(laughter) - your teeth are in. - oh, my gosh. (laughter) thank you! (laughter) (inspirational music) - [john] thanks to clear choice, i actually see the old lori, just the real you. - they're like, "your smile looks great." i'm just excited and i think they see a totally different person in me. (laughter) it's a second chance. - how incredible to see so much, her demeanor, her energy, her smile is transformed. dr. adams, what stops people from taking care of chronic dental issues? - lisa, it's not that they've stopped. many of them have been dealing with these issues for years and years and years. it's exhausting. it can wear you down. also, they just start running out of options. they've tried many, many things.

none of it has worked. they become hopeless and they become resigned to just living with these issues. - this is obviously a very personal decision. - mhmm. - and i would think that cost is a factor. - prioritizing these costs is always a factor. there are always children that have to be taken care of. there are elderly parents that might need care. these people with these dental issues also have really big hearts, and many of them are focused on taking care of other people. - that is a really great point, but i think ultimately, it's an investment in your own health, and that totally affects your ability to help your loved ones. - absolutely, it is. it's about you. (inspirational music) - if you've got these or other questions, you don't have to wait. visit the website or call the number on your screen. take that no obligation first step towards a brand new future. truly, reaching out may jumpstart the rest of your life. (applause)

next up on smile healthy, it's your turn. find out why now is the right time to change your life with clear choice and meet more patients whose quality of life has improved dramatically with dental implants. (inspirational music) we'll be right back. - every time i smiled, i had to cover my mouth because i was so ashamed. when the dentures slipped, i would have to excuse myself and go to the restroom virtually in tears. it kept me from being able to speak properly. i could not eat corn, apples, baby back ribs. i did not want dentures to be part of my life. i pretty much decided dental implants weren't the route i was going to take. - let's do a head to head comparison of dental implants versus dentures. with dentures, the ability to taste food, to bite and chew is altered. the worst thing about dentures is bone loss. when you put an implant inside the bone, which is like the root of the tooth, then you preserve the bone.

it's a game changer. with implants, you can walk into a restaurant, you order anything you want, you eat just like you have real teeth. - before i knew it, here i was with my brand new teeth. - [narrator] schedule your free consultation today. we'll even talk about financing options. - i can smile, my confidence is back. - [narrator] call clear choice today. - welcome back to smile healthy bay area. i'm lisa singer, back with prosthodontist, dr. mark adams. during the break, we've been discussing more powerful stories of transformation and here's another one for you. - my name is elaine and this is my clear choice story. - here you are, mom, not smiling. - [elaine] oh, yeah, i don't even think my husband knew. i don't think he knew the extent of how bad my teeth were, but oh, they were bad. after he passed away, i knew i had to do something. i moved here because my kids wanted me to be near them. i did a lot of research.

for me, i was not going to go the denture route, and i talked to my daughter and she said, "go for it, you need this." she went with me and encouraged me the whole way. i wish i hadn't of waited so long. i wish that i had done it while my husband was still alive because i think he would've been really proud of me. clear choice changed my life. they've given me back my life. (inspirational music) - throughout this half hour, we've heard truly inspiring stories from regular folks who one day, decided enough was enough and made that first call for the clear choice consultation. for them, the rest is history, but you might still have questions. dr. adams, what do you say to those people who are listening, but just don't know yet if clear choice is the solution they're been looking for? - you'll never know if this is the right choice or not

unless you make that call. we see many patients that have been turned down as difficult cases. please come in. we'll let you know exactly what your options are. with a patient-centered approach, our team is dedicated to building a custom plan for you, and that's to provide you with dental health and a great smile in an environment that's warm and friendly. (inspirational music) - folks, you don't have to take dr. adam's word for it. here are some people who, not so long ago, were in exactly your position, and they're got some encouragement for you. - they brought me in and treated me like a friend. i needed some help. they gave me the light at the end of the tunnel and i could see where i was going. - they understand that your probably scared, and they really know how to put you at ease. i never feared coming here. i feared going to a dentist office. (laughter) - to look at it now, it's absolutely worth every penny.

