race. putin knows that in his heart. when he makes up at 2:00 in the morning, he knows he s not going to win this under this long-term process. so, bottom line here, and i think you ll hear this from a number of the participants out at the aspen security conference. we heard it yesterday, in fact, the u.s. is going to stick, the europeans are going to stick. they re re-wiring their energy system in case putin decides to continue to use gas as a weapon, which he probably will over time. i think we ll win this, but it will require full attention of the west and i think it s going to stay there, mika. all right. retired four-star admiral navy, james stavridis, thank you very much for your insight this morning. and of course, stay with msnbc daily today. live coverage as we lead up to the select committee on the january 6th attack on the capitol prime-time hearings 8:00 tonight. yasmin vassoughian picks up msnbc s live coverage after a quick final break. picks up picks up msnbc s live co
one, that means let me emphasize this, that the vaccines are doing their job. they re keeping folks away from pulmonologists like myself. that s important. if we didn t have vaccines, we would be seeing surging hospitals, worst than what we saw in the of winter 2020 and 2021. paxlovid, critically, i know we re talking about when will we get an updated boosters because they re sensitive to the fact that the virus is changing but it s important to emphasize that paxlovid, thankfully, even if it seems to require booster shots, paxlovid is what we say variant agnostic. doesn t matter what the variant is, it s still going to interrupt its ability to cause infection, progression of disease and here s why, paxlovid interrupts the ability of the virus to replicate within the human cell, yasmin. it actually it disrupts that machinery. it s important we have this therapeutic widely accessible biden administration has great
loftgren said on the face of it, yasmin, it doesn t look good. adam schiff says that he s concerned that something nefarious happened here. jamie raskin went beyond that, telling reporters yesterday that he smells a rat. and what it means is that the committee forget the committee, what it means is that the american people these are government records, but the records themselves belong to the american public. but in the short-term, it means that the committee is without potentially valuable, realtime communications about the what the agents were saying, how they were reacting, the agents close to donald trump. and i think more importantly, the agents who were with vice president then vice president mike pence at the time, who are in control of his movements, as violence was breaking out in and around the capitol. and i ll just add, the fact that these texts apparently cannot be recovered is also raising questions, given that the secret service has the reputation for being one of
talk to me about some of your concerns here, especially considering his advanced age. yasmin, thank you so much for having me. i think this news was inevitable. we see with all the covid protections being lifted, it was only a matter of time before the president contracted covid. he is high risk, simply because of his age. other than, he s in good shape. he has the best health care out there. so i know starting the paxlovid very quickly is important. we know that it has a significant impact on decreasing hospitalizations in people with covid. but he is in that high-risk group. and we know that even people who have been vaccinated and double boosted are at risk of a serious disease that could lead to hospitalization. his team will immediate to keep a very close eye on him. and what they can do for the american public is keep us posted on his status and how he s doing. even though he may be feeling
israel and the considerations that are being made there as well. i spoke to some friends that live in israel right now, their fourth vaccine dose already scheduled for february. there is testing going on already in israel when it comes to that fourth vaccine dose. is it too soon? give me your reaction to this. well, it strikes me as a little too soon, yasmin. you know, i think there is some benefit here, in that we will gather some information from the israeli experience, as we did with our third dose and booster shots. but the truth is that in this country, we re still at a place where only a third of americans have received a third dose. it s far too early for us to be talking about a fourth dose in what looks like an increasingly small number of people who are actually getting boosted as all. i think if we re really going to prevent serious illness, now s the time to focus on the third dose to really rye to prevent the increase in significant illness that s going to put people in