Good evening. It is safe to say that no one tonight in the Biden administration is saying

thank God it's Friday. For them, it's been a brutal Friday. In the space of just a few

hours late today, the White House got unwelcome news on COVID boosters. It saw the Secretary

of Defense admit that a drone strike in Afghanistan, which was supposed to have targeted an ISIS-K

terrorist, actually killed an Afghan aid worker, two other adults and seven children and

was in his words a horrible mistake. And on top of that, the administration suddenly

finds itself in the middle of a diplomatic war with America's oldest ally, France. So

there's a lot to get to tonight. We begin with the FDA advisory panel's highly anticipated

recommendation on COVID booster shots, which was not exactly what a lot of people had been

expecting. Third doses of Pfizer's vaccine not recommended for most people at younger

than 65 years old, only for seniors and others at high risk of illness. Now, whatever the

public health merits of today's decision and we'll obviously discuss those with their

health experts in just a moment, it certainly differs from what the administration has been

signaling for weeks. It also comes as the country faces the dire consequences of too many

people not even willing to get a first shot, let alone a third. Nationwide deaths are now

averaging more than 1800 a day. And even though cases have finally started tapering off

in Florida, the state today crossed a terrible milestone. 50,000 fatalities since the pandemic

began. Only Texas, California and New York has lost more. And in West Virginia, a small

state with a growing death toll, there was this today from the governor.

74 more people have died since Wednesday. And they'll keep dying. It's all there is

to it. We're going to run to the fire and get vaccinated right now. Or we're going to

pile the body bags up until we reach a point in time to where we have enough people that

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