and we helped him escape russia. that was how the film star that. and then as we followed his fete, destiny yeah. then one of the victims of the poisoning with novichok went back to russia and the rest. that was what the mere karamazov, who has been in jail since since the worst arlette. and we focused on him as well. and then suddenly in the middle of filming these these destinies something happened that showed us that i'm also a victim and then the director of pivoted to meet, you. >> well, it is an incredible film. i hope everyone will watch it. it premieres this week. >> and thanks so much to all of you for joining us tonight. >> ac30 60 starts now tonight on 360 republican lawmakers attack a criminal justice system. one friends to defund the government over the former president's criminal conviction, even as trump issues that thinly veiled warning about civil unrest, and he get jail time for keeping them honest tonight also, de hunter biden's federal trial. the jury has been selected. we look ahead to opening statements tomorrow, and later, dr. anthony fauci, the grilling house republicans gave him over the covid pandemic. and what he gave them back in all right good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight, keeping them honest with what looks to be the shape of things to come. as the leader of the republican party, the self-proclaimed rule of law party faces a july sentencing date for 34 felony convictions increasingly, that means republicans are attacking a criminal justice system. they've longed, claimed to support threatening to investigate and defunded, even threatening to defund the entire federal government. all because the jury of 12 americans did what juries are entrusted to do, listened to evidence, and reach a verdict we are in a serious country anymore. we're literally a banana republic. so what does it matter, finding the government, the american people don't give a let's georgia republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene talking to cnn's manu raju separately in a new letter scene and obtain today house judiciary chairman jim jordan is proposing to defund federal fulton state prosecutions targeting what he called quote, political opponents. and as we reported last week, some the former president's senate allies are vowing to bottle up any legislation at all in response to the new york verdict. now let's remember this was a state trial, not a federal one. and there's no evidence the federal justice department had any role whatsoever in it. >> let alone the attorney general, let alone president biden. >> yet from the beginning, the former president has an almost literal sense, tried to make a federal case out of it. a notion his supporters now fully embrace house speaker mike johnson for one last week, he said the supreme court should get involved. now he's saying congress should, with all its got listen, we are the rule of law party. chaos is not a conservative value and we have to fight back and we will, with everything in our arsenal, but we do that within the confines of the rule of law. so what we'll do with our tools that we have in congress in the house is we'll use our oversight, responsibility and we're going to look at special counsel jack smith, who we believe is abusing his authority as well. we have the funding streams, we have mechanisms to try to get control of that jack smith for the record, has managed to persuade a duly appointed judge to sign off on a search warrant that is yielded troves of highly classified documents with the former president squirrel away at mar-a-lago attempted according to prosecutors, to move those documents around to avoid detection. >> smith has persuaded grand juries to indict trump for that and also bring charges connected with january 6. all while being legitimately opposed in the court's up to and including the supreme court by the former president's legal team none of that suggests a lack of due process, let alone evidence of wrongful prosecution to the contrary yet here is what republican governor and vice presidential hopeful doug burgum is now saying well, i think what's sad for america as the whole weaponization of the system and what we're going to see more of this he provided no evidence nor didn't another man desperately volume to become vice presidents and her tim scott there's no doubt that this verdict has actually rotc uniform unifying our party without any question what we've seen is never choppers calling me and saying tim, i'm on the bandwagon now. i've seen this two tier justice system working against the president united states. it can work against me to he so provided no evidence of that. >> and as for the system being weaponized against republicans, not sure what democratic senator bob menendez fields about that or for that matter, a hunter biden, the president's son, they're arriving today at a federal courthouse in delaware for day one of his trial on gang real gun-related charges here's democratic congressman jamie raskin today democrats were not out there saying that hunter biden's trial is a far sits of fraud. >> it's rig we're not attacking the justice system. they do that because extraordinary cognitive dissonance that a party which claims to be representing religious piety has wrapped itself around in an adjudicated sexual assailant and frost or who just got convicted by a jury of his peers for paying $130,000 in hush money to a porn star right after his fifth child was born. that's where their party is well, wherever the republican party may be and we'll talk about shortly, the leader of it is now gaslighting the public is dying. >> his own very public, very early, very loud foray into politicizing and yes, weaponizing the criminal justice system he famously said regarding hillary clinton, lock her up, you declined to do that as president, i beat her. >> it's easier when you in and they also luck. and i felt and i could have done it. but i felt it would have been a terrible thing. and