ashish: thanks for having me on the show. that some of the draggards are scaling back. this is an important week with the ecb in boj. both of those decisions are likely to trigger further dollar spent. so it's hard to see this bout of correction. to us, i would think the broad dollar is likely to peak out in this quarter. in the nurture we see some price risks marked into the dollar-yen. haidi: where do you see the biggest pressure point when it comes to asian e.m.? ashish: in terms of incremental pressure, i would probably put the indonesian rupee up there. it's lagged the move higher, especially as it enjoys payment on the trade side. we've got a situation where b.i. will be hiking slower and it's already weakening. we see the pressure being most intense, curing itself -- shery: how much more pressure can we see the japanese yen as well, given we are heading towards a boj policy decision as well? ashish: for us, we kind of think the boj will stay on hold. in their forecast revisions they will probably have growth lower, inf

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ashish jha, it's really a pleasure. being with us today. >> thank you, andrea. >>> and crossing the line. the horrifying case of a 10-year-old girl raped, impregnated and now the focus of a national debate over abortion access and state rights. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. "andrea mitchl reports" on msnbc. >>> the house is expected to vote this hour on two bills that would restore and guarantee abortion access nationwide, except it looks as though it's never going to get voted on by the senate. last night senate republicans blocked legislation that would have enabled women to travel to other states where the procedure is legal. a horrifying case in ohio is highlighting the deep divide in the country on the issue, especially as the supreme court ruling. police have arrested a man in ohio for raping a 10-year-old girl who traveled -- then traveled to indiana to get an abortion. nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez reports several politicians are walking back their previous skepticism where they cl

ashish jha, dr. gupta, and want to read it to you as to what the president is specifically experiencing now and when he was administered this paxlovid saying, the paxlovid started just now, so just a couple of hours ago, it seem, the symptoms are tired, runny nose, dry cough as well, the president went to bed and felt fine but did not sleep well and then, in fact, he tested positive this morning. what are you expecting to see as he progresses with his symptoms over the next couple of days, when he'll be feeling better despite the fact that these are just mild symptoms especially with the treatment of paxlovid? >> well, yasmin, this is expected. so for all your viewers out there, what dr. jha just articulated are the president's symptoms. they're upper respiratory symptoms, cough, runny nose, sore throat, constitutional symptom, fatigue, malaise, not unexpected and this is how we expect omicron, the subvariant, ba.5, to actually cause vaccine breakthrough, positive tests. our immune system just to ner

ashish jha, thank you very much. clearing up a lot of questions i had.lks watching do as well. appreciate your time, sir. thanks. >> thank you. >>> any moment now nasa is set to release a set of stunning new images taken by the james webb space telescope. the first full color images including data taken by the telescope offering the highest resolution view of the universe ever captured. take a look at this one, this image here released last night by president biden. it is so distant in the cosmos that it displays stars and galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago. it takes time to expose a picture. joining us is former nasa astronaut jose hernandez. i'm wondering when you see these images, what do you see? >> jose, man, i get so excited because to think that we have a picture, a window of how our universe was 13 billion years ago, and people say, well, how far is that, imagine the sun, between the earth and sun, 95 million miles away and the light takes 8 1/2 minutes to get here. that light took 13 billion years to get here. we're seeing it as it w

ashish jha talked about a vaccine distribution as well.t around 300,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine to the states, but that is simply just a fraction of what is needed here in the country. the cdc estimates there are 1.5 million people who are eligible for such a vaccine. this vaccine is recommended to have two doses, so we will see what the administration might be doing in the weeks ahead as they try to get that vaccine out into the country. >> arlette, what's the latest on the president's health after the covid diagnosis? >> reporter: well, the president's physician, dr. kevin o'connor, released a letter saying the president's symptoms are increasingly improving. so far the predominant symptom that he is experiencing is a sore throat. the runny nose, the cough as well as the body aches are starting to improve considerably is what he said in the letter earlier today. the president continues to isolate. his wife, first lady jill biden, is still up in wilmington, delaware. she once again tested negative for covid-19 today. a bit earlier

