irresponsibility knows absolutely no bounds. the president accuing republicans of playing russian roulette with the economy with a crisis looming that could end with the loss of millions of jobs, higher interest rates on credit cards and probably some unwelcome news for your 401(k). we re one on one with the senate democrat about the path forward in this show. plus, what is up with facebook and instagram? they are down and out around the world with facebook scrambling to fix whatever is going on. they re also trying to fix a pr problem after those whistleblower claims the company put profit over safety. i m hallie jackson with what s turning out to be an interesting afternoon. lee ann caldwell is on capitol hill and we ll also hear from stephanie ruhle. president biden basically called out him and the senate republicans on this debt ceiling issue. that s right, hallie, and what we hear from senator mitch mcconnell will echo what we heard in a letter earlier today where
the pharmaceutical giant merck announcing results just moments ago from its experimental trials into the first oral anti viral pill to treat covid. . this is a big deal. this isn t instead of a vaccine. vaccines are still the most important thing here. but this is something that has been missing. the pill, according to merck, cuts the risk of hospitalization and death in half if you get covid. they plan to apply for fda emergency use authorization as soon as possible. let s get some understanding on this. we want to bring in dr. peter hotez from baylor college of medicine. dr. hotez, as i said, this is not better than a vaccine. the vaccines are still the most important thing here. but this is what has been missing. explain what s going on here. yeah. so, john, you re absolutely right. so what happens is if you the pill is given twice a day for five days and seems to cut the risk of dying or hospitalization by half. it s not a huge study. i think it was under 1,000 pati
nothing too intense in terms of rain. a fairly settled the picture. this afternoon some brightness showing through for the south west of england, wales, northern ireland already seeing some showers. the odd one could be on the heavy side. into the evening that risk will continue. across eastern england brightening up across eastern england brightening up a little. overnight more cloud piling in, however. these bearing more meaningful rain. some weather fronts sinking down pushing toward an area of high pressure. they will be fairly weak affairs. it will be very mild under the cloud. there will be some rain overnight tonight. as i said, they are putting into this area of high pressure. the fronts tending to lose their potency. some rain left on them for the south east of england first thing on wednesday. they should be more in the way of sunshine. the cloud will break. with the sunshine we have the power to put a little bit of heat into the atmosphere and spark off some heavy
the stakes for ukraine and for the entire world remain high. president biden is calling on american politicians to pass the latest package of military aid for kyiv, which has been blocked by congress. look, the ukrainian people fought so bravely and heroically, they put so much on the line, and the idea that now, they re running out of ammunition, we walk away, i find it absurd, ifind it unethical, ifind itjust contrary to everything we are as a country. so i m going to fight to get them the ammunition they need. the ukrainian president was in munich, where senior defence officials and world leaders have been gathering a week before the two year anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. president zelensky repeated his appeal for more weapons to avoid what he called a catastrophic situation in europe. translation: we are very much counting on this positive - decision of congress. for us, this package is vital. we are not considering alternatives today because we