Fda. And dr. Anthony fauci is here, One On one with us, live this hour. Check out the Big Board here. Stocks are down more than 800 points, nearing 900 on pace for the worth day in nearly a year. What is behind it and how long it might last. Im Hallie Jackson in washington, in our new time slot. Were going to get to the markets in a second. I want to start with Kelly Odonnell and dr. Natalie azar with us as well. Kelly, talk to us about the policy related to foreigners traveling in the u. S. Reporter for a long time there were people who have family in the united states and they live abroad who have been unable to see Each Other. Now theres a date when people can plan to travel again. Early in november, international travelers will be able to fly to the united states if they are fully vaccinated and also provide evidence of a test within a short period of time of their travel. There will also be requirements for contact tracing, where theyll provide tots airlines all of their contact information, so if there is a case of covid, you can find out who potential is exposed. This will open up international travel after the borders and the skies were closed, and a lot of countries that are on very friendly terms, allies and so forth. This will even the Playing Field for international travelers, so long as they have a vaccine. We know theyre not vaccinated everywhere in the world. We dont yet know which vaccines will be included. That would be part of the process that follows. The cdc will determine, because other countries use different vaccines beyond the three we have approved here to find out which ones will be allowed and what it means to be fully vaccinated, whether its the two shots or whatever it might be. This is a big, big, Big Change for people who want the ability to travel, have missed family and loved once, business connections, and those who simply want to travel. Also, americans who are unvaccinated will be affected. Coming back to the united states, they will have to provide a negative test for covid. Thats a new development. Hallie . Kelly, thank you. Dr. Azar, more than 2300 kids tooK Sorb say the immune response was comparable to people who were alternates older. What does it mean as far as the Pandemic Response overall . Right. Basically, hallie, what we got again this morning was a press release, the Top Line Results from pfizers phase, 1, 2, 3 results. It was basically looking at Safety Tolerability and immunogenecity, meaning what did these kids elicit. They received about a third of the dose of adults and neutralizing antibodies were comparable to those in the older age group. What that as Led Researchers to suggest, is this vaccine at this dose should be a safe and effective vaccine for this age group, but to make that determination, hallie, will require that pfizer files for a formal eua to the fda, who will then review it over the next number of weeks and their Advisory Committee will meet, likely in a public hearing, to deliberate and review rigorously the data and make a recommendation for the fda, and then it gets to the cdc who will make a recommendation on who exactly should get the vaccine. Thank you both. Well talk about this later in the show, but we want to get to those developments from wall street. Dom chu is here with us. Let me take a look, because the dow is down nearly 900 points. We hear it a lot, the markets are not the economy, the economy is not the markets, but for people with 401 K S and stocks, theyre wondering what happened today . We havent had a pullbacK Since february of this year. We havent seen a significant pullbacK Since october last year. This is unusual you mentioned the dow dropped about 900 points. We were down about 940 someodd points, pushing toward the down 1,000 mark. Mentioned the covid segment. Those worries still persist. However, this time around there are more meet or approximate causes tied to a chinese company called evergrande. Its a very large Property Developer this china, and it could be again, could be nearing financial collapse. Thats the reason why a lot of markets are starting to feel the ripple effects. If there were stresses on the Banking System there, would there be a Contagion Type of effect. Could that carry over to europe and, of course, here to the u. S. . For that reason, many of the companies most exposed to things like metals, mining, copper, aluminum, maybe Owners Steel companies, anything related to a use by china, those are most feeted. This is a larger wall of worry. We mentioned evergrande, but you also have a federal Reserve Meeting Coming Up, also uncertainty about interest rates, also the delta variant, and of course all of the drama in washington, d. C. , with whether or not well twas on our own debt here, so all of that happening in concert with Each Other is why were seeing this. Dom chu, thank you for the excellent explanation. We may come back for one who are chat. Dom, thank you. I want to thank you live to capitol hill. The senate has just gavel into session. Theres big news just in the last couple minutes here. Its a bit weedsy, but incredibly important to talk about. A new statement out from