then this happened to me and so i may feel differently about i can tell you i can i'm not sure i can answer the question hillary glenn, i didn't say lock her up, but the people don't say lock her up, lock her up, but okay he said he didn't say that the people said it will keep them honest. >> he said a lot there. >> what for what she's done, they should lock her up. she's it's disgraceful honestly it's disgraceful. >> lock her up is right. >> you should lock them up lock up the block pillar so of course he's dying. he said all that he ran on that and in the same interview, he issued another veiled threat about what might happen if he's sentenced to jail time or home confinement for the 34 felonies the jury convicted him of i don't know that the public would stand it. i don't i'm not sure the public would stand for with a house arrest for i think i think it would be tough for the public to take, you know, at a certain point, there's a breaking point joining us now is former arkansas governor, former republican presidential candidate, is a hutchinson governor. appreciate you being with us what does it say as far as the republican party is concerned, being a convicted felon is no longer considered a disqualification for the presidency and you are former prosecutor yourself. >> do you believe the federal government has weaponized against the gop why have a high regard for the justice system in america, it is a hallmark of our democracy and the strength of america. >> i don't like to see it undermine by anyone and wherever you look at the republican party right now, they're in a bind. and the bind is that i take presumptive nominee. that's going to get the nomination of the party that's going into the fall election. and he's been convicted of 34 felonies that's a problem for the republican party. and their answer to it is to say they're bogus that the charges and the convictions are not legitimate that's a hard case to make to the american public even though they might see the start of that case in new york as partisan they have confidence in what the jury determined and that's varies by party, of course, but the polls show that slim majority of americans have confidence in what the jury found. and so they're going to sort this through we've had mistakes and prosecution's before our system has made the corrections that are needed, either through the jury system or through the appeal system. so let it work. let's don't undermine what is so great about america in this justice system. but the republicans are in a bind because we have a nominee that is facing felony convictions and an unknown future with a sentencing that's coming up. >> you know what happened when former maryland governor and the current gop senate candidate, larry hogan, he tweeted last week in response to this, he said i urge all americans to respect the verdict and the lead legal process that was basically blasphemy according to trump's campaign strategist, who said that hogan ended his campaign with that remark and lara trump, who was installed by father-in-law to run the rnc said hogan doesn't deserve the respect of anybody in america. i mean as a rational republican like yourself, vet's gotta be i mean, just sad well, as someone who is trained as an officer of the court to respect the decision of the jury what larry hogan is saying is bright we should respect it. >> and these jurors 12 of them citizens, not one of them found a donald trump innocent. in fact, donald trump is batting zero and 20 24 with jurors lately in the sexual abuse case, it was 12 to zip that he committed that whenever you look at the criminal case is 12 to zero. so, jury speak loudly they should have respect. >> and the most important thing is that larry hogan is necessary for the republicans to win the majority of the united states senate. >> we need larry hogan, donald trump, if he's elected president will need larry hogan in the senate and so it's very short-sighted to attack him. it just illustrates that they're trying to use the discipline that they have the whip to keep people in line and not to counter what the message donald trump has given. >> tim scott was on. we played a clip of him earlier saying that it claiming he's been getting calls from what he described as never trump hers. who said they could be coming from me next time. now, voting for trump do you think that this verdict does bring new voters to trump or do you think it just i mean, it's certainly angers supporters of many supporters of the former president. >> but do you think it adds voters to his roles? >> well, i mean, it varies, but what you've got to look at is it's clearly strengthened his position with republican base they're standing with hail they see this is unfair and so you do have that element but you've got to look at the six key swing states. and how's this going to impact independent voters? and the ones that you have to get on the margin and so this over the long term can't be healthy for donald trump. to me, he's demonstrating that he's a fragile candidacy with these felony convictions with more court proceedings. and the question is, can joe biden take advantage of that and his weakness is difficult for the people to make a choice if they see joe biden as a week president, wants the choice you have a convicted felon or some by they see as weak and we don't know how that's going to play out between now november, but that is the challenge that the voters face. look governor hutchinson, i appreciate it. >> your time tonight. thank you thank you. >> good to be with you, anderson. we just learned that president biden tonight, we'll have some especially blunt talk about as president for had assessors conviction has prepared remarks for a private fundraiser tonight, including words like unhinged as well as the president's assessment that his opponent is making a quote, all out assault and the american justice system, prison, we understand is also expected to say, quote, my god, what kind of