We have been since the beginning of the covid virus. Reporter pfizer made the case for boosters with data showing Wang Vaccine Efficacy after six months and said they will work with the fda to address the committees questions and now questions about the biden administrations widespread Booster Strategy after the president made this announcement last month. Eight months after your second shot get a booster shot. Reporter bidens push for a third shot is getting pushback from some of the nations top medical experts who say he spoke too soon. The White House wrote in part, we stand ready to provide Booster Shots to eligible americans once the process concludes at The End of next week. That process includes a signoff by the fda which could come as early as next week, then the cdcs vote. It could be just days before millions more americans roll up their sleeves again. When it comes to the other two vaccines, Booster Rollouts is unclear. Moderna we know has submitted an application with the f
Whats at stake in the days and weeks ahead. Bidens entire president ial agenda rests on expansive spending bill. And, indeed, President Biden continues to try to rally democrats around his 3. 5 trillion Spending Package, especially Senator Joe Manchin who remains opposed in addition to the separate bipartisan 1 Trillion infrastructure bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to hold a bill on bidens larger Spending Package until the end of the month although it is widely expected to be altered and revised in the senate. Without manchins vote, democrats cant pass the package for budget reconciliation. They are threatening to hold up a vote on the bipartisan Infrastructure Deal which is expected to happen this week and has passed the senate until the larger package has a vote. In washington right now it is the season of competing leverage. Another reported Sticking Point in the interparty negotiations has to do with the future of the affordable Care Act and whether to make the enhanc
staff, at, both, the capitol and the white house, in the fallen officer s honor. jessica dean has the latest on where things stand. reporter: the united states capitol, on high alert, again. as another attack left one capitol-police officer dead, and another injured. the suspect rammed his car into two of our officers. reporter: a 25-year-old suspect, noah green, rammed this blue sedan into a barricade at the capitol building. striking two officers, before exiting that vehicle, and charging at the officers with a knife. the suspect did start lunging toward u.s. capitol police officers, at which time, u.s. capitol police officers fired upon the suspect. reporter: a law-enforcement official, telling cnn, one officer was stabbed. it is with a very, very heavy heart, that i announce one of our officers has succumbed to his injuries. reporter: william billy evans. an 18-year veteran of the force is the second capitol police officer to die on duty, in just the last-th
Not just with other democrats, you were all together with your republican colleagues. what has it been like now, republicans who spoke out last year against the insurrection, they have gone silent in the last six months. how can we possibly last six months. how can we possibly move forward when your own colleagues who were there hiding out with you whitewashed that devastating experience? well, you re absolutely right. up in the gallery, i want to note that we were also there with members of the press and we were told through a series of announcements from the floor from capitol police, i later learned to prepare to sit down, lie down, get your gas masks out from under your seats. i had no idea there were gas masks under our seats. you re right. we were hustled out. republicans and democrats, to a safe space. i remember being told as i was running through the tunnels, take your pin off. the pin we should be proud of, take it off because those who stormed the capitol won t care
0 it s impossible to deny that. as president biden will discuss this morning january 6th represents an ongoing threat to our democracy. in the year since nearly 20 states have passed laws to restrict voting and in many republican circles trump s big lie about the 2020 election still goes unchallenged. bottom line, january 6 has become a stark testament to the fractured nation we ve become and warning sign for what is coming next. with us throughout the hour, nbc s monica alba, she covers the white house, garrett haake on capitol hill, ellison barber outside the capitol, katie benner covers the justice department for the new york times , phil rucker senior washington correspondent for the washington post, eugene daniels co-author of the politico playbook and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. monica, let s start with the president. how is he going to approach this one? he s going to mark, of course, the solemn anniversary, steph, but instead