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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 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...

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 it's chasing variants, which is not very quluuseful. if you are under the age of 50 with an underlying disease and had your th...

And get your booster now. i thought peter had a fantastic question. it kind of gets to the meat of what's happening here. there's a lot we don't know about this variant. there's a lot we don't 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 don't know about those things. it will take a few weeks if not even longer than that to find those out. once they do that, looking at the vaccine itself, vaccine manufacturers had said it's going t...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. you're his chief medical adviser. do you think that's something the country should adopt? >> i'm 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. let's get them vaccinated, let's get the people who are vaccinated boosted, let's get the children vaccinated. that's where we want to go as opposed to a requirement. >> reporter: some people say you have extinguished many of your options to...