garrett? >> i love it. my dog won't even fetch. thank you for watching this hour of "hallie jackson reports." find m @garretthaake. good morning, everybody. there's a series of fast-moving stories we are watching this hour. any minute the white house covid response team will hold a briefing. booster shots or no booster shots? what they are saying about the future of covid vaccinations. in 30 minutes, kyle rittenhouse expected to make his first in-person court appearance. they have brought in extra security. prosecutors saying he shot and killed two people and wounded a third during protests after the police shooting of jacob blake. what will it mean for his trial? we do want to start with

breaking news in the middle east. 16 hours into a cease-fire between israel and hamas. already, a test, just this morning, at the temple moun in jerusalem. in the last couple of hours, clashes broke out between israeli police and palestinian protesters. video showing police clearing protesters. israeli police saying a molotov cocktail was hurled at them. we want to start with the cease-fire. richard engel is in the region on the ground in gaza city. richard? >> reporter: for now, the cease-fire does appear to be holding, since it was announced. there haven't been any rockets fired from the gaza strip into israel and any israeli air strikes on gaza. this is what is left of gaza city. this was the cost of this. you can see behind me one of the tallest buildings -- what was one of the tallest buildings in gaza, offices and apartments,

completely flattened by an israeli air strike. israel didn't just flatten buildings. look across the street. you can see a more precision strike where israel targeted those two apartments. everywhere you look, there is damage. everywhere there is destruction. people are now coming out of their homes to see what they can salvage, to see if it's safe to go back to their homes. there are 2 million people in gaza. throughout the conflict, more than 100,000 of them were living in schools, believing that was the only place where they could find shelter. the question is, does anyone benefit from all of this? was anything achieved at all? it's hard to see how that is possible, that anyone could possibly benefit from this. if there's a winner, it's probably hamas. it is seeing a boost in popularity because it's saying -- many people are believing hamas won this round against israel. even though it was up against a superior military force, it kept

firing rockets right until the very end. those rockets fell on israeli cities and killed at least 13 israelis. in israel, a very different perspective. benjamin netanyahu said israel won this. it's not even a contest. israel achieved all of its military objectives. it set back hamas year and did it without having to put troops on the ground and get involved in a long and potentially costly ground war. the real issue, after all of this with both sides claiming victory, the real lingering question is, will it happen again? will the cease-fire happen again or will the cease-fire hold? it seems like it's holding now. israelis and palestinians are totally convinced that this is just temporary, that maybe it's in a month, a year or maybe longer than that, but there will be more violence. the root causes of this issue have not been addressed.

>> richard engel, thank you. i want to turn to monica alba who is at the white house. great to see you. thanks for joining us. let's talk diplomacy. i want to talk about humanitarian aid. starting with diplomacy. the president essentially calling his diplomatic approach quiet and relentless. we know the secretary of state is traveling to the middle east to meet with israeli and palestinian and regional counterparts. tell us what we know about the president's role in really maneuvering this conflict over the last 11 days. >> reporter: we are getting new details. our team reporting that really the president was quite heavily involved. it was very much a behind of scenes effort, a very subtle diplomatic dance. that was completely by design. we are learning now that really many around the president felt these lessoned learned from the conflict in 2014 when the fighting stretched for more than 50 days and that the national security team made clear to the

israelis that they would not be okay with that and that there was all of this communication, but it did happen as the president said in a more quiet and relentless way. we did see the volume there go up ever so slowly. we did see that kind of ratchet up amid a lot of pressure from the president within his own party to do more. we are learning here that the president was very motivated to end the violence as quickly as possible so he could turn back to his domestic agenda. this is his first real foreign policy test. what's notable and interesting here is that they had more than 80 calls, the biden administration, six with the israeli prime minister. yesterday was the first news of a call with the president of equip, a key stakeholder in the region. on that front, we are told by a senior administration official, they are optimistic at this point it will hold, even though it's incredibly fragile.

