Its version of the 3. 5 trillion Reconciliation Bill expanding the social Safety Net and fighting climate change. Were going to talk about where thing goes from here with Chris Van Hollen. A short time ago, President Biden outlined the plan to make big corporations and the wealthy pay more in taxes to boost the economy and strengthen the middle class in this country. Saying that it is the right thing to do. Its not to punish anyone. Im a capitalist. If you can make A Million or A Billion dollars, thats great. God bless you. All im asking is you pay your fair share. As the f. D. A. s Vaccine Advisory Committee prepares to decide whether to recommend Vaccine Booster shots, well look at how leaders are working to overcome Vaccine Hesitancy. And while many fled or sought to flee taliban rule in afghanistan, were going to talk live to one of the leaders who stayed behind to make sure thAt The taliban uphold their promise to respect womens rights. But we begin this hour in washington, d. C.
Going back to cali. Can she help save the democratic governors political life . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we begin today in our Health Today with a stunning rise in new covid19 cases among children in the United States. A 250 jump from just five weeks ago. Kids making up one in four new covid cases in the United States. Hospitalizations among children also seeing an uptick. A 12 increase in just one week. Still, we should underline severe infection in children remains rare. Less than 2 of kids infected with covid end up in the hospital. This is a pandemic that remains largely of the unvaccinated and largely of adults. 13 Miamidade County School employees have died in the past month all unvaccinated. And now as Cnns Nick Watt reports, a new study shows when severe Breakthrough Cases do happen, they tend to be in older, sicker people. Reporter misinformation, fear mongering, swirl around Breakthrough Infections. The vaccinated who still catch covid. The science shows the v
arrogant retort from jen psaki from the biden white house should bring comfort to all especially the holidays for those suffering in afghanistan with no hope on the horizon whau take a look. i would reiterate the united states did not put a tracker on american citizens traveling overseas in afghanistan or any country around the world. that would be quite a fox news story. sean: you don t put trackers on peopl what jen said the biden administration has written our fellow americans that they abandon off completely and hesaying to them drop dead. you are on your own. jen psaki doesn t care. she is tired of a questions about the human tragedy caused by her boss and according to a new report the biden administration is making it impossible for even private rescue organizations to remove those threatened with retribution by the taliban for their work with the u.s. that would include american citizens that they left behind thousands of green card holders. even military families
race-based admissions or race as a factor in the admissions process, but we do not yet know how they will come down in a case that has been continuously a part of successive supreme court confirmation hearings, and let alone ballot initiatives in places like california. just so you know, it is in the zone of 10:00 p.m., and the rulings could come any second now. and we know two boxes that are delivered in writing there. and that means at least two decisions today, and there could be as many as four or so, because they can pack a couple into the box. but at least two, elie. and the gay rights decision in colorado is fascinating because of how the justices will choose to write about this. this has to do with whether someone has the right to refuse service because someone is gay. what are you looking for in terms of how the justices frame this, because if they say that you can refuse for x, why not y and z. what is interesting here is that we have tension conflict in this ca
to the violence that occurred here that day. we ve already seen this committee detail how donald trump pressured all aspects of the government to try to overturn the electoral results, the justice department, state officials, vice president mike pence. for tomorrow at the hearing they plan to show the oath keepers, and proud boys to take action and lead to the violence we saw in this building on january 6th. we will hear live testimony from one former member of the oath keepers, a former spokesperson, jason van patenhove someone he said had a lot of inside information, according to what he told a colorado tv station, said he had inside access to the oath keepers. we ll learn about that, and we ll also learn about a meeting that occurred mid-december, december 18th. jamie raskin, the congressman from maryland plans to lead the questioning tomorrow, says it will be a key focus of the hearing tomorrow. one of the things that people are going to learn is the fundamental importa