francis collins. dr. teful for their children, if they're back in school full-time, they're happy about it. so now knowing that pfizer says 5-11 years old school age children, they think this vac aoepb will be ready for them with fda approval. could you support a mandate for that age group for the vaccine? >> well, first of all, let's say this is good news. it's still a press release. pfizer has to submit their data for scrutiny. what they said today looks really good. it's one third dose of the vaccine gives an antibody response that's equivalent to what you see in 16-25-year-olds. so we're on the right track. the side effects seem to be quite reasonable. but let's be clear. fda will review this. they'll have to have an advisory committee. they'll have a public meeting. they want all the data out there for people to see. the dose will be two-dose regimen and it will be three weeks apart followed by two more weeks to make sure it is fully taken. kids in the 5-11 age group aren't going to be fully immunized

francis collins, to the broadcast.nk you for taking time this morning. >> glad to be with you, margaret. >> brennan: doctor, you predicted earlier this month that it may well be boosters are going to be recommended for almost everybody. that didn't happen on friday. do you still expect broad approval? >> doctor: you know, we have to see how this plays out over the coming weeks because the data changes every day. i do think it was very significant, that the f.d.a. advisory committee voted unanimously in favor of offering boosters to people 65 and older and to others who have high-risk exposures, like health care professionals. so we're starreding down starting downthat path. they weren't convinced that it is required for the younger people not at risk. but some of the data coming in from israel tells me it is likely they will get to that point. but this was a start. i know people were confused about different messages. but in a certain way, margaret, this is the way it ou ought to be: science playing out and looking at

doctor francis collins, the -- he joins me now. i want to start doctor collins, with something you and i spoke about the last time you were on my program. national institutes of health runs a hospital. you told me, somewhat surprisingly, that because the vaccinations were under emergency use authorization, you could not mandate in your hospital. that has changed now. i imagine it has been mandated in your hospital. one of the results have that been? >> well i think it was very readily accepted, by the people who delivered care in our hospital. which sees particularly sick patients, many of them cancer immunotherapy, patients who are very dangerously at risk for this virus. it's not a hard sell. that the legal abilities to do so got a lot better, when fda gave full approval, to the pfizer vaccine. that cleared away the one last legal hurdle, about being able to mandate this. and as you heard today, the president aims to act in that situation. i think way effectively, and aggressively. to make sure that we are not missing out on the c

francis collins.elcome back to fox news sunday. >> glad to be with you, chris u there's a lot to talk about. chris: let's start with the fda add a vicely panel -- advisory panel which supported the idea of booster shots for people 65 and older, those most at risk, but rejected the idea of booster shots for the general population. here is what president biden said last month. >> the plan is for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot. chris: dr. collins, is the advisory panel right? do you now agree with them on this limited booster program over what the president was proposing last month, the general population getting boosters which he said was based on advice from his medical experts including you? >> you know, chris, i think there's less difference between where we were in the middle of august and what the advisory committee said this past friday. they did encourage and vote for the administration of boosters to people over 65 and those at high risk of exposure

francis collins whether a third shot is needed and save. then... >> president biden: the decisions we are about to make can change -- literally change the trajectory of our nation. >> chris: the white house sounding the alarm on raising the nation's debt limit warning medicaid, food stems, and disaster relief are all at stake. >> they are eager to jump through yet another massive multibillion-dollar reckless tax spending spree in an effort to move our country to the left. >> chris: while democrats are main split over a $3.5 trillion social spending plan. we will talk with house budget committee chair john yarmuth about the deadlines and the split among democrats. plus, joint chiefs chair general mark milley under fire for his phone calls to ease china's fears of an attack in the final days of the trump administration. we will ask her sunday panel whether his actions were responsible or over the line. and our "power player of the week," fox sports insider jay glazer tells the biggest stories in football and now he's sharing his own. all righ

