o'connor made. we know you have to look at some of these medication list and determine if you have to make modifications. dr. o'connor made the decision to stop these two medicines. i talked about those. that is what all of these specialty societies recommend, that they be paused. dr. o'connor made the decision to add aspirin for short period of time. >> dr. o'connor said the president is using an inhaler as needed. this he regularly use one or was that someone -- something prescribed to deal with the covid symptoms? dr. jha: i think all of you know, the president used to have asthma. he has what people say, reactive airway disease, people when they have a viral syndrome or some people get it when they got into the cold, or when the exercise, can get a bit of a bronchospasm or cough. the way to treat it is with an inhaler. the president has -- the last time he used it was when he had a cold last fall at some point. during the cold, he had a bit of a cough that comes with viral syndromes. he does not

o'connor. i also wanted to update you on what the president has been up to and how he is continuing to work hard on behalf of the american people. last night, he signed the baby formula bill that congress passed, and also spoke with senator harper to see how he was feeling, and to the hosts of yesterday's event to thank them for their flexibility. this morning, the president received his daily briefing virtually. as you all know. he also met virtually with his economic team on the progress being made to lower gas prices for american families, as you all saw yourselves. dr. jha and i spoke to the president over facetime this afternoon. i asked him if he had a message for the american people. the president said he is still putting in eight plus hours of work a day. and that he wants to remind americans to get vaccinated. because, in his own words, "it matters."" the president hopes the country will see that while we should continue to take covid very seriously, we have the tools we need to deal w

thank you very much chief o'connor. i just have a couple comments or questions chief serano and chief brown and back to yourself. if i can ask some comments on the pont of view on page 7 of chief of homeland security. chief brown. if i can ask you a question, chief. thank you for joining. >> thank you vice president nakajo. commissioner morgan, commissioner fraser. (inaudible) and command staff. >> on the matter of the events we had, we use a example of the gay parade as well as warrior celebration and got perspective on the last commission meeting from-paramedic opponent of view or ems point of view we use the (inaudible) i am curious in terms of your particular area, homeland security. i wanted to hear for me myself as well as the commissioners, your take and your comments through your lens as homeland security as it pertains to the department at an occasion like the pride parade and i use those examples like the warriors because they were two big events even though i know you deal with a lot of events. anything you w

in terms of my conversation with doctor o'connor we talked about what happened this morning. of the president to go to his regular testing that hee does on his regular cadence and after he tested positive, he reported the symptoms that have been described. doctor o'connor examined him thoroughly, found the exam to be normal come on the baseline then obviously recommended the president take paxlovid. the president accepted the recommendation and started a paxlovidt is taking the first course already. i want to take a minute to mark this moment because the president is fully vaccinated and double boosted, his risk of serious illness is dramatically lower. he is also getting treated with a very powerful antiviral, and that further reduces his risk of serious illness. 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 has. vethat every american has the se level of immunity and why we've worked so hard to make sure that people h have access to life-saving treatments like paxlovid. these ar

o'connor? there was a statement from him but yesterday we had a difficult time comparing the description of the symptom progression from his letter versus how you laid it out. dr. jha, your last update was from 10:00 the night before. >> a couple of hours ago at 11:00 you got a detailed letter from dr. o'connor. we have given you two detailed letters and you have heard directly from him. look, we -- >> we have not heard from him. >> yes, you have. you have heard directly from the physician. that is hearing -- in his words you are hearing directly from dr. o'connor. but i am answering your colleague's question, give me a second to do that. you heard directly from him and not only that, you have heard more, i would easily argue, about a mild symptom of a virus than any other president. dr. jha and i were here for an hour field the questions. we are here today. we are going to commit to make sure you are hearing from dr. o'connor, from his daily report, detailed report from dr. o'connor. here's th