to know that i can get up and start my day and nothing's going to stop me. (inspirational music) when those folks gave me the mirror and i looked at myself after having my broken, discolored teeth, these tears, just makes you feel good. it just makes you feel good about yourself. clear choice did that for me. (inspirational music) - there isn't many things in life other than getting married and having kids that affect your life so dramatically in one day. - i have more confidence. i can talk to people. i can look them in the eye. i can smile. i haven't been able to smile in a long time. - having great teeth gives you confidence, and when people see you on the street and they stop you and say, "wow, you have a great smile," it does so much to fill your spirits. - i would've done it a long time ago,

had i known about clear choice. - i would really like to get the word out there to a lot of people, because i'm sure i'm not the only one out there that's had this happen to them, and there is a way to be happy again and smile again. ♪ 'cause i think i'm ready ♪ i think i'm more than fine ♪ yeah i know i'm ready - it's been a long time since i've been able to do this. this has helped us to be a better couple. this has helped us to be more in love. - it gave me back truly my life. - you're beautiful. - i look like a million dollars. - you look beautiful. - they look so good. - they look completely different. ♪ this is my time ♪ yeah this is my time - when you lose something, you really do appreciate it if you can get it back. ♪ this is my time and i got mine back 10 fold. - do this because you want to be the best you and the happiest you

♪ this is my time (applause) - we now know more about the process of dental implants versus dentures and bridges and these stories from actual clear choice patients, across the country are truly remarkable. but, there's also an intangible reward. it comes with finally taking care of your dental issues, of living your best life, and embracing adventure out there. - yes, yes, there's so much at stake. i agree, it's time for the individual to make that hard decision to take care of themselves, to put themselves first, to pick up that phone, or to visit the website and to make an appointment that may change their life. what they can get out of this is a set of teeth, a smile, that looks, feels, and functions like real teeth. - i know, imagine going to your favorite restaurant again or imagine the freedom of laughing without covering your mouth or just imagine the confidence in social situations.

imagine not having to go through that merry-go-round or endless dentist visits that never lead to improvement. - exactly, we know how big of a decision this is. we have a compassionate staff, ready to take your call, to make setting up this appointment as easy as possible. - that is so wonderful. how can people reach you? - we want you to call us. we want you to visit our website, make that appointment. you make that appointment, we'll take it from there. we're here to help you. - dr. adams, thank you so much for your time. - lisa, if we're able to encourage even one person to move forward and take action to change their life, it's all worth it. (applause) - these stories are stunning. to see people who've all but given up realize that change is within reach and to take control of their destiny's, it gives me goosebumps. - maybe these stories are hitting close

to home for you or a loved one. well, you don't have to suffer alone. a no cost, no obligation consultation with your bay area clear choice team is the first step to the life you've been dreaming about. give clear choice bay area a call. give yourself the gift of a healthy smile. i'm lisa singer with dr. mark adams of clear choice dental implant centers. thanks for watching, and never forget the power of smile healthy. (applause) (inspirational music)

- my dental problems started as a child. i had a lot of cavities, root canals, eating anything cold, it would hurt so bad. with dentures, they never fit properly. my confidence was really down. i was always covering my face when i laughed. i went in for a free consultation with clear choice. - people come in with bad teeth or no teeth and in one day, leave with a smile that they are looking for. - [narrator] the clear choice one day approach is making dental implants a reality for people all over the country who suffer from missing or failing teeth. - i've got these beautiful teeth in my mouth and i can eat ice cream, i can eat corn on the cob now. - [narrator] with over 30,000 new smiles across our network, we're lifting spirits and confidence all over america. schedule your free consultation today. we'll even talk about financing options. - i've never felt better than i do right now. it's the best thing i've ever done in my life for myself. thank you clear choice.

- [narrator] call clear choice today.

captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: i'm margaret brennan in washington. and this week on "face the nation," confusion plagues the covid booster rollout, and challenges continue to hobbel the biden

presidency. there are border and immigration problems and unease about his handing of the economy are now taking their toll on america's views of president biden's effectiveness and competence. >> biden: part of it is dealing with the panoply of things were landed on my plate. it is just a reality. >> brennan: now at stake, the center piece of the biden presidency, an economic plan, including the trillion infrastructure bill, plus his domestic extravaganza, 3.5 trillion in new spending, paid for by tax increases for corporations and the wealthiest americans. key votes are expected this week in congress. will the politics within the democratic party threaten the entire biden agenda? on top of that, inflation. millions of americans are still out of work and supply-chain delays due to covid are all slowing the economic recovery. >> biden: i think it is understandable, people

being frustrated, frustrated by i thought this was going to be better. i thought everything was working out? >> brennan: and there is more muddled messaging to clear up when it comes to covid guidance. just hours after the c.d.c. offered pfizer boosters for a limited number of americans, the president gets behind it. >> we'll talk with the centers for disease control, dr. rochelle walensky. then bipartisan asociations on a police reform bill in congress collapse. what went wrong. we'll ask senator tim scott. a leading house progressive washington represent pramila jayapal will also be here. can the president do a better job of handling crises that are avoidable? we'll get some analysis from john dickerson. finally, the internationresint promis a new era oflelelomacy,

