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tomorrow, in support of the arrest of january 6th insurrectionists. tonight new details of the heavy security measures being put in place to prevent another capital siege. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and we begin with the breaking pandemic news on covid booster shots and who fda advisers are recommending should get them. dr. sanjay gupta is joining us again. sanjay, there were two votes by the vaccine advisers today. one of them was something of a surprise. update our viewers. yeah. so there were two votes. and the first vote was really basically asking the question. it was about the question of do the does the safety and efficacy of data support the use of recommending boosters for those 16 and older after six months after their first two shots? and that was the vote that they voted against. this was a surprise, wolf, because for ....
start vaccinating poorer countries faster. but the cdc says that is a false choice, because there is enough vaccine to do both. and this for timing, the washington post is saying that the u.s. is purchasing hundreds omillions more doses to donate to the world in addition to 500 million doses that the u.s. has already bought for low and middle-income countries. now, as we said, we don t yet know what the fda panel will decide, but in an interview with my colleague craig melvin, dr. anthony fauci says that he expects the panel to give the green light in some form. let s start with this fda meeting that is happening right now. are you expecting pfizer booster shots to be approved? you know, i don t want to get ahead of the fda deliberations. the data i have seen strongly suggests that is going to be the case, but the fda with their advisory group, the verpac is going to carefully look at every single piece of data to make that determination. the age has not been determ ....
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6th insurrection. we re live outside the perimeter this morning and we have some brand-new reporting that suggests the question may not be how many people show up but how few. meanwhile, just across the mall, we re watching the white house closely on this thursday. president biden set to speak this afternoon and the topic will be leveling our economic playing field. also ahead this morning, i ll have a very special conversation with acclaimed filmmaker ken burns. ken has a brand-new documentary out. it s all about muhammad ali. we re going to talk about the legacy of the greatest and some new revelations about a man who really transcended his time and place in history. we ll have all of that coming up this hour. but we re going to start with the intensifying debate over the covid booster shots. tomorrow, a group of fda advisers outside advisers will be meeting to talk about whether to recommend booster shots. and it comes as both pfizer and moderna release new findings. ....
first, we are going to talk about new bombshell reporting from a new book on donald trump s final weeks in office. this one is pretty crazy, because it s donald trump and members of his administration who were concerned he might spark a war in order to try and stay in office. we will get to that. we begin tonight with the california recall election. results are coming in very shortly. polls actually close a little later on this hour. we are going to get to exit polling information that we have available. we will get to that as well. this is actually the sixth time that gavin newsom was trying to be recalled. apparently, that is a theme on the right. of course, the other theme that they have been working on is the idea that they can t lose elections. when they lose elections, they actually still win. they win elections whether or not they actually are counted the winner in the results. we will talk about that tonight. i want to go ahead and bring in our panel. karen ba ....