Logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing, and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But, youre right. I mean, obviously, if we had, right from the beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. Dr. Anthony fauci essentially confirming a key part of a deeply reported, new expose from the New York Times, which shows how key federal agencies, the state department, the National Security council, and the pentagon struggled to get the president to take timely action, despite several early warnings. We will speak with one of the Investigative Reporters behind that story in a few minutes. Youre right. Those warnings came, actually, in early january. You know, the president can tweet didnt act until march. And retweet false tweets that i think got the dates wrong
Before those four tours in vietnam, before that remarkable tour in korea David Hackworth also served at the very tail end of world war ii. And the reason his career was able to span that distance, to span all those different conflicts over those decades is in part because he started really, really young. He used a fake i. D. To sign up in the first place when he was 15 years old. According to his New York Times obituary he, quote, paid a wineo to pose as his father to certify he was old enough to join the u. S. Army. He signed up at 15. In his career in the army David Hackworth was awarded ten silver stars and eight bronze stars and eight purple hearts. David hackworth was his name, one of the most decorated soldiers of his generation or of any generation. David hackworth was just 40 years old and a full bird colonel in 1971 when having just served those four hard tours in vietnam he decided back in the United States that he would go on tv as a serving u. S. Army colonel because he fel
The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. That nomination, of course, has been in turmoil since allegations arose of Sexual Misconduct against Brett Kavanaugh, including one case of alleged attempted rape. The allegations center on his time in high school and in college. Judge kavanaugh has roundly, flatly repeatedly denied all of. Dr. Christine blasey ford says that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her and tried to rape her when he was 17. She has requested that the Judiciary Committee considering his nomination and the white house, they should allow the fbi to reopen its background check of Brett Kavanaugh to look into her allegations about this alleged attempted rape. Senate republicans said no to that. Dr. Ford also asked for the committee to take testimony from witnesses who she said could potentially corroborate elements of her story. Senate republicans also said no to that. She further asked for senators to at least question her themselves rather than appoin
Official announcement, biden cutting right to the bone articulating the stakes of the next president ial election as being about the soul and character of our nation. Watch. It was there on august of 2017 we saw clans men and neo nazis come out in the open. Their crazed faces illuminated by torches, fangs bulging and baring the faces of racism, chanting the same bile heard across europe in the 30s. They were met by a Courageous Group of americans, and a violent clash ensued. And a brave young woman lost her life. And thats when we heard the words of the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the consciousness of this nation. He said there were, quote, some very fine people on both sides. Very fine people on both sides . Those words the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. In that moment, i knew the threat to this nation was unlike any i had ever seen in my life
and the world and claims to have set off an atomic weapon. that day in 2006, the secretive, repressive north korean regime showed the world that they had built and tested a nuclear bomb, a rogue county building nuclear weapons recall threatening to proliferate that technology, stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. but when 9/11 happened and the u.s. government announced that those actions would now constitution a grave and unacceptable threat to the united states, there was no radical change in our actions toward north korea. there was no move by the u.s. to disarm that country after 9/11. instead, the u.s. went into iraq. if the threat of weapons of mass destruction was the driving force for u.s. action after 9/11, why iraq rather than north korea? at the time, north korea really was building a nuclear bomb and threatening to proliferate that technology. iraq wasn t. the case for war in iraq that was presented to the american people proved to be a smoke screen. there we