o'connor. we are going to be as transparent as we are -- we are going to be transparent as we have been. we put out a statement this morning, put out the letter from dr. o'connor, you have both of us here taking your questions and answering them. you saw a picture of the president, video of the president, and so we are doing this very differently and we're going to continue to provide information for all of you and also the american public. i'm going to continue to go around. reporter: besides doing contact tracing will you reach out to some of the officials the president met last week when he was traveling? dr. jha: contact tracing is for people in the last 48 hours. people who met with him a week ago would not be covered. are we going to look a week ago to see who might have given it to him, no. the purpose of contact tracing is to find anyone who might have been exposed to prevent further transmission. reporter: i think you said there was no change of protocol here. do you mean the west wing

o'connor.re are two medicines. he's on eloquis and crestor, a cholesterol-lowering medicine and a blood thinner. both of them need to be stopped when you start paxlovid. it's very standard, common, and you don't need to do anything in those circumstances. they both get stopped for the five days that he's on paxlovid and then they get restarted and it's totally fine and pretty normal practice. >> go ahead. >> where exactly was the president infected? >> where was he infected? i don't think we know. i certainly don't know. >> look, i don't think that matters, right? i think what matters is we prepared for this moment. i think what matters is what dr. jha just laid out. if we look at where we were a year and a half ago, this is a president, when he walked in, one of his first priorities was to make sure we had a comprehensive plan to get people vaccinated, and so now, today, look to today, more and more people are getting closer to having a more normal life. vaccines are available, and as dr. jha

o'connor to come to the briefing room and a client? dr. o'connor -- and decline? ms. jean-pierre: to the question that was asked, the answer was no. we believe -- not even we believe, we know that the president has very mild symptoms. he is managing this, he is reacting to the treatment very well. this is coming from dr. o'connor. and you all have seen him today, twice. taking questions from your colleagues. so he is able to resume work on behalf of the american people, as he has been. he is isolated, he is following cdc guidelines by being isolated. but again, this is what's important about the time that we are in. we're able to have the treatment, we are able to have the boosters, have the vaccine so that people can continue to do the work. and we should be thrilled. we should be thrilled that our president is doing well and is responding well to the treatment and has very mild symptoms. or, is at a point where his symptoms are pretty much resolved, as the president has said. reporter: the president's comments, watching the events of january 6 unfold, saying he didn

o'connor and also a lot of vetting.protect the president and those around him and it's been -- i don't have anything else to say beyond the protocol we have. >> like dr. jha said, it is between him and his personal doctor on that protocol. he has a regular cadence as we have spoken about before. we shared with all of you on tuesday that he tested negative, and the reason why -- you saw him yesterday, speaking in front of many of your colleagues outside for 20 minutes in, on a very, very hot day, and it was not until later in the day, in the evening that he was feeling a little tired and he was tested today. look, this goes back to where we have come from where we started. we have -- the president has done the work to make sure that more than 200 million people in this country have been vaccinated. more than 100 million people in the country has been boosted, that's because we have a comprehensive plan to make sure people get vaccinated so that they can be protected. so that's what's most important here. he has mild symp

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o'connor writes, i recommended initiating such treatment. dr. o'connor also notes that the president is fully vaccinated and twice boosted so i anticipate he will respond favorably. early use of paxlovid in this case provides additional protection against severe disease. as you just mentioned he also said he will isolate in accordance with cdc recommendations and he would keep the white house updated as it continues. we expect the white house press secretary to hold a briefing this afternoon at the white house in which we can expect further updates. worth noting that karine jean-pierre was among those traveling with president biden yesterday on air force one with the president and in closer quarters aboard marine one with the president wearing a mask when i saw her getting off marine one last night but, you know, there has been something of a running joke around the press corps, around the white house even that as so many individuals in the administration mock staff have been testing positive for covid-19 the white house has almost routinely sai

o'connor to come. would sate neither of those is correct. >> he said again today the president is found the cdc guidelines very strictly. it seems like there are people in the residence taking his a photo with no mask on. i was looking at the guidance for covid positive people i do not see any carveouts for something like that. so is he really following the cdc guidelines? so a couple of things, anyone who is interacted with the president it is been a much smaller footprint, has been socially distance as much as possible they are all wearing a ands, 95 and when possible we he done this outside with windows (. >> the guidance for the person with covid which we were in and their people around as well. >> look, if you think about the president, he doesn't generally wear a mask when he's around other people per he does sometimes take the mask off what is getting a photo taken. most of his interactions with others he has been wearing a mask. in the bottom line is, everybody around us fully vaccinated andnd

