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
results. and it s what we mentioned first, because tomorrow begins a two-week period that will be critical in determining if this can become a permanent thing. the house returns in the morning and lawmakers will begin a sprint to september 27th, which is the date speaker nancy pelosi set for the bipartisan infrastructure bill the senate passed in august. what happens next on the house will set the tone for the rest of president biden s agenda, as the president finds himself and his agenda between two ideological poles of his party, both of which hold significant sway, and without any help from republicans. when it comes to democrats, there s the joe manchins of the world, and now voting rights legislation unveiled by democrats last week. manchin also says that the $3.5 trillion cost of the reconciliation bill, too high, and in a face-to-face meeting with the president on wednesday appears not to have changed his mind. in fact, axios reports that manchin wants to pause voting
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
hello, everyone. i m alicia menendez. we begin this hour with a growing challenge for president biden. convincing vaccine skeptics to get the shot. new nbc news reporting shows a glimmer of hope. vaccine rates are starting to rise this states with the biggest increase of new infections. biden addresses the politicization of the vaccines the week in virginia. here s the point. with all the covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations are today among the unvaccinated people. and i know i know it s gotten a bit politicized, but i hope it s starting to change. it s not about red states or blue states or guys like that hollering. it s about life and it s about death. but the politics of covid are still at play as the pandemic, fueled by the delta variant, surges across the nation. it appears red states are paying the highest price. thanks to vaccine disinformation spread among right-wing skpligsz media outlaws. 8 of 10 states with the highest spike of coronavirus hospitalizations ar
and in a long-shot bid to get them back, the texas house speaker, a republican, put a jet on standby, offering those democrats a free ride home. as you can guess, they said thanks, but no thanks. and then there s the so-called audit in arizona s maricopa county that continues with no end in sight. no reporting from the associated press finds only four singular cases of voter fraud in arizona. the a.p. also reports two men have been plotting to blow up the democratic headquarters in sacramento. they discussed their plans through several messaging apps according to a.p., one message reading, quote, after the 20th, we go to war. their hope, according to the reporting, was to ignite a movement, a movement based on that big lie a lie that continues. this weekend we re learning more about how that came to be, taking shape on election night when trump falsely claimed victory. the washington post published excerpts of a new book by philip rucker and carol leonnig titled i alone ca