they tried to punish him for the insurrection and that gives us all a lot of insights, not only about hypocrisy but about the road ahead because america is still dealing with this, including open questions about who will be charged. they later publicly disavowed what, according to a new book, is their own beliefs. so let s get into it. this is one of the stories first in the new york times on a book by two top reporter has a lot of big stuff. reporting that kevin mccarthy told house republican leaders on january 10th, i ve had it with this guy, what he did is unacceptable. nobody with defend that and nobody should defend it. from the north coming book, this will not pass. and he said he would go to trump and tell him i think this will pass and it is my recommendation that you should resign. now that is something else. this is right after the insurrection. but within weeks, mccarthy famously reversed course with the pictures you see here. this was, we know something that a
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nurse with ebola. it s the first known case of the disease being contracted in the united states. she treated the liberia man who died from the virus last week. another person who came into close contact with the health care worker has been placed in isolation. brian webb reports. reporter: a hospital worker treating ebola patient thomas duncan was infected with the virus while wearing a mavgs gown, gloves, and other protective clothing. if this individual was exposed, which they were, it is possible that other vims were exposed. reporter: health officials believe the workers somehow breached protocol and they re trying to determine exactly what happened. one of the areas we look at closely are things like how you take off the gear that might be infected or contaminated. reporter: the name of the female patient has not been released. crews started cleaning outside her apartment building and plan to clean inside on monday. city workers went door to door handing out f
And the big tech companies in the valley today and now as promised we re joined by david corn and emily dreyfus, a senior fellow on technology and social change at harvard centerco author of meme wars the untold story of the online battles up ending democracy in america and an expert on modern media manipulation tactics. welcome to both of you. i just walked to some of what obama said in the issues. your thoughts on what is doable, fixable here. you know, i was really heartened by obama s speech today. it really showed that he has a good grasp of this issue. disinformation is something we ve been studying for a very long time. it goes way beyond the simplification of just misinformation. it is a huge entrenched infrastructure-based problem and i think obama showed a very nuanced understanding of it. so that was a good thing. i think one of the most doable changes that he mentioned is the need for transparency from the