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Example, its really just a false narrative. it doesnt apply to the majority of americans. he definitely doesnt apply to the wage workers who are disproportionately, they dont have health insurance, and disproportionately dont have paid sick leave, and have to choose between going to work and potentially infecting others, or losing their income. >> so, white house chief of staff, ron klain, actually tweeted act out about that opened by dr. wen, calling bidens covid, a teaching moment for the coun...

His wife, first lady dr. joe biden, continues to remain at their home in wilmington, delaware, and tested negative for covid-19. the covid-19 response coordinator here at the white house was asked whether the white house would be transparent in providing information, if the president suffers from any long-term symptoms. here was his answer but >> absolutely. its important to the american people to know how the president is doing which is why we have been so transparent getting updates, several t...

Tomorrow bret baer anchors fox news sunday, with the response coordinator and the vice chair of the january 6th committee. lose cheney, check your local listings for time and channel antone media buzz, white house secured coordinator strategic communications john kirby tomorrow at 11:00 am eastern. griff: pushing back on alejandra mayorkass claim that the border is secure. steve harrigan in texas with more. >> reporter: a steady stream s including a number of pregnant women making that across to...

Meeting with people? should all of us given the prevalence right now and the rising number of cases be masking more indoors in your mind? >> i think this is where i turn to the cdc and the cdc guidance which i think is quite clear. cdcs community levels lays out depending on what community, what covid level you are at you should make decisions about wearing masks indoors based on that and, you know, we follow that here at the white house. and i recommend that people follow that across the countr...

Call to rein state some of that. dc is in a moderate covid community transmission and that is an area that we would think about masking, particularly people with chronic conditions. the same thing that they should be doing is just offering, i know that in the white house, it is the press corps, there is it press core, theres rigorous testing. for staff, its not regular testing. they should implement regular surveillance testing, as a broad step. at campuses, infections can happen. ba.5 is infect...

Physician about this. i know shes going to be in delaware this weekend. but beyond that, i think -- you know, the cdc guidelines on this are have i, very clear. the first lady obviously also vaccinated and boosted and she is going to be following cdc guidelines. >> again, i should say quarantined because she hasnt tested positive yet. isolated is if you have it. dr. jha, keep us posted. >> i will. thank you. so we are going to speak by the family of capitol police officer brian sicknick who di...

Immune system. it wanes with age. so they are more vulnerable to rebound, i believe, just scientifically. but we should know that. and we should know the rates of long covid and we should know the rates of cardiovascular and diabetes as late, and the brain fog, we should have answers to all of these questions and the impact of that on long covid, on chronic disease post covid infection. and we should have the same on paxlovid. so this is -- this always discourages me when the data is out there, ...

Wishing him the best. dr. jorge rodriguez, thank you very much. next, white house counsel, former white house counsel for former president trump pat cipollone invoked executive privilege for part of his testimony to the january 6th committee. but what he did say and then what he didnt was pretty revealing. youll see it all right here and well talk to a former white house trump lawyer about it.

>> the symptoms were basically the same, again, hes got a little runny nose, hes got a bit of a dry cough, he was feeling, you know, he worked all day yesterday. he was on phone calls. he was on zoom calls. worked through the evening. and as of 10:00 p.m., when i talked to the folks -- his medical team who had last seen him around 10:00 p.m. or last talked to him around 10:00 p.m., he said he was feeling just fine. >> the president working via zoom like so many of us have done. joining us now to...

Well, today, the president is isolating at the white house after being diagnosed with covid-19 and is, quote, doing just fine. thats according to white house covid response coordinator dr. ashish jha, who also said this morning that presidents symptoms are mild, runny nose, dry cough and basically those symptoms were the same as of last night. >> for more on what we know of bidens diagnosis, lets talk to jorge rodriguez, who joins us now live. doctor, good to have you. >> thank you. >> i dont wa...