get themselves baptized as good public servants that didn t speak up in the moment of time in this. specifically debra birx who was aware and didn t say something. it s not only people that made direct decisions that endangered the public. it s the people that were standing by that didn t open their mouths in the midst of this. i want to add on to something that ed just said, i think that fundamental problem we have is that we have a large segment of society and leadership that no longer believes in the common good. they no longer believe the common good is a paramont virtue or value we should strive for. when you are in a public health crisis like a pandemic, at a time when people are exhausted by it, i don t think we can underestimate the number of people. even the people supportive by joyed are exhausted at this we re almost at two years of the pandemic come march. part of it is holding people accountable for direct decisions they made, but the other part is we have to have a civics
learn lessons it needs to deal with the next varptd or pandemic. right. it s an opportunity to re-imagine some of the systems and structures broken in the first place. i do want to ask you, a lack of leadership is one thing, they laid that out in many ways the trump administration diluted guidance on mask wearing and delayed the purchase of much needed ppe items, n-95 masks, blocked health officials from briefing the public. how then do they need to be held accountable, mat in the. i think the vast majority need to be held accountable, including the people trying to get themselves baptized as good public servants that didn t speak up in the moment of time in this. specifically debra birx who was aware and didn t say something. it s not only people that made direct decisions that endangered the public. it s the people that were standing by that didn t open their mouths in the midst of this. i want to add on to something that ed just said, i think that
it specifically talked about soft targets, churches, airports, trains, anything celebrating a holiday. we are seeing it on a train. europe has been in the grips of this terror fear for the last couple years but it seems to have escalated in the last year. more often than not we have been seeing these truck attacks, vans plowing into crowds, if they want to do something, there s little they can do to stop them, increase security presence in london and across europe and barricades on roads and extra vigilance. to report anything you see that may be suspicious, every commuter going into a train
might identify the individual who put this device on the scene of the incident. in addition, for the warnings to come up the way they did they had to have some indication that something, the possibility of something happening and it did. this happened at the morning commute and this train can hold 800 people and was at capacity at the time which explains additional injuries separate from the explosion. as people tried to rush out of the train station there was a stampede, people had additional injuries because of that. in your professional opinion you think this was planned in terms of timing to do the most amount of damage? no question about it? all of these attacks are taking place with a high value him of
places they were, it would be speculative to say there is something else going on, there is concern about that if you follow social media. they are asking public to share pictures for this morning. we are not hearing about buses being shut down. is there an update that it is a confirm terrorist attack? reporter: know, there are other lines beyond the green line, the district line where this took place functioning as usual, there s going to be a cobra meeting chaired by teresa may later today but in terms of logistical issues we are not