Im 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 cdcs independent vaccine advisers. Instead shes siding with the fda, which on wednesday recommended Emergency Use Authorization for a booster dose of pfizers covid19 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 faced those great
next several hours. now the island of taiwan says they re on high alert for a possible incoming from china. china telling its troops stand by in battle formation and be ready for all incoming enemies. listen to this warning from china to speaker pelosi. if house speaker pelosi insists on visiting taiwan, we will defend our territorial integrity. as to what measures we ll make, we ll see if she dares making a visit. martha: john kirby joins me now off of a very active news conference that went on for quite a while. john, welcome. good to have you with us today. good to be with you. martha: sounds like you re saying nothing to see here. nothing has changed. everything is fine. the drama is coming from the media. you have to realize that we ve sent the seventh fleet in there and the ronald reagan. things have escalated and it s coming from china. and their war of words more than anything else. we re not believing this on the media or saying there s nothing to see. ther
i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is your world to peter doocy on how the white house is dealing with this. peter? communist china still wants taiwan to be part of communist china. that means speaker pelosi s words on the ground have upset them. in terms of governance, we command taiwan for being one of the freest societies in the world. well, the chinese official is writing the u.s. must pay the price for its own mistake and we mean what we say. that has g-7 leaders now saying we re concerned by recent and announced threatening actions by the prc, particularly live fire exercises and economic coercion, which risks unnecessary escalation. even though speaker pelosi s time is done in taiwan and republican leaders have said she was smart to go, the white house won t say what they think of the trip one way or the other. you think it was good that she went? here s the thing. what we re saying is that we cannot dictate and we will not dictate where members of
right now on early start, joe biden s union bet, he will stand with striking autoworkers today at the risk of being seen like he is taking sides. plus republican frontrunner donald trump seen gun shopping but the campaign forced to backtrack about whether he actually bought one. and as deadline day fast approaches for a government shutdown, kevin mccarthy faces more questions about spending talks and questions about whether he can keep his job. good morning, good day to all of you around the world. it is tuesday, september 26. 5:00 a.m. here in washington, 2:00 a.m. out on the west coast. it is also 5:00 a.m. in detroit where just hours from now president biden will do something no more than president has ever done. he plans to walk the picket line with striking workers. it is day 11 of the simultaneous strikes against general motors, ford and stellantis, that also a historic first. the white house was grilled monday about biden potentially being seen as taking sides
underway on capitol hill as homeland security secretary mayorkas appears before lawmakers but not for his impeachment trial. instead mayorkas wants more money to advance president biden s immigration and border agenda. that s the hearing taking place this morning. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning to you. i m bill hemmer. good morning. a day after the decision to delay sending impeachment articles against mayorkas from the house over to the senate, republican lawmakers are ready to rake him over the coles for his handling of the border. senator ted cruz hammering home why republicans want him out. mayorkas is not impeached for being incompetent. he is not impeached for being negligent. this invasion is not an accident. alejandro mayorkas is good at the job he is trying to do. ist is maximize the number of illegal immigrants in america. dana: congressional correspondent aishah hosni is live on capitol hill as we get ready