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Testimony because whats good for the goose then becomes good for the gander and the biden administration knows that should they face a republican congress the same thing could happen to them. >> okay, but danny, the actual events that were talking about they did occur while donald trump was president, so does it matter if hes now out of office? i mean, are those things that happened then not still privileged events? >> again, thats an open question as to what extent, to what extent a former pres...

Would add onto that if you want to be extra safe would be do as much outdoors as possible and have some masks on hand if youre going to be doing things indoors, especially with more vulnerable people, people who are elderly, people who are immunocompromised. >> so two things on that, and id like you both to get into this. dr. gander, ill start with you, because i think people will see whatever the advice from the cdc is when it actually comes out, and then theyll be like, oh, my god, here we are...

>> finally tonight, when america was attacked on 9-11, 38 jetliners headed for the u.s. were diverted to the small town of gander newfoundland. locals called their sudden guests the plane people. in years since, the hospitality has never been forgotten. jim defade >> hi! >> hi! >> its been 20 years since roxanne loper saw bruce and susan macleod. >> i have to go. >> roxanne and her husband, clark, were among the nearly 7,000 passengers stranded in gander, newfoundland on 9-11. once on the ground...

Comfort them. they opened their doors for the better part of a week. >> they would come to the lions club and say who needs a shower? come on over. >> we did what we had to do. people in need and we were the ones to provide it. >> a few weeks after 9-11, i went to gander and wrote the book "the day the plane people came to town." >> the broadway musical come from away recounted this remarkable tale. >> youve seen people coming up to passengers and locals and giving them a hug. dont worry about i...

Canada, like toronto or montreal, and certainly didnt expect to be in gander when they closed all of the u.s. airspace. >> captain bass, you just heard the former white house chief of staff say something really interesting, that on that day everybody around the world sort of said were americans or expressed some sort of fealty or solidarity with americans. thats kind of what you experienced in gander. those folks took you in and made you part of the fabric. i mean, when 7,000 people land in a to...

In newfoundland, a town of 7,000 people. but your 38 planes had more than 9,000 people on it. you took that order from the faa. nobody was to land in america. everybody was to land and if you werent in america, you had to land somewhere else. you landed your plane. what happened then? >> well, that is true. i was en route from paris to dallas and we did receive orders from gander air traffic control to land immediately in gander. and as airline pilots its not normal for us to be ordered to land ...

Were just talking to captain tillman about it, as a pilot you have a remarkable responsibility to your crew and to your aircraft. what were you thinking? because you had figured out before you got to gander that something was under attack. it could have been america, you believed it was terrorists, which means you were in danger, you and your passengers were in danger. tell me about the pilot side of your brain and what it was doing then. >> well, im not sure that we thought of that at the momen...

On the ground in gander as quickly as possible. im not sure that any of us had even a moment to think about the possibility of a terrorist being in the back of our airplane, because we didnt know any details at that time. >> beverly bass, thank you for what you did, and as an extension, thank you to the people of gander, newfoundland, with whom you clearly have become family. thanks again, and good to see you. the first female commercial pilot for american airlines. >> lets bring in a hero of a ...

>> we nearly doubled the population of that tiny community. and we stayed five days. >> what did you know about why you were landing? you knew it was an emergency landing, you knew it had to be something serious if you were landing in gander, but that sort of final descent, what was going through your mind? >> we were over the atlantic when we learned the first tower had been hit, and like many people, we thought it was a light airplane, and not that thats not terrible, but it never crossed our ...

Harass voters and who are armed. the idea of armed harassment of voters in addition to the idea of armed harassment of pregnant women is maybe whats good for the goose is good for the gander. maybe texas democrats should think about that. what do you think? >> well, i think what texans should actually think about, if i were a woman in the state, i would try to organize women walking out on the job and women -- things dont get done without women, right? if you are going to continue to try to sile...