>> let's play a little bit of the president from last night talking about the aid to gaza. >> we remain committed to work with the united nations and other international stakeholders to provide rapid humanitarian assistance. we will do this in full partnership with the palestinian authority. not hamas, the authority. >> that last point was interesting. humanitarian aid and specifically the reconstruction of gaza, it has fallen flat before, especially after the 2014 conflict. in part because of the views of hamas leadership. you heard richard's reporting. hamas believing they won this. israel also believing they won. how do they hope to get it right this time and get aid to the palestinians that desperately need it? >> reporter: it's going to be a main focus of second blinken's trip to the region. the state department underscoring the recovery

efforts will be front and center. when he has the conversations, the aid aspect is something that's critical, according to the white house, also, which as you saw, the president says is a priority. the u.s. does want to work with the u.n. and world food program to get basic things to people on the ground. food, water, sanitation, generators, all of that being urged by the u.n. secretary-general who does want to work alongside the u.s. and other international parties to get this immediately. your question about how that's exactly going to differ from any of the other times, that still remains a very open question. we can see tangible pressure on the u.s. secretary of state when he is on the ground, because he will certainly be pressed on this. >> monica alba, great to see you. the senate could vote next week on a 9/11-style commission to investigate the january 6th capitol insurrection. it's a battle.

leigh ann caldwell is following this for us. chuck schumer made it clear he wants to bring this vote to the floor quickly. the path to ten senate republicans, it's narrow. what are you hearing about any republicans at all that push this vote in one direction or the other? >> reporter: that's right, schumer wants to bring it to the floor, regardless if it's going to pass. wants to make republicans vote on this. we found that there are zero republicans at this point who are willing to support it as the legislation currently stands. there's a couple that are considering it, including senator mitt romney and susan collins. there are a couple others who voted to impeach the former president who are considering. there is one who voted to

impeach who is against, senator burr, saying he won't think it will be done by the end of the year. it's going to be a big uphill battle and very unlikely for this to reach 60 votes in the senate. >> while i have you, i want to talk about the military sexual assault bill. you sat down with democratic senator gillibrand and ernst. what did they say? >> reporter: sexual assault in the military is getting worse. there were more than 20,000 sexual assaults in the military last year. it's a problem that's only increasing. the conviction rate is even -- is horrible, less than 1% really. senator ernst and gillibrand have been working on this issue for years. they have been on opposite sides of how to solve it. senator ernst, a former combat

commander in the military, she served in the military, she's also a sexual assault survivor. she insisted that it has to stay within the chain of command, the commander deals with the sexual assault, for years, something senator gillibrand disagrees with. there needs to be an independent prosecutor that deals with this, someone highly trained. they came together and senator ernst changed her mind and agreed saying it needs to be taken outside the chain of command. when i sat down with them, they admitted that this is going to lead to a culture change should this pass the senate. >> very much so. one of the ideas we have is that if we start to prosecute more of these cases and more end in conviction, it sends a very clear signal that these crimes aren't being tolerated, that we actually will prosecute you and you will go to jail. >> my position is one that we

need to prevent these assaults from happening in the first place. as i know, once an assault has happened, you can never undo those actions. >> reporter: this is a big bipartisan breakthrough. what are the chances of it passing the senate? most democrats support it. senator ernst has brought along a lot of republicans. they trust her on this issue since she was once in the military. they say it has the support of more than 60 senators. it could pass should it get a vote this year. >> possibly a bipartisan passage, the few. in a little more than an hour, president biden's diplomatic chops will be on displace when he meets with south korea's visit. that is because the president is going to award his first medal of honor at white house, it's going to a 94-year-old american veteran of the korean war.

south korea's president is also going to join that ceremony. walk us through what we can expect. how significant is this visit? >> reporter: there's two main lines of effort on what is significant about this visit. the first is what the president -- the two presidents will speak about. president biden and president moon. they will talk about the regional issues that come up between the two nations, security with north korea and that with china. this visit, they are going to discuss coronavirus, the need for vaccines and how they can work together to fight off this continuing pandemic. in addition to that, there's also going to be a couple of other issues we don't normally hear. one being climate change. we heard from white house officials earlier this week that in fact they will discuss that as well. beyond that, beyond this meeting and the diplomatic efforts made today at the white house, there's this other main noteworthy event.