man is this? >> joining us now is democratic strategists, james carville. so james pertinently, these prepared remarks released by the biden campaign, the president is going to say tonight, folks, the campaign in entered unchartered territory last week for the first time in american history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency do um, this is something behind closed doors is not going to be televised. do you see him making this a regular part of his stump speech? do you see him running with this out front? as a shield or is that not a wise idea i hope he doesn't i mean, 100% of the people noted trump was convicted. >> they do their story is right. i'm being sets up, make more to be on rack since i've met the fundraiser relationships for walks that's fine. but he has a pretty clear, open field now to talk about what are you most so doing a second term, which i think just poll by been pretty devoid of any of the campaign so far. so i think he has a big advantage here. and anybody that has any respect for the jury system of which i think most people do. i know. i do. i'm always been taught that juries were the integral part ball criminal justice system. so i'm i'm not too big on president biden i mean, certainly you can say something he wants to say trump met a fundraiser allude to it every now and then, but everybody knows about this. we're going to know about to sentencing or know about all of the appeals and all the stuff coming up at this story has gotten a lot of de, on its own that's my view. >> it does seem to your point, if he's talking issues of actually what he wants to do, pocketbook issues you don't really hear that from the former president. i mean, he's talking about grievances. he's talking about himself. he's talking about i mean, all the stuff he just normally talks about where he's talking about getting back at people. and i think president biden can talk about trying to get people ahead the thing she's built, high wants to build on his record the things that he wants to do tip to help families going forward. i think he's got a golden opportunity and he's not trying to get back at anybody. he's just trying to get american families, american people back ahead a minute. the speech rights itself because it is not rocket science here. you've got a big o opening. just drive through it, man just go, no one gets us kinda opportunity in politics that he's gotten now anthony scaramucci was on the program a couple of days ago saying in his iis expressed publicly and others who've republicans who are, don't like trump or have expressed concern that the biden kept mean hasn't really done an outreach. >> two anti-trump republicans that a mistake i think i think anthony is right, but they couldn't do outreach and i think there's a lot of loosely aligned people who traditionally vote republican or not comfortable voting democratic without ever outreach. >> maybe some of them will vote for biden some will stay at home but i see this unfold vicki hill there's getting 22% in closed primaries and states like nebraska, indiana that's a lot of death, a lot of people and your own party that are coming out to vote against you for somebody's not even running anymore and i think he's right. i and, you know, president biden, we can do a lot of publications out, dad and a very uncomfortable with this. and we need to seize the moment and what by when election. we went in 2022, a lottie specials. we want and as much or more would independent illusory line voters if we went animal to democratic base, i mean, hopefully we get a better numbers among under 30 and black. but right now, we're doing much better. what older, 65 over 65 and lucy aligned voters and we're going to need these people to win. and i think he makes a good point. i really do thank you. >> good psaki always always thank you. can we have next more 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statements or tomorrow seen as paula reid has it all first lady jill biden, arriving at court to show support for her stepson. >> i love hunter and i'll support him and eye in any way i can, even in the middle of a close presidential race, president biden has been unwavering in his support for his only living sun i'm very proud of my son. the two seen at a state dinner last month at church together last week, and riding bicycles in rehoboth beach over the weekend in statement today, he said, i am the president, but i am also a dad, jill and i love our sun and we are so proud of the man he is today. hunter has been charged in part with lying on this atf form when he purchased a firearm, prosecutors alleged he failed to reveal he was a drug addict and using at the time hi he has entered a plea of not guilty, although he has been open about his struggles with addiction in both his 2021 memoir, beautiful things, and in interviews, when one time for 13 days without sleeping and smoking, crack in, drinking vodka exclusively throughout that entire time. >> the case was initiated by special counsel, david weiss, that trump appointed us attorney in delaware, hunter was expected to resolve his gun charges as part of a plea deal, but that fell apart last year hunter owned an unloaded gun for 11 days. they will never have been a charge like this brought in the united states prosecutors plan to call hunters, ex-wife, and his late brother's widow, whom hunter later dated to testify about his drug use during the time he purchased the gun in 2018. there are also likely to use hunters infamous laptop, which contains embarrassing emails and photos to bolster their claims. hunters attorneys have previously said the files we're manipulated and sued the computer repair shop owner who helped make the materials public. >> i've made mistakes in my life and wasted opportunities and privileges i was afforded for that i'm responsible as he fights to criminal cases. he has also taken a more aggressive strategy towards dealing with republican led investigations on capitol