hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. president biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve, 15 million barrels is barely one day of what america consumes but the price of gas is hurting the midterm prospects and thehe is trying to show he trying to ease your pain at the pump. no blank check for ukraine. a promise to boot democrats from committees. no promise to rule out cutting social security and medicare. kevin mccarthy gives a window into his agenda. should republicans take back the house. martial law. russia signs off on new decrees from vladimir putin trying to exert more power over ukraine. president biden in a new move designed to help your budget a bit and hopes also maybe his outlook. in just a short while the president announces a batch of new oil drawn from the strategic petroleum reserve, some 15 million barrels and his energy team today won t rule out releasing more oil over the w
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
as we speak, voters in seven states are heading to the polls in some critical primary races. the results, expected to give us some important clues about which party could control the house and more specifically, which wing could control congress. but what s driving voters to the polls? what is their motivating? a new survey shows americans frankly are fed up with politics right now. two-thirds of democrats and republicans think most candidates are thinking of themselves, not their constituents. one issue affecting everyone is skyrocketing gas prices. a gallon of regular gas is now more than $5 in states plus d.c. and some americans can t afford to fill the tank anymore. gas prices are killing us. i m trying to get a second job. i m trying not to follow all the politic, but i m starting to because of everything. we know a police officer will testify before the january 6th committee in its first prime time hearing. two sources telling nbc news that caroline edwards will t
positive for covid earlier this year, fatigue was absolutely the first symptom that set in. it s long before any other symptom set in. sofa te fatigue is an indicator. what will doctors be watching for the next five to seven days? we ll be watching for many of those signs of severe covid. the most dangerous thing that we watch for, of course, is for a dropping pulse ox, lower oxygen levels in your blood. that s what former president trump experienced and what brought so many people to the doors of my emergency department in earlier covid waves. unlikely with biden because of his being vaccinated and twice boosted and being on paxlovid. but that s the big danger sign. he ll also be watching for other signs. he gets a different level of care than perhaps the average person, but if he s showing
woo of bilor school of medicine. it s not just that the readings were inaccurate. they can actually make patients appear healthier than they are. tell me about this study. what did you find on that? that s right. so there were two parts to this study. so in the first part, we looed a at over a thousand patients with covid-19. and we found that black, hispanic and asian patients had their oxygen levels overestimatesed compared to the gold standard test, which is a blood test showing the option of meaning that the pulse ox terse showed a higher level. we answered the question did this have an effect on how patients were potentially the treated. and the reading for that is because oxygen levels are used