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baton that has been left in our hands and figure out where the screams are coming from. >> hm-mm , this is from the new c this. n film dream land, the burning of black wall street, it premiers on monday on cnn at 9:00. thank you for joining me, ac360 starts now. good evening, we grinbegin what we have learned about the investigation of the january 6th capitol and democracy. we know how it will end. it will be blocked by republicans which may sound like a political statement by me, but it's not, it's a political statement by those republicans. it's a statement of fealty to theman who inspired the insurrection, and praised the attackers. the former president. the inability to form a bipartisan commission to look in to an attack on all of us is a betray aly of on all of us.
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as gerald seed puts it, the political system will have shown that it is incapable of reversing the problems that produced the violence in the first place. severe partisanship, distrust of the other side and a new problem of questioning election results. instead of capable, read unwilling, it's not a failure of the system, it's obstruction of certain members of it ahead in the senate. mitch mcconnell who has been working hard to kill the measure had this to say about it earlier. >> we all saw what happened. we were witnesses. we were under assault by the insurrection, so we know what happened. if we set up the commission, i think that the basic goal of our democratic friends is to keep relitigating, in public, what happened back on january 6th, rather than getting to a quick solution through arrests of those who did it and security adjustments to make sure that it never happens again.
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>> now, before getting to what senator mcconnell left out, he lobbied members to vote against the bilas a quote, personal favor, unquote to him. which raises the question, why is killing a bipartisan commission so personal to him? and what kind of votes is a personal favor to the boss? back to his comments you may have noticed missed an important piece. he said that we should arrest those responsible and make security adjustments. what is missing is why the insurrection took place, which would naturally include the big election law and the lawmakers, some of them republican senatorss who spread the lie for months before the insurrection. ask for his belief that putting more police on the beat is enough, it's enough for one of the officers who was badly hurt in the assault or, it's not enough for one of those hurt in the assault or the mother of brain sicknick that died the day
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after. they spent day imploring senators to support the bill. >> does it anger you to hear senators that do not support the commissioning and what emotions do you feel when you are confronted with that? >> this is why i'm here today. usually i'm staying in the background and i could not stay quiet anymore. >> this is why i'm here she said to push for a commission. which seems clear enough, and apparently not to one of the senators she met with who seemed to suggest that ms. sicknick was not attached to a commission at all. >> interestingly enough, the commission was a part of the to topic, but what they said they wanted to me was more of understanding what happened, with or without a commission. >> she met with senator ron johnson who lies about the election and traffics in russian disinformation about it. supposedly he comes by his dishonesty honestly.
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senator shelley had a wonderful reason for her opposition to the bipartisan commission, her words is it's too political. isn't that why bipartisan commissions exist is to move it as far beyond politics as possible. meantime, listen to her democra democratic counterpart o the negotiation that led to the house bill before them. >> democrats have basically given everything that they have asked for and any impediment that would have been there, unless you want to just not hear the truth. >> you would think he is all in. but it's yes but, he refuses to get rid of the fill a buster on this, so it can be passed with a simple majority. i said i'm not ready to destroy the government, and not even to
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investigation the most serious event since the civil war. what do you know about mcconnell's lobbying behind the scenes? >> reporter: we are told by two republican sources that in the last 24 hours, michigan mcconnell was so worried that some republican senators might be waivering that he pull ed out all the stops and according to one republican source, asked them to vote against the commission as you mentioned, as quote, a personal favor. i'm told the senators were really caught by surprise at his in insistance and pressure at using the words a republican source said quote, no one can understand why mitch is going to this extreme to ask for a personal favor to kill the commission. how can you have an attack on the capitol and the republican leader is saying vote against it and the source went on to say,
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it is despicable. i just want to add 1 other thing, anderson, to, we saw the footage of senator scott saying that mrs. sicknick did not care about the commission. i'm told by a source who was in the meetings that that is absolutely not true. every meeting they went in to, they asked for a commission. that was their number one priority. anderson? >> it's really, it was interesting that senator scott said that, because obviously the reason brian sicknick's mom came there at this time to lobby for this commission. >> absolutely and as you mentioned, they also met with senator ron johnson. i'm told most of the meetings were cordial. in every meeting they said, please, vote for a commission. as you pointed out, ron johnson has a different understanding
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about the insurrection, he has played it down. he called it a largely peaceful protest. and i am told that there was some push back as soon as they walked in to his office. especially from officer mike finone, who i'm told quote, let him have it. keep in mind, finone is a republican as was brian sicknick. i'm also told that the meetings were hard on mrs. sicknick, as you saw there, she is a quiet person. she likes to stay in the background. she did not want to come to washington. but, she waited until today because she really thought that they were going to do the right thing. and at one point, when she asked them to have a commission, and it was clear that the republican senators were not going to vote for it. mrs. sicknick said, quote, how can they not be doing the right thing? my son and all these officers deserve it. it's the right thing to do for
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them. it's the right thing to do for the country. >> and i mean, it would seem, how much do you think the calculus of the republican senators on the vote is becauses of the former president, and the hold on the party, and their own futures? >> 100%. this is all about don't upset donald trump. look, anderson, we know congress does commissions. this is not a hard one. we all saw january 6th happen. mitch mcconnell just like kevin mccarthy, sees the commission as a political loser for republicans who now rely on the trump base to win elections. this is all about political power. redwayning this senate is and the house, and for that, they feel they need to especially embrace donald trump even though there are some days not anymore, when they blamed trump and held him responsible for january 6th.
