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hunt for missing secret service texts goes back more than a year, it seems. and it turns out investigators knew the texts were deleted in may. i don't mean may of this year. i mean may of last year. that's actually seven months earlier than what the secret service told congress. now, this is on top of reporting from the "washington post," the text from acting homeland security chief are mia. dhs offering a similar excuse, that texts were lost in some sort of reset of government phones at the end of the trump administration. wolf is just the latest of trump cabinet level officials we're learning has actually talked to the house select committee. cnn has also learned that interview was several months ago. that's before investigators knew about the missing records. so, now we've got missing homeland security records along with deleted secret service text

messages. just add it to the list. along with missing white house call logs and the presidential daily diary, all silent on a day we know many people were trying to reach none other than donald trump. we know key insiders were using signal, which is an encrypted messaging app, in the days before the attack. the white house photographer was specifically kept away from trump, as the mob reached the capitol. and boxes of classified documents were sent to mar-a-lago instead of the national archives where, of course, they belong. keep in mind, even as the doj is gearing up for possible enfights to keep trump from using or asserting executive privilege to shield from testimony. the only time the former president has invoked executive privilege in a courtroom, it was over keeping documents.

if they use claims of privilege to buy time, yes, the committee faces a november deadline with the midterms, we know. the doj doesn't have that same deadline. plus, trump lost his one legal challenge on privilege fairly quickly. and there's one other thing that seems to be missing. it's kevin mccarthy's memory of conversation with one specific white house aide. you recognize her. it's cassidy hutchinson. >> she testified under oath and said that you called her after donald trump urged his -- told his supporters they were going to go to the capitol. and you were concerned about those remarks and said, don't come up here. figure it out. don't come up here. she said that under oath. did you tell her that? and why were you concerned about the prospects of donald trump coming to the capitol on january 6th? >> i don't recall talking that day. i recall talking to dan scavino. i recall talking to jared. i recall talk lg to trump. that's what i talked on

television too. if i talked to her, i don't remember it. if it was coming up here, i don't think i wanted a lot of people coming up to the capitol. but i don't remember are the conversation. >> why were you specifically concerned about trump coming to the capitol? >> i don't remember that? >> do you remember being concerned about his comments? z . >> because i didn't watch it. i didn't watch the speech. i was working. i didn't see what was said. i didn't see what went on until after the fact. >> did you him to come to the capitol? >> no. i've never communicated with him about coming to the capitol. i had no idea he would come to the capitol. hi no idea he was even going to come to the capitol. >> she said under oath that you told her -- she reassured you throughout the course of the week he was not going to come to the capitol. >> i don't remember having any conversations with her about coming to the capitol, the president coming to the capitol. >> hm. and bravo to manu raju for continuing with his questions to try to get to the bottom of the

issue. mccarthy's memory, it may have some gaps, shall we say. but federal investigators are filling in those pieces, especially now that the house select committee is sharing more of its secrets, shall we say? ryan nobles is on capitol hill, joins us now. ryan, i'm glad to see you on this friday. it wasn't that long ago the doj was saying the house select committee was hindering their work. where do we stand tonight? >> the relationship is a heck of a lot better. there's no doubt about that. we know in particular if we drill down to the specifics that the committee has handed over 20 specific transcripts of some of the interviews that they've already done. and the committee chairman, bennie thompson, said today this is just the beginning of their cooperation. take a listen. >> well, it's doj's request. they have indicated they want to have access to said number of transcripts, and we negotiated

back and forth. and we will see a way to make that available to them. at this point, there will be about 20 that will come with the request. and once they come in, we'll make them available. >> so, we don't know what specific transcripts that the department of justice has requested that the committee has allowed to go forward, but in the past benny thomas has told us they were specifically interested in the fake elector plot. laura, there no doubt that the cooperation is a lot better. the committee still made it clear, though, that this is their material. this is the work that they've already done. they're not just going thoond it over willy nilly whenever the department of justice wants it. at this point, they're at least talking. they're cooperating. and that should make life easier for those federal prosecutors. >> it still eludes reason that they wouldn't be willing to hand over things that might be able to become paired and contrasted when you know there's an active

