Weve seen upon the outbreak, we seem use of chemical weapons and weve seen nuclear. We were able to predict any of those. For example, when it came about as good of an ebola, it couldve been something else. We have to be prepared for all of it. The challenges that my group faces is the when it comes to developing these countermeasures we do this in partnership with commercial companies. These are companies that are driven by return on investment. Fcat to make money. The Business Model that exists is tremendously challenging. We want you to work with us and make these countermeasures that you are probably not make any money doing it. Thats the reality of the business were in. Its extremist difficult and so when youre an outcry from the folks in west africa hey where with the drugs and vaccines . They shouldve been here. We agree with that. However, its incredibly challenging. And the fact is that over a number of years its the u. S. Government department of health and Human Services wit
The final death sentence for those groups in those areas. Those groups tend to overplay their hand. They have to be careful. They have to be very careful about how to act. I do not to mention the role of and reining in those groups, maybe not militarily but he still very influential. You dont want to cause trouble and you dont want to be direct enemy every day because in iraqi will come out on top. Its very difficult. And, finally, i dont think there will be a hezbollah anymore. Ive heard different metaphors about what will happen at right. Somebody told it would be like libya with different groups competing. I dont think it will be that. Theres a safe structure that those groups out to be part of protecting. It cannot be like hezbollah for simple reason, its different kind of threat and different groups. Hezbollah was only dominant group in lebanon during the lebanese civil war. In iraq of all of these groups. You have 150, eight of them are really big. We have to wonder which one wil
Commissioner Bernard Kerik who served time for tax fraud and lying to officials and the president just spoke about blagojevich moments ago. We have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich. He served eight years in jail. Thats a long time, and i watched his wife on television. I dont know him very well. Ive met him a couple of times. He was on for a short while on like a very nice person. , seemed dont know him but he served eight years in jail. He has a long time to go. Many people disagree with the sentence. Hes a democrat. Hes not a republican. Got a lot of folks to talk to. Shimon prokupecz is here, elie honig is here, our cnn legal analyst, kaitlyn, let me start with you, Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Reporter blagojevich is someone the president has been considering commuting his sentence for months now. He was fairly close to doing so in august but he was talked out of it after he got an earful from some illinois republicans who said you cannot commute this guys sentence.
Testimony. On thursday. Just this morning the president launching another attack on the former fbi director tweeting this. I believe that james comey leaks will be for more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal. Very cowardly. This from the president. Well, this as politicians on both sides push the white house to release any tapes it may have of the president s conversations with comey by june 23rd. Another question that remains, who is telling the truth . The fired fbi director or the president of the United States . This morning on cnn state of the union Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins both say they take comeys word over President Trump. Listen. At this point i believe the fbi director. I know him the best. Ive observed him the longest. I know he has his own band of integrity. Disagreed with him on the emails. Let him know that. But in this kind of thing, hes not going to lie. I found director comey, former director comeys testimony to be candid, to be thor
Witt here in new york at msnbc world headquarters. It is high noon in the east, its 9 00 a. M. Out west, 11 00 a. M. In texas. Heres whats happening, Hurricane Harvey is still pounding parts of central and Southeast Texas with heavy rain and winds, with the full damage yet to be seen. But this is the scene just a short time ago in victoria. The mayor of rockport is already saying that the storm has brought widespread devastation with some buildings, including schools and homes damaged or completely destroyed. And then moments ago on fox news, Texas Governor greg abbott spoke relief efforts in the state, he spoke about that. Heres a clip from those remarks. The way that the president authorized my disaster declaration has already triggered the involvement of fema. What that will do is to help our fellow texans rebuild more swiftly. Now the hurricane is a category 1. It has winds of about 75 miles an hour with the threat of major flooding looming in many areas. The National Hurricane cen