white guys got it. greg: that flew right over my head.ki itng is a good ones. speaking of kemal and another one foerr staffers resigned this week this time the communication director jamaal simmons. or staffers say they liked equipment they hate waiting inr] line.at [laughter] that was fine.brit brittney griner has safely aft returned to the united states after being released from russian custody landing safelynt in san antonio. but upon seeing the conditions of the southern border she immediately asked to go back to russia. [laughter] e e does look like pete davidson there.davi [laughter] first i disagree. speaking of texas, a woman there allegedly dropped off 50 pounds
united kingdom? those are different. that s how the netherlands and holland are different. that is my thinking, but why the dutch? you don t call us the united states, you call us americans. maybe that is what it is. someone needs to remind us. rachel: somebody who doesn t do a lot might be vice president kamala harris and right now her communications director, jamaal simmons, will leave his role next month joining a long list of departures. look at this list. it is a long list. pete: he claimed he was only going to be there for a year. one of the top advisors to biden and harris pulling strings behind the scenes.
officials with ties to the white house. most recently, as you noted, the agriculture secretary tom vilsack announced he tested positive for covid-19 and is experiencing minor mild symptoms. vice president kamala harris was a close contact of jamaal simmons. her communications director who tested positive. but so far the white house has said that each of these people who have contracted covid were not a close contact of president biden. even though he has attended some events with people who eventually tested posz. you take a look at the photo of the president earlier in the week, he was standing next to two people who tested positive for covid including house speaker nancy pelosi. the white house is pointing to the cdc guidelines saying that close contacts are essentially people who spend a cumulative 15 minutes in close proximity to one another. for the time being, there haven t been major changes to the covid protocols here at the
dinner on monday night that was attended by a lot of high-ranking democrats. i don t know if the speaker was there but i know it was a very important meeting and that of course there was also the journalist dinner that i was attending on saturday night. there was an outbreak after that. so i ve had talked to a number of people. as we can report adam schiff and others at that gridiron dinner have tested positive, the vice president s press secretary jamaal simmons tested positive who was at that dinner. the incubation rate is pretty short for this variant. i ve tested negative in the last couple of days and immediately after the dinner and again today. but, you know, we do know a number of people who have tested positive and a number of lawmakers as well, garrett. reporter: that s absolutely right. you mentioned adam schiff, there were a number of administration officials getting periodic statements from other lawmakers saying they re asymptomatic but