now on bbc news.|nfluential with katty kay: anthony fauci. dr anthony fauci is america s top doctor. he ran america s medical response on everything from the aids crisis to ebola, and, of course, covid. now he s left government and he s back at university as a professor. ready, sir? yeah. dr fauci, how are you? good to see you. it s been a while. yes, indeed. since we went to dinner together. yes. thank you for doing this. my pleasure. no, it s my pleasure, it s my pleasure. this must be so nice for you, being back on campus. i asked myself a question. after 5a years at the nih and almost a0 years as the director of an institute, you know, all the things that i ve done research and developing vaccines what do i want to do for the last five or more years? and i think that the pretty clear answer was to maybe serve as an inspiration for young people who are either interested in a career in public service or already are in a career of public service. your undergraduate, you
after 5a years at the nih and almost a0 years as the director of an institute, you know, all the things that i ve done research and developing vaccines what do i want to do for the last five or more years? and i think that the pretty clear answer was to maybe serve as an inspiration for young people who are either interested in a career in public service or already are in a career of public service. your undergraduate, you didn t study medicine, though. you studied classics. i studied classics. greek, latin and the romance language and philosophy in undergraduate, and then i went to medical school. i tookjust enough sciences to get me into medical school. do you remember any of your classics? i could give you the first five lines of the iliad and the odyssey. go on. i would be very. he recites in ancient greek. you still remember it. good for you. and being back at georgetown, where your children were born, you were married. and my wife went to undergraduate here and she
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in the swing state of colorado. there he is. let s listen in, shall we? and once again building around the core idea that built this country, the idea that if you work hard you can make it. the idea that in america everybody gets a fair shot. and everybody does their fair share. and everybody plays by the same set of rules. the idea that in america we rise or fall together. and government can t solve every problem, and it shouldn t try. and it certainly can t help folks who are not willing to help themselves, but there s some things that we can do together as a people that makes us all better off. that makes our country strong. and that our economy works best when the middle-class is growing and feeling secure. now, i have to tell you that we have less than three months left in the election. less than three months. time s flying. and over the next three months, you will see more negative ads, more money spent than you have ever seen in your life. i mean, these super pacs, a
good evening. the case of the west memphis three began in 1993 when the naked bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found in a ditch in west memphis, arkansas. stevie branch, michael moore and christopher byers had been hog-tired by their shoe laces. three local teenagers were charged with the crime. damien echols, jason baldwin and ajesse misskelley. damien was sentenced to death and the other to life in prison. as the years past, the west memphis three got attention from famous people, last month, after nearly two decades behind bars, echols echols, baldwin and misskelley walked free. more in a you moment on that. by joining me now, damien echols and his wife laurie davis. welcome to you both. thank you. an extraordinary saga, no other way to put this, ending in the most bizarre circumstances, where eventually you all admit guilt and yet you walk free, which is a by you czar twist in this tale, a weird anomaly in the legal system and will make no sense to anybody, probab