issued from his pulpit and also disagree with the way his run interference for the way he and francis collinse liberal with gain of function funding. >> is not like he has much credibility, he lied to the public about mast, misled the public about schools being safe to reopen and rand paul has been right against every turn in this the latest example. it's a semantic word games to claim what was going on here but we were funding wasn't gain of function research. it's not -- it basically was if not literally. when he lied to congress and said otherwise, doctor fauci knew what he was doing. he doesn't have credibility with the public and this is why we can't just follow the size or listen to the experts because they say different things every couple weeks and we can't just blindly trust these people in washington to plan our lives when they can't keep their story straight. kennedy: you know how to interpret their own data and they will have workarounds when it's politically convenient but there are people like richard at rutgers is taken great exception to some of fauci statements especially som

remember, that 10 years ago, 2011 he wrote with francis collins an opinion piece in the "the washingtonsaid, quote: that creating a dangerous virus in the la bore tore is a risk worth taking. because it would help us understand how to fight these pandemics. he said it was a risk worth taking. does he still think that today? >> rachel: it's ghoulish. you have been at the forefront of this as i said. thank you for staying on it thank you for coming forward when it was, you know, before any of this came out. we really appreciate it and i know you are going to continue to stay on it thank you, steve. >> absolutely, thank you, rachel. >> rachel: the left has been trying to crack down on unvaccinated. they have been saying it for months. >> what we need to do at this point is make vaccination the easy choice. it needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated. right now it's kind of the opposite. it's fine. i mean, it's easy if you are unvaccinated can you do anything you want to do anyway. >> rachel: so creepy. by the way that's also the former leader of planned parenthood. a south florid

here's francis collins, the national institutes of health director on fox news sunday. >> we're goingdoes not become clear over the next few weeks that that administration of boosters may need to be enlarged. based upon the data we've seen in the u.s. and in israel, it's clear the waning of the effectiveness of those vaccines is a reality and we need to respond to it. arthel: joining us now is doctor ashish jha, dean of brown university school of public health. dr. jha, i wanted to ask you something pertaining to alex hogan's report. they're protesting new york's vaccine mandate. what's your position on a vaccine mandate? >> yes, first, thanks for having me back. you know, my take is we've got to get this pandemic under control and more importantly we've got to put it behind us. 1500, 2,000 americans are dying every day and we've got to do everything we can. a majority of americans support vaccine mandates. we've got vaccine mandates for all sorts of other conditions. i understand it feels like a lot for some people. but right now i think anything we can do to get this pandemic under

francis collins about what happened. plus, we'll have a special conversation with former f.d.a. commissioner dr. scott gottlieb. his new book, "uncontrolled spread" takes a hard look at america's covid failures and offers some solutions. >> doctor: we cannot allow something like this to hit us this bad again. >> brennan: and we'll talk with scott kirby about how the travel industry is navigating the persistent pandemic event. plus a look at the fallout from the traffic mistakes last month in afghanistan. it is all ahead on "face the nation." ♪ ♪ >> brennan: good morning. and welcome to "face the nation." on the covid front, the news is still bleak. nearly 10,000 americans died last week of the virus. we now total more than 673,000 dead. children, who are still not eligible for vaccines, account for almost 29% of all cases. according to the aap, there were nearly a quarter million new pediatric covid infections last week. we begin with mark strassmann in orlando. >> reporter: instead of widespread booster, the biden white house got a shot of rejection. an f.d.a. advisory panel on

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francis collins, thank you. thank you for joining us. neil will be back here tomorrow. i'll see you at 1 p.m. tomorrow. you can catch me 1:00 to 3:00 with john roberts. "the five" starts right now. >> hello, everybody. 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." fox news alert. manhunt still under way for brian laundrie. thorlts believe they have discovered her body. the fbi executing a search of the laundrie family home in florida early this morning. his parents say they haven't seen him in nearly a week. for more, let's go outside the family home. charles? >> reporter: jesse, things have slowed down a bit outside of the laundrie family home. we saw most, if not all of the fbi agents here helping execute that search warrant leave a short time ago with what appeared to be boxes of evidence. this was a full force effort. we saw several agents loading items from the family's garage into a white van and other vehicles that were driven away. things were quiet out for sometime until about an hour and a half ago when we saw multiple agents come out of the laundrie home and

