know i heard from a lot of experts from a lot of epidemiologists and doctors who were frustrated that the cdc didn t seem to pounce on earlier data from singapore and from other countries that showed the contagiousness of the delta variant and that it was infecting vaccinated people and that they it looked like they were likely able to spread it. it s not conclusive but the data was suggestive enough. i heard from a lot of people saying why didn t the cdc look at this report from singapore or from india? we sort of known there but the cdc often gathers its own data. why it can lag behind and that can be frustrating to people. let s talk with dr. morita right now. president biden says that he wants to impose new restrictions, doctor. what would you specifically advise him to do? and also would you advise him, how would you advise him to handle the let s say the pr portion of the change in guidelines? good morning, kendis, nice so see you again. good to see you. it s critical
cop toll that happened on january 6. martha: your colleague and i think you used to have a good relationship, liz clay any came out cheney came out swinging against you, calling the things you said about the commission disgraceful. i m confident we will have a nonpartisan investigation, that it will go where the facts may lead there. are three members that the minority leader proposed, the speaker did not object to. she objected to two members and the rhetoric around this from the minority leader and from those two members has been disgraceful. this must be an investigation that is focused on facts and the idea that any of this becomes politicized is really unworthy of the office that we all hold and unworthy of our republic. martha: so she called some of the things that you said disgraceful with regard to this investigation. what do you say to liz cheney? well, as i have already said, speaker pelosi didn t just ban me and jim jordan from serving
i think they will have had to have shown willingness to saik take this seriously in their votes. but we have asked republicans to speak truth to power for about five years now that the trump campaign and the presidency and during its aftermath. those who do speak truth to power ought to be acknowledged and rewarded with efforts like this. in fact, two of those who nancy pelosi says don t speak truth to power would be jim jordan and banks, both of home she reputed. speaker pelosi didn t just ban me and jim jordan from serving on this committee, she also banned the basic questions we were asking, why was the capitol vulnerable on that day when three weeks before there were intelligence reports that the leadership of the capitol police were aware of?
breakdown of security at the cop toll that happened on january 6. martha: your colleague and i think you used to have a good relationship, liz clay any came out cheney came out swinging against you, calling the things you said about the commission disgraceful. i m confident we will have a nonpartisan investigation, that it will go where the facts may lead there. are three members that the minority leader proposed, the speaker did not object to. she objected to two members and the rhetoric around this from the minority leader and from those two members has been disgraceful. this must be an investigation that is focused on facts and the idea that any of this becomes politicized is really unworthy of the office that we all hold and unworthy of our republic. martha: so she called some of the things that you said disgraceful with regard to this investigation. what do you say to liz cheney? well, as i have already said, speaker pelosi didn t just ban me and jim jordan from serving
press conference, saying he didn t support the original idea of a commission, because speaker pelosi didn t want to expand the scope, and the scope that he was talking about was, he wanted to include the racial justice protest from last summer to be included and be investigated, but there is no equivalent and those are not the same things of telling people over and over again that an election was stolen, and motivating those people to come here to the capitol to take their government back. so speaker pelosi rejected that and leader mccarthy says that they are going to do their own investigation, and that s part of what they re going to look into. jeff? and sahil, is there even a mechanism for that, for the republicans to do an investigation of their own, as kevin mccarthy says? not formally, jeff. it won t be an official house of representatives investigation, but sure, the minority can put a few members in a room and investigate whatever they want. they can put out the report, you