| "I think we have a responsibility to be humane and compassionate and create alternatives, pathways for people to be able to get here who are struggling." - Representative Pramila Jayapal on her dissatisfaction with the Biden administration's handling of Haitian migrants at the U.S. border.
Welcome to the "Face the Nation" Five at Five newsletter. Scroll down for your five takeaways from today's broadcast of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on CBS. Did someone forward you this? Sign-up at cbsnews.com/email. 1. Walensky explains move to recommend boosters for front-line workers  Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explained Sunday her decision to overrule the recommendation of the agency's outside advisory board and endorse COVID-19 booster shots for front-line workers who are at high risk for occupational exposure to the virus. In an interview with "Face the Nation," Walensky said there was a "scientific close call" over whether those who are at a high risk of contracting COVID-19 on the job should be eligible for a third dose of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech. What Walensky said: "Because of that close call and because of all the evidence we reviewed both of the FDA and at the CDC, I felt it was appropriate for those people to also be eligible for boosters. So, who are those people? Those are people who live and work in high-risk settings, that includes people in homeless 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 grocery workers, our public transportation employees." Why it matters: Walensky said the recommendations for boosters apply to people who spend much of their day alongside segments of the population who might be unvaccinated, such as teachers in the classroom with children under the age of 12, who are not yet eligible for COVID-19 shots. 2. Scott says police reform talks collapsed because Democrats supported "defunding the police"  Senator Tim Scott is blaming Democrats' push to cut funding to law enforcement for the collapse of bipartisan police reform negotiations on Capitol Hill. Earlier this week, President Biden blamed the failure of the deal on Republicans in Congress and claimed they had "rejected enacting modest reforms, which even the previous president had supported." What Scott said: "We said simply this: 'I'm not going to participate in reducing funding for the police after we saw a 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." Why it matters: Scott, the top Republican negotiator on the issue, had been working on a deal with Senator Cory Booker and Representative Karen Bass for more than a year. The push for reform was boosted, at least initially, by the civil rights protests that swept the country last summer following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. But in the end, the differences between the two parties proved too wide to bridge. 3. Gottlieb says process for booster approval underscores need to "move quickly" during pandemic  Dr. Scott Gottlieb says the "slow, deliberative process that creates conflict that's visible to the public isn't optimal in the setting of a public health emergency, where you need to move quickly, and you want to show that public health officials are unified." 4. Erdoğan defiant about acquiring Russian missile defense system  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his government intends to defy the U.S. and go ahead with the purchase of another Russian-made anti-aircraft missile defense system. Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have pushed back at the legislation's price tag, warning they are unwilling to support a bill of that size. 5. Biden grapples with Democratic divisions over domestic agenda  CBS News chief political analyst John Dickerson discusses Democratic divisions over President Biden's domestic policy agenda. | 
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