hello, i m lauren taylor. we begin this hour in the united states, where president biden has told reporters he feels good despite testing positive for covid. the virus, which he s had twice before, forced him to cancel a campaign speech he was due to give in las vegas. the white house says mr biden will self isolate at his home in delaware where he ll continue his duties. before his diagnosis, president biden gave a television interview saying, for the first time, that he would consider dropping out of the election if any of his doctors said he had a medical condition. there have been repeated calls for mr biden not to run for a second term after a poor performance in his tv debate against donald trump. us media says the top two democrats in congress have both expressed concern to him that his candidacy could negatively impact other house and senate races. in a statement about his covid diagnosis, the white house press secretary said, he will be returning to delaware where h
shops were shut, schools were closed. four years on, and life might feel back to normal. but what needs to change if or when the next pandemic hits us? good morning. a public inquiry has been trying to answer that question. shall be the truth. the whole truth. and nothing but the truth. today, its first findings will look just at the time before covid, including planning and the state of the nhs, after a decade of spending constraints. we were at the bottom of the table on number of doctors, number of nurses, number of beds, number of itus. if you lose control of your debt and you lose control of your deficit and you lose control of your economy, you end up cutting the health service. dr saleyha ahsan is a documentary maker and trained army medic. ijust remember it being a really brutal time, i think. she filmed this working in a covid ward during the pandemic. we were dealing with a killer virus. we hadn t a vaccine at that point. ppe was short. it was ridiculous. it felt th
it has been more than a year and a half into a pandemic that has killed over 4.5 million people and returned all of our lives upside down. the world scientists are still hunting for answers. this startsed in wuhan at th market. the first hypothesis is it came from a bat. with 75% of all emerging diseases caused by a jump from animals into humans, there were warning signs. every few years there is a new spillover event with a new disease that humans have no i m t immunity to. it s a probability this originated from animals as well but the possibility also remains that the virus leaked from a lab. the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease is the same name as the lab. it s a laboratory at the heart of the city where the outbreak occurred that s undertaking some risky work. laboratory accidents happen much more often than we know. the biological window to learn what happened thanks window might be closing., happe window might be closing. twindo
that s where law enforcement. as the fbi has investigated. this the senate and bipartisan committees have come back, and you know what they have found? that there is no involvement. we re gonna get a reaction to that, the bipartisan leadership responding quickly, calling mccarthy s comments baseless. this one is dubbed the justice for january 6th rally. it is for the 500 plus rioters judged with crimes. joining me now is chuck neal cocktail, democratic strategist juanita tolliver, and susan did pursue. welcome to all of you guys on this labor day weekend and laboring alongside. me, neil also with you on, this one and i want to get a fact check from you on what republicans are saying as to why the issued this, letter this threat i should, say two some companies. not even getting the ceos right, by the, way when it comes for calling for the phone records. saying, this would violate federal law what do you make of that meal? i think the technical lead or term for this is
no one is certain where they a nobody is certain where they ar or how they are going to get home. what is so interesting is that over the past week this administration has had tens of thousands of nationals that are now going to be moved. they did not seem to encounter any problems in doing this thanks to meticulous planning t change america forever. it s a plan that worked flawlessly but a few dozen americans are trapped in afghanistan. they passed off the portfolio and if there is an american citizen left in afghanistan we are going to stay until we get them all out. he did not mean this.e what is tony s plan to get all the multiplex as we were told yesterday they had sent a strongly worded letter to be where. you wouldn t want to see them when they are mad. fits the leadership we are goin to need. i this afternoon the president appeared and spoke in public. it s hot and that s just the beginning. he announced we are done in afghanistan forever. we are gone and we are not g