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
because this moment in history calls for our collective strength. i didn t know what the hell nato was too much before, but it didn t take me long to figure it out, like about two minutes. right now, world leaders are arriving at the white house for tonight s nato dinner hosted by president biden. and as biden shows actual leadership on the world stage in the face of a democratic party meltdown, donald trump was showing his ignorance about nato and just about everything else in his latest unhinged performance. also tonight, the rise of christian nationalism. insurrection champion josh hawley says he s advocating it and trump s allies are planning to infuse christian nationalism into a second trump administration. but we begin tonight with a deep dive into what donald trump and his sycophants have planned for the department of justice under project 2025. and how they would use the doj to attack american citizens. the 28-page section of the project s manifesto coveri
this hour, the hypocrisy of the republican party laid bare this week. fighting to limit voting access and the constitutional right to an abortion all while complaining their rights are violated by biden s vaccine mandate. dnc chair is going to tell us how the party plans to fight back. plus, the changing face of terror since 9/11. is america ready for the next threat, which could be just days away? plus, congressman jones on the climate and racial justice and why it is the same fight and reality tv meets reality on the ground. so many activists aren t exactly thrilled with a new star studded show. this is american voices. show this is american voices. welcome to this hour of american voices. beginning this hour talking about the unmitigated hypocrisy coming from many on the right. around big notions of freedom to now follow the public headlines during a pandemic on one hand. on the other, work overtime to rob their constituents of that same freedom to do what they want with
it doesn t require that at all because, obviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion. that s not even the part of abbott s comments yesterday that capturing headlines today, but we ll stop right here. failure number one to grasp the basic concept about pregnancy. banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy doesn t give women six weeks to think about what she s going to do as abbott seems to suggest there. for the vast majority of all women based on the way pregnancy is calculated, a pregnancy test may not even turn positive until what would be considered the fourth week of pregnancy. abbott s six weeks to think about it in a six-week abortion ban gives women really a couple days not the month and a half he seems to be suggesting there. we ll continue because there s much more on abbott s answer to the critical condition why should a rape or incest victim be forced to carry a pregnancy to term? that said, however, let s make somet
extended pandemic unemployment benefits expiring today in the wake of a massively disappointing august jobs report. there s no question the delta variant is why today s job report isn t stronger. i know people were looking, and i was hoping for a higher number. the president blaming the surging delta variant. but amid holiday-weekend travel and packed stadiums and celebrations, america is acting like the threat from covid is over, even though the fact is we re actually much worse off than we were a year ago. the seven-day average of new cases up a stunning 300% from labor day just last year. the first thing we have to do, we can t be having 150,000 new infections per day. that s pandemic numbers. that s the first thing we ve got to crack that one, right away. so, it may be the worst possible time for any confusion about the booster shots. the white house may have to scale back the booster rollout this month to just the pfizer vaccine at first. moderna boosters may be