democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
they include depriving residency and other rights of an attacker s family members. in tennis, novak djokovic wins a record extending tenth australian open, beating greece s stefanos tsitsipas in straight sets. djokovic also sets a record equalling 22nd grand slam men s title, putting him level with rafael nadal. now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. venezuela s authoritarian leader, nicolas maduro, has, for the moment, outmanoeuvred those forces inside and outside the country, intent on his removal. last month, the opposition gave up on their own alternative president and indicated a willingness to negotiate with maduro. in the us, in latin america, and in europe, they seem ready to engage with the caracas regime, not least because oil supplies are at a premium. my guest is leopoldo lopez, long time venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner, now in exile in spain. is it time for him to acknowledge failure? leopoldo lopez, in mad
rates still attest. but in silicon valley it made for an epic pay day. it was soon reflected on the balance sheets of its biggest local lenders which was called silicon valley bank. in 2018, svb had about $49 billion on deposit. three years later that same bank had amassed more than $189 billion. that is a gargantuan amount of deposits over a short period of time. dramatic enough to have raised a serious question and an obvious one. what was silicon valley bank gonna do with all that money? even the san francisco bay area, it would be hard to find qualified borrowers for $189 billion. you could not responsibly loan all of that money even if you wanted to. so what would you do with it? that s the question you would have asked if you were paying attention, both from inside svb or the regulatories action. turns out nobody was paying attention. nobody thought to ask for questions. we thought stress test silicon valley bank in the middle of a room. with a narcissism complex who ta
coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease [laughter] is the same name as the lab are. [laughter] that s just, that s just a little too weird, don t you think? howard: here s i stewart on his apple f the show reflecting on the backlash. i thought it was a pretty good can bit that expressed kind of how i felt. and the two things that came out of it were i m racist against asian people and how dare i align myselfs with the alt-right. howard: unreal. i bring this up, of course, because parts of the biden administration now believe the kid thely virus did originate from that wuhan lap lab. we don t know for sure, but the media and social media played a key role in stifling any debate. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, brian kilmeade on his interview with ron desantis and the house investigating george santos. one politician who got beat up pretty badly
she had wood piled on top of her. no identification! we all came together to have identification to identify jane doe. there s a passion to try and find out who our doe is. to try and think what if this is your family. you want to give them closure. two homicide detectives. it s way above our heads. and i said i think i know how we can do it. all of these people share some amount of dna with the unknown person. we thought, this is the family. this is it! surreal. it felt like someone just punched me in the stomach. it s a funny thing, isn t it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. it is! written on stone. you re never forgotten. hello and welcome to dateline! in many cold cases, a grieving family is desperate to find their loved ones killer. but this mystery was not a whodunnit. the killer eventually confessed to the brutal crime. but who did the murder? that question haunted a small texas town for more than 12 years. un