$4 million reportedly in bitcoin to the hackers. this week on a meat processor shutting down meat plants in the u.s. ken dedylanian joins me now on the phone. is this becoming more common? you re absolutely right. stats back you up and the officials i have been talking to confirm that these ransomware attacks have become not only more frequent, but more serious and impactful, and the groups the criminal groups behind them, which are generally coming from russia or eastern europe and are operating under the sanctuary of governments, are becoming more emboldened, greater in number, better funded. because every time a company
dejoy enacted a number of new policies, including eliminating overtime for postal workers, limiting number of mail trucks, removing sorting machines from postal facilities including in battleground states like pennsylvania, michigan, florida. then, in september 2020, the washington post reported at his previous company, dejoy had urged his employees to write checks to republican candidates and attend expensive fundraisers. only to inflate their bonuses to make up for the donations. quote, he asked employees for money. we gave him the money, and then he reciprocated by giving us big bonuses, said david young, dejoy s longtime director of human resources who had access to payroll records. it was something dejoy was asked about in a congressional hearing last august, before that post story broke. did you pay back several of your top executives for contributing to trump s campaign by bonusing or rewarding them? that s an outrageous claim, sir, and i resent it.
yeah. i want to be very clear, to say that we have been first of all, here, in the united states, to this day, we have suffered the most deaths of anywhere in the world. we needed to put on our own oxygen masks, before we were able to help others. and now, we are actively doing that. so, today, some very good news. announcement of actual doses shipping out. out the door. 25 million doses will be shipped, by the united states, under the biden administration. 19 million of those are going to go to covax, which is this kind of global cooperative that is focused on collecting and distributing vaccines to developing nations. again, very welcome news but just the first step, right? the 80 million doses the biden administration says will be shipped out by the end of this month should be the floor, not the ceiling. we have the rarest of opportunities to build a kind of arsenal of immunity around the world that can save lives. it can improve our relationships with other nations. help get
to, essentially, do witness intimidation, which is what the reporting is sort of alluding to here. trying to influence a potential witness to alter what they, otherwise, would testify to in court. or speak when they are speaking with criminal investigators. then, that shows me that there is some consciousness of guilt here. uh-huh. what is he working so hard to cover up? and so, in fact, while it may be a standalone charge of obstruction of justice. it might end up bolstering any evidence that the prosecutors have of any substantive crime, like sex trafficking. that s a great great point. ariana, thank you so much for that. thank you. last night, during my conversation with cdc director rochelle walensky, i pressed her on the lack of concrete actions the u.s. was taking to vaccinate the world. tonight, an update on that front. don t go anywhere. it s next. n that front. don t go anywhere. it s next.
assault on american-democratic legitimacy on all frontals. it is being engineered in part by the discredited loser, whose thoughts are so lame, so boring, so basic, that he shut down his blog after less than a month because no one would read it. of course, why would they? trump ordered his team, tuesday, to put the blog out of its misery, advisers said. and yet, in the same way that, say, cult members might follow a self-described profit who seems like an obvious crank to outsiders. the people inside the movement are true believers. and that s where we are, right now. except, the movement is one of two of america s two major political parties. one-half of the viable-political coalitions we have. according to multiple reports, donald trump believes he will be, quote, reinstated as president by august. that is, of course, flatly ludicrous. it is not that different from saying that the world will end on august 1st. or that i will turn into a dragon on father s day.