disease. nailed it. it was supposed to be post-apocalyptic. it was supposed to play into that could be, could be. nailed it. joining me now, scott z. burns, screenwriter for contagion, the chief scientist for the film. dr. lipton, good to have you. scott burns, how did you get this right? did you get lucky? i don t think i got lucky, i think i did what a lot of people with my job do, you start with research. i spent time with dr. lipton, people like lori garrett. they all said the same thing, this isn t a question of if this is going to happen, it s just a question of when.
thanks for coming back. listen, seven months of the lies of mass fraud and that the president won. now the day comes to protect voting rights, and the vote is going to fail. what do you feel about what s happening, and what do you do now? yeah. it makes me very, very sad. i wish it was just a seven month fight. this has been a 57 year fight. more than that. it s been hundreds of years. here we are talking about democracy, that america that tauts itself as being a democratic society, a democratic nation and black voters in this country continue to see an assault that whenever we participate in the vote what we re seeing is punitive measures of what we re seeing now. this isn t a question around partisanship. republicans are trying to make this a partisan issue. this is really about a people s agenda. every single citizen should have agency and should have the ability to participate in a process that is fair and just and equitable.
then, after they beat him, they lied about it in their police reports. each, covering up the the conspiracy to cover up this case continued in the police reports. continued in their report to the district attorney s office. the conspiracy to cover this up continued for nearly a year, after antonio suffered this vicious beating. and and and and and this was a this was, clearly, a culture within the louisiana state police. no one stood up and said, hey, this is the wrong thing to do. in fact, they did the opposite. they bragged about it. laughed about it. joked about it in text messages. so, we weren t saying, well, this isn t a question of whether or not, you know, officers were making a split-second decision. they made they made a conscious decision to beat antonio, to violate his rights, to violate the law. to violate the constitution. and then, thought it was funny and joked about it. antonio harris, michael
it. the investigation, also, found that the officers involved were texting about this. they were joking about beating you. saying, quote, lol, he was still digesting that ass whoopin. went on to say he is going to be sore tomorrow, for sure. he is going to have nightmares for a long time. it s remarkable. it s horrific, not only what they allegedly did. but the fact is they re talking about what they did to each other, as if it s totally normal. as if it s, clearly, something they ve done before. yes. yes, sir. and i ll i had read that they they were in another incident with somebody else, a year before that. and that person was killed. you are talking about mr. greene. some of the the officers were involved in in that incident, as well. yes, sir.
students wanting to advocate for gun control. she is the one that goes and stalks people, like david hogg, to say that she is the victim because her second-amendment rights are being hurt. and then, look at the january-6th commission. there are people who are saying, you know, the people that invaded the capitol were just peaceful protestors exercising their rights. i mean, this is why they re not supporting the january-6th commission, because they see that trump base as people they can t cross. and that s why they re not going to condemn marjorie taylor greene. i mean, it it s fascinating that the so many of these republican congresspeople have gotten themselves in a position where they are scared of the very people they are representing. i mean, they re frightened that they don t know how to talk to them. that, you know, they re just kind of trying to do whatever they can to just stay in power. for some reason, which i don t when you don t really have policy that you re hav