trump taping that video on january 6th and struggling to condemn the violence. and the blistering heat baking over 100 million people in the u.s., countless others abroad. and there is still no letup in sight. lead. joe biden testing positive for covid. the 79-year-old president who is fully vaccinated and received his second booster shot in march just released a video saying that he s doing fine. symptoms are mild, and i really appreciate your concerns. but i m doing well. white house covid coordinator dr. jha says he s breathing well and oxygen level is normal. he s isolating for the next five days in the white house and taking the covid anti-viral drug paxlovid, which is recommended for people such as joe biden who are at higher risk because of their age or underlying medical conditions. we re joined now live from the white house. the press secretary and the white house covid coordinator just wrapped up a press conference. what did they have to say? reporter: it is c
attack on the capitol. but more than three hours went by before donald trump said much of anything. next week s hearing, the eighth one of the series, building upon evidence showing how trump tried to use the power of his government to overturn joe biden s victory. we re going to walk down to the capitol. he called on his supporters to come to washington on january 6th. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? basically, the president got everybody riled up, told everybody to head on down. so we basically just followed what he said. tuesday s hearing, vice chair liz cheney revealing that trump tried to call a potential witness. something the committee relaid to the department of justice. let me say one more time, we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. but today, chairman bennie thompson telling cnn that the committee does not plan to depose this potential witness. it doesn t know why trump made the call. you have intervi
to get them all a sap. meantime the new york times reporting a right-wing lawyer suggested trump declare marshal law to overturn the 2020 election. president biden returning from his controversial trip to the middle east where energy and security alliances may have been overshadowed by the murder of the washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. with respect to the murder of khashoggi i raised it at the top of the meeting making it clear what i thought of it at the time and think of now. the u.s. has made its own mistakes. with covid cases and hospitalizations on the rise, los angeles likely reinstating indoor masking. with these very high rates unless we start seeing a slow down in spread, a slow down in what s happening in our hospitals in two weeks we will do a universal indoor masking here. londoners being urged not to travel as a heat wave engulfs europe. other cities now seeing all-time records as blistering temperatures bake the continent. i m laur
assault charges, video of the incident there. the 43-year-old man is charged congress with a dangerous weapon. cnn s evan perez is following this and other developments for us. evan, what do you know about the suspect? reporter: jim, we know he was facing, first, a state charge. he was released almost immediately after he was charged with a second-degree assault at the state level and now federal prosecutors have decided to charge him on a federal charge. that charge is for assaulting a member of congress. of course he is running for governor in the state of new york. obviously the justice department looks at this in a different lens. they view this as part of, frankly, a lot of these types of incidents around the country attacking not only trying to threaten members of congress, members of the supreme court, other public officials. there is serious focus on this at the justice department. he is 43 years old. on top of the state charge for which he was immediately released
they can do a lot of good but they choose not to. you and insh should note the are almost all vaccinated at fox. company policy. because they know the data. it is to encourage vaccinations. more than hatch of the u.s. lives in a community of a high level universal indoor masking. there seems to be little appetite in this country to go back to masking. let s go back to what the white house coordinator dr. ashish jha said yesterday. this virus will be with us forever. it s really important that people build up their immunity against this virus. where do you see this going? the cdc did the country a great disservice in february when they changed the map. overnight they changed the map and embraced this community