phil mattingly will join us now. so, phil, president biden continues to give pushback, for the price tag of these plans. he continues to press ahead anyway. what is he going to say today? reporter: obviously the debate is ongoing, and nascent stages when it comes to the $4 thrill onin infrastructure and economic proposals he s put on the table for his agenda. today is about looking into. there s a reason it applies. as victor was noting, this is about a new program that rolled out on monday. it was part of the $is.9 trillion relief package signed into law a few months ago, about $28.6 billion for the industry that was cratered. more than $22 billion revenue lost due to the pandemic. this was specifically tailored for the restaurant. the response has been more than 186,000 applications in its first two days since opening. obviously the president wants to highlight that and the implementation of what is up to now its cornerstone achievement, but there s a broader purpose as
mean any moment. we will interrupt when we see the president and bring it to you live. we re also following two explosive fights blowing wide open today, both with a battle over donald trump s big lie at their core. one, the internal republican civil war. on the surface it is about the growing effort to oust liz cheney from her leadership position, but it is also about so much more. the dean of the washington press corps, dan balz, writes, it is a sign of political cowardice. while shocking, it is not surprising for a party that has lost its way. the majority of republican lawmakers appear to have stopped believing in truth or lack the courage to speak the truth. cheney is not among them. more on that in just a moment. the other big fight over donald trump s big lie is today s decision by facebook s oversight board to uphold for now facebook s decision to ban donald trump from its platform. the board has found that the suspension of former president trump was necessary
johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas, msnbc contributor, victoria dee francesco soto. good to have you all this morning. it s good to have everybody here. willie geist, i liked that governor justice, man. that guy knows you know, my parents used to say, if i actually studied, they d let me have dinner. he s doing sort of the same thing. get a vaccine, i ll give you 100 bucks. your meals were contingent on studying. also, sucker for a guy with a whiteboard. just getting some ideas up there, seeing what sticks. a hundred bucks if you re 16 to 35 in west virginia. whatever it takes, i guess, if the money s there. i think it will stick. the best part is, he s always sitting down. i hear in his last 20 years in governor, chairman mao would sit by the pool with a phone and order people around. he never left poolside. that s of course in pursuit of evil. here we have a guy, he s like, okay, i got an important thing to say. i m not standing up. he jus
warning label on there particularly as it relates to receiving the vaccine among particularly certain age groups or women who may have low platelet counts. the question now and you can ask dr. fauci about this will be how they reintroduce it amid vaccine confidence questions. polling shows, eamon, overall vaccine confidence remains high. however, the question is how they message around this particular vaccine given this extended pause. luckily for us we ll be able to pose that question. thank you. i m joined now by dr. anthony fauci, chief medical advisor to president biden and director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. let s begin there with what my colleague was talking about, the j&j vaccine. on that subject on sunday you said there would be a, quote, resumption in some form by friday. do you still feel that way after the first hours of this cdc meeting? yes, i believe they re going to make a decision today. exactly what happens after that,
ellen degeneres says her long running talk show is to end. hello and welcome. the un has expressed fears of a full scale war as the deadly conflictbetween israeli forces and palestinians continued for a third day. israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, warned palestinian militants that this wasjust the beginning threatening to strike with blows they haven t dreamed of. in the last few hours president biden said he had spoken to mr netanyahu and said he hoped the violence would end sooner rather than later. 67 palestinians and seven israelis have been killed since the latest flare up in violence began. our middle east correspondent tom bateman, begins our coverage, you may find some scenes in his report disturbing. the world s asking if the region is on the brink of war. people who woke to this feel it s already here. palestinians in gaza faced the fiercest israeli bombardment since the last all out conflict. israel says it s going after militant leaders. some were k