o'connor of how he's doing. i just wanted to add that. >> was the president ever identified as a close contact to anybody else in the course of the last 72 to 100 hours? >> not that i know of. >> we are starting our protocol process on close contact? >> was he identified as a close contact to someone else? >> to someone else? that part i would have to find out. i would say our process because as we all stated, we we are doing our close contacts. >> how many have been identified as close contacts to him? >> we're just starting our process. i don't have a number to read out to you. i told you that he called the congressional members that traveled with him yesterday, but we're just starting out our process right now. >> has anyone else at the white house tested positive this week? >> as we normally do, if they are a close contact to the president, we normally provide that information. when i tested positive and i was a close contact -- out of abundance to caution, i was not but because i had traveled with him we sh

o'connor last night at 10:00 to get an update. and just as you said and you heard, the president continues to improve. and we have every reason to believe that he will do very well. having a runny nose, having someone who has a history when he has a cold nothing to do with covid, has a history of asthma. he has no trouble breathing at all right now. >> in his letter earlier today, dr. o'connor did say the early sequencing results of the president's covid-19 test indicated he most likely has the highly contagious ba.5 subvariant, which is what most americans who are currently contracting covid in this country are experiencing at the moment. while the president is in isolation here at the white house, first lady jill biden is spending the weekend at their home in wilmington, delaware, where the president was supposed to be this weekend before he contracted covid-19. her spokesperson tells me the first lady has tested negative for the covid-19 earlier today. she is not experiencing any symptoms. but she is a close contact of the pres

and which carroll o'connor by no means is he's a liberal actor in hollywood. and and so one of the outtakes he's like --. let's do it again. i forgot the conservative which clearly signals the importance. it wasn't like just something he added in there. it was intentional to present himself as as conservative, but then the question with television entertainment is also like they're not necessarily storing this information like how the decisions are made and and so i had access to lead private papers that was incredibly important for this but also some of the writers on the show had donated their papers to the the writers guild archives and there you could find transcripts of the writer room conversations, which are just so valuable, but you're not necessarily going to find that first of all not all television writers are donating their papers anywhere second of all, you're not necessarily going to find those conversations around happy days or something. like i think in that sense, i was lucky in that there was an understanding or an appreciation of all in the

o'connor last night at 10:00 to get an update. heard, the president continues to improve. and we have every reason to believe he will do very well. having a runny nose, having someone who has a history, when he gets colds that have nothing to do with covid, he has a history of asthma and he uses the bronchodilator to make sure he breathes well. he has no trouble breathe at all now. >> reporter: so the president is not having trouble breathing, the albuterol inhaler is to treat coughing. >> jasmine wright, keep us posted, thanks so much. >>> a school board meeting to consider the firing of police chief pete arredondo was called off in texas. what we know about why it was canceled and why parents of uvalde school shooting victims say firing the chief is not enough. aren't we all just looking for the hottttest stocks? (fisher investments) nonope. we use diversified strategies to position our client's portfolios for ththeir long-term goals. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions for you, ri

>> it's determined by doctor o'connor his personal physician gets tested very regularly i don't think there's a huge advantage ofry testing every da. >> yesterday morning for example he might have tested had he not gone on that trip and the protocol behind the president's testing has been developed by doctor o'connor and it's what we used topr protect the president those around him and i don't have anything else to say beyond the protocol. >> it is between him and his personal doctor on that protocol he has a regular cadence as we've spoken about before. we shared with all of you on tuesday that he tested negative and the reason why, you saw him yesterday. he was speaking in front of many 20of the colleagues outside for0 minutes on a very, very hot today and it wasn't until later in the day he was feeling a little tired and was testedom today. this goes back to where we've come and where we've started. the president has done the work to make sure that more than 200 million have been boosted. that's because we have a comprehensive plan to make sure people get vaccinated so that they ca

