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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 committee s questions and now questions about the biden administration s widespread booster strategy after the president made this announcement last month. eight months after your second shot get a booster shot. reporter: biden s push for a third shot is getting pushback from some of the nation s 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 cdc s 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 subm ....
what s at stake in the days and weeks ahead. biden s entire presidential agenda rests on expansive spending bill. and, indeed, president biden continues to try to rally democrats around his $3.5 trillion spending package, especially senator joe manchin who remains opposed in addition to the separate bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill. house speaker nancy pelosi is expected to hold a bill on biden s larger spending package until the end of the month although it is widely expected to be altered and revised in the senate. without manchin s vote, democrats can t pass the package for budget reconciliation. they are threatening to hold up a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal which is expected to happen this week and has passed the senate until the larger package has a vote. in washington right now it is the season of competing leverage. another reported sticking point in the interparty negotiations has to do with the future of the affordable care act and wheth ....
ana geardadas filling in for the one and only ali velshi. we re live in new york where members of the u.n. are arriing in a few hours. in a little over 24 hours, president biden is set to travel here for the first united nations assembly of his president. could be a contentious few days. in addition to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, which is once again taking the lives of more than 2,000 americans per day, this year s general assembly comes just weeks after the calamitous u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. and days after the biden administration admitted, calling it a, quote, mistake, that a recent drone strike in afghanistan intended for isis-k members killed zero terrorists, but instead, ten innocent civilians, including seven children. things also remain contentious on capitol hill. if you want to get a sense of what s at stake in the days and weeks ahead, the new york times sums it up pretty well with this headline this morning. quote, biden s entire presidential a ....
ways. we just seem to have lost the ability to dialogue and to reason, and to do it in a way that s respectful and thoughtful, inside of politics. on monday, the democrats plan to pay for the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that came into focus. the house ways and means committee announced tax hikes that would amount to nearly $2.1 trillion in increased revenues. but left unscathed, the vast fortunes of the megarich, like mark zuckerberg and elon musk. perhaps that s why congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez struck such a chord with the fashion statement heard round the world at one of the most opulent events of the year. and to aoc s credit, just a few days later, president biden seemed to echo her sentiments. people with tens of millions of dollars. they play by a different set of rules. where is it written with all the tax breaks in the american tax code go to corporations at the very top. i think it s enough. i m tired of it. meanwhile, as democrats plow fu ....
good day everyone. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with president biden s 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. we re taking on the pharmaceutical industry, we re 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. we re taking on the health care industry. does not want to expand medicare. ....