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>> yeah, those days fleeted by quickly. thank you. >> sure. >> we will come back to jamie for late developments on the hill. and senator smith with us. thank you for being with us. what does it say that the majority of your republican colleagues are planning to vote against this? >> i have been thinking about this story that mitch mcconnell is calling this, calling on his colleagues to do this as a personal favor. and you know, on the senator floor, senators ask one another for favors all the time. you know, could you, could you let me go first in my questioning? could you pick me up lunch? could you help me on the special project that is important in my state? but on this issue, to call for a personal favor on this issue, from the leaders that has so much power over you and your career. i mean, i don't think that sounds to senators like something they can say no to. and it feels like a threat to me. and i think it's despicable to think that that's where we have come when it's so clearly the case that this commission is the
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right thing to do. it's the right thing to do to get to the bottom of what happened. so, it's, i think it's a sad day. >> that sounds like a threat to you from mitch mcconnell to his fellow republican senators, stay in line? >> yeah. yeah. stay in line. this is important to me. this is a personal thing for me. i need you to do this. it's not like a normal thing that you would have on an issue of this magnitude. and you know, i keep thinking about how we all ran together from the senate floor, and there was a moment of actual human interaction between us. we were fearful, we were calling our family. and we gathered together to say we were going to work on this together and to see the about face that's, i'm fearful will be on display tonight because of people's fear of donald trump putting politics first is just a terrible day. >> so, when you hear what mitch mcconnell is saying publically. we saw what happened, we don't need commission, we will make adjustments on law enforcement
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and numbers of police officers. what do you say to that? >> what i say is that this would be a bipartisan commission. we have accepted as far as i understand it, everything that the republicans said they wanted for a buy partisan commission and to not do it in this moment, and to say that we have all the answers, i think, is not true. that's why we had a 9/11 commission. it's why we should come together in a bipartisan way to understand exactly what happened to make sure that it will never happen again. and you know, mitch mcconnell is saying that we should hold those accountable who caused this, yet, he is the one who said immediately after the insurrection that the president was directly responsible. he said it was a despicable dereliction of duty. so the inconsistency here is just jaw-dropping. >> it seems, i mean, his thfocu is people have been arrested and justices should run its course on them and work on policing
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failures and what the needs of the police officers are, that help them prevent it in the future. meaning more riot gear, it does not get at what actually caused this, like, who is responsible for that, and how do we make sure something like this does not happen again? >> well, yes, i mean, that is exactly right. and to basically say that we don't need to know the truth here is what i hear when i heahear them say this. it's nonsensecal and the reality is we don't know what happened. that's why we need a 9/11 commission and we need to get to the bottom of it. and the context is a republican party filled with people that are trying to re-write history even as we speak to say it was nothing but a tourist visit to the capitol that got out of hand. the big lie that the election was stolen. so, that's the bigger context for, we have to understand as we see this rejection of a
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bipartisan commission. >> what happens when this gets voted down, assuming it does, it looks like it will be because of the republicans. do you think the house select committee should be launched? >> it's so ironic, what we want is a bipartisan commission. the house can do a select commission and that may we be the path that speaker pelosi decides to take. but i don't think that it will fulfill the same role that this january 6th commission would. and we will all have seen that the republicans had a choice, they could choose to stand with the capitol police, the wu140 o them that were assaulted and stand with our democracy or stand with donald trump and they will be choosing donald trump. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >> next, as we wait for the vote, we will look at the debate of what kind of party the represent are can party should be. later new details emerging in the san jose shooting, has now claimed nine lives and that of
