as an intimate man started to tourism vietnam instantly became a household name. later as america s first black secretary of state. so coming to covid paul was believe x needed, but suffered from prostate cancer, and in recent years multiple myeloma, and parkinson s. once america s popular figures urged him to run for president. any regrets that you did not run? you wrote in the book a wrenching your decision was. i had to decide about it because but after a few weeks of it i realized that this is just not me. this is not what i believe. his so-called party bond, rule of, or if you break it you own. let him to privately oppose the iraq war. we were with him in afghanistan in 2002. what is it gonna take to put the country back together? it is going to take the effort of the whole international community. a low point of the year later making a point of
0 tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams, starts now. good evening once again day 272 of the biden administration, and this evening flags at the white house, lives throughout washington and the u.s. facility throughout the country and around the world are at half staff in honor of colin paul who died this morning, general paul was 84 years old, he died of covid complications while battling both parkinson s and multiple myeloma. we will have more and much more of its life and legacy just ahead. tonight is also the eve of the first major legal showdown for the special house committee, investigating the january 6th riot and insurrection. and a little over 20 hours, the committee is scheduled to formally vote on whether to adopt a report recommending criminal contempt charges against trump advisor steve bannon, who had failed to comply with the subpoena. earlier tonight they released the report on ben interfusions. it outlines what the committee wants from him. and it rec
administration say the same thing, and they re worried they re going to trade down, but i just wanted to get that out there on the record because it s a point of, you know, they re keeping the republicans are keeping this from happening but right now, the status quo isn t the worst thing. so i think messaging is getting screwed up theory again. pandemic, endemic, these are not words that people use. explain to me where we are transitioning from and to in terms of what it means in every day life. well, look, we re in a pandemic right now where there s uncontrolled spread across the world and across the united states for that matter. at some point, we re going to transition to a phase when it becomes a persistent risk. you don t have the extreme levels of virus that we have right now in certain parts of the country. that s when it becomes an endemic illness, like flew, enterovirus, it doesn t go away but we learn to deal with it as a persistent menace. it s not a binary point in time
that seat all through the biden administration. i think quite frankly, the administration was better off with an experienced official than bringing in someone from the outside: having been in that role myself there s a steep learning curve and having someone that can hit the ground day one and be effective from the outset has been an advantage for the administration as opposed to trying to recruit someone from the outside. that said, they have said that they re going to appoint someone into that position imminently or make an announcement about an appointment maybe within days from now. my sources in the administration say the same thing, and they re worried they re going to trade down, but i just wanted to get that out there on the record because it s a point of, you know, they re keeping the republicans are keeping this from happening but right now, the status quo isn t the worst thing. so i think messaging is getting screwed up theory again.
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