francis collins helped to define those rules. >> let's be clear.thing we funded did anything wrong. >> he's the longtime director of the national institutes of health. she's also dr. fauci's boss. >> there is no evidence that any gain of function research as we define it in the united states or as we have supported it played any role in this outbreak of covid-19. >> gain of function research. it's a complicated and controversial topic that first rocked the scientific community a decade ago. >> researchers in wisconsin and the netherlands working separately have created a form of the deadly bird influence virus that can easily spread from person to person. >> the nih funded a dutch scientist who did something really wild. he engineered the avian influence virus to make it more deadly to mammals by making it air airborne. >> when a virologist revealed details of his work on the h1n1 and infected ferrets. >> they create a virus like h5n1 and trained it to be efficiently transmissible to other animals, that's scary. >> that bird flu work which was part

francis collins helped to define those rules.anything wrong. >> he's the long-time director of the national institutes of health. he's also dr. fauci's boss. >> there is no evidence that any gain of function research as we define it in the united states or as we have supported it played any role in this outbreak of covid-19. >> gabe in of function research a complicated and controversial topic that rocked the community a decade ago. >> they have create a form of the deadly bird flu virus. >> the n.i.h. funded a dutch signtist that did something really wild. he engineered the avian flu virus to make it more airborne. >> when the virologiest revealed research, he called it quote probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make. >> in the lab, a scientist took that flu virus and infeckcted ferrits. >> they trained it has been to be efficiently transmitted in mammals so that's scary. >> that bird flu work which was partially funded by the n.i.h. sparked a debate that led to a 2014 moratorium by the obama administration. that p

richard e breit tweeted "the documents make it clear assertions by the nih director francis collins andhony fauci, the nih did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen at the wuhan lab are untruthful." fauci needs to be fired immediately, now also investigated for lying to congress. but i guess not only does that happen to republicans and conservatives if they lied to congress. then you get 30 guys, tactical gear, predawn raids and sometimes even fake new cnn cameras. and of course all of these explosive findings bolster the evidence supporting the lab leak theory and the theory dr. fauci now plays even when he was warned as early as january 31st, the same day donald trump put his travel ban in effect. the racist, xenophobic, hysterical one in 2020. meanwhile joe biden and the failures of the cdc spin a million different directions amid what is a poorly executed virus response strategy. remember, just back in march director wolinsky defended and "our data from the cdc suggest that vaccinated people do not carry the virus. don't get fit! "they did a complete 1

francis collins is the director of the national institutes of health and he joins me now. to be with you, chris. that's quite a setup here. let's see what we can do to straighten this out. >> look, i don't bring you on here to attack but just to help. is there a clear answer to as to whether or not a booster is necessary? >> there is not. which is why we're having this public discussion on friday with all the data out there that everybody can look at. you know, if we were an authoritarian country we would have just told you the answer and that would have been that but that's not how we do things. we have a lot of data, a mountain of it. and reasonable people have not come to the same conclusion yet. some of the data just got published today. this is great lesson how science should do what it is which is look at the evidence, bring all the opinions together and make decisions. when in fact this is the right way to get to the answer we can defend and not something arbitrary. >> it would have been fine except you're in a toxic climate where everything gets politicized except

i said this on the show before, i have a great deal of respect for francis collins for he is someonected and read for a long, long time for the fact they are now changing their stories in order to cya, and putting americans and people around the world at risk because they are more concerned about covering their own tracks than they are getting to the bottom of what it means for how this virus came to be. so if it in fact it was generated in the lab, there is gain of function on these and viruses were altered to become more transmissible and somehow lab workers got sick and spread it to everyone else and now we have a global pandemic. jimmy what is to keep that from happening again? >> that is the real problem here. getting into the whole side showed debate we have a chinese government that's openly defying us in terms of cooperating with his investigation ensuring their data. right now nothing is being done to get to the bottom of this as a root cause as they prefer to say on the left. i think that is what he has to go. at this stage of the world were done during this field but hate

