we could be just days away from seeing a third covid-19 vaccine approved for emergency use in the u.s. the food & drug administration says johnson & johnson s vaccine is safe and effective. now an advisory committee will meet friday to make a recommendation but even as vaccinations ramp up and cases decline, we re still reminded of the enormous human toll of this pandemic. california has just become the first state to surpass 50,000 deaths from covid-19. cnn s marra walker has more. reporter: a third vaccine on the horizon in the u.s. we will waste no time getting this life saving vaccine into the arms of americans. reporter: the food & drug administration announcing the johnson & johnson vaccine meets requirements for emergency use authorization which could come as early as friday. the white house covid task force on wednesday saying they ve already started preparing for distribution. if authorized, we are ready to roll this out. if an eua is issued, we will have 3 m
confirmed, she will not become the budget director. we will find places for her to serve that doesn t require senate confirmation. be clear, we will get ne neera tanden confirmed. she will prove her critics wrong. tanden s nomination in limbo because of harsh tweets she wrote when she was head of a progressive group. still, the biden administration pinning their hopes on lisa murkowski. in a world we ve gotten dnum to derogatory tweets. i d like us all to cool that. dan daniellea dpiaz is live. tanden didn t have full throated support even among all democrats. there was a question mark about her experience, whether she was right for the job. the white house got caught flat footed it seems. reporter: that s exactly right. the biden white house has their backs against the wall on neera tanden s confirmation. this comes after even just democrats have said that they don t mow if they ll support her nomination, not even republicans. joe manchin said he s not going to support
led to the january 6th attack on the capitol with key players offering contradictory statements, the question is, how will congress get to the bottom of what happened? and new polling shows a majority of americans, including 60% of republicans, support president biden s covid relief plan. with the bill being so popular, the question is, how exactly do republicans plan to oppose it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early. i am kasie hunt on this thursday, february 25th. we ll start with the news. we are learning more about the security breakdown behind the january 6th attack on the capitol. according to prepared testimony for a house hearing set for today, acting capitol police chie pittman will tell lawmakers that while violence by an extremist group was likely, quote, it did not identify a specific credible threat. on january 6th, pittman was the assistant chief of police for the department that oversees intelligence and coordinates w
biden administration enter the week 6 without a full cabinet. it has been slow going. just nine of the president s nominees have been confirmed, and as of this morning the fate of at least one of them is pang hanging by a thread. i want to bring in garrett haake on capitol hill and eli stokols, white house reporter for the new york times. garrett, let s talk about the nominees. reporter: that nomination is hanging on by a thread. the president should get his tenth cabinet official today, jennifer granhome expected to be confirmed this afternoon as part of the department of energy, and two other nominees moving through. committees this week seem to be on a decent path. deb holland secured the support of joe manchin, iffy leading into this week, and xavier becerra completed his run through two separate committees that are going to have to approve his nomination, he s continuing to make calls but it looks like democrats are lined up behind him. as for tanden, she needs at le
like i was in an episode of jerry springer. the people, they re so much we can do right now. we have to get her kids back in school. they re so much work to be done. john: south carolina senator tim scott joins us in moments. robert wolf is also standing by. sandra: hot team coverage, mike emanuel on the hill, mike tobin and freezing cold chicago. john: peter doocy joining us from the north lawn. good afternoon. it s only been a few weeks since president-elect, at the time, biden promised checks for people who are hurting the covid pandemic. even though that hasn t happened yet, house democrats up the street are beginning to roll out or preparing to roll out a proposal for $3,000 checks for families and need below a certain threshold. that would be $3,000 per year, per child, or a one year payment spread out. i asked the president about this a few minutes ago. the president talked about this on the campaign trail and the importance of credits to help working familie