to your point, the biden white house sold 950 million barrels of oil out of strategic petroleum reserveidens invested in sinopec? >> i don't know if anyone is paying attention in the white house. we're starting into a hurricane season. this means a lot in louisiana, texas and florida. we have seen bad hurricanes before. we depended on the strategic petroleum reserve in katrina and christina in 2005. we given it all away. we given it to a country that ostensibly is a significant adversary. more than a significant adversary i already again with coronavirus, with fentanyl, with the theft of intellectual property from universities, this is serious, serious problem and one that cannot just simply be dismissed. the fact that you have, can you imagine, just for a moment if you had one of president trump's children doing this with an adversary? there would be no end to the outcry that the media would put forward. on this it is all strangely silent. elizabeth: let's back up. sinopec, reportedly wanted to buy russia's gazprom in 2015. seven years ago hunter biden's investment firm invested $1.7 b

can rise to the moment," a string of supreme court setbacks, they wonder if the biden white houseble of urgency. that the moment demands. and a new op-ed titled "biden presidency looks out of control, but could it get worse?" the hashtag, #impeachjoe biden began trending on social media over the july 4th weekend after this comment from former senior advisor david axelrod. >> there is this sense that things are kind of out of control and he's not in command. no one president can control inflation, but it is a gale force wind right now affecting politics. >> harris: insult to injury for biden? and a monolith poll shows his job approval is at another recent new low of 36%, disapproval at an all-time high. 58%. and that's really a conglomerate of everybody. i mean, the parties, and so on and so forth, to get a number like that. what is your take on david axelrod, though? he's got kind of an influential voice in the party. >> yeah, and i think he speaking the obvious. sometimes it takes the clarity of the obvious to go out there. in that same poll, 88% of the country thought we were on

thank you. >> jesse: it's obvious the white house is putting a lot of effort into protecting biden's ge. they want him to see strong like an ox but it's not working. >> the white house announced president biden has a mild case of covid. on the bright side it's the first positive news biden has gotten in months. but, acourtedding to the white house biden is feeling pretty good for a 300-year-old man. [laughter] >> he couldn't get climate change action. he couldn't get free community college. he couldn't get tax hikes on the rich. but it turns out there is one thing he could get. >> jesse: while the biden white house muzzles the president's doctor they are more worried about the political fallout of this sickness. this is going to be a huge week for the administration and the party ahead of the midterms. biden was supposed to go to pennsylvania yesterday where a senate seat is up for grabs. and give a big speech and make it rain at a fundraiser. that was scrapped. and then on monday, biden was set to take a trip to florida for his first midterm rally. i'm not sure if they are still goin

white house with more. edward. reporter: liz, president joe biden back here at the white house seemingly empty-handed there was no agreementh the king of saudi arabia to increase oil production. republicans say he didn't have to go all the way around the world. he would have saved the global embarassment of the fist bump with prince mohammed bin salman. pictures of the president making conversations with him going into various meetings in saudi arabia republicans questioned. >> the idea he needs to go to the middle east and beg for oil is ridiculous. he could have gone to midland, texas or out in west texas and ask these energy producers to begin to drill. reporter: new "fox news" polling don't like what they see. 84% say the economy is poor, or only fair. nation's top energy advisor will no change in policy. >> i would like to think us thinking short term, long term. short term how much oil can we put on the market to make sure we have enough supply, how to make sure putin doesn't benefit to bring an end to this horrific war, long term what are the steps we need to make today reducing demand on oil. elizabeth: edward lawr

went complements the white house for their transparency, especially compared to the last white house. what's the test now for the biden white house, "a," in terms of being transparent about the president's condition day-to-day, and "b," maybe using this as a teaching moment. >> it is a teaching moment. and i think the president and the team around him are setting a good example for the rest of the country. we can all learn from that. and i also complement them on their transparency. we need to know what's happening with our political leader. >> dr. shaffner, dr. wen, grateful for your insights. we'll continue this conversation in the days ahead. >>> when we come back, much more on this breaking news. president biden tests positive for covid. dr. sanjay gupta joins us live, next. owed that a specific nutrit formula can help reduce e the rk of dry amd progression. ask your doctor now about an arededs 2 supplement. have you thought about your wish? i wish that shaq was my real life big brother. awe. what's up little bro? ♪ i'm not touching you, i'm not touching you! ♪ turns out, some wishes do come true. and it turns out