senator schumer, house Speaker Pelosi, saying theyre going to link the Rock Silluation Bill with the Debt Limit, this is basically these two leaders calling Mitch Mcconnells bluff. Lee anne, talk us through these developments. Reporter thats right, hallie, one of these deadlines that the Senate And House are facing is the government funding deadline, which is september 30th. Combined with that is the lifting of the Debt Limit, which the Debt Limit is increased, that means the Government Ability pay its bills, that means the government could default. This Debt Limit is on past spending, like paying your credit card. Its not on future spending. The democrats argue this is about all the money we spent for covid, all the money you spent for your Tax Cuts in 2017, so thats why this has to happen. So Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi have decided that they were going to suspend the Debt Limit for a another year, attach Emergency Funding for disaster relief, including Hurricane Ida and the forest fires, and money for Afghan Refugees and resettlement, to this government funding bill. They hope this is going to pressure at least some republicans. They need ten republicans in the senate to support it. While they might not be able to get Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell to change his mind, what they need is support of ten republicans, it doesnt need to be mcconnell. Thats what theyre betting on. Unclear if theyll get it. What next is where moderate democrats go . Absolutely right. There was a letter that 46 republicans sent several week ago, saying they would not vote to lift the Debt Limit under any circumstances. Hurricane ida happened since them, wildfires have happened sen then. Birp, leigh ann, its not like they have tons of time to. Check out this calendar of timelines. All Coming Up sometime very soon, right . That is the backdrop to this blow to democrats. Sort that out for us. Yeah, that is the backdrop. Heres the thing. Theres the thing that democrats have to do. They have to fund the government. They have to lift the Debt Limit by sometime in october. They arent theres the things that democrats want to do, including passing this bipartisan infrastructure bill, including the 3. 5 trillion human infrastructure bill, and all of this is tied together. They have similar deadlines, all within the same week, which is next week, hallie. So Democrat Leaders have to sort this out. If the government shuts down, then guess what . Their priorities of infrastructure are going to fall by the wayside. Theyre going to have a crisis to deal with. So they are trying to maneuver through these multitude of issues very carefully. Its going to be an incredibly complicated two weeks. Leigh ann, thank you very much. Coming up, well take you live to the White House, where President Biden is set to Leave Washington this hour for the united states general 1e78ably. What were learning about his plans to try to patch things up with france and what his Secretary Of State is doing as we speak. Plus dr. Anthony fauci set to join us. Stay tuned for his answer. 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I want to bring in Shannon Pettypiece at the White House. Well be talking about Foreign Policy over the next few days. This is a significant moment for President Biden and for secretary blinken, too. Reporter and theres no shortage of issues to talk about. I would add to the list climate change. Theres a big climate summit Coming Up next month, so watch for the president to lay some of the groundwork for that. You have cyber security, and of course covid. The u. S. Has coming under a lot of heat from global public health officials over this Booster Program and the u. S. Looking to start giving surge shots when so much of the world, Global Hell leaders say, still havent gotten their first shot. And Thrill Stez Afghanistan in the background, a lot of concern about how the withdrawal was handled, the drone strike, but also the u. S. s bigger place in the world and what the decision to pull troops out of afghanistan says about where this president sees the u. S. 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The only thing stronger than us, is you. We want to take you right to del rio, texas, where we heard from alejandro mayorkas, saying the government is working to step up and move haitians to where they can be processed. Morgan, good afternoon to you. Reporter we just finished hearing from secretary mayorkas. I had a chance to speak to him, and asked him did the sfons match the surge . Hes defending the federal actions over the last week or so, saying he did not initially think the surge would have grown as fast as it did. We saw 5,000 migrants here last wednesday. At last wednesday it peaked 15,000 migrants, calling the shade of that border bridge home. I had a chance to get close to the Camp Today with the mayor of del rio. He said they prosed several thousands, the current number around 11,000 people, but that is still roughly a third of the population of this entire city that has yet to be processed, waiting in near 100 Degree Temperatures right now. Really the concern