country. if you re looking for a dramatic example, check out this map, not a single state in the red zone, anywhere in the u.s. right now. dr. anthony fauci suggesting it may be time to rethink mask restrictions, specifically indoors. former head of the fda scott gottlieb say it s time to start relaxing the indoor mask mandates. is he right? no, i think so, and i think you re going to be seeing that as we go along and as more people get vaccinated. the cdc will be almost in realtime, george, updating their recommendations and guidelines. yes, we do need to start being more liberal as we get more people vaccinated. that s a good news. the bad news is that the vaccination rate is slowing down, considerably, the white house saying today that several states, in fact, are even turning down their full allocation of vaccine doses. that s frustrating for public health officials because cnn crunched the numbers and we came up with this, 80% of the u.s. population lives within fi
summits this week. china is one of the least democratic nations in the world. it is not that surprising, but it does come at a moment where he s having conversations with russia about ukraine. taiwan has been invited to this summit and that is a sensitive subject for them. they don t want them on that guest list. it really irritated them when they were invited. i think the guest list is also getting a lot of attention. the question is kind of what was the criteria of who was invited to this. because if you look, pakistan was invited, philippines were invited, but other nations like hungary, a member of the european union, turkey, nato ally, not on the guest list. you talk to the white house, they say the guest list was one of the most challenging aspects of this, of who do you how do you narrow this down and who do you invite, who made the cut who didn t make the cut, because a lot of the nations that didn t weren t happy. singapore not making it, even though you saw the vi
informed he s a target of the special counsel s january 6th criminal investigation. we re breaking down the gravity and the timing of the potential criminal charges. and i ll talk to a key grand jury witness, the former chief of staff to vice president mike pence mark short. this hour, there s also breaking news in the trump classified documents case. the judge signaling the trial is likely to be pushed back from the december date proposed by the prosecution. also breaking, new criminal charges in michigan against 16 participants in an alleged fake electoral scheme falsely claiming trump won the state in the 2021 election. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. right now we re following some major fast-moving developments in the criminal investigation of donald trump and january 6th and the criminal prosecution of the former president in the classified documents case. cnn s paula reid is standing o
Right now we re following some major fast-moving developments in the criminal investigation of donald trump and january 6th and the criminal prosecution of the former president in the classified documents case. cnn s paula reid is standing outside the courthouse in florida for us where a critical hearing just wrapped up a short while ago. first let s go to chief correspondent kaitlan collins. i know you have excellent sources. what more are you learning tonight about this target letter and is the former president concerned? i this i tnk there is definia level of concern here. tom branch, one of the top attorneys on the case, has known about this for self days.
Day, there is a handwritten note from mark meadows they wanted to get that people still don t know exactly what was on that note. and i think it is questions like that they would like to know more about. we re talking about democracy in peril in the united states as we re waiting to hear from president joe biden speak to this democracy summit, this virtual meeting of some 100 countries around the world, where he talks about democracy, we re waiting for those remarks, we ll bring them to you live the minute they come. meanwhile, kaitlan, last night, there was a vote in the senate to basically try to block president biden s vaccine measures, vaccine mandates. it will never become law. however, it is a statement by the senate, they voted to block it and that vote included two democrats, joe manchin, you know, some people may try to discount that, and also john tester. i think it speaks to the level of how democrats are viewing these vaccine mandates. they re not popular with every sin