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>> we also have to think through before, if we make commitments, as we did to ukraine, as weve done to a large extent in taiwan, we have to make sure there is capability behind the commitments. the problem with the budapest memorandum with ukraine, when they gave back their nukes, is we made commitments we werent willing or able to meet. >> yeah. >> that is bad foreign policy. with taiwan, weve got a problem. we have commitments, not quite a formal security commitment, but 90%, and we dont yet h...

>> thats a different issue. for example, we still have title 42 with regard to protection at the border. so there are protection at the border, that you dont have the capability, as you know, of somebody getting on a plane, getting checked, looking at a passport. we dont have that there. we can get some degree of mitigation. >> reporter: something to do to test these people somewhere else? >> there is testing at the border under certain circumstances, as you know. >> reporter: doctor, two questi...

Is reallyjust unfolding. i was talking about anthony broadwater and he called for an apology last week from alice sebold after he was exonerated. now he has got one but the publishers, meanwhile, have stopped publishing the book lucky while they work out with the author how the text can be revised. i mentioned that a film based on lucky has been abandoned and it may well be that there will be further fallout from what has happened here in the weeks ahead. always a pleasure _ here in the weeks ah...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. youre his chief medical adviser. do you think thats something the country should adopt? >> im not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. lets get them vaccinated, lets get the people who are vaccinated boosted, lets get the children vaccinated. thats where we want to go as opposed...

0 of a day today. >> sandra: and the michigan school shooter, it was also just announced that he will be charged as an adult in that case. 15 years old. that was the breaking news from oxford a short time ago. lots of notes and a jam-packed two hours. great to be with you, im sandra smith. >> john: im john roberts. and they may have charged the parents. the story with martha starcher now. >> martha: thanks. good afternoon. im martha maccallum in new york. we have two very big stories and new dev...

Were still getting variants? >> no doubt about it. when you have a high degree of viral dynamics in the circulation of this country or any country in the world, its a danger essentially to everyone because once the virus has the capability of freely mutating and freely transmitting from person to person, ultimately youre going to get mutations. not every mutation is relevant but every once in awhile you get a consolation of mutations that are worrisome and thats what were dealing with this curre...

>> i wouldnt call it imminent, because imminence is a function of capability and intentions. i think the chinese have created much more of a threat, much more of a capability. theyre buildingi ing up, but i would be an enormous roll of the dice, given the economic sanctions they would face, military uncertainties, all that. i cant rule out a nightmare scenario if something happened with iran. they made a dash for nuclear weapons. but my own view is the chinese are still some years away, most lik...

Time to look at the latest official data on the pandemic in the uk. the latest coronavirus figures in the uk show there were just under 40,000 new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period. on average, there were nearly 43,000 new cases reported per day in the last week. the latest figures show there were over 7,500 people in hospital being treated for coronavirus yesterday. 159 deaths were recorded, thats of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—i9 test. on average in th...

The nhs test and trace service. do you think the government is going to give way on that? i you think the government is going to give way on that?— give way on that? i think its a really important _ give way on that? i think its a really important point. - give way on that? i think its a really important point. we - give way on that? i think its aj really important point. we are give way on that? i think its a - really important point. we are now in a position where travellers have started to ...

Individual personal responsibility problem here in the u.s. but we also are not taking care of lower and middle income countries to ensure that they have that only supply but that they had manufacturing capability and that we are encouraging pharma to waive patents on the vaccines. we have to do our part globally, as well. >> we would have almost been better off rather than banning travel to send them all of the vaccines that the people here wont take. >> right. >> and then the rest of the world...