Against the variants right now. The more contagious variant first found in south africa is here. It almost certainly means theres other cases out there. This is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is friday, january 29th, its 6 00 here in new york. So why is this man smiling . No, not the guy on the left who lost an election by 7 million votes and presided over the deaths of 400,000 americans from coronavirus. The guy on the right, the republican leader on the right. Why is he smiling . Because hes been working on some bipartisan deal to get vaccines to millions of people . Is he smiling because hes been fighting for Economic Relief for millions of people out of work . Is he smiling because hes taken a new public stand against lies, hate, and bigotry . No, no, and no. Hes smiling because he got a political pat on the head, the tender embrace of the man who told a mob to march on the cap
if we lose more time we may lose the ability to leave. if we leave we are going to do it now. the jury takes the steve bannon case after a wild, wild day of final court arguments and the white house physician said the president is doing better one day into fighting off coronavirus. we begin the hour with donald trump and new details in the second by second reconstruction of his insurrection day negligence. the panel wrapped up their first round of public hearings with a promise to reappear in september after spending the past month laying out the factual record. the republican chair says the committee is completing pieces from the insurrection puzzle. last night they had more than enough to establish this. then president trump did not try to move any arm of his government to stop the capitol attack, no calls to the military or homeland security or fbi or d.c. officials or to check in on his vice president. he called rudy giuliani and senators. former white house aides mat
joining us at the white house. we have dr. sanjay gupta joining us to break it down for us. what more do you know about the president s condition? president biden tested positive for coronavirus this morning. we re told that the president went to bed last night, largely feeling fine, but he woke up this morning having not slept very well, tested, according to the white house s routine screening procedures, that s according to the white house doctor, dr. kevin o connor, who says that the president is now experiencing mild symptoms, which include a runny nose, fatigue, and an occasional dry cough. the president s physician recommended that he begin a course of paxlovid, that antiviral that is considered the gold standard of care for coronavirus, particularly early on in the onset of the disease. and, we re told by the white house that the president has, indeed, begun that course of paxlovid. now, i also spoke separately with dr. ashish jha, the white house s coronavirus coord
and somewhat confusing u.s. economy. new data shows the economy shrank 0.6% in the second quarter, said another way that shrinking slightly less than first thought. the u.s. also is seeing a decrease in the number of people filing for new unemployment benefits, said another way, the labor market is still strong. this comes as americans try to understand what president biden s student loan debt plan what it means for them and their families, even as some members of his own party say it misses the mark. republicans are unified in saying they don t think it is fair, and some economists say that it could fuel inflation. there is a lot to get to. let s begin with cnn s matt egan on this new economic data. what do you see in all this, matt? the economy s spring slump wasn t as bad as feared. second quarter gdp was just revised up by the government, in part because americans spent more money than originally reported. the bad news is that despite this upgrade, the economy still shr
president mike pence has confirmed he testified before a grand jury investigating the attack on the capitol, a potentially major development. i can confirm that i did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury, and i complied with that subpoena. but under advice of counsel, i can t say much more than that. that was my only appearance before the grand jury. i m not going to comment on what others had to testify or not and what they testified to. he s the highest profile witness known to have testified and signals prosecutors are moving beyond the rioters into looking into the trump administration itself. the new york times and the wall street journal are reporting that a second aide to pence greg jacob testified as well. he countered efforts to persuade pence not to certify the electoral results. let s start with evan perez. quite significant developments here. reporter: absolutely, bianna. this is criminal investigators reaching into the trump white house. we re