fauci. dr. fauci: i would like to spend the next few minutes talking about our plans for the future and our current activities under the development of the universal vaccine. a little bit over a month ago, my colleagues and i wrote a perspective in the journal of medicine, talking about the urgent need of a coronavirus vaccine. the reason we did this perspective was to bring to the attention of the public, the fact that in reality, over the past 20 years since 2002, we have had three coronaviruses in outbreak. and we are currently experiencing that. however, since september 2020, there have been five covid to variants of concern. alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and omicron. innovative approaches are needed to produce more durable protection against coronaviruses that are known and some that are at this point unknown. hence, the terminology, pandemic vaccine. this is somewhat of a complicated issue. this is what we call a genetic tree of the coronavirus. if you look at the center of the circle, that i

fauci. dr. fauci: thank you very much, jeff. what i'd like to do over the next few minutes is talk about what jeff referred to as the omicron medicine cabinet. first of all, before i get onto the therapy, i want to underscore the importance that the up to date covid-19 vaccination with boosters prevents severe disease and keeps you out of the hospital, as underscored by dr. walensky. i want to focus now on what happens if you do get sick. what are therapies to prevent you to get disease prevention? -- progression? next slide. i really want to refer people to the details what have i'll be saying over the next few minutes that can be easily found in the n.i.h. covid-19 treatment guidelines that are accessible online. very briefly, this is the state of the guidance for clinicians for the treatment of patients with covid-19 and it is a panel which includes representatives from six government agencies with 42 voting members from 10 professional medical societies, academia, and health care systems. we began it in march 24 of 2020. the

fauci. >> madam chair, ranking member burr, members of the committee. thank you for giving me the opportunity to discuss with you the role of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and the conduct and support of research addressing our nation's response to covid-19. in our most recent hearing before this committee on november the 4th i discussed the importance of booster shots to enhance immunity against the delta variant that wanes over time. indeed booster shots have dramatically reconstituted the waning immunity and has increased protection over and above the original level afforded by the primary vaccine regimen. today we are faced with a different challenge. a new variant called omicron that is rapidly spread throughout the world, including a massive unprecedented surge in the united states. this variant possesses a large number of mutations that are associated with increased efficiency of transmission, immunoevasion from certain monoclanl antibodies, convalescent pla

fauci says. >> sure. so paxlovid, the drug from fooisz, has shown in a randomized placebo controlled trial to be highly effective to the point of 89%. almost 90%. >> what's it called? >> paxlovid. it's made by pfizer. and it's been shown in a very well controlled randomized placebo controlled trial that if you take that drug compared to the placebo within the first three to five days, within the first three days, you have about an 89% chance of preventing you from going to the hospital or dying. there were no deaths in the paxlovid group, and there were several deaths in the placebo death. that's paxlovid. ivermectin has had noncontrol trials suggesting it might be effective, mostly anecdotal. the cdc -- excuse me, the nih guidelines panel have looked at the data and felt it is not sufficient evidence to say that it works or it doesn't. the w.h.o. recommends strongly against it and suggests that it might actually be harmful. the nih active studies are doing a whole bunch of studies with ivermectin as well

fauci. dr. fauci: what i would like to do is talk about omicron and some concerns, particularly in the area of severity of disease. i am going to focus predominantly on severity, but let me take a few comments to underscore things that dr. walensky set. first of all, we are dealing with a highly transmissible variant that spreads rapidly. number two, immunization. omicron evades immune vaccine protection against symptomatic disease and to some extent severe disease. however, laboratory and clinical data indicate that booster shots reconstitute vaccine protection even against omicron. let us spend a moment on severity of disease. it is less likely that omicron will cause severe seeds. i am going to give you data from four separate sources. these are data from south africa. if you look at the three variants in blue, red, yellow, with omicron being yellow, and take a look at admissions, oxygen necessity, severe disease, death, in each case, the yellow bar is significantly less than the rent and the

