The united states and around the world. I m wolf blitzer. You re in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. And we begin with the breaking news. Very serious breaking news from the fda and covid booster shots for some americans are now on the way. Cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us right now. Kaitlan, tell our viewers what you re learning. This is significant. Reporter: this is what we re learning, wolf, that we are expecting the fda to come out in the next 48 hours or so, though, that timing could slide, and announce that they are authorizing what is commonly known as booster shots for people who are immunocompromised and therefore more susceptible to variants of covid19, variants like the delta variant that we have seen really overtake the u. S. In recent months. This is significant because we knew they had been working on this behind the scenes, having growing concerns about the efficacy of these vaccines, how long they last, how effective the
And in just a few minutes, the state lawmakers are set to discuss impeaching the governor. While behind closed doors, two top former justice department officials are answering lawmakers questions over the weekend about just how far former president trump went to overturn the election results. And those in the justice department that actively helped him. We re going to hear from grammy awardwinning musician who is making major headlines after requiring vaccines at his concerts in austin, texas. A city with just six icu beds left open. The praise and the backlash he s now getting. We ve got to start, of course, this morning with covid. The good news right now is that half the country has officially been fully vaccinated. But at the very same time, the number of average cases are topping 100,000 a day for the first time since last february. The rate of hospitalizations and deaths nationwide have both jumped more than 90% over the last two weeks. Of course, the biggest problem is in place
Up. Now you see they don t seem as site interested in the sciencep. Much anymore, we will explain this and also the charade on capitol hill. Literally it is one mission and one mission only. It s a if we can impeach in smear and slander and donald trump one more time and of course the g. O. P. One more time on national television. To that end, the likes of adam schiff the congenital liar and a liz cheney which is now hard at work and all of this points to a biased, onesided investigation with the predetermined outcome. Congressman jim jordan and congressman jim banks who were barred from the committee and to be clear, very clear, they always condemned the unlawful riot when that happened on january 6th. What happened on that day can never ever happen again. Hy why? that s a people s? house. The institutions and every lawmaker, doesn t matter what your politics are, they must be protected. They never should be acceptable ever, not of the capital and not anywhere. It has rocked almost ev
You can see where this is headed, you can see the cowards in the administration in full panic mode. They don t seem to be as interested in the science mantra anymore, we ll explain all of this coming up. We begin tonight with the latest political charade on capitol hill and that is nancy pelosi s january 6 commission and literally it has one mission and one mission only. Let s see if we can impeach and smear and a slander of donald trump one more time and of course the g. O. P. One more time on national television. To that end, the likes of adam schiff, the congenital liar, adam kinzinger, liz cheney and every other politician hard at work, all the evidence points to this being a biased onesided investigation with a predetermined outcome. To be very clear, we have always condemned the riots, what happened on january 6th. What happened on that day can never happen again, why? that is the people s house. Our institutions and every lawmaker, it doesn t matter what your politics are, they