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hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredericka whitfield. major breaking news, moments ago the cdc's vaccine advisory panel voted if favor of authorizing the pfizer and moderna covid vaccines for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. the white house says those vaccines will now be available in states as soon as next week. cnn's miguel marquez has been following this key vote. miguel, this is a welcome moment for many parents across the u.s. and a lot of pediatricians who had been hoping for this. >> reporter: a lot of people across the country ho...

President's plan was illegal and that the u.s. supreme court would not support it. cnn reporter marshall cohen joiningjoin ing me now with more on the hearings. >> reporter: this was a big hearing on thursday afternoon here in washington. we learned a lot about the pressure campaign from donald trump and a right wing lawyer, john eastman, who he was working with, how they tried to pressure, cajole, and twist mike pence into using his power to somehow throw the election to donald trump. the problem for trump and eastman is that the testimony revealed that they knew going into january 6th or at ...

Hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredericka whitfield. major breaking news, moments ago the cdc's vaccine advisory panel voted if favor of authorizing the pfizer and moderna covid vaccines for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. the white house says those vaccines will now be available in states as soon as next week. cnn's miguel marquez has been following this key vote. miguel, this is a welcome moment for many parents across the u.s. and a lot of pediatricians who had been hoping for this. >> reporter: a lot of people across the country hoping for t...

Right, fred? "i've decided that i should be on the pardon list." he didn't get a pardon. he denies all wrongdoing, but clearly he had some concerns that his actions leading up to january 6th could get him in trouble. and the committee has made the case that the justice department should take action, fred. >> marshall cohen, thank you so much. former president trump is sounding off at the january 6th committee, lashing out at the house panel. he even criticized his former vice president mike pence before a crowd. cnn's kristen holmes has more. >> reporter: fredericka, the former president had...

Realist about politics, trying to educate the public and make arguments in favor of democracy, and sometimes the democratic party. here is what our former colleague rig davis said about shields in an email, he said, we at cnn were fortunate to work with such a kind, brilliant, funny man who was the same person to the powerful politicians as he was to the youngest staffer on our team. shields, he says, was as good a man as you will ever meet in this business. mark shields passing away at the age of 85, dying of kidney failure, with his wife by hit side, fred. >> thank you so much, brian stelter...