with chase security features, guidance and convenience, banking feels good. chase. make more of what s yours. the last thing before we go tonight, as you could probably tell from back and forth with senator rand paul today, dr. anthony fauci has had enough. later in the hearing dr. fauci also had a heated exchange with republican senator roger marshall of kansas about his financial disclosure. yes or no, would you be willing to submit to congress and the public a financial disclosure with your past and current investments. your colleague dr. walensky and every member of congress submits financial disclosure for
to this variant. hearing dr. fauci talk about how our diagnostic tools and our treatment tools might need to change here to deal with omicron got me thinking about the idea that we re almost talking about two separate diseases at this point. the omicron being more contagious, potentially less deadly for vaccinated people. and the delta variant which is still out there killing thousands of americans on a weekly basis. is that a fair way to think about this, kind of like one disease that we re talking about and a vaccinated population, another disease out there ravaging largely the unvaccinated population? well, you know, i would take a step back and say that omicron is still a very big deal if you re unvaccinated. whether it s delta, omicron, i the more virus that you have in your body, what we know now from data that was actually released yesterday is that omicron likes to replicate and likes to house itself in the nose and respiratory tract. that s adam s apple
you find the majority are over the age of 65. if you boost somebody, that would be the population of people to boost. so dr. jha, what do you make of how this played out? one thing that surprised me is hearing dr. fauci this morning, you know, he was pretty clear, right? i don t want to get ahead of the fda deliberations. the fda suggestions this will be the case and i understand, sanjay, you re laying out the data but dr. jha, it is a little jar jarring, i think for a lot of people that they kind of don t know what to do or what to believe. erin, thanks for having me back. dr. gupta is completely right about the data. the data is that people over 65, people otherwise are high risk should get a booster and that s where the fda panel landed and that was exactly the right call. you know, in terms of young healthy people, the data is just not there yet.
kavanaugh being on a short list. and that happened in july. you heard me ask her that, wasn t that in july. she said yes, six weeks ago, but july was three months ago. then she mentioned dr. ford, and being inspired by her and wanting to support her and corroborate what she was hearing dr. ford say. but for the record, that was in september. so there s haziness when she decided to come forward. how does your reporting effort to account for her second hand sources or validaters compare to other stories like this that you ve covered? here s what i can tell you. we found out about it, i found out about this interview on friday night. on saturday morning, i had my first confidence with her attorney, michael avenatti. i asked him at that point, can you provide us with names of people who went to the parties with her, just because we couldn t place her nbc news has not since last week been able to place her in that time
grassley in his 37th year in the united states senate has lost whatever grasp he had on senate strategy, he was forced to turnover his cards after issuing this notice today. he tweeted this. judiciary committee noticed potential executive meeting for friday. still taking this 1 step at a time. after hearing dr. ford and judge kavanagh s testimony, if we re ready to vote, we will vote. if we aren t ready, we won t. committee rules normally require three day s notice so we re following regular order. when committee chairmen are confident of what they re doing, when they issue a vote notice in the committee, they never, ever, ever say if we re not ready to vote, we won t. i have never, ever heard, seen a committee chairman in the senate say anything like that ever. and one of the reasons that chuck grassley put out that tweet after the notice of a scheduled vote is that the republican senators, whose votes