With the people being persecuted so unfairly, adding quote, in addition to everything else, it has proven conclusively that we are a twotiered system of justice. Whatever that means. And in the end, however, just till will justice will prevail. On that last point, he might be right. Justice may well prevail in these cases. Seven of the january defendants are being sentenced. Yesterday a california woman was sentenced to probation but not before she told the court the insurrection was a quote unique experience and she had never been to a similar event. Oh, due say. A shocking confession came days after the fourth person affiliated with the far right group the oathkeepers pleaded guilty relating to january 6th. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy and other charges. So let s go live now, to the nation s capitol and this rally in support of the insurrectionists, allison barber is at the rally and let s start with you. What is the situation right now? what is it like right now? what are you exp
Team had planned to begin distributing boosters next week, but even if this fda panel signs off, another approval must come from the cdc. President biden s chief medical advisor, dr. Anthony fauci, today suggesting approval is likely. The data that i have seen, i believe strongly suggests that will be the case. Our position about at least planning for the eadventureuation that we might have to give boosters, we vernal have planned very ready to go, pending the decision that s made from a regulatory standpoint. Cnn s senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen is here to explain the arguments for or against boosters, so elizabeth, what are you learning from the meeting today? alisyn, this issue is so hotly contested, because the data just doesn t agree with each other. Let s first look at the argument against boosters. This argument basically says the two shots, the two shots that so many of us have had, they are enough in countries besides israel, and i ll get to israel in a minute.
His job. We re keeping a close eye on an fda advisory committee as it will vote soon whether to recommend the agency approve a third dose of the pfizer vaccine for people ages 16 and older. We are monitoring this meeting and will bring you the result of that vote as soon as we get it into the newsroom. Meantime, authorities say they have a strong plan in place to prevent violence during a rally planned for tomorrow at the u. S. Capitol in support of hundreds of people arrested in connection with the january 6th riot. All this as house democrats learn more about what is in the house version of the 3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill that aims to expand the social safety net and fight climate change. It appears president biden has so far been unable to get west virginia senator joe manchin on board with that plan. Related to the august 29th air strike taken in kabul, he will stick around for some questions. I will moderate the questions as we have done before. Since we have pretty a full h
Plan to get all fully vaccinated americans a third shot. That rollout was supposed to start next week. Here was dr. Fauci this morning. Are you expecting pfizer booster shots to be approved? you know, i don t want to get ahead of the fda deliberations. The data that i ve seen i believe strongly suggests that will be the case. Our position about at least planning for the eventuation we might have to give boosters. We have planned and are ready to go pending the decision that s made from a regulatory standpoint by the fda and their advisers. So here is what happens now. All of that is up to the full fda and the cdc who, throughout the coronavirus pandemic, have typically agreed with this committee s nods of approval with the use of existing vaccines. Those vaccines, the fda said, are still effective, though, against severe disease and death. A third shot can increase immunity against the milder breakthrough infections and it all adds some uncertainty in terms of what the full fda committ