From former f. D. A. Director scott got leeb saying pfizer may be on a faster path for finishing their work on vaccine for kids ages 511 and even the 25 age group. Guest absolutely. And that is certainly our hope. We know that covid while its g pacting children perhaps less than older adults from an infectious Disease Risk could be very serious in kids. Its important for us to have all the tools to make sure we protect our children. We know kids less than 12 dont have access to a vaccine and the sooner we can have that the better. Host in the absence of vaccines for many kids your organization has come forth with the guidance for Schools Tor having kids back in schools that calls for all eligible people to be vaccinated to get the covid19 vaccine. All students 2 and older and School Staff should wear face masks at school and all policy conversations should start with the goal of keeping students safe and physically present in school. As the year gets under way, what are your hopes abou
Good morning. It is monday, august 30, 20 21 Washington Journal. Welcome to Washington Journal. With that deadline less than 20 four hours away, we open up our phones and hear from you, your thoughts. Do you still support the u. S. Leaving afghanistan . How could the withdrawal have been handled better . Implications or concerns of the u. S. Leaving afghanistan, and more. Here are the numbers. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents and others, 202 7488002. For an afghan War Vet, the line is 202 7488003. We welcome your input. That is the same Line Anyone can use to send us a text, tell us your name and where youre from. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan we welcome your posts on twitter or instagram, and that is cspanwj. We also heard from biden officials and others on the sunday shows yesterday. This is some background on the attack last week in kabul. This is just published this morning at politico. Com. Pentagon prepares for Mass Casualty Attack at Kabul Airpor
Briefing to get underway with secretary of state antony blinken. He is about to take questions about the withdrawal of u. S. Military forces from afghanistan. All u. S. Military service members are now out of afghanistan. The general thing i can say that with 100 certainty. We are planning to bring you coverage at 6 00 from mississippi. The governor talking about hurricane ida. Here is a portion of this Morning Cost this mornings washington journal. Washington journal continues. Host our next guest is dr. Lee Sabio President of american academy of pediatrics. Welcome to washington journal. Guest thank you for having us here. Host how many pediatricians to you represent, your organization, and what is its mission . Guest the american academy of pediatrics represents over 67,000 pediatricians and our mission is to support the health and well being of all children. Host youre joining us this morning after News Yesterday some positive news on the Vaccine Front for kids at least from former
Writing is Sports Columnist Christine brennan, the ones postpone, much discussed, longawaited, olympics are finally upon us. They did not begin until fridays opening ceremony but we already know they will forever be known as the covid olympics. The other story is kind of where we began yesterday, the decision by Nancy Pelosi to prohibit two republican members on the select committee for the january 6 investigation, jim banks and jim jordan. The republican leader pulling all five republicans from the panel. The one remaining republican is liz cheney. The headline from the washington times this morning, Pelosi Trump obsessed republicans will derail the january 6 to probe. A tweet here from politico, Speaker Pelosi is weighing new ways to beef up the bipartisan credibility of the january 6 pro after mccarthy and republicans walked out on it. She is considering adding Adam Kinzinger and hiring the republican as an outside advisor. Heres what she had to say yesterday. Speaker pelosi the sel
Pete welcome to fox and friends on the Sunday Mornings, our nations anthem, played beautifully by the Navy Band i believe. Rachel very good. People we represent. Pete look who is here represent the texas seat, Lawrence Jones. Lawrence will put in his contract who replaced him had to be a texan. Rachel if i was from any other state it would be texas. Lawrence we got your back. Pete im glad to be here with you. Im supposed to be in tampa at Turning Point. I spent seven hours at the Airport Yesterday with my seven kids and beautiful wife and never made it out because of the weather. Rachel what do you to with seven kids when youre in an airport for seven hours. What happens. Pete send a lot of time eating a big thing. We through a football around. One of my sons brought one. We did a Family Wall sitcomtics. Lawrence getting them ready. Pete we were scraping the bottom of the barrel. It was delay, delay. Never made it out. You saw the graphic. Im down there at the Student Summit. There wil