that's the medal of honor ceremony at white house. a foreign leader will be there at the ceremony when we see an american get the highest military medal. this is colonel puckett. he is a legend among rangers. he is being recognized. he and his group of rangers were tasked with taking a hill. they were -- this was the middle of winter. it was freezing cold. they were out and they were exposed. what they didn't know was the 60 or so rangers and a couple of korean soldiers, they were facing hundreds of chinese military. they were being bombarded by artillery, by small arms fire as they were trying to take and to hold onto this hill. ralph puckett, time after time, put himself in danger, exposing himself to enemy fire to draw

them out so that the u.s. could fire on them. after hours and hours of this relentless battle, he sat in a fox hole wounded three times by grenade and mortar fire. he told his men, we have to go. retreat. said, leave me behind. save yourselves and leave me. his men were so dedicated to him that they wouldn't. they dragged him to safety. today, we will see him and his family and notably one of the men there with him, a retired master sergeant who served with him that day, will be there to watch him awarded this medal 70 years after this battle. >> an unbelievable story. a deserved medal of honor, that's for sure. thank you. good to see you. if you got the covid vaccine, could you need another shot? what experts say about the need for boosters as the country slowly reopens. kylerittenhouse will be in

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three out of every five american adults have gotten at least their first vaccine dose. this morning, the likelihood of booster shots, it's coming into sharper focus. sam brock is in coral gables for us following this potential new development. good to see you. you have been talking to restaurant owners there. they are dealing with figuring out how to navigate the broader reopening, mask guidance, now this booster shot question. how does this fit into their plans? what are you hearing, the reactions to this? >> reporter: good morning. very good to be with you. certainly, many of them are on cloud nine with the type of business they have been seeing in recent months. one because of the fact that the state of florida has been open for a long time now. the or side is that more people are getting vaccinated. the result is gangbusters business for the restaurant industry. you see the tables.

they will be filled tonight in coral gables. miami has seen a more than 50% increase in seated diners since 2019. well before the pandemic. things are on the up here. as we talk about the booster shot or potential booster shot, dr. fauci and the ceo of pfizer are preparing for the possibility of that. pfizer's ceo saying they are studying the efficacy of a third shot. he believes there will be clarity on that. down the street we spoke with one businessowner of a family-owned business, spanish style. we were there last night. there were dancers inside. full tables. a lot of excitement. i talked to the owner. she believes it's a combination of vaccines and human connections driving people out. here is what she had to say. >> i think at this point, everybody is happy to get out and spend time with their families. obviously, the fact that there's a vaccine does help. i think also the fact that they

want to see their families is a big component. >> reporter: the demand is there. it's the staffing that's the issue right now. they are at a third of where they were for staffing at the restaurant's peak. they have people that come in. they have had to close down because they don't have enough to serve. one more flashpoint. reservations and waiting list requests are up 46% since 2019. the signs are good. the staffing has to fall in line. >> a major issue. when i was reporting in new york and talking to folks as they were emerging during the new york reopening, folks were saying the same thing. i want to see my family. i want to travel. i want to get out. i have been stuck inside. sam, good to see you. thank you. want to turn to the founder and ceo of advancing health

equity. thanks for joining us. let's start with this major news when it comes to the vaccine booster shot. first i want to play a little bit of dr. fauci earlier today on cbs. >> unfortunately, there's misunderstanding about that. we are planning for the eventuality that we might need to boost people. we don't know whether we will have to do it and when we will have to do it. there's estimates, it may be a year, it may be a little longer. the fact is, we don't know. >> we don't know. it's fascinating to me, i have to say, that we are learning more about the vaccines as we get them, as they develop. should we all be preparing to need this booster shot in the next year? what evidence would scientists need to decide definitively? >> right. as dr. fauci said, it's uncertain because vaccines were given to clinical trial participants for the first time in july of 2020.

