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
and arizona, and one month after pennsylvania voters go to the ballot boxes. the trial, of course, involving 34 felony counts related to the stormy daniels hush money case. trump has pleaded not guilty in that case. also tonight, florida governor ron desantis will announce his candidacy tomorrow in a rather unconventional way, appearing in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. we are getting word donald trump and his allies are making plans to offend that announcement. maggie haberman will join us in a moment. just a reminder of how wide open and unpredictable these races are, take a look at the republican primary polls from this month back in 2015. marco rubio and jeb bush both led the pack. donald trump, he stood at 3%, tied with george pataki, and speaking of polls, fast forward to right now. you see the numbers show that republicans, they smell blood. president biden s approval rating just hit 40%. the lowest number since last summer. it s also lower than trump s
officers in this encounter shouted at least 71 commands. 71 commands, in approximately a 13-minute period. i want to play a clip frankly from that initial stop for a moment. listen to this. i didn t do anything. turn your ass around don t do that. ok? get on the fing ground. i ll tase your ass. i m on the ground. i ll tase you. get off the ground. . just hearing this yet again, frankly, it is anxiety producings at the the least. and i wonder about this the screaming, the confusion that must have ensued the disorienting nature, how disorienting to receive the com the initial stop. know what he was getting pulled over for, i went to the police academy we were trained not to do that. i ll let law enforcement analyst get to the nuts and bolts when you go to the police academy they struck you to have one individual interacting with that with that person, she don t that you don t have those conflicting type of commands, because people know what to do and the more it e
angeles and san francisco and new york city? there was also the related issue of the soft on crime soros-backed district attorneys. larry crasser in in philadelphia. george ghast toen in los angeles. san francisco s jessica dean ended up being recalled in june. crime remains an arsenal. for a while i thought it would dominate the cycle but in january the football bounced again to baby formula. that month began an ever worsening supply of formula after a recall plant shutdown and supply chain issues but in february, putin surprised the world with the invasion of ukraine around the global and america many offered to help. would that war affect voters in november? or would it be a domestic cultural war because in march florida s governor desantis signed into law the bidding war for sexual identity from kindergarten through third grade. and when disney s ceo denounced the law the company became a lightning rod and desantis invoked revoked the special tax status. and but then in m
adjust for inflation price right side not actually at record highs, but what is the white house plan for handling soaring prices and inflation that are affecting americans so severely. joining us is gene sperling, he is currently the white house american rescue plan coordinator and a senior advisor to president biden. he was a national economic council adviser in the clinton administration. gene, let s talk about maybe what can be done to take some of the edge off here. is another release of more barrels from the strategic reserve a possibility here? look, we re trying to do everything we can. you know, when you are talking about looking in real inflation adjusted terms, the day that putin moved troops to the border of belarus gas prices were at $3.31, that was actually below the average that we had over the last decade. as you say, it s now $4.97, that is $1.60 that s over $1.60 tax, putin tax, on the american pu public. little comfort that it s higher for families in