The president says the reward is well worth rolling up your sleeve. A summer of freedom. We begin the hour, though, with new details, just moments ago, about a biden white house effort to now dramatically increase the u. S. Contribution to the global covid vaccine effort. The white house now plans to share at least 80 million doses by the end of june with immediate steps to send 25 million doses. Let s bring in jeff zeleny with more important details, jeff? john, we do know that the white house says they will be sharing these doses, as you said, 80 million by the end of june and 25 million immediately right now. We can take a look at where some of these doses will be going to, south and central america, to asia and africa, as well as 6 million left behind nor regional partners and priorities, that s the interesting allotment to hear. We saw a statement from the president, saying they re not sharing the doses to extract concessions or build friendships with these countries, they are doi
Plus, iranian war ships possibly full of weapons, seemingly headed for our hemisphere. Where could they be going, what is the pentagon planning to do about it, if anything? welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. 80 million vaccines worldwide by the end of the month. One source teing cnn this is expected to be a lengthy and complicated process. 25 million doses have already been allocated, allocated, though not yet delivered. The majority of the vaccines will be delivered through covax, world health vaccination effort. The u. S. Is prioritizing latin america, the caribbean, south and southeast asia and africa. The rest of the regions toward mexico, canada and united nation s front line workers. Here in the u. S. , the top medical adviser dr. Anthony fauci said he s cautiously optimistic that children younger than 12 will be able to be vaccinated by this thanksgiving as cnn s amber walker now reports. The prognosis is good. Reporter: dr. Anthony fauci says america s battle against covid19
Something big in return. Could this finally be a breakthrough or is it the final offer before the president shows moderates he tried, allowing democrats to go it alone. Much more on that in a moment. We re also following an explosive fire spreading rapidly across the country. At least, that s the framing in a new warning in a major progressive group. The letter is addressed to former minority leader chuck schumer, but make no doubt it s aimed directly at joe. Not the joe in the white house but west virginia joe over in the senate. The group leading the charge said, quote, this is truly a fivealarm fire. Democrats have to make a decision. Are they going to protect the filibuster or protect votes? refusing to nuke the filibuster, republicans are set to shoot down the ambitious agenda of a voting rights bill and so much more. To those who say we must make a decision between filibuster and x, i say this is a false choice. The reality is when you have a system that s not working effectively
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