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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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President Biden tests positive for COVID and is experiencing mild symptoms while his domestic issues pile up. Former Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger is expected to testify in front of Jan. 6th Committee as they focus on Trump’s inaction during the storming of the Capitol. Danny Cevallos and Chuck Rosenberg weigh in on the legal fallout from the Select Committee’s investigation. Vaughn Hillyard takes a look at the transformation of a local news anchor into Trump’s pick for Arizona governor. Peter Alexander sits down with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska.

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0:00.0	If it's Thursday, President Biden is in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19,
0:08.1	as the administration faces yet another test amid a brutal stretch of challenges and setbacks,
0:13.9	what we know about the president's diagnosis, and where things go from here in just a moment.
0:20.3	Plus 187 minutes, former President Trump's actions and inactions during that more than three-hour
0:27.6	raid under scrutiny.
0:29.1	What legal experts are watching for when the January 6th Committee holds its most high-stakes
0:34.3	public hearing yet in prime time?
0:38.0	And later, Ukraine's first lady speaks to NBC News in an exclusive interview as her husband
0:44.3	leads her nation through war back home.
0:47.4	Her message to America nearly 150 days since Russia invaded Ukraine.
0:52.1	All ahead.
1:06.7	Thank you. since Russia invaded Ukraine all ahead. Welcome to meet the press now.
1:08.4	I'm Kristen Welker.
1:09.6	We begin with the very latest from the White House, where President Biden is now in isolation after testing positive for COVID. According to the White House's physician, the president who is fully vaccinated and twice boosted tested positive this morning as part of his routine screening process. He's been prescribed the COVID antiviral
1:28.9	Paxlovid. In a video message released by the White House this afternoon, the president said he was
1:34.2	experiencing only mild symptoms so far. Take a look.
1:39.3	I'm doing well. We're getting a lot of work done. I'm going to continue to get it done.
1:43.9	And in the meantime, thanks for your concern. And keep the faith. It's going to be a lot of work done. I'm going to continue to get it done. And in the meantime,
1:45.6	thanks for your concern and keep the faith. It's going to be okay.
1:51.6	The tweet came shortly before the White House's COVID response coordinator, Dr. Ashish Shah,
1:56.7	spoke to reporters saying he expected President Biden will continue to have mild illness
2:01.7	and that the president should return to his normal schedule after five days of isolation
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