there is a lot of accountability still to be had by francis collins and anthony fauci.this. they were the ones who were able to give the up or down vote, almost single handedly, behind closed doors, to these research grants. they changed the structure so it would be easier to get that money out of the country to institutions that were doing this research. the idea that the fact there were a lot of researchers that didn't like the idea of publishing this research to begin with. they thought it was a blue preupb for bioterrorism. when all of this emerged and scientists in the wuhan lab started dying, i'm sure dr. collins and fauci had to go because they knew the genie was out of the bottle. instead of trying to put it back in, they're busy finger wagging at people who are going to college football games who after a year and a half can do their own cost benefit analysis and make their own decision whether or not they're comfortable being outdoors with a bunch of people. >> harris: this is not about whether or not we can prevent this in the future as much as it is how do we

francis collins whether a third shot is needed and safe. then -- >> the decisions we're about

fauci and francis collins.ed by the obama administration and the trump administration but yet they put them through anyway. we knew it was received. that's why it was banned. yet they funded them. that's the real truth that we need to get to. the one glimmer hope is there's an investigation by the hhs inspector general specifically into the nih grant program. it's scheduled to report next year. perhaps then we'll get some answers on why this research was going on in the first place. >> martha: stunning. i don't know what was going on at the nih, this is the question that they never wanted to talk about from the very beginning. came from the wet market, came from an animal. such a lack of curiosity. then we learn that they eliminated at the request of a wuhan lab scientist the early genetic codes and sequences that we had of the first viruss that were detected. this makes no sense. people need to continue to ask these questions. what about this defector? i find this story interesting. he defected a long time ago

. >> tonight, the white house goes big to defend the delta curve with nih director francis collins. >eful assessment of the facts and the law, the justice department has filed a lawsuit against the state of texas. >> with the doj lawsuit means for

kennedy: is only some of those that francis collins and anthony fauci result that were peer-reviewedhe brink they were actually done in secret. speaking of vaccine pseudoscience kamala harris, our past president, get dragged after putting out a perplexing tweet this morning. she wrote quote, by vaccinated on vaccinated increasing our vaccination and masking and protecting the vaccinated we can and this pandemic. so why do we have to protect the vaccinated? isn't that the job of the vaccine? and what about how dance celebrity say they are hesitant to get vaccinated. she said she has to do more research but that's a lot of people feel. because of that she could not go to tonight's mets gala. should nicki minaj blame the vice president, katy? >> yes she absolute should blame the vice president for her to go to the gala. i would for sure. it is a good points. if the vaccine works, if the efficacy of the government has been telling everybody, then this talking point about protecting the vaccinated from the unvaccinated is total garbage. you can make point the unvaccinated our potential pr

francis collins, director of the nih said there's still problems distributing tests. how can that be? >> no, what the president was saying is he's using the defense production act to get literally millions and millions of tests many of them free for individuals. so the distribution will come. right now we just need those tests, and we are going to be accelerating the testing program as the president outlined in one of his six points. >> but is there enough testing currently? i mean you're talking about things people can buy or get at cost or get for free to test themselves i assume. >> yeah. >> i mean what is the tracking on, you know, do we know in people who are not demonstrably sick how widespread this virus is? >> well, the point you're making i believe anderson are we testing enough people without symptoms, and the answer is no. we all realize we need to do that more. and the moria test people you'll get a better grasp what the penetrance of the infection is. we'll be doing that, and that's one of the things the president is talking about, expanding significantly

news comes from director of the national institutes of health and infectious disease prop comic, francis collinsollins broke down just how bad it could get: >> i will be surprised if we don't cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks and that's heartbreaking considering we never thought we would be back in that space again. >> stephen: no. we can't go back in that space again, or else i'll have to go back to 'this' space again. if i'm going there, all of you are coming with me i'll fit you in even if it means i have to chop you into cubes and stack you like lego, i will not be alone again. delta is taking a huge toll on the unvaccinated-- a group that includes children and people acting like children. and the rest of us are starting to get pissed off. in a new cbs/you gov/me tarzan poll, among californians who've gotten their shots, 59% say the unvaccinated are putting people like me at risk, while 47% say the unvaccinated make me upset or angry. upset or angry? why choose? those are two great flavors that go great together. like peanut butter and bourbon. it's been a long pandemic.