so, one of the big criticisms of the biden's white house, president biden's white house, is they're notsively enough to the challenges put forward. and there's a quote from the communications director, kate benningfield getting a lot of attention responding to democrats who say he's not doing enough to protect abortion rights. joe biden's about dobz is not to satisfy some activists who have been consistently out of step with the mainstream of the democratic party. what was your response to that, ashley? >> i was disappointed in that statement. as an activist, someone she nodded the coalition, i ran the coalition department on that campaign. guess who was part of that coalition, activist. in 2020 when people took to the streets because of the death of george floyd, it invigorated the base that allowed us to have record turnout. we were fighting on authoritarian president like donald trump, but these people going into the street saying that we need a bodily autonomy, that's the excitement democrats need right now ahead of the midterms. to demonize them and say, you know, they're not mains

reporters a sale white house for shielding biden's doctor from questions about the covid test. is as reporters slammed the white house thursday for not making president biden's doctor available to answer questions. one journalist said the staff were exhibiting, "the least transparency of any white house in 50 years." wonder what you think about that? we are taking your calls on the president's diagnosis. let's hear from a democrat in san antonio, florida. jan, good morning. caller: good morning. i just have to laugh at these callers who think trump got the vaccine. trump did not do anything with the pandemic first started. i read bob woodward's book and it is verbatim out of trump's mouth. he did not want to tell people how bad it was because he did not want to scare people. that is an idiotic assessment of the pandemic. i thank god for joe biden. he had the sense to get his shots. he did not end up in the hospital. i don't know. the two doctors with trump, they suggested we drink bleach. thank god we got the vaccine. i have had both of my shots, both of my boosters. i am 88-yea

how frustrated are they with the biden white house? what do they want them to do? frustrated with the biden white house and their leadership, especially on the abortion front. they feel they were caught flat-footed for something they shouldn't be caught flat-footed on. a lot of frustration there, especially as we are, john, less than 150 days from the election day. >> i have a new story on the democrats' frustration today and others hitting on the theme, as well. you mentioned a busy month on the house side. the capitol riot hearings are continuing. pat cipollone agreed to testify behind closed doors tomorrow. we believe we'll see some of his testimony probably in the hearings that we see scheduled for next week. how important, in your estimation, is this testimony? where do you think the committee goes from here? >> cipollone is an important figure. he is somebody the committee wanted to talk to, has talked to in an off the record, non-transcribed, non-recorded setting. listen, he'll be able to exert executive privilege over some of the conversations with the form

it is just absolutely shameful for the biden white house to try to pin blame on republicans when it's biden white house who created this mess in the first place. >> shannon: saw d.c. mayor has said she wants about potentially from the national guard to manage what she's calling a humanitarian crisis, and other people are coming, been busted from texas, from arizona, from another spot, near 30 mayor eric adams, i want to play a little bit of what he said a few days ago about what happened in india, is also. >> our system was inundated with those who are seeking shelter because of the callousness of those other states that puts them out. schools are going to be impacted, our health care system is going to be impacted, our infrastructure is going to be impacted. >> shannon: houllier, do you think that is other localities did not realize that's exactly what's happening in the border states and has been happening? do you think that what some people are calling a political stunt, sunny people that are the so they get the same effect on same impact of the illegal immigration, is it going to

white house policy? we've been covering that story and this whole hunter biden story as it relates to policy in the whitetwo years. going on three years. should hunter testify before congress what he knows about russian energy and ukrainian energy when it comes to his work with ukraine's energy company burisma and also he got paid by you know, more than 3 1/2 million from moscow's oligarch, widow of mayor of moscow? >> yeah. elizabeth: is a leap to say hunter was paid by moscow for information on ukraine's energy sector? >> we know he got millions from russia. we know he got millions from companies connected to the chinese communist party. we know he got millions from burisma and energy companies and ukraine. he got money from all three of those sources. so we'll see that. that will be a conference decision. if in fact the american people put us back in charge and we get the chance to then have a majority in the house of representatives i do think it is critical that we do the investigation on the key subjects so american people get the facts. part of our constitutional duty. we owe it to them. elizabeth

