digital age is waiting. good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city. today as president biden meets with world leaders, he has something of a new headache at home. a justice department investigation into classified material found in an office

connected to the president. attorney general merrick garland has assigned the case to a u.s. attorney appointed by donald trump, but that didn't stop the former president from asking when the fbi lances to raid the white house. plus a major victory for the new speaker of the how, but with kevin mccarthy corral his caucus into governing. and the emotional vigil for a heroic teacher who got her kids out of the classroom after she was shot by a student. we'll have the good news from her doctors. but let's go live to mexico, which is where we see president biden. he is meeting with the mexian president and his wife. there you see the two first ladies, who are walking that shot freezing a bit, but mike memoli is there traveling with the president. we also have intelligence

correspondent ken dilanian. former deputy attorney general. as we watch them go up the stairs, tell us what we're seeing. i assume we just missed what is often the formal photo. >> reporter: just in the minutes before we came on air, we saw the presidential motorcade arrive here in downtown mexico city. you can actually see over my right shoulder the white tent, which the beast pulled up to where president biden entered and then quickly assembled with the president of of mexico and the prime minister of canada for that family photo. now these three leaders ask their teams will be hunkered down for this 10th leaders summit. this is the first time a sitting

president has come to mexico. this summit was something of a hiatus during the trump administration, but president biden tried to resooif the summit, as we have seen over the last week now, to use it as a form to address one of the main political liabilities for him which is going to be a clearinghouse for migrants who want to come from other parts of the heisphere to lay out the legal pathways for them to go that. this has been to try to stem the flow to the border by making it clear the consequences of coming here through legal means, versus illegal means. and what the process is for claiming asylum. overshadowing now this summit is this revelation of the

classified documents that were found at what was then the former vice president's office in washington. we have a new statement from the white house in which they sort of speak to the fact that there's very limited information that they have been able to or willing to confirm so tar. i'll read part of it now it's from a spokesperson who says this is an ongoing process under review by the justice department and therefore, we are limited in what we can say about it. but we are committed to doing this the right way and provide further details as appropriate. so it stands to reason that the other two leaders here understand seeing press reports about this we know that some of the many senior officials on the part of the white house who are traveling with him likely have been distracted from the business of the summit here as they have been preparing the president for a moment later today, where we may see him asked and have to respond for the first time on camera to the questions about when exactly he

learned of this discovery and what more he might be able to say about what those documents are and how they were in his possession years after he left the white house. >> thank you so much for that. we just hard the justice department is examining these documents found at a think tank. what more do we know about them, what they are, when and where they were found and how the justice department is responding. >> the white house just has not been transparent about the nature of these documents, the level of classification, which are very important questions. there's no reason they can't talk about this despite the fact that the justice department is reviewing it. they are choosing no the to talk about it. but what is true is that the attorney general has referred this matter to the u.s. attorney in chicago, who is a trump appointee. and this was done because he's a trump appointee to maintain public confidence in the independence of this review.

it's a review, it's not a criminal investigation, he's trying to determine whether a criminal investigation needs to be undertaken and if that determination is made, then presumably we'd see the appointment of a special council, but there's no reason to think that would happen this had this case if the white house account is correct, which essentially is that these documents were packed accidentally and were turned over as soon as they were discovered back six days before the mud term. that doesn't answer the question of why the white house sat on this information and president biden himself, who was informed, is sat on this information for two months ask we're only hearing about it now. but the justice department is telling us that they are continuing this review and no conclusions have been reached yet. >> so you were a member of the transition team. people have this idea, and i think maybe a reasonable idea, that classified materials are handled very carefully. how does something like this happen? >> right now,s it's unclear how

it happened. certainly, there was a mistake made. you're exactly right. during the white house days i was there, this was something take with the utmost seriousness. we're seeing a difference in what the biden white house is doing and what trump has done. for what we know, there were fewer than a dozen documents found at the penn center without a lot of public access to it, unlike a hotel where you have hundreds if not thousands of people coming through. i commend the administration for very quickly ensuring that a trump holdover, the lawyer from the northern district of illinois reviewing the matter, they will be transparent. it will be unlike the way the trump team is handling it. >> so there are two aspects to something like this. one of them is the public perception and we have already heard some republicans coming out and making all kinds of accusations. but from a legal standpoint,

help us with the comparison between the biden and the trump situation from a legal standpoint, how is this different from the classified documents found at mar-a-lago? >> night and day. you have the inadvertent retention of some documents and from that point, they do everything by the book. and by the way, i really want to take down the temperature of this doj investigation. it just happens routinely. you find these documents. you're supposed to tell the national archives. they take possession they inform the doj. and garland puts a trump u.s. attorney on it. by contrast, trump is involved in taking them in the first place. they don't tell the archives until the archives discovered it and there's a whole series of both deception and bobbing and weaving.

