oath to do no harm. joining us now is doctor rebecca guy, a practicing gynecologist and former louisiana department of health secretary. she is also the ceo and founder of nestle. doctor guy, thank you so much for joining us here this evening. can you tell us a little bit more about what prompted you to write that affidavit in support of the case to block louisiana s trigger ban? how did you get involved? listen, i ve spent my whole life, my adult professional life taking care of women. i ve, spent eight years with the medical school at the residency taken care of nuts cale takes care woman to see that the case where we cannot do what is right for our patients and the first time in my career where we have to watch women as dr. william so while described, during the time that the ban was in place, she watched a woman leader lose a leader of blood.
dr. rebekah gee, former louisiana health secretary, expressed her profound concerns regarding lifesaving treatment for women. under the state s ban saying in part, quote, if doctors are not comfortable or able to anticipate the legal implications of their medical care or how they may be prosecuted for providing that health care, then they may not act according to their best medical judgment and training. fear of punishment aligns with lack of clarity and how this law will be enforced can lead to devastating consequences for louisiana women as well as moral distress for the clinicians who care for them and have taken the hippocratic oath to do no harm. joining us now is doctor rebekah gee, a practicing gynecologist and former louisiana department of health secretary. she is also the ceo and founder of nest health. doctor gee, thank you so much for joining us here this
department investigates, a central tenet to the rule of law is, that we do not do our investigations in public. this is the most wide-ranging investigation and the most important investigation that the justice department has ever entered into. and we have done so because this effort to upend a legitimate election, transferring power from one administration to another, cuts at the fundamental of american democracy. we have to get this right. we have to get this right. what merrick garland says there is absolutely true. federal prosecutors do not conduct their investigations in public, nor should they. but the inevitable part of those investigations do become public. and subpoenas are issued. witnesses are called to testify. reporters get scoops about where investigations stand.
what about the kidneys. what if she loses consciousness. is she still alive? what these laws forget is you have to have a living mother to have a living baby. and you know, we unfortunately prioritized, regardless of whether you think abortions to be a right, which i do, you should, where these laws should do a much better job protecting patients and i don t think anyone should want a 10-year-old to carry a pregnancy to term and i don t think everybody should be dieing in preg pregnancy and have a long way to go to protect women and this is a step backwards. dr. rebekah gee, practicing gynecologist and former louisiana department of health secretary. thank you for your time. thank you for sharing your insights with us. i greatly appreciate it.
election sensitivities memo which continues barr s 2020 policy that the opening of any investigation into presidential candidates must first be cleared by the attorney general. and it comes at a time when garland s justice department is facing serious scrutiny over whether its is being aggressiv enough into the investigation, into january 6th and the broader plot by trump and his allies to overturn our 2020 election. especially as two other investigations into the matter continue to move forward and make new revelations. take for example fulton county georgia. the local district attorney there has sent target letters to 16 people involved in the fake electors plot in that state. today, that investigation advanced even further, because a judgeig there ordered that rudy giuliani will have to appear before a special grand jury. and then there s the investigation that we re all witnessing in realtime. the one by january 6th. the january 6th committee rather which is set to hold its eighth