annette: george powell has been freed from jail after australia's highest court overturned his conviction for child sexual abuse. peter o'brien has more. >> the highest profile child sex abuse case faced by the catholic church has been turned on its head. after a year behind bars cardinal george powell has walked free from a prison outside melbourne. -- george pell has walked free from a prison outside melbourne. -- pell said a serious injustice has been remedied. >> my trial was not a referendum on the catholic church. the point was whether i had committed these awful crimes and i did not. ♪ prosecution relied heavily on the testimony of the one surviving accuser who said pell sexually assaulted him and another boy in a melbourne cathedral whilile he was archbishop there. the judges found a lower court failed to consider whether the offenses had not taken place. a support group said the decision would be crushing for abuse survivors. freedom andhas his many abuse victims have never been free, trapped in the crimes that ruined their lives. >> once regarded as the vatican's third-highest r

[laughter] powell goes through, there's a time in the 90s when people like george will or howard baker are mentioning powell should be on. people are promoting him as republican candidate and he goes through this public agonized bit, he says no, i'm not a politician. then starting with that 96 convention, he begins to see they aren't acceptable. i had an interview with him and he still saying people understand i'm a moderate republican, i believe in the right to choice and permit of action went down the list and he said, comforting himself, people understand that. well, some people did but not the base of the republican party as we know it now and it was then. one more. >> i was sitting next to powell at a dinner in the late 90s and somebody abandoned the tab table, they shifted over and said are you woozy? and they said i hate politics and so do i. [laughter] >> thank you all for coming. [laughter] [applause] >> thank you all for coming. if you're interested in purchasing this book, you can do so at the register. leave your chairs where they are. if you would like your book signed, co

george washington. watch booktv every weekend on booktv on c-span2. economists robert lawson and benjamin powell talk about their travel socialist countries, the basis of their book "socialism sucks," two economists drink their way through the unfree world, this was hosted by the cato institute. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to the cato institute. i direct the center for global liberty and prosperity at cato. the title and style of the book

koppel's conviction for child sex abuse couple george pell will now be freed from jail he was convicted in 2018 of abusing to cooperate in the 19 $190.00 s. powell was once treasurer of the vatican he was the most severe catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse let's go live now to sydney to 0 as the clock gauge is there were reasons that led to the court give for overturning couple pelz conviction. for one year since a jury found cardinal george pell guilty and one year since he was placed in jail he will be walking free 7 justices of a strictly as highest court ruled that tells child sex abuse convictions should be quashed and that he should be immediately released from victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there was only a handful of people in court to hear this ruling it was posted online afterwards and the reasoning the court to gave was that the jury as well as the victorian court of appeal should have given more weight to the alibi evidence of witnesses who said that there wouldn't have been enough time for george pell abuse these 2 choir boys that he would have been other people with o

koppel's conviction for child sex abuse koppel george pell will now be freed from jail he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 quiet boys in the 1990 s. powell was once treasurer at the vatican he was the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse charges here as nicolas cage joins us now live from sydney declare what reasons to the court give for overturning couple pelz conviction. well after spending one year behind bars cardinal pell will walk free from prison a free man so it was only a short time ago that the high court of the strong ruled that the sexual abuse convictions of george pell should be overturned and that he should be immediately released from victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there was only a handful of people in the course but the ruling by the 7 justices was unanimous in a posting on one a lengthy justice a lengthy. process i should say it said that the jury and the victorian court of appeal should have entertained doubt that these offenses ever occurred the reason why is because they say that. there was too much white placed on the evidence of the form a

george washington. watch booktv every weekend on booktv on c-span2. economists robert lawson and benjamin powell talk about their travel socialist countries, the basis of their book "socialism sucks," two economists drink their way through the unfree world, this was hosted by the cato institute. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to the cato institute. i direct the center for global liberty and prosperity at cato. the title and style of the book we are featuring today, "socialism sucks," is more irreverent than most public policy books we usually organize events around here at cato but i can assure you the authors we are featuring today are serious accomplished economists with decades of scholarly work. .. inevitably, , they have drinksn their hand, probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. but the conversation is always interesting, informative, and fun. that's also true of this new book. this is a light book about a heavy topic. so it's fortunate, fortuitous rather, that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late milton friedman, one of the g

powell, next question goes to you. it's from a viewer named george person.ys how does the coronavirus live within the lungs, exactly? >> well, the coronavirus enters the lungs through the mouth, through the nose, and goes right to the lung cells where there's a receptor that binds tightly to the virus. the virus makes its way inside and it grows and replicates. and then it will persist until the immune system or the inflammatory system can knock it out and kill it. that happens in most patients, 80 to 90%. but in about 10% of patients the immune system, the inflammatory cascade that gets released by the virus being in the lung cells can cause more problems and cause severity of illness that happens eight to 12 days into the course. i want to add one more thing into the topic that we talked about which results in mutations and while there's no evidence that there's a change in the severity, the information from that mutation really gives a bar code to tell us the origin of the virus and that's very important to understand how it got to the united states. so i

george washington. why didn't he tell us this and more importantly where is christopher wray, why didn't we learn any of this from him? thank goodness from sidney powellld have never gotten the information. brian: true, let me ask you when you look at underlying documents that sidney powell requested that attorney general sessions didn't that barr, sessions, i don't know what he was doing, do you wonder, did mueller have the documents and he discovered that strzok was having an affair with page and said these guys got to go because of texts and others documents when they are actually working? >> jim: i have no idea. bob mueller 19 lawyers, 2 years to do this and we are just now learning this. thank bill barr and sidney powell pushing for this or we wouldn't get this information. again, i come back why didn't we learned from chris wray. you can all sleep well at night, we got it under control. guess what, we learned more information about general flynn and importantly mr. horowitz told us 4 weeks ago, he's looked at 29 fisa applications, random applications where american citizens have been spied on and he found that in every single one there were majo