we'll talk with scott morrison and turkish prime minister ra recep tayyip erdogan. it's all ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> brennan: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." messy and confusing is how the "wall street journal"'s editorial board characterized the biden administration's booster vaccine plan late last week. but they praised c.d.c. director rochelle walensky for the right outcome. this is a reference to her decision to include frontline workers with a high risk of exposure among those who are now eligible to receive pfizer booster shots. along with adults with underlying conditions and those who are 65 and over. we go now to the c.d.c. director, dr. rochelle walensky. she is in newton, massachusetts. good morning to you. >> good morning, margaret. thanks for having me. >> brennan: so can you explain what made you side

with the f.d.a. in saying people at high risk of exposure should be eligible to get this third dose when you're own advisory committee did not come to that consensus? and exactly who is high risk? >> great. first t metart by 7 million americans who are unvaccinated in this country. and these are people who are 10 times the risk of being hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die. so we have hard work in making sure we get those people vaccinated. but i'm here to talk about boosters, let's get to protecting people to otimize people who have already been vaccinated. there is a scientific process. we have an f.d.a. advisory board meeting, and they provide the regulatory authorization. and then it comes to a c.d.c. advisory meeting, and then i provide those recommendations. there is remarkable consensus in a lot of those discussions. people over the age of 65, people with high-risk

conditions, and where there was some real scientific discussion and a scientific close call was for those people who are at high risk of living -- bf where they live or where they work. and because of that close call, and because of all of the evidence we reviewed at the f.d.a. and the c.d.c., i thought it was appropriate for those people to be eligible for boosters. who are those people? people who live and work in high-risk settings, and i holess shelters, people in group homes, people in prisons. but, also, importantly, are people who work with vulnerable communities. so our health care workers, our teachers, our groceries workers, our public transportation employees. >> brennan: so teachers, does that mean other people living with unvaccinated children should also be considered high risk? does that make parents left leg with unvaccinated kids high risk? >> the recommendations were not intended for that population. it is really for people who are working all of the

time with many different people who might be unvaccinated, might be at high risk, and really the vulnerable occupations like our health care workers, our teachers, our public transportation workers. >> brennan: the category just seems very broad. so i want to get some real-world examples here. should a healthy 20-year-old male who waits tables at a restaurant, for example, go out and get a vaccine, a third dose? >> this is really where we made it possible for people to be eligible, but they really have to identify their own individual risk and their own individual benefit. and i recognize that this is confusing, and we have a lot of resources available with your pharmacist, with your physicians, with your public health departments, and with the c.d.c. so, really, i would try and get a sense from that individual what kind of community, how much are people wearing masks, are there masks in the restaurant, are people generally vaccinated in that community to make a

personal decision if that person needs to be vaccinated. >> brennan: a 40-year-old parent living with unvaccinated kids, not necessarily necessary for them to get booster? >> not yet. we will have more data forthcoming. and, of course, we will be looking at those data on an ongoing basis in realtime and updating those guidances. if that 40-year-old parent doesn't need eligibility for some other reason, i would say it is not time for them to get vaccinated -- ii mean boosted. >> brennan: but when the president says we're probably going to open this in anyway, and you're saying wait and see, there is some confusion. are you going to recommend boosters for the general population? >> i recognize that confusion. right now our recommendation is for these limited people in the population over 65, high-risk workers,

high-risk occupations, as well as high risk by co-morbidities. we are evaluating this science in realtime. we are meeting every several weeks now to evaluate the science. the science may very well show that the rest of the population needs to be boosted, and we will provide those guidances as soon as we have the science to inform them. >> brennan: so for those who didn't come to the consensus that the c.d.c -- to the view that you did, what are the risks they're looking at? what is the risk for that 20-year-old going out and getting a third dose, that booster? >> so that's a great question. as we looked at the risk/benefit profiles of people who have gotten third doses, you have a lot of experience from other countries. israel has vaccinated millions of people now with third doses, and we've actually vaccinated here up to 2.5 million people with third doses. we just don't have as long as a duration of safety

for those third doses. but what i can tell you is so far in the 20,000 people we've looked at, the safety signals are exactly the same as what we have seen for the second dose. and we've vaccinated over 160 million people with mrna vaccines in this country. we have an extraordinary amount of safety data. so some scientists may say we want to wait and see what more safety data come in, whether there is a true benefit to be seen in trials and effectiveness, but there is extraordinary data to demonstrate the safety of these vaccines, and, in fact, that they work. if you're in a high-risk position, i would absolutely recommend you get the booster. >> brennan: when you're talking about the formulation of the vaccine, you're saying that the second and the third dose are the same thing. does that change as the virus continues to mutate? should we all be prepared that we all will need to

