because as you know, i ve been speaking about the brutality against asian-americans for the last couple months. and i think it s it is very, very troublesome. but i making no connection at this moment for the motivation of the killer. i m waiting for an answer. police say the man arrested for the rampage has admitted to the shootings. eight people are dead in a ninth wounded in the atlanta area. but as you heard from the president it s not clear if anti-asian racism was the motivation here. six victims were asian women. the other two victims were white. investigators say robert aaron long gunned down four people first in a spa in cherokee county and shot a fifth who is expected to survive. investigators say long then traveled less than an hour south to atlanta, shooting and killing four more people at two massage businesses across the street from each other. today the sheriff in cherokee county where long is in custody says he is talking to convertings and telling them
that caught other attention, specifically one from ben williamson, one of meadows closest aides, texting her the day before her testimony, saying, ben williamson, these are cassy hutchison s words, said something to the effect of well, mark wants me to let you know that he knows you re loyal and he knows you re going to do the right thing tomorrow and he will protect you and the boss. and that s one. pieces where we ve seen this committee multiple times over the course of the last few months tease out the idea that there might have been witness tampering, and this is one of those moments that catches up, and actually lets us fill in the blanks on who might have been the witness being tampered with, and how, but then there is another piece of this, too that we can pull up something that she talked about in exchange of john ratcliffe where she said rat cliff said, i ve had a few conversations with the president, where he acknowledged he s lost, he hasn t acknowledged that he wants to co
they failed to do it. they provided a lot of documents aiding us in the investigation. glenn simpson is on the list. those we kicked to the task force. mr. rat cliff is on the task force. we need them interviewed on camera as soon as possible. before you go, let me ask you in terms of what happens now and you know, whether or not you think you will see accountability here. i think you only see accountability if there is a second special council that investigates all of this or somebody outside the leadership that will run a real investigation. what should the president ask or speak to putin about. number one, don t hand the
mr. rat cliff? mr. gates? mr. gates votes aye. mr. johnson of louisiana. mr. bigs. mr mr. mr. nadler? mr. nadler votes no. miss jackson lee? mr. cohn? is. johnson of georgia. no. mr. deutsch? mr. deutsch votes no. mr. gutierrez? miss bass? mr. richmond? votes no. mr. jeffreys?
john huddy, thank you very much. gregg? this caught our attention. a new analysis out exam mying how much various diseases and ailments are costing you, the american public, topping the list of total expenditures is diabetes. take a look at this. u.s. spending on diabetes now topping $100 billion. the disease becoming so wide spread it is now weighing more on health care costs than heart disease, back and neck pain, high blood pressure. the cost of diabetes affecting all americans health care spend whether they have the condition or not so, wow, got to wake up to that. brets ling in dr. rat cliff who is a private practice physician and anesthesiologist. happy new year. great to see you. why this skyrocketing increase in diabetes diagnosis as well as treatment? first of all, every year health care cost s do increase but over the last few years people with the affordable care act and medications being introduced are high in price.