european countries are suspending the use of a different vaccine over reports of dangerous blood clots in a small number of recipients. the vaccine has not been authorized for use yet here in the united states. the company expected to apply for that authorization quite soon. and dr. anthony fauci is keeping an eye on europe today offering a new warning as new cases in the united states are plateauing at a dangerously high level. about 50,000 cases a day. and he wants to make sure that we as a country don t end up in the same situation that europe is facing right now. europe is generally a few weeks ahead of us in the dynamics of the outbreak. and they had play towing and then they pull back a bit on their mitigation methods. the all of a sudden, it started to surge again. we want to mike ake sure that doesn t happen here in the united states. part of that equation is vaccines. let s start with the news coming out this morning about moderna s trials involving children. eli
the fbi believes it was an industrial type strength bear spray and according to the documents this is the this canister they were using they sprayed in the faces of these three officers. one of them is officer sicknick. i ll read you just a part of the affidavit. it says, quote, officer sicknick, edwards and chapman standing in a few feet all react one by one. they immediately retreat from the line, bring their hands to their faces and rush to find water to wash out their eyes. this is one of the many, many assaults, that we saw that day on january 6th which the fbi says that people who were in this pro-trump mob used bear spray, pepper spray and other things to attack these officers. in this case officer sicknick went back to his office. he fell ill and was taken to the hospital. he died the following day. now, one of the things that s interesting is right now they re only charged these two men are only charged with assault on a federal officer. these are nine counts in
through what this is actually going to look like. gene sperling is a longtime economic aide. he served other presidents. he has been a adviser to president biden on the campaign trail. but he is not expected at the sore money. because right now like most americans he is working remotely, has not been vaccinated yet, and is still in california according to the white house. and he won t be in the west wing doing the job for several more weeks according to the press secretary earlier today. that is interesting. gloria, this package, relief package is popular. is the white house worried that it won t be so popular, that popularity that wane? why this real effort to bolster this. well, a lot of people who were there, including the president himself, were there in 2009 when the stimulus package passed. and one of the problems with that, biden himself has said, is that they never explained the benefits of it to the american people. and it was unpopular. this bill starts out more
right. thank you very much, sarah. i want to go now to rick santorum from pennsylvania. our senior political commentator and gene sperlg, speakersperlin. now we have the drama. oftentimes you see them and say okay, they ll figure it out. the track record thus far is there is huge failures. they re going to figure this out or not? oh, yeah. obviously, there is ligit drama. they re tl are serious issues here. but there is no doubt in my mind that there will be 50 votes whether it s late tonight or whether it s tomorrow. there will be 50 votes to pass a bill out of the united states senate. and the one thing that i think you need to pay attention to is the two names and the people that are the most problematic right now, bob cork easteer and flake. throws are the two people that the president has gone after and
good evening every one, on out front tonight, a walk up call from the rage oncage on. out with a blistering 16 page indictment of the president s campaign strategy. carville says the president s evidence to convince voters to convince voters is the wrong strategy and in his words will fail. he s right about one thing. the president is selling a message of hope, hard. we ve gone through the worst financial crisis and the economic crisis since the great depression. we ve made significant progress. the good news is that we re starting to see progress. so we re making progress. we re moving in the right direction. progress? does it add up? well, we looked at some important economic indicators. just take a look at the unemployment rate. this chart starts in the summer of 2007 when america was booming. at the very top, unemployment was 4.6%. a level that it hovered at for years. today it s 8.2. now take a look at consumer confidence. it was just shy of a record then. today,