ashish jha. >>> meanwhile, a dangerous heatwave rolls through the u.s. bringing with it intensifying drought and raging wildfires. we'll hear from the mayor of miami, republican francis suarez, about how his if front line city is preparing for rising sea levels and extreme weather. >>> and with the president's environmental agenda stalled in congress, we will ask commerce secretary gina raimondo about what is next for climate and competition with china. >>> then, the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the detail, new details about former president trump's conduct during and after the adult. >> i don't want to say the election is over. >> will the revolutions have any legal impact on mr. trump's future? >> i announce i was not going to run for office, the persecution of donald trump would stop. >> we will check in with california democratic congressman adam schiff, a member of the select committee. >>anft a u.n. brokered deal was signed to release vital grain exports, russia bombs the very ports where they're stored as the war continues to

ashish jha about the recovery ahead.n, the january 6 committee lays out its case about what president donald trump did and didn't do as protesters reached the u.s. capitol. the video outtakes appear to show his mind-set one day later. >> i don't want to say the election is over. >> bret: vice chair of the committee liz cheney says there's more to come. >> the dam has begun to break. we will ask the congresswoman what happens now is the focus shifts from washington to wyoming where she faces a tough reelection battle. then, an attack on a republican congressman running for governor sparks debate over new york's public safety laws. we will discuss that, plus... >> arizonan republicans don't need a governor that supported barack obama and hillary clinton. >> no one understands better than carrie how to fight back against the fake news media and the radical left. >> bret: the midterm rivalry between the former president and his estranged vp. we will ask her sunday family about their dueling visions for the future of the g.o.

ashish jha for covid response will speak. they tweeted a video of him. it's short here, look at it >> hey, folks. guess you heard, this morning i tested positive for covid. i'm double vaccinated and double boosted. symptoms are mild, and i appreciate your concerns, but i'm doing well i'm getting a lot of work done, and i continue to get it done, and in the meantime, thanks for your concern and keep the faith. it's going to be okay. >> it's going to be okay >> casual, on the balcony. just kind of letting people know he's all right they tell us day to day work is going to continue, but of course, the president will have to quarantine in the residence kayla tausche is with us, our senior white house correspondent. they've been really transparent all morning and i'm guessing he told the kids and grandkids first, but we learned mighty fast >> they've been transparent, but the protocol at the white house has been pretty strict even despite relaxed regulations on masking and distancing outside of the white house grounds, but here on campus, anyone who has been

ashish jha. biden is taking an anti-viral drug while he isolates. the president's physical, kevin o'connor, says he is experiencing fatigue, a runny nose and an occasional dry cough. biden put out this tweet showing him working at his desk. he said he's doing great behind is keeping busy. the president was scheduled to fly to pennsylvania today for a gun violence speech and then travel to his home in wilmington. this is him from yesterday. though that is not. both of those trips have been cancelled. vice president harris has tested negative. she was last with the president on tuesday. the first lady, who is a close contact, is also testing negative as of this morning. joining me now is nbc news correspondent mike memoli. this is not the same as getting covid a year ago or two years ago. there are therapeutics, which the president is on. people have had multiple boosters at this point, it is a different world that we are living in today than the beginning or even mid way through the pandemic. >> that's a really important point, katy. it's part of wha

ashish jha in the white house press room and of course, the daily white house press briefing and whate told is the president is doing quite well. he's having still some of those mild symptoms, but it seems as if he has a pretty robust appetite and he's in a good mood, as well and he also is continuing to work as he had promised to do so yesterday in the video he had put out, of course, on social media. and karine st. pierre and ashish jha confirmed they facetimed with the president and he had one message for the american people and that message was in fact to get vaccinated. that does it for me this hour. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "deadline: white house" starts after a very quick break. soughin "deadline: white house" starts after a very quick break thank you wayfair. how's the puppy? puppy's perfect. yeah great decision! it■s hard eating healthy. unless you happen to be a dog. seen this ad? it's not paid for by california tribes. it's paid for by the out of state gambling corporations that wrote prop 27. it doesn't tell you 90% of the profits go to the out of state corporations. a tiny