hill. >> got her biden to be arrested right here right now and go straight to jail thank you, mr. chairman add excuse me, hunter, apparently you're afraid of my words. his second criminal trial on tax charges is scheduled to begin in september in los angeles falerii jones's. >> so what do we know about the makeup of the jury? >> so we've learned that the jury is comprised of six men and six women. the majority of the jury is black, and today's jury selection process really highlighted in many ways, americas drug addiction epidemic as many potential jill jurors talked about how people close to them has struggled with addiction. at least two of those folks made it onto the jury. they have tested, are talked about in court how people close to them have struggled with addiction and various ways. there's also several gun owners on the jury, including one juror who says, even if you've smoked marijuana, you still have the right to a firearm all right. >> paul ryan, thanks very much. perspective now of someone close to the biden white house and families, cnn political commentator kate benningfield, who recently served as white house communications director. and with me here, bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey thuban. so geoff on the legal merits, what does this case looked like? it's a very unusual case. >> i mean, when you see this charge two of unlawful purchase of a weapon, it's almost always in connection with the case where the gun is used in some crime a standalone case based on just being a drug, drug addict, drug user buying buying a gun is almost never, never brought. hunter biden's problem is it's still a crime and this is the case that was brought and he's going to have to figure out a way to defend them. and the fact that the tortured history of there's the fact that they had a deal and then they didn't. will that be brought into the trial? not at all. that's that is completely off limits. plea negotiations are never allowed to be brought before a jury, but is indicative of the fact that this is a case that usually i mean, to the extent you can say it usually about anything involving a case that started in 2018, this investigation has been going on for six years. this this kind of crime is almost always resolved in a plea bargain kate, should people be surprised that the first lady was attending court not at all. i can tell you. so i worked for joe biden for nearly eight years and they are an incredibly close-knit family. i sat in countless meetings where joe biden took, stopped and took a call from one of his kids from one of his grandkids for one of his siblings thanks he is somebody who puts family first, has been very clear that he loves his son and that he's going to support him. mean, remember, it's also important to remember that he was lost. his daughter and his wife, his first wife in a car crash weeks after he was elected to the senate for his entire time in public life, he has grappled with and struggling the width challenges within his family alongside dealing with the responsibilities of public service. so this is not unfamiliar territory to him, but he is somebody who loves his family, who this family is is the beating heart of a biden, so no, people should not be surprised at all to see the bidens closely boarding their son jeff attention because the judges overseeing hunter biden's two cases are both trump appointees and yet you don't hear president biden attacking them as conflicted going after the cord, going after witnesses and yeah, it's joe biden and donald trump are very different people. >> that's a big new scoop. i mean, the fact is it's a completely different approach. biden is saying, i respect the process. i expect if a hunter is convicted, he will say the same thing he's showing his love for his son but he is not attacking the process or the people involved and everything we've seen about how biden is behaved, is that it's completely different from how trump is handling his own legal troubles. >> i mean, false equivalencies notwithstanding how damaging or do think it would be damaging or conviction his son's case to biden's campaign i don't. >> and there are a couple of reasons for that. firstly, obviously a hunter biden is not the president. he is not an office holder. he is not involved he's not a paid staffer on his father's campaign. he's not involved in any way and secondly, we know and i can tell you somebody who was helping run the biden campaign in 2021 of the most significant moments in the debates, one of the moments that really got the most traction was the moment when joe biden stood up to donald trump just trying to make a hunter biden a line of attack and said, you know, i love my son, like many people in this country who have dealt with addiction i think families across the country can understand what we've been through and the president was very direct about being completely unflinching, about allowing donald trump to come out. hunter biden in that no, i think what we've seen politically is that people admire that joe biden stands by his son. they relate to it. everybody has got someone in their family has either struggled with addiction or mental illness. i mean, this is an incredibly relatable thing for people all across the country. and i think seeing joe biden's humans entity is a good thing for him politically to be quite crass. no, i don't think that a conviction is going to have a political impact here. >> what jeff, what do you think is expect the defense strategy to be because there was a document he signed which said he wasn't taking drugs and was according to it's a tough situation the judge yesterday ruled that an addiction specialist could not testify as an expert. i assume what abbe lowell was going to try to do is meticulously go through when the when the form was signed and whether at that precise moment hunter hunter biden was abusing drugs because it is true like a lot of attics sometimes you was sometimes you wasn't. and whether