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
remains of 22-year-old gabby petito in northern wyoming. an autopsy to confirm her identity is scheduled. the cause of death still unknown. sad developments there. there is a lot happening this morning. kristen holmes has more on the vaccine news, trials for children. kristen, tell us what the data shows here, because i know a lot of parents are watching. good morning, jim and erica. we cannot stress what a big deal this is. it s something we ve been waiting for, the first vaccine data for this 5 to 11 age group that we ve seen yet. now in addition to showing that the vaccine is safe, it also showed that it generated a robust immune response. the company says there were no instances of myocarditis, which is heart inflammation that has been linked to some mrna vaccines. all positive news here. while it has not been peer reviewed or published yet, this is the first step of getting these shots into children s arms and in fact, the fda, excuse me, pfizer says they are going
negotiation space, something is happening behind the scenes that is helping some people get through, can you talk about that too to some extend? i know the most senior commanders on the ground are out and discussing with the taliban leaders that are manning the check points, what they need to look like, the details of that. as we know there are reports that some that are not able to get through there. i can tell you that the department of state, the consoler affair officers there are working there to ensure that documentation, names, and those things, as often as required, are at the check points allowing transition in there to get into the gates. and on the contingency plans, i m not going to get ahead of the planning process, one of our main job social security to make sure that the president has options. he wants to see this mission complete by the end of the month. we re still working towards that goal, but question will be drafting up potential drafts and sequels for w
specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers and i would like to go back to the deadline, the french authorities said today that it is necessary to continue the evacuations beyond this. we cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this shooting incident last night. i think as you saw central command referred to it as a hostile actor, and it just happened. so i don t know when we ll have more forensics on this. again our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. it was maintained. sadly it resulted in a loss of a life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. that is our focus right now. the goal is to get as many people out as fast as possible. while we re glad to see the numbers we got yesterday, we re not going to rest. the focus is on trying to do this the best we can by the end of the month. f we need to have an additional conversation with the commander and chief about that timeline, he will do that, but we re not at