vote yes on prop 27. >>> a health update on president biden just in from the white house. biden's covid symptoms are now, quote, almost completely resolved. the president is feeling well enough to do his exercise routine and has finished his five-day course of paxlovid. biden will continue to isolate as this is just day five. that news coming from the white house, the same day it is hosting a summit on covid vaccines, and it comes as a third covid school year approaches. and as 13 states report new covid cases are climbing. let's take a quick look at the numbers. this map we haven't used in quite some time. look, 13 states in the red and the orange, reported more covid infections this week than last week. 13 states trending up. the overall national case count it is way down, 122,000 and change yesterday compared to 807,000 back in january. way, way down. it is trickling up a little bit. not a cause of alarm but a cause of maybe concern. concern because hospitalizations also starting to trend up again, well below 50,000, way down from the january peak. you don't want that nu

the biden white house forcefully disputing those who believe we are tipping into recession. by week's end, we will have a better sense, a much better sense, of who is right and just what that means for your budget and the president's political standing. several key indicators out this week. tomorrow, the latest consumer confidence index. the june report was dour. wednesday, the federal reserve is to raise interest rates to tame inflation. thursday, a glimpse of whether the economy grew or contracted again. friday, another measure of consumer sentiment. let's get to our cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the white house is trying to say we are not in a recession. what else? >> reporter: yeah, they're gaoig to be watching these numbers closely, but they're down playing a bit of what we are going to show. particularly the number on thursday, when we get the measure of how much economic growth there was in the second quarter. the white house is already trying to say if it is negative, if it is negative growth for the second time in a row, that does not necessar

joe biden as of now, is isolating inside the white house residence. the white house says that he will be continuing to work, engaging in meetings and phone calls via zoom and over the telephone. we heard from jill biden speaking on her husband's condition. listen. >> i talked to him just a few minutes ago. he's doing fine, feeling good. i tested negative this morning. i am going to keep my schedule. i am, according to cdc guide livens, i'm keeping masked. >> reporter: obviously, it's very notable that it's only now that joe biden has finally tested positive for the coronavirus at a time when so many americans have themselves or no somebody who has tested positive for the virus over the course of this pandemic. part of that is due to the white house's very rig louse coronavirus protocols. we know that add visors who meet with him daily are tested in the morning via antigen tests and they usually wear masks when meeting with the president in the oval office. frequently, people will develop symptoms and test negative for a couple of days with the antigen

joe biden's white house, they are accomplices to this. last week we had tom homan on to talk about how the democrats wants to allow asylum applications online. the administration has been trying to get rid of the title 42 covid enforcement rule after getting rid of the trump's remain in mexico policy. but instead he's trying to accelerate the problem and i will say it again and i will mean it again. he's an accomplice to the mass murder of thousands of americans. senator cruz said it best when he went to the border. >> joe biden and kamala harris are responsible for the worst playing of slavery in america since the civil war. dan: you still not convinced? you don't think it administration an accomplice. listen to the parents of a child who died of accidental fentanyl overdoses. >> how does a healthy capable 17-year-old no longer live. our baby is gone. >> i'm part of our thousand strong, there is more being added every single day. it's disgusting how many people are dying. >> he was just a kid who made one dumb decision and he died. dan:

during the trump administration, if you remember the media narrative it was a white house in chaos, i think it is safe to say the biden people see the white house as a sinking ship and going into self-preservation mode, jumping off the boat now >> todd: you eshgsz eliminate -- tough situation. >> carley: the thing with kate bedingfield, her departure came after joe biden complained his successes have not been communicated well enough, so who broke up with who? >> todd: tough to communicate success when there is not a lot of success. >> carley: a bodega worker defended himself after -- who belongs behind bars? toeksz everybody talking about that one and did you see this? >> come on. come on. [sirens] >> come on! >> todd: dramatic body cam footage showing hero police officers save a man trapped in a burning car, more incredible footage of cops going beyond the call. that is coming up next. (announcer) it's time to lose the weight for good. try golo. no subscriptions, just real results that last! -i've lost 70 pounds. -58 pounds. -22 pounds. -128 pounds. 138 pounds in nine months. crazy, right? (laughing) (announcer) it'