going forward is how can they provide humanitarian need and also processing as officially as possible . It has been an incredibly dynamic situation over the last 48 hours, has seen drastic change, most notably coming on Saturday Evening when we saw an incredible convergence of Law Enforcement arrive. Hundreds of state troopers, hundreds of Border Patrol agents, essentially swarming the border crossing, and we saw images of troopers parking their vehicles on the bank at officers on horseback, essential pushing migrants back, and we know there are hundreds, if not thousands, waiting just across the river, who were spending to come here, but no longer can and trying to figure out where their future is. In the meantime, as this 24 7 praise is ongoing behind me, as you can see, the deportation flights have already started. Three were confirmed over the weekend, carrying about 300 haitians who did pass a protocol. Those numbers will only increase, but theres been a 24 7 bussing of migrants total other processing facilities. The question is, how long will it take and how much more resources do they need here to do this successfully . Hallie . Moralen chesky, we look forward to that Interview Tine on nightly news. Today is the tenyear anniversary of the policy of dont ask dont tell, letting openly out of an honorable discharge, veterans can be barred from getting benefits. Well, today The Va Is announcing a new plan that would let lgbtq vets forced out get those benefits for service. For a sense of the scope of how many people this affects, advocates think as many as 100,000 vets in the last 70 years have been removed from the Mail Terr because of their sexual orientation. I want to bring in dave laura. A real face on those statistics. Thank you so much for being with us. Let me start with your reaction to this news out of the va just today . Its just amazing. Im actually a bit emotional, because i really had to work hard to get my discharge corrected the old way. So for these young people to have this done for them automatically is just remarkable, and its just justice. Thats all it is. Its just justice. Can you talk about why it is so remarkable . Using your own personal story. In other words, what effect did that dishonorable discharge have on your ability to get benefits for you having served the country . I was discharged in 1970. I was kicked out t the first thing was that i couldnt get a job. In those days, employers would check the discharge status. And then oh, god, you know, ptsd, the war that i fought in, in vietnam, i could have really used some of those benefits that are now going to be granted to those people that were discharged, like i was. You cant believe how difficult life had been for me to not get my service recognized, not just monetarily, but just morally, the work that i did. It was just amazing that i was just ignored and kicked out. So, no, this is going to be amazing for those young people out there. I am im going to be reaching out to the groups that i belong to, to make sure they know they can probably speed up the process by applying themselves. Was it a surprise, or did you think this day may come . No, no, im totally surprised, especially with such a blanket situation. I worry. My codes on my Discharge State that i was a criminal, so the actual announcement that was made says if theres no criminal reason for not giving the benefits. I hope they look at that designation that was assigned to me, thats probably assigned to many of these others, i hoe them erase that also. And marked as criminal just for being gay, right . Yeah. Right. I did nothing but be who i was. You know, i joined the navy at 17. I was just being me. I wonder if you can take a minute, dave and reflect on today, which marks ten years since dont ask dont tell was repealed. Give me your personal reflections on this moment. I was in West Hollywood when they did it. There was a big gathering. It was at that point that i realized that maybe i could get my discharge corrected. If that hadnt happened, i dont think i would have gone to the Los Angeles Department of Veteran Affairs and talked to Stephanie Stone there, their assistant director. I would never have done that. I would have never gotten the benefits that i have today, as an old 73yearold man, i could really use them. I just know that its not an upgrade, its a correction for my life. Its just amazing that this is happening just automatically. I really am happy for todays veterans, you cannot believe. I can tell, this is an emotional move for you. Dave lara, thank you for joining the show and talking about it. Thank you. Youve got the 2022 gubernatorial race, yes, next year, heating up, with reports coming out, former Congressman Beto Orourke might be considering running against the current republican governor Greg Abbott. Abbott has energized democrats in particular after he put in place some conservative policies like that restrictive ban on abortions, strict rule on how and when texans can vote . Is this legit . Let me bring in garrett haake, who knows this state well, and frankly, this Potential Candidate as well. You think its real . Considering