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further crimes. there is a host of things the department is done, but the principle kind of violence we are worried about is gun violence. that is what causes the enormous number of deaths we face every year. >> and republicans want to abolish the fbi. leading off air discussion tonight is andrew weissmann, former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york. he is co-author of the best- selling book, the trump indictments. neal katyal is with us, former acting attorney general who has argued more than 50 cases before the supreme court. he is a professor at georgetown law. they are both, we are lucky to say, msnbc legal analysts. andrew i want to start with you because of your experience in the justice department and the fbi and to take this oversight hearing seriously today, the imaginary world in which this can be a serious hearing. there are so many serious issues of oversight that should
face every year. >> and republicans want to abolish the fbi. leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york and co- author of the new york times best-selling book, "the trump indictments." this professor at georgetown law and host of the podcast courtside with neil, both msnbc legal analysts. i want to start with you, and are, because of your experience in the justice department and the fbi. to take this oversight hearing seriously today, the imaginary world in which this could be a serious hearing, there are so many serious issues of oversight that should be of concern to the house of representatives today at this point where the department is, but what is your reaction to the republican approach we saw
he's either a hero or villain, depending on who you ask in an era of extreme division and hyper-partisanship dr. anthony fauci, who became the face of america's response to the covid pandemic. >> went before congress today for the first time since, for hiring from government service two years ago for perhaps his final showdown with republicans over mask mandates, vaccine guidelines in the origins of covid-19 things quickly went from tents, too emotional too chaotic exhibit a, georgia congresswoman, marjorie taylor greene de represent science. mr. fauci? yes or no? no. that's not a yes or no. yes. it's a yesterday. this is science what is dogs have to do with anything that we're talking about today is your scientific experiments. you're not dr. your, mr. fauci and my few minutes, he belongs in
leak theory? a. >> of the overwhelming evidence is now showing there probably was a lab leak. have documentation between the nih and an outside organization that was funding this work in it wuhan know which they said they wanted to take coronavirus from bats and modified so it can infect humans. and the man who came up with this theory in the media and the centre for community said if somebody writes a grant application sank i want to paint central park purple, always on the next day central park is painted purple, you know who did it! same thing is true here. >> trace: commonsense theme of the replay, it's not so much christina that we were played as much as people try to correct the record and they were shut down because they were censored which was -- >> you cannot even talk about being vaccinated, integrated it so much division. i understand why americans feel like they were played because there is a lot of -- as a
>> people don't want to go into public health. they're afraid of it. they're afraid of the tax, the hape the division that's out there. and yet it is public health that keeps us safe and, you know, when covid started, we didn't have a lot of areas tours we were investigating a lot of things. i want to make it clear, dr. fauci told me back then and heads over the course of these years, always said, we don't know where it came from. he was open to a lab-leak. could have come from animals. it was the trump administration should the didn't push china to lead us in when we should've been allowed in that country to figure out what was going to happen. this is public health matters to all of us. we almost eradicated smallpox, polio, measles. now we have measles and michigan because people won't get immunized people's lack of trust in public health officials is scary and threatening to this country garners from debbie dingell, thanks very much for joining us and just ahead. israel reveals the deaths of four more hostages in gaza. i'm in an uproar over a potential
>> pete: these are 2023 numbers. they are all down. if you are down 15,000 troops, that's a division. that's a division that you haven't staffed with young privates. so navy is down. air force is down. marine corps meets it because their ads are a little bit more the few, the proud, the marines. in 2024 they say they are going to meet their goals they are reducing the goal numbers. >> lawrence: gotcha. >> peter: take it down we don't need as many troops. >> lawrence: number on paced they the numbers changed. >> peter: lowered the standards like everything else in the military lower the standards. >> lawrence: 77% of military americans do not qualify. >> peter: this is what you hear from the pentagon the reason we are not meeting our standards 77% of young people can't join. that's legit. we're too fat. we're not smart enough. you got medical records. and other criminal records. 77% of 18-year-old kids can't join the military. that's a problem in and of itself. that's a number that's more or less been the same for over a decade. >> lawrence: this is not new. >> pete: this is not new. it's a real reason. when they tell you it's the
training because -- but because the new we were going to this battle, we got 17 weeks training. but then after the 17th week, we came over to england and i trained five additional months in st. ives before we went and. so this whole group of men, we knew after a little bit that we were going over here. >> martha: once you made up the beach and i'm sure you lost a lot of people that you knew probably on the ship, right. >> yes. >> martha: what was that like for you? >> all say this, on first day the 29th division in the first division had caused --, casualties, 5720. outside that to begin. 5720 casualties on the first day. >> martha: told me win and where you were wounded? >> yeah. i was wounded on june 17th.
react to that and, again, refuel part of their personality. i think one of the _ part of their personality. i think one of the most _ part of their personality. i think one of the most interesting - one of the most interesting questions for me did come from julie etchingham, whether each leader would allow a family member or would want a family member to have private health care if they thought that they could jump the queue mac so to speak. that was quite an interesting division, wasn't it?— division, wasn't it? yes, they had already had _ division, wasn't it? yes, they had already had an — division, wasn't it? yes, they had already had an argument - division, wasn't it? yes, they had already had an argument about i division, wasn't it? yes, they had i already had an argument about nhs waiting lists in england, and this question was, if you had a member of yourfamily who could question was, if you had a member of your family who could not get treatment on the nhs, would you use private health care? rishi sunak said yes very quickly and that was the extent of his answer. keir starmer said no and he said he would only use the nhs. so an insight into their approach to these things, rishi sunak very apparently untroubled by that question at all, keir starmer looking to make a point that he kept on saying the nhs was
labour attack tries to figure out there. it is in the headlines and all the papers. it took keir starmer some time to say that was based on treasury findings, based on what he would see distorted figures provided by the government, but it took some time to see it is nonsense. so the tories are very happy with that. labour believe that what you sup with keir starmer was a symbol of what they believe is the stability you would get with labour compared with what they regard as the division and chaos of the conservatives.— division and chaos of the conservatives. ., ,, , ., . , conservatives. thank you. we will be back with you — conservatives. thank you. we will be back with you a _ conservatives. thank you. we will be back with you a little _ conservatives. thank you. we will be back with you a little later. _ conservatives. thank you. we will be back with you a little later. on - back with you a little later. on friday, by the way, the bbc will host the first of its prime—time election tv debates on bbc one from 7:30pm until 9pm. that involves representatives from seven political parties and that will be hosted by michelle hussain. we will talk to the conservatives and labour live any moment, we arejust the conservatives and labour live any moment, we are just sorting out the communication which is always an issue. piers morgan and mick lynch
of leadership role in the country so we talked to voters during these past few days, not only in the capital, but across the country and given that the two top candidates were feel a female they had already come to the conclusion that they would have a female presence. >> so that was noted driving force to go and vote for her, but they said that this helps with mexico's image of being matchup country where women don't have a place, mexico has actually changed its laws to encourage and actually force the parties to have more female candidates. so there's a very equal division of power between men and women. i'm in congress and the governorships. so it's not surprised for mexican, so obviously, she's going to have that pressure on her or she's going to have to live up to what it means to be the first female in really only the second female head of state in