boosted. let s get back over to the white house to get an update from cnn s jeremy diamond. jeremy, what is the latest you re hearing? reporter: we just received a letter from joe biden s physician, dr. kevin o connor, confirming the news that the white house put out, saying that joe biden has tested positive for covid. he writes that the president tested positive this morning as part of our routine screening program. he says he tested positive on an antigen test that was confirmed via pcr testing. he confirmed what we reported on air just last hour, which is that the president is experiencing mild symptoms, including runny nose, fatigue, with an occasional dry cough, which he said started yesterday evening. i spoke to dr. jha, the white house s coronavirus coordinator. he said the president last night went to bed feeling mostly fine but did not sleep well and tested positive this morning. dr. o connor, the president s physician, is writing here that the president is fully
not have his raido in the hallway, telling the texas tribune he was unaware of the dispatch report. six minutes later, he s seen trying keys to open an adjacent door. none of which appeared to work. minutes later, more gunfire. but the police posture is again to hunker down, as arredondo attempts to speak to the gunman. sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we don t want anyone else hurt. the videos released by the uvalde mayor just as the texas house committee released its damning interim report sunday on the law enforcement response, calling it chaotic, lackadaisical without any person obviously in charge. in that report, arredondo offers this as part of an explanation to the committee. when there s a threat, you have to visibly be able to see the threat. you have to have a target before you engage your firearm. getting fired at through the wall, coming from a blind wall, i had no idea what was on the other side of that wall. i never got to physicall
plus, more evidence of an economic funk. a new data point shows american consumers are getting even more pessimistic, and it s because of inflation. and a split screen day for republicans. trump in washington. so is pence. competing speeches put their rift in the wrestling match for control of the republican party front and center. up first for us, though, a federal grand jury, its highest profile witness, and what it might mean for donald trump and those who helped him try to steal the 2020 election. a former mike pence cheech of staff, marc short, confirm last night here on cnn, that he did receive and did comply with a grand jury subpoena, his first appearance before the washington, d.c., grand jury. marc would not discuss the content of his testimony. but a witness to a long list of episodes including the senior circle of trump allies who pushed a scheme with the home that vice president pence would then refuse to certify the real biden electors. multiple reports say greg
name a full-time monkeypox coordinator as the world health organization declares a global public health emergency. a spokesperson for the w.h.o. joins me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to all the latest developments in the january 6th investigation. the select committee is not slowing down at all. releasing new evidence today showing donald trump crossed out key parts of the speech he delivered the day after the capitol riot. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. he s joining us now. tell us more, evan. what are you learning? we know that the former president was resistant to trying to stop the violence. one of the things we learned from the committee today, this is incredible, that this did not make the cut for last week s hearing. what we learned from the committee, they released a video that indicates that he was resist
that includes 18 more howitzers on top of what the u.s. has sent in. more than 36,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and ammunition for the himars system, approved earlier this month. four of those weapons systems, multiple launch rocket systems that can strike at a far greater range. that s about a third of the billion dollars. the other two-thirds is known as the ukraine security assistance initiative and that will go to purchase through direct contracts with weapons manufacturers more weapons for ukraine. that includes two harpoon coastal defense systems, thousands of night vision goggles, thousands of radios so that won t be as fast, but the u.s. s position is the fight in eastern ukraine is an incremental fight. russia, yes, is making gains, but there is still time to get the critical systems in. how will we find out and when will we see this? the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the training on that advanced himars system for the first group wrapped up today.