white house. that comes as biden will come a he's departing for saudi arabia. he will test the reign of the crown prince that he said murdered journalists and that nation that he called a pariah nation during the campaign, so now all of a sudden we need a good relationship with the pariah nation? with the murdering crown prince? joe, you don't have to beg texas , oklahoma, north dakota for more oil coming have to beg the pariah's audis and the crow prince murderer to to produce more oil because you won't reduce it domestically? tomorrow we get the consumer price index inflation data expected to be another 40 year plus high record as americans are all suffering under the cos of the biden climate agenda. you know, geraldo, you have really worked hard. you have tried to thread the needle to defend joe biden. tell me where he is successful. what do you look at as a success ? ticket let me say one of the reasons we are friends, you and i is that you have never confus me with a taco. i felt bad that jill biden. democrats our fight frightened, frustrated, angry, bitte

yeah, i noticed with all the negative reports of biden's general health, though, the white house is clearly trying to reassure the public that even with covid biden is fine. . ha he's still in charge.y, on friday, they installed what appears to be a security cam in his office and made him lead a meeting. >> is this a 30 day in a row feeling better? >>>> thank you, guys. let's move it out that way. well, are they shooting biden's blackberry? laura , did they just tape iten to the wall? what tod is that? then today they were at it again. biden has never been better. >> but how are you dealing with joe biden? i'm feeling great.g you know, i had two four nights of sleep all the way through of this muscle. my daughter goes againstut my chest about five minutes tooo seven , so i'm notd. feeling good. my voice is still raspy. i've had every morning, every afternoon. i mean, she everyry evening i gt a full blown sure to test everything from the temperature ton in my blood. my plannd t powers eighth is to stop trafficking in firearms across state lines. - >> well, they're giving him lawo that they s

from the biden white house.at the world map and look at where hunter biden's family were trying to do business, it's the everywhere where from china, mexico, uae, ukraine, russia, qatar, i mean, look at that map. i mean, this is where hunter biden is out there either doing business or trying to do business while his dad was vice president of the united states. >> yeah, you're right, jason. it's a veritable united nations of corruption. it spans the globe. here's the thing, jason, when you look at that map, notice who is not highlighted on that country. great britain, germany, japan, you know? countries that have economic and business with cultures that lack corruption or minimized corruption. each and every days that -- place that hunter biden was looking to do business has a corporate climate that is highly corrupt, that is also very curious and has very major initiatives that they want accomplished in washington, d.c. with our government leaders; namely, joe biden. and that's the bottom line are. look at the t

he's the author of the upcoming book "the fight of his life: inside joe biden's white house." s, nice to have you here today. look, people are wondering whether his testimony might be a john dean moment. obviously, john dean and cipollone, both white house counsel in very different eras for very different presidents. but he was in fact a reluctant witness. what do you think about the fact that only know are we really hearing this moment and what could it possibly mean for his inner circle, the fact that he even presented himself to give testimony? >> well, it could be devastating. we're going to find out pretty soon. but i think it's important that we shouldn't run out and lionize pat cipollone. i was interested to hear myfriend friend john dean giving him brownie points for coming forward. but he came forward reluctantly. he's a long-time trump loyalist. he was all in on trump's shakedown of volodymyr zelenskyy, denying weapons unless he got dirt on joe biden. we shouldn't forget all of that. so it's hard to say. but having said all of that, you have to sympathize with a guy i

they are inventing at the biden white house.said this yesterday. will, i remember being with a bunch of senior leaders in november screaming my head off about the price of gas in november and being patted on my head and saying like, don't worry, we've got to get your christmas and it will be better in 2022. i don't think we have a great sense of where this is going. our reporters are back with us. that part is stunning in the sense that the numbers are bad enough but these members of congress have to go home at a time when their constituents are paying for just about everything. now, in addition, they have lost trust in their president and their team to communicate and handle this. >> you have heard that going back even further. commerce was winning the white house about rising issues, particularly in those purple deserts where there up every single year fighting for their political lives. the white house is saying things that are painting things in a very rosy picture that is not been reflected but you can't say things like pat