ashish jha, the white house covid response coordinator. dr. jha, welcome back to the "newshour."most ems that covid has become background noise for so many, if not most americans. it's clearly not that for you, though. give us a sense of where this country stands right now in grappling with covid. >> yes, so, judy, thanks for having me back. i mean, i totally understand for why many people it's faded a bit into the background. we have been in emergency mode for two years. but the good news and the way we look at it here is that, obviously, we are in a much better place than where we were a year-and-a-half ago, when this president took office. we have built up a great supply of vaccines, and we have treatments and diagnostic tests. but the pandemic isn't over for many of the reasons you laid out, 300 americans dying every day. it's the equivalent of 100,000 deaths a year. that's an enormous toll, ndreds of thousands of americans getting infected every day. and then we're seeing these new subvariants. so we have got to keep up the work to make sure that we keep infections down, hos

ashish jha. us.ha, thank you for joining - it's day three now for the president, have you spoken with him this morning, how is he doing? >> yeah, i connected with his team last night, he had a great day yesterday. haven't connected with the president or his team this morning yet. look, this is a president who's double vaccinated, double boosted, getting treatments that are widely available to americans and has at this moment a mild respiratory illness. this is really good news, and both vaccines and treatments are available to everyone. really important that people get vaccinated. >> on friday the white house revealed that the president had 17 close contacts including white house staff, members of congress, any word on whether any of those have now tested positive? >> as of late yesterday, again 17 is the number that we're tracking in the white house medical unit, none of them have tested positive as of late yesterday. obviously all those people have been contacted, they're following cdc protocol, an

ashish jha told cbs's face the nation the administration is looking into potentially declaring an emergency, but they're not there yet. >> we think we can get our arms around this thing. obviously if we need further tools, we will invoke them as we need them. >> reporter: the cdc reports there are nearly 3,000 confirmed monkeypox cases nationwide, and that includes two new cases in children, likely the result of household transmission according to health officials. >> anybody who has monkeypox can spread it to others. it is through skin to skin contact, direct and prolonged contact. we're not surprised that you're going to see some other individuals get infected as well. >> lawmakers are calling on the white house to step up its response. a group of 50 house democrats wants the administration to declare a public health emergency to accelerate vaccine delivery. >> i don't know why there aren't more vaccines available. i'm hearing from health care providers in my district that there are people lining up to get vaccinated, and they don't have the vaccines for them. and that is a real problem.

ashish jha. doctor, good to have you back. listen, let's start with two maps here.w. the presence of covid almost all red across the country, the second map shows the strain on hospitals and health care systems, plenty of red here, but we're not seeing the reimplementation of masking mandates or any major mitigation measures. is now the time to do that? >> yes, victor, first of all, thanks for having me back. you're absolutely right. there are a lot of infections out there, about 120, 130,000 cases, but we think that's a substantial under count, hundreds of thousands of infections every day. hospitalizations and particularly deaths are relatively low relative to other surges. i do think people should be doing things to reduce risk of infection, so i think if you're in a crowded indoor space, i think wearing a mask is clearly beneficial in reducing your risk of getting infected, of spreading it to others. rapid testing is a really important mitigation technique. there's a lot of effort being done on improving ventilation, being outdoors. there's a lot of things we ca

ashish cole wright is sponsoring legislation to better protect restaurant workers. is the latest in a series of specific legislation including protection from workers and industries ranging from janitors construction workers. >> when the state doesn't follow through what kind of message does that send to private employers? >> for people like eloise accountability cannot come soon enough. neither her employer or the state responded to our comments. >> what would you say to those out there who don't even realize? >> speak up and educate yourself. if you don't to the nothing will change. she is still waiting for an initial hearing but she is optimistic that she will get her wages. >> we will be working on the next several months on a series of stories and we want to begin by helping you figure out if you are a victim and how you can get your money back. for details and to share your story go to cbs in san francisco.com. >>> hundred of beagles intended for sale at medical testing labs are looking for new homes in california. this rescue is bursting with 200 young beagle

