defamation lawsuit against fox news brought by dominion voting systems. today judge eric davis asked the pool of prospects a number of questions, things like whether they watched fox news, for instance, or whether they have ever volunteered as poll watchers now once selected, the final group of jurors will be tasked with deciding whether or not fox news acted with actual malice in the aftermath of the 2020 election when fox news aired false statements about election interference thanks to the result of a pre-trial hearing, the falsity of those claims, those claims about election fraud, those conspiracies about hugo chavez and the machines flipping results of the election are a given. judge has already ruled on that. they are presumed false. such spur yious claims will notb debated before the jury. we have now in our possession the newly uncovered recordings, the source of all that upheaval which shook yesterday s hearing with the judge we told you about that when we came on t
door fast. nbc s exclusive sit-down with the treasury secretary on when the money will hit accounts and criticisms the package is just too big. are you spending too much? i don t believe we ve overshot the mark. plus, what we know about that new accelerated vaccine timeline. can the white house keep promises made in the president s prime time address? and can cities and states keep up? i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday morning, nbc s monica alba and kristen welker are at the white house, we re joined by dr. joshua sharpstein. ellison barber is with us as well. kristen, look ahead to what we can expect at the rose garden and next week across the country as it appears important to the white house, the president, his aides and advisers they get out and sell this package that just passed. reporter: that s the keyword, hallie, sell. that is what we are going to see from president biden and vice president harris. he s going to hold a signing ceremony for that
mifepristone, a medication approved by the fda over two decades ago that s been used by over 5 million women in the united states to safely and effectively terminate a pregnancy, as well as other clinical indications so mifepristone is also used to treat miscarriage, which by the way is highly common over 30% of pregnancies end in miscarriage. it s also used to treat high blood pressure and cushing s syndrome i want to make sure your audience, nicole, understands is fda approval is based on extensive research and review of scientific studies and unanimous support of independent experts and as dr. joshua sharpstein pointed out, mifepristone retains 22 years after its initial approval the support of multiple major professional and medical organizations. so this is a big deal. it s going to be a major problem
happened last winter that by the time we hit no later than mid-february we ll see a decline and it will come down again and we ll see where we are next win thor when there s more population immunity. it seems the answer is obvious to how to get out of it. we re not going to boost our way out of this pandemic or test our way out of this pandemic. can only vaccinate and until we get the 80 million or so people to not get at vaccine we ll be in trouble and most of the people the group that s least likely to be vaccinated are people under 30 so we need to get young people vaccinated. there has been some confusion over sort of those who are supposed to be guiding us through this pandemic and what s happening in terms of the administration s messaging, former deputy fda commissioner dr. joshua sharpstein has a new op-ed detailing how the cdc and fda can work better together and also in communicating with the