she was at the white house ceremony with president biden today. sandy phillips, great to have you back on the news hour. you heard what ed wasserman was saying here that the way in which we show our culture these tragedies is too sanitized and that we need to do differently. what do you think about that idea? >> i think it's a horrible idea as a parent of a child that was murdered. my daughter was shot six times with two two threes from an ar 15. and when i speak, i speak very clearly about what happened to her in the theater and the wounds that she sustained. when we went to trial, the the medical examiner when he was discussing her wounds wept on the stand. he just started crying. and we were at the courtroom but we were not in the courtroom when that happened and after he finished his descriptions of what had happened to my daughter, when the press walked out and the rest of the people that were in the courtroom that day walked o, they were all either crying or ashen or shocked. so i understand what he's saying. you almost have to see it to bel

the white house wants to make sure that you know when prices go up, it has nothing to do with joe biden. when it comes down, he does get the credit, the white house advisor joe bernstein turns out that way. speak i very much disagree with that women care to think what's happening here the president was working tirelessly to address the largest constraint, probably the toughest constraint facing american households right now, the budgetary impact of these elevated prices, and were showing you here today the real results, partially -- the partially deprived from concrete efforts he's taken. speak of this after the white is a immigration director, kate barrington sent out a memo frustrated that are getting enough credit on declining gas prices. the drop is one of the fastest declines in gas prices in over a decade. in fact, just the sunday, we witness the largest single day decline in national gas prices since 2008. well, today's new national gas price, $4.49. that's $2 more than one biden took office, and voters are reflecting that discontent in a new cnn poll with 38% approve of biden's

they feel as though the leadership in washington, d.c., specifically president biden and the biden white house are not doing enough on these issues that matter so much to americans, especially to democrats perhaps. on the matter of abortion rights, white house communications director told the washington post biden is focused on helping women and building a coalition, adding, quote, joe biden's goal in responding to the dobb's decision is not to satisfy activists out of step with the mainstream of the democratic party, unquote. that comment is getting a lot of notice this weekend. i'm wondering what you make of it. >> well, let me begin by pointing out to everybody listening that illinois is now an island, an oasis in the nation protecting women's reproductive rights. there's more we need to do. the federal government should be doing more. i've talked to the president about this, and he took some action in that regard with some executive orders the other day. but democrats need to be pushing for a national law that protects reproductive rights across the nation. we are going to, you know, have

biden's white house is rushing to get ahead of major reports that may show that the u.s.ady in a recession. you can probably understand why they're doing that. it's a big election year, and democrats, of course, want good economic news to campaign on. as cnn's kaitlan collins reports, president biden is trying to rewrite the traditional and widely accepted definition of a recession. >> on the economy, it's a moment of truth for the biden white house. >> i think the state of the economy is demonstrating resilience in the face of very significant global economic challenges. >> this week, the white house will be watching closely for clues of a recession when new consumer confidence numbers are released tuesday, followed by an expected interest rate hike by the federal reserve on wednesday. and second quarter economic growth rates out on thursday. with forecasters predicting the second quarter gdp will be negative, the white house arguing it doesn't mean there's a recession. >> never in the history of our country have we had a recession where the economy was creating jobs, pe

another signed biden's going to be okay according to the white house, covid response court made says biden is cleaning his plate. [laughter] >> he slept well last night, he ate his breakfast and lunch fully yet he showed me his plate. [laughter] didn't ask about the menu but i did see an empty plate. >> look, this is like we are talking about an incident. he showed me his plate, he's cleaning his plate, you can eat, you can still eat when you have covid. >> we've known this, right? >> a little shout out for getting it right this morning, panty liners or whatever this is, it's ridiculous. they are trying to take this up, the common cold, endemic and i don't know if i would say when i had it in december, is an omicron variant, whichever one, it's like a frankenstein thing, it lasted about a week, i've been arguing it's not like the cold, it's something that feels artificial in all honesty and it's bad but clearly keeps changing and shifting as viruses do. >> colds are very dangerous for people as well. it could be dangerous and could have been for you, if joe biden can make it through c