investigation going on in the doj. what are members of the committee saying tonight, ryan, about the deleted secret service text messages? >> listen, laura. they're suspicious about all this, right? and they're not mincing words about all that. they believe there's something more going on here than just the bureaucratic effort of upgrading phones from one to the other and data gets lost in that process. they are very concerned there could be something more involved in all this. this is what jamie raskin told me earlier today. >> people think that they may be slack in trying to delete a text. but of course there's two sides to a text. >> right. >> there are technological means of retrieval. and we can also determine from the context what -- what was happening. and nobody should really be in the business of covering up any of this. >> so, that's raskin saying it outright. he doesn't want anyone to think that they're being slick here. he is accusing people of a

potential cover-up. this is beyond just a problem that happened within the government system of upgrading these phones. they believe there's a real problem here. and the other thing i was particularly struck by today when i talked to him, laura, is that they have not given up the idea that they may be able to retrieve these texts in some form or fashion, either from people on the other side of these text messages, from some sort of technological effort. they want this content. it's a two-fold question they're asking here. first, why were the texts deleted? was there something conspiratorial about the fact they were deleted? and second, is there any way that they can get them? >> and i wonder if they can just interview the people who may have used their thumbs to create those texts, assuming they would be honest about it. ryan nobles, thank you so much. joining me now so dive into these issues and more is elliott williams as well as ramesh pa knew rue and michelle coddle from the "new york times." elliott, let me begin with you

here because we've laid out a pattern here. i feel like it's a bit of deja vu all over again with people. there's a lot of missing records that are happening and missing around the time -- oh, a minor date -- january 6th. what do you make of it? >> laura, i think it's actually two big things happening at the department of homeland security, which overseas secret service. number one, law enforcement is notoriously protective of its information and data and so on, right? and number two, our government can just be pretty incompetent sometimes. and those two things together kind of created this mess. look, it's a failure of government if you're putting it in the hands of individual law enforcement officers to just back up their own data. and that's what happened here. and the failure is where, you know, if you read the quotes from these folks in the newspapers, they just say, well, you know, we ask people to back up their data and they just didn't. so, as a result, it invited this mess here. number one, congress needs to look at it, not just the january

6th committee, but the committee on homeland security to really get to the bottom of what happened. and number two, if there's -- if people are hiding or tampering with evidence, there's a crime and it's got to be investigated. >> i mean, i'll admit, ramesh, there have been times i've been told to update things and i may not have updated them in a timely fashion. i'm surprised i even still have a phone some days. however, the idea of hearing it time and time again about phones being mistakenly reset starts to feel like my dog ate my homework. >> yeah, you know, and you put up a pretty thorough list of all of the missing records and memory lapses. but even that wasn't complete. >> right. >> so, there have been reports, for example, that mark meadows burned documents in his office after meeting with congressman scott perry during the weeks after the election. kevin mccarthy didn't remember -- if you think back to january and february of 2021,

congresswoman jamie herrera-beutler, when she was justifying her vote to impeach president trump as a republican, she referenced conversations she had had with mccarthy that mccarthy, again, didn't remember. so, yeah, it is a convenient epidemic of missing memories, missing records. >> it's true. i mean, convenient amnesia. although, i did hear mccarthy make a statement, if she said it or if it happened, i don't recall, which really has a lot of the legal qualities of that's an election, the statement you make as a preface before you say something to guard against having to be held accountable for maybe it being wrong. michelle, i wonder what it says to you that the text messages that we know about or that may have gone missing somehow, that secret service knew they were gone seven months earlier than what they actually told congress? what strikes you about that? >> what strikes me about that is

