jonathan, i wanted to talk to you now because the battle for obamacare, ten-year war as you call it, feels like we're seeing a similar focus on d.c. now and similar drama coming out of capitol hill. what's your critique of the news coverage of the past week? >> the politics are eerily similar. i think my biggest critique was the overreaction to what happened this week. there was a lot of drama on capitol hill. there were votes that were going to happen, not going to happen. then all of a sudden we had headlines, agenda hanging by a thread, president biden's presidency in doubt. to me, this looked like a pretty normal process and negotiation trying to put together a very ambitious piece of legislation. remember the aca, there were many near-death moments where it looked like this would fall apart. this does not feel like one of those moments for me. >> charlie, what about you, your number one critique of the coverage thus far? >> listen, i agree with jonathan that this is actually pretty normal, and all of these hand-wringing headlines kind of undersell the fact this is just how the s

jonathan mcdowell, as we talk more about what we can learn from this, what are you most excited about. >> it's really interesting to me that people on this flight aren't just random billionaires. three of the four of them are people that the space community really well. everybody knows william shatner -- >> this is a communications check with the crew. let's have a listen. >> you got it. the welcome. all four astronauts in their seats. you heard affidavit now powell, astr astronauts and then, of course, our other customer. >> jonathan, apologies, we're listening there. it looks a little bit like a modern day mission control, a little smaller than what we imagine from the nasa flights. you were making a great point about this crew. yes, there's william shatner. you have great folks here, rock stars and science in space. >> audrey powers is not just a blue origin employee, she's been a force in the new space community for many years, as mentioned earlier, chris boshuisen founded this amazing company, planet. for decades we were talking about how small satellites would revolution nice th

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jonathan reiner. he's the director of the card yak catheterization program at george washington university hospital, also presidential historian douglas brinkley. doctor, i'm going to start with you. let's discuss the former president and his hospitalization in california tonight. urinary tract infection spreading to his bloodstream. can you tell us about his condition and how dangerous this is? >> good evening, don. it's been reported that he's doing well, and his team is considering switching him from intravenous antibiotics to oral antibiotics perhaps as early as tomorrow. so sepsis is an infection that has spread to the blood. a lot of things can do it. it's much more common as we get older, and it's very common to have the urinary tract as the source. commonly the kidneys or the bladder. sometimes there's, you know, no underlying cause. sometimes there is. i suspect that the president's physicians both in california and new york will search for whether there's an underlying cause for the infectio

jonathan greenblatt of the antidefamation league posted this on facebook. i'll read it out for you. i don't think a single company has ever been responsible for so much misfortune. advertisers from fortune 500 companies and small businesses need to ask themselves, do they want to continue to invest in a platform that is knowingly pushing out misinformation and hate? that seems to divide more than convene. >>> we'll stay on top of that story for you, of course, as we get more on facebook papers and keep an eye on the share price. >>> now to new developments in the deadly movie set tragedy. the gun alec baldwin fired killing cinematographer halyna hutchins was used with live practice earlier the day. it happened during down time. cnn spoke to its c.e.o. take a listen. >> that alec baldwin used to tragically shoot halyna hutchins had been used in target practice. they have a lot of down time onsets. you probably know this. there is this pass time that crew members sometimes do is plinking. they go out and shoot at cans. this is live ammunition. this happened the morning of the day befo

bush and john mccain campaigns, mark mackinnon and adviser to senator manchin jonathan cott. what does biden need to do tonight? >> he needs to go on a national stage like he is with you all tonight and talk about not the price of the bill but what's in the bill. when you talk about what's in the bill it has enormous support. the last three to six months it's been has it been 3.5 trillion, 2.5 and not what's in the bill. we know people are supportive of the different elements of the bill. now democrats have to decide what's in and what's out. >>> what is going to be in the bill when it comes to climate change. what will senator joe manchin allow that would be something that joe biden can go out and say, look, this is a huge victory for avoiding environmental calamity. >> i think senator manchin is open to a lot of things that joe biden could get on board with. what he is not on board with is eliminating energy sources we need the next 20 to 30 years. rick perry to ernie momise told him we will need. so i think he is just going to find the sweet spot that he always looks for.