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as we what expect to be the blockage of the republicans to investigate the insurrection of january 6th. the anti-semimite marjorie taylor green is holding another america first rally and former house speaker, paul ryan who is expected to speak out against their type of politics as well as the former president and without naming him apparent. here to talk about it is political director david challion and jeff flake, david, one of the things that paul ryan is expected to say if republicans depend on the populist appeal, then we are not going anywhere, which may or may not be true. but paul ryan sits on the board
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of fox, fox news, where past board members have made a lot of money every year, does he have the moral high ground here? >> one of the other things he is expected to talk about is the outrage pedalers. urging his party to not take a swing at every culture war that comes along. i do think it's a fair question to ask, anderson. is he taking the the same message inside the fox board room. obviously, in terms of outrage peddling they have cornered the market in many ways. even if he is not the perfect messenger on this. we should not lose sight of the overall message that he is seeing where the party is going. all in on trumpism right now and he is trying to steer it another way, he represents a far smaller slice of the republican party right now. it's him and liz chain and i adam kinzinger and a few others, that's not where the party is, bought he is trying to coax the party back on course in some way. >> senator flake, is it even
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really a battle that is occur canning in the republican party? you know, as david was saying the group is pretty small there, who are making the arguments that paul ryan is making. you know, i know there's certainly a lot of voters who is may be feeling that, but is this really happening as a big battle in the republican party? it seems they have made their choice. >> well right now, republicans are clearly with the former president, and that is to, the parties detriment, certainly, you can win an election here or there, since trump was elected in 2016, we have lost the house, the senate, and here in arizona, two democrats represent the senate. for the first time in 70 years and we are likely to have more of the same. so, yeah, that subset of a subset of republican voters that vote in every primary are clearly with the former ity and it's reflected in the polling but if we want to win, you know, statewide election wills and national election wills, then paul ryan is right. we have to change.
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>> senator, when you left office in 2017, you warned your represent are can colleagueses about what you call the regular and casual under mining of our democratic norms. as you look at who is welcome within the republican party today and the ideas that are embraced, has it only gotten worse? >> it has, and that's the tragic legacy of the trump years. the normalization of abhorant behavior, accepting of falsehoods, trafficking in conspiracy theories the biggest one being the big lie now that the former president did not lose the last election. so, yeah, it -- i mean, i thought i was justified in giving the warning there. i didn't know the half of it as it turns out given what happened after he lost the last election. so, yeah, our party is in a bad way right now. >> david, i want to read to that point, i want to read a poll question from quinnipiac and it's worth reading in full. which comes closer to your point
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of view t storming of the u.s. capitol on january 6th was an attack on u.s. democracy that that should never be happened or too much is being made of the storming of the capitol on january ofth and it's time to move on. 80% of democrats said it was an attack on democracy and 74% of republicans said is time to move on. if you are mitch mcconnell, isn't it as simple as a commission examining the insurrection could hurt republicans at the ballot box so it should not happen? >> yeah, we don't have to try to understand why he is doing this. his pokes said it out loud, john thu ne, the number two in the senate said a commission will take us off message and not allow us to focus on the biden agenda. the former number two talked about politics here and the campaign season and he is not in the business of helping democrats and he is under the impression that the commission being set up will help democrats.
