It comes at a critical moment where covid cases among the youngest and most vulnerable are Soaring nationwide. Doctors treating Kids Sick with covid reflecting on this point in the pandemic. Its scary. Its sad. And its exhausting. Its sad that Some in Society have not prioritized children. I thought that was a place where we could all come together. We start with this huge news from pfizer. What it could mean in the fight against the pandemic. Gabe gutierrez has been following the Pfizer Announcement for us. Hes outside a hospital in Spokane Washington where hospitals are turning away patients from Neighboring Idaho. And cases continue to rise among children. And i alSo want to bring in dr. Derek cast. Hes an emergency medical physician. Doctor, always good to have you. Gabe, lets start with you. Pfizer says the data shows the vaccine is safe and effective for children between 5 and 11. What more have we learned . Hey there, craig. Yes, as you said, this is potentially pivotal news for
Americas withdraw from afghanistan. Were waiting for a update from the secretary of defense. We also have new exclusive nbc reporting that another Isis Terror Attack may have been forwards by the taliban one aide says it is absolutely instrumental in saving american lives. Lets get the latest on afghanistan. Courtney, let me start with you. A little less than two hours from now we dpopt here from the charge of defense. You have extraordinary Exclusive Reporting here on the extents that the taliban cooperated with u. S. Forces during the withdrawal . Tell us more. The military was very open that they were cooperating with the taliban there. The u. S. Central command met in doha about two weeks ago, and they discussed the cooperation, how the u. S. Wanted to get americans out and the taliban gave them essentially a coordination on the ground. What we now now is the extent to which that was happening. The State Department would reach out, tend a Text Mess an, and tell them to go to a few
vivek murphy back. he was confirmed by the senate last night. he should be sworn in soon. tonight the senate also confirmed the official who will be vivek murphy s bos, dr. rachel levine was confirmed tonight to be assistant secretary of health. that is a history making appointment. dr. levine is now the first transgender official to be confirmed by the senate, the highest ranking u.s. government official in history. she will be the number two official at hhs. all republicans but two voted against her. susan collins and murkowski voted for her. dr. levine s boss will be the new secretary of health and human resources. no republican 1234er9s voted for him at all but democrats were nevertheless able to confirm him on a party line vote. in order to become health secretary he had to leave his previous job, which was attorney general of the state of california. there had been a bunch of discussion that congressman adam schiff of california, frequent guest on this show. he had such
that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. craig melvin picks up with more news right now. a good monday morning to you. craig melvin here. this morning there are new questions and new restrictions in our pandemic fight, but also thankfully some progress. this morning president biden s newly announced winter covid restrictions are officially in place. the new rules coming as concerns over that omicron variant pushed vaccination rate levels to highs not seen since the spring. we re going to dig into that. plus what dr. fauci said this morning about the u.s. travel bans from africa. president biden also gearing up for a high stakes conversation tomorrow with russia s president, vladimir putin. a likely topic there, russia s deployment of more than 90,000 combat troops to the border with ukraine. we ll break down the possible major points of contention between the two leaders including putin s demand to president biden. als
dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russia s war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in the senate to protect boabortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, we should provide an exception for this. the required exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with this supreme court decision. let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly in madrid. the white house has been carefully sidestepping questions about the filibuster. not anymore. what changed?