newscasters, we ve got an upgrade this week, because adam is on his holidays, so we have got fergus on for thursday. hi, fergus. hi, adam, hi, laura, how are you doing? you said hi, adam , and he s not here! did i? i m so used to it. i m happy with my anonymity even when adam s not here. i think, having seized the reins, it s time for a rebrand. newscast has been around long enough. it is now news cats. thank god, i thought you were going to say we were being axed already. we live with that fear every week. news cats, because if you heard last night with newscast, which i was presenting, the star of the show was a cat and if you re watching the tv version, you can see a lovely picture of him with some focused eyes. my powers of description might leave me here for podcast listeners. i would say it is a substantial, grey looking cat. it is a blue persian, isn t it? anyway, jessie, the owner,
participated in some way? i think that s typical bannon hyper bol lee. his podcast listeners, his posse, are the types of people, the actual people that showed up on january 6th. whether or not bannon knew they were going to storm the capitol and create the insurrection with the violence that we saw on january 6th, john. but certainly he was doing everything within his power to foe moment a kind of uprising that he hoped would make biden appear to be an illegitimate president and somehow find a way to get trump back in power. he was quite open with reporters about that before and after. as you heard in the podcast, he was saying it publicly. not a lot of mystery as to where he stands. when we look at what else is hang in terms of january 6th, we have the latest moves by donald
when he told his, i guess, podcast listeners that all hell was going to break loose in the capitol on january 6th? what did was he in possession of some knowledge about what was planned? was he maybe a participant in those plans? that s the kind of information that the committee wants to get to the bottom of. i am sure they do. on a different subject, a dramatic moment in washington today. the fbi conducting searches today at two of oleg deraposka s homes. and this apparently is in connection with a federal investigation out of new york that s on going right now. what does that tell you? he is a guy, fabulously rich, a guy who amassed his wealth and his fortune originally during a time in the early is1990s, the aluminum wars in russia, through
howie: had i think dr. gupta deserves credit for getting into the ring and getting beat up. it s fair to point out that the fda and other of medical experts say ivermectin doesn t have effectiveness against covid-19. rogan has 200 million monthly podcast listeners on spotify, he has a platform that enables him to fight back against cnn. he can be responsible or irresponsible. i m good friends with the head of infectious disease at johns hopkins and he would say is not the ivermectin. it s the antibodies that can help them and also if they took nothing, if the immune system was strong enough, they wouldn t have had a problem. i m a broadcaster. i have a responsibility. if i get sick, i m not going to joe rogan and nobody should go to me or any podcaster for medical care. joe rogan wants ratings and wants to have his name out
had a negative test, i think is really callous. it comes off that way. what the fda says and what experts say should be part of the discussion but a very different situation when you re using it as a battering ram against the patient. we will see where this goes. he s got to hundred million podcast listeners and he was able to punch back. i should point out that sunday grenell is a friend of mine, but he did acknowledge that the network had by saying that. john, backlog at shipping ports putting the holiday season in jeopardy. thousands of items are sitting in shipping containers. you have seen the images out in the ocean as many store shelves across the country remain empty. the white house warning it cannot guarantee christmas gifts will arrive in time to be under the tree. can we rely on the federal government to fix all of this?