went but he kept saying stuff like we can t do this until november or december. one shouldn t rely on the other. i m not going to give them what they want and he s saying the same thing he s been saying for months. dropping it publicly. he s going through the sequence. have the staff talk to the reporters and that s how the process works in washington and going public on a very important day and he s saying something that i m betting which will infuriate it to progressives, take it to the campaign trail, get more liberals elected and then come back and say we should spend more money. i understand new york city and san francisco are very different than west virginia, but those progressives are going to say we just did that. you re right. west virginia, demographically, really different state than arizona. there are already progressives riled up with sinema and saying there s another democratic senator from arizona who has not been holding up this legislation. you hear from democra
were there for us during the pandemic when we were in our apartments, in our homes scared to death, we re going to leave them behind. for me that s critical. we ve got to have some level of immigration reform in this package. and congress minnesota a, you ve been on the forefront of this battle and it s important that we mention that because they re still in the front lines fighting covid. our communities have been so disproportionately affected by covid, i think it s really important that you mention this and you include this. and i want to talk to you about that a little more. just on the bigger picture, if the infrastructure bill vote happens tomorrow, do you think that there s going to be enough votes. not right now, it doesn t look like it. i mean, we feel that they have to come together. we feel that, in fact, if we re going to invest in infrastructure and human infrastructure, one shouldn t be trumped over the other. so it is important that we create the confidence that
0 up the coverage right now. good morning, it s 9:00 a.m., i m jose diaz-balart in for stephanie ruhle who s on assignment. a massive infrastructure vote, the pressure is on in the house and the senate. senate republicans standing their ground on the debt limit as a rift between democrats appears to grow even wider. also on the hill this morning, in 30 minutes defense secretary lloyd austin, general mark milley and general mckenzie will face another day of questions, this time from members of the house armed services committee. two of the top military officials admitting yesterday they disagreed with the president about how the u.s. should withdraw from afghanistan. and on the covid front there may be a glimmer of hope this morning, some southern states appear to be past the latest peak. we ll revisit an icu in hard hit mississippi to see firsthand how hospitals are holding up. and we begin on capitol hill where democrats in the house and senate are in a stalemate with just hours b
i guess the question that i have for you is do you have the same discomfort i do that i could get a booster shot before any child under 12, when kids under 12 can t get it. does it make you as uncomfortable as it makes me? no, joy, it doesn t because we have to finish the clinical trials to show that in children that young, it s safe and induces the kind of response that you would predict would be protective. we already know from clinical trials that in adults like yourself that the vaccine, whichever you got, either moderna or pfizer or j&j is safe and effective. i think that s apples and oranges there. one shouldn t pit one against the other. one has to go through the safety study and the other we know how it acts in adults. you mentioned j&j because that s the one that was a one-shot deal.
exclusively, two women. and teenagers. i mean, that is what happened with all those terrible men do terrible things. that took her to the congressional seat. it took her to the lieutenant government seat. it took her to get the government ship in new york. she s able and respected. but maybe to get the next, one shouldn t take a prostitution scandal, a child sex abuse scandal a domestic abuse scandal a bizarre online sex solicitation scandal, a bizarre pornography scandal, a sexual abuse scandal and a series of sexual harassment scandal to make this possible. maybe that shouldn t have to be the path to women having power. maybe. that kind of a path where finally at the end of the day