the potential crime here has to do with obstruction. that is with not responding to an investigation and trying to obscure it. that's the exact opposite of what biden has done. it's a talking point for the dishonest. they are going to keep making it for sure because when the surface similarity, but as a matter of law, night and day, not a chance in the world that biden seek criminal charges here. >> as a matter of law moving forward, what's going to happen? >> so the attorney will look into it and try to figure out is there any possible basis for a criminal charge. that would mean for example they purposely took it knowing they weren't supposed to or there's nothing you can say about trying to obstruct an investigation. they turned it over right away. then in due course, the chicago attorney will report to the

attorney general to say there's nothing more to be done here. and that will be the end of the matter. we don't know how long it will take and don't know if garland will make that public, but want the to emphasize, nobody of any party here would think there's any kind of of whiff of a crime, unless there's something we don't know. >> we have heard from some high profile republicans saying they don't think there's necessarily anything wrong here. but what they are looking at is president biden being treated differently than donald trump. and we'll leave that to the legal folks, but i want to go back to the central question. what's it like, let's say, in the middle of a transition. is it organized? can it be fra nettic? still trying toing it out why this ended up not implying anything bad, just saying how could this happen. >> it's a great question. from my understanding, this happened sometime between 2017 and 2018. not during the presidential transition itself.

big difference, but here's the other piece. which is this white house takes security and confidentially to an extreme. if you want to review the documents, you're going into secure room. you're not taking your electronic devices with you. it's something they pay close attention to. there seems to be a night and day difference between the way trump handled this and really ignored subpoenas, hid documents, versus what this white house is doing, which is a transparent approach to it. unfortunately, the other side is going to make as much hay out of this until it fades away. and donald trump is already doing whatever he can on social media to distract from his own problems in putting them on the biden white house. >> if you want to look at differences in that statement that you read from the white house, there was no suggestion that those documents belonged to him. as we saw with donald trump, let me ask you beyond that, is there anything you're hearing from the

folks traveling with the president on his staff that showhouse there's a level of concern about how this is playing politically? >> i think the first and foremost concern of the white house right now is that this story is covered with the sort of nuance that it requires. and we're certainly doing our best to do that. the efforts that are underway beyond the ability of them to questions about the specific documents here is largely about trying to make sure it's presented in the full context. i will say we are sort of looking back down at a period over the last few weeks in which president biden had some of the best weeks of his presidency coming off that better than expected midterm elections. the trip he took overseas to the g-20 summit, the dysfunction that we have seen on the part of house republicans and efforts to elect a speak sker what we saw last week with president biden appearing with the leader of senate republicans touting some of his legislative wins.

so in that respect, i think the white house and some of the people i have been speaking with are very frustrated about the idea that this is throwing them off one of their best periods of the presidency so far. >> that brings us back to the border. i was listening to the comments made by president biden and by macron. the friendship sort of the picture of here's what international relationships should look like. is there anything in the conversations to help with what is a political problem for this president. >> absolutely, there is. i was heartened to see the president landing in air force one in el paso on husband way to mexico city. el paso is a city of immigrants.