the fbi says jonathan has been a navy employee since 2012. he worked at a lab where he maintained a top security clearance. his wife acted as a lookout for her husband during the dead drops. in one of his messages, jonathan toby allegedly wrote he was extremely careful to gather the files i possess slowly and naturally in the routine of my job. we receive training on warning signs to spot insider threats. >> it was a mix of some very s sophisticated methods used. >> the couple allegedly wrote they received a total of $5 million in crypto currency. the fbi said they paid the tobys $100,000 over the course of the investigation. but the biggest mystery remains who did this nuclear engineer think he was selling these government secrets to? the fbi refers to it as country one in the records and that country alerted the fbi, which began its undercover investigation. toby and his wife will appear in federal court tomorrow, but prosecutors are asking they remain locked up. they're calling them a flight risk and say they could destroy evidence. >> tha

also with us this evening, medical analyst jonathan reiter. we are just finding this out now. >> reporter: on wednesday we found out she was dropping off this foreign trip. every thought was she would be joining the president. she put out a statement saying she was not coming because of a family emergency. we now know what that family emergency is based on that statement that she released. we now know family members tested positive for covid-19. since then jen says she has tested negative for covid on wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday, and since then i've tested positive for covid. while i have not had contact with the senior staff since wednesday, i am disclosing today's positive test out of an abundance of transparency. she last saw the president on tuesday when they, quote, sat outside more than six feet apart. psaki said thanks to the vaccine, i've only experienced mild symptoms which has enabled me to continue working from home. so jen psaki has tested positive for covid. when you lay out the timeline, she hasn't seen the president

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the fbi says that jonathan toby has been a navy employee since 2012. he worked at a lab in pennsylvania on nuclear propulsion where he maintained a top secret security clearance. his wife was a lookout for her husband during the dead drops. in one of his messages, jonathan toebee said he carefully gathered it routinely in my job. >> it was a mix of some very sophisticated methods used by mr. toebee and his wife and some really sloppy ones. >> reporter: the couple wrote they were seeking a total of $5 million in crypto currency. the fbi says they paid the toebees $100,000 over the course of the investigation. but the biggest mystery remains, who did this nuclear engineer think he was selling the government secrets to? the fbi is only referring to it as country one in the court records and that country did alert the fbi which began that year-long undercover investigation. pamela, toebee and his wife will appear in tourt tomorrow. the government is seeking they be detained pending trial. they say they are a flight risk. also worrying they could destroy ev

jonathan reiner. doc, can you just explain first off what this condition is, sepsis, and how unusual or usual it is to come from a uti. >> good morning, brianna. simply stated, it is an infection that can be detected in the blood stream. it can begin in a lot of places. with the age of the former president, it originates in the kidney, plaider or lungs, if someone has pneumonia. the implication is the infection becomes much more severe when it spreads to the blood stream. if left unchecked, that can cause significant decreases in blood pressure, shock, and organ damage. the elderly often present with subtle symptoms. it seems like former president clinton is following it is following that path. it can be increased fatigue. these are subtle clues. it prompted them to treat with antibiotics. he is on the mend now. >> it was days before we found out about this. what does this tell you about the possible significant concerns they had about the former president's health that he went into the hospital tuesd

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i think that's what we are seeing now. . >> what do you think, jonathan. part of me wondered all long how manchin wants the build back better plan. what is he most excited for? what do you think he will get out there and trumpet as part of this? . >> i think he will trumpet stuff that helps west virginia. that's all he cared about from the start. he started this back in march working on an infrastructure bill. he went through what was needed. he sat down and looked at what was in the reconciliation bill. he supports taking care of children, the elderly. he is talking about ways we can help the climate. but he wants to do it in a more targeted approach so, again, after we pass a massive $2 trillion spending bill, we know where all the money is going. we know exactly the people that are getting it. those are the people that need it most. i'm sure when the bill is done, we will go back to west virginia, talk to people, explain the good things that he liked in the bill and things he didn't want in the bill. as part of negotiations, you have to accept. he's jus