francis collins on this issue this morning. >> i'm sympathetic with the folks at fda and cdc who feeletable here but we need to do that to protect the american public >> the delta variant continuing to surge across the country, the u.s. averaging nearly 160,000 daily new infections numbers not seen since last january. the surge overwhelming hospital systems, contributing to staffing shortages and nurse burnout often hitting rural americans hardest. >> they're working as hard as they can to try to keep these people alive long enough to get them to a place and often times it is too late. >> and in the sports world, boxing legend oscar de la hoya withdrawing from his fight against former ufc champion next weekend. de la hoya revealing on twitter he is now hospitalized with covid-19, despite being fully vaccinated. and alicia, de la hoya says he does expect to make a full recovery and does expect he will be back in the ring pretty soon. >> alicia: charles watson, thanks. we will be right back. ♪ ayy, ayy, ayy ♪ ♪ yeah, we fancy like applebee's on a date night ♪ ♪ got that bourbon street s

francis collins, what he told cnn last night. >> i will tell you, i was one of the biggest skeptics of the docs in the white house about boosters and i've become convinced particularly looking at israeli data, chris. >> and a lot of that will be presented on friday. because israel is about three months ahead of us. they got most of the population immunized in airppril and they could see that the people got immunized back in january, by the time you got to july, their protection would really tart to drop off. not just against any infection, but against severe infection. >> doctor, you've suggested that pfizer has been promoting the idea of boosters in the united states potentially without the necessary data to back that argument up. what do you see in the data? are boosters necessary starting next week? >> well, boris, what i'm seeing right now, what dollins is referring to is a paper published yesterday in the new england journal of medicine from israel showing that in people who received a third dose, a so-called booster shot in israel over the age of 60, they had a 11-fold greater in

i've just never seen fauci or francis collins or walensky, you know, or any of the big names saying thiso america. this is something we've got to look at. this is something you may have heard. here's what we think. never. >> i think tony's talked about it but it's a fair point if they haven't talked about it enough. look. i think your only obligation and having sat in that role in the biden administration, your number one role is just tell the truth. don't spin it. tell the truth as you know it. the people aren't always going to like it. we know there are modest side effects that happen from time to time. we shouldn't pretend that there aren't any. but then, we should talk about what that risk is and what the -- what the benefit is. i think people are overly concerned about mayocarditis an maybe that translates into people being too sensitive to talk about it. they shouldn't be. this is a very rare occurrence and, yes, the other side's going to weaponize everything. but you can't let that dictate your obligations to tell the public the truth and i think the administration does that, for

francis collins says has even caused him to rethink his position on boosters. >> i will tell you, i wasgest skeptics about boosters and i've become convinced particularly looking at the israeli data, chris, and a lot of that will get presented on friday including by some of the israeli scientists, but israel is about three months ahead of us. they got most of their population immunized in april and they could start to see what happens. and what they could see is people who got immunized back in january, by the time you got to july, their protection would really have started to drop off. and not just against any infection, but even against severe infection. and that is the signal that you want to watch for to say, oh, might be time do something like a booster. >> the fda's neutral tone is in contrast about president biden and his advisers. dr. gupta breaks down the data for us. >> let me try to talk you through at least a couple of the studies. and show you what the data is showing and also what it really means. first of all, take a look at this bar graph. i want to make sure that you un

. >> threeee republican senators wrote to head doctor francis collins asking him how something could'veer the appropriate steps were taken to assess this withdrawal request it makes the data undiscovered but does not erase it this news comes weeks after the u.s. intelligence community failed to find a definitive origin of covid-19. liz: thank you so much for your journalism, it's good to see you let's welcome back to the show jason chaffetz this is really disturbing stuff is like the nih and dr. fauci are a a law unto themselves, your take on this. >> this is stunning i can't believe this is true for somebody who is under investigation, to say that is not destroyed by an discoverable, what the heck does that mean. i used to share the oversight committee, this is precisely the type of thing they want to see and allow the scientist to go back and assess the origin, the democrats controlling the house andd the summit have no interest in this and i don't know why. they should be asked thatt question every day. there is no investigation by congress that i am aware of into the origins of covi

