was flummoxed. i think that was connecting the dots about how lies, that some of them even seemed harmless, like lying about the crowd size at the inauguration, but how that prepared and primed those around him to go along when he would tell bigger lies, none bigger than those about the election that fuelled january 6th and both political parties are grappling with today. as recently as yesterday, positioning himself as a martyr, a victim of all these investigations into what he so clearly did on january 6th. the book is excellent. if you want to see that crackling chemistry between mike barnicle and jonathan lemire you can see it tonight at the 92nd street y in new york, one of the great venues in new york or anywhere. it s sold out, i m told.
are a ton of interviews, including one on npr s fresh air. that s in our podcasts today. see me at the 92nd street y if you are here in new york on wednesday. so look it up. anyway, the book is out today. thank you very much. that does it for me today. done with hawking my goods. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. icks up our coverage next. with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. this. is the planning effect. this is how it feels to have a dedicated fidelity advisor looking at your full financial picture. this is what it s like to have a comprehensive wealth plan with tax-smart investing strategies designed to help you keep more of what you earn. and set aside more for things like healthcare, or whatever comes down the road.
but it turns out, if you spend $319 million giving money away to places like npr and atlantic monthly, and nbc and cnn, it turns out it buys you a whole lot of really nice press coverage. laura: charlie, there s something bill gates said at the 92nd street y about the fatality of covid which i would have been interesting if we knew more about this earlier on. i want to play this for everyone. watch. we didn t understand it s a fairly low fatality rate and that it s a deceased mainly of the elderly. it s a bit different than that. laura: remember people got banned from social media for saying covid fatality was like the flu. didn t alex berenson might have gotten banned for that? he saying like thank you for the insight, bill. yes, of course the reason bill gates didn t say that more
again, our big thanks to angie an icon and i want to invite you to a new york music event with another icon clive davis. he s the music label executive and producer behind everyone from whitney to the grateful dead to janice joplin. scan this qr code right now to get ticket information. we ll be together april 21st at the 92nd street y here in new york. so you can go to their website and you see the tickets there on the screen. you can use the qr code or dial in on your computer, 92 y.org event clive davis and sign up for tickets or to stream it live. we re trying the qr code. see if you like it. use it like a menu. at the event we ll talk music, culture and how mr. davis is marking his 90th birthday this week. there aren t a ton of seats left so go there to get seats or stream online. i ll share that with you because we love to try to do things beyond the beat .