they are still being observed. we need to see if there are signs of reinfection in those clinical trial participants. also, a lot of the studies looking at needs for booster are done in the laboratory, looking at antibodies. they are one part of our very complex immune system. there are memory cells. it's really difficult to determine exactly when and if boosters will be needed. it's about observing for reinfections as well as doing more lab studies. it's important that we are prepared if they are needed. >> let's talk about the variants when it comes to the boosters. the cdc saying there are five variants in this country alone. we know there are more around the world. will these potential booster shots -- are they going to protect us from the variants? are they something that will be needed to be updated every year with the development of possible new variants? >> again, we don't know. it's an unsatisfying answer. the good thing is that a lot of

the studies that have been done, mostly in laboratory and real life show the mrna vaccines have a robust response, even to variants, even if it's reduced. it's still quite -- they still are quite effective. the technology the mrna vaccines use are easily updateable. they can be changed and altered. it seems like it, coronaviruses don't mutate that quickly. we have that on our side. we need to keep transmission down. as transmission across the world increases, so do the risk of variants. >> that's good news. fascinating, a lot of folks don't know that they don't necessarily mutate that quickly despite the fact we see so many variants out there that have developed. the white house covid response team is holding a briefing. for the first time, the seven-day average of covid

deaths is below 500. moments ago, they announced a creative way to encourage younger people -- we see hesitancy among younger folks in the country to get vaccinated. let's listen to that. >> today, dating sites like hinge, match, okay cupid, blk, plenty of fish are announcing features to encourage vaccinations and help people meet people who have that universally attractive quality, they are vaccinated. >> you can't help but laugh at some of the promotions and getting folks -- younger folks vaccinated. i didn't know there were so many dating websites. i guess that's a good thing since i'm married. it seems like incentives work. the ohio department of health

announcing over half the state is vaccinated because they offered a million dollar lottery as an incentive for folks to get vaccinated. everybody wants a little extra money during hard economic times. what do you think of the incentive? do more states need to participate in things like this? >> i do think so. we are seeing new york state just came out, the governor announced there's a lottery for up to $5 million. everyone gets a scratch-off card if they get a vaccination at one of the ten new york state vaccination sites. i think those incentives are really important. we need to meet people where they are. we're at that part in the vaccine rollout where we are having challenges getting people vaccinated. if we need to offer doughnuts, offer cash, i think the benefit of those incentives are -- it's countless essentially. it benefits our whole -- not just individuals but communities and our country as well. >> i do have to say, so many of

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welcome back. any moment, we are expecting kyle rittenhouse to make his appearance in the courthouse. there's extra security. he is accused of killing two people at protests after the police shooting of jacob blake last august. his previous hearings were held virtually because of the pandemic. rittenhouse is being charged with first degree intentional homicide and first degree reckless homicide. shaq brewster is following this for us. good to see you. talk us through this. what can we expect to come out of the hearing? what is up next for rittenhouse and his trial come this fall? >> reporter: good morning. we expect to see a routine hearing once it starts in a couple of minutes. we know that things like scheduling details will be hashed out. his legal team filed a notice of retainer this morning.

there may be change in his legal representation. it looks like some of his attorneys have filed into the courtroom and are waiting for the proceeding to begin. we know that the official trial is slated to begin in november. this is the final pretrial hearing in this case. let's remind our viewers what kyle rittenhouse is facing. he was 17 at the time. he is 18 now. he is facing five felony counts, including first degree intentional homicide, first degree reckless homicide. you are looking at kyle rittenhouse there. you see him with his mask on. this is the first time he is appearing in court in kenosha as part of this process. he is facing attempted first degree intentional homicide and two counts of recklessly endangering the safety of others, for shots that were fired at others. he is facing an additional lower count for carrying a deadly weapon or carrying a gun while being under the age of 18. this is a case that many people have been watching closely. this is something that happened

