Yeah, because hes three months old. Nightline starts right now. Good evening and thanks for join being us. Im lindsey davis. Tonight the emergency room doctor who ended up in thei icu as a patient. Heres kaylee hartung. Hi dad hi, daddy reporter for dr. Grant lashley, this is a moment he wasnt sure hed ever experience again. Ma embracing his family for the first time in over three months after a grueling battle with coronavirus. Oh, i love you. Reporter the 50yearold er doctor contracted covid19 while working at a hospital in lafayette, louisiana, the virus stripping him of his ability to walk and nearly taking his life. He was left with dramatic lifealtering consequences from this illness and had to have patience with himself first and foremost. I told you id walk out. Reporter but today more than 90 days and three hospitals later, hes finally heading home. Dr. Lashley is one of the lucky survivors. More than 4 Million People have been diagnosed with covid19 across the u. S. But cases
Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
look at the main stories this our russian and ukrainian forces are engaged in heavy fighting for control of the east and don bass region. russian troops moving, ever closer to list a chance ukraine s last bastion in the eastern region of the hans moscow back separate his se. they ve surrounded the city and captured an oil refinery. but ukraine denies that, claiming that fighting is continuing, more people leaving their homes as russian forces escalate. their attacks would under practitioner scheme. the city doesn t exist anymore. it has practically been wiped off the face of the earth. there is no humanitarian aid distribution center. it has been here. daniel was one of the bustling or any others. i stayed almost till the last day till they hit the culture center. it was destroyed, there were many casualties. i was among them. i was covered with rubble. people help to dig me up. my injuries were not serious. one might say, god showed me mercy, you will, you, crane is accused.
Week for the fed chair. Looking like a lower open for right now, but fight upward movement in record territory. Months and months for the stock market. By the way, speaking a record territory. Bigname tech Stocks Holding off to Massive Gains for friday. Amazon come alphabet, microsoft new highs and halfhour from now the market will open. We will have three hours for your sabbatical. Varney company will start right now. Charles back to the breaking news. Paul manafort, judge napolitano witness. A scuttlebutt over the weekend but it still a shocking bit of news. The New York Times is reporting one of the account said the indictment is for tax fraud. Tax fraud is not failure to pay your taxes and tax fraud is lying to the government about what you owe. That may or may not be related to his activities in russia. I suspect it is because his codefendant, rick gates didnt work with them on the campaign, but worked in its business when he was an american agent and an american lobbyist from tim
Right now, thank you. Neil, thank you for having me as always. Neil are you surprised this is turning out to be a bigger fight than many thought . Among republicans among republicans more than calculated . A couple different ways to answer that no. It is a tax bill. The reason it has been since 1980 since last time theyre hard to do. You would expect to have a lot of disagreements on minor things. I stress that on minor things. Generally speaking i think attitude is pretty positive. I dont like at it, oh, my goodness, things are worse than expected. This is what you expect dealing with a tax code as complex as ours is. Good progress today. Things are moving well. There is disagreements on small pieces and parts. Looks like everybody is headed in same direction and thats what we need. Neil i get a sense, sir, a number of republicans are surprised to find, this is based on a lot of academic studies, often times theyre not worth paper theyre printed on, all these guys have to go with, inc