here tomorrow. bill: watching it all. edward lawrence from the white house today. thank you. dana: president biden is defiant and doubling down refusing to give up his bid for a second term as the course of calls for him to step aside gross louder by the hour. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning. the calls to quit the race could be getting a lot louder in the next few hours and week ahead. congress comes back from a long holiday resource. at least four senior house democrats joining five of their colleagues calling for change at the top of that ticket. dana: the president is digging his heels in further this morning. in fact, he sent a letter to house democrats defending his decision to stay in the race and followed that up by calling into his favorite morning show, morning joe. he is always welcome here any time. bill: of course, we invite that, right? the invitation is always out there. dana: love to talk to him.
accomplished more than in two years you will be a laughing stock in the united nation and around the world. that was back in 2018. today joe biden is going to be addressing the u.n. general assembly for the first time since taking office. mika, let s just say it right here. he does not do it in a particularly good time coming off of what s happening in afghanistan and also what s happening in france over the past week. it comes amid of what s happening. with ambassador etienne who was recalled from washington and he ll be on the show this morning. donald trump is calling on georgia s secretary of state to de-certify the election. brad ralph raffensperger is joining us and we got bob woodward and robert costa is joining us on the former president s democracy. that s going to be interesting willie, i am going to enjoy talking to our friends woodward and robert costa. a couple parts of that book i would have to ask him about. i would love to know the forcing for william ba
a trillion plus dollar divide among democrats threatens to stop the biden domestic agenda dead in its tracks. new and sobering cnn pictures from the border. thousands-of-haitian migrants made in a makeshift refugee camp under a bridge. the biden plan is to send them home. we begin though with the coronavirus and two giant developments. the white house today announcing it will lift covid travel restrictions and allow fully vaccinated international visitors into the united states starting in november. more on that big news in a moment. first though, welcome news for parents. this morning pfizer releasing trial results it says show its covid vaccine is safe and highly effective in children ages 5 to 11. pfizer says it will now submit that data to the government and apply for emergency authorization by the end of the month. if that fda review goes smoothly some 28 million children could be eligible for vaccination by halloween or soon after. we re hopeful and expectant that the
very quickly after the attack. it s ended up staying up until july. that fence was unsettling for a lot of people. it was a profound change in what the cws government looks like, for one, and what it feels like to be in washington, d.c. it s fair to say there was relief when the fencing finally came down in july, but as of right now, as of just this hour, these are live images here, it s going back up. nobody expects it will be up for months on end again. but it is going up as of tonight because of a saturday event, an event planned for this weekend in which trump supporters are saying they are going to converge on the capitol led by a former trump campaign official and their convergence on the capitol this weekend is explicitly organized around them celebrating the january 6th attack and denouncing the arrests and prosecution of the people who participated in it. so as of right now we are watching these images as the fence is moved into place and put back up around the capit
a lot of people. it was just a profound changed in with the sea of u.s. government looks like for one, and what it feels like to be in washington d.c.. i think it s fair to say there is relief on all sides when the fencing finally came down in july but as of right now, as of this hour, these are live images we re seeing here. it s going back up. nobody expects this time that it ll be up for months on end again, but it is going up as of tonight, because of a saturday event, an event planned for this weekend in which trump supporters once again are saying they will converge on the capitol, this time their event is led by a former trump campaign official, and their convergence on the capital this weekend is explicitly organized around them celebrating the attack on the capital, celebrating the january 6th attack, and denouncing the arrest and prosecution of the people who participated in it. so as of right now, we re watching these images as the fence gets moved into place and p