kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. president biden says that he is confident democrats will eventually put aside their differences and agree on two massive spending bills that are the center piece of his domestic agenda. the president met with democratic lawmakers on friday after party progressives blocked a vote on a bipartisan bill to fix america s roads, bridges and airports. after their meeting members of the progressive caucus said they appreciated the president s input but some came away hoping for more. still feel like the president ought to weigh in and make specific asks. it is his agenda. would i have preferred that he engage sooner on the reconciliation bill, sure. i think the president should be involved. very few of us have seen the president in the nine months he s been president. and i think that he should come to a caucus. cnn s ryan nobles has more on the message biden brought to
world. this is cnn newsroom. live from cnn center, this is cnn news proom. several hundred thousands americans have now lost their lives to the coronavirus with the last 100,000 deaths added in little more than 100 days. the staggering figure comes wow there are deadly fallen infections. poly, more booster options are likely coming. the administration will meet in mid-october to discuss booster doses. later in the month, the panel is set to discuss using pfizer vaccine for children under 12. merck s if you drug isn t on the fda calendar yet. it s not stopping experts from calling it a dramatic game changer. cnn s dr. gupta has more on what we are learning. this the a pretty big deal. in fact, a data safety monitoring board actually looked at the trial results. they re ongoing from merck and decided they looked so good that they actually wanted to stop the trial and encourage the company to go ahead and apply for emergency useful often sometimes they re stopped because
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Use aan agenda for discussions that would allow them to demonstrate, again to each other, that they remain committed to two-state approach. right now the disbelief is youth weighing anything else and creates a context, makes it very difficult to move towards peace. dennis ross, thank you very much. we ll will be carrying prime minister netanyahu s speech live as well. while world leader are speaking in new york, president obama and mitt romney kicking their swing state campaign into overdrive. both charting from ohio to virginia, the state that could be the must-win in november. joining us now, chris cillizza, managing editor of post politics.com and peter alexander following the romney campaign. welcome to both. chris, first of all, how important is virginia? they ve gone, both from ohio to virginia. they seem to be tag teaming it, the two weekends. reporter: yeah, i would say, draa, we ve talked about this, the visits, where they spend their time is so carefully