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
if you can time the shot right. welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd on a very busy september tuesday. this is going to be a september to remember politically, that s for sure. president biden wrapped up his first address to the u.n. general assembly this morning, questions about america s credibility and leadership on the world stage, at least trying to answer some of those questions. we will bring you more on his address, the reaction to it in just a moment. we want to start here in washington. the president and his democratic allies are facing a tangled web of legislation, urgent deadlines and there s inter party divisions to navigate. it s not hyperbole, it s just a fact that the biden agenda, the progressive vision, infrastructure, future of the democratic party, health of the economy, fate of a government shutdown they have all been intertwined. if you re joe pesci from my cousin vinnie what do you do you want to put on this truck. seems like leaders
this is cnn breaking news. top of the new hour, thanks for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. democrats announcing moments ago they will tie an increase in the debt limit to the government spending bill. this move sets up a looming show down with republicans. for more, let s bring in manu raju and lauren fox on capitol hill. lauren, i want to start with you. walk us through what this decision means and how it will work. essentially democrats are daring republicans to vote against an increase in the debt ceiling. there of course is a looming deadline coming sometime in mid october to raise the country s debt limit for what democrats say is money that they have already borrowed. with republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that debt limit. here democrats are saying if you want
eyes. it s the story of rapid action with ongoing consequences. the desperation in afghanistan today, the withdrawal of american troops, the return to power of the taliban, it all began with a decision immediately after the 9/11 attacks to respond with war. we ll show you through the lens of the nbc news archives how america went from a quiet week in september 2001 to a military footing that would last for 20 years. along the way, we ll hear from a veteran of afghanistan and iraq, now congressman jason crow and we ll ask him the question that used to be almost taboo. was the decision to invade afghanistan made in too much haste? did we rush into war? our story begins on september 10, 2001. when president george w. bush used his fighting words for an altogether peaceful cause against a very different enemy. there are too many of our kids in america who can t read today. maybe not in this school, but around the nation there is just too many. and now it s time to wage war on i
and charles wattton near landry s parents house in north port, florida. charles, let s start with you, good afternoon. charles: hey, good afternoon, mike. the search for gabby patito s girlfriend enters day two and authorities are back to carlton resort where brian is known to frequent trying to find any trace of the 23-year-old who now has been missing for at least 5 days. yesterday authorities called off the search around sunset after coming up with nothing. they had about 50 officers from nearly half a dozen agencies out using drones, k9 s and a tvs to get through tough terrain in search of brian in 25,000-acre nature reserve, but for many in the community the focus is finding gabby patito and the community made that clear at a candlelight vigil to show support for the patito family as they go through what many would say is a parents nightmare. we just think if it was our child we would need the support because emotionally i can t imagine what they re going through. ch