the new policy that the president has released with the homeland security is an important one. the conversation that they are having now, dealing with regional security, root causes of migration, all of that will be critical to stemming that flow. and once title 42 is lifted, which will happen, there will be increased pathways to legal migration for these asylum seekers. it's an important time there. it's the first time they have been in mexico in nine years. so a lot on the line here. >> can i ask you, we're really out of time, but as somebody that knows el paso sho well, what goes there are you mind of folks sleeping on the streets? >> it's heartbreaking. it really is. and i also remember when dr. biden, the wife of the president, went to the border and fed those migrants christmas dinner, there's an em pa thu and understanding this this

administration. >> thank you all for being here. before leaving for mexico, president biden approved an emergency declaration for california. we're now at least 14 people are dead and a 5-year-old is missing from those intense storms and cyclones. officials rescued the mother from a creek bed but called off the search for him because of extreme weather. thousands have been forced to flee their homes w another dangerous sl on the way, 32 million in los angeles remain under flash flood warnings. marissa parra is in california. so the pitures we're seeing are unbelievable. what are you seeing on the ground and how concerned are the people you're talking to? >> reporter: so first, i will say you're seeing probably some sunshine. it looks like just another beautiful, sunny day here in california. when you zoom out, you get a fuller picture.

this is as you mentioned one of the reasons why you don't want to be going through the flood water. we're trying to stay above the flood waters as hutch as possible. hard to do when most of the streets are flooded out. so you have residents, you have businesses around here that have been damaged as a result. when it comes to how people are feeling, i think it's somewhere between a mixture of despair. there's a lot of people in despair right now. but then there are people who say we have been through this before. many of them telling me about times they went through an earthquake or a wildfire or a different flooding and a different time. there's some level of acceptance with that too. just to give you perspective, this is pacific ocean right here behind me. we were told that at one point during the surge, that water was just cascading over this brick wall over here. and leading to the very flooded streets over here that we were

just standing in front of. and you mentioned that 5-year-old boy that was swept away in the flood waters. when had it comes to the skperge rescue efforts and recovery efforts, we do know that it depends on where you are in california. so it's sunny now, but as meteorologists have been saying, this is going to be a situation where it's sunny one minute and then raining another. so it maybe fine right now, but that rain might be coming within an hour. in other parts of california, especially further north in the bay area, it's thunderstorming pretty hard right now. that's making things difficult. people are trying to clean up. we have seen people trying to put sandbags in place and trying to sweep away or scoop up the mud, but as they are doing so, it rains about half an hour later. we saw one guy doing that in the middle of the rain. so you have 200,000 californians without power. these crews, these emergency

crews and then further more these crew who work on restoring power, tree removal services have been working around the clock to restore power as people try to get back to normal life. we know more storms are on the way. back to you. >> marissa, you have been doing great reporting out there. thank you. we appreciate you and your team. kevin mccarthy's scores his first legislative win as speaker, but where does his fractured majority go from here? plus former trump org alan weisselberg likely headed to prison. what we expect at that sentencing hearing. and new details about heroic teacher who her students to stafty after being shot by a 6-year-old. you're watching "chris jansing reports," only on msnbc. u're wag reports," only on msnbc.

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here's part of the new video she posted to twitter. >> california needs a warrior in washington. to win these fights, it's time for new leadership in the u.s. senate. >> sitting senator dianne feinstein, who is 89, put ut a statement saying everyone is welcome to throw their hat in the ring and i will make an announcement concerning my olympians for 2024 at the appropriate time. meantime, kevin mccarthy scored a major legislative victory last night with only four republican votes to spare, the house voted to approve the new rules package. here's how the ap put it. it was an effective start to what could otherwise be a new era of potentially crisis governing. after last week's rucous speaker's race. the house passed their first bill tide to rescinding more than $70 billion in new irs funding. it has virtually no chance in

the senate, but chuck schumer says he's not ruling out other opportunities to work across the aisle. >> i intend to sit down with him and with leader mcconnell. we want to get things done in a bipartisan way to help the american people. >> you want to bring in capitol hill correspondent ali vitali p. staff writer mark liebwitch. also with us the former aid to speakerers paul ryan brendan buck. our friend jonathan lemire predicted we should get ready for a lot of republican on republican political violence. where does the majority go from here? >> reporter: it's probably not way too early to make that prediction here. that's what this speaker fight has shown us. we are probably in for way more of what it took to just constitute this congress. because electing a speaker, getting on to the business of