fauci. and i think a lot of people are saying oh, there's more people in the hospitals because of covid. well, there's more people in the hospitals, maybe, i don't know but i would think it's because when they come down with it or if they take a test and test positive, they call their doctors and the doctors don't have any therapeutics to give these people so unless they get better on their own, if it progresses and gets worse they end up in the hospital but there's nothing they can do in between time, the doctors just say well, stay home. host: robin, i'll jump in and have the congressman respond to you. guest: thanks, robin, i appreciate that. even the c.d.c.'s own numbers are saying now higher percentage of people are going to the hospital for other reasons than earlier in covid and in discovering once they get there because of mandated testing at the hospitals that they have covid, tested positive for covid and they went there because they had broken a finger or have a cold or the flu li

fauci remains. it is not just about the man, though he is an important figure, it is about the way our government is structured. host: to be clear, are you saying dr. fauci cannot be fired or he will not be fired? are you saying he is in a position where no one in the government can fire him if they want to? guest: while the only person who would fire him would be joe biden and he said he will not. host: so that is little difference between can't three fired and will not be fired. guest: perhaps. i think the reason that joe biden says he won't fire dr. fauci is politically he knows he cannot. donald trump to the same thing. donald trump has no love for dr. fauci or vice versa yet dr. fauci was able to amass an extraordinary amount of power, even what would have been during a hostile administration. i grant your point that theoretically the man could be fired, but in terms of practical politics, kind of what we are talking about, in terms of not just the way the country is supposed to work on paper b

fauci. >> you think anyone had more influence in a response than you have? you think it's a great success what happened so far. [the lockdown is good for our kids? you think we slowed down the death rate? more people died under president biden than did under president trump. you're the one responsible. you're the architect, the lead architect from the response from the government and now 800,000 people have died. do you think it's a winning success what you've advocated for government? dr. fauci: senator, first of all, if you look at everything that i said, you accuse me of in a monolithic way telling people what they need to do. everything that i said has been in support of the c.d.c. guidelines, wear a mask, get boosted, get vaccinated. >> and you made it coercive. and you advocated it be done by mandate and said the invaluable opinion be dictated by law. dr. fauci: madam chair, i'd like a couple minutes because it happens all the time. you personally attack me with absolutely not a sled o

fauci put it really well. it's worth noting that his agency has given out $36 million in grant funding. a lot of academic labs are looking at the next generation of covid vaccines. you are absolutely right. that is one of the key challenges. are we going to be chasing different strains? is there a better way to get ahead of this variant? host: let me ask you about therapeutics. one of the leading tools in terms of therapeutics? mark on twitter wants to know why we aren't fast tracking therapeutics. caller: this has been a fast-moving with omicron. some treatments have gotten bumped down as far as their utility because of this new variant. when you think about some of the antibody cocktail's for people who have early cases of covid and a high risk of hospitalization, to treat them early with antibodies was very effective against previous variant. now some of these drugs are effectively knocked down and not that potent against omicron. we are looking at regeneron. they have showed reductions and effectiveness. t

fauci and others. but even ben carson himself said there has been success around the world and certainly a large group of doctors around the united states that have kept people out of hospital these medications and they are readily available. why have they not been used please? guest: thanks for the question. they were not denied. i think that's an important distinction. what we expect from federal health officials is to provide good recommendations based on clinical trials. i think that's what happened particularly with the hydroxychloroquine at least after the initial stage which was bumpy. the best data to date shows that they are not effective against covid. you can pick and choose a data point here or there and try and bend it to make your case the other way. when you look at the totality of studies, they have shown that they are not likely to improve someone's covid disease or prevent someone from getting covid. so that's the best recommendations out there. doctors are free to prescribe what they