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jonathan reiner. welcome back. i want to play you something we heard from vice president harris, and the question of those who are immunocompromised, the vaccines, and the reality of this virus. then let's talk. >> what happens in terms of his health situation is exactly what the doctors have told us can happen, right, in terms of people who are immunocompromised, people who have preexisting conditions. i think it's, that today is a day to really reflect on the life of the man and his extraordinary service and not to politicize the efficacy of vaccines. >> dr. reiner, both parkinson's, and this melanoma, multiple myeloma, i should say, the effectiveness of the vaccine, what can you tell us? >> first of all, i agree with vice president harris that, you know, today is certainly not the day nor is any day to politicize vaccines, but as it pertains to secretary powell, general powell, he really fell into the highest risk group. he was over the age of 80, and he had an illness that made him prone to infection and would

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jonathan, biden, a lot changed since june the last time he met with the g7. just look at his relationship with the rest of the world and thing that's occurred since then. chaos in afghanistan, we saw the "dear evan hansen" surge, supply chain problems across the globe, inflation, this diplomatic fight with france, and overall here in the u.s., biden's approval rating is down. >> different presidency. >> different presidency. >> yeah, really is. you see that across the board and obviously those issues trail him abroad as well. part of this mission is doing some cleanup too. and in very joe biden fashion, he says things very bluntly, admitted for the cameras that they had blundered their relationship with the french and biden seeming to throw his own staff under the bus in the process, was a nice touch by the president for the press. but, look, he ran and i think conveyed to the american people that he would restore relationships around the world. the former president obviously sort of created challenges, and it's harder in practice. because you have to sometim

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jonathan reiner. when i listen to that i feel like i should tell you i'm suffering from a headache right now. how does this sound to you what some of those parents were telling our gary tuchman? >> as it pertains to that school, they just don't seem to understand how vaccines work. that's not how vaccines work. so, first of all, this particular vaccine, the covid vaccine, is not a live attenuated vaccine where you have to worry about viral shedding and trying to isolate people who may somehow shed the virus. all of these vaccines impart a little bit of genetic material, not the entire virus, not a tenuated virus. it's 180 degrees off. it's just wrong. but schools like that and information like that in the public spreads this remarkable disinformation. people think you can get sick, really sick from the vaccine. these vaccines have been given to about 4 billion people on this planet. there's no data to support that. there are all kinds of really insane conspiracy theories that the vaccines contain some

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jonathan reiner. good to see you. take a listen to the cdc director dr. rochelle walensky this morning. >> we'll not boost our way out of this pandemic. even after you boost, it remains important for us to remain smart about our prevention strategies while we still have over 93% of our counties with high or moderate community transmission. >> how much urgency should people eligible for a booster shot take to get that extra dose? >> i think they should do it right away. what we know is after six months the efficacy of this -- of these vaccines to prevent infection wanes significantly. and the sooner you get boosted, the more your protection is. i think if you've been -- not i think. we know if you've been vaccinated, you're very unlikely to get severely ill, should you get a breakthrough infection. but it's going to take you out of action for a couple of weeks. and more importantly, it then makes you more likely to infect somebody else who may be vulnerable. either unvaccinated or immunocompromised. so everyone who is eligible for a booster should get a bo

jonathan reiner. what we learned from colin powell's family in their statement that he was fully vaccinated but had died from complications of covid-19. we've now learned that he had multiple myeloma according to a source familiar with the matter. this is a cancer of the plasma cells. it can suppress your immune system. it's important to put this in context. >> right. multiple myeloma is a disease that itself suppresses the immune system but it's also important to understand that the treatment for multiple myeloma, which patients often take every day, itself can suppress the immune system. so general powell respected our most vulnerable population in this country. he was over the age of 80. he had cancer, and a treatment for his cancer made him vulnerable. when we try to convince young people why they need to be vaccinated, it's to protect our treasuries, our people like general powell, our grandparents, because while, you know, a 25-year-old may do quite well with the infection, if they spread it to

the engineer's name is jonathan toebbe. he and his wife on their own were to provide information on virginia class submarines. this is the set of secrets that the united states agreed finally to go share with australia about a month ago, the thing that sent the french government up the wall because they had a deal with australia. it's considered to be among the great secrets of the united states because this is the neck tolling that allows the submarines to run basically limitless distances and very quietly. what the indictment doesn't say, though, is who he tried to sell it to. but as you read between the lines, it seems like it was a friendly country. it doesn't seem like he was trying to sell it to the russians or chinese. >> how did they get caught? >> well, i want was a mix of some very sophisticated methods used by mr. toebbe and his wife and some really sloppy ones. so in their communications back and forth to this foreign government, and it looks like the foreign government immediately handed the package of frgz ove

