symptoms the president is experiencing are very mild. we ll get an update shortly on the president s condition. complete coverage now, dr. marc siegel standing by. john: jacqui heinrich is live on the north lawn. the white house has sent out the first picture of the president, from some time today? we are to assume it s from today. white house is making an effort to show the president is still carrying out his duties in isolation despite testing positive for covid-19. he tweets, folks, i m doing great. thanks for your concern. just called senator casey, congressman cartwright and a mayor and scranton cousins send my regret for missing our event today, keeping busy, exclamation point. his symptoms began last night with a runny nose, fatigue and dry cough. when he went to bed he felt fine but did not sleep well, woke up this morning and tested positive. the white house physician says he s talking the antiviral drug paxlovid, has f.d.a. emergency use authorization for high r
bret: breaking tonight and all day today president biden has covid. the white house made this announcement this morning just days after the president returned from a middle east trip and the trip yesterday to massachusetts. is said to be experiencing mild symptoms. the president will isolate at the white house and execute his duties from there, according to the white house press secretary. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has the latest tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. the president is suffering only mild symptoms. a runny nose, a dry cough, and fatigue. but we did get conflicting information from white house officials and his doctor about when those symptoms started and why he only reported them after popping a positive on a routine test. but, most importantly, we re told the president is doing fine. but the team or the day rather that his team had long prepared for has finally come. hey, folks, yes you hea
the unforgettable scenes of desperate afghans clinging to a c-17 at the airport in kabul trying to escape the clutches of the taliban happened a year ago today. defining image of a strategic and humanitarian disaster marking the turning point of a presidency back here at home. one that we still consider today. as we say good morning. good to have you with us. i m bill hemmer and hello at home and hello to you. a i m dana perino this is america s newsroom. it has been a year but i feel like i can remember every moment of this whole two weeks that we watched it. maybe six weeks we watched the world change. heartbreaking images that stunned americans. thousands of afghans crowded the airport and ran after planes taxiing on the runway. president biden faced backlash and also from our allies for the botched u.s. withdrawal but he refused to budge. president biden: i am president of the united states of america. and the buck stops with me. i m deeply saddened by the facts we no
they were being too fickle. for us to question every element, no, we re not doing that. she made a great point that when she was a republican she did not see that. they did fall in line more, she said. they showed up and they just voted for an r. democrats, you know, dissect and analyze. there s a color coded chart of where you fit. a flow chart and figure how it can be better. tomorrow when you tune in, you re going to hear who they would like to run in 2024 instead of joe biden. so tune in for that. it s the top of the hour with cnn newsroom, i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. flashing red warning signs suggest the risk of federal prosecution may be increasing for former president donald trump. the department of justice has escalated its probe into january 6th. the washington post reports that the doj is directly investigating trump s actions. federal prosecutors are now targeting high profile players in trump s inner circle. they ve questioned two top aid
those crucial new details about the justice department s investigation of the january 6th attack. the washington post with this headline that s getting a ton of attention this morning, the justice department now investigating trump s actions in its criminal probe. the story even revealing intimate details from that highly secretive federal grand jury, saying, quote, prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings trump led in december 2020 and january 2021, his pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and what instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. that s according to four people familiar with the matter. nbc news, by the way, confirms from an administration official the doj is investigating trump s actions as part of its january 6th probe but clarifies that that does not necessarily mean it is open to criminal investigation into the former president himself. so let s get rig