francis collins about the data. >> the chinese communist party, once again, what are they trying to coverwant to make sure we never know? >> the nih just days ago responded to blackburn announcing an investigation to determine whether the appropriate steps were taken to assess this withdrawal request. withdrawal makes the data undiscoverable but does not erase it. an nih spokesperson confirmed the investigation is complete, so the results are not yet public. >> we don't consider it case closed until we get the results of that investigation. >> this news comes just weeks after the u.s. intelligence community failed to find a definitive origin of the virus. china says the united states should look at other countries for origin information. bret? >> bret: continue to follow this david, thanks. the justice department is asking a federal judge in texas to temporarily halt the controversial new state law banning abortions after about six weeks. the emergency motion comes days after the agency sued texas claiming the law was enacted to prevent women from exercising their constitutional rights. t

reporter: three republican senators wrote nih dredges tore francis collins how this could have happenedternal investigation. telling fox news are looking to determine whether the appropriate steps were taken to assess this withdrawal request. withdrawal makes the data undiscoverable but does not erase it. this comes weeks after the u.s. intelligence community failed to find a definitive origin of covid-19. liz? elizabeth: david spunt, thank you so much for your journalism there, good to see you. welcome back to the show, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. like nih and dr. anthony fauci are a law on to themselves. your take on this? >> this is stunning liz, i can't believe this is true. supposedly something is under investigation, to say it is not destroyed but undiscoverable, what does that mean? i used to chair the oversight committee. this is precisely the type of thing you want to see to allow the scientists to go back to try to assess the oary begin. now the -- origin. democrats controlling house and senate don't have no interest in this. i don't know why. they should be asked the

. >> tonight the white house goes big to bend the delta curve with nih director francis collins.tice department has filed a lawsuit against the state of texas. >> what the new doj lawsuit against texas means for reproductive right

francis collins, nih director, and dr. fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. they reviewed mountains and mountains of available data on vaccine effectiveness and made a clinical judgment that boosters would be needed and announced a plan to begin them in september, subject, of course, to the fda and cdc processes to continue. we also know that there needs to be a plan in place to implement these booster shots around the country. but i will tell you that this was a recommendation made by our nation's leading health experts based on mountains and mountains of data. there will still be a final piece of this process that will be seen through, but our responsibility and our objective is to save more lives, protect more people, and as soon as this data -- the science made clear that boosters would help do that, we wanted to put that information out to the public. >> the september 20 date, is that firm, that date to roll out boosters, is that a firm date? sec. psaki: well, it's based on and

molecular biologist at rutgers say the documents make it clear assertions by the nih director francis collinst support it are untruthful. gain-of-function research is the process where researchers take viruses and alter them and potentially making them more dangerous to study them. >> dana: we'll stay on top of it. thank you. >> bill: president biden set to give a speech this afternoon presenting a six-part plan to address the pandemic. six pillars they talk about. vaccine requirements, booster shots, keeping schools open, increasing testing, economic recovery, improving patient care. so you ask what is new there? talking about all that stuff tore a long time. >> dana: one of the things is federal employees won't have a choice to opt out. >> bill: you are correct about that. >> dana: booster shots interesting. if you look at some of the places in israel. nursing home residents and elderly who got vaccinated first, they might be needing a little more protection now. it will be interesting to see if they decide to address that. >> bill: let me add jen psaki made the rounds earlier today and she

about these documents and he tells us they made clear the as irritations by into i had director francis collinshad did not support gain of function research or potential pathogen enhancement are untruthful and gain of function is the process where researchers can make virus es more dangerous to humans so that researchers can study them. in response to all this , the national institutes of health tells us, " nih has never approved any research that would make a coronavirus more dangerous to humans. the research we supported in china sought to understand the behavior of coronaviruses circulating in bats that have the potential to cause widespread disease." republicans in the house energy and commerce committee say they are looking for more information in all this and more documents from nih. neil? neil: rich, thank you for that very much, we're just getting word from the white house it says the taliban's cooperation in this charter flight rescue has been "business-like and professional" and a positive first step. what does that mean? former cia station chief in russia dan hoffman on that, after t

