President biden has tested positive for covid and we get a live update. And the january 6 committee gets ready for another prime time hearing. Seatwh ey want theto see pl amazonts Bay Area Health care company. What the multibillion dollars deal means for members. Good afternoon, im sara donchey. Our top story at 3 00, more than two years in the pandemic and President Biden has tested positive for covid19. A live look at the white house where he is isolating and having mild symptoms. We have more on the president s covid condition. Deborah . Reporter well, sara, President Biden started taking paxlovid after he tested positive this morning and in doing so, he had to discontinue taking two medications, one a blood thinner and the other one for cholesterol. This is a routine matter of practice. But like many people who are sick or many people who test positive for covid, the president is still working and so he is taking zoom calls and making phone calls. Folks, i guess you heard this morn
Serves a a chief staff attorney at court of appeal in virginia. The committee for responsible federal budget and member of the campaign to fix the debt committee. She served alongside bob as a member of the bipartisan policy the president of ceo of the center for American Progress and counsel for American Progress fund. She was one of the first here. We opened our door as serving as Senior Vice President for domestic policy. Since then she has served as legislate i have director for senator clinton. President ial campaign and domestic policy director as president obama and campaign in 2008 and Senior Adviser for Health Reform at the department of health and Human Services. David is the chief Washington Bureau at the New York Times company. And writes the Weekly Economic scene column for the business section. Se serves as staff writer for the New York Times and magazine and contributes to the economist blog. In 2007 he was awarted the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Prior to joining the
President obama the last four years has made a lot of decisions. Some of them like the stimulus package he said would result in all kinds of new jobs. That has not happened. He said he was going to cut the deficit in half. That has not happened. The good news that we have somebody who is running for president that has the knowhow. He has the experience. He has got the experience, the record, and he knows how to work with democrats, republicans cannot independents alike to address the challenges we face as a country, and that is why we need mitt romney in washington to fix what is broken and bring back the American Dream. I see a uaw member here economy. Autos. Talk what go said barack obama that said were a few wars. One was about the Auto Industry. He said, you want to take those companies to bankruptcy. I supported a rescue package for the autos, but what obama said was not true. It was barack obama who took gm and chrysler through bankruptcy, ok . Right . Second, it was mitt romney
Purpose to all of this which is sad, but i think theres theres a protest thats again about ready to boil over and its going to come from all quarters, its going to come from auto workers. Its going to the subway conductors and bus drivers in new york city just voted to join the protests on wall street, richard trump came, the head of the aflcio gave his backing to those protests here on cspan. So i think youre going to see its going to grow into a much larger thing because theres so many millions of people out here who have lost their pensions, their health care and who have lost their homes because of no health care because the Insurance Company wouldnt pay the medical bills and its one of the top reasons people go bankrupt because of medical bills. Weve had so much suffering with so many millions of people. Honestly, i dont know why the rich have overplayed their hand like this. Why theyve made life so difficult for so many of millions of middle class people who used to support them.
They look really well trained. Theyre four months old and not listening to us at all. Set your dvr so you never miss an episode of the five. Special report is next with that special. Dont miss it. Welcome to a special edition of special report, im bret baier coming to you from the gem theater in downtown detroit. In just a moment, the first of two Democratic Candidates will take the stage at this town hall. Well check the stories making headlines today. Bloomberg will not run for president. He cannot take the risk that his candidacy could lead to the election of donald trump or ted cruz. He calls trump divisive and cruz
extreme. Flags are flying at half staff today around the country in memory of nancy reagan. The former first lady died sunday of congestive Heart Failure at her home in las vegas. Her 52 year marriage to Ronald Reagan ended with his death in 2004 after a long battle with alaska highlighters disease. She became a leading advocate, even breaking from many republicans in t