so what is cdc's answer and tony fauci's answer to that? and this is what the press, like a bunch of stenographers and automatons, will repeat again and again, is, well, their system doesn't work. well, it's their system. it's the only system they got. we didn't make up the system, they made it up, and they've known for 36 years that it doesn't work. and that's their fallback position, is the system that we gave you to protect you from vaccine injury is so broken and so unreliable that it can't be used for any purpose. the 1986 act congress ordered hhs and the industry to create a working surveillance system that would allow us to be able to calculate an estimate accurately vaccine injuries and deaths. so for 36 years they've been breaking the law, and in 2010, they finally said, ok, we will design a system that works, their surveillance system. they created a machine counting system that captures about 90% of vaccine injuries and deaths. i'm going to quote you studies, i know this has never happened to you before because you've been listen

issuing coercive policies based on fauci-an declarations runs counter to the constitutional traditions that are the hallmark of free nations. consigning after we saw state after state whether it is denying people the right to go to church, whether it is denying people the right to work, whether it was denying people the right to do basic things like marry loved ones, we saw state after state confine peoples' rights to the graveyard. throughout this time, florida stood as freedoms vanguard. [applause] we reject the biomedical security state that crushes liberty, destroys livelihood, and divides our society. in florida, everybody has a right to work. every business has a right to operate. every kid has a right to go to school in person. you cannot be fired from your job based on covid shot and you cannot be required to show medical papers just to participate in society. we are the free state of florida. [applause] and i think what we have seen over the past couple years brings back an old admonition that was made by president eisenhower in his farewell address. not about the military-ind

fauci remains. it is not just about the man, though he is an important figure, it is about the way our government is structured. host: to be clear, are you saying dr. fauci cannot be fired or he will not be fired? are you saying he is in a position where no one in the government can fire him if they want to? guest: while the only person who would fire him would be joe biden and he said he will not. host: so that is little difference between can't three fired and will not be fired. guest: perhaps. i think the reason that joe biden says he won't fire dr. fauci is politically he knows he cannot. donald trump to the same thing. donald trump has no love for dr. fauci or vice versa yet dr. fauci was able to amass an extraordinary amount of power, even what would have been during a hostile administration. i grant your point that theoretically the man could be fired, but in terms of practical politics, kind of what we are talking about, in terms of not just the way the country is supposed to work on paper b

fauci's assessment. what do you think of that? guest: let us divide that into two. why did the cdc put in these new recommendations regarding quarantine? very easily, the first thing is science had accumulated such that it clearly, by now, has demonstrated people with the omicron variant that you are most contagious the day or two days before you got sick, then the day and second day after he became sick. after that, the virus you were shedding begins to diminish very substantially. so they decided quarantine for five days, plus an additional five days of wearing the mask in public. science supported this. why did they make this decision now? it was evident. the omicron variant was making so many people mildly ill and causing so much quarantine of exposed people that we were seeing the airline industry, for example if and both collegiate and professional sports absolutely being disrupted. never mind the health care industry, which was having difficulty keeping enough personnel working, taking care of sick people. so they decided to walk the tightrope. but we can do

fauci and the world health organization covered for them. we look at that. the other thing as far as the polio vaccines and so forth there were things done in school districts and vaccines developed in the past. i am not saying i am against vaccines, but we have a vaccine approved for use and it is out there, and the biden administration trying to use private industry to enforce his well on the american people is not what is happening. that is why it is before the supreme court and that is why it came out with a congressional review act that would strike down the mandate coming out of the senate in a bipartisan manner and we are working on that in the house, and i have joined with members of congress, sending a letter to the president asking him to reconsider his vaccine mandate for employers with more than 100 employees. and so, when you look at how the administration is trying to force people to do this, eventually they are looking at coming at employers with fewer than 100 employees. so, you look at how things are going, and the things that have been done