go get boosters every single year? >> i want to emphasize that our goal right now is to stay ahead of the virus. we want to boost now so we don't end up in a vulnerable place. but your question is an important one, and it is one we don't necessarily have the answer for yet. we are working to stay ahead of the virus. we will see if we can get the amount of transmission down in this country, and truly around the world, which we are also working to do, and then we are anticipating and hoping we will not have more mutations that will require more boosting in the future. >> brennan: i appreciate at the outset you laid out the bureaucratic process that happens within the government to say yes or no on these vaccines. but we're in the middle of a national health crisis, where trust has been diminished, where chart clarity and communication is so importt. wai rig way to actually get this every day we had a different message on whether to take the booster or not? >> i want to actually

articulate this. this is not the bureaucratic process. this is a scientific process. you have to scientific experts who are talking about -- talking at the f.d.a. advisory committee, and you have to people working their entire career in immunology and vaccinology. it is an important scientific process and dialogue. it has been scrutinized. it has been watched in ways it has never been before, but this has been the process that has held us in good sted, and it is very transparent, and i think it is important for people to understand and watch the science so they have confidence. >> brennan: you said back in march you had a feeling of impending doom. you took a lot of flack for saying it in those terms. but we were in the middle

of the delta surge. how do you feel now? >> look, you look at states around this country, and you see places that are using crisis standards of care. that is not -- and that means that we are talking about who is going to get a ventilator, who is going to get an i.c.u. bed. those are not easy discussions to have, and that is not a place we want our health care system to ever be. >> brennan: is that what you meant when you said impending doom, what you're seeing now, crisis levels of care? >> in some states, yes, they are running out of beds. and when you see that, you worry that people may not be able to come in and get the proper care if they have a motor vehicle accident or if they're having a heart attack. and that is why we are working so hard in areas that have high levels of disease, where they can't -- where their health care systems are in dire straits, that working to get assistance to them,

working to get those communities vaccinated, because as i noted, people who are not vaccinated are 10 times more likely to be in the hospital. our hospitals are filled with unvaccinated people. >> brennan: infections among children five to 11 are at the highest they've ever seen on a weekly basis, according to your agency's data. are schools vectors of transmission? is this where kids are getting sick? >> our science has demonstrated that the disease generally comes in from the community, and when schools are practicing the proper mitigation and prevention strategies, it is not where the transmission is actually happening. just this week we had two studies published. over 96% of the schools in this school year have been able to remain open. and we also published a study out of arizona, which demonstrated that places that had no masks in place were three times

more likely to have outbreaks than those who did have masks. we know how to keep them safe. when we don't use the proper mitigation, they're more likely to have outbreaks. >> brennan: should kids go trick-or-treating on halloween? is it safe? >> oh, gosh, i certainly hope so. if you're able to be outdoors, absolutely. limit crowds. i wouldn't necessarily go to a crowded halloween party. i think we should be able to let our kids go trick-or-treating in small groups, and i hope that we can do that this year. before i go, if you're not vaccinated, please get vaccinated. if you're eligible for a booster, go get your boost. >> brennan: doctor, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you so much. >> brennan: we'll be back in a moment. stay with us.

[slow electronic notes fade in] [fast upbeat music begins] [music stops] and release. [deep exhale] [fast upbeat music resumes] [music stops] >> brennan: a top agenda item for president biden, the bipartisan push for police reform following the killing of george

floyd collapsed last week when it ended talks with republicans. president biden laid the blame on republicans, saying they rejected enacting modest reforms, which even the previous president had supported. we spoke earlier with the top russian negotiator, south carolina senator tim scott. what happened? this country was supposed to be at a moment of reckoning at the relationship between police and the black community. why did you miss the moment? >> i'm not sure why they missed the moment. i have been at this table twice already. they've walked away twice. they did it a year ago and -- >> brennan: you're blaming democrats for the failure of police reform? >> we should ask ourselves how did we get there at all. it is the big, blue cities where they have failed to pass policies to protect their most vulnerable communities. minneapolis, los angeles, cleveland, portland, seattle. this problem came to the federal government because of the failure of blue mayors and liberal city council members. so what we decided to do

was to stay at the table and look for common ground. we found common ground. we found common grounds on military equipment, on chokeholds, on providing ptsd mental health. we found common ground on a number of areas. instead of moving forward on the areas where we were in agreement, they simply walked away. >> brennan: you just detailed all those points of agreement. >> yes. >> brennan: senator cory booker, who was your partner in this -- this started under the trump administration and continued under the biden administration. with republicans it went nowhere, and then with democrats it is going nowhere. >> the folks that left the tail are the democrats, let's be clear. we said, simply this: i am not going to participate in reducing funding for the police after we saw major city after major city defund the police. many provisions in this bill that he wanted me to agree to limited or reduced funding for the police. that is a