districts have been forced to close due to the surge. joining me now with the latest is nbc news correspondent, shaquille brewster, live from charleston, south carolina. also with us, dr. irwin redlener, a pediatrician and founding director of the national center for disaster preparedness, he s also an msnbc public health analyst. thanks, guys, for being with us. so, doctor, let me start with these pfizer trial results. what do they mean in this big timeline to get kids vaccinated? well, this is incredibly good news, chris, and it s not a moment too soon, as they say. but i am absolutely thrilled that we ll finally be able to get some assured protection for children. and it s especially timely now because we ve just sent almost 55 million kids back to school. and i m very worried that without this vaccine, those schools will become a could become a breeding ground for promulgating the covid-19
the dreamers program, the federal court has put it in jeopardy. there s some indications that you could change that through executive order, try to fix this temporarily, or do you think that it has to be done legislatively? a durable solution for the youth that know no country other than america as their home is legislation, and we hope that congress acts and provides relief to these youth. can you do something by executive order? we can promulgate a regulation that we are working on, that we are committed to promulgating to fortify the daca program, but really the durable solution, the enduring solution for these young people who are essential workers, contribute so much to our country, is legislation. and would you break would the administration consider breaking it off and putting it in the reconciliation bill or some other must-pass bill,
that will ban chokeholds and will pierce the veil of qualified immunity for police officers so that they can t so easily cover it up when they do this kind of dirt. why aren t you doing that? and the last thing i say and i don t want to dominate all your time, but the media has a role to play. as my boy kratzert said in your earlier segment, when they pass the media reports without independently verifying they are promulgating because police lie all of the time and this is just the latest examel. ellie, i am so grateful to you for putting this in the right context. i don t even know the word to describe the level of outrage i feel thinking about what this man s his mother had to watch that tape. you ve organized all over the country. i am so ready for this fight. i am so ready for this fight because i don t want to see another person go through that.
controls our diplomatic corps by appointing the ambassadors? it s certainly aiming farther and farther into the land of totally unbased conspiracy theories. we at msnbc took a deep dive into and found giuliani and his associates have been promulgating that really without any evidence. but look, part of the reason that rudy giuliani is doing this, even if it seems unhinged to a general audience is because it plays really well for the president s base. and for those who are looking for reasons to support donald trump, even throughout his impeachment, these give them something to hang their hat on. all right, josh letterman out on the campaign trail for us, but also covering multiple stories at the same time. well appreciate it. thank you. when we come back, we have a look at ari melber s top ten stories of 2019. and what some call a travesty of justice. some of the biggest stories of 2019 played out in the (danny) pet care ain t easy.
the time we have left about rudy giuliani mental state. new york magazine also just profiled rudy and she where s, quote, former ambassador yovanovitch is controlled by george soros. . he put all four ambassadors there, and he is employing the fbi agents. so i go back to my initial point. rudy giuliani starting to sound a little crazy? and i m not trying to joke about it. but are people around the president and others concerned when he makes these types of asoerngts the record that a pryor private american citizen controls the fbi and also controls our diplomatic corps by appointing the ambassadors? it s certainly aiming farther and farther into the land of totally unbased conspiracy theori theories. we at msnbc took a deep dive into and found giuliani and his associates have been promulgating that really without any evidence. but look, part of the reason that rudy giuliani is doing this, even if it seems unhinged to a general audience is because