judiciary committee, sheldon whitehouse, of rhode island and former press secretary stephanie grisham on her time in the white house. plus facebook and the whistle-blower. no one truly understands the destructive choices made by facebook except facebook. former facebook employee francis haugen tells congress the company won t make its product safer because profits come first. i m here today because i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. facebook pushes back. what you have here today is a former employee who didn t work on these issues, mischaracterizing documents she stole. i ll talk to facebook vice president nick clegg. and crisis averted, for now. i m glad their brinksmanship didn t work. the senate agrees to raise the debt ceiling until december, chuck schumer won this game of chicken. but republicans rage against mitch mcconnell for letting it happen tonight. we shot ourselves in the foot tonight. we
and progressives in a very public standoff, despite this, speaker pelosi is standing firm, she says, in holding a vote on the infrastructure bill today. the plan is to bring the bill to the floor. are you worried you may not have the votes? one hour at a time. one hour at a time. well, progressives remain defiant, willing to sink the bill over their push to strike a deal on that $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. if we do have a vote, then we ll vote it down and we ll continue the negotiations so that we can actually deliver the entirety of the president s agenda as he himself, the president himself said he wanted us to do. we need to do it. but the problem is if we pass that bill tomorrow we lose the leverage that we have here. so senator sanders doesn t want to lose the leverage. speaker pelosi wants an agreement with the senate on the spending bill before holding a vote on infrastructure. so just, you know, spoiler alert here at 9:00 a.m. eastern time, senato
hello and welcome back to our look ahead at what the papers will be bringing us over the next few hours. with me again, jenny, journalist and times radio present terror, and giles, political commentator, from a conservative party press chief, welcome back to you both. we ve got several more titles, let s start with the dominant story across most of the front pages, the key is outside many petrol stations, as i say, the daily mirror leads with calls for essential workers with nurses, doctors and carriers to begin priority. the same story in the times here with a warning from the times here with a warning from the b and there is a real risk of nhs staff being unable to do their jobs because they won t be able to fill up their card cars. anger at the cost of fuel will makes the front of the express. desperate drivers are being ripped off by some firms increasing petrol prices and cashing in on a crisis. 150 a leader in some cases. more elsewhere. the repeats that story, which
so much to get to. welcome to the viewers in the united states and all around the world. we have reports this morning from capitol hill, haiti he, mexico and germany. but we begin with the big breaking news this morning. the cdc director now recommends vaccine booster shots for front line workers at high risk for covid. we re talking people like teachers, health care workers and others whose jobs put them at risk by expanding who can get a shot, dr. rochelle walensky went against her own vaccine s advisers. the cdc advisers disagreed boosters were needed by these big groups of young healthy people. so today boosters for more people can officially begin in the united states. if you re fuzzy on the guidelines, europe not alone. you re not alone. i think the problem here is this is a byzantine schedule for who is eligible that is going to be hard to implement. if the guidance is this confusing and requires this many steps and it s hard to assure eligibility, it s going to ul
daily. i am chuck todd. for decades republicans loudly pushed back the right to an abortion, and now that the supreme court seems poised to deliver on the promise republicans made for decades to overturn roe v. wade, republican lawmakers are changing the conversation, and it s the issue could complicate their plans to take back congress this november. take a look at what we have already seen from republicans since the court s draft alito opinion leaks. one man running for the senate went out of his way to let people know the matter is settled law no matter what the court does. translation, he doesn t want to have a debate about abortion rights in the state of nevada, where a large majority are in favor of it. and thune says he doesn t know if abortion is a party issue. and you have the nrsc, which is the gop senate campaign arm, and they want statements to be put out that carefully trend around the issue. pushing a 15-week ban could be popular when coupled with hitting democ