doing so, definitely. Has he made the decision . Thats unclear in my reporting. What i can tell you is this, orourke has been getting a ton of pressure to declare and get into this race against Greg Abbott. I just interviewed a member of the texas house, a democrat, who said she calls him every week to ask him if hes made his decision. I can report he has been discussing getting into the race with some friends, allies, other texas democrats. The belief is they need a big name at the top of the ticket, someone that can raise enough money to take on Greg Abbott. Well, orourke raised 80 Million when he took on ted cruz, when matched up against a polarizing republican, he was able to raise a lot of money and lift the rest of the ticket in texas, during ultimately what ended up being a good year for democrats there. I can report that orourke has been reaching out to some allies. Whether hes made the ultimate decision is a little unclear, but the feeling among some texas democrats is he needs to do so sooner rather than later. Abbott is the face of an Abortion Law in texas. Hes the face of an Elections Bill thats just been signed into law, and if theres a window here to consolidate the antiabbott feeling in texas, it is now, and i can also say that already the dga is using reports of orourke getting into the race to raise money. Just one more factor of that pressure on him to make a decision. The fundraising off the speculation about a decision that we dont even know has been made yet. Is there any other democratic name in texas, garrett, that you think has what it takes to unseat Greg Abbott there . Unseating Greg Abbott will be extremely different, no matter who runs. Could conceivably be the castro brothers, either julian or joaquin. Either could be in the discussion. All of these prominent democrats are wondering who can take on that task. Your texas roots are coming in handy today, garrett. Thanks. After the break, dr. Anthony fauci will be with us to answer your questions from boosters to getting kids vaccinated, and a whole lot more. Stay with us. A whole lot more stay with us smelling fresh way longer than detergent alone. If you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have Downy Unstopables inwash Scent Boosters. I love it. I just wear a little sensor and thats it. The dexcom sends my Glucose Readings to my receiver every five minutes. 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Dr. Anthony fauci, Chief Medical Advisory for President Biden and director of the national institute of Allergy And Infection just diseases. Thank you for being on our show the first day on the new time slot. Good to have you. Thank you for having me. I want to talk about boosters, kids, then the new recommendation from the White House. Let me start with boosters. The question i think gets to the crux of this debate. Is the purpose of these boosters, dr. Fauci, to stop the transmission of even mild covid altogether . Ultimately we would like to see the latter, to stop transmission, but right now . A stepbystep process, what the Advisory Committee to the fda recommended was a program that was predominantly aimed at preventing hospitalizations and death in the more vulnerable individuals. Thats the reason why you saw the recommendations for people 65 years old and over. Ultimately, what i believe is going to happen is that, as more and more data come in, both from our own cohorts, as well as from the israeli and other international cohorts, that youll see that, as you get more of this information about efficacy and waning efficacy, and the ability of boosters to really elevate the degree of protection, we may then modify the goal that will ultimately prevent people from getting infected, even with mild to moderate infection, as opposed to preventing just hospitalizations. Okay. I know that there are a lot of folks who are listening for your answer on that one. We all know that the week of the 20th, now, this date set for rollouts more broadly. Do you think it was a mistake to put that date out there for boosters . Do you wish it had been done differently . No, i dont thinK So. I think what got lost in the translation is what we said and what the president himself said, that we are going to plan to be able to vaccinate everyone right down to the age of 16, which was the approval of the pfizer product, and we were going to be prepared to roll this out during the week of september the 20th. But the thing that seems people have not heard as loud and clear is, that was dependent on the regulatory approval of the fda and the ultimate recommendation of the cdc, a la their Advisory Committee, on immunization practices. Thats what youre going to see. As you rolled out on the screen, you have the recommendation from the advisory beard, the fda will now make a determination, and then the cdc will, on the advice of their Advisory Committee, make the recommendations of how this can be rolled out. So this was a plan to do something, but it was always contingent upon the recommendation of the regulatory authority would be. I think you got moderna initially, when do you expect your booster, timelinewise . As