ashish jha, the white house's coronavirus coordinator, who told me that the president as of this morning did not have a fever. the president taking to twitter just a little bit ago, to say that he is doing great. and you can also see on your screen there, a picture of the president working this morning, apparently, from the residence. this is the treaty room inside the white house residence, where he said he spoke with several of those pennsylvania lawmakers, who he was supposed to meet with today. and you see him there wearing a blazer. the president saying that he's doing great and, quote, keeping busy. of course, the president, as you mentioned, ana, is double boosted, receiving his last booster on march 30th. >> and we do know he has been traveling quite a bit, abroad, and domestically. was in massachusetts just yesterday. has had close contacts, meetings with a lot of different people. we've often seen him without a mask. how has the white house been approaching, broadly, this stage of the pandemic in trying to manage the president's exposure? >> look, the white house has had pretty

ashish jha. thank you for being with us. when was the last time you got an update on president biden's condition? >> i got an update last night at 10:00 p.m. and he was doing just fine. i'm going to touch base with his medical team, i'm going to speak to him again myself directly this morning, but as of 10:00 p.m. last night, which is my last update, he was doing great. >> just fine. elab elaborate. better or worse than he was in the morning when we first heard about this? >> the symptoms were basically the same. again, he's got a little runny nose, he's got a bit of a dry cough, he was feeling -- you know, he worked all day yesterday, he was on phone calls, he was on zoom calls, worked through the evening and as of 10:00 p.m., as i said, when i talked to his medical team who had last seen him right around 10:00 p.m. or last talked to him right around 10:00 p.m. he said he was feeling just fine. >> any sign, though -- any symptoms that are getting worse? >> no, again, as of 10:00 p.m. last night, no, it was the same symptoms

ashish jha. >> joining us now, only -- emily wilkins. >> is for having me. host: how much time does congress have? guest: everyone in the house is holding their breath hoping that they will not be -- there is a lot to get done in there is a potential that we can see the house they later in the senate stay later. -- and the senate state letter -- state later. democrats can figure out what they can do, and if thinking moving through that process. those are the two big things but there are slower things that congress is looking to. host: how much of that has to be repackaged because of senator manchin's decision not to support everything in it? guest: there are two provisions. both of those have been with the parliamentarian. democrats and republicans argued there is the it should be in reconciliation. we wait for the parliamentarian together decision. -- to give their decision? when you talk to democrats, there is a disappointment that they aren't able to get more what they want into the package at the same time -- they can run on it and talk about it to voter

ashish jha appeared on "face the nation" to talk about monkeypox here. >> i do think monkeypox can be contained, absolutely. the way we contain monkeypox is we have a very simple, straightforward strategy. make testing widely available, we have done that. testing is more frequent and common. >> he said the u.s. can administer 80,000 tests a week and is planning to release hundreds of thousands of additional vaccine doses in the coming weeks. >>> and the "associated press" says the mega millions jackpot is now $790 million. the nation's fourth largest jackpot ever. the next drawing takes place tomorrow. the cash prize option is estimated to be worth more than $464 million before taxes. why people are lining up in the uk to see the inside of some very different upside down houses. houses. (vo) purina one has the inside story onit starts inside the gut... with purina one with new microbiome balance. natural prebiotic nutrition promoting gut health and immune support. purina one with new microbiome balance. announcer: type 2 diabetes? discover the power of 3 in the ozempic® tri-zone. in m

ashish jha, can vaccines prevent another devastating surge?> reporter: as americans gather, travel, and vacation in record pre-pandemic numbers, the u.s. may be quietly and rapidly moving toward a summer covid surge. >> there's no question in my mind that we're missing a vast majority of infections right now. >> reporter: omicron subvariant b.a.5, the most contagious version of the virus yet, now dominant, making up more than 50% of new cases while there is no alarm at hospitals nationwide, many public covid testing sites have shuttered, while at the same time results from at-home test kits are going unreported. >> the truth is there are probably several hundred thousand, 400,000, 500,000 infections a day happening across the country. >> reporter: americans previously infected or protected by a vaccine are catching the virus at a worrisome rate. even the boosted have gotten sick multiple times. >> we are seeing a lot of re-infections within months of prior infections it's a reminder that an infection does not give you lifelong immunity it's al

