on the same day two years prior. so it takes you to 2019 before the pandemic started. amazon, however, crushed it. record day of sales. here is their ceo on cbs on sunday. record breaking black friday and we re seeing customers engage. i don t see inflation particularly impacting consumers this holiday season so far. we re very optimistic what s to come. bill: i see two things at work. every year we see more people buying online. how did the pandemic change the way americans look at companies like amazon and probably use them more often than before? what do you think? i agree with that, bill. i think there are some things that we changed, structurely changed because of the pandemic. i never used to buy groceries online. i m happy doing that. people did not do telemedicine
by the tv show. prosecutors dropped charges prompting the city of chicago to sue the actor and recoup the $130,000 it spent on the investigation. in april of 2019, a new independent review of the entire case before smollett was eventually indicted on six counts by a grand jury and that s what brings us to today. jonna spilbor, criminal defense attorney. good morning to you. let me play this clip here. he appeared on good morning america in february of 2019 and this was part of that. i m an advocate. i respect too much the people who i am now one of those people who have been attacked in any way. you do such a disservice when you lie about things like this. bill: as a defense attorney, how would you defend him? you know, this is a really tough case to defend. i was thinking about this.
their life because of their sexuality or color of skin. we must confront the hate. it was a few hours after the accusation went public. of course. nobody in this country anymore bothers to get any sort of evidence before the politicians, i should say, before they open their mouth. they did it with rittenhouse, they did it in jussie smollett. they do it all the time. that s nothing knew. new. we have to have the pendulum swinging to center in the high-profile cases. it will do us all a lot of good. bill: you have the case in chicago, the maxwell case in new york. thank you for your time today. remember they said it was downtown chicago and dana: the trial is not going to be televised. no cameras in the courtroom. hopefully we can get as much information as we can. kamala harris, when it turns out the way that it is, he
pandemic. a couple things are different. the south african doctor told us the symptoms are mild. you don t lose your sense of taste and smell. that we also know that we have therapeutics. we have many people vaccinated and we have lessons that we ve learned from the past two years. she is also going to basically ban elective surgery which seems a little bit over the top. your take on that. dana, i like what you just said. i think it s way over the top. we have learned many lessons over this pandemic. one is that public health is not just about the virus. elective surgeries if you delay them long enough are not elective. what about screenings and colon os skop east and cat scans things to rule out cancer and heart disease. so important they not be delayed. if there is not enough vaccination in upstate new york figure out other strategies. over the course of the pandemic
we ve learned about vaccines and testing and treatment. we ve learned how to diagnose this thing and what it is. the one thing the government could do a much better job at in my opinion is getting way more rapid tests out there so that you had the ability to detect this in your own home. bill: one last question here, marc. south africa has a good reputation of epidemiologists, you would agree on that. they put the word out quickly as soon as they found it and also their head doctor is saying some of those infected are currently being treated at home. if that s the case, how infectious is it and how dangerous is it? you know, all three points are right, bill. south africa has an excellent surveillance system. we could learn from that. dana made the point the south african doctor said it s mild so far. let s hope it pans out in more high-risk populations. so far so good. treating it at home of course is the way to go which is why