coronavirus crisis whether he did everything in his power to slow the spread and save lives. her answer an unequivocal no. joining me andy slavitt, the former biden white house senior adviser for covid response and author of preventable, the inside failure of leadership and politics and selfishness doomed the covid virus response. good to see you. dr. birx told the committee 130,000 lives could have been saved if the trump administration had mask mandates, reduced indoor dining and family gatherings. where would we be today if the trump white house listened to the science? well, many more people would be alive today. i think he is right about that. it wouldn t have been asking a lot of the president. what he would have had to do is, number one, tell the public the truth as soon as he knew it. if he had warned people in january as soon as he knew a deadly pandemic was coming, many
yes, graduated. don, it also just so happens that kid who was so traumatized by tony morrison s pulitzer prize winning novel happens to have grown up to work for a national republican party political committee. he got over it. he got over the trauma. so a tie in there. i guess, you know, they want fun with dick and jane. see dick run. run, dick, run. come on, people. snowflake, anyone? oh, my gosh. talk about snowflakes. imagine, imagine how the kids of color feel when they have to read stuff about slavery. okay. bye-bye. see you guys. thank you. take care, don. lawmakers huddling tonight on capitol hill with democrats under mounting pressure to get something passed. details still being worked out on sticking points including medicare, climate and support for families. i want to bring in democratic congressman ro khanna, a member of the house progressive caucus.
plan to subpoena john eastman, the lawyer who drafted ways to overturn the 2020 election. is that significant, and, if so, how significant is it? very significant if they can get john eastman to testify and testify truthfully. the problem, of course, is that people close to trump have been attempting to delay, to avoid service, to challenge the right of the committee to compel their testimony. don t know how long they can drag that out, but john eastman was at the center of the effort to thwart the constitution and overturn the will of the american people as expressed in the election last november. we learned from the bob woodward and robert costa book he came up with this memo and strategy of trying to get the electoral college to declare a result without some states counting, and then if that proved a problem then throw it to the house of representatives. it was a crazy scheme.