let me first turn to my fellow commissioners, questions for chief o'connor? >> yes, this is commissioner morgan. can you tell us more about the cpr app. >> i'm going to differ to chief to talk about that, can you talk about that more for us. thank you. >> commissioners, president, chief, bob post deputy chief of operations. so what the app is, this is a third party vendor and they work, they're working in concert with our department of management. and throughout the city, there are defibrillator that are placed throughout the city. and when the concept when somebody suffers a cardiac event, it will tell you where the nearest did i lib later is so that anybody is that trained in cpr can administer cpr and get the defibrillator operating. the higher of rate of survival for anybody that suffers cardiac arrest. so the goal is toin crease cpr and increase the public's intersections to try to improve the survive amount of the victims. they can be added into the system and there is challenges with people from the outside responding and interfering with us getting th

o'connor last night at 10:00 to get an update. just as you said, and you heard the president continues to improve. and we have every reason to believe he will do very well. having a runny nose, having someone who has a history when he does get colds that have nothing to do with covid, he has a history of asthma, and he uses the bronco dilator to make sure he breathes well. he has no trouble breathing at all right now. >> reporter: additionally, dr. kevin o'connor says the early sequencing results of the president's covid-19 tests have come in and indicates he most likely has the highly contagious ba.5 variant. that is the variant that the majority of americans currently contracting covid-19 here in the country are experiencing at this moment. now, while the president is isolating here at the white house, his wife, first lady jill biden, is spending the weekend in wilmington, delaware. her spokesperson tells me she tested negative for covid-19 on saturday and is not experiencing any symptoms. she is expected to remain there in dela

o'connor.ont of the tv, you'll have to ask the communications people that. >>> correct me if i'm wrong. ba.5 is the most contagious form, although, there's evidence it's not a more severe disease. cases are surging, and i feel like i know so many people who have covid right now or had it in recent weeks. during this time we've seen dr. biden in meetings without a mask indoors. considering biden's age, shouldn't the president and white house at the very least if not the country go back to masking and social distancing considering the surge that we're seeing? >> well, you have two questions there. first, when the president visits, goes to different countries, he respects the conditions and traditions of what they're doing in that particular country. with regard now to the united states as you heard, we are in a difficult situation because with ba.5, which is a highly contagious virus, we're seeing an uptick in cases. when you look at the color map that the cdc puts out, it's gone from just a few

o'connor, and we speak frequently.e my advice about certain things regarding the medications. but to be honest with you, wolf, i don't know why. they may change their mind and have him out there. but i believe they feel that given the questions that are asked, that the combination of having someone like dr. jha or myself who speaks with the doctor, who is the primary doctor, is good enough. that might change, i don't know. we did get a letter from dr. o'connor, explaining what's going on. you yourself just recovered from covid, dr. fauci. you had to take two courses of that treatment, paxlovid, after your symptoms rebounded. how concerned are you that president biden could have a similar rebound? >> well, the one thing we have to be careful of not confusing the viewers and the general public, is that paxlovid did for me, and we expect it will do for the president, exactly what it was meant to do, is to diminish dramatically the likelihood that we'll have progression of disease that would lead to hospitalization. when y

o'connor says the president has been using two or three times a day for his cough. the doctor also said that the president is not experiencing shortness of breath at this time. and he is also taking a low dose aspirin as an alternative to the blood thinner that he typically takes. now, additionally, dr. kevin o'connor says that the quencing of the president's results have returned and it is most likely that he has the ba.5 variant, that is the variant that a large portion of the country is currently experiencing when they contract covid. so for the time being, the white house says that the president's symptoms continue to improve. of course, the last time we saw president biden was yesterday, when he appeared virtually at that meeting with his economic advisers. he was supposed to be spending the week at his home in wilmington, delaware, but instead is here at the white house and the message from the white house continues to be that the president continues to carry out his work, as he is now in his second full day of isolation due to this covid-19 diagnosis. dr. kev

