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Delivering remarks about the booster program, and this comes just days after the cdc director rochelle walensky overruled a cdc advisory panel endorsing an additional dose of the pfizer vaccine, not just for older americans but also for frontline workers at high risk for covid. it has been 27 days since texas banned most abortions in that state. the new restriction bans all abortions after six weeks, which is before most women know that theyre pregnant. it also takes the extraordinary stem of ...

Joining me now white house press secretary chris meagher. good morning. thank you for being here so "early today." lets start here. a lot to get to. it says boosters for older adults and those at risk, signs off on. but we also heard from cdc director rochelle wolensky who signed off on teachers and staff. give us the latest on the state of play there but also what response do you have to the criticism from some who say theres been a lot of mixed messaging when it comes to boosters? >> yeah. wel...

Well, the federal government has already spent your tax dollars on millions of vaccines. you have got to use them somewhere. >> while we waited and prepared, we brought enough -- bebout enough booster shots in states and pharmacies, doctors offices and community health centers have been preparing to get shots in arms, booster shots in arms for a while. >> pete: besides, last month biden set an arbitrary deadline. they are his favorite kind. just ask the taliban. arbitrary deadline to start boost...

These people went. she offered a more fruitful description from dhs. so, we expect to get that at some point tomorrow, but the math just does not add up, and this is a president who, throughout the campaign and the transition, because he did not think the last president was giving into the american people straight, joe biden made a point, event after event and speech after speech, to say the job of an american president is to give it to the american people straight from the shoulder. he stole th...

Cdcs committee of outside experts will be ready to start this booster program during the week of september 20. >> so biden was, in fact, pushing every adult to get a booster. every adult who had a pfizer shot. but thats not the case. do you understand how people are confused and maybe some people are even skeptical about whether or not the cdc is following the political operatives at the white house instead of the cdc advisory committee? >> well, sure, jake. actually, i think its a work in progr...

Coming in and we need a central voice that the american people can call and n and rely on one voice but were not seeing that. where people are vaccine hesitant this, kind of fragmented messaging works against convincing those folks to get vaccinated. we need had a more consistent voice. if i worked for the president, i would be furious many that the president really went out a month ago, was basically made to look bad by promising a booster program that they have had to scale back. >> maybe. per...

Months after you got your second shot. pending approval from the food and drug administration, the cdcs committee of outside experts will be ready to start these boosters -- this booster program during the week of september 20. >> so dr. jesse goodman, the fdas former chief scientist told cnn friday that biden making that announcement ahead of time. before the fda and the cdc made theirs was, quote, backwards and not helpful and at the very least, even though he did say appending approval. this ...

Ride. went to church. and went to new york. without mentioning failures in afghanistan, a booster program, or the border. instead, staffers are rolling out new covid-19 policies. >> in the beginning and early november, foreign nationals flying to the united states will be required to be fully vaccinated. >> theres a big loophole though. >> if somebody walks into the country right across the river, does somebody ask to see their vaccination card? >> well, let me explain to you, again, if they hav...

>> refugees in afghanistan with visas are having a hard time getting out. refugees at the southern border with no visas are having no trouble getting in. but before these issues vetting refugees are resolved, the administration is announcing tonight they are going to double the number allowed in to the u.s. each year from 62,500 to 125,000. bret? >> bret: you know, peter, it was all about follow the science and then the president had that speech about the booster program for vaccines that actual...

Administration of boosters may need to be enlarged, based upon the data that weve already seen both in the u.s. and in israel, its clear the waning of the effectiveness of those vaccines is a reality and we need to respond to it. but they looked at where we were on friday and said heres where the datas convincing to start now and well see what cdc says later this week. chris: but just to be clear, what youre saying is you still think, around i understand the -- and i understand the people furthe...