right after the shooting of jacob blake at kenosha was really in an uproar after that shooting. we saw a lot of the protests. then you had this shooting of two protesters, he is accused of shooting and killing two of those protesters, injuring a third. one thing to note about this entire case is just how much a flashpoint this has been. kyle rittenhouse, many conservatives looked at him and viewed him as somewhat of a hero, so to speak. someone who was using his second amendment rights and was -- this is a simple self-defense case. you have others saying he was walking around those protests carrying the semiautomatic rifle as he was -- that then resulted in the death of two people. again, we see the hearing about to begin any minute now. this will be the last pretrial hearing. jury selection is expected to begin in november. i will tell you the last pretrial hearing we watched did get tense. there were fireworks between the judge and the prosecution as the prosecution tried to revoke his

bail and his bond. we will see what happens with this hearing that's set to begin any minute now. >> shaq, bring us anything as it develops. seeing kyle rittenhouse in the courtroom with his mask on along with his defense attorneys and prosecution. shaq brewster, thank you. this morning, louisiana officials are doubling down on their refusal to release the full video showing the arrest of ronald greene back in 2019. the associated press leaked some of the shocking body camera footage revealing state police initially mischaracterized the nature of his death. they initially said the 49-year-old died in a crash after leading troopers on a high speed chase. the bodycam video shows troopers beating and dragging him. priscilla thompson is outside of the state police station in monroe, louisiana. here we go again. as we reported thursday, a federal civil rights investigation is underway. what reason are officials giving for refusing to release all of

the video? how is this community reacting? >> reporter: officials here are not releasing that video. they are not commenting on it. they are not responding to requests from journalists like myself and others asking for the release of that video as a part of a public information request. instead, what officials are saying is that this investigation is still ongoing. that is why they are not releasing that video. of course, this incident happened two years ago. it has been quite an amount of time that has passed as the public and the family is waiting for more answers around what happened in this incident. the family is saying this is only adding to their agony and grief. listen to what ronald greene's mother said earlier today. >> the fact that it was a coverup. it has been a nightmare. we have not properly grieved. we need to hold these people

accountable. someone needs to pay. someone needs to go to jail for this. this is murder, what happened to my son. >> reporter: you asked about the community reaction here. notably, we have not seen widespread protests that a release of a video like this might elicit. i asked activists about this. some have said this community is largely in shock and still grappling with how to handle this given that many folks here have been calling for answers for two years and still have not received those answers. we are hearing other activists who are calling on the governor to act. as a remind he this was an incident that occurred with the louisiana state police. the governor said he is standing by the investigating agencies who have said they do not want this video released until the investigation concludes. notably, i will say, i just spoke with the executive director of the aclu here in louisiana that tells me while we wait to see what is going to

happen on the criminal side, this newly released video by the ap could expedite what's being planned on the civil side. >> priscilla thompson, thank you. businesses across the country are getting busy again for first time in months. some are having a tough time finding people to work. some states are getting creative. the bonus now in the works for some employees. my next guests want the u.s. to be bold, to fight poverty, a higher minimum wage, health care for all and more investment in housing, education and infrastructure. i'm going to talk to congresswoman jayapal and reverend barber. that's next. d reverend barber. that's next. ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... ♪ if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand.

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poor because we have allowed it to be so. >> we have allowed it to be so. that was congresswoman jayapal. she's spearheading a push to address poverty from the bottom up. they unveiled a sweeping revolution dubbed the third reconstruction. among its many goals, guaranteed living wages, expand voting rights, reform immigration system and redirect military. joining us is congresswoman jayapal. also joining us is reverend barber. congresswoman, i want to start with you. just introducing this resolution. it's wide ranging. give us the overarching view of what you want to achieve and how quickly you want to achieve it. >> yeah. thank you so much for having us