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here's the thing about the pole numbers that you just read. 74% of republicans, three quarters of republicans have a position that is only supported by 39% of americans overall. when you look at the overall population in the poll, only 39% say it's time to move on. 55% say this is something that can't be forgotten. so whens of your party is taking a position that 4 in 10 americans are agreeing with overall. that's what senator flake is talking about, the damage that trumpism is doing to the republican party. >> what does it tell you that senator mcconnell felt the need to call members of the conference and ask them for a personal favor to vote against the commission. i mean, how, as somebody who knows how these things work. is that highly unusual? >> that is unusual. mitch mcconnell doesn't do that often. so, i don't know how accurate that reporting is. but it seems to be confirmed so
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that is highly unusual. i think, one, the republican party may believe or elected officials may believe that this will get them some short-term benefit. but overall, i think it's certainly detrimental to the country and i think ultimately detrimental to republicans. i should mention when people talk about moving on, it's interesting, you know, liz cheney for example, said let's move o donald trump lost the election. and let's move on and you know, craft a better argument for the next election. and other republicans don't want to move on. here in arizona, we are going through this so-called recount of the votes because too many republicans don't want to move on. so it's cognative dissomance there. >> remembering the lives lost in the san jose shooting and there's breaking news on the investigation of the background
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one man was 63 years old and worked for the agent between years. jose hernandez, ii was 35 years old. he began in 2012. and michael joseph rotemetkin began working there in 2013. tapde started in 2014 and timothy romo of was 29 and served there 30 years. there are a lot of new developments in case and dan simon has that. >> tonight, chilling new details emerging of the gunman who opened fire, killing nine of the coworkers wednesday. the shooter was detained in 2016 after a trip to the philippines,
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according to a department of homeland security official. as the wall street journal first reported while the suspect was being held, agents found books about terrorism and fear and man manifestos and a black memo book filled with notes about how he hates the vta, when asked if he has problems with anybody at work he stated no. according to a dhs memo obtained by the paper. a history of anger issues is becoming more clear. and documents from a 2009 legal filing the gunman's ex-girlfriend said he has exhibited mood swings, a survivor of the shooting said the gunman had an agenda. >> he walked by other people and he let other people live. >> of the people who were injured none survived. >> cnn has learned that he had three semiautomatic handguns with him and fired 39 times.
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the sheriff said that he had potential bomb making materials such as debt ntonation chord chs locker. >> the suspect's home is also now being scoured for evidence. new video from a neighbor's home camera shows a man in uniform leaving the house with a bag at 5:40 a.m. and around 6:30 a.m., the shooting began at the rail yard. and firefighters arrived to the home, bill owing smoke. >> it's my opinion he had a device to go off at the same time perhaps, but we don't know that for sure. >> they say several rounds of ammunition and notes were found in the home, but nothing yet to determine the motive for the killings. >> and dan simon is joining us from san jose on. i understand the sheriff's office released more details late today. >> reporter: that's right, anderson. we know that in addition to the
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three semi automatic handguns the shooter had, he was equipped with 32 high capacity magazines. authorities also acknowledging that he was in fact disgruntled at work and this their words, that may have contributed to to the shooting. in the meantime, aanderson, we are at san jose city hall where we are expecting to see a vigil in the next hour, a lot of people expected to come and pay respect to the victims. >> there's major questions over the shooter's background, and his interaction with government officials in 2016. joining me is charles ramsey and our cnn national and legal analyst and fbi agent. are you surprise ready that the gunman slipped through the cracks after being known to dhs officials? >> i am and i'm not. the fact that he got stopped. he obviously raised red flags that he went through it. they wrote it up so, you know,
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there was something significant there will. on the other hand, i would want to know what happened after that. was it sent to local law enforcement in san jose? if it was, did they act on it and notify the employer. it gets to the difference in how wes coming at the international level verses domestically, if this was a foreign national stopped by dhs, the process would have triggered a number of different information sharing. he would have been questioned by the fbi for example. so, i think we need to see what the paper trail was with this memo. >> chief ramsey is it unusual for the different agencyies not to share?
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how good is information sharing now? >> normal it's pretty good. it doesn't mean there's times when things just don't go beyond the agency that originally uncovered it. this may be an example of that. i don't know whether or not this information was shared with the sheriff, again, you know we will find out more as it progresses and we will learn more and more about the guy. and clearly he is an individual that should never have been able to be in possession of a firearm of any kind. >> and many states like california have expanded the so-called red flag laws to get guns out of the hands of known threats like this. can there be more done and do we know enough at this point? >> red flag laws are only as effective as people being willing to use them.
