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security adviser, highly involved in international priorities from the trump/kim summits to china policy. will be impossible to dismiss as a low level staffer. and steve bannon's contempt of congress trial, the former white house senior adviser is charged with defying subpoenas from the january 6th committee, for months. we begin with new information we're learning about the former trump national security official, who will testify in thursday's january 6th primetime hearing. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now. high level, one of the most senior trump administ...

Particles that resemble the coronavirus, but do not have the ability to cause illness in humans. what it will do is create an immune response. and it is combined with an extract from a tree bark that actually boosts the immune response. and in studies conducted last year, it was quite effective at preventing severe illness and -- or even symptomatic illness. but most of the trials were done in the pre-delta, pre-omicron. it is an effective vaccine. i'm not sure what the group of people is who will now get it, but i think we maxed out on our vaccination program in this country, unfortunately. >...

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Before the omicron wave, pre-omicron, about 1.4% of children showed upper airway disease during omicron that jumped to about 4%. and this is serious, erica. the study found a fifth of upper airway infection cases resulted in severe disease. requiring ventilation or blood pressure elevating medicationsar even death, erica. >> and i'm fascinated by the next one. the fda has now authorized the first covid-19 breath tecst whih could mane a change for overall testing but how effective is this. >> this is another tool. it won't replace the nasal swab, it is just another option. if do you test positi...

>> dana: the white house nancy pelosi did not come in close constant to president biden despite hugging the president and giving a kiss on the cheek with former president obama this week. here to explain it is dr. marc siegel. the cdc -- i don't think the speaker was going to kiss the president for 15 minutes on the cheek for us to get to close contact. how do we explain this to our viewers, marc? >> let's start with some clarification. 15-minute rule and the cdc has admitted this to me is out of date. pre-omicron, the original variant. with omicron it is more easily transmissible. the 15-minu...