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Cdc's committee of outside experts will be ready to start this booster program during the week of september 20, at which time anyone vaccinated on or before january 20 will be eligible to get a booster shot. just remember, as a simple rule. eight months after your second shot, get a booster shot. >> well, that is not the case now. clearly the fda did not approve that. other problems the administration has had as well this week, as we reported earlier, the admission by the u.s. military killing 10 afghans in a drone strike. and now the ambassador is talking about a security pack in the united s...

Booster vaccine plan but is recommending narrowing the scope who should get a third shot. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live from the north lawn with murky messaging on boosters from this administration. good evening, peter. >> good evening, bret. president biden likes to say pandemic is not political. layout of today's booster theory was because doctors debated the science for hours and then took a vote on and the result was no boosters yet. >> this vote did not pass since the majority voted no. >> just two fda advisers voted in favor of a third shot for the general populatio...

>> the cnn's committee of outside experts will be ready to start this booster program during the week of september 20. it will be easy. just show your vaccination card and you'll get a booster. >> that obviously was not the bite i wanted to run. the bite i wanted to run, the former chief scientist said what i do think was backwards and not helpful was that the white house made an announcement with a certain date before really all the data had come in before fda had had a chance to review it and before there was this public discussion that we're now going to have. so what do you make of this? >...

Foreshadowing that a booster program was going to come. imagine the outcry from the public if the white house had said nothing last month when the israelis, the germans, the british government, when they had already started allowing boosters when there was pretty good evidence that immunity was waning. if the biden administration did not take a stance at that point, we would have been very angry and there would be an outcry of a different type. >> what do you think, sanjay? >> well, i think that there are ways to certainly be prepared which i think i totally agree with lena on. you want to sen...

Of the science. on august 18th they announced a booster program and announced september 20th for people who received the vaccine in january. the fda panel will need late this afternoon. the fda has to decide whether to take their advice or not. the cdc is not meeting until next week. we have not heard from the white house. but i can't imagine that they will be rolling out boosters before the 2 main health regulators, the cdc and the fda approve it if they approve it. >> john: we will see. who is coming up this weekend? >> chris: we will have a top official from the government about covid and b...