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 administration officials to resign in the wake of january 6th. what more do we know about what s going ting to happen on thursday? we know the two former officials will be testifying, not only pottinger, but matthews, both resigning shortly after january 6th. matthew pottinger was the deputy national security adviser and we re told at the time of his resignation that he stepped down in response to trump
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. it is fascinating. thank you for the explanation very much, dr. reiner, on all of it. yeah. in over one hour from now, twitter and elon musk will have their first court hearing as twitter tries to force the billionaire to make good on his deal to buy the social media giant. we ll talk about what s at
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 positive, then would you need to confirm that positive test with a pcr nasal swab. so this is another tool that we ve have. it works by detecting chemical
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-minute rule is out the window number one. in a close area like that with poor ventilation it is not 15 minutes. much less. second the viral kiss, listen, saliva has a ton of sars covid