could be a call soon between presidents biden and putin. we had candid exchanges on our different perspectives and agreed to report those back to our presidents who may have the opportunity to speak directly in the near future. reporter: the two sides will continue to talk. a senior state department official today told reporters there would be intense diplomacy in the coming days with the hope that eventually russia would pull back its forces and agree to a cease-fire in eastern ukraine. for its part russia says it is acting in self-defense and its security is threatened as nato moves eastward toward its border. blinken says it is not clear whether russia has made up its mind to invade ukraine but that it has put in place the capacity to do so and to do so quickly. what the u.s. and nato are seeing right now is very similar to back in 2014 and that of course is when russia did invade ukraine and annexed crimea. thank you so much. coming up we ll take you inside the hunt for the
closing its borders to all non-japanese citizens. here in the united states president biden rolled out his nine-point plan today ramping up booster shots and testing only limiting travel from certain countries. let s bring in rick bright who led the trump administration s vaccine development effort and resigned after a whistle-blower complaint saying his early warnings about the pandemic had been ignored. rick, good to see you again. we should note after the election you briefly joined president biden s covid advisory board. what do you make of the new response plan announced today? is it enough do you think? jake, thanks for having me back on. like many plans they re just plans. it is a great start. i think there are great points. it is surprising to see some of those points being rolled out as a new idea two years into a pandemic. i think the most important thing we need to see in america and across the world is action. we need to see leadership and coordination and coordinate acti
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protect ourselves and our family from sars cov 2 be it the delta or the omicron variant getting fully vaccinated with the booster dose. i just got mine two weeks ago. wearing your mask. i am in kansas for a family event. i went into walmart to buy some rapid tests. there were only two people in the entire walmart store i saw in kansas with a mask on. that is extremely concerning with the delta variant and more concerning with what we don t yet know about omicron. people, please wear your mask up over your nose and keep your distance and try not to breathe someone else s air right now i want to ask you about this controversy involving former president trump and his covid diagnosis from last year. the guardian newspaper detailed an excerpt from an upcoming book from mark meadows, trump s former chief of staff and trump loyalist and meadows reportedly rote trump tested positive for covid three days before his debate with joe
interview. and then, red flags raised a michigan sheriff revealing new details today about why the teenage suspect s parents were called to the principal s office just hours before the deadly high school shooting. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start with the health lead and the biden administration saying it is pulling out all the stops to accelerate our way out of this pandemic and slow the spread of omicron the new variant health officials still know so little about. new evidence today suggests, however, the new variant clearly is spreading in the u.s. president biden went to the national institutes of health this afternoon to announce his new plan launching a national campaign for boosters, setting up family vaccination sites, expanding covid testing, making the at home test kits free either reimbursed by insurance or provided by the government