they're covering their butts. they were kind of hoping that none of this would have to come out at all. one of the great rules of thumb here is if you can avoid having to deal with this, you don't actually want to have to come clean about having done something. whether you meant to do it or whether it was just stupid. the situation that they have created here is that anybody who believes donald trump and his side in this can just say, oh, government's incompetent. and then anybody who is completely convinced that there were shenanigans -- i mean, it's hard not to look at this as a massive pattern. but, again, with the trump folks, the whole point is to create questions and chaos and confusion. so, if you can have missing records and missing diaries and missing photos and kevin mccarthy, you know, needs his memory meds or whatever, then you're going to create enough confusion that your team can say, oh, but, you know, it was all just one big misunderstanding and government

can't do anything right anyway. >> also to add to that as well -- i don't want to cut you off -- the idea of saying, look, this is what many people were calling, if there were a real hearing, if there were a real trial. although we know it's neither a trial because it's not the executive branch of government and doj enforcing law. it's not prosecutorial. it's legislative in nature. but there's the same talking point that comes up about, hey, this is a prime opportunity to have a rebuttal if you allow them to defend themselves and say what happened here. the fact that there is this cooperation now -- emphasis on the word "now" -- between doj and the committee, just asking for these transcripts back in april, what occurs to you as to why there would be such a delay? is it because they don't want to be seen as arm in arm, in cahoots to give credence to a further talking point here or something else? >> so, a couple things.

going back -- you know, it's a couple things going on, laura. congress is intensely protective of its brand as a public body that puts on proceedings. you've seen the stage craft of this last couple of months has been very tightly controlled and so on. and i think they did not want to release any of their transcripts or data to the justice department for fear of losing some of that, right? now, the problems that congress doesn't prosecute people. the justice department does. and all of those transcripts and information and materials, it's evidence. and so, as the justice department needs to get its hands on that, fiat had just to build their own cases but because they have to disclose a lot of that information to defendants by law. if it's not -- if it exists and the justice department knows it exists, they have to turn it over to defendants. so, there's practical and legal reasons to turn this over. look, i worked in this for a long time. these two branches of government have been fighting over evidence

since 1789. nothing is new about this and it's going to keep happening. it's just -- this is just as american as apple pie. >> you know what's going to keep happening? this conversation. and ramesh, i'm going to start with you when we come back. everyone stick around. more and more former trump officials speaking to the january 6th committee and the justice department is heating up its own investigation. the questions is, are investigators getting more insight into the perhaps biggest fish of them all or what?

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the doj looks ready to take that fight head on. ramesh, michelle, and elliott are all still with us. ramesh, what do you make of all these of these cabinet officials lining up to talk to the committee? it seems like a far cry from how things first started out? what do you think is to justify or to explain? is it sudden interest? is it the bannon verdict? is it something else? what is it? >> well, i think this kind of thing can be a cascade that once some people are testifying, once sort of a critical mass has been reached, then it becomes both more acceptable to talk and more potentially harmful to be one of the few people who are not there talking. but, you know, trump had a long list of people that he hired who ended up saying some pretty negative things about him and his abilities. and so trump has now pretty well practiced at saying that the

people he hired were really bad and were agents of the deep state and so forth. and i suspect that if any of this testimony is negative and comes out, then we're going to hear that line repeated again and again. >> i bet we probably will especially on this point, you know, michelle, i wonder from your perspective, there was a time when the idea of even being seen as cooperating in any way with this committee, it was called a kangaroo court. it's called part two of the witch hunt. and the list goes on and on. it's not bipartisan. they claim you have two r.h.i.n.o.s, kinzinger and of course cheney. you can always dispute those actual statements of course. but why do you think there has been this interest in participating in some way? some attribute it to cassidy hutchinson and the bravery of coming forward. but i wonder if there's a political angle here, as in, hm, maybe i might be thinking about running or maybe i might think about another candidate other than trump, and maybe it helps me in some way. is that is right pa ofrt of this well? >> well, look, aside from