o'connor he's onneler quist and a blood thinner for atrial fibrillation. both need to be stopped when taking paxlovid and it's a standard thing when taking paxlovid and you don't need to do anything under the circumstances and they get stopped and then they get started and then fine and pretty normal practice. [ inaudible question ] >> where was he infected i don't think we know. i certainly don't know, if you have any thoughts on it? >> i don't think that matters, right? i think what matters is we prepared for this moment i think what matters is what dr. jha just laid out. if we look at where we were a year and a half ago, this is a president -- when he walked in one of his first priorities was to make sure we had a com pro hencive plan to get people vaccinated and now look to today, more and more people are getting closer to having a more normal life. vaccines are available and as dr. jha said if you have not gotten vaccinated, please do if you've not gotten boosted, please do. these are -- these are treatments that are going to keep you safe, and i thin

o'connor?here was a statement from him but yesterday we had a difficult time comparing the description of the symptom progression from his letter versus how you laid it out. dr. jha, your last update was from 10:00 the night before. >> a couple of hours ago at 11:00 you got a detailed letter from dr. o'connor. we have given you two detailed letters and you have heard directly from him. look, we -- >> we have not heard from him. >> yes, you have. you have heard directly from the physician. that is hearing -- in his words you are hearing directly from dr. o'connor. but i am answering your colleague's question, give me a second to do that. you heard directly from him and not only that, you have heard more, i would easily argue, about a mild symptom of a virus than any other president. dr. jha and i were here for an hour field the questions. we are here today. we are going to commit to make sure you are hearing from dr. o'connor, from his daily report, detailed report from dr. o'connor. here's the

o'connor has given dr.haw a full download of the president's treatment, of his care at this moment. dr. shaw will be able to treat and speak to some of the issues that might be raised in terms of his treatment going forward. we know, for instance, that because of a very detailed physical report that was released last week, last year, excuse me, by the white house, the president is on a blood thinner. there is questions about whether paxlovid, which is being given, might be in conflict with the president's existing medications. that something that the dr. will speak to, having spoken with dr. o'connor and getting a full download, as it was put to me, from him. it's worth noting that the resident staff in the white house, of course, the president will be isolating in the residence, has been reduced to the bare minimum. only essential individuals at this point. that is similar to what happened when president trump was in the white house and himself was diagnosed with covid. it's worth asking, i think, in the b

o'connor released a letter saturday saying that the president's symptoms are improving. he detailed some of those primary symptoms the president is experiencing including a sore throat and body aches and said that the president continues to respond well to that paxlovid treatment, that antiviral drug. and he will continue taking that medication. additionally the president has been using an albuterol inhaler as needed for a cough. he is doing that about two to three times a day. but the doctor noted that the president is not experiencing shortness of breath and that his oxygen staaturation levels rema excellent and his lungs are clear. ron klain told reporters saturday that the president is feeling pretty well and he has spent the day on the phone, including some virtual conference calls. and here is how dr. anthony fauci, the president's chief medical adviser, detailed the president's condition on saturday. >> i spoke to dr. o'connor last night at 10:00 to get an update and just as you've said and you heard, the president continues to improve. and we have every reason to

o'connor, from his daily report, detailed report from dr. o'connor. here's the thing. dr. ja is one of the foremost experts in this field when it comes to covid. he also has dealt with covid patients, he's clearly is running our covid response. and he is a medical doctor. he knows how this process works. again, we should feel good and very happy that the president is doing better. that he's improving. this is the president of the united states. he's improving and reacting well to the treatments and let's not forget we have the tools to treat this because of the work this this president has done. >> the point that you're making that dr. ja is a medical doctor, and we've got questions about his symptoms progressing. he had a fever last night. his cough is loss as opposed to dry -- >> he did not have a fever last night to make that clear. the doctor made that clear. 99.4 is not a fever. he was given tylenol. i should let dr. ja talk about this more. he's the medical doctor. he gave the tylenol for discomfort, which is not unusual if you have covid. many of you have had covid.