putting committee chairs in place is supposed to be the easy part. we know that mccarthy made concessions during this process that are likely going to had make it more difficult for him to govern. power was taken away from the speaker's office and given more to the rak rank and file. that was the point for many of the hardline conservatives. if you listen to some of the mccarthy allies in leadership, that's not what they are putting out there today. listen to tom. >> this will arguably not make kevin mccarthy a weaker speaker. this will make kevin mccarthy perhaps the strongest speaker in modern times. >> reporter: now look. i'm sure brendan a has his own take on this knowing what it takes to be speaker, but the broad view on capitol hill is mccarthy made his job more difficult here by showing these hardliners he will capitulate to the thing thas want. chief among them this idea that it takes one member to now

motion to vacate the speakership on its face, that is something that's important, but also the fact that that was a redline that mccarthy wasn't going to cross, that he crossed it once by lowering ha that threshold and went to exactly where the conservatives were, said that only one member would be able to do that. so again, mccarthy was able to negotiate and get the speakership, but the question is going to be at what cost. >> so we all know that where you start as speaker doesn't have to be and often isn't where you end up. that can go both ways, up and down. but what does this early start tell you about mccarthy's strength or lack thereof? >> i think mccar has empowered the rest of the conference. he said this is going to be a bottom-up process. i'm going to let you offer your amendments and decide what we're bringing up. and that works well if you have a conference that's interested in legislating. it's interested in compromise.

that's where this is going to run into trouble. republican politics right now is purely performtive. so there's not a lot of opportunity for them to be thoughtful policymakers to get things down. the thing that kevin mccarthy has going for him now is low expectations and time before they have to actually do anything meaningful. so it was really important that right before the holidays, they passed a long-term spending bill. kevin mccarthy doesn't have to worry about funding the government for several months. so what he can do now is put up bills that are purely messaging. getting rid of irs agents, plays to the base. you're going to see a lot of those things where he's stacking up wins, easy things that are going nowhere in the senate, but allow him to tell his members we're doing things that our base wants. he's going to have to cut a deal. he's going to have to find a way to fund the government. do a debt limit increase. that's when trouble is going to come.

so for now, low expectations. not a lot he has to do. keep people happy and that price is going to be paid when you have to do things. >> he's right. the first bill from republicans is based on a widely debunked lie about the irs. and the senate is not going to pass legislation eviscerating the irs. but can he make that turn? is a turn possible when you look at, frankly, what the core base, originally the 20 people against kevin mccarthy, the kind of power they yield and geps another 200? >> i think clearly the expectation game is for a brief period of time is kevin mccarthy's friend. after last week, it was a big screaming reminder to everyone in the caucus of how bad of a

look this is if it continues. so i think in some ways, mccarthy had kind of a built-in argument for let's not continue this into next week. let's get the rules thing off the decks and do some safe and easy base plays the irs bill that's not going anywhere, but it's a lot more of the base caress about the annoyance of the irs than they do about pit noek owes at this point. so kevin mccarthy is a speaker. there are irons fisted speakers. and kevin mccarthy for a lot of reasons is going to solicit whatever it takes to get his very narrow majority to standby him and keep him the job. in the same way he was to president trump and very famous and infamous kind of ways. so this is how he's going to approach it. it's going to be a week to week thing or day-to-day thing and at least for the first two days of

this week, he's going to survive and, again, it's going to get a lot harder fair ily soon, but at least he'll have a little breathing room. >> when you look at the promises, they are voting today on a resolution to create a special judiciary subcommittee on what they call the weaponization of the federal government. that could include reviewing investigations into former president trump. so does other stuff get done if you're doing so much of that? ? there are folk on the hill, and you can nod if you're among them, any of you, that this is going to occupy a huge amount of time of what gets done there. >> absolutely. the keyword is performtive. this is mass of the republican party does not care about the respect of of colleagues or committee assignments or passing

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too. >> reporter: that's exactly right. ask he didn't end up getting that, whether it be for scheduling issues or other members on the committee weren't prioritizing it as much. warner has been urging members to get a briefing on what happened with the mar-a-lago documents. now he's saying he wants a similar briefing about the nature of the documents found in an office that president biden once used. and ul read a portion of the statement to you, because what warner say is, what we know so far, the latter is about finding documents with markings and turning them over, which is certainly different from a month's-had long effort of to retain material sought from the federal government. drawing the distinction between finding documents and turning them over versus what trump did, which is keeping the documents and only turning them over when the feds had to go get them. but here we're seeing an instance where consistency is key. the senate's first reaction on this, as they are not in the building working, hoping to be

