my voice? that is huge for parents and for kids who are going back to school and pfizer is hopeful the vaccine will be available very soon. we intend to submit the data by the end of the month and then, of course, it will be up to the fda to review that data and determine whether the screen can be released for broad use. we hope that that will go expeditiously. and this pfizer news comes amid new questions about booster shots. remember, it was this week the biden administration said they would start giving boosters to everyone, but now an fda panel has put the brakes on that idea and the question now is what do we do next? i want to dig deeper into all of this and bring in cnbc s senior health and science reporter meg tirrell, nbc s gabe gutierrez in spokane, washington, and dr. kavita patel former policy director of the obama white house. meg, give us the school on the pfizer vaccine. you can hear how excited i am. what is the timeline for when we can actually get our ki
saying he will not support the legislation if it goes up for a vote. he will not have my vote on 3.5. and chuck knows that. we talked about this. what s the urgency? what s the urgency that we have? it is not the same urgency we have with the american rescue plan. we got that out of the door quickly. that was $2 trillion. on top of that, the c.a.r.e.s. package and everything leading up to that. we have done an awful lot. there are an awful lot of people who still need help. we have 11 million jobs needing to be filled right now. 80 million americans are out of work. something doesn t match up. don t you think we ought to hit pause. and more on the voting rights bill in just a moment. still ahead, police plan to reinstall fencing around the capitol hill building and speaker pelosi will hold a security meeting tomorrow. and congressman murphy called on his republican colleagues to speak up. i m confident they will be prepared. but i am concerned about what is going to h
laura: to the chance at florida state. on saturday and sunday in even last night with a ole miss game, millions across the country were riveted by what tends to bring us all together. we are talking about college football. it was evidence in stadiums across the country that america is ready to move on from covid in the fearmongering that keeps us apart and afraid. check out this attendance chart. more than 109,000 michigan come almost 100,000 texas a&m and nearly 86,000 nebraska hosted 72,000 and atlanta for the alabama/miami game. we have endured 18 months of varying degrees of lockdowns, capacity restrictions, mask rules, business closures, churches and schools being shut down, concerts and sports canceled. 75% of adults have now gotten at least one jab. untold millions have been naturally immunized through exposure to the virus, yet, they are still treated as if they don t submit to being vexed. in we have known for most of the pandemics that americans who are olde
and julia coronado, former economist at the federal reserve. good morning to you both. we are 30 minutes from president biden making remarks on the economy. mon, these numbers are not what economists thought we d be seeing. what are you hearing from the white house pokes behind the scenes? reporter: they re trying to highlight some of the good signals of hope in this jobs report, for instance the fact that the unemployment rate fell to 5.2%, which is the lowest it has been since march of 2020, when the pandemic of course kicked off in full swing, and so many jobs were lost, and the fact that so far, 76% of those since the pandemic began have been recovered, leaving more than 5 million jobs still to go. this is something we really got a preview of about a month ago when the president spoke on the july jobs report. he wasn t ringing a note of celebration, he was worried about the hard work to come and the potential impact of the delta virant. you can expect a repeat of those
military weapon as and equipment. including two black hawk helicopters. joining me now helen cooper. the biden administration has been criticized for its strategy, its planning leading up to the fall of afghanistan. and now a major part of the evacuation strategy is this agreement with the taliban. on thursday here on msnbc you described the feeling inside the pentagon as, quote, a level of despair and depression i haven t seen in a long time and people are angry and distraught. are there concerns inside the pentagon the administration is being, i don t know, outplayed by the taliban? well, the administration thank you for having me. the administration is trying to walk a really fine line right now, which is what you are seeing. they have agreement taliban commanders, including the some of the commanders close to hamid karzai international airport that they will let in afghans afghan allies of the united states who are desperate to get out of the country, that they