ashish jha.er alexander joins us from the white house with this. >> reporter: good morning to you, president biden beginning his first full day of isolation after that positive test his diagnosis, the latest reminder that once again covid cases are surging nationwide with the dominant new omicron sub variant driving those infections, though we don't yet know which strain the president has. his aides saying he's going to work remotely, receiving his intelligence briefing and hosting meetings all virtually president biden this morning isolated inside the white house residence. the president who is fully vaccinated and double boosted earlier sharing this video just hours after the white house revealed his diagnosis saying his symptoms are mild >> i'm doing well. again, a lot of work done. thanks for your concern. keep the faith it's going to be okay. >> reporter: the president's physician writing mr. biden experienced a runny nose, fatigue, and dry cough wednesday evening and is being treated with p

ashish jha. welcome to "face the nation." >> good morning.nks for having me here. >> the white house physician has said that it's the ba.5 variant that likely infected the president. that's the dominant variant across the country right now. it's highly transmissable. how is the president's health and do you know where he got it? >> yeah, so it is the ba.5, which is, as you said, 80% of infections. the president is doing well. i can checked in with the team late last night. he was feeling well. he had a good day yesterday. he has a viral syndrome, upper respiratory infection, that >> there is so little known about long covid, but given the president's age, do you expect that the white house will continue to make disclosures if he has long-term symptoms from this infection? >> absolutely. we think it's really important for the american people to know how well their president is doing, which is why we have been so transparent, giving updates several times a day, having people hear from me directly, from his physician. and, obviously, if he has p

ashish jha said that biden is sick with the ba.5, the most contagious variant of covid. it can reinfect people who had the virus a few months ago, the most recent data showing ba.5 makes up nearly 80% of the new covid infections in the u.s., causing another summer surge in cases. >> the thing we're concerned about hospitalizations are going up, people need to get vaccinated. >> reporter: the white house attributing the president's mild condition to the fact he's fully vaccinated and he has two boosters shots. he's also taking paxlovid. most effective when taken soon after tested positive. president biden is expected to continue working from the white house residence until he tests negative. the president plans to speak visually to the national association of black law enforcement executives today. >>> a migrant boat tragedy in the bahamas leaves at least 17 people dead. authorities say at least when i capsized off nassau. a number of them are still missing. >>> a 9-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a deadly attack on his family at a campground in iowa. arlo schmidt wa

the president is now taking the covid antiviral paxlovid white house covid-19 coordinator doctor ashish emphasized the significance of having these protections in place and it's a reminder of the reason that we all work so hard. to make sure that every american has the same level of protection that the president the white house says vice president kamala harris is a close contact but will continue with their schedule as she tested negative. first lady jill biden also tested negative on my schedule. i'm >> according to cdc asked. >> lawmakers like house speaker nancy pelosi and louisiana republican senator bill cassidy expressed their concern and hope the president gets better soon. >> none of us is immune from it, including the president of the united states. i know he's been vaccinated and been boosted. and so that's going ng a severe complication. >> now the president will continue to work remotely for at least 5 days and will need to test negative before you can go back to work in public reporting live in washington. i'm basil, john. all right. thank you for that update. basil. well,

ashish jha among them and an effort from the white house as they've communicated from the start to besparent as possible if there were any positive tests. we'll continue asking these questions and see what better answers we can continue to get. >> peter, stand by there. we want to bring in former press secretary jen psaki who is on the phone with us. i know you're quite familiar with the protocols and protections surrounding the president. peter walked us through. we know to be close in proximity with the president you had to have a negative covid test. would you then be required to wear a mask if you would be in the oval office or some indoor setting with the president? >> that was physically the protocol, savannah, and good morning. that was typically the protocol in the white house and meetings in the white house, but it's important to remember that the president does not only conduct business of being president in the white house and most recently on a foreign trip, of course, he does domestic travel where he engages with people in person and people are not always required to wear