your life is more expensive but more and more democrats say the biden white house is making things worseal next week. a federal judge rejects his argument that he can't get an impartial jury right now. that judge by the way, was appointed by ben and buddy donald trump. we begin with the dead and the missing in ukraine. warning, what you're about to see is quite graphic and disturbing. this is in central ukraine

everything to you. >>> given the dire state of where the democrats are today and who put biden and the white house the knives are out to. consider our surprise when biden's go to stenography, isaac edward stover posted a headline, democrats wonder whether biden white house is capable of urgency moment demands. things didn't get really good until we read the of the piece. dramatic music, please. debra messing was fed up. the former will and grace starr was among dozens of celebrity democratic supporters and activists who joined a call with white house aides last monday to discuss the supreme court overturning our oe. the move was fatalistic. messing said she got joe biden elected and wanted to know why she was being asked to do anything at all. there didn't seem to be a point to voting. ladies and gentlemen, that is your white house and the hollywood activist at work. here is charlie hurd fox news contributor. stephen miller the founder of american first legal. when you lost debra messing, you have just gotten to the end. this is the most unbelievable lead. we were howling laughing on our call toda

biden please see precautionary medical attention. god knows what you might've picked up. at the white house they are generally upset but today's news not because the word about joe biden's health, everybody works the white house already knows you so thoroughly unwell he could barely speak. these are the people who run as teleprompters come up little pieces of tape on the floor so he knows where the door is. is not people who have any illusion at all about joe biden's condition. they are upset about is fact that joe biden just up on their message. and when that message is been consistent and relenting. get the vaccine or you can have a job, or an important transplant or thanks even with your kids. get the vaccine is the most important thing that you can do and you are a monster if you don't. so people obeyed they did it.

wade, those in and around the biden white house have noticed a change in the vice president. is passionate communication on reproductive rights has led her -- ian ministration's chief spokesperson for women's health care and abortion rights. now she is flying around america, becoming the go-to resource for democrats trying to combat republican crackdowns on women's bodies. >> for the first time in generations, the united states supreme court, the highest court of our land, the former court of thurgood marshall, took a constitutional right that had been recognized from the people of america. from the women of america. we know, naacp, that our country has a history of claiming ownership over human bodies. >> back with me now is my sunday night panel. i would like to start with you. do you have any insight or recording us to how harris has come into this role as a quasi-reproductive rights -- >> she certainly feels more natural in it and president biden, who, you know faced a lot of criticism that he wasn't even saying the word abortion. that he just did not seem us fired up whe

and, sure, there is sort of some vagueness in terms of what the white house announced today, but the white house and president bidenhing that they can do at this point and then what else is there? it is up to the voters. it is up to the activists to push this is issue front and center because if we think we live in two americas before roe v. wade, this is really the definition of two americas. we are going to have states where they are going to be prosecuting women and doctors and then you are going to have states that are going to be safe heatwaveness. i talked to a lawyer today about the executive order and he said this is sort of laying the ground work for what is going to become a state-by-state literal battle for women who are trying to look for this kind of reproductive care. i think that is absolutely an incredibly important and powerful issue for democrats to run on. >> and some of them may say it's a step in the right direction. there are other things the white house could do, like putting abortion clinics on federal lands. they have not said there are options but they are not taking that step yesterday. t

cameron, you've work in the biden white house.everybody's working hard, but dealing with these larger systemic issues. i mean, the supreme court does set the law of the land. just curious what you think here of cruz backing up the right flank of the court. >> i think two things. one, this is clearly a chance for ted cruz to show chum into the water as he heads into 2024, but in addition we've been encouraged this week the house look like it's going to take up a bill to protect and codify same sex marriage. but elections have consequences, and this is a classic example of taking an inch and taking, honestly, two miles. but they're also at risk really alienating a lot of voters as they come into this midterm. >> yeah, i wonder what you think, juanita about marriage equality being something at one point in time was actually unifying. there's data that shows conservatives and people under 30 are like, fine. it was written by a republican appointed justice. it's not to say, oh, everything was so great a couple years ago, but at least o

