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Linda, was under three weeks ago on september 30th. now, powell s long time chief of staff told our colleague that powell had been vaccinated with the pfizer vaccine. got his second dose in early february and was due to get his booster shot this past week, but fell ill and could not receive it. my heart goes out to that family. thank you very much. i want to bring in our chief medical correspondent, dr. gupta, the author of a new book, world war c. lessons from the covid-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one. sanjay, even after being fully vaccinated, how vulnerable was general powell given the fact he was battling blood cancer and parkinson s disease? it really did make him quite vulnerable. we know people who are over 65 or 70 are among the highest risk and the thing about multiple ....
Have approved booster shots for the immunocompromised. powell had kept his cancer quiet. one of his last public appearances was in september at the city college of new york. speaking with his daughter, linda, he grew emotional talking about the students. can each of you tell me where you re from, where your parents are from and what s your future. each one of them, 12, i think, each one of them and. yeah. they reminded you of ourself. the reason i m crying is i looked at them and they were me. and they came from an immigrant background like me and they came and they were smiling. they were happy. that touching moment between general powell and his daughter, ....
Family. bob woodward is joining us right now. he s co-author of the new book. bob, it s amazing stuff you always do, but this was your last interview with general powell. one of 50, as jamie reports, that you conducted over the last three decades. what struck you as he reflected on his own career and on his thought about the state of our country? first of all, he was so independent minded. indeed a soldier. but at the first gulf war in 1991 when he was chairman of the joint chiefs, he was pushing against. he was the reluctant warrior. and many times i discussed with him this paradox of being the reluctant warrior and being the number one military officer and he said just three months, no, i ....
Up the phone among those in his inner circle and share about the cancer that he was battling, as well as parkinson s. i m told the reason why is because he was concerned he was not going to be able to communicate effectively to his inner circle and people in that circle had not heard from him since today. and so it was in that sense, a shock and a very disturbing one. but i did have an opportunity in october of 2018 three years ago, with secretary madeleine alb albright and powell at creighton university to have a 90-minute conversation. at that particular juncture, he was critical of the trump administration. he talked about what it meant to be an immigrant from the bronx. ultimately from jamaica. and it was at a time when the country really felt like it was under assault. you had the jewish worshippers in pittsburgh at the synagogue ....
Would not ordinarily be covered by any executive privilege claim. further, even if that weren t the case, we want to talk to him about conversations he had. the plot that he may have held with other people, with organizers in the political arena. with political figures. both in the congress and in state legislatures. that has nothing to do with his communications with the former president. and you can t just say well i m not coming in. the law requires when a subpoena has been dually issued, as this one was, to come in and make your case. state your case about why you think you are excused from telling the truth. he didn t even do that. so we feel this is behavior is outrageous. outrageous behavior on the part of mr. bannon. we will have a discussion tomorrow night. ....