white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire is with us for the morning. he was up way too early. we ll start with the report from friday, republicans investigating the 2.1 million ballots cast last year in arizona confirmed the accuracy of the official results that joe biden won maricopa county. cyber ninjas concluded that biden had won 360 more votes than the county awarded him in the official count. however, former president trump continued to make his baseless claims of last year s vote, issuing a flurry of statements. what is becoming a litmus test for many members of his own party. he continues spreading the big lie over the weekend especially on saturday at a rally in perry, georgia. we won on arizona forensic audit yesterday on a level you would not believe. it s clear in arizona that they must decertify the election. it was a corruption. it s my opinion by the way that georgia is far worst. and hopefully the arizona attorney general good man will
i m michael holmes and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states and around the world. appreciate your company. this is cnn newsroom. those stories in a moment, but first after debate and disagreement among vaccine experts, pfizer booster shots can now be officially administered to millions of adults in the u.s.. the director of the u.s. centers for disease control rochelle walensky is breaking with the recommendation of the cdc s independent vaccine advisers. instead she s siding with the fda, which on wednesday recommended emergency use authorization for a booster dose of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older. she is also giving the green light to those aged 18 and over with underlying health conditions that put them at high risk of severe disease, and those at high risk because of their occupation, which, of course, would include health care workers and the like. now, cdc advisers had voted against giving boosters to people age 18 to 64 who
so much to get to. welcome to the viewers in the united states and all around the world. we have reports this morning from capitol hill, haiti he, mexico and germany. but we begin with the big breaking news this morning. the cdc director now recommends vaccine booster shots for front line workers at high risk for covid. we re talking people like teachers, health care workers and others whose jobs put them at risk by expanding who can get a shot, dr. rochelle walensky went against her own vaccine s advisers. the cdc advisers disagreed boosters were needed by these big groups of young healthy people. so today boosters for more people can officially begin in the united states. if you re fuzzy on the guidelines, europe not alone. you re not alone. i think the problem here is this is a byzantine schedule for who is eligible that is going to be hard to implement. if the guidance is this confusing and requires this many steps and it s hard to assure eligibility, it s going to ul
votes for donald trump, the thinking was among some people it would be the cyber ninjas. didn t happen. . at least not in one part of the report. you re talking about the draft report, john. and the headline you re talking about is in regards to the hand count. now, that hand count found that joe biden increased his lead. he picked up 99 votes. and donald trump lost 261. it is negligible. it didn t impact anything. we need to view the entire report with healthy skepticism. having been there, having seen this process go through, it has been riddled with problems despite that skepticism. we are seeing the republicans in maricopa county, who have been questioning this process the entire time, the ones who oversaw the county election jump on this data set. and we are seeing from jack sellers, chairman of the maricopa county board of supervisors releasing this statement saying, quote, this means the tabulation equipment counted the ballots as they were designed to do and the res