the green room. velshi starts now. today on velshi what progressives are now poised to give up in order to get joe manchin to support some version of the biden agenda. plus, the big lie is on the ballot in 2022. how the insurrectionists ex-president s campaign to undermine democracy is creeping into the midterms. overnight, 17 americans including some children have reportedly been kidnapped in haiti. black children in a county in tennessee were jailed for a crime that doesn t exist. and he s about to retire from his post as the longest-serving director of the national institutes of health, he led the effort to map the human genome and fought tirelessly against covid even under an administration that was actively pretending it would go away on its own. francis collins is here to talk
together, who are the people in ohio, from ohio, that is and who are they connected to and making sure that the families in the united states understand what s happening on the ground, while at the same time, developing an action plan with the homeland security department may be involved, trying to get as much information up the chain to the president. it s this dual track of handling the actual human beings and humanitarian part of this and the action plan and how the united states can respond. and gary, you know this country very well. and you know the capital as well, port-au-prince, extremely well, i should point out. how dangerous is it right now? how dangerous is it right now and should americans or any foreigners be operating in a country like this? to answer your question, it s very dangerous. no one is safe port-au-prince is
studies showed that over 50% of americans believed in at least one conspiracy theory. this is life host lisa ling joins me now. lisa, i am so signififascinateds topic and i m so glad you ll be taking a deeper dive into this later on. you spoke to one qanon conspiracy theory believer. take us into his thinking. how does he view what s happening in our country right now? pamela, look. this actually is so complex. and as you just showed in the clip, there has been an erosion of trust that has been historical, right? and so, when the pandemic began in this country, this was a scary time for all of us. and i think most of us, you know, we were in lockdown, and we started going down these rabbit holes. and simultaneously, you have the former president who was disavowing mainstream media.
with joe ruben who served in the state department under president obama. gary, i want to start with you on all of this. it was quite striking, i should point out, just two days ago, you wrote a fascinating op-ed on the home page of the haitian times. you wrote about gangs running rampant in the country of haiti. you mentioned this, and this is line that stood out for me. you said, there has been a rash of kidnappings that continues unabated, churches, homes, sidewalks. nothing is off-limits. so does this come surprising at all to you? well, thanks for having me, kendis. in some ways, no. because the situation has been pretty dire. but what is surprising is that up until now, americans were really off-limits. because gangs were afraid of the ire of the american government and what could happen. and so this is somewhat surprising, and it also tells me that this is taking it to
vaccinated, i think you should just enjoy the holidays the best you can in the family spirit. walking arm in arm with his wife, former president bill clinton leaves a california hospital. i think he s lucky to leave the hospital. a 70-year-old man can easily die of sepsis. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. we begin this hour with a growing sense of urgency over the mass kidnapping of americans in haiti. a source tells us that the fbi and state department are working around the clock to secure their release, but admit that they don t know where they re being held at this hour. a christian ministries group in ohio confirmed that 16 missionaries from the u.s. and one canadian have been taken hostage. five of those hostages are children. the a group did not comment on ransom demands or negotiations. the group was captured yesterday