law school. He is an msnbc legal analyst. Ali, bring us up to speed of whats been happening so far. Reporter look, this is the first hour, jose, of a very lengthy day on capitol hill, the first Impeachment Inquiry hearing were seeing republicans launch who have got all three Committe
In a speech addressing supporters at CPAC on Friday, Gaetz threatened to abolish a slew of federal agencies such as the FBI and Justice Department, accusing top officials of using the government offices for political purposes.