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Of that piece. david willman won the pulitzer for investigative reporting back in 01 for his work on the pharmaceutical industry. he also wrote the book about the anthrax attacks on this building, we might add, and elsewhere in the post-9/11 era. it is called "the mirage man." thank you very much for being with us and especially for the democrats who now view bob mueller as the most important man in this democracy because as they see it hes the man who could save this democracy, what in your vie...

Director of homeland security for the state of new york, michael, thank you so much for joining. i think you heard a part of the conversation with the former mayor of los angeles with chuck as well. the extraordinary nature of all of this and the levels that you would have to tick up in administrator and officials to make such a major decision. >> this is really the worst case scenario of any administrator, for any type of facility. schools, hospitals. i mean what do you do here when you have wh...

Heard, checked himself into a mental health center. we learned today that he told the officials hed been binge drinking, but you see the equipment thats set up there on the side. they have a little tent set up so if they do find anything, they can process it there and photograph it. so again we dont know what it is theyre looking for. theyve clearly been told that theres something in this lake. whether thats true or not, well have to wait and find out. these pictures remind me of the fbis search...

Biological warfare or weapon. then we have committees and panels that try to figure out what went wrong. >> we took a look at the infrastructure that has been built since the anthrax attacks of 2001. you have got dozens of committees. i had to report to over 08 of them. you have 50 political appointees. you have an orchestra in front of you. and no one has the same sheet of music so there is no conductor. what we suggested is this is something thats serious enough that the vice president should ...

Anthrax that were supposed to be inactive samples. they were actually live. 22 shipments across the united states and to a base in south korea. some were sent via fedex. four lab workers here in the united states and as many as 22 people overseas are getting post-exposure or preventive treatment. the cdc is also investigating. we got sean kauffman joining me. welcome. >> thank you, brooke. >> i also should add youre a bio safety expert. you were part of the cdc response team during the 2001 anth...

Come over and fight the fight or be a lone wolf here in the united states. so budgets are the big thing. states dont have the budgets right now. >> thats an issue. general tata thank you. a pleasure sir. coming up, live anthrax samples shipped by the military through fedex. were hearing now at least four lab workers are receiving post-exposure treatment. well talk with someone who responded to the deadly anthrax attacks in 2001 talk about why this happened how this happened. also the video t...

Im grateful to not have to reduce it to a second or two. i think one of the things that drove a lot of us back then is the shock of discovering that after the first gulf war, the discovery of how much progress iraq had made on nuclear weapons in the 1980s after the bombing reactor by zroel in 1981. then there was more progress through the 1990s even after the first gulf war discovered by inspectors. saddam was up to more than the inspectors were able to find. anthrax was a huge part of this stor...

Cop situation where you buddy up to them and we didnt have the time to wait. we didnt have the time to sit around and see if they would eventually come around. remember what was going on at the time this was at a time when we had word that bin laden had met with pakistani nuclear scientists. we had richard reed lighting his shoes on fire on airlines. we had anthrax attacks in the united states while we were finding anthrax labs in afghanistan. there was a ticking time bomb. we had a handful of p...

Any signs or symptoms means obviously any cough or flu-like symptoms. also, mild fever would be something they would be concerned about. mild fever, could be the initial signs of an anthrax infection. in fact, over the next two months, these people are going to be screened, get regular temperature checks, because it could be one of the first signs. >> as a preemptive measure, do they give them, you know, some sort of antibiotics? some sort of cipro? remember after the anthrax attacks, a lot of p...

Anthrax attacks. john mccain was wrong about whether there might ever be any trouble between sunnis and shias in iraq. because john mccain was so wrong about iraq, it is frustrating to see him everywhere, right? on the sunday shows, on the cable news shows, in the paper with reporters following him around the capitol now. as if his previous abject and consequential failures on this subject maybe him worthy about listening to the exact same subject right now. theres a lot of this going on right n...