cassidy hutchinson, you've seen a parade of republicans come forward, even those who, you know, talk about how they're still proud of what was accomplished during the trump administration. this was not a group that brought forward democrats or trump enemies to testify. so, you've seen this gradual accumulation of conservative republicans talking about this. and so it has become more acceptable, and it starts to raise the question of whether trump is too damaged to be a good candidate in 2024. and people in the republican party are starting to think that maybe they need to keep their options open. i mean, there's been rumblings about, you know, desantis' people down in florida. he's seen as the next obvious choice for 2024. ron desantis' people think that maybe this is a good thing for them. so, you are seeing a lot of people, i think, reconsider not necessarily whether trump has completely lost his grip on the party, but maybe he could be a

problem. and they need to be thinking in general about what ifs and plan bs. >> well, speaking of plan bs and what ifs, elliott, we haven't known there's been a specific privilege assertion by trump. he only claimed it once in court, right? took only three months, i might add, for the supreme court to deny him. i'm wondering, if he tries to do that again. if he tries to muzzle any of the close aides and assert privilege -- biden has said, he's not asserting it. is this a plan to run out the clock to the november midterms? and if that's the plan, how much time would it realistically buy the people who asserted at this point? >> you know, that's an excellent question. they may very well be trying to run out the clock. the simple fact is though -- it's important they said three months, only three months. it's very quick in sort of supreme court long terms. it's a relatively straightforward question, the

executive privilege question as it made it to the supreme court. when this has come up in the past in history -- and it hasn't been many times, the biggest one being 1974 with ruichard nixon during watergate -- the supreme court ruled against the president, saying executive privilege is a real thing. it's important for the president to be able to speak to his aides in private, but it can't trump a criminal investigation -- pun intended. but, look, the clock is not the midterms. the clock is five years from now because that's the statute of limitations on most of the crimes we're talking about, i believe. the justice department has a bunch of time to investigate things. i think we're thinking about the political calendar in terms of t 2022. >> i have to remind people that kavanaugh, concurring opinion on

the issue of privilege, because he seemed to allude that this may be where a former president may be able to hold on to the privilege for whatever reason you're talking about. the idea of the interest of the american public in trying to find out the truth, particularly if somebody has been involved in behavior, is important. i'm not so sure there is the oodles and oodles of time. i will note you did not say oodles and oodles. that would be odd if you just said that. it would not work for you the way it did me just now. the midterm is not the deadline. but they really have until 2024 when whoever is the next president, if it's a democrat, if it's a republican, who put it is people in power. what do you make of it, michelle? is the time line as long or is there a political one? >> i do think that it gets more and more complicated. i mean, everybody's already trying to game out, is trump

going to declare his candy for 2024? and how does that affect any plans to start an investigation. it's already one of those things that he has clearly decided that the way to beat any kind of criminal charges would be to declare a political witch hunt. and the closer you get to an election where that would be a possible issue, the more complicated this gets. there's lots of pressure on the doj and merrick garland to get this moving. it's more than just legal limits and statutes of limitations. there is a lot of politics at play. >> and to be clear, i don't want to seem naive about the political realities. i think somehow the narrative got out there and that's just not accurate. of course it can't take fyffe years to do this. i get that. >> i agree. the idea of thinking about it, ramesh, the timeline in part, there's always concern about putting one's thumb on the scale

if you're doj. trump is not on the ballot, technically, in any of the races that are coming up this fall. and yet he does cast a pretty big shadow over these elections. and i'm wondering, politically speaking, the patience of the electorate -- forget the patience or the timeline of the doj. politically speaking, what are you most interested in terms of how this is all playing out from the january 6th committee, how it's received by the electorate? are there concerns in terms of this to the benefit of somebody other than trump as a republican, or are the democrats in smooth sailing territory? >> well, i don't think that anything about the democrats' political situation right now is sm smooth sailing. but what i would be looking for in terms of a political impact of both the committee and the department of justice actions is for there to be a slow erosion in trump's court. not even so much people turning on him but people just deciding, republican voters just deciding nay don't want to keep looking

