she shot that down yesterday. the administration is also sort of back burner that. yellen s comments about saying we re not looking at these sort of extraordinary sort of unilateral options. we re not barking up the trees. they don t think they have the authority it seems for this kind of thing. that means it s up to congress and, of course, more weight on that standoff right now between republicans and democrats over whether to lift that debt ceiling, jon, $8 trillion under donald trump and pan dem sick a pandemic is a big factor in that. the coin folks will be disappointed. we ve been there before, the debt ceiling. people have both parties seem to suggest this time the threat seems much more real than it s ever been before. we re going to stay on it. thank you, joshua. coming up in business news. another big name in tech is laying off workers. and we ll have a look at wall street which is in the red this morning. a lot of red, following two straight days of gains.
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walk me through your reasoning here about trump s state of mind. and why it s not relevant while discussing his criminal efforts? sure, so the idea here is that there are several federal crimes that would apply to his actions and state crimes, especially in georgia, that the element of the crime is not dependent upon whether or not he thought he actually won the election or the prosecutors been able to prove anything about it. just to give you an example, 150 people have not been charged by the justice department for being involved in the riot and the insurrection. it does not matter that 850 of them might have thought trump won. it s not something that prosecutors are struggling over, because their federal crimes like obstructing professional proceedings. you re not allowed to do things like sick a mob on the capitol. he can t do things like forged documents in states with these false alternative electors.
here about trump s state of mind. and why it s not relevant while discussing his criminal efforts? sure, so the idea here is that there are several federal crimes that would apply to his actions and state crimes, especially in georgia, that the element of the crime is not dependent upon whether or not he thought he actually won the election or the prosecutors been able to prove anything about it. just to give you an example, 150 people have not been charged by the justice department for being involved in the riot and the insurrection. it does not matter that 850 of them might have thought trump won. it s not something that prosecutors are struggling over, because their federal crimes like obstructing professional proceedings. you re not allowed to do things like sick a mob on the capitol. he can t do things like forged documents in states with these false alternative electors. there s certain methods you cannot take into your own hands, so we kind of walk through these federal cr
let s bring in cnn medical analysts and cardiologist, jonathan reiner, and susan glasser. dr. reiner, let s kick it off with you. tell us why it s important at this stage to know where the virus originated and who may or may not be responsible in light of this most recent reporting. denials are not, 166 million people got sick with this virus that we know of. right, pamela, and 3.5 million people around the world have died. this is not just a blame game. this is not just where we can place the blame for this virus. the wuhan municipal authorities first announced there was a cluster of mysterious pneumonia on december 31st. if this report is true what the chinese knew was that workers from that lab were sick a month