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Podcasts. our coverage continues now with one mr. wolf blitzer in "the situation room." have a wonderful weekend. see you sunday morning. be kind to yourself and others. happening now, a chilling new indictment tied to the january 6 insurrection. a capitol police officer is accused of obstructing justice to help a rioter who wanted to start a, quote, revolution. this as the investigation of the insurrection is heading into another critical week. also tonight, fda advisers unanimously recomme...

A third shot. people who originally got johnson & johnson, if they havent gotten a booster shot yet, they should get a second dose of the johnson & johnson vaccine. >> i know, and youve told our viewers several advertitimes, y the johnson & johnson vaccines. what are your intentions now? >> im glad, first of all, theres some kind of guidance for the 15 million americans who got the johnson & johnson vaccine. i was also heartened to hear today the advisory committee discuss the very exciting miss...

But very severe blood clotting disorder. so it might be less safe than the mrna vaccine which has been found to be safe in combination with j&j. and the data shows at least a second dose of the mrna vaccine appears as effective if not more effective than the second dose of the j&j vaccine. i really hope the fda and cdc will come out with that recommendation. >> so do you want the moderna or pfizer? >> to me they are equivalent, whatever i can get sooner. but to be clear, the fda has not yet made...

Todays unanimous decision, unanimous vote, and this new study? >> what we should take away is there are a growing number of studies that show that the one-dose johnson & johnson vaccine is inferior to two doses of moderna or two doses of pfizer. this is not just about waning immunity over time. its that the initial vaccine, just one dose, is probably not enough. a lot of us think the johnson & johnson vaccine should be considered a two-dose vaccine at least. what the advisers did today is the ri...

Vaccine, some people also want the option of getting an mrna second dose. so having that approval will be important, too. >> we should know in the next two to three weeks on that front. the vaccine advisers will convene again on october 26th, in about four weeks, to discuss the pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. does that mean kids that age could start getting vaccinated, potentially later this month. >> at this point, its looking like the timeline, even if the -- even if pfizer is able t...