Good day, everyone, and welcome to msnbc headquarters in new york. There is a new timeline for the distribution of covid19 vaccines once they are approved for emergency use, and some americans could be getting them before christmas. Surgeon general drum adams said its authorization will submit its request on december 10, and some will answer within 24 hours of that request. The Surgeon General will reflect on what might have gone wrong with President Trumps handling of the pandemic. There are many Different Things we could have done differently. This virus has been challenging. I wish that, again, this hadnt been superimposed on top of an election. I wish we would have been able to come together as a nation and really talked about the science instead of the politics. Hmm. Well, this comes from new warnings today from dr. Anthony fauci on what to expect after the busy thanksgiving travel weekend. There almost certainly is going to be an uptick because of what has happened with the trave
Find out more about that. Tonight our guest author is going to be interviewed by gawrt, a distinguished magazine journalist. He covers politics, technology and [inaudible] contributes to wired and the author of multiple books including the Number One National best seller the only plane in the sky an oral history of 9 11. Inside Robert Muellers fbi and often rock about the governments [inaudible] hes also and memorably did a great interview there back in february in the manchester north sure we could do things like that. And hopefully, well do that again when we can. And i am so pleased to welcome tim wiener back to northshire. He was saying hes done events in vermont for his last four books, and we are lucky enough to host him in our store back in 2016 when his wonderful Richard Nixon boy owe came out bio came out. I remember it very, very fondly. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book awar for his reporting and writing on National Security and intelligence. He covered the
Scientific aors over tonight cbs at cdictorertse expert, dr. Anthony fauci, have been sidelined from the president s Coronavirus Task force. That news comes after a stunning rebuke of dr. Redfield by President Trump saying redfied, who has spent his career studying viruses and heads the worlds premier Public Health agency, misunderstood the question when he testified under oath it will take until the middle of next year to vaccinate enough americans to limit the spread of covid. With the election just 47 days away, the president keeps suggesting a vaccine will be ready before americans cast their ballot. Now, that is something that most experts including the governments own stists say is just not true for the general public. And that disagreement has lead to a daylong fight pitting versus spin, the kind of political fight you might expect in an election year, only this time american lives and the economy are at stake. As we come on the air the number of People Killed by coronavirus in
Assistant attorney general and the office of Legal Counsel under the bush administration, was a member of the domestic policy staff under president reagan, served in the Central Intelligence agency, and was a law clerk for the u. S. Court of appeals for the d. C. Circuit judge in addition to his he did get public service, he also has ensive Service Plaque to practicing law in the private sector. He received his ma from Kobe University and a jd from George Washington school of law. We welcome the attorney general and we thank him for participating today. If you would please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. If you could raise your right hand, or lefthand. Do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief, so help you god. Let the record show the witness has answered in the affirmative. Thank you and please be seated. Please note the written statement will be entered into the record in its entirety.
The presiding justice of superior court and as us attorney who led undercover public investigations that involve wiretaps i have done this a lot and i viewed my role in those approvals as making sure the wiretap application was consistent with the criminal statute that we were trying to prosecute, that it was relevant to that. You werent an investigator, just making sure the material is in the statute. Correct. I think that probably very often took as an established fact that the fbi agent or Police Officer was telling us the truth, not customary prosecutorial practice to do an inquisition or a review of every statement made by an fbi agent or state Police Officer in preparing a warrant. If you have the slightest hint that something is wrong you definitely pursue that but the focus is more does this warrant a criminal case that we are making and that is the nature of the review at that level and you would hope the factual stuff would be sorted out before it got to the Deputy Attorney g