soon as its ready. Thats going to be probably within a week. For moderna . No well, actually, for moderna, it probably will be two or three weeks under Moderna And J j. Well do a mix and match. Well probably still with moderna. That is helpful and interesting. You have pfizer out with news on the Vaccine Trial on kids 5 to 11, saying it has an safe and effective response, and do you trust this pfizer data . Do you think this is the right recommendations . Yeah, the final regulatory recommendation will have to regulatory approval will have to come from the fda, but i am not 59 all surprised of the data, that its safe and produces the immune response you would expect in children 11 down to 5. I would have been surprised if it didnt turn out that way. Its something we feel is important. Many mothers and fathers and caretakers are concerned about children, and are really waiting to be able to vaccinate those younger children. But an 11yearold under this, if this is the recommendation, would get about a third of these two doses than, lets say, a 12yearold. Is it by age . Should it be by weight . We would have trouble getting the perfect will be to match it precisely to your body weight. That would be logistically a bit different. There has to be a cutoff somewhere, and we do that very frequently with pediatric vaccinations and pediatric drugs. You sometimes go by weight, but sometimes its an age cutoff. The simplest logistic way to do it would be to give the lower dose for 11 and junger. Younger. Can you say with some level of confidence there will be that vaccine available before halloween . Youre trying to get me in trouble by pinning a date now. Im not. Im asking your level of confidence before halloween. I think halloween is, what, October 31st . Yes. I think it could be a good chance before halloween. And youre pretty confident . It depends on what you mean by that. I think its a reasonable chance. Would you support schools as a place for vaccines . Thats a good question. I think we are in such an emergency situation, with the 150,000 cases that were having even day that children now, you see the hospitals now, pediatric hospitals are filled with children who are infected and serious enough to be hospitalized. We need to put it into the context of what has gOne On prior to covid19. People think that having children be required to get vaccination is a very novel thing. It isnt. Right now, if you want to go to many schools, most public schools, you have to be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, so its nothing new. Am i in favor of mandating . I would be, but its taken out of context as if im being novel. Look at whats been going on for decades in schools, as the requirement for vaccination. So it really isnt anything very new. I assumed after it gets full approval and not just emergencily authorization . Your view . Yes, yes, of course. Im out of time, but i have two quick questions. First, on the white House Announcement Today regarding travelers, foreign travelers coming in from overseas. Lets talk about domestic travel. I know youve supported mandates for domestic travelers. Do you anticipate that happening, that move being made . And if so, when . What timeline would that be on . I am not going to get ahead of the president. I told others when i asked, and i will repeat it to you, it is on the table and under considering. There would be a lot of factors going into that. I have expressed i would be in favor 6 that if the president decides to do that and if the individuals advising him are in favor of that. And when do you think that you like that questioning, dont you . Im just curious. I cant say. All i can ais its on the table. As we look at the numbers with where we were, with the way things are progressing, do you believe though, has some experts have predicted, this is the last Big Wave of infections . What do you think 9 winter will look like, dr. Fauci . It could be the last if the 70 Million people who are eligible to be vaccinated get vaccinated. Its misthat is entirely win our gravel and win our power. So just showed, we can definitely avoid a next wave if we get the people vaccinated. We know very clearly that when you see that kind of a surge, it invariably is overwhelmingly a surge of the unvaccinated. So then, prospects of hitting, potentially given where vaccination rates, covid Death Ragts are right now, what is the prospect of the u. S. Hitting 1 Million deaths. Im not going to go there. I think the prospects, if we do what we should be doing, we will not get to that number. Great. We have the capability of preventing that. Yeah. Thats so important. Dr. Anthony fauci, i am grateful to you for spendsing the time with us on the Show Today A. Lot of news a lot of headlines. You are making a lot of news. We really appreciate your time, dr. Fauci, we know it is a busy one for you. