Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Night that he found out some Bad Information about the company. And then proceeded to tip off his son who also invested in the company. So take a look at this timeline. This was on june 22nd of 2017, summer of last year. At 6 55 p. M. , the indictment says he received an email from the ceo of the company saying that a drug trial had been a failure. Now 16 minutes later, at 7 11 p. M. , he starts calling his son. He tries to make that call four times before he is successful. And at 7 16, he speaks to his son and informs him about this information that he had learned. And it is the next day, 7 42 a. M. , in the morning, that his son starts putting in orders to sell off his shares of his stock in this company. N ultimately, the indictment says that he was able to avoid some 570,000 in losses. Now a lot of congressional reporters are actually already familiar with this company Innate Immunotherapeutics
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the covid vaccine months before it got the fda approval and be able to send it out and distribute it across the country day one. six to eight months earlier than what it otherwise would have been, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. it was bipartisan, took a lot of effort. vice president biden was a key component of that, but at the end of the day, you look back at my years in congress, that s what i m most proud of. well, thank you for sharing that with us congressman fred upton as you are retiring. is and thanks for joining us this morning to talk about this and your legacy. i wore my michigan wolverine just for my bama friends. oh, come on, don t do that to me. we were having a nice moment. [ laughter ] all right, i m going to have to say roll tide now. thank you so much. let s get you out of this. going to bring in cnn political analyst john avenue l avalon, and david schoen, former president trump s defense lawyer in the second impeachment trial.
yourself and having the will to defend yourself and the afghans did not have the will to do it. and in addition to that, the military and just about any professional organization always has the capability when presented with an opportunity to do something, to say they can give enough resources. they can do it. can you do this mission? yeah, we can do this mission if you give us enough resources. unfortunately, the reality on the ground was nothing at all to do with the numbers and in the end, you ve got to make sure you never believe, don t begin to believe your own press releases and that s what happened here, mehdi. well said. vali, you ve worked in the u.s. state department. you know the massive bureaucracy there is inside of it. are we as a country really going to allow that to prevent us from saving hundreds of thousands of afghans being told there s a lot of paperwork that has to be
saving hundreds of thousands of lives. did you hear that? i think it s john kerry s face melting. in fact, more people died from cold weather than hot weather. a new study reports that while a half million people die from heat per year bad roughly 4.5 million die from the cold, badder. more have officially died worldwide from covid, but global warming has reduced the intensity of extreme cold weather. temperatures have increased over the past two decades, that has caused an extra 160,000 heat deaths each year, but because global warming has also reduced cold waves, we now see 283,000 fewer cold deaths. i would say do the math, but i don t want to make kat cry on national tv. so i ll make it simple. look at this map, 283 minus 116, that s 167,000 lives saved each year. you hear that, greta to climate
he endorsed him very early on. but the president, donald trump was never involved in this company biotech firm. that s perfectly fine but how many times are we going to hear about corruption from the president, a top supporter, a lawyer, a campaign chairman before we start to really recognize how much this corruption is running through everything the president touches. it s like king midus was the president turned everything that turned to gold. the president seems to touch everything that turns to corruption and everywhere it seems to be following him. the indictment and i ve read it and you ve read it. it doesn t say he did anything wrong when suggesting to other family members, friends, hey, this is a great stock, a great company. they could come up with a cure for some form of m.s. he didn t tell them to buy but clearly that was the implication. the charges that when the clinical trial was about to fail, he got advance word and then tipped off his son. who then tipped off oth