massive task of helping look after all the refugees, despite the fact that president biden said the united states would take 100,000 refugees. these are the differences that exist. the unity has been good. we can expect the kremlin to exploit any gaps, they say. on macron, though, nic, why do you think he s so optimistic? he says apparently he s got putin s ears. but they have had meetings with very little results. wipe is he optimistic something may come out of this? reporter: president macron typically in his international diplomacy has been optimistic. he was optimistic when he tried to forge a relationship with president trump. and that really eventually went down the drain. it didn t go anywhere. he was optimistic when he went to moscow in the weeks before the war. and a couple of weeks before the
outcome of the election that it was a huge thing that is hunter biden story broke in october of last year. there were a few people coverin. it didn t go anywhere. we are in this information where with the media decided that cover something and it died but big tech also suppresses it and it wasn t just twitter. it was facebook suppressing the story artificially using with a call fact-checkers which are actually part of their censorship team but hunter seems like an amazing person to party with. greg: that is the upside of that. the worst things i hear, the more i want to hang out with him. but there was another thing. there is a halo effect that s because those things then you feel like maybe i can t talk about it either. i can talk about it because all of those people saying don t talk about it. it reminds me of the jesse s moment thing that we all had to wait like five days before we said anything because or else we didn t want to be first. i told a story in the book
everything that was up here on this building all here. it didn t go anywhere, it s all there. and some of this, i will assure you, is as tightly packed as concrete. huge challenge for the rescuers to try to get in there. a huge challenge for people who might be in the rubble to find any of those safe spaces. of course, we re hoping that some have, of course we re hoping people can find them. but it is a dangerous, dangerous situation even to pick through for the rescuers and anybody underneath as all that weight shifts in that tiny space. tom, thank you so much. michael holden joins us now. he s a structural engineer in florida. michael, based on what you ve seen, your expertise, what do you think led to this collapse? boy, at this point with what we ve seen thus far and with some of the information that has been provided, it s unfortunately still far too early to be able to pinpoint on
members of congress introduced an anti semitism awareness act in 2019. but, strangely, unlike the bill signed today, it didn t go anywhere. why? wrong villain? wrong perpetrator? at the end of the day some democrats and members of the media are doubling down on tribalism and focusing on our racial differences. look, the story of humanity is bruit violent force in a battle for tribal supremacy. it s our base nature. and the great exception to the humanitarian is the united states of america. we were and we still are a tribe of different people different religions different ethnicities around an idea the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by creator with unailennable rights and freedom. now, look, we haven t always lived up to that ideal. we have often failed and we have at times failed spectacularly but for too many the way to
surgery dough mike story, this is an interesting point, the claims are not the ones that that were found to not have sube claim about trump having a love child, a new instance of being a prior seeking to catch and kill a story apparently emma enclosed collaboration with trip associates is dough mike and claims under age sexual assault involving trump and jeffrey epstein. that s when we are not sure if they are there. there were still resources extended to kill the stories. shannon: one thing that were talking about, i went to reach from page 343, you re talking about some of these cases the term case in particular. the claims about the love child, the anonymous rate allegation was not backed by convincing evidence. it didn t go anywhere. sure, i draw a distinctive between that and say the jill hartke claim which is obviously seems to be more substance. shannon: would you go? because nbc takes your book point by point, they hand