backward at 2020. and president trump constantly wants to relitigate the 2020 election. and he's continuing to spread this ridiculous story about his having won the election. he apparently called the wisconsin speaker of assembly to get him to decertify the election, which is not a thing, by the way. and i think that republican voters might just decide between trump himself and the people investigating his action. they're just kind of sick of it. and only the way to get past all of this is to get past trump himself. >> and, you know, frankly, there is plenty of fodder that are talking points republicans could be using to capitalize on the low approval ratings. of course the polar coasters of sorts are not always the most telling things about them. thank you to all of you. always great to talk to each one of you. thanks. >> thanks, laura. look, russia is now raising the stakes on a potential

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secretary of state antony blinken speaking with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov for the first time since the invasion of ukraine. blinken says he's pressuring lavrov to accept a u.s.-proposed prisoner swap. detained americans paul whelan and brittney griner in exchange for a convicted russian arms dealer. in a twist, russia is now putting up a counter offer, one that frankly could be very hard for the u.s. to swallow. i want to bring in cnn's natasha bertrand and fred pleitgen.

glad to have you both to explain what's happening here. you have exclusive reporting that russia is offering this counterproposal to the u.s. prisoner swap. tell us what you're learning. >> what we've been told is that after the u.s. put forward this proposal to trade viktor bout for paul whelan and brittney griner, the russians responded through a back channel asking for this former fsb colonel, vadim krasikov. he was convicted in germany about seven months ago of assassinating a former chechen soldier in broad daylight in to 19, in a big scandal that ruptured relations even further between germany and russia. the russians are asking for him back. they want him back in their custody. they feel as though the entire trial of course was a scam. and they are using this opportunity that the americans presented them to kind of up the price here. not only do they want viktor bout, but they also want this convicted murderer. now, the problem, of course, that u.s. officials see, is that

he is in german custody. and the u.s. would have to essentially try to influence the der mans, try to get them to release him if they wanted him to be part of a viable prisoner swap. but ultimately when the americans actually did go to the germans we are told a couple of weeks ago to feel this out and see if they would be willing to release him, the germans were kind of lukewarm on the idea at best. there is really no indication that they are willing to put this guy out early, to take this guy out of prison early and make him part of this prisoner exchange. so, that was kind of dead on arrival. and the u.s. officials that we have been speaking to say that's probably the point here. probably the russians kind of floated this idea knowing that it was not going to be well received by the americans or by the germans. and they are trying to buy time and stall until brittney griner's trial is over. in that way, they can say if she is convicted that they now have a convicted american on their soil who committed a crime, and

they can therefore say, now our price has gone up even further. so, it's a very complicated situation. but ultimately what the officials we spoke to said is that this is not a serious counteroffer by the russians and that they should take the deal that the american versus offered to them. >> wow, i mean, the idea of just the pawns that are now the midst of this is really disturbing to think about all of this. fred, brittney griner, she's still stuck in russian custody, as these negotiations are playing out. i know she's pleaded guilty, but the trial is russia is still going on for whatever reason. what is the latest we know about her case? >> yeah, absolutely. and it's moving into a really crucial phase. and brittney griner certainly is very much aware of that. i was able to speak to her legal defense team today. and they said that she is somewhat nervous, as this trial moves into this decisive phase. and you could have a verdict very soon. but that she's also laser focused on her defense. here's what they told me. >> wnba star brittney griner