both on. this is an incredibly important movement to eradicate poverty. it's wide ranging because the reality is that poverty is caused by an intersection of multiple factors. you cannot just eradicate poverty by dealing with one piece. this is structural racism, it's all the ways in which our system has privileged and prioritized the most wealthy and refused to look at the issue of poverty. just imagine that in the wealthiest country in the world, we have 140 million who are poor or low wealth. even before the pandemic hit, 40% of americans did not even have 400 bucks in their bank account for the next emergency. this resolution says, this is about all of the different factors from the money that we spend on military spending, that we should not spend, that could actually go into investing in

housing, in education, in health care, all of those pieces. but also taking structural racism, taking on voting rights, immigration reform. these are part and parcel of what creates poverty in america. poverty is a choice. it is a choice. we have to make different choices now. we're so proud to be joining forces with the poor people's campaign. this is a people's movement. we want it to be built from the bottom up. >> bishop barber, this is not necessarily legislation. you have called it the resolve necessary to implement real and transformational legislative action. in the long list -- this wide ranging list of priorities, what do you think is most important, most urgent right now? [ no audio ] we are not able to hear bishop barber. congresswoman, i want to get

back to you. talk to me about what you believe is most urgent right now. >> it's all urgent. i don't think we can separate these things out. poverty is the result of choices we make across the board. what we do not spend on education, the fact that we have 32 million people that aren't even earning 15 bucks an hour, the fact that we have 78 million people that have no health insurance or inadequate health insurance, even in the midst of a pandemic. that's why it's so important. our progressive caucus members, i'm the chair of our 95-member strong progressive caucus in the house, we have numerous pieces of legislation that address many, if not all of these pieces. we are really putting it all together in a road map with moral clarity and commitment to say, we will eradicate poverty and we will lift up the poor. >> reverend barber, much of what you are looking to achieve here

intersects with the president's current infrastructure bill. what do you think is most important in getting through here? do you think some of these things can get through on a state by state level? if you look at minimum wage, the governor of rhode island passing today, signing today a bill that will increase the minimum wage by the year 2025 to reach $15 an hour. it seems like some of the things can be achieved on a state by state level. >> we need a full reconstruction in the country. billionaires and millionaires get everything immediately. billionaires and corporations got over a trillion dollars almost immediately. the poor have been told to wait time and time again. $15 minimum wage was proposed by the march in washington in 1963. this is an omnibus vision of a third reconstruction that needs to be turned into omnibus policy. last year, we had 2.4 million people show up for a mass poor people assembly march on washington virtually. in 2022, we will announce a mass

poor people's low wage workers assembly march on washington to push this agenda, this narrative. five interlocking injustices. 140 million people, 43% of the nation in poverty. 52% of our children. 62 million who make less than $17 an hour. people are making $7.25 an hour and waitresses are making $2.13. we are far behind. we have people that make $97,000 an hour and 32 million people don't make $15. this is right now. we pushed for the infrastructure. that's one of the things that has to happen. it must be infrastructure that hits from the bottom up. we have 8 million more people fall into poverty during the pandemic. the poor and low wealth people died the most and hurt the most during the pandemic. billionaires made $2 trillion

during the pandemic. nothing less than the resolve for a third reconstruction addressing poverty from the bottom up is what the nation must have. we had a reconstruction after the civil war. after the civil rights movement. we need a third reconstruction. we support the agenda. it's the kind of call to resolve. we can't just talk about piecemeal and let's wait 20 years. last thing, 250,000 people are dying a year from poverty. 750 people a day. think about that. we have been talking about the pandemic. before the pandemic, 250,000 people were dying from poverty. 750 a day. we cannot have that kind of death happening and we not have

an urgency about addressing this. there's no scarcity of resources. there's no scarcity of solutions. the scarcity is the moral and political imagination to do it. that's why we are pushing this in the resolution in the congress but we will mobilize in the street. it's black, white, kentucky, kansas, black, white and even our apache brothers and sisters. this is a full on push. >> you bring up so many good points. i do believe we need to continue this conversation, especially how you plan to get it done, how you plan to get it through, especially when you have so many republicans that are resistant to spending. thank you. great conversation. i do want to continue it. a hiring bonus. up next, we will look at plans in two states to give $1,000 to

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