listen to dr. fauci. listen to the scientists who developed them through extensive and rigorous review. i did. and i took my shot publicly to demonstrate to the american people it s safe and effective. to address this challenge, we re going launch a massi campaign to educate people about vaccines that they are safe and effective and they can go and get those shots and be good. i m going close with this. this past year has been one of the most painful years in american history. as i said, we lost over 500,000 lives of the virus. 500,000 moms and dads, husbands and wives, sons and daughters staring at an empty chair at the dining room table or the kitchen table. friends, neighbors, coworkers. and all over the country where the loved ones are gone. they re gone, empty, empty feeling in your chest like you re being sucked into a black hole in your chest. but all over the country where loved ones once sat, there is an empty chair. and folks, look. there is so much we can do. as yo
a panel is deciding whether to approve pfizer s covid vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11. plus, president biden heading to virginia today to campaign for terry mcauliffe in a neck and neck governor s race just one week to election day. what to expect at this crucial juncture and democrats first big test at the ballot box since taking power. speaker pelosi wants a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill as early as tomorrow. but three sources are now just telling nbc news in just the last half hour she told her caucus behind closed doors they will only take that vote if there s an agreement on the build back better reconciliation bill. jim clyburn talked about the timeline on morning joe . the fact of the matter is we are on board. i like where we are and i think we re going to have a good product for the american people. what s likely in, what s likely out, what is still under discussion. here s where things stand in these very fluid negotiations. this is according
the length of paid parental leave. joining us now is garrett haake, weekend today co-host peter alexander, ashley parker, and robert gibbs. garrett, starting with you on the hill. we heard from joe manchin today. what more can you tell us about where things stand on manchin watch? he would be the least of the problems right now. he continues to discuss what his red lines are or are not. and he put a little frame work around his top line spending number that might be useful for people to listen about. here he is talking about the scope of spending. i don t know for sure, we re all negotiating and in good faith i think you have to keep all options open. i think $1.5 is fair because we just did $1.9 and we did $2.1. there you hear a conservative democratic senator talking like a conservative about the money that will be spent here. but from our reporting today the bigger problem may not be the spending, it may be the revenue. i for the life of me cannot square the optimism
for the last three decades. last week, azerbaijan seized this disputed region. fears of ethnic cleansing and persecution have driven over 6,650 people to cross into armenia, according to the armenian government estimates. roads leading towards the armenian border are jammed with traffic as people leave in search of shelter, safety, and humanitarian aid. our reporter natasha zotova is on the ground at one of the aid tents in armenia where refugees have sought help. she sent in this update. we are in this village right on the border between armenia and nagorno karabakh. we can see the refugees coming through the border to armenia. here in this tent, they are being registered. people are fleeing with their belongings because they are afraid, theyjust don t believe they can be safe in nagorno karabakh under azerbaijan rule. some people told me they don t expect to get home ever. azerbaijan is promising not to target civilians and to respect the rights of ethnic armenians living i
this small group of house republicans to want to live up to that deal and america could be faced with paying the price for that. republican hardliners want more spending cuts. a partial shutdown could result in paycheque delays for millions of americans, air travel distruptions and impacts to public programmes focused on everything from poverty to environmental safety. earlier on monday, the us agriculture secretary, tom vilsack, warned that if a decision isn t reached by october 1st, millions risk food insecurity. it isa it is a programme that impact and effect of a 50% of all newborns in this country. nearly 7 million pregnant mothers, new mothers and young children count on it every single day to receive support. with a shutdown, what we would see across the united states is a denial of those benefits and opportunities. in some cases, it would be literally within a matter of days. the last government shutdown in the us was in 2019. us senator bob menendez says he s confide