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at war for the first time in 20 years. he also promised to work with congress to double u.s. climate funding to $100 billion calling climate change a challenge without borders. the president also said we have given more than $15 billion toward the global pandemic response and have shipped 160 million vaccine doses world wide. and with just about every challenge he mentioned, he note add group effort will be required to solve it. to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources to the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber and emergent technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. all this coming against the backdrop of this pandemic, of course. big vaccine news in the last three hours. johnson & johnson says its booster shot is 94% eff ....
again, we are not seeking another cold war or the world divided into rigid blocs. the united states is ready to work with any nation that proposes peaceful resolution even if we have intense disagreements in other areas. because we ll all suffer the consequences of our failure if we do not come together. and he pledged that war will be a last resort, not a first. we ve ended 20 years of conflict in afghanistan. as we close this period of relentless war, we are opening a new era of diplomacy. last month we lost 13 american heroes and almost 200 afghan civilians at the kabul airport why those that commit acts of terrorism against us will continue to find a derryled enemy in the america. iran is closer to building a bomb, president biden urged the iranian regime to begin direct talks to the u.s. and allies on getting back into compliance with the nuclear deal, a deal that president trump canceled. the quite remains committed to preventing iran from gaining a nuclea ....
we must all band together for the sake of humanity itself. today many of the concerns cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms. bombs and bullets cannot defend against covid-19 or its future variants. to fight this pandemic we need a collective act of science and political will. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. where we apply and strengthen the core tenets of the international system, including the charter and declaration of human rights as we seek to shape the emergence of new technologies and deter new threats. or will we allow those universal principles to be trampled and twisted in the pursuit of naked political power? simply put, we stand in inflection point in history. an inflection point and also a threatening point in the u.s., ....
over a key piece of the president s domestic agenda. and plus what a member of the january 6 committee is saying about the s word, subpoenas. why lawmakers might skip asking people to testify and instead try to require them. and just who might be on that list. we have a lot to get to with you. good to be with you. i m hallie jackson in washington and we re joined by our newly minted nbc news senior congressional correspondent garrett haake, tony sporting a new title, congressional economic policy reporter for the washington post. he is also an msnbc cribber. and shannon pettypiece is at the white house. so here is the deal. you have the house possibly as soon as tonight ready to pass a bill that would avoid a shutdown by keeping the government open and running through early december. suspend the debt limit through the end of next year. which means the u.s. wouldn t default on its debts, money that has already been spent, not new spending. and it would provide about $3 ....
chairman schiff introducing formally new sweeping legislation to deal with exactly this. my reason for being here is as simple as the title: protecting our democracy act. it shouldn t matter who the president of the united states is. we should want that president not to be able to abuse that office to enrich themselves. we should want them to maintain independence from the justice department, not use it as their own private law firm, not use it to go after their adversaries. the plan here is not partisan as emphasized. the legislation would have rules to limit how presidents use or, again, potentially abuse pardon power. deal with the deadlines that might prevent otherwise prosecution of rogue presidents. that s obviously a look at the legal presidency of trump. and to enforce the ban on presidents who aren t allowed to enrich themselves. also ideas to better protect doj independence. this is all part of congress broader efforts at accountability, deal with what ....