but i am an ethnographer, i can try my research but standing on the shoulders of historians and michael allen help understand the political context that gave rise to increased cultural demand advancing in terms of science for forensic enterprise, a mythical notion that science can triumph stretching back to the previous war and the promise there will be no other unknowns. that is helping to unpack what i tried to do, to unpack a little bit. it is not magic but the work of transformation and the new rituals that come out of them, to bridge chasms for ambiguity and uncertainty about them. >> to transition quickly to the science parts, one of the things i find rewarding is the conversation about how the certainty and expertise around identification science even old and changed but at the same time there is the hallmark, the family member who will say i recognize you must show me the remains, that is how i will recognize them. as that moves back and you have visual recognition, dog tag recognition, you start thinking about you get to a level of expertise where only certain people can recognize th

it has disliked about him and michael allen also, written very beautifully about this, that who is this busybody? like only the sacrilege, some going in and trying to pull out those remains and named them. that's in fact, what happened. so then your question is, what happened then? what do we lose? i remember when i started this tragic i thought okay, it means when secretary cohen says that, maybe it means will not have any more unknowns. it's an off-the-cuff remark but an amazing one, that we were are entering into this uncharted territory, and i assumed as an anthropologist who is not very good at crafting hypotheses because i'm social culture anthropologist, that what is hypothesis then? so what changes? i wanted to understand, i assume that most of national commemoration changing when you can't have this aggregate of the unknown or this symbolic unknown. i was attentive okay, does this mean it's all going to come down to the personalized narrative? i do, in fact, think some of it is true or what that complicated for me is understanding the personalized narrative is never only about

korean war and is necessary for me to double and i can try that archival research i would say michael allen as well with the increase cultural demand and then with this mythical motion that science can triumph with another unknown and that is 11 trying to do to help not the magic but the work of transformation one - - transformation and the rituals that come out of that attempting to bridge chasms of grief. >> and with the science part one of the things i find very rewarding in your account is the conversation how the certainty and expertise around identification also evil but at the same time there is a traditional hallmark i recognize every portion of that person's body show me the remains. that is how i will recognize them but then you have visual recognition and dogtags and then the anthropology you get to a level of expertise only a certain level can recognize that fragmentary remains and when you bring dna into the picture it's another level as well and that expertise and the sacred moving up but then always wanting to return it back but i know that this name goes with this. >> so muc

michael allen studied the letter as well as ashley's medical records and testified about his review. an opinion in this case about whether or not ashley fallis was a high risk to commit suicide on january 1, 2012? >> yes. my opinion is that she had many, many risk factors and warning signs. >> reporter: remember, detectives had learned years before that ashley had a family history of suicide. both her maternal uncle and her grandmother took their own lives. that, said dr. allen, put ashley at a higher risk for doing the same thing. >> two close family members who had died by suicide would suggest a genetic propensity for suicide. the defense argued that on new year's eve 2011, it was the miscarriage that broke her will to go on. that she spent the night masking her pain with alcohol, that she planned to dull it further with marijuana after the party. and that's why tom was upset. >> she was vulnerable. he was concerned about her. he didn't want her to add marijuana to this toxic system that was developing inside of ashley fallis. >> reporter: the defense conceded ashley and tom quarr

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yes yes michael bryce allen with the washington post for chief conti perhaps donnelly the 3 scenes who died from medical emergencies yesterday have we determined whether they were part of the riots or other people who were on capitol grounds. well it's a question michael my question was for the 3 people who died from medical emergencies yesterday thank you yes there were a lot of people on the grounds of the capitol yesterday and i guess the extent that we can say right now is that they won the grounds of the capitol when they experienced a medical emergency ok but you can't specify are you specify ok and then there was a stabbing yesterday at 12th in pennsylvania and separate shootings on $200.00 k. street northwest and also 9th and street northwest have police determined if any of those were related to the unrest in the city it does not appear that any of those were related to the rest of the city in those matters are actually actively being investigated but it does not appear they were related i think and then for mayor bowzer could you talk about how the events of yesterday will im

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michael allen. favorite people in the world joins us now. trip around the world a little bit quickly here. china, what do you think will happen there? >> well, president biden has professed that he has gotten religion on china and that he will approach it from a competitive standpoint rather than just solely trying to get along with them. that remains to be seen and the republicans, we should hold his feet to the fire. i think what he wants out of them is cooperation on climate change and coronavirus. what he needs to do is try to check their aggression in the asia pacific region and build alliances with those that can work with the united states and not the authoritarian communist system of china. >> dana: michael, how do you think china and president xi is thinking about the new president? >> i think that they are believing that biden will be less tough on them than president trump will be. that there will be fewer instances of the united states using our naval presence in the pacific to steam through, for example, the taiwan straits. so p

. >> sandra: let's bring in michael allen, he served on the national security council under presidentent your career in the national security arena. you see what's happening next week and the preparations underway. do you believe it's possible to secure the capitol on inauguration day based on the events last week. >> definitely. i know the u.s. secret service as they have declared this a national security special event have this locked down. i'm very confident that they and the national guard and the f.b.i. and the capitol police and others will be able to put out sufficient numbers of people and guards and the rest. look, i think what they're doing now is they are over preparing. sending a message of deterrents to would be demonstrators or people who want to make more trouble like they did on the capitol last week to say listen, if you try to even come here it would be fruitless so don't come. >> sandra: we see the preparations underway and the video as you are talking of the troops deployed to the capital. quite a scene when you see that, michael. certainly sends a message to the w

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trump, with allen weisselberg, and others, and i did it in order to protect him. and i guess the thank you that i got from my loyal boss was, michael cohen should, as i once said, take a bullet for him and lose everything, lose my freedom, my company, my law license, my family's happiness, everything. i'm with you. i don't understand it. >> the president is at least, though, named as "individual 1" by prosecutors and you, in your allocution, made very clear what you just made clear here, the fact that this was directed by him, for his benefit, and you were acting out his wishes, and so he's therefore the most culpable person. you make a point as almost the very last thing you say in the book, which i wanted to ask you about, because i think it may relate to this. the president is named as individual 1. you went to prison for those felonies. he's clearly the person who directed the commission of those felonies. but you say at the very end of the book that the president and attorney general william barr ousted the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york and tried to install effectively the president's golfing buddy as the