o'connor to get an update and as you heard the president continues to improve.e have every reason to believe he will do very well. having a runny nose. having someone who has a history that when he gets colds that have nothing to do with covid, he has a history of asthma and uses a bronco dilator to make sure he breathes well. he has no trouble breathing at all right now. >> reporter: now, while the president remains in isolation here at the white house, his wife, first lady jill biden, is spending the weekend at their home in wilmington, delaware. her spokesperson tells me the first lady tested negative for covid-19 earlier today and she is not experiencing any symptoms, even though she is a close contact of president biden. now, the first lady is expected to remain in wilmington until at least tuesday, which would mark day five of isolation for the president. dr. o'connor said that the president will continue to isolate according to cdc guidelines and he will not leave isolation until he's tested negative. pamela. >> all right. arlette saenz live for us from t

o'connor you have heard from dr. on o'connor in the letter. you're going to hear every day from dr. o'connor through written communication, he was going to put out his own statement with his assessment of how the president is doing. the second part is we are all in pretty constant contact, speaking to each other, i will be speaking to the president every day, that combination means that the american people will have a very full, complete picture of how the president is doing. >> but no plans to make him available to the press or the public as of now? >> you know, dr. o'connor is going to be sharing his information, i will be out there, i think you're going to hear from a variety of administration officials about the president, but obviously the clinical physicians, me, dr. fauci you will hear from who has also been in touch with the white house, so i think you're going to hear from a variety of us. >> we understand the president is taking paxlovid. we do know there have been cases, not just a few, of a recurrence of symptoms after patients stop taking paxlovid. what are the specific

doctor kevin o'connor i speak to him twice a day as he's been saying the president is doing quite well, he continues to improve. >> all right, here we go. what i think is important when it comes to the biden diagnosis, what shocked me in a way, we don't get the variant details, you have to look for it, nobody's getting details. you got to look for them and make a different test. the president has traveled to multiple countries, meetings with very different individuals and we know there's a very it affecting americans we don't know where he got infected which could be overseas. it's interesting, they are guessing, giving guesswork when i should have been the first things they checked which would tell us where he got it. >> when you when he was overseas, he was coughing and hacking, i'm not a doctor but it seems like he probably had covid and expose a lot of people to covid. joe biden is working eight hours a day, if you believe he's working eight hours a day, and running for reelection in 2024, that's not happening but what gets me, the white house is a this is why we should all be vacc

o'connor. saying the president's cough and body aches have diminished. his oxygen levels are excellent. his main symptom now is a sore throat. the white house defending the decision not to put the president's physician on camera. >> we have a team of people who are involved. dr. o'connor and i are talking multiple times a day. he's speaking to dr. fauci. we're being very transparent. > reporter: the white house releasing photos late last week showing the president working, appearing virtually friday >>et me stt by apolong, my voice, much better than i sound. >> reporter: dr. 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

we know that kevin o'connor, dr. o'connor confirmed it with a pcr test. but likely he was infected earlier in the week or even this past weekend. >> what is your reaction to hear thing news of the president testing positive? >> to be honest, i'm not hugely surprised. we know that the newest omicron variants, ba-4 and ba-5 are transm transmissible, able to evade our natural immune system's response, whether induced by vaccines or prior infection. and joe biden has been out and about. he's been traveling internationally. although they have wonderful precautions when he's home in d.c. and at the white house, when he's been out internationally, he's been exposed to folks that are not necessarily following all of those precautions. so not hugely surprised. i'm quite hopeful. this is a very different situation from the one we were in when president trump was diagnosed with covid. joe biden is vaccinated, and twice boosted. that in and of itself decreases his risk of severe disease, hospitalization, or death by somewhere between 60% and 90%, depending on the stu

