embassy in havana back in 2016 where they can t explain and they can t rule out foreign involvement but they wanted to dispel the idea that there was this massive campaign by a foreign power, russia or somebody else attacking americans around the globe, because it was having a real effect on the workforce. cia officers, chris, were declining to take overseas asignments because they were worried. when they made a call for symptoms, anybody who has an unexplained headache, vertigo, dizziness, come forward, that created an impression there were far more cases of this than there are. as you said, this is very controversial. the cia in many ways struck out on its own here with this assessment. the department of defense is not on board and many victims are challenging this and saying more investigation needs to happen. chris? i have a feeling you and i will continue to talk about this after this three-year mark. ken dilanian, thank you so much. i m chris jansing in for stephanie ruehl. we
still inside, and then recently a temple university senior, sam collington was shot and killed curing a botched carjacking feet from campus. other crimes spiking in the last year, record numbers of homicides, approaching 550 killings in philadelphia this year. that is an all-time high. other big cities across the country are seeing similar trends, chicago, san francisco, also seeing the surge of carjackings as police and law enforcement working to get a handle on it. it is terrifying for the people driving around, delivery drivers, uber eats drivers who drive their cars off and leave them running. we are seeing carjackings at cities all over seeing the trend as well. stephanie? disturbing reporting. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. now we turn to an update on a story we brought you yesterday. the secret service was estimating that thieves had stolen about $100 billion from government covid relief programs. but now we re learning that
nyu and nbc contributor. doctor, breaking news, a second anti covid pill getting fda authorization. how does this change the fight against covid? stephanie, this is fantastic news. we can all use more tools in our toolbox but i think we need to look at this with some measured optimism. we do not have those pills in hand yet. it will take time to ramp up to be able to have enough to be able to distribute and we are looking at a surge right now in our midst, so i think in the long-term, fantastic news. we re going to be able to benefit from it. we re going to have pills that are going to be available to really reduce the burden on hospitalizations, really reduce deaths but it will take time to get those pills out for use. kathy, the numbers in new york continue to be astronomical, in terms of cases or the time it takes to get a
republicans take back the house. they have big decisions to make, fight this out or got nothing to hide to show up and give interviews and maybe try to get them out of the way. chuck, you re a former senior law enforcement official. how do you think this committee is trying to build their case here? i think the way any good investigator builds a case, stephanie, i mean, if you were the prosecutor and you thought garrett and i have done something wrong, you d want to talk to us. that might not be possible and so the next best thing would be to talk to people who talk to us. who was around garrett, who was around me, if we re bad guys, on the day we did something bad. the reason that the committee is reaching out to members of congress, and oh, by the way, they re making requests, not issuing subpoenas, because jim jordan spoke to the president not just on january 6th but on the days leading up to january 6th, and that s how you build investigations. if you don t think president trum
see some reflections of that, stephanie, if the department of justice, if the fbi, if the u.s. attorney were conducting a grand jury investigation. there really aren t those reflections, so a couple of things are possible. one is that the department is simply waiting on congress to do its work, but that seems a little bit odd to me. the other is that the department has already opened an investigation and we re just not seeing it or hearing it or sensing it. another possibility is the department has decided not to do anything, which i think would be deeply unfortunate. i m glad congress is investigating that awful day and everything that led up to that awful day, but congress doesn t have the authority to prosecute anyone for anything ever, and so if criminal cases are going to be made, it has to be done by the department of justice and i hope they re engaged. i certainly hope they re engaged as well. chuck rosenberg, garrett haake, thank you for joining. i appreciate it. we are goi