Where ali is filling in tonight. I was already ready for a fun show but you super charged. A few minutes ago i was listening to you and dan goldman have a conversation when you uttered the words, the my pillow guys soliloquy, words i never thought i would hear in my life. Im deeply appreciative for you kicking it off for us. Have yourself a great game and well talk about the bucs on monday. I will do, ali. Thank you very much, my friend. Thanks, friend. All right. Well, tonight it is a tale of two parties, one is governing and the other it is not clear what the other party is doing. Republicans are destroying themselves from inside, consumed with feuds over how loyal they can be to a former president who incited an insurrection. And fighting over what actions to not take about the dangerous conspiracyspewing congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene. Meanwhile, democrats want to pass laws and help americans who are hurting from the pandemic. Today joe biden made it clear he will pass his co
Pandemic. The Biden Administration is deploying 1,110 active duty service members, including teams from army, air force, navy, and marines to support five fema covid19 Vaccination Centers across the country. The first team set to arrive in california in ten days. The Biden White House also says it will soon utilize Defense Production Act in several ways to procure equipment and supplies for pfizer to make additional vaccine, to tap Six Companies to make 61 million at home covid19 tests by end of summer, and built factories to produce Raw Materials needed for nitrile surgical gloves. A billion pairs a month. All of that means jobs. All of that should have been done a year ago. The Biden Administration also isnt ruling out using Defense Production Act to aid in production of Johnson Johnsons one shot vaccine which is currently awaiting Emergency Use Authorization from the fda. That should come any day now. The federal government is set to ship 10. 5 million vaccine doses a week for the n
Nearly 3 billion lawsuit in which he plays a starring role. Others at fox news do as well. And then a Battle Of The Ages and for the ages, of course, tom brady versus Patrick Mahomes in the super bowl tomorrow, coming up later this hour, were going to talk about that as well. I want to start, though, with nbcs mike memoli traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware, and nbcs ali vitali on capitol hill. Thanks for joining us on this. Mike, i want to start with you on this one and the president s worry, shall we say, about the former President Trump. This is the first time that you had a former president who essentially is going to be barred from Intelligence Briefings, right . Reporter well, yasmin, thats right. This would be the case if thats the final decision thats made by the white house but you know what . This is par for the course because the last time i was speaking to you from here in wilmington, it was during the president ial transition and what was one of the storyl
She is, the breakout star so far of week one of the Biden Administration. And its not unusual because the Press Secretary is the one whos out there in front of the camera more than anyone other than the president. So, she has instantly taken command of that room, and it has been, as you said, you know, a kind of shocking gear change for us and welcomed gear change for us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire ad
We have a ton of developments today in the Coronavirus Vaccine situation. What we do know is encouraging in many waysramping up vaccine production. What we dont know about the effectiveness is terrifying. It makes you wonder if the u. S. Needs to dramatically rethink the current Vaccine Distribution strategy. Lets start with the good news. Today johnson and johnson leased some promising data from its phase three clinical trials. The vaccine is 72 effective in the u. S. At preventing moderate to severe illness. Experts consider that a strong level of protection. Here is the potential worrying news. The company disclosed the data suggests the vaccine was less effective against the South Africa Covid Variant we have been dropping. Effectiveness dropped from 72 to 57 . Its called that because it was south africa was the first place it was found which is more contagious and resistant to the vaccines we have. Its already in the United States and appears to be spreading. The more contagious u