ashish jha give us an update. you showed the tweet from the president earlier saying that he is doing great. we know, of course, that he tested positive for covid this morning, so let me just walk you through a timeline of just the last several days and what we know. we know that it was on tuesday that he last tested negative for covid, of course, before the positive test this morning, and yesterday, wednesday, is when he made that trip to massachusetts to talk about his climate agenda, and then today, after testing positive, we know that his doctor has prescribed him to start taking the paxlovid antiviral medication. now, in terms of just how he is doing, according to this letter that we got from the president's doctor earlier today, he says that the president is only experiencing mild symptoms, so we're talking about a runny nose, some fatigue, the occasional dry cough, and as of this morning, importantly, we are told that the president did not have a fever. now, obviously, the white house is now very busy doing

ashish jha is the white house covid coordinator and spoke to the president this morning. >> he hadn't even been able to finish his breakfast because he had been busy. i encouraged him to finish his breakfast. the good news is his immune system is very well protected given the four vaccine shots he's gotten. >> reporter: tests will confirm whether the 79-year-old president was infected by the highly contagious ba.5 subvariant, which is now responsible for nearly 80% of all u.s. cases. the number of daily cases has nearly tripled in the past three months, and hospitalizations are up 20% just in the past two weeks. dr. jha says president biden does not have a fever and that his oxygen levels are normal. for now the president will continue to hold meetings via phone and by zoom in the white house residence until he tests negative, while the first lady is going to be staying at their residence in delaware. norah? >> nancy cordes, thank you very much. >>> well, let's turn now to cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook for more on the president's diagnosis. so, john, we've heard

president doctor ashish jah also brought up the fact that the white house is still asking congress to pass more covid funding. >> to make sure we have enough vaccines, tests and treatments to deal with future variants. the country's critical shortage of baby formula is now stretching into its 6th month. nearly one-third of powdered formula products are still out of stock across the nation. >> under operation fly formula, the u.s. called on international companies to send tens of millions of cans of baby formula. and governor officials are saying they recently cleared the way to give those suppliers a permanent place in the u.s. market. the biden administration says it could be another 2 months before families get the relief that they need. people are using the hashtag boycott walgreens on social media to share their stories. they claim. >> pharmacists refuse to fill birth control prescriptions or sell them condoms due to personal beliefs against them. walgreens apparently has a policy that allows pharmacists to step away from doing such things that they morally object. but those emplo

ashish jha, the white house coronavirus coordinator, who took questions from reporters. >> right now he feels really well. our expectation is that he's going to continue to have mild illness. and he's going to be monitored for symptoms. >> reporter: the president is receiving the anti-viral medication paxlovid. the 79-year-old is fully vaccinated and got two booster shots. contact tracing is under way for his close contacts, including members of congress. senators warren and markey with the president wednesday have both tested negative, along with first lady jill biden. >> he's feeling good. i tested negative this morning. i am going to keep my schedule. i am, according to cdc guidelines, i am keeping masked. >> white house officials say they don't know where the president caught the virus, and we don't know which variant he may have. he's now isolating at the white house for at least five days. >>> well, disappointed and angry, just some of the words from george floyd's family after a man who took part in his murder was sentenced thursday. former minneapolis police officer thomas la

ashish jha is the white house covid coordinator and spoke to the president this morning. >> he hadn't even within able to finish his breakfast because he'd been busy. i encouraged him to finish his breakfast. the good news is his immune is well protected due to the four vaccines he's gotten. >> reporter: tests will y contains ba-5 subvariant, responsible now for more than 8 po% of all u.s. cases. the number of daily cases has nearly tripled in the last three months, and hospitalizations are up 20% just in the past two weeks. dr. jha says president biden does not have a fever and that his oxygen levels are normal. for now, the president will continue to hold meetings via phone and by zoom in the white house residence until he tests negative, while the first lady is going to be staying at the residence in delaware. norah. >> o'donnell: nancy cordes, thank you very much. well, let's turn to cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook for more on the president's diagnosis. so, jon, we've heard the president has these mild symptoms, but he is 79 years old. how much of a concern is

