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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 cant say much more than that. that was my only appearance before the grand jury. im not going to comment on what others had to testify or not and what they testified to. >> hes the highest profile witness kn...

Vaccines we have were chasing variants, and chasing variants is not a good strategy. so the white house summit is to try to find -- there are two strategies going forward. one is to develop nasal vaccines, the other is to develop vaccines that are more broadly packed coronavirus vaccines. what we may have in the fall is vaccines that are working against the current variants in circulation. the problem is by the fall the variants in circulation may be very different. so its chasing variants, whic...

And get your booster now. i thought peter had a fantastic question. it kind of gets to the meat of whats happening here. theres a lot we dont know about this variant. theres a lot we dont know about its transmissibility, whether it can break through the vaccine, whether it can break through other immunities we might have. the treatments going on, will they still work with this variant? we still dont know about those things. it will take a few weeks if not even longer than that to find those out....

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. youre his chief medical adviser. do you think thats something the country should adopt? >> im not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. lets get them vaccinated, lets get the people who are vaccinated boosted, lets get the children vaccinated. thats where we want to go as opposed...