we have seen since and how that big lie still affects our politics today, how it impacted the biden white houseping the 2022 and 2024 elections "the big lie" out on tuesday, available for preorder now. >>> switching gearing, first lady jill biden met with ukraine's first lady at the white house yesterday. president biden joined them and presented the first lady with a bouquet of flowers in the colors of the ukrainian flag. the last time the two first ladies met was during jill biden's unannounced trip to ukraine on mother's day. they briefed zelenskyy how the u.s. is trying to help ukrainians suffering mentally and emotionally from the war. joining us live from kyiv is nbc news correspondent ellison barber. good morning. thank you for being with us today. you just returned from a region in the southeast of ukraine near the front lines, near the fighting in the donbas. give us a sense on the latest on the ground there. >> reporter: yeah. so we visited a town not too far from the kherson region, a rural community about six miles away from the active frontline where all of the fighting is taking p

president biden tested positive for covid thursday. he is isolating at the white house. is vaccinated and twice boosted. he is being treated with an antiviral drug. we are asking for your comments on president biden's diagnosis and the white house's handling. give us a call by party affiliation. democrats (202)-748-8000, republicans (202)-748-8001, if you are independent, (202)-748-8002. and you can send us a text at (202)-748-8003. be sure to send your name and city, state. we are on social media at facebook.com/social media and send us a tweet @cspanwj. before we get to your calls, i want to show you the headline from "the washington post." biden continues to work during covid isolation. some officials signal his bout will be short and mild. yesterday, president biden was meeting virtually with advisors and talked about how he was feeling and discussed gas prices. [video clip] >> thanks. let me start by apologizing. i feel better than i sound. we have some really good news, gas prices are coming down. they have fallen every day this summer for 38 days in a row. you can

feeling the crunch, they have real worries about the economy and they are laying this at the biden white house'st. >> absolutely, and the problem is they really don't have the tool kit fix this and i think one of the problems is the democrats in the biden demonstration are operating out of an old playbook where you only look at the unimportant rate as the sign of the economy and that's not the playbook where in in right now. we're dealing with people with gas prices and with grocery stores and empty store shelves and so you can't blame anybody, and you can't spend your way out of it, because that's what got us into this problem in the first place, so there really stuck. >> shannon: a couple of senators, namely joe manchin, he's not going to do another round of certain spending. near time transporting on this is the west virginia democrat's decision dealt a crushing blow to president biden such a mystic rolling out action on anything beyond the script on my prescription prices and subsidies, he's not going to go along. >> that's what sounds like. this is something that we can agree on, right now

existing law. >> neither can the white house but issues like gun violence and abortion rights have become more and more important to the american people and a challenge for the biden white house. felt, they have any plans to address any of these big challenges? ? >> well, stephanie, they're continuing to address these challenges rhetorical from day-to-day but there's a lot of pent up frustration in the democratic party that this is a president who is failing to meet the moment. it's a moment of national crisis in the minds of many progressive democrats and they look to the white house for leadership, for fight, for rhetoric, but also for sort of policy proposals. they are not seeing the kind of response to a kind of crisis that they feel this president should be putting up. >> all of this happening and we haven't even mentioned there is a war going on in ukraine. i haven't said it in days. that's how many challenges we're facing right now. phil rucker, katie benner thank you for starting us off this evening. coming up next chuck rosen back berg is up for. we're gonna break down what is next in georgia and for senator lindsey graham, i mentioned a moment ago promis

i am wondering if you feel the bided administration and white house -- biden administration and white house was prepared from a policy perspective? gov. inslee: it would be nice within 24 hours if we had a full game land. there is a reason to really read the decision first to figure out what is in the realm of the possible, but i do believe -- >> the decision was leaked last month, and word by word it was essentially the same as the initial alito opinion leak. gov. inslee: i tell you, i'm a governor, and i think it would be great if within four hours we had the full federal response that was gained land out -- game planned out. i am a little has attained with everything going on around the country and the ukraine war, but i do think the president is on track. he obviously understands this issue. i do believe they will get to the right place, including, by the way, one thing we did not mention his federal financial help our states because there is a lot of financial need to provide the services, but we have appropriated about $8.5 million in our state to provide services for women who