. >> reporter: white house covid coordinator ashish jha. how frequently is the president being examined by a physician in person? >> the president is doing really well so he doesn't need an ongoing exam all the time and, obviously, he's getting examined at least once a day but dr. o'connor is interacting with preident on a regular basis nu the president intrakd with dozens of people in the two days before he tested positive. tonight the white house released evidence of contact tracing. >> the white house identified 17 people determined to be close contacts of the president including members of his senior staff. none of the staff members have tested positive to date. >> reporter: those close contacts we're told include at least one member of congress who was traveling with the president the day before he tested positive. all 17 individuals are now masking when around other people and social distancing as a precaution in accordance with c.d.c. guidelines. major. >> garrett: with key details from the white house tonight, nancy cordes, thank yo

ashish jha crediting his mild symptoms to the fact that biden is fully vaccinated and double boosted. the white house reminding americans they have the same tools. >> we are now at a point, i believe, where we can prevent nearly every covid death in america. that is a remarkable fact. >> mary bruce with that update on the president's condition today. but mary, i want to get to something you asked in the briefing earlier and what we're learning about americans under 50 could be eligible for the second booster like the president. >> i pressed the white house on when all americans would be eligible for the second booster, and dr. jha told me it depends on the fda. they are reviewing this, but we're learning the administration may hold off until the fall when new vaccines that might hold more protection against these variants are expected to become available. whit? >> mary, thank you. joining us now, dr. anthony fauci, chief medical adviser to the president. thanks so much for speaking with us tonight. first on president biden and his covid diagnosis, we learned toot that he did have an e

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ashish jha explaining when the president got home, he started feeling tired. >> late in the evening, he felt some amount of fatigue. after a long day of travel, i don't know, there are a lot of late evenings where i feel some amount of fatigue, don't know about all of you. he went to bed. i asked him how he slept, he said he just had bit of a restless night, so i -- i really think his symptoms, you could say, either began late last night or early this morning. >> reporter: then this morning, that positive test. tonight, we're told the 79-year-old president is breathing well. his oxygen levels are normal. he has not had a fever, and is working comfortably in the residence, surrounded by fewer aides than usual. the white house says he has started taking the antiviral drug paxlovid. we know that rebound covid cases have been a concern in some individuals who take paxlovid. how concerned are you that could potentially hinder his return to the oval office? >> rebound rates are around 5%, so, it happens, it's not that frequent. but here is the key point about rebound, which is when people

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ashish jha. >> joining us now, only -- emily wilkins. >> is for having me. host: how much time does congress have? guest: everyone in the house is holding their breath hoping that they will not be -- there is a lot to get done in there is a potential that we can see the house they later in the senate stay later. -- and the senate state letter -- state later. democrats can figure out what they can do, and if thinking moving through that process. those are the two big things but there are slower things that congress is looking to. host: how much of that has to be repackaged because of senator manchin's decision not to support everything in it? guest: there are two provisions. both of thosee

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ashish jha specifically about their concerns and his age because he is in a high-risk group and dr.because he is double vaccinated and double boosted and because he office paxlovid this morning that that reduces severe illness in their view. they are monitoring him and they're testing his oxygen which they say is normal. they say his -- all other signs are normal, as well and he's exhibiting mild symptoms and there are recurring cases and then you have a boomerang, so doctors say they will monitor that. jill biden, for her part, the first lady has tested negative. she'll be isolating separately in their home in wilmington for the next several days, but the vice president xi has deemed a close contact with the president and xi is trashe is traveling a president is working. he just is experiencing minor symptoms and think, so much of a different story since the first chapter of covid when the first president was medevaced to walter reed with vaccinations and antivirals since then, wofrl, this is an entirely different story here tonight. >> jeff zeleny at the white house. thanks very m

