didn t say that s making headlines. also learned there could be another delay in a vote on both the spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house speaker not committing to the previous deadline set for monday. saying she s confident both bills will get passed. and in a new sign, things are getting real. the white house telling federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. we re also watching for developments from the cdc which could announce at any moment who will be qualified to get a booster shot of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. let s go ahead and bring in our nbc news team, ali vitali on capitol hill. mike memoli at the white house and joins by jake sherman punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. ali, start with you. a big day of developments and speaker pelosi making news late this morning? reporter: a busy day and frank lif busy week. right to frame it as news for what was said and not said. in terms what we actually heard fr
cases has topped 262,000, surpassing the record that was set last january. short time ago, cdc director walensky defended her agency s decision to cut in half the recommended isolation time for people who test positive but are asymptomatic. she said the move was driven by the science not pressure from the business community. and dr. fauci acknowledged that more children are being infected with covid and that it s still not known how severe the virus, omicron in particular, is in children. unanswered questions as schools nationwide map out their plans for students to return after winter break next week. joining me now is nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli, dr. william shaffner. mike, let s start with you. the white house task force briefed a little more than an hour ago. how did they defend the cdc s new quarantine and isolation guidelines? reporter: yeah, joe, this was an important opportunity for the country to hear from the president s top advisers on dealing
nation s highest military honor for their brave act of service and sacrifice. we ll bring you that ceremony live when it happens. welcome to meet the press daily i m chuck todd. the political reality facing the president is that its his disappointments that are reverberating more with voters right now. just look at hi approval rating or last month s election results and looks as if the white house is going end the year with disappointments on two big issues. the first, the president s build back better agenda agenda is not going pass congress this year has many in the party hoped. it might not even come to the floor until spring at the earliest. the discussions between president biden and senator manchin have been going very poorly according to a source familiar with the matter. does beg the question should they have worked with manchin much earlier and not written the bill before finding out what he was against? democrats signaling they are going to pivot to the issue of v
and david holt, a republican. we ll talk about the hope this new law can bring to their home cities and does it signal real bipartisanship? we start with the latest in the kyle rittenhouse trial. i m joined by maya wiley. how would you expect a jury to approach deliberating a case like this? we saw the judge, both legal teams go into excruciating detail with those jury instructions yesterday. what do you think is going to happen in that jury room? it s great to be with you. look, you know, the jury was really handed two separate stories yesterday, one from the prosecution, which said kyle rittenhouse is a chaos tourist and an active shooter, and one from the defense that said this sweet kid did nothing wrong and just was in the midst of a violent riot and protected himself. so really obviously there are several different vicvictims. the jury is supposed to go through them one at a time. at the end of the day it s going to start with mr. rosenbaum who was killed by mr. rit
prohibitive from testifying, but i m asking much more directly, will the government yuck. about all the money in this and who will be helped. well they did call i laid at the white house brian, so we re probably not gonna see the president tonight, but that s not to say that we re not gonna hear from other democrats, who are i as well as for the biden white house. my white house inbox immediately filled up with emails applause with senators who had been wanting to theirs to pass from other lawmakers and institutions who had been lobbying for different causes in this bill. because this is a win for democrats. the cheers that you heard on the floor, there, come after hours and weeks of hard deliberations and negotiations, policy items that were important falling by the way side. only to beat revised and brought back in, moderates having their arms twisted but they would move on those tonight on the vote that we haven t seen yet, which is on the build back better package. i