intelligence report found several researchers at china s wuhan institute of virologist, a lab in wuhan fell ill in 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a whole month before china reported its first case officially of covid-19. the important new detail here, the researchers had to be hospitalized. that s right. they were severely ill. the trump administration s state department in january of this year released a fact sheet that said chinese researchers had gotten sick in the fall of 2019. this intelligence they were sick enough to seek hospital care shortly before the confirmed outbreak, well, it add to demands for broader investigation into the origins of the virus and for greater transparency from the chinese government. with the reporting this morning, our natasha and david. let s start with natasha. the intelligence community has believed and continues to believe and have, in their word, low confidence, on the virus precise origin. does it give them anymore confidence? ye
alarm warning the u.s. could be primed for another spike, not just an increase, but a spike in new infections. jeremy diamond is at the white house this morning with more on president biden s actions on gun control. jeremy, there s a limited amount the president can do via executive order. what exactly does he plan to do? yeah, no question that the steps that we re seeing from president biden coming out today. these are limited steps. they fall far short of what he promised to do during the 2020 campaign. but senior officials have been telling us over the last 24 hours or so that these steps the president is going to announce today are just the beginning of his efforts to tackle the issue of gun violence in america and, obviously, his ultimate goal would be to see legislation passed through congress. something that is a hurdle, a very steep one at that, given the filibuster requirements and democrats slim majority in the senate. we ll hear from president biden later this m
president joe biden preparing or the hold his first formal news conference tomorrow afternoon in the wake of the mass shootings in boulder and atlanta. he s calling on congress to pass gun legislation to prevent more senseless shooting deaths. the president is said to be considering executive action on guns to prevent more deadly violence. let s discuss now. john harwood is here as well as our senior political commentator david axelrod. good evening. thank you for joining. john, i ll start with you. the white house is dealing with a slate of urgent crisis, guns, voting rights, immigration, coronavirus. president biden s first big news conference is tomorrow. is he ready to get grilled on all of this? well, i think he s ready for it but i think he s going to illustrate through this experience why he has waited to hold a news conference. as david knows better than anyone because he s lived it professionally, presidents like to control what the political conversation is about.
president joe biden preparing or the hold his first formal news conference tomorrow afternoon in the wake of the mass shootings in boulder and atlanta. he s calling on congress to pass gun legislation to prevent more senseless shooting deaths. the president is said to be considering executive action on guns to prevent more deadly violence. let s discuss now. cnn s white house correspondent john harwood is here as well as our cnn political commentator david axelrod. he is a former obama senior adviser. gentlemen, good evening. thank you so much for joining. john, i ll start with you. the white house is dealing with a slate of urgent crisis, guns, voting rights, immigration, coronavirus. president biden s first big news conference is tomorrow. is he ready to get grilled on all of this? well, i think he s ready for it, don, but i think he s going to illustrate through this experience why he has waited to hold a news conference. as david knows better than anyone because he s li
taking questions, he has doubled his vaccination goal to 200 million shots in his first 100 days in office, but not one question related to covid was asked today by the reporters in the room. as a cascade of unforeseen tragedies riled this moment gun violence, racial injugs and especially the border, which the white house insists is not a crisis at all. biden addressing concerns of his critics that his more compassionate stance on unaccompanied minors and rollbacks of what his administration called the cruellest from the trump administration is prompts more migrants. and he called it a seasonal problem, he also reattitudesed to apologize for factors humanity into his approach on children at the border. the idea that i m going to say which i would never do an un companied child ends up at the border, we re going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side. no previous administration did that either, except trump. i m not going to do it. i m not going to do i