hands off, fauci. you can't put your hands on my body or my employer can't because i've been bought iwth a price because christ purchased me. he owns me. the place i work at did not purchase me, the media did not purchase me. i do not understand how on earth people can walk around and fear an unseen play again not fear god -- unseen plague and not fear god. host: ok. when it comes to lloyd austin, the defense secretary, the department of defense was accused of slow walking the national guard to clear up protesters forming the capitol. the commander of the d.c. dart said he had troops ready and it took more than three hours before the pentagon approved his request. then you policy comes after mr. austin's acting assistant secretary for homeland security -- home and security reviewed how the department of defense reviews requests for support in the washington area. and lloyd austin himself diagnosed with a mild case of covid. from tanya in washington, independent line. caller: hi, how are you doing today

fauci -- repeating myself very clearly, booster shots work. they provide the highest level of protection against omicron. we have given out 70 million booster shots. booster shots are free. they are safe. they are available. over 90,000 vaccination sites. they are free, available, and it over 90,000 sites. we have added hours, it is easier than ever. we have authorized booster shots for children ages 12 to 15. the final approval from the cdc, young people ages 12 to 15 will be able to get booster shots later this week. second, on testing. i know this remains true -- frustrating. we are making improvements. in the last two weeks, we have set up federal testing sites all over the country. we are adding more each and every day. google covid tests near me. find the nearest site where you can get a test most often and free. with more capacity for in person test, we should see lines shortened and more appointments freed up. if you want to test yourself at home, next week, our requirement that your insurance company reimburse you for at home tests --

fauci and others testify on responses to covid-19 variants. they spoke in front of the senate health committee for about four hours.

fauci talked about changing the latest variant. researchers did not like that over the past year or two. andrew: that is the only way to look at it. particularly when you look at the mr -- mrna vaccines, with there is a potential of a new variant, we could quickly adapt to that and apply a new formulation. the timeline of doing that in 100 days has been rolled over by the end of it. dr. fauci put it very well there in regards to his agency giving out $36 million grant funding for coronavirus vaccine last september. that is supporting a lot of basic research. a lot of academic labs right now are looking at the next generation covid vaccine. you are absolutely right as far as challenging. are we going to continue with these different variants and play a game of walkable, or will we get ahead of this pandemic and really ended at the end of the day? >> before he go to calls, what are leaving tools in regards to the therapeutics? why aren't we working to fast-track therapeutics? andrew: it's been a fast-moving case these last months. om

fauci and others. but even ben carson himself said there has been success around the world and certainly a large group of doctors around the united states that have kept people out of hospital these medications and they are readily available. why have they not been used please? guest: thanks for the question. they were not denied. i think that's an important distinction. what we expect from federal health officials is to provide good recommendations based on clinical trials. i think that's what happened particularly with the hydroxychloroquine at least after the initial stage which was bumpy. the best data to date shows that they are not effective against covid. you can pick and choose a data point here or there and try and bend it to make your case the other way. when you look at the totality of studies, they have shown that they are not likely to improve someone's covid disease or prevent someone from getting covid. so that's the best recommendations out there. doctors are free to prescribe what they

hands off, fauci. you can't put your hands on my body or my employer can't because i've been bought iwth a price because christ purchased me. he owns me. the place i work at did not purchase me, the media did not purchase me. i do not understand how on earth people can walk around and fear an unseen play again not fear god -- unseen plague and not fear god. host: ok. when it comes to lloyd austin, the defense secretary, the department of defense was accused of slow walking the national guard to clear up protesters forming the capitol. the commander of the d.c. dart said he had troops ready and it took more than three hours before the pentagon approved his request. then you policy comes after mr. austin's acting assistant secretary for homeland security -- home and security reviewed how the department of defense reviews requests for support in the washington area. and lloyd austin himself diagnosed with a mild case of covid. from tanya in washington, independent line. caller: hi, how are you doing today

