make the ask, didn t push for this, they didn t commit to this. that s why they re trying to push this vote to tuesday, because if terry mcauliffe loses, there s no way these mod rates vote for this. this recrimination, how concerned are you that it becomes a circular finger-pointing? are you kidding me? if terry mcauliffe loses, it s katy bar the door. it s the deluge. it s a panic button. the last time a democrat lost virginia, we lost 60 seats in the house. 2009. it s going to be a circular pointing squad. you have the white house saying, look, if mcauliffe loses, it s not on us. mcauliffe is saying get in a room and figure this out, and i ve been speaking to virginia voters who are saying they re sick of the intransigence. i ve got to pause it there. that was very lively. we ll pick it up. kristen and i will anchor an election night special on nbc news now and on peacock
to you a year ago, nancy pelosi said we re going to vote on something, it s usually that s done, that s enough. she said it. it didn t happen. president biden delayed his trip. he didn t make the ask, but it was obvious what he was doing. i think it s a different dynamic than speaker pelosi has ever dealt with before, typically has had much bigger margins for error where she could say, oh, i don t need 10, 20 seats. it s a margin of two. she needs every single vote she can get. the progressives, i have to say, they have done an extremely effective job because they ve had one goal and only one goal, we want agreement on the reconciliation package and we ll give you your infrastructure package. because of that it s interesting to understand that because of that, they ve stayed together. it s a reflection of how big they are in terms of their ability cornell, let me ask you this,
first around the u.k. and trying to understand why their numbers remain so high. they didn t recommend or didn t push the vaccine for the 12 to 16-year-old group like we have in this country. i think only 15% of that age group is vaccinated in the u.k. here we push that much harder. when it comes to the younger kids, that s something that the fda advisory committee is going to look at next week, and i m a pediatrician, and i really want to look and see what their analysis says. the company data that were presented today suggest that the vaccine is 91% effective at preventing symptomatic disease. there was no one in that study that had severe illnesses or was hospitalized and thankfully there was no one who died, but it was looking at symptomatic disease that was confirmed with a test. and i want to see what they say. because clearly on the good news front, covid is much less severe in young children. it can cause significant
activity through their offices. and your question, whether we ll get to the bottom of that. at the same time that this is going on in the two committees, we have the select committee in the house. and there s a real question about whether or not they will issue subpoenas to fellow members of congress, and whether or not those can be resisted. there s not a lot of precedent for that. and one way to get to the bottom of this is to have them testify. that s preliminary, first is the question of getting to the truth before the accountability. rosen telling trump, we re doing our job. much of the info you re getting is false. at another point they said, the doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. preet, what could have happened if the dodj was being run by people who didn t push back? there is the prospect of
if the doj was being run by people who didn t push back? there was a prospect of that. some of these notes also indicate that donald trump was trying to replace barr s replacement. so replacement for replacement with someone who is more pliable. i shudder to think what would have happened if the place was run by people who were just prepared to do anything that trump asked them to do and also the white house counsel s office. some of what we ve seen is that don mcgahn, who i think was no hero in lots and lots of ways, the former white house counsel to president trump at the end of the day when asked to do the unthinkable, fire bob mueller, didn t do it. in this case these career professionals didn t do it. i m not saying they should be lauded as heroes necessarily because i think the bare minimum of what s required of someone either at the line level of the doj or at the pinnacle of that department is not to accede to a political candidate s mandate to