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if you take climate change into consideration, that s the kind of money we need. we ve already made a significant compromise. we ll also get a look inside at where things stand with wisconsin democratic congressman mark pocan who met with the president yesterday. also the fda could finally authorize a booster shot for those under 65. but we don t know yet. there s a special u.s. envoy for haiti who has resigned over sending haitians back to their homeland, and we ll talk with dateline s keith morrison about what the intense interest of gabby petito s disappearance tells us about america s obsession with crime. let s start this hour with the fight against the pandemic. right now it s up to a cdc panel to decide who falls with the risk category to be eligible for a booster shot. that decision could come as early as today. jeff last night the fda authorized the booster shot of pfizer s covid shot to those 65 and older and those other adults with compromised immun ....
6 million jobs, wipe out $15 trillion in household wealth. nearly doubling the unemployment rate to 9%, and increase borrowing costs for all americans. it would be a catastrophe, and that s don t take it from me. let me quote mitch mcconnell when this came up during the donald trump years. mitch mcconnell said the following. he said much mcconnell stated that not supporting a debt limit suspension this is what he said. assures that congress will not throw this kind of unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth and thriving economy. when trump was president, they didn t want to throw a wrench, a wrench, unnecessary wrench into the gear of our job growth. today he s threatening to do just that. we are to stop holding the debt and the economy hostage. we ll do ndaa on the floor today. strengthening our security, honoring our service members, upholding our values and today we will have legislation on the security interests that we have in the middle east by putt ....
it always happens the same way. the bluster and who s there and there? at the end of the day we will be unified for the american people. in just a few moments i ll get reaction to the speaker s comments from the leader of the large progressive caucus. she met with the president on wednesday. meanwhile the fda green lighted a pfizer booster for tens of millions of americans over 65 or with high risk health issues or younger pfizer recipients with moderna or johnson & johnson wait for word on when to get their boosters. joining me now is leeann caldwell and peter alexander. first what were the big takeaways from the big conference last hour? reporter: there were a couple. some confusing and more clear. she remains confident that she s going to pull everything together, that the party in the end is going to remain united on not only this bipartisan traditional infrastructure bill, but this partisan human infrastructure bill that is far from complete. she also says that ....
release, gwynn said biden views the a, the on the capitol as a dark stain on our country s history and is deeply committed to ensuring something like that can never happen again. and he supports a thorough investigation. the legal showdown set to ensue between the expresident and president joe biden s white house, if if it proceeds in complying with the committee s document request comes as nbc news is learning that the select committee has just received documents from all seven government agencies from which they have requested information. that s according to a committee aide. the documents requested include a fast s.w.a.t. of records pertaining to the previous administration s plans to discredit the 2020 election result and dismiss the count on january 6th. all this as the committee prepares to dump subpoenas to many people in a matter of days. it could even ensnare republican members of congress believed to have knowledge of donald trump s actions and donald trump s ....
new pressure coming from the january 6th maga riot probe and that pressure is coming directly onto the biden white house which may release information on trump s actions leading up to january 6th. now, for all the talk about norms over those past four years that we lived through what you see here is something a little different. this new congress may push this new president, joe biden, into breaking sort of a norm here. presidents are very protective of their secrecy including the secrecy of other presidents, many presidents know someday if they go on and live normal lives they will end up being ex-presidents and so there s kind of a secrecy pact. but i want to tell you why this is our top story. this is a change and many in washington say it s long overdue and necessary because as with so many things related to donald trump, this feels different. congress has subpoena power to probe an actual insurrection and few presidents would actually seriously argue, indeed maybe ....