presidential stage to show people he is getting the booster, urging others to get vaccinated if they have not been vaccinated so far and taking some questions on what we started this show about. right? that megadeadline coming up for members of congress to avert a government shutdown, so suspend or raise the u.s. debt ceiling and to get done some of this legislation that is critical to president biden s agenda i want to bring back in nbc s shannon, who is with us outside the white house. also joining us is the director of infectious disease and research policy at the university of minnesota. thank you both for joining us. i want to get to shannon in a second on what we heard from the president on the sort of congressional back and forth he s saying he s got meetings tonight. he s got meetings tomorrow interestingly, he seemed to fudge some of the timeline or at least suggest that the timeline is actually on a longer lead than members of congress and house leadership have suggested. but
distrust on both sides of the democratic party and distrust from the republican party. they think the president can step in here and help bridge the divides. we have not seen a really hands on approach from the president up until this point, though. i think part of that has been strategic. they have wanted to leave it to pelosi and schumer shannon, here he comes. we re going to listen in to president biden about to get his booster shot in the old days me either. anyway, like i did in my first and second covid-19 vaccination shot, about to get my booster shot and do it publicly. that s because the food and drug administration, the fda, the center for disease control and prevention, the cdc, looked at all the data, completed the review, and determined the boosters for the pfizer vaccine, others will come later maybe, i assume, but the pfizer vaccine are safe and effective they have all the data they need and last week they laid out who
month. of course, there is a hard deadline on the funding of the government, and that s a real deadline. yeah. there s a real deadline there in the mix, but the president giving wiggle room, and also indicating he might not think they ve necessarily got the votes right now or in the next 48 or 72 hours shannon, thank you. again, doctor, thank you as well up next, we ll dive more into what debbie dingell describes as a legislative week from hell with the congresswoman herself. she joins us next. you re watching meet the press daily e from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. woooooooooooooo. we are not getting you a helicopter. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what s possible with rybelsus®. you are my sunshine my only sunshine. rybelsus® is a pill that lowers blood sugar in three ways. increases insulin when you need it.
how many of those kids will actually get vaccinated? so this comes back to the very issue of just first doses to begin with if we see the public not getting their kids vaccinated, we ll continue to see real challenges in kids unlike we ve seen any other time in the pandemic the delta virus has changed the challenge of this illness in kids doctor, thank you shannon, quickly before we go, your take on what we heard from president biden as it relates to those congressional pieces in play he has meetings he says tonight and tomorrow and then he talked about how maybe he s looking past the end of this week he d like it to be done by tend of the week maybe given more time on the deadline house leadership has set. in washington everybody sets artificial deadlines so the president kind of seeming to lean back on that and say it s good to have a deadline to get things done, but if we re still talking, if we re still moving toward a resolution, it s fine if it goes another week or