jonathan reiner. doctor, good evening. thanks for joining us. we spoke just last night about former president bill clinton being hospitalized after an infection that spread from a uti. doctors are saying he's trending in the right direction, but he will stay in the hospital. how long do you think that will be? >> it's hard to know. but he was hospitalized, i think it was three days ago. and he remains hospitalized now. so he was sick. and they want to give him a full course of antibiotics. and as we said last night, sepsis kills about a quarter of a million people every year in the united states. you can die from this. a 75-year-old man can die from this. so they're taking their time. what we're not sure about is how sick he was when he was admitted to the hospital. we often get kind of a rosy story, you know, from the publicity folks when they try and paint the picture. it sounds like his medical team wants to give him the full course of iv antibiotics, and it sounds like a good plan. >> and i want to get to the news about johnson & johnson, th

jonathan rhiner is here for our friday night house call. good evening. how are you? >> i'm good, don. >> thank you for joining. a friend that i know, two of his children got covid, asymptomatic, a surprise to them. so kids can get it. they happened to be asymptomatic but not all children are so this is very important. we're getting so close to what parents have been long waiting for. the cdc will meet on tuesday. if they aapprove vaccines for kids, how soon could we be seeing the vaccines going into arms? >> i expect dr. welinski will aapprove the committee's almost certain recommendation for this vaccine. as the vaccines are shipping, i expect children will start to receive it on wednesday. so next week we'll start to get shots into arms. >> recent polling shows a majority of parents say they won't vaccinate their kids right away with cases going down, some parents are wondering if it is even worth it. i think the exam of what i just said. you know, that's why it is worth it. it wasn't just the two kids, right? my friend's two kids. the two kids got it from someone

jonathan reiner. good evening to you. we know that vaccines work. right? how do you explain the on going republican resistance to life saving public health measures while we're in the middle of a pandemic still? >> it almost like these politicians are trying to sabotage our recovery. there is some interesting stats that relate -- that i think answer some of these questions. april 19th vaccines were made available for all americans. and on that date, texas and new york had very similar numbers of deaths. new york had about 52,000 deaths, texas had i believe around 49,000 deaths. and since that time, since vaccines were available to all adults in the united states, new york has had an additional 3,000 deaths and texas has had almost 20,000 additional deaths. and the big difference is that new york has fully vaccinated 72% of its population and florida only 60% and now what we see is the -- excuse me, texas. and now what we see is the texas governor really trying to prevent these mandates, which had been shown to increase vaccination uptake in the united stat

jonathan ryan e senior medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university. dr. reiner, great to see you. let's start with the positive news on this. it's so rare we get positive news in this fight against covid. but do you agree that this new anti-viral pill could be a game-changer? >> i do. the preliminary data -- and, again, we'll have to see when the full data set is released, but the preliminary data suggests that this oral pill, moe knew peer veer reduces covid. this drug is orally available, so we'll be able to provide this to folks, hopefully not come in for an intravenous infusion and keep folks out of the hospital. it's really very promising news. merck has promised the united states pretty soon about 1.7 million courses of this drug. they'll produce 10 million courses over the next several months and they're already producing the drug, getting ready for potential approval. >> but it doesn't take the place of a vaccine, right? >> no. >> and are you concerned this could give people who are still vaccine-hesitant, having gotten vaccinated, with a fal

with us jonathan martin from the "new york times" who wrote a terrific article about the empowered progressives. >> yeah. >> how are they feeling this morning? . >> they're feeling great. this is probably the most significant muscle flexing they have exerted in years in congress. and what's funny about this is they did it under the auspices of rallying for joe biden, who was not their first candidate, second or their sixth candidate in the 2020 primary. but he adopted a lot of their agenda with the nomination. so because of that, they are able to say, look, we are trying to pass the president's agenda here, which is a very compelling argument in the party. . >> the progressives are feeling empowered and some of the moderates are angry -- >> betrayed. >> stephanie murphy, moderate democrat from florida, said the way he is governing doesn't reflect the skills i know he must have as his years as a legislator. i'm not clear why he came up to the hill. >> that's reflective of more folks in the democratic caucus than her. they thought, up until biden opened his remarks, that he was coming up there on