the white house while a hazmat crew came in. president biden and his family were at camp david at the time. bill: meanwhile, at the same time a federal judge issuing a temporary injunction against the administration barring many officials from contacting social media companies like twitter and facebook. they include the surgeon general, hhs secretary and the press secretary karine jean-pierre. dana: former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe is here. let s speak to mark meredith at the white house to give us an update. good morning. president biden welcomed thousands of visitors to the white house last night for the annual fourth of july celebrations. a beautiful night in the nation s capital. today there are growing questions about who and what is coming into the people s house after cocaine was found in the west wing. the secret service said it s investigation is still ongoing. investigators discovered the substance sunday. the building was briefly evacua
from the origins, a lab leak, the efficacy of certain treatments, trance missability. you heard president biden talking about the pandemic of the unvaccinated. it was wrong and americans ability to engage in honest debate was suppressed. you have these agencies with social media working to suppress the truth and amplify lies. with regard to the issue of the hunter biden laptop and election interference on that front as you recall, on october 18th of 2020 i came out as the director of national intelligence and said this is not russian disinformation. we have no intelligence of that. that was based in part on the fact my conversations with the department of justice and the f.b.i., with bill barr and director wray that the f.b.i. had the laptop and it had been
psaki and peter doocy got into it yesterday after the decision. this is a disappointing decision. the cdc continues recommending wearing a mask in public transit. why is it we can sit in the white house briefing room with no masks but people can t sit in an airplane cab-in with no masks? i m not a doctor and you aren t that i m aware of. this is based on health considerations and data that the cdc looks at about trance missability as we ve seen an increase in cases on airplanes. harris: let s get to the judge s decision. iment prompted the tsa and several major airlines to announce they re giving max mandates the boot. a wall street journal op-ed says the ruling comes when the mask mandate is waning health necessity as covid becomes
you may be right. there is this now. why is it that we can sit here in the white house briefing room with no masks but people can t in an airplane cabin with no masks? i m not a doctor, you re not a doctor that i m aware of. the masking guidance is green, yellow, red. this is based on health considerations and data that the cdc looks at about trance missability as we ve seen an increase in cases on airplanes. bill: jen psaki insisting the cdc is following science. two hours later thereabouts a florida judge strikes down the mandate for failing to provide sufficient justification. the white house then announcing the tsa will no longer enforce the masks on planes and so now the question, is the agency following the science or is it just playing politics? vivek ramaswamy, welcome back from columbus, ohio today. you ve seen all the videos,
thanks. dana: washington state announcing a new version of omicron was detected there earlier this month. the new sub variant has turned up in parts of asia and europe. jonathan serrie live in atlanta home of the cdc headquarters. good morning, dana. ba2 is the name of this new sub variant and it has some additional mutations including to the spike protein but researchers at this point don t know how it compares in terms of trance missability or the severity of disease it caused but serves as a reminder as long as the coronavirus is spreading it has the potential month mutate. as the omicron surge shows easing in parts of the globe w.h.o. is urging the community to get 70% of every country s population vaccinated by july. it is dangerous to assume that omicron will be the last variant or that we are in the