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california is more robust than most. it expanded the red flag laws to allow not just law enforcement and family members which is often the case, but employers and co-workers and teachers to you know, if they saw a red a flag to petition a court to temporarily, you know, remove firearms from the person's home. but again, they need to see the red flags and they need to act on it and when we are dealing with the people who are acting alone, it really has to be a when you see something say something. law enforcement is hoeavy ly relying on the people reporting the red flags. >> listen, anything will help. there's no question about that but again the information that we obtained today from the "wall
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street journal," that is five years old, if they had taken action, they would not have been able to remove the firearms more than likely. and california has good laws in place. decent laws, better than most. you can get around it. go to a neighboring state and purchase a firearm. so, i mean, until there's national legislation in place, you know, we are going be playing this, you know, scenario over and over and over again. and i mean, we have got so many beguns out there, that even with strong laws people can get hands on laws illegal ly. it does not mean that something should not be done and something doesn't need to be done. under the current congress, there's nothing going to happen as a result of this. >> up next, new reporting of what may have --
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making a plan might feel like homework, but it will help you and your family stay safe during an emergency. we have break news on the mystery of the origins of covid-19. it comes from the new york times. president biden's call for a 90 day sprint to understand the origin of the coronavirus pandemic came after intelligence officials told the white house they had a raft of still unexamined evidence that required additional analysis that may shed light on the
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mystery. according to the times. those officials declined to describe the new evidence and joining me for their perspective is sanjay gupta, and josh rogan, who's author of chaos under heaven, trump, g, and the battle for the 21st century. the times is reporting the white house has a lot of unconditioned he -- a lot of unexamined evidence. >> i say, what is the holdup, there's not only a bunch of unreviewed evidence sitting inside the intelligence community, there's unreviewed evidence sitting in other agencies in the u.s. government. including the dhs, defense department and nih and other organizations that worked with organizations that worked with the wuhan labs and it's crazy to think 18 months after the outbreak there's still piles of evidence they have not looked at. and i think that is one of the
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reasons and not the only reason that the biden administration is doubling down on the investigation. and the other reason is there's increasing pressure from the public and because the chinese government told the world health organization they are not going to cooperate anymore. for all of the reasons it's become obvious that we need to look in to all the theories including the lab leak theory and hope fully they will do it now. >> the times is reporting, and suggesting that the government may not have exhausted the data bases and among other things the movement of lab workers in china. without the cooperation of the chinese, finding out what happened in a scientific lab is difficult. >> it does come down to that, you know, ultimately if there's not transparency, if there's not access, then, all the things that josh has been talking about for some time. a lot of people said would be needed. it would be hard to gain access to. there's a few things that, would not, you know, be definitive or conclusive, but would be helpful. we have talked a bit about that.
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if you look at the lab workers that have been sick enough to go to the hospital, their blood samples, their serum samples do they exist, we have been told different things. we have been told maybe they destroyed and being able to look at the blood samples and look at the genetic analysis of the coronaviruss in the institute of virology and compare them to the initial insurrfections that may more evidence and a deep look at the forensic evaluation of the lab would be helpful. something that has been pointed out is having protection for whistle blowinger blowers to c could help with the evidence that has been collected here. >> you said there's unexamined information in different agencies in the u.s. i mean, what sort of information would usaid have, or the other agencies? >> yeah, it's a great question. because even if the w.h.o. or
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the chinese government gives us no help or access, there's a lot of investigative threads that are unopened and unaddressed here. usaid, they have a $2 million predict program. and they have a ton of records. they may know stuff about what the wuhan institute was up to. they have never been asked. you know, sanjay gupta broke huge news months ago that robert redfield who has seen all the intelligence believes it came from the lab base ed on his expert opinion and the biden people never talked to him. why don't you have a hearing. put in guy in front of a bible and congressional committee. see what he has to say. it's crazy to me that there's all of the people and institutions with all of the information that have never been asked. we went through the politicization of the origin, of the question that we are trying to unravel, and focus on not just the science.
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so there's a lot of things. there's a whole world of information that the biden administration will hopefully get to the bottom of whether the chinese government likes it or not. >> the two stories have been that it spread from animals to humans and the one currently gaining traction is that it spread from a lab from wuhan, what would the u.s. need to do to prove it one way or the other? >> well, it comes back to the same things. it may be hard to definitively prove this one. ultimately it may be a preponderance of the evidence sort of thing. if you go back and look at sars and say, how long did it take? it was a couple of years before the intermediary host, the civicity cat, you will remember, and before the horseshoe bat was
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identified as the origin of the piece piece seize, going back to the laboratories, were the workers infected. what about people in the areas where they believe the bats originated. i know eco-alliance is saying they want to test the antibodies of the people in the area, trying to find if there were spill-over events. this is stuff that should have been done if they were serious about actually being able to trace the origins of this 18 months in. some of it has not been identified yet. >> josh talked about your interview with dr. redfield, and others have cast conskepticism the outbreak timeline. >> it was interesting, none of them said the lab leak theory is rubbish stay away from it.
