i m alicia menendez with simone standers townsend and michael steele. here are some of the stories we are following today. donald trump delivering a new calling for, quote, compute complete immunity for presidents. plus, the house speaker cold water on congresswoman the net paragon will tell us where things stand. we will also hear from hhs secretary javier after record breaking care for the affordable care act. grab your coffee, settle, in to the weekend. we begin with donald trump ramping up his calls for presidential immunity. the former president posting late last night that, quote, without complete immunity, a president united states would not be able to properly function. this comes as trump gears up for a busy few weeks on legal and political fronts. appeals could go at either moment on those immunity claims. just days from now, the supreme court will hear oral arguments over whether the state of colorado can a boot trump from the presidential ballot. those cases
Conspiracy and they cover up the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump now underway as trumps attorney or zaid, you and im quoting him here. There is nothing wrong with trying to influence an election it was a hush of the courtroom today is the first witness took the stand in long time. Confidante who helped trump catch and kill negative stories. And good now help make the former president , it convicted felon, and trump. Meanwhile, relatively the quiet incorporate ranting outside court, attacking Michael Cohen, the widely expected Star Witness For The Prosecution my source tonight is Michael Cohens legal adviser, lael any davis, also just in trump, but a new interview talking about the jury, did he just violate a gag order . Maybe again, im Kaitlan Collins. And this is the source course for the next six weeks or so prepared to expect the unexpected, speaking of which one very well trump saying that the first true de of his criminal trial well, in his view, weve been a
you will be inoculated one way or the other foot is not going to be big pharma. they are going to be inoculated by nature. the natural infection, you may not want it, people unfortunately will die from it but if you get it and survive it is profound immunity and giving immunity better than the vaccine because the disease is now evading the vaccine for the most part. laura: they don t care about this, they don t care about natural immunity, not really. ultimately enough people, it s getting out there, it s not a secret, they can t keep this a secret forever. even the ncaa decided they are going to count natural immunity it s for a pitiful 90 days, i ve had it for two years now and have immunity. they measure were able to detet immunity. they measure immunity from the 1918 spanish flu and discovered people were still living 90 years later still had immunity. immunity works, it s largely long-lasting, it doesn t prevent infection entirely but it s just like getting the omicron. you
i got it already. i have natural immunity. i got over it right after christmas. that s not recognized when in every other virus of this kind that s how viruses work. that s how immunity works. but not now. and secondly, jesse, something that you said i think is very important in your monologue is you were talking about how the cdc really you quoted the new york times piece in saying that they didn t know how this data could be interpreted. so we have a government agency that is paid by taxpayers financially supported by taxpayers that thinks taxpayers, not only does it not trust us, but it thinks that we are too stupid to interpret data which is, again, another sign that you know your government has gotten too big when you can t even monitor details that go on with your day-to-day life and your government s regulation of it. jesse: if you didn t trust the government before, there is no way you are going to trust them after this report ungleeivel. all right. doctor, dana, thank you
hypertension, asthma. if you have lots of risk factors your risk of having a significant severe illness was up to five times higher. we oftentimes had these moments in time where we say, okay, we re going to get healthy because, you know, in the past, maybe it was to prevent heart disease or certain types of cancer. we now know better than ever how immunity works, what the risk factors are and what we can do about it in terms of making ourselves more battle ready as the cdc director said. i did a deep dive into this. so much of your immunity is in your gut. how you eat in the morning could influence how the disease would affect you that night. it s really fascinating. and there s a lot within your own power. that is so fascinating. and we re out of time but i want to leave our viewers with a tease of your book about you dive into the history of vaccine hesitancy and it s so fascinating that it s changed over time depending on what demographic you re in and what the politics are of