he started the feel good foundation to help survivors. he s with us again on the news deck. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. with so much going on, you re so generous with your team to tell our story. shepard: it s an important one. what i wanted to know, i saw you ranting and raving after the meeting with mitch mcconnell. what was your take away? we had an engaging productive leader with the senate majority leader. we take him at his word that he will stick with his commitment and we ll have a bill done by the summer recess. shepard: this was a new tune from you. you were down on him and the process. i m down on both sides of the hill in d.c. shepard: you re better with mcconnell now. i m better. i m never going to say i m happy. how long this has taken us to get here. you know, we stepped up our rhetoric and our game plan. we took matters in our own hand.
activities, this is a concerted organized systematic threat to undermine our universities and economy and we need to be serious about it. the chinese government did not respond to our request for comment. china has denied in meddling in other country s affairs despite the growing allegations and convictions in u.s. courts. trace? eric shawn live for us on the news deck in new york. thank you. doctors say they may have cured a second man of hiv. the virus that causes aids. he s from london. doctors say they performed a bone marrow transplant on him 12 years ago. scientists used the procedure to cure another man and he s still hiv free. the process is dangerous and failed in other patients. steve harrigan is reporting live live in line line, home of centers for disease control and prevention. steve? scientists involved in this are still being cautious.
trace: well, money can make people do some pretty crazy things, right? a man in upstate new york accused of faking his own elaborate kidnapping to get out of paying a $50,000 super bowl bet. police say they found the guy in the back of his truck tied up. rick leventhal is live on the news deck in new york. rick? trace, if you re going to fake your own kidnapping, you probably shouldn t shave. police said that is one of the clues this guy fabricated his story and held captive for days. the trooper said his face was smooth and found clean when they found the man tied up in the back seat of his ford f-150 parking lot with a rope around his neck and duck tape around his hands and ankles. he claimed he was robbed at gun point of $16,000 in cash by two men that forced him to drive around for two days. he claimed the money was from a $50,000 super bowl box pool that
guiliani and jay sekulow about michael cohen on many occasions. and they at least to me have not expressed any concern about anything that cohen may tell congress, or may tell mueller for that matter. then, again, you can always have the public face and then the private one that i may not be completely aware of. shepard: understood. john, you are the best, thank you. so the best information we have comes from the players at hand, michael cohen says on february 7, i m testifying before the house oversight committee. oversight and government reform committee. and the chairman of that committee says he s going to be testifying, but doesn t give a specific date. at any rate, bob bianchi is here, very often on the set with us on the news deck. but today on the phone. bob, i just wonder what it would be like this confluence of situations, where we have, he
away. thank you very much, appreciate that. shepard: you have a lot of candy. yeah. and i love, you know, old school good school. shepard: these look like they ve had better days. what did you do with them? shepard: dried out. what are you supposed to be doing? here s where i was going to tell you, you said $9 million the estimate from national retail, 9.1 last year, we re coming down. but, just, 2005 we spent $3.3 billion. unless you think we re rivaling christmas shepard: no. that s three quarters of a trillion dollars ismts oh not even close. but the biggest area, people want to increase spending on, you can see it right here in this studio, is spending on costumes for your puppies. shepard: these are our news deck people children and pets. and some anchor is a round there, too. shoom in, chuck. there s lucia, a bee today,