apprised of the situation further. >> i thus they are not back until the end of january. just to be clear, maybe stating the obvious, this absolutely is within the per view of the committee. >> definitely in the same way mar-a-lago was in the per view, the documents from president biden's office are in that committee's purview. it's why we're seeing these lawmakers saying i requested a briefing on mar-a-lago. i want a briefing on this too. >> thank you so much. we have other breaking news. the next 45 minutes or so, former trump organization cfo alan weisselberg will be snnsd for his part in a 15-yearlong tax fraud scheme. as part of a plea deal, he testified against the trump organization, which was found guilty of tax fraud last month. investigative correspondent tom winter is live outside the courthouse. he's been covering this case. what kind of sentence are prosecutors asking for here?

>> reporter: right. so prosecutors here have already asked for and really the judge has already granted their wishes up until a pointed. so initially they asked for six months. now they are at a point where the judge said he's going to do a five-month sentence. so that's what the judge said when he pleaded guilty in august. that's likely what he be get here today. we have no indication from any sort of public filings or any sort of other announcements by the district attorney's office that they are going to consider any accounts of perjury or that he didn't live up to his obligation to testify truthly in the trump organization trial. so really this is counted of a forgone conclusion here. he's also going to have to pay fines and penalties on the money that he did not pay as a result of his unreported income. that's where this case stands. it's different from the federal court. really the only question that

appears to be in the air is whether or not weisselberg goes to rikers following the conclusion of this sentencing or if he's given a date to record in some later time. but basically thrks boils down to approximately 100 days in jail when you consider time off for good behavior, which he will likely get. >> tom winter at the courthouse, thank you. a growing laundry list of investigations into lies told by congressman george santos. so will the gop-led house do anything about it? that's next. atth's next.

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eastern district of new york, and just yesterday an ethics complaint was filed to the federal elections commission they allege that santos violated federal campaign finance laws by claiming he loaned $705,000 to his campaign, but it actually came from unknown individuals or corporations. his team has declined to comment to nbc news. we have yet to hear a response if his lawyer as well. but when will we hear more from santos? here's what he told reporters. h. >> i want to bring in capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles, brendan buck is back with us. ryan, is gop leadership showing any sign of concern or any sign they might take action, even maybe not giving committee assignments, or is mccarthy waiting for someone else to take

action? >> it seems as though george santos is taking incoming from all different directions. local prosecutors, theics committees, federal elections commission, a all of them are looking into his inconsistent background. but the one group that has remained quiet is the leaders in the republican party, and they are the ones that have the ability to take the most direction action and quickest amount of time. listen to what the new majority leader steve scalise said about the situation earlier today. >> this is something that's being handled internally. there are concerns about what we had heard and so we're going to have to sit down is and talk to him about it. that's something we're going to deal with. >> reporter: what's remarkable about the comments is they are concerned about it and are addressing it, but he also says they haven't even sat down to talk to santos about this. also pretty remarkably, kevin mccarthy, the now speaker of the house, has yet to say a single word about the george santos situation. to your point, chris, it's going

to take time for these investigations to play themselves out. kevin mccarthy could right now today say that george santos is not getting any committee assignments until all this stuff hashes itself out. he has yet to say that. >> do you see a point, a at what point might kevin mccarthy see santos as a not worth it distraction? >> i give him a bit of a break to get through the speaker vote to resolve this. i imagine he's going to have to bring him in and have a serious conversation. there has to be some consequences for doing this. you can't just lie your way into congress and be no accountability for it. but we know the reality. the majority is very slim. kevin mccarthy is not going to be interested in ditching wasn't of his pressure four-seat majority votes. i imagine what he's going to end up doing is saying this is a matter of the house ethics committee to investigate. he will probably reserve taking any action until they come to

some conclusion. now that's not a great place for george santos to be either. it's a bit of a good news, bad news situation. the ethics committee will want to look into this, but they tend to take a backseat if there are federal investigations. they tend to hit the pause button. so while ethics may be slow to act, that probably means he's in a criminal situation that he has to be concerned about. i think the ethics committee is going to be what pushes out and can levy huge fines against him, which he may not have the money to pay. there's a lot of ways this could go. i imagine he's going to punt on some of the due process stuff to work out. but we have to remember that he's not going to be able to throw somebody overboard quickly. >> i also want to ask about the current state of u.s. politics, the fact that there are dozens of members of congress who are election deniers. and if you see a connection to the horrific attack on brazil's government buildings by former