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they were all careful. what i thought was interesting, i talked to robert cadlic, he was the assistant secretary for preparedness response. and it was not just so much a what people knew in china, more of a when did they know it that he was really driving at. and he was really looking from an intelligence standpoint at the actions of what was happening in china. going back earlier than when the world was alerted about the virus. listen to what he said. >> they have recognized that something was going on in early december. so, they had about a 30 day head start to when they publically announced on 31, december, that they had this mysterious pneumonia. and so they were already will buying things on the market well in advance of what we were. so, they make a lot of the material, and things made in the united states, we found that the domestic supplies were drying up because of foreign purchases. >> so, i mean, i hope you can
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capture what the meaning of that is, basically, you know, they were buying up lots of ppe and intelligence service here in the united states were saying basically, well, that's odd. you know, what's going on there? we are not sure what to make of it. it's at least a month earlier than when the rest of the world was notified about the mysterious situation. >> from an intelligence standpoint, stunning that they are buying ppe and u.s. intelligence is aware of it and you know, but not sure what to make of it. >> right, the chinese government covered up and concealed and continues to conceal to this day crucial information that is costing american lives and lives all on over the world. so we may have to upset u.s./china relations a little to get to the bottom and uncover the truth about 590,000 of americans that died and billions that have suffering. it could be difficult but we cannot, not do it because we have to learn what happened so we can prevent the next pandemic. 90 days is not going to do it.
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. family and supporters of ronald greene, the black man seen on police body cam video being tased, kicked and dragged by louisiana state troopers two years ago held a rally this afternoon in baton rouge. earlier today they met with louisiana's governor, and the local district attorney. greene died in may after a police chase, and his death has been under investigation ever since according to police. the family say they were told he died in a car accident but their attorney says the newly released police body cam and dash cam video shows it was murder. cnn's ryan young joins us with more of today's events in baton rouge. you attended the march earlier, how did it go? >> anderson, look, there was a lot of emotion there. let's not forget, before this
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video was released, it was leaked and that's the reason we're having this conversation and that really started to expose what happened on that night. you were marching with family members, and talking with them, they said what would you do if you saw your loved one being beat, tased and dragged across the ground, you wouldn't stop fighting. that is the call to action. they say they want to make sure that justice is served right now. they think two years is too long to wait for any sort of action. >> what came from the family's meeting with state and local officials. >> reporter: anderson, we have been having this conversation back and forth just in terms of what would happen next, especially with the federal investigation going on, especially with the state investigation. as reporters we have not been able to ask state officials what's going on with the investigation because it's ongoing. the family is hitting roadblock after roadblock. they were not satisfied with what they heard from state
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officials. listen to lee merit say what they are hoping for and what they hope to see in the coming days. >> it's not unclear why the family traveled to louisiana today. they have come to see men who murdered ronald greene in handcuffs. that's the only reason we're here. >> reporter: the big question here also is, anderson, the officers that were involved, some are still serving and there are other people who say, who are in the community who believe they have been brutalized as well. they want to see action moving forward. you can see the state sort of having that conversation privately with this family but not only do they want a settlement when it comes to like some monetary issues. they have been fighting for two years. they want to see charges for these officers and especially, this is a tangled web right now because they believe this is a cover up that's lasted some two years. >> yeah, they have been saying the investigation has been open for two years. it's hard to believe much is being done over those last two years given what we have seen. ryan young, appreciate it. what a source is telling cnn on
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at chevron, we're taking action. tying our executives' pay to lowering the carbon emissions intensity of our operations. it's tempting to see how far we've come. but it's only human... to know how far we have to go. there's a lot of talk about getting back to the way things were. but what does that mean? for the folks who run with us there is no going back, because they've never stopped working towards a better tomorrow. together, we run forward. the department of homeland security tonight is issuing a bulletin warning that the events marking the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre could be targets of violence. stark language are probably targets for racially or ethnically motivated extremists
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or white supremacists to commit violence. the massacre happened in the greenwood section of tulsa. reports at the time say 36 people were killed, historians believe the death toll might have reached 300. president biden is scheduled to visit tulsa next week to take part in an anniversary ceremony. that's it for us, the news continues. want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. hope you have a good weekend. thank you very much. we're awaiting a big vote tonight in the senate. could happen on our watch. the trump party is expected to block legislation to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection, and why? well, this is the offered explanation. >> i do not believe the additional extraneous commission that democratic leaders want would uncover crucial new facts or promote healing. >> how does he know already that there would be no new facts? it's
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