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 hadnt a vaccine at that point. Ppe was short. It was ridiculous. It felt that we were
We don t have matt. You probably just saw there that eric nelson, the defense attorney for derek chauvin just wrapped up arguments. The judge just said he had some discussions we re going to listen to what the judge is saying to the lawyers. You believe that the counsel made a misstatement of law when he indicated and argumented that the defendant had to intend to apply unlawful force. He had to intend that the force he was applying to be unlawful. That s not a correct statement. The law is dorn 887 northwest second 8, 26. The state need not show that the defendant meant to or knew that it would violate the law that is what mr. Nelson argued before the jury. So we re requesting the court give a curative instruction to the jury as follows. That it is not necessarily for the state to prove the defendant intended to act unlawfully. Only that the defendant applied force to another that the application of force was unlawful and that this application of force resulted in bodily harm. I belie
the crucial things that the defense needs to prove here, that that is how kyle rittenhouse acted in this situation. he s charged with the killing of two men and wounding another during riots that occurred in wisconsin last year when he was 17 years old. yesterday very emotional coverage, which you saw here when he broke down. he testified that he fired to defend himself, that he didn t intend to kill anyone. we re waiting to see if a judge could declare a mistrial here because on a couple of occasions he s berated the prosecutor over anti-constitutional prosecutorial tactics in his argument that he was making before the judge. garrett tenney watching this for us as we continue our live coverage from kenosha this afternoon. garrett, give us an update as to where we stand right now. yeah, martha, we ve seen more frustration from the judge today with the line of questioning from prosecutors. when the assistant district attorney pressed the witness about his hiring of an attorn
welcome to mtp daily. i m chuck todd. congress appears ton track to avoid one looming disaster for a period of time. once it passes a very short-term agreement to avoid a default. but there s a bigger threat to democracy that congress and the country is attempting to grapple with right now, the lies of donald trump, about our elections, and the platforms and people who are embracing them or amplifying them. the senate judiciary committee today released hundreds of pages of evidence, documents and transcripts, compiled as part of a report on the former president s attempts to pressure the justice department to overturn the 2020 election. the testimony includes new details about just how frighteningly close we were to a full-blown constitutional crisis as the former president tried desperately to cling to power. the former acting attorney general jeff rosen confirm that president trump desperately wanted a loyalist who believes his lies about the election to run the justice d
confusion announcing yesterday that the doj will appeal a federal judge s decision that struck down the mask mandate on public transportation. the move comes after the cdc has been requiring travelers to wear masks on trains and airports wasn t necessary for the public s health. except those immigration restrictions rolled those back. okay, but just a few days ago, president biden said americans get to decide for themselves. watch. should people continue to wear masks on planes? that s up to them. i would love to give our viewers a crash course in coordinated coherent perfectly messaged policy, let s roll the tape. this happened over the span of two hours on monday. watch. the cdc continues to advise and recommend mass on airplanes. we would advise all americans to do that. should people continue to wear masks on plane? that s up to them. are you going to repeal the masked mandate? have not heard from the cdc come i don t know. trust the science. degen, ever