authorization. moderna s up next. then j&j. this afternoon, president biden had a blunt message for the unvaccinated. if you re one of the millions of americans who said that they will not get the shot until it has full and final approval of the fda, it has now happened. the moment you ve been waiting for is here. it s time for you to go get your vaccination and get it today. if you re a business leader, a nonprofit leader, a state or local leader who has been waiting for full fda approval to require vaccinations, i call on you now to do that. require it. medical experts are also weighing in, as you might imagine, saying this is a critical vote of confidence that points to the vaccine s safety. the full approval process means that this vaccine now has checked every box and dotted every i and crossed every t that every other fully approved vaccine has done. the fda is the gold standard in the world in terms of a regulatory body. there s no other national regulatory a
local leader, who has been waiting for a full after the approval in vaccinations, and calling you now to do that recovering. but nickel experts are now weighing in as you might imagine, saying it s a critical vote of effort that puts points to vaccine safety. the full approval process says this vaccine now has checked every box and dotted every i and crossed every t that any other fully approved vaccine has done. food drug administration is the gold standard in the world in terms of regulatory body. there is no other national regulatory authority that matches the fta. according to nbc news count total cases in the u.s. is 38 million. more vaccine monitor going into effect. earlier today, the largest school system announced its own rules and all teachers and staff in the new york city public school system must have at least one dose and then by september 27. the pentagon is also preparing to send specific vaccination guidelines to over 1 million active duty service mem
a major league team leading to swift reaction this weekend. plus, next hour, some trump bombshells. i will talk to one of the authors of the new book i alone can fix it about his interview with donald trump and what it says about the former president s plans for, yep, 2024. we are going to begin though in washington where despite failing a test vote earlier this week senate democrats and republicans say they hope to release and push ahead with their bipartisan infrastructure bill as soon as monday. we ve heard that before. let s bring in sahil kapur. there are so many deadlines that have come and gone before but here we are wondering if it will be pushed across the finish like. you have senate negotiators not necessarily releasing details. talk to us about what we know about any final sticking points being worked on to get it past the finish line hopefully, or begin to get past the finish line i should say on monday. reporter: yasmin, infrastructure week increasingly fe
how much will the plan s popularity help get it through the senate? also, the prosecution in derek chauvin s murder trial will soon rest its case. how will the defense present its side? we ll have a live update from minneapolis. and former congresswoman katie hill joins us. she resigned over allegations of inappropriate relationships with a campaign staffer. we ll discuss a privacy lawsuit she just lost and why congressman matt gaetz is trying to involve here in his situation. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua jonls welcome to the week. let s do some quick word association. first thing that pops into your head. ready? infrastructure. whatever you thought of, it s part of the congressional debate over president biden s multi-trillion dollar plan. right now it seems different things are popping into each party s heads, and that could complicate things. republican lawmakers are thinking of roads and bridges. democrats in the white house are thinkin
when it s a complex program, latest essay in the atlantic, the fourth surge is upon us. this time it s different. i ll ask her why. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. the steel industry was once so important to birmingham, alabama, that the suburb now at the heart of the amazon union fight is named after henry bessem rechlt. the city of bessemer, alabama, thrived until steel jobs until, well, it didn t. until the plant closed and all those jobs moved out or were shipped overseas mostly to china. today the biggest employer in town is a small mom and pop retailer called amazon. what is essentially a warehouse to, quote, fulfill orders for the internet giant. and where any day now, history could be made if the bessemer location votes in favor of negotiating to form a union, which would be the first american branch of amazon to possibly unionize. maybe many americans don t realize, but amazon workers in continental europe have long been laborized. strong labor unions haven t pushed