the timing matches up is something the prosecution is going to have to prove and i absolutely certainly going to make them it's going to challenge that at every point, but it's also worth remembering the vast majority of people charged in federal court wind up being convicted. so he sent a lot of trouble, geoff tube and thank you. >> kate benningfield as well, coming up for the former president, now a convicted felon is sitting president's son in court wondering, is there any historical precedent for what we are in the middle of one of the greatest historians today, doris kearns goodwin and one of my favorite guest joins me here next for 13 million americans were affected. my identity theft in 2022, and the threats are more than you realize if you're a victim of identity theft lifelong works to fix it on your behalf backed by them million dollars protection 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me. we played well, the foreign president said earlier the program, but i just want to play again. here he is talking about the possibility of going to jail after his felony convictions. >> i don't know that the public would stand it. i don't i'm not sure the public would stand four with a house arrest for i think i think it'd be tough for the public to take you know, at a certain point, there's a breaking point joining me now presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, she's the author of a number of bestsellers. her latest, it's fantastic and unfinished love story. a personal history of the 1960s, and i highly recommend it we've, we've talked about the divisions in this country the civil war obviously was a time of just horrific divisions the 1970s, there were a lot of diverse 60s and 70s and which there's you cover so much in your book and you're newest book. >> but was the country more divided than or do you think it's more divided now? i think it's more divided now than any time in my lifetime really, since the civil war we would divide it over issues. maybe the vietnam war, isolationism, interventionism race, civil rights. but this is like identity. people who are in one party and the other feel like that's their life as it's a different thing that we've seen, but it wasn't that way before. i don't think so. i mean, i just saw a great, incredible statistic that people were asked in 1958 do you care whether your daughter marries or republican or a democrat and a small percentage cared, but 72% said they didn't care either way was okay, 2020. same question. 79% of people are married to people in the same party so somehow parties become who we are. one of the things that good old george washington warned against in his farewell address. he said he was afraid of the baneful effects of party, and he warned people against that because it could produce divisions. and they actually, every year they read in the senate this farewell address, its 7,000 words. if only they'd adhere to what they just read it and then they go back and become divided parties. again, teddy warned against i should say teddy, teddy roosevelt, my guy warned against. he said, if people begin to think of each other as other, rather than a common american citizens when they divided by party or region, or section, then we're going to be losing our democracy. democracy is in peril and somehow that's happened. >> that is something we see in repressive regimes on the world or regimes where there is civil war or the othering of opponents, the othering of fellow citizens and not even believing they're human as sometimes we've heard from the former president. i mean that really then makes it impossible to make any connections are compromises. if their the other i mean, even when race was a huge diversion country in the 1960s, 22 republicans joined the 44 democrats to break the filibuster and bring the civil rights act. we can imagine that today did the sort of apocalyptic worldview or pronouncements from the president, the threats of potential civil unrest. does that work? i mean, a gins up, a lot of fear at gins up supporters that brings people to the barricades, i guess if that's what you want them to be, does it work to get elected? >> i don't know. i mean, we're going to see what happens. it seems to me that the more extreme that the former president becomes in terms of jenin up his people to say, we are now a fascist country. this is not america anymore. this is not a country, this is a banana republic. i don't think the ordinary person feels that way about our country and never in our country country's history really has somebody who talks so pessimistically about this country, one an election. i mean, think about what happened in hoover versus fdr. hoover is saying that the government can't really help the depression and don't worry, it's getting a little bit better. fdr comes along and says, it's in terrible shape now, and it's not your fault. new people, it's the leadership get a failed and i'm going to act and he wins by a landslide. look at the difference between carter saying that the problem in the country is the malaise of the people that somehow they've lost crisis of confidence. and then reagan comes along saying, it's optimistic, it's morning in america, we're going to make this work optimism in elections, optimism usually prevails in terms of who people want to so to lead them. and you want to feel like you're going towards something in the future. i mean, one of the problems about the trial right now is that it's all the past grievances. they're gonna be here. he said retribution will come grievances when i think about lincoln in the second inaugural with malice toward none and charity for all. let us bind up our nation's wounds that just the i said about saying, if i get to be president again, i'm going to get back at the people who've heard me is there a lesson from history that history teaches about how things get better? >> i mean, how, how do divisions heel? i the country was so divided. the civil war i