o'connor's letter, he asked last night to exercise. we are pretty confident we will continue to see the president continue to recover from this. the thing to remember and you have heard us say this over and over, dr. o'connor said this in his letter, because the president is fully vaccinated, double boosted, and has the treatment of paxlovid, which we see this as a teachable moment, you have heard us say, for the american public. for those who have not been vaccinated, have not gotten their booster, they can learn how important it is to get those free vaccines, the free booster, and to get paxlovid and to get the extra protection. there is a reason he is having very mild symptoms. it is because of the work he has been able to do and we are pretty confident he will continue to get better. reporter: on monkeypox, is the administration encouraging all americans to get vaccinated? >> our guidances first we have had a comprehensive and aggressive response to this. we rolled out that strategy last month in june. once we realized it was what

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 you so much. a federal jury found steve bannon guilty on two counts of comp tempts of congress. bannon faces up to one year in prison for each count along with a $100,000 fine. his attorney said they will appeal. last night the january 6th committee revealed new evidence that former president trump watched tv as the violence unfo

. >> reporter: in a new letter, white house doctor kevin o'connor said the president's mild symptoms99.4 temperature last night came down with tylenol, and has remained normal since then. the doctor also recommended initiating low-dose aspirin as a temporary alternative to the president's normal blood thinner, which has had to be halted during the five-day course of the covid anti-viral drug, paxlovid. >> we think it's a relatively low-risk thing to do. >> reporter: white house covid coordinator dr. 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 the president on a regular basis. >> reporter: the president interacted with dozens of people in the two days before he tested positive. today, the white house released the results of contact tracing. >> the white house medical unit has identified and informed 17 people determined to be close contacts of the president, inclu

o'connor. but doctor fauci spoke to him lace last night. -- here's what he told them. >> the president because is doing really quite well. i had a long conversation last night at around 10:00 with dr. kevin o'connor, the primary physician for the president. the president continues to improve. he's putting in a full day of work virtually. as each day goes by, he's doing fine. got >> doctor fauci said earlier this morning, congruent will vote we see in the letter in the last couple of minutes, doctor fauci noted that the president is not experiencing any shortness of breath. that was a concern. in the past, because the president has experienced asthma, he's used to using an inhaler as a normal thing for him to use when he has a respiratory theft infection. obviously this is day two of his isolation. he will continue that isolation over the next few days. alex >> thank you for that. let's go to some breaking news got from the world health organization, now declaring the monkeypox outbreak of inter

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do you agree with justices of suitor o'connor and kennedy in their opinion in casey which reaffirmed the core holding in rome? as i said, i casey reaffirmed the holding in row that is the supreme court's. settled interpretation of what the court holding is and it's reaffirmance of it. all right. so let me ask you in a difficult area of the law a question the supreme court has decided on more than seven occasions. that the law cannot put a woman's health at risk it said it in row in 73 in danforth and 76 in planned parenthood in 83 in thornburg in 86 in casey in 92 in carhart in 2000 and in iota in 2006 with both justices roberts and alito on the court, however, this rule seems to have changed because in 2007 in carhart 2 the court essentially remove this basic constitutional right from women. now here's my question. when there are multiple precedents and a question arises. are all the previous decisions discarded or should the court reexamine all the cases on point? it somewhat difficult to answer that question because before the court in any one case, this is particular factual situ

o'connor last night at 10:00 to get an update. just as you've said, the president continues to improve. having a runny nose, as he has a history, when he does get colds that have nothing to do with covid, he has a history of asthma and uses a bronc bronchodilator. >> and the initial sequencing report has come back and it is most likely that he has the highly contagious ba.5 variant. that is the variant that the majority of americans who are currently contracting covid-19 are experiencing right now in this country. now, while the president is isolating here at the white house, his wife, first lady dr. jill biden, is spending the weekend at their home in wilmington, delaware. a spokesperson for dr. biden told me that the first lady tested negative for covid-19 today and she is not experiencing any symptoms, even though she was a close contact of the president. and dr. o'connor says that president biden will continue to vote according to cdc guidelines, and they will continue that antiviral paxlovid treatment, as well. >> all right,