ashish jha said yesterday. >> this virus will be with us forever.t's really important that people build up their immunity against this virus. >> where do you see this going? >> the cdc did the country a great disservice in february when they changed the map. overnight they changed the map and embraced this community level, which is not really the amount of virus. it's the level that your hospitals are experiencing. their other map, their transmission map, shows virtually the entire country now is at high level of transmission. it would be easy to show the public why you need to mask in public and instead of dr. jha and the rest of the folks over at the white house and cdc continuing to refer to that community level map which is irrelevant to the average person, they need to tell people how much virus is in the community and there is virus everywhere. if you are not up to date on your vaccines, even if you are, if you go into a crowded place unmasked, you're going -- it's like going into combat unarmed. you are going to get infected. it's a matter of

ashish jha, the covid response coordinator here at the white house, talked about the administration's efforts to contain the virus saying there is more that could be done at this moment. >> we have substantially ramped up testing. we have ramped up vaccinations. we're not done on that effort. we will do more in the days and weeks ahead. whether we decla re a health emergency and what that declaration will allow us to do. no decisions have been made so far. we will assess that ongoing basis. globally it's a very small number, but zero americans have died of monkeypox. >> reporter: even as dr. jha talked about the efforts the administration is taking that they have faced criticism in the speed of their response including from the former food and drug administration commissioner scott gottlieb who served under president trump. earlier today he had this tweet that said if we have allowed monkeypox to become an endemic virus in the u.s., which is becoming an increasingly possible outcome, it will be among the most unfortunate public health failures in recent times. now the administration h

ashish jha confirmed the president has the ba.5 variant, the most prominent strain in the u.s. right now. dr. jha pledged continued transparency about the president's condition. >> we think it's really important for the american people to know how well their president is doing which is why we've been so transparent, giving updates several times a day, having people here ar direy from his physician. if he has persistent symptoms, if any of them interfere with his ability to carry out his duties, we will disclose that early enough and with the american people. >> in the meantime, the first lady tested negative again today. jill biden is not experiencing any symptoms and remains at the family home in delaware. >>> dr. sidhu matthew is a physician and public health specialist. i know there's still a lot we don't know about long covid. you've seen many patients with long covid. in your view does the president run added risk for that given his age and risk for asthma? >> the straightforward answer, pamela, would be yes. given the fact that president biden is almost 80, he has asthma

ashish jha, the way he put it if you're over the age of 50 and you have not received a shot in 2022,bably need to get one because your protection has wayned. and ba.5, these subvariants, have driven a lot of that. >> do we need to start thinking about masking again in certain groups? i'm in the middle of getting a 4-year-old vaccinated. we just got started. we're not done. or if you have an elderly relative who may be vulnerable. should we be thinking about this? >> look, i think we should be thinking about masks. there's been confusion. but even as you look at the cdc transmission maps now and these transmission maps were different than the maps before. before, they were just counting cases, now, taking into account hospitalizations. but even with this pared down map, you have a high portion of the community, with transmission. and you should consider masks indoors. there's only a quarter of the country where they consider low community transmission. yeah, you should get high-quality masks first of all, those are the masks you should be wearing. look at those maps. in big cities, ne

. >> white house covid coordinator, doctor ashish jha, saying the presidents recovered from covid mayke time. president biden is improving. the white house says he's keeping a busy schedule, posting this image of him speaking by phone with his national security team this morning. and later, with a stop economic team, telling them he sounds worse than he feels. we welcome back dr. vin gupta, critical care, criminologist and faculty member at the university of washington institute for health metrics and evaluation. doctor gupta, always good to see. you the white house physician warned today that some symptoms still lingering. does that to be expected? >> alicia, great evening, great to see you. it is. and it's encouraging to hear that he's doing better he looks like he's active at least and he's able to participate in work. he does look a little fatigued, so he should rest. the president, if you are watching, you should rest. but he's able to talk in full sentences, alicia. he sounds like his oxygen levels are at normal. and so, those are all very reassuring signs. dry cough sounds like