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it always happens the same way. the bluster and who s there and there? at the end of the day we will be unified for the american people. in just a few moments i ll get reaction to the speaker s comments from the leader of the large progressive caucus. she met with the president on wednesday. meanwhile the fda green lighted a pfizer booster for tens of millions of americans over 65 or with high risk health issues or younger pfizer recipients with moderna or johnson & johnson wait for word on when to get their boosters. joining me now is leeann caldwell and peter alexander. first what were the big takeaways from the big conference last hour? reporter: there were a couple. some confusing and more clear. she remains confident that she s going to pull everything together, that the party in the end is going to remain united on not only this bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill, but this partisan human infrastructure bill that is far from complete. she also says that ....
walensky continues to push for the unvaccinated to get their first shots. she also said today she s not surprised that so many people are hold out because of how misinformation has actually crept in. i do think if we had community health workers in so many communities that have been vaccine hesitant now, that have been checking diabetes and checking blood pressure control and doing all of those things when it came time to vaccinate, it would have been a no-brainer, they would have easily been able to convince their communities to get vaccinated. they have been trusted health providers. so the u.s. is finally seeing a drop this cases, about 10% nationwide. that s the good news. but not in many lower vaccinated places like nebraska who are rationing care. in tennessee, officials have given one of the most effective covid treatments only to unvaccinated patients and those who are immunocompromised. we re talking about monoclonal antibodies. they ve chosen to give it to ....
didn t say that s making headlines. also learned there could be another delay in a vote on both the spending bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the house speaker not committing to the previous deadline set for monday. saying she s confident both bills will get passed. and in a new sign, things are getting real. the white house telling federal agencies to prepare for a government shutdown. we re also watching for developments from the cdc which could announce at any moment who will be qualified to get a booster shot of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine. let s go ahead and bring in our nbc news team, ali vitali on capitol hill. mike memoli at the white house and joins by jake sherman punchbowl news founder and msnbc political contributor. ali, start with you. a big day of developments and speaker pelosi making news late this morning? reporter: a busy day and frank lif busy week. right to frame it as news for what was said and not said. in terms what we actually he ....
release, gwynn said biden views the a, the on the capitol as a dark stain on our country s history and is deeply committed to ensuring something like that can never happen again. and he supports a thorough investigation. the legal showdown set to ensue between the expresident and president joe biden s white house, if if it proceeds in complying with the committee s document request comes as nbc news is learning that the select committee has just received documents from all seven government agencies from which they have requested information. that s according to a committee aide. the documents requested include a fast s.w.a.t. of records pertaining to the previous administration s plans to discredit the 2020 election result and dismiss the count on january 6th. all this as the committee prepares to dump subpoenas to many people in a matter of days. it could even ensnare republican members of congress believed to have knowledge of donald trump s actions and donald trump s ....
9%. it is so bad that six former treasury secretaries wrote a letter imploring congress to extend the limit saying allowing an unprecedented default could cause serious economic harm. confronted with the reality republicans say of course the u.s. can t default on the loans. they refuse to help democrats in any way. just two years ago mitch mcconnell made it clear the consequences of default would be dire but now he s saying republicans actually have no role to play in seeing the country stay afloat. so you are expecting to raise the debt ceiling one again? of course. we ll never have america default. america can t default. that would be a disaster. the facts are indisputable. this is a totally democratic government. they have an obligation to raise the debt ceiling and they will do it. don t play russian roulette with our economy. step up and raise the debt ceiling. it s clear it s a straight up dereliction of duty. the thing is mitch mcconnell doesn t care what h ....