boosters. the focus is today on j&j. this as a giant study of veterans show vaccine protection does weaken after six months or so, and we begin right there with your health and with an fda advisers vaccine meeting that s happening right now. today s agenda is to decide whether to authorize a booster for those who receive johnson & johnson s vaccine. this gave a green light to moderna and pfizer boosters so this is expected for j&j as well and a new study shows that mixing and matching vehicles evens and boosters between the three different vaccine brands seems to work well. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us to kick this off. we expect a green light for j&j and put this big decision into context. we do expect a green light for j&j, john, for the reasons that they gave a green light to pfizer, for reasons that this expert panel yesterday gave a green light to moderna that boosters do seem to be effective six months after the original shots, but for j&j
fbi was investigating and also instructing that rioter to delete social media posts documenting their time inside the capitol building so this is capitol police officer michael angelo riley. he s now facing two counts of obstruction, one for instructing the rioter to take down facebook posts and another charge for deleting his own facebook messages with that accused rioter, so this indictment details how officer riley first sent a friend request to that accused rioter on december 1st but they were both members of phishing-related facebook groups and one day after the insurrection the indictment says officer riley reached out with this message after seeing some of the alleged rioter s facebook posts saying this. hi, i m a capitol police officer who agrees with your political stance. take down the part about being in the building. they are currently investigating and everyone who is in the building is going to be charged. just looking out. well, their communications allegedly c
Just looking out. well, their communications allegedly continued for several more days including, according to the indictment, a 23-minute phone call between the two in mid-january. it was on january 19th the capitol rioter was arrested, and the rioter, a day later actually revealed to the capitol police officer that he had told the fbi that he had been in this communication with the officer. that is when the officer presumably got spooked. he allegedly deleted all of the facebook messages between himself and the accused rioter, and then he tried to cease all communications but at that point it was too late. investigators had the information and now this capitol police officer, ana, is arrested in court right now facing these serious charges of obstruction. we did just get a statement from capitol police. they do say the department was notified about the investigation several weeks ago and officer riley has since been placed on administrative leave, but serious charges for a 25-year
Veteran of the capitol police force now in court facing these charges at this hour. ana. as you pointed out, he s on administrative leave. jessica schneider, thanks for breaking it down for us. i want to get legal expertise. norm eisen served as special counsel during presume s first impeachment trial and also former white house ethics czar and also former u.s. ambassador. this is a capitol police officer with 25 years of experience and in this indictment it shows how he allegedly helped a capitol rioter essentially destroy evidence. what s your reaction to this? ana, thanks for having me back. it s very disturbing. the fact that this one bad apple that we know of so far, there could be other isolated incidents, but that fact must not detract from the overwhelming heroism of most of the capitol police and the
8th. now unvaccinated foreigners will be broadly barred from entering. this is another vaccine man tate of sorts. do you agree with the biden administration s approach on this? i mean, i think that people coming in from other countries absolutely should be vaccinated. we ve had difficulty convincing 60 million people in this country to get vaccinated as well emi m not 100% sure for barring entry for those that are unvaccinated. that may be a bit unfair. we should require a covid test, 28 to 48 hours before they come into the country and then maybe they get tested once they arrive, but i still think though that the whole goal here is making sure people are vaccinated or people are tested regularly beforing into our country. doctor, thanks for seeing you. thanks so much for joining us. thanks, ana. on the road and on the stump. just minutes from now, president biden speaks in hartford, connecticut. he s there to sell his massive build back better agenda and specifically highlight