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His first physical since taking office. the white house says the president will transfer power to vice president kamala harris for a brief period of time when hes under anesthesia to get a colonoscopy. cnns john harwood is live at the white house with this breaking news for us. john, what are you hearing right now? >> reporter: first of all, kate, its worth noting the bit of history being made today. of course this is the first time weve had a woman vice president, and as a consequence of that, ...

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Move to somehow take power from him. of course that didnt happen. but presidents have under the 25th amendment routinely -- ronald reagan in 1985, for example, when we had intestinal surgery, signed over power for a few hours to his vice president, george h.w. bush. george w. bush did it twice, transferring power to dick cheney when he had two different colonoscopies. the one person who has not regarded it as routine, who resisted it very strongly, was president trump as we learned in stephanie ...

Propofol, you know, you basically -- you see the medication maybe goo into your iv and the next thing you remember half an hour later is basically waking up and recovering. so there is a period of time where youre very sedated. again, its not general anesthesia, which typically means someones breathing is taking over with a breathe mag sheen and everything, but, yeah, you wouldnt be in any position to be able to woken up at that point and answer questions or do something like that. >> beyond the...

They can make certain aspectings of it better. well take better. who defines what better means here? we have to see what happens in the senate to see if it upends any of this applecart that passed the house today. >> build back better better. david chalian, well be watching. still to come, lots of news. we are one step closer to all adults getting the green light for covid-19 booster shots. what the fdas authorization means for you and me coming up. and vice president kamala harris will be t...

President will transfer temporarily power to vice president kamala harris today as he undergoes a colonoscopy where hell be under anesthesia. the president is at walter reed medical center right now for his annual physical, his first since taking office. joining me is cnns chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta for more. talk me through what it means that the president is getting a colonoscopy. >> so, this is a procedure, a screening procedure to try and determine if someone is developing ...

George w. bush who transferred the powers to his former vice president dick cheney for a period of time for two colonoscopies in office. >> the cancer surgery was far more serious and total anesthesia. with president reagan. it was quite a dramatic moment and a sudden operation. it was not preannounced. what we expect is full transparency and an obama-like, bush-like full medical report on the president once they get through all the tests unlike from ronny jackson on former president trump. but ...

Adding to the deficit you wont go back to think through the pay-fors. we know that none of the tax increase on individual rates for the wealthy in this came through in the house bill so its not to say if you added years to the child tax credit or something else you couldnt find pay-fors for this. it is a good day as a democrat because for months the process has overwhelmed the substance of this legislation and this debate. today the process burst this out of the house into the senate and the pro...

Battle, the war continues, though, i will say one important note, chris, while all of this is happening, the president is undergoing his routine physical at walter reid and as part of that, he is going to have to go under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, and as the constitution lays out, that means that temporarily hes going to be transferring power to the vice president who is working from the west wing while the president undergoes that procedure. so a big moment for the president. he at ...

Things could change in the senate. there are specific tan yibl things the white house can point to, and things they can connect to the issues that are going on right now in peoples lives, like the child care struggles people have. the struggles people are having with paying for their housing or medical bills. all things they can start now to make tangible as they look to ramp up the pressure and push this through in the senate. >> meanwhile, we are also seeing something quite historic at the whi...