white house. after president biden tested positive for covid, the president's physician now says he's experiencingtoms and continuing to work. but the white house is still trying to contact trace people that have been around him. nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander has more on that. >> reporter: 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. >> but i'm doing well, getting a lot of work done. thanks for your concern, and keep the faith. it's going to be okay. >> reporter: the president's physician writing that mr. biden began experiencing a runny nose, fatigue, and an occasional dry cough wednesday evening, and that he's now being treated with the antiviral drug paxlovid. >> given his immunity from vaccines, given that he was started on treatments right away, all of those things very dramatically reduce his risk of serious illness. >> reporter: the vice president and first lady both

he's isolating for the next five days in the white house and taking the covid anti-viral drug paxlovid, which is recommended for people such as joe biden who are at higher risk because of their age or underlying medical conditions. we're joined now live from the white house. the press secretary and the white house covid coordinator just wrapped up a press conference. what did they have to say? >> reporter: it is clear the white house wants to emphasize one, that the president is feeling just fine. and two, it's that the president is continuing to do his job, even as he's isolating inside the white house. both the white house press secretary and the covid coordinator just briefed reporters in a lengthy briefing. they said they have every reason to believe the president is going to come out of this just fine. but there is no ignoring the fact that the president is 79 years old. >> hey, folks, guess you heard. this morning i tested positive for covid. >> reporter: more than two full years into the pandemic, joe biden testing positive for covid. >> symptoms are mild, and i really appreciate your concerns. i'm doing well. >> reporter: the p

finish that wasn't joe biden going off script. some white house down and typed into the teleprompter, this is a good idea, to call hispanics a bunch of tacos. maria: joining me right now is congress congresswoman mayra flores who last month became the first mexican-born congresswoman to serve in the house after her special election victory in texas' 34th district which had been democrat run for more than 100 years. it's great to see you this morning, thanks so much for being here. >> no, thank you so much for having me. maria: so what did you think about jill biden talking about tacos, referring to the hispanic community? is and, by the way, obviously, she met bodegas -- meant bodegas, not bogota. [laughter] >> well, it doesn't surprise me jill biden and the far left don't see us as americans. they see us as tacos. and they think that's allst going to take for us to vote for them, and it's not. they're going to have to get to work. we really have had enough of the democrat party's far-left policies that are hurting us tremendously here in south te

we got the bag. >> sean: we reached out to hunter biden's attorney and the white house for comment but they haven't gotten back to us. according to the daily mail, hunter biden could face charges for transporting these women across state lines and disguising checks to them as payments for medical services. what did joey know and when did he know it? he lied repeatedly about this. it democrats, the allies in the media mob do not care about any of the corruption or the quid pro quo, unless they can use it to feel the far left narrative against their all political enemies. if you're with reaction, author of a brand-new book on amazon.com, hannity.com, bookstores everywhere, former white house press secretary ari fleischer. let's talk about this from the media standpoint. all of this combined, you have now spent about a year writing the book with a lot of research. what did you find? speak of press or after this, the mainstream media they are partisans to the nations process now. we can no longer as a country rely on the press to tell the news objectively and fairly. it's not just me who s

where he found success and a lesson to take going forward. >> the white house meantime dealing with this other piece of news. president biden is back in isolation at the white house after testing positive for covid on saturday and no symptoms and tweeted out videos to show he is working. the president's doctor said this is likely a rebound case sometimes happens after people finish paxlovid. another thing that the white house is watching up next for us the deal 18 months in the making. all eyes on the 50th vote. will sinema back h her party's healthth and climate deal? some people have minor joint pain, plus high blood pressure. and since pain relievers may affect blood pressure, they can't just take anything for their pain. tylenol® is the #1 dr. recommended pain relief brand for those with high blood pressure. if you have questions on whether tylenol is right for you, talk to your doctor. ok, let's talk about those changes to your financial plan. bill, mary? hey... it's our former broker carl. carl, say hi to nina, our schwab financial consultant. hm... i know how difficult these calls can be. not with schwab. nina made i

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