focused on the final and decisive phase of her trial for drug charges in russia. speaking to cnn right after visiting her, griner's lawyer says the athlete is keeping the faith. >> she is of course stressed and quite nervous. and she knows that the end of the trial is approaching. but she really appreciates all the support she is getting. >> reporter: griner's legal team is building their strategy on efforts to get lenience from the court for showing remorse for trying to enter country with vaping cartridges containing cannabis oil. >> i do understand what my charges r are against me. and with them being accidentally in my bags, i take responsibility. but i did not intend to smuggle or plan to smuggle anything into russia. >> the legal team believes so far their approach has worked as

well as possible in a russian court. >> this court listens. the court accepts almost -- accepted already almost all our evidence. so, i think that this is going how it went. >> but conviction rates in russia are well over 90%, and brittney griner faces up to ten years in prison if found guilty. the u.s. has been frustrated trying to organize a prisoner swap with moscow to get both brittney griner and paul whelan, who is serving a 16-year sentence for espionage, which he renighs, released. the secretary of state raised the issue in their first phone call since russia invaded ukraine. >> i pressed the kremlin. >> reporter: but the russians have made clear they don't want

to speak publicly about prisoner swaps. >> translator: this topic was discussed over a year ago during the geneva meeting between president putin and biden. the foreign ministry is not one of them. >> reporter: brittney griner's legal team says they have not been made aware of any negotiations and are only focused on the tough legal battle ahead. >> she also said that she loves everybody. she misses her family. of course her wife. and, again, she appreciates a lot the huge support she is getting from wnba, from the sport community in the usa. so, she's just very, very grateful. and it really means a lot to her. >> really means a lot to her, laura. brittney griner really wanted that to be known and wanted that to be out there.

her lawyer told us that she knew they were meeting with cnn today and wanted everybody to know she appreciates the support she's getting in america and around the world as well. her legal saying of course they're putting everything into her defense but they say they hope there is a prisoner swap and that brittney griner can come home as soon as possible, laura. >> fred, natasha, thank you both for your reporting. excellent. such a sad situation on all sides. from brittney griner, to the controversial liv golf tournament teeing off at trump's bedminster club. what does bob costas think about all of it? next.

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for more now on the brittney griner situation and another big controversy, the liv golf tournament at the former president's bedminster course, i want to bring in bob costas, really needs no introduction at all. bob, i'm glad you're here tonight. we've been talking about what's the latest on brittney griner. i'm wondering what your reaction is on the prospect of her being included in a prisoner swap, as

her trial is ending near. >> well, we're not talking here about the russian people, but we are talking about vladimir putin's government. and if we need any more evidence as to just how ruthless they are and how they don't adhere to international norms, this is really relatively trivial in light of what's going on in ukraine. but it is significant. certainly it's significant to paul whelan and to brittney griner and their familys that they are held unjustly, according to the state department. and now they want not only viktor bout back, an international arms dealer serving a 25-year sentence, but a convicted murderer who's not even held in america. he's held in germany. now, as your previous guest said, they may be a employ and they're not serious about it. maybe they will accept bout. but you're asking for two people who shouldn't be held at all. in return you want two international criminals. that's the way they play the

game. >> and speaking of how others have played the game, bob, and the idea of the sort of repu reputation preceding itself, there's also the saudi-backed liv golf course that's teeing off at former president trump's bedminster golf course today. tell me about the optics around this. we had the fist bump around the world. you've got trump saying nobody knows who's behind 9/11. what are the optics here? >> well, the optics are not good for those who care about it. i've talked about many of the other aspects and the overlap there. people say what about china, all this what aboutism. what about the businesses that do business with the pga tour and saudi arabia. i've been critical of china hosting the olympics going back

to 1996 when they were just hosting the olympics, and i've been critical of nba players and the nba itself for its deep involvement in china. and i was critical of an olympics in putin's russia. so, i think i've been generally consistent about this. and the issue here is not an alternative to pga tour. many golfers have issue with the pga tour. and if this alternative was funded by any other entity, any acceptable entity, other than the human rights abusing saudi regime with a long list of such abuses, that's the problem. when you say, well, others have done business with them, that may be true. but all of these golfers, in effect, are ambassadors for the saudi royal family. that's why they're there. they're in effect ambassadors. no one knows who's ahead of this company or that company. the public doesn't know. they know who those golfers are.

