That s how some brushed off president trump and others that spoke out including senator tom cotton at the time for suggesting that the world should pay closer attention that the possibility it escaped from a lab in wuhan just down the street from the market. now more than a year later, an about face from many in the media. howie kurtz with a closer look at the journalism around this story the past year. hi, howie. hi, martha. we all watched the last 1 1/2 year as the mainstream media dismissed the argument that chinese scientists might have let covid-19 escape in part because president trump and some republicans were pushing that possibility. trump s formeder fda commissioner scott gottlieb said that attitudes have changed sharply since then. the side of the ledger that supports this thesis that came
Testimony, the former white house counsel, becomes available, it might mean the ten instances of obstruction of justice laid out in the mueller report are viable. those are criminal violations of the united states criminal code. republicans claim the president isn t charged with crimes. it would be appropriate to bring those forward if the evidence becomes available. you mentioned formeder white house counsel don mcgahn. why are they so interested in mcgahn s testimony? mcgahn was a key witness to obstruction of justice. he was present when the president talked about firing bob mueller in an effort to end the investigation into the trump campaign and russia. the president actually asked mcgahn to go ahead and fabricate a document that they could put into the files that would deny the fact that the president had ever tried to fire mueller. so in the mueller report there s this well-thought-out sequence of events with documentation. but congress has a little problem that prevented th
Assurances from mark zuckerberg in the interviews he s now done in the last 24 hours that facebook has this under control? are you satisfied that this is a problem in the past? in. i m actually concerned that we have we re at the tip of the continent actually as far as how social media companies were weaponized. i asked facebook when they testified before the house intelligence committee, can you tell us at this hearing that you understand fully how your platforms were weaponized and i didn t really get a straight answer. i think the fact that we re learning more this week is all the more reason that an audit needs to be conducted independent of facebook, but i think by an independent commission or the house intelligence committee. congressman swalwell, nbc news has learned the formeder fbi director, andrew mccabe, had authorized an investigation into whether the attorney general