Ashleigh banfield, thanks for being here, john berman and Michaela Pereira are off today. We expect to hear there the widow of one of those two new York City Police officers who were shot in cold blood last weekend as they sat in their patrol car. The wife of wenjian liu is due to speak at a press conference. A new York Foundation expected to announce it will take over the mortgage payments on the homes of both liu and his partner rafael ramos. Well bring you her comments as soon as she steps up to the podium. As we wait, we want to tell you about a series of alleged brandnew threats made against nypd officers since liu and ramos were gunned down a week ago. Police say theyve arrested seven people now, seven, in connection with threats made via phone and social media. And one stands out as especially vile. According to the nypd, a man called the precinct where liu and ramos has been stationed. That person asked whether the bullets had been removed from the did officers heads so that he
Absolutely. Its imperative that were constantly looking and determining whether or not were getting the outcomes that we want and the processes are either helping or obstructing those outcomes. And, finally, i want to touch on biomedical research, which is a passion of mine. I founded both the diabetes caucus in 1997, and i also am the founder of the alzheimers task force in the senate, which senator warner is the cochair. Alzheimers has become our nations most expensive disease. It costs us 263 billion a year. 150 billion of that comes from medicare and medicaid. Its going to bankrupt those programs. Its devastating to families and the victims of the disease. Diabetes consumes one out of three medicare dollars. If we invest in biomedical research, we have the possibility of not only improving lives for americans and curing or coming up with effective treatments for devastating diseases, but also actually lowering health care costs. Do you support the increases for nih that we have pas
And who some say got off easy. Why democrats have questions. Welcome to the lead. We have breaking news right now in the mueller probe. Cnn learning that documents that were not Public Knowledge in Robert Muellers investigation some how ended up in the hands of a prorussian twitter account and were used in an attempt to discredit muellers probe. Lets go to cnn who has more on this. What happened . Yeah. These are documents that while they are not nonpublic they are sensitive documents that were given to Defense Attorneys representing a Russian Company that has been brought up on charges by the mueller team for e essentially false news, fake information, other things they were indicted for. What happened here is there was a protective order. These attorneys were not supposed to share it with any of the russians. Some how the fbi says wound up in the hands of russians and created a web page linking to these documents and within these documents you had the real documents but the other thi
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