answer, though, that, you know, the afghan forces just didn t hold up. could that just be the answer for the president? the question then becomes why didn t the u.s. realize anticipate that. right and i think there is obviously a lot of experts who didn t see this coming but also some experts who did see this coming. some people that served in the military said of course this was going to happen. of course the will power was going to disappear especially once they lost that critical u.s. air support as well as those u.s. defense contractors helping to maintain the afghan air force once the united states wound down its presence there. let s bring oran from the pentagon. you can weigh in on this and i want to bring up the photo of 600 afghans inside a military cargo plane. it an extraordinary event and picture to look at. they represent a fracture of the afghans. what does the pentagon say about the efforts to get people out and this crisis happening in
ground. that leads us to our current problem with contagion, which is where this started. is it a fair criticism to say that you were dismissive of the lab theory early on and that now you are more open to it, and if it is fair, why did you change? it s not entirely fair, chris. you know, when this virus first emerged, all of us at nih were deeply engaged in studying its genome, its letters and its sequence, to try to understand what its connection was with previous viruses. we could see it was a bat virus, it looked a lot like one that had been found in a cave in china seven or eight years earlier. but it had a lot of differences. then the theory began to be put forward, maybe it s human engineered, maybe it s an intention bioweapon that has been put together with the intention of killing people. that theory really didn t hold up. you could look at the letters of the rna code and say, no human would have come up with this. that was rather widely spread. the idea that it might have b
proof enough that the prosecution s argument didn t hold up. when you walk in the house, there s no way that there s even 12 feet there. reporter: what s more, according to the defense team, conrad never told the police heidy shot herself in the bathroom. instead he told them he had no idea where she was when he heard the shot. tell me your theory of what happened here. we believe that heidy truman shot herself in this very area, and we believe that she fell right in the area directly in front of me on the ground, and that s the very area where she was found when law enforcement entered the home that night. reporter: which they also said was completely consistent with the m.e. s testimony that heidy would have fallen after only a step or two. she would have gone to the ground immediately. reporter: your argument is she did fall down. exactly! reporter: and she fell right about here. yes. that s exactly what our argument is. reporter: according to moffat, this was no
that the prosecution s argument didn t hold up. when you walk in the house, there s no way that there s even 12 feet there. reporter: what s more, according to the defense team, conrad never told the police heidy shot herself in the bathroom. instead he told them he had no idea where she was when he heard the shot. tell me your theory of what happened here. we believe that heidy truman shot herself in this very area, and we believe that she fell right in the area directly in front of me on the ground, and that s the very area where she was found when law enforcement entered the home that night. reporter: which they also said was completely consistent with the m.e. s testimony that heidy would have fallen after only a step or two. she would have gone to the ground immediately. reporter: your argument is she did fall down. exactly! reporter: and she fell right about here. yes. that s exactly what our argument is. reporter: according to moffat, this was not a simple mi
and, according to the medical examiner, that was impossible. he testified heidy s head wound was so severe that she could have at most walked a step or two. this issue of distance was this big issue. reporter: now for ann taliaferro, just seeing the house and how small it was was proof enough that the prosecution s argument didn t hold up. when you walk in the house, there s no way that there s even 12 feet there. reporter: what s more, according to the defense team, conrad never told the police heidy shot herself in the bathroom. instead he told them he had no idea where she was when he heard the shot. tell me your theory of what happened here. we believe that heidy truman shot herself in this very area, and we believe that she fell right in the area directly in front of me on the ground, and that s the very area where she was found when law enforcement entered the home that night. reporter: which they also said was completely consistent