over a key piece of the president s domestic agenda. and plus what a member of the january 6 committee is saying about the s word, subpoenas. why lawmakers might skip asking people to testify and instead try to require them. and just who might be on that list. we have a lot to get to with you. good to be with you. i m hallie jackson in washington and we re joined by our newly minted nbc news senior congressional correspondent garrett haake, tony sporting a new title, congressional economic policy reporter for the washington post. he is also an msnbc cribber. and shannon pettypiece is at the white house. so here is the deal. you have the house possibly as soon as tonight ready to pass a bill that would avoid a shutdown by keeping the government open and running through early december. suspend the debt limit through the end of next year. which means the u.s. wouldn t default on its debts, money that has already been spent, not new spending. and it would provide about $35 bill
according to the paper, is set to announce any minute, i don t think we have that live stream up just yet but we ll bring it up in a second as it gets going set to announce vaccine requirement indoors in the nation s biggest city. i believe this would be the first of its kind mandate in this country, similar mandates have been put in place at areas overseas. i wondered just initially hearing this, dr. ashby, what your take on this is, and what the impact could be. that s a loaded, loaded question. so let me start with the fact that break it down then. pick apart where you want to go with that, doc. let s establish the fact vaccines do work, they re safe and effective and compared to getting the virus, you want to get the vaccine, and second part of that is that at this point, everyone s going to get the coronavirus. it s not going anywhere. it s going to be here for the rest of our lives and we need to learn how to live with this virus and vaccines are a fundamental t
progressives and moderates battling for the soul of the democratic party. and the pressure is mounting as millions brace for the possibility that they could get kicked out of their homes when a official eviction ban expires tomorrow. welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd on a busy friday as the white house confronts a big messaging mess on its hand when it comes to the covid response and the cdc has just put out new data on breakthrough infections. and the data is quite alarming. all of this as an internal cdc document first reported by the washington post paints an alarming portrait of the delta variant. for both the unvaccinated and the vaccinated. this preliminary finding warns that breakthrough infections may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases. it recommends universal masking which goes well beyond current guidelines. and it also points out that the delta variant is more contagious than ebola, the spanish flu, smallpox and the common cold. it is as
i think we ll be vaccinated in april. dana: what makes you say that? bill: johnson & johnson is coming online with 30 million doses, single shots now toward the end of march. i think we ll see really a chance for perino and hemmer can step up. dana: i think that s one of the questions. once we get vaccinated what can you do? it s why dr. anthony fauci is facing criticism saying we ll have to keep up precautions even after getting the vaccine. a sampling of his messaging over the past couple of days. i think there will be others coming and that is when you have a fully vaccinated person and they come into contact with someone who is known to be infected with sars covid 2 they don t have to do the kind of quarantine that we have been recommending. we do have a good vaccine again. that s more incentive to say rather than even think about declaring victory and saying well, we have herd immunity and we re in good shape. we have to keep pushing and pushing, continue to do t
the darkest days of the pandemic are still ahead, and slamming president trump, saying he failed to protect the u.s. from that suspected russian cyberattack. the department of justice suing walmart, alleging it helped fuel the opioid crisis the unarmed black man killed by police, the officer only turning on his body cam after the fact and what has now happened. the nba tipping off tonight, but will the new season be successful outside the bubble after beating the odds, a miracle baby finally headed home for the holidays this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone public health officials are pleading with americans to forego holiday travel and gettogethers in order to slow the spad of coronavirus, but adding to the domestic worries that brought a post-thanksgiving wave of cases, tonight there are heightened concerns about flights coming here from the uk where a mutated strain of the coronavirus has forced that country into lockdown and rai