insightful. we ll do a lot better than that today. bill: we pay you for that. dana: i promise it will be better today. the contest between mccauliffe and youngkin is in its final week. president biden joins mccauliffe tonight. some worry his low approval rating could be a drag on the ticket. bill: new poll from usa today showing the candidates at dead even in a state the president won less than a year ago by double digits. dana: newt gingrich will join us in a moment. but first we go to arlington, virginia. in that same poll 5% of voters are still undecided. before the candidates can try to sway them they have to convince their own base to show up on election day to get out the vote tour bus is continuing on. tonight mccauliffe will return to northern virginia. president biden will rally on his behalf. he is running against glenn youngkin. both made stops in virginia beach yesterday. biden easily won the northern counties last year. approval rating has taken a dive
massive bills across the finish line. a live report from the site of the president s appearance as you look there live shortly. we will discuss the president s problems both at home and abroad with republican senator tom cotton here in studio in a few minutes. correspondent rich edson starts us off with the very latest from the north lawn. good evening, rich. good evening, bret. senate democrats say they have reached a compromise corporate tax bill one they say would hit the top 200 hundreds of billions of dollars over the next next decade and helped save president biden special spending plan. we know that we are close to a deal being signed. and let mable explicitly clear, our footprint and fingerprint are on this deal. senior democrats from several congressional groups meet with president biden to shape a multitrillion dollars social spending plan. moderate democrats are also meeting with the president. i said mr. president, i don t know what happened this cannot ha
the northeast pushing hard for the plan which continues to undergo late changes. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight on the north lawn, good evening, jackie. good evening to you, bret. on his way to new jersey, to promote his plan, the president said that a deal could get done ahead of his foreign trip by the grace of god and with the goodwill of neighbors. but, he is putting hits foot on the gas with hopes can come together in just degree days. three days. these bills are not left vs. right or leading the world or continuing to let the world pass us by. president biden in new jersey spending plan still as democrats have not settled on proposed programs and ways to pay for it have fluff support to pass. the frenzy of activity up against the clock just days before the president meets with foreign leaders in italy and scotland where he hopes it have a legislative achievement in his back pocket. do you want a deal by the time you leave fo
whose testimonies may be the culmination of weeks of bad press. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site and they ll click on less ads and make less money. it s subsidizing and paying for its profit with our safety. and doing it legally. if you thought the answer is as simple as pulling the plug on facebook, the world just found out how hard it could be. the platform went down for more than five hours. that s 3.5 billion users losing access from facebook. if you had any doubt about how essential facebook had become to our daily life. we got a real life example. let s bring in our jake ward and garrett headache and cheryl frankel. inside facebook, battle for domination. let s start with the shutdown. it was a crazy reminder of how dependant we are on facebook. it looks a whole lot more than a utility than a social media company. how much does yesterday s shutdown reenforced call which to break this company
the pharmaceutical giant merck announcing results just moments ago from its experimental trials into the first oral anti viral pill to treat covid. . this is a big deal. this isn t instead of a vaccine. vaccines are still the most important thing here. but this is something that has been missing. the pill, according to merck, cuts the risk of hospitalization and death in half if you get covid. they plan to apply for fda emergency use authorization as soon as possible. let s get some understanding on this. we want to bring in dr. peter hotez from baylor college of medicine. dr. hotez, as i said, this is not better than a vaccine. the vaccines are still the most important thing here. but this is what has been missing. explain what s going on here. yeah. so, john, you re absolutely right. so what happens is if you the pill is given twice a day for five days and seems to cut the risk of dying or hospitalization by half. it s not a huge study. i think it was under 1,000 pati