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 in the united
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 leadership is betting the
My voice? that is huge for parents and for kids who are going back to school and pfizer is hopeful the vaccine will be available very soon. We intend to submit the data by the end of the month and then, of course, it will be up to the fda to review that data and determine whether the screen can be released for broad use. We hope that that will go expeditiously. And this pfizer news comes amid new questions about booster shots. Remember, it was this week the biden administration said they would start giving boosters to everyone, but now an fda panel has put the brakes on that idea and the question now is what do we do next? i want to dig deeper into all of this and bring in cnbc s senior health and science reporter meg tirrell, nbc s gabe gutierrez in spokane, washington, and dr. Kavita patel former policy director of the obama white house. Meg, give us the school on the pfizer vaccine. You can hear how excited i am. What is the timeline for when we can actually get our kids these shots
Vaccine booster shot for people under 65 by a vote of 162, against the booster. Even though joe had already written the check for all of those shots. And biden s bad week didn t end there. Late today his pentagon had to admit it made a grave mistake by draw droning the wrong guy in afghanistan. Are after thoroughly reviewing the findings of the investigation and analysis by interagency partners i m now convinced as many as 10 civilians including up to seven children were tragically killed in that strike. Lawrence: that s right. Instead of hitting the isis target we killed a u. S. Aide worker and seven innocent children. So much for the supposed superiority of our overthehorizon technology. Things are so bad for biden today even the french jumped ship. Our former ally and recalled its ambassadors of the united states over the deal biden cut with the u. K. But, perhaps the worst of all the crises that continue to unfold at this hour is the one on the southern border. Where shocking foota
I guess nicki minaj is making a lot of people angry this week all because of a tweet she posted expressing skepticism over the covid vaccine. The fact that she simply told people to do their own research made likely ally to tucker carlson and millimeter number one to the supposed black thought leaders in the mainstream media. This is not the woman you want to get your information from. [laughter] she is a wonderful girl. She makes great music. I would not take any advice from her about getting a shot. You have a platform, sister, that is 22 million followers. Okay? i have 2 million followers. You have 22 million followers on twitter. For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives, my god, sister, you can do better than that oh my god, as a fan, as a hip hop fan, as somebody who is your fan? i m so sad that you did that. So sad that you did that, sister. Oh my god. Lawrence: do you hear that, sister? you know better, stay in your l