that because the job of the statesman is not to allow policy to be hijacked by people like anthony fauci, the job of statesmanship is to harmonize the competing interests of society, all the other things that make society function and weave that into a coherent policy. in florida, heated ike's admonition, we protected freedoms and cap their society functioning. the result is we are better for it. not only are we doing as good as we have ever done, we are far outpacing state after state on almost every indicator of -- our budget that i submitted to our legislature came in $99.7 billion. the closest state was a population is the state of new york, they have 3 million fewer people than we do, their budget is $240 billion. we have better roads, other services, better performing schools and the number one rated public university system in the united states. end of the $100 billion budget, that is a $17 billion surplus. a lot of those other states are not sitting on that. [applause] we do this all with no state income tax and the lowest per capita tax burden in the united states. [applause] 20

fauci said. jen: i would note that the c.d.c. guidance conned to be -- continues to be a well fit mask is the mask to be wearing. they haven't changed that as of now. in terms of how these resources if we talk about schools and keeping schools open can be used the purchase of masks could be a part of that. it's up to school districts and local school districts to make these decisions we work with community health centers, rural health centers, local health leaders on what they feel their needs are and now howe resources from the american rescue plan and covid packages from the past should be spent. the guidance hasn't changed from the c.d.c. we do listen to will call health leaders on what their needs are and thousand the resource that was already been approved can be effectively deployed. reporter: so there's no money to be taken from the american rescue plan for this. jen: i don't think that's what i said. $130 billion of the rescue plan was for schools. that can be used in a range of ways. and so some of that money has not eve

fauci will discuss the latest research on development of 10 coronavirus vaccines. first i will provide a brief operational update.

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fauci, cdc director, and others, watch live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span three, online at c-span.org, or watch on our new video app, c-span now. former fbi director talked about the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> tonight we want -- mark the first anniversary of an almost unthinkable date in our history. the date in which a violent mob reached u.s. capitol to try to stop the most fundamental process in our democracy. the formal certification of electoral votes would decide the presidency. we remember with gratitude those who lost their lives and were injured defending the capital entered -- and our democracy. our purpose today is more than commemoration. we want to understand what led to the insurrection. what you thousands of americans to join in a violent mob at the capital and maybe most important link, we want to understand more about the continuing threat violent extremism that still menaces our democracy today and what we might do about it. to lead this discussion and take your questi

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. ♪ >> at today's white house covid-19 response team briefing, doctors anthony fauci and rochelle walensky given up date on the omicron variant. they answered questions about vaccinations, stars, and testing -- boosters, and testing. mr. zeitz: i will start by briefly underscoring the key points the president made yesterday. the coming weeks are going to be challenging. w'

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fauci's lies, the c.d.c.'s total lack of credibility, and the president's inability to rise to the moment and effectively lead all contribute to covid -- to the covid crisis, causing great damage and harm to the american people. madam speaker, i rise today in support of the sanctity of human life. later this week on january 22, our nation will mourn the 49th anniversary of roe v. wade, a treacherous decision that's led to the murder of more than 62 million innocent babies. that's more than 62 million dreams never achieved. talents never realized. and lives never lived. in the blink of an eye, their chance of a happy life and a promising future has vanished. may god have mercy on their unborn souls. what an unspeakable tragedy that corrupts the morals and values of our great country, that our great country was founded on over two centuries ago. i am proud to have co-sponsored h.res. 58, led by my good friend, jody hice, to memorialize the anniversary of roe v. wade as the day of tears, by lowering our flag to h

anthony fauci, dr. rochelle walensky an other members of the covid respops team appear before a senate committee to cuss the omicron variant. and the senate banking committee will hold a hearing for jerome powell who president biden nominated to serve a second term as federal reserve chair. we'll have more on c-span doiferg and the c-span app. there will be a second federal reserve nomination hearing, this one for the vice cheer. and we'll have coverage of several supreme court oral arguments. today through wednesday. live beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span.org and on the c-span now video app. head over to c-span.org for further scheduling information of to stream video. live or on demand any time. c-span. your unfiltered view of government. download c-span's new mobile app and stay up to date with live video coverage of the day's biggest political events, from live streams of the house and senate floor and key congressional hearings. white house events and supreme court oral arguments. even our