fda will be working 24/7 as francis collins said to process that data and analyze it carefully.t another advisory committee meeting in a month or so but as many people are speculating now, the vaccines could be available to kids 5 to 11 as soon as the end of october, even before. >> dana: one of the things the country has dealt with is some people are hesitant to take the vaccine. is that exacerbated for parents when they are worried about their kids? >> parents are understandably worried about kids getting any kind of shots but parents are used to vaccines for kids whether it's diphtheria, mumps, measles, are you bella. kids get a lot of required vaccines now. it is good generally to vaccinate early because the immune responses are so strong in young kids. so they will want to see what the data shows. i think it looks very favorable. >> dana: dr. collins was on with chris wallace talking about the confusion about booster shots. listen here. >> i'm not sure about absolutely everyone will have to see what they say ultimately about the youngest individuals because of concerns abou

we will have to head at the director of the national institutes of health talk to francis collins. does, the full fda and the cdc are going to have to approved it first. so one of the big questions obviously is when the president back in august and september 20th, some people could get their booster shot. were they listening to the science or the politics? we will be talking about all of these issues, government spending, and of course, this three and a half trillion dollar tax and spend bill. >> john: we will see you sunday morning. fox news sunday. chris clark thank you. >> thank you, guys. >> john: we are coming in from the pentagon. u.s. officials telling fox news that general mckenzie is about to announce that u.s. drone strike in kabul last month that was believed to taking out people who work meeting home to he was forces did not kill any isis-k fighters. lucas tomlinson with more now live from the pentagon. this was suspected, lucas. now it is confirmed. product that is write. we are to two minutes away from the press conference when the head of u.s. central command in afgh

francis collins and fauci said we may have the vaccines for the 5 to 11-year-olds in a couple of monthssteers the president said they'll get boosters in a month. fda said wait, we haven't reviewed the data yet. there is a lot of confusion there and finger pointing. my source former deputy commissioner peter pitt says that janet woodcock is under attack. joe manchin accused her of presiding over the opioid epidemic. her temporary status will run out. it is a mess for the administration right now. >> bill: confusing. has delta leveled off in a way that was predicted, doctor, in a way that happened, i do believe in india and the u.k. at one point? >> it is starting to level off but over the last 24 hours there were 200,000 new cases. in the u.k. an upswing again. the good news that applies to the boosters, by the way, where the squabbling occurred. in israel we're seeing a study that shows 70% decrease in cases two weeks after getting the booster in israel. it is starting to look like even if the administration was ahead of their skis we may be heading for boosters in the next month or so

francis collins. he was asked about the availability of various vaccines for booster shots. >> if someone got the moderna or johnson & johnson vaccine and they fit into the 65 and older category, do they say give me a third dose? can you mix and match? >> we are right in the middle of those trials. can you mix and match. any of the three, can you start with one and boost with the others? we will know more about that in the next two or three weeks. right now, we don't have the answer. modernity and j&j have submitted their booster data. the fda may have a comment on that pretty soon. it's not quite in sync. people shouldn't be rushing out now and getting a booster. there are a number of people who seem to do that. the vaccines right now in the u.s. are doing a great job of protecting people against severe disease. we are worried about that beginning to erode. we don't want to get behind the virus. >> the white house did want boosters this week. do you believe they will be available this week? >> part o

the documents make it clear the assertions of francis collins and fauci that the nih did not supportresearch potential pathogen is untruthful. he tweeted that out. so scientists to scientist they don't buy it. steve: here's the worst part, that is it looks like we have a smoking gun right here. but, jen psaki told our white house correspondent there were no circumstances where dr. fauci would ever get fired. brian: will he ever get a tough question from another network on his book tour? ainsley: he is with the. in ih. they are in cahoots with echo health alliance. they got money. >> steve: 651,000 americans dead we deserve to know what happened. brian: he didn't give us a head's up. ainsley: a home schooling surge. why millions of parents are now taking control of their children's education after the start of the pandemic. steve: and 20 years later, a new jersey town is remembering september 11th after 17 resident were killed on that day. their message to never forget coming up straight ahead on "fox & friends." ♪ g without its fearless leader. you sure you want to leave that all beh