But two Pulitzer Prize winners, Kaitlyn Dickerson and Lindsay Addario to talk about their work on one of the most crucial and misunderstood wedge issues of the campaign. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Right now. Good morning, its august 11th, 86 days until the election. Five days since walz they transform the president ial race and galvanize the democratic base. More than 12,000 people packed into an arena last night in Las Vegas to hear from the democratic nominee and her Running Mate, and thats just the number of people who are actually able to get into the rally. About 4000 others were turned away after local Law Enforcement closed off the venue early because people are getting sick by waiting outside in the 109 degree heat. Nevada was the fifth and final stop of the harriswalz first set of Campaign Rallies together. She had chosen walz to be her Running Mate a total of five days ago, total of 60,000 supporters have attended their rallies across five of the six most import
At war for the first time in 20 years. He also promised to work with congress to double u. S. Climate funding to 100 Billion calling Climate Change a challenge without borders. The president also said we have given more than 15 Billion toward the global Pandemic Response and have shipped 160 Million vaccine Doses World wide. And with just about every challenge he mentioned, he note add Group Effort will be required to solve it. To fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devoting our resources to the challenges that hold the keys to our collective future. Ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber and emergent technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. All this coming against the backdrop of this pandemic, of course. Big Vaccine News in the last three hours. Johnson johnson says its Booster Shot is 94 effective in the united sta
We have been since the beginning of the covid virus. Reporter pfizer made the case for boosters with data showing Wang Vaccine Efficacy after six months and said they will work with the fda to address the committees questions and now questions about the biden administrations widespread Booster Strategy after the president made this announcement last month. Eight months after your second shot get a booster shot. Reporter bidens push for a third shot is getting pushback from some of the nations top medical experts who say he spoke too soon. The White House wrote in part, we stand ready to provide Booster Shots to eligible americans once the process concludes at The End of next week. That process includes a signoff by the fda which could come as early as next week, then the cdcs vote. It could be just days before millions more americans roll up their sleeves again. When it comes to the other two vaccines, Booster Rollouts is unclear. Moderna we know has submitted an application with the f
Good day everyone. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. We begin with President Bidens Big Week ahead. A short time ago he was seen on a Bike Ride in Rehoboth Beach before he takes on another Brewing Crisis a fallout with french President Macron which is angered by a secret deal to sell submarines to australia. He ignored some questions there. But this week he will also deliver an address to the u. S. General assembly, host a Vaccine Summit and then friday will be hosting the quad leaders summit. And then on capitol hill, the battle over reconciliation is heating up among democrats are Senator Manchin renewing debate over whether the 3. 5 trillion Price Tag is too high. Here is Bernie Sanders response. Were taking on the pharmaceutical industry, were spending millions and millions of dollars trying to make sure that they could charge us ten times more than the people of other countries for drugs. Were taking on the Health Care industry. Does not want to expand medicare. Were taking on the fos