fauci put it really well. it's worth noting that his agency has given out $36 million in grant funding. a lot of academic labs are looking at the next generation of covid vaccines. you are absolutely right. that is one of the key challenges. are we going to be chasing different strains? is there a better way to get ahead of this variant? host: let me ask you about therapeutics. one of the leading tools in terms of therapeutics? mark on twitter wants to know why we aren't fast tracking therapeutics. caller: this has been a fast-moving with omicron. some treatments have gotten bumped down as far as their utility because of this new variant. when you think about some of the antibody cocktail's for people who have early cases of covid and a high risk of hospitalization, to treat them early with antibodies was very effective against previous variant. now some of these drugs are effectively knocked down and not that potent against omicron. we are looking at regeneron. they have showed reductions and effectiveness. t

fauci and the world health organization covered for them. we look at that. the other thing as far as the polio vaccines and so forth there were things done in school districts and vaccines developed in the past. i am not saying i am against vaccines, but we have a vaccine approved for use and it is out there, and the biden administration trying to use private industry to enforce his well on the american people is not what is happening. that is why it is before the supreme court and that is why it came out with a congressional review act that would strike down the mandate coming out of the senate in a bipartisan manner and we are working on that in the house, and i have joined with members of congress, sending a letter to the president asking him to reconsider his vaccine mandate for employers with more than 100 employees. and so, when you look at how the administration is trying to force people to do this, eventually they are looking at coming at employers with fewer than 100 employees. so, you look at how things are going, and the things that have been done

fauci. can you tell us a little bit about what you have learned from managing omicron that will help you understand it the next variant and how to manage that? governor pritzker: let me begin by saying we have had real success as difficult as this pandemic has been here in illinois. we have kept death and hospitalizations down significantly. over the course of the entire pandemic as compared to the rest of the midwest. we have the highest vaccination rate in the midwest. we have done, i think, a good job of making sure we are balancing our economic interests with keeping people healthy and safe. that has been my number one concern. omicron has been an unusual variant. the rise of omicron was, you know, so steep and so immediate that really we were deeply concerned that our hospital's weighted up getting overrun. -- would end up getting overrun. as it turns out because we did a good job of vaccinating our population we did not see hospitals get coming you know, filled and then overrun. we hav

anthony fauci, the cdc director and the covid response team appear before a senate committee to discuss the omicron variant. also on tuesday at 10:00 a.m., the senate banking committee holds a confirmation hearing for jerome powell, whom president biden nominated to serve a second term as federal reserve chair. we will have live coverage on c-span.org in the c-span now mobile app. the senate banking committee returns thursday at 10:00 a.m. for a second federal reserve confirmation hearing for lyle brainard to be the vice chair. they will consider the nomination of a person to be the director of the federal housing finance agency, and coverage of several supreme court oral arguments, monday through wednesday, live, beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span.org in the c-span now video app. head to c-span.org for further scheduling information or to stream video live or on-demand any time. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. announcer: during a brief house session, speaker pelosi spoke on the one-year anniversary of the january 6 attack. following her remarks, members held a moment

fauci and others testified before the senate health committee. watch live at 10:00 eastern on c-span3, online, or our new video app, c-span now. >> c-span offers a variety of podcasts that have something for every listener. weekdays, "washington today" gives you the latest from the nation's capital. "the weekly" uses archival video to look at how opinions developed over years. "talking with" features extensive conversations with historians. many of our television programs are also available as podcasts. you can find it all now on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> "washington journal" continues. host: this is kim wehle he, the author of "how to read the constitution and why." thank you for coming on the program again. one of the things we have been talking about is when you look at the events of january 6, it goes back to how we count electoral votes and those things that need to change. can you share that with our audience? guest: absolutely vital distinction. when people hear about threats to the election, they thin