mean there were still many divisions for generations afterward. but how does one heel out as a country heal? >> well, you need a leader who helps to bring about that healing. and that's what abraham lincoln did. i mean, it could have been after the civil war, even after the north won the war, that those divisions might have been even more exacerbated if he had gone after the they wanted him to go after the southern leaders put them in jail, execute them. he said, i'm not going to do that. so you needed a leader who brings about that healing. but it also depends upon the people. maybe they'll just get exhausted by this at some point, i keep thinking, although it wasn't a story and i haven't been ride, i thought january 4th had changed it. that would break the fever. i thought the hearings that summer would change it. and now think maybe this trial will change things. we're hearing people say on the independent sayyed, and even moderate republic side that the rule of law has prevailed and that they may not be able to vote for a candidate who, who performed as he did. it's interesting though like when you're in it, it feels very hard to imagine going back to the gop of ronald reagan or the time when people were disagreeing, or when when moderation or compromise was not a dirty word. but you know, that's what always happens. we're living in the time we don't know the ending of our story. the people in the civil war couldn't imagine what that would end with emancipation secured and the union restored even the early days of world war ii, people couldn't have imagined the allies would win the war and democracy would prevail. they didn't know the end of their story. we don't know it, but somehow we've gotten through these dire times before i still keep coming back to history. history will help us by giving us, because it feels like they believe it or forget, we've all been through this before. there had been these are cycles that repeat. we've all been here before. we vote been through this before, whether us are people who were here before us, we just need to remember that we've been through this before. >> we have to remember that somehow we're not a different people, somehow something's happened to our political system. and i think it is it's the political system that's causing a lot like something's happening to our social media. but we created these problems as leaders have said, we can solve the problems we've created. i don't know the answer yet, but i just have a feeling that somehow why are we going to be as a democracy, unable to solve this one when we solved other ones, which were even more dire than this one, even though it's hard to realize that, yeah, doors grooms. >> good one. thank you. so we got to believe it anyway, you make me believe that. thank you. thank you. it was the head are divided america on display during testimony today on capitol hill, 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fake news, mr. now? >> i made anything up. what did you say? i said that it is not based in science and adjust appeared, but this is science what is dogs have to do with anything that we're talking about today, your scientific experiments. this is what you signed off on. do you think that's appropriate to the american people deserve to be abused like that, mr. fauci, because you're not dr. your mr. fauci. and i'm a few minutes mr. chairman of order, just in terms of the rules of decorum, are we allowed to deny that a doctor is a doctor just because we don't want him to be a doctor yes. >> because in my time that man does not deserve to have a license is a matter of fact, it should be revoked and he belongs in suspend the gentlelady should recognize the doctor as a doctor. >> do you agree that there was a push to downplay the lab-leak theory? >> not on my part. >> really, really. wow. wow try now by cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. >> so when your house republicans got dr. fauci like they did today, congresswoman green refusing to column a dr what goes through your mind that it's a circus and it's not a serious attempt to understand what happened to us during covid when we were attacked on 911 and 3,000 americans were killed. >> a commission was, was instituted to do a 360 degree comprehensive bipartisan review of where our failings were. and generated a 700 page report and substantive changes to america's intelligence sharing apparatus came out of that. >> and there's been nothing like this pandemic and has been nothing like that for this pandemic, we lost one 1.2 million people and we were not prepared. we couldn't create tests. it took us a long time to create tests. then when we created tests, we couldn't manufacturer them. they were they were contaminated. >> we understood that the virus was airborne, but we had to tell the people in this country not to try and wear masks because we didn't have masks are stockpiles had been depleted the public was perceived over and over again. we couldn't do the testing. >> we needed. we've relied on other countries for critical data and despite that now all these years out 4.5 years out we still have not had a substantive bipartisan look at why and country that that in the year before, in the year before the pandemic started, the us was rate it to be the number one prepared country in the world. how we could have gotten it's so bad. >> i mean, you think back to those pictures those nurses and doctors wearing, i think it was nurses wearing plastic bags because there wouldn't ppe bryn garbage bags? yeah, they'll garbage bags it isn't i mean, it is inevitable that there will be another pandemic. i mean, it's just whether it's a year from now or 20 years from now, or 30 years from now unless we learn the lessons and lots of mistakes were made, there's no doubt about it unless we learn the lessons of it, there's no reason to think we would be as ill-prepared the next time right look, there is h5n1 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