supporters. we know the president is vgting the attack. 1,500 arrests have been made. eugene robinson wrote, the united states has given the world lessons in denying election results and stoking popular disappointment into rage. where does this go from here? >> it was one of the things that i thought about on that day. it was a building i worked in for a long time. it's not just a place where we do work. it's a symbol not just for this country, but for the rest of the world of how peaceful transfer of power is supposed to work. i'm sure there's a the lot of nuances to what happened in brazil that maybe different than here, but as a country, we lose the moral authority to tell other places that this type of volence and attempts at insurrection are -- we had it happen on our own capitol.

so few people were willing to say anything about it. i hate that now we can be in part blamed for things happening in countries around the world. it's shameful and reminds us how important we need to take seriously what we do because the rest of the world is closely watching us at all times. >> without a doubt, brendan buck, thank you. ryan nobles, always great to have you. at this hour, arkansas has its first female governor. sarah huckabee sanders is also the first arkansas governor this more than 40 years with no experience in elected office. sanders is following in the footsteps of her father mike huckabee, who was governor for more than a decade and ran for president. her focus now is the state, but she's widely seen as national political ambitions of her own. new details on the teacher who walked her students to safety benefit after being shot by a 6-year-old. we're live with details, next.

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police are hailing a virginia first grade teacher after she bravely escorted her students off the classroom after being shot by a student last week. >> she suffered a gun shot wound but was still able to get her students out of that classroom. mrs. warner was the last person to leave that class. >> you can hear the emotion in his voice. police say a 6-year-old student shot the teacher through the hand. the bullet went into her chest while she was giving a lesson. adding that the shot was intentional and the gun was legally purchased by the child's mother. she is now awake and listed in stable condition. catie beck is in newport news, virginia. so many questions. what more do we know about that amazing, quick reaction? what are we hearing from community members and key question, could the parents face charges? >> reporter: authorities were pressed on that yesterday in the press conference. will this mother face charges

for the action of her 6-year-old? and the police chief said at this point, the investigation is still ongoing. they still have to do more interviews, collect more facts then review the law and see where those two intersect and if they do, there will be charges. he's not taking them off the table, but has not given them any indication on when or if there will be charges for this mother. certainly something they're considering. as for the teacher, there's just been an outpouring of love and support over the last 24 hours for zerner. she's someone that's described as selfless, a ray of sunshine, everyone who came every day to see these kids with positive energy. the police chief sharing from when he visited her yesterday, he said her first question to him right away was how are my kids, referring to her students. wondering how they are. concerned about their well-being. these are 6 and 7-year-olds who witnessed an incredibly violent

act and are going to be asked to walk back through the doors behind me and go to school. today, parents were here collecting the belongings. the school is closed for the remainder of the week, but they are allowing parents to come and retrieve backpacks and coats from the chaos of friday. we've been able to speak to some of those parents who express a great fear about letting their child go back and having to explain this to their child. how do you explain this building is now safe? one of the things the superintendent brought up yesterday, we were unprepared. never thought a 6-year-old could bring a gun to school so maybe we need to go back to the drawing board and think about metal detectors for the lower schools. we use them for upper schools. this sort of unprecedented action from such a young child is certainly sparking a lot of conversation. >> who could anticipate that.

time after time after time, the most horrible circumstances, teachers are selfless. they're brave. they put their students first. remarkable. thank you for covering this for us. and that's going to do it for us this hour. join us every weekday, 1:00 eastern here on msnbc. katy tur reports up next. easter. katy tur reports up next ...the burning, the itching. the stinging. my skin was no longer mine. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfya®, most people saw 90% clearer skin at 16 weeks. the majority of people saw 90% clearer skin even at 5 years. tremfya® is the first medication of its kind also approved for adults with active psoriatic arthritis... ...and it's 6 doses a year after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions may occur. tremfya® may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. emerge tremfyant®. with tremfya®... ask your doctor about tremfya® today.

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