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Shifting gears, over the weekend you probably saw it, right . Yet another milestone when it came to Space Travel with four civilian Space Tourists completing three days in Orbit Courtesy of elon musks spacex. The mission was the first without any professional astronauts on board. The flight also accomplished some other neverbeendonebefores. The youngest american crew member, and the first person to wear a prosthesis aboard. The mission, paid for my jared isakson, a billionaire raised over 150 Million for st. Judes childrens hospital. Joining me now, the host of nbc nightly news. Lester, you spoke with the crew after splash down. Dare i say they are walking on air. You dared to say it. Then you said it. Thank you for that. I spoke with them about 25 hours after their splashdown. I mean, they were giddy. They were still talking about the sights that they saw through that giant window, sharing anecdotes about going through the Rough And Tumble nature of the reentry only to then be buffeted by waves in the ocean. You will remember they stayed in the capsule for a while after touching down. Suddenly, they had to figure out what was the sensation, we are back to the gravity of earth. Then realizes they were floating in the ocean. I think each one of them is ready to go back if given the chance. A step in the right Direction Lester for making Space Travel more accessible to people. Obviously it is expensive. A Billionaire Hello to pay for it. What is your sense that we could see a regular person up in orbit soon . I think it is going to be a long time. I think this flight and the other Tourist Plights we saw this year have set the stage for something in which the price will inevitably come down. How far and how close to the reach of the average person is unclear. I talked to isakson about that, what they learned from this, whats possible. Heres what he told me. Where can this be taken, this whole idea of putting nonprofessional astronauts in space . I think, orbital Space Flight is just the exclusive domain of a couple of countries and a select few, i dont know i dont know how far we are going to get. So i think having organizations like spacex that are working very hard to drive down the cost of Space Flight, to make it more accessible for others so all of us can go out and journey among the stars. Halle, i get the sense is the idea that we dont know what could be dOne On civilian spacecraft because we have never had them before. Suddenly, now this becomes a possibility. And the applications of course may be things we havent thought of. Things that could be done in space outside of nasa. Yeah. They built it. And the idea is, they will come. Dare i say, it may be a whole new frontier. Lester. Lets go at it here. Thank you so much, lester. I think the benefit of this new 3 00 eastern noon Pacific Time slot, i dont have to get you up so early to come on the show. I am getting ready for nightly. I have got you on one of my tvst. Its perfect. Specifying nightly, lester will have more from that interview as well as the rest of the national news from around the country. Thats tonight at 6 30 eastern. We want to take you back to wall street, stocks are down a bunch. We talked about that at the top of this show. They have recovered a little bit, down 900 at the top of the hour, now down 650, at least the dow. Worries about the delta variant, the debt ceiling, the fed, and this mega developer on china on the brink of collapse. I think Dom Chu is with us. Dom, whats your sense of how it went today . What are you looking for tomorrow . Are we going to see an overnight rally and this gets erased 24 hours from now . Thats the big question. If you or i knew that answer we would be very rich people right now. The fact of the matter is as you pointed at the lows of the session the dow was down 971 points. We are up 300 points above where we were close to the top of the hour when you started your broadcast. Whats interesting about this move here is we oftentimes see a flurry of buying on down days going into the Closing Bell as some folks and their investors, 401 K S or others say things are overdone, let me step in and buy some that doesnt mean it will carry over. What we will be watching for is whether or not you see these lows hold into the session for the Closing Bell, and whether or not those markets in Asia And Europe start to react a little bit more positively. That might give you more of an indication. There are other investors and traders around the World Halle that will be watching the currency markets, the bond markets, things that trade 24 hours a day, five days a week. Right now, you have got the keep an eye on stocks that were hit the hardest. We were talking about energy stocks, oils and gas, metals and mining, steeltype stocks. Those could be the bellwether for whether this dip, this Leg Lower has legs or not. Dom chu thank you so much. Appreciate you being with us. Thanks for all of you for being here with us this afternoon. Deadline White House starts right after this quick break. Afk vo unconventional thinking means we see things differently, so you can focus on what matters most. Thats how weve become the leader in 5g. 1 in customer satisfaction. And a partner who includes 5g in every plan, so you get it all. With Voltaren Arthritis Pain gel my husbands got his moves back. 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