it's an attempt to sports wash and put a happier face on an objectionable regime. the other side of it is with this happening in bedminster and with the 9/11 families so close by and the wounds so fresh, that would be bad enough in and of itself. but hosted by a former president of the united states, one would hope -- can you imagine -- can you imagine any president in our lifetime, republican or democrat, doing such a thing? you would expect from a past president and perhaps an aspirant to be the president again, you would expect a little bit more dignity, a little bit more empathy and grace and common decency. but if you're looking for that, perhaps you should look elsewhere. >> well said. but, you know, speaking of elsewhere, i would note that that intersection of the nba and liv and golf tournaments, the former nba sports commentator

charles barkley, who worked for cnn's parent company, he considered joining in a broadcasting role. he decided not to do that. i want to turn to another issue that's near and dear to your heart. i know you are a baseball fan and you have been consistent about the idea surrounding the covid vaccine policies and the way it's playing in terms of the seasons. we know the detroit lions player is missing games since he does not meet canada's covid vaccine requirement. it's not just him that's done something like this. it's been other sports, other conversations. how could this impact the baseball season and more broadly going forward? >> well, recently, ten kansas city royals -- ten -- could not dros the canadian border. they had to bring up minor leaguers. the royals, however, are not a contender. they just traded andrew benintendi to the yankees. the yankees most certainly are a contender, even though they have a big lead in the american

league east. they're trying to finish ahead of the astros for the best record in the league overall, which would have an effect on playoff seating. benintendi is not vaccinated. if they were to play tomorrow in toronto, he could not both unvaccinated missed the two games just this past week this tor toronto. the cardinals are in a race with the brewers in the national league central and in a race for a wild card spot. so leave aside any medical opinion. leave aside the politics of it. this is a team sport. we're not talking about novak djokovic on his own deciding not to get vaccinated in an individual sport. this is a team sport, and no matter whether you agree or disagree with the mandates or any country's rules and regulations, you are hurting your own team when you don't get vaccinated under these circumstances. if i have another minute here, last year aaron rodgers unvaccinated had to miss a game

for the green bay packers. i like aaron rodgers very much. he's a great, great player and an interesting guy, but you just can't rationalize it. in fact, he came within one day of missing two games and had he turned up positive even if he was asymptomatic until the nfl changed the rules as the playoffs and super bowl approached, if he had tested positive again, even if he was entirely asymptomatic, he could have missed a playoff game or a super bowl. how can you do that to your team? i just don't understand that. j.t.muto who's a catcher for the phillies, these guys are making millions of dollars so missing two, three games costs them hundreds of thousands of dollars because they don't get paid for those games. he said it's worth it not to allow canada to tell me what to do. forget about geopolitics, what do you tell your teammates? you leave them in the lurch. i don't get it. >> i wonder what those conversations are like behind

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they've never seen before, and a flash flood is so terrifying. that water comes so fast, and it just sweeps everything away with it, and then it's just gone. i'm standing in the staging area which is the flea market site here in hazard where people have been gathering to give out supplies to each other and go out and rescue each other from other parts of the state. the most ominous thing i've heard really is the sound of that emergency broadcast system that comes on warning there might be still yet more rain to come. after everything that this place has already suffered through, there still might be more to come. it's really just an incredibly horrifying thing to see in person and just a scary, scary thing to think about, and it may not be over. laura. >> and just watching, as we're watching the water, there's a current in this water. it's not like it's still. it's actually pulling things along as well. it's just horrifying, evan, thank you for being there and keeping us apprised of what's happening. our hearts are going out to all the families who are suffering right now. thank you so much.

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