hellman would signal a change the way marvel ran its business. proving he was kind of a step above conglomerate owner he was in a corporate raider he was somebody who had no emotional connection to the tonics so you know this was marvel's 1st real existence as. kind of a piece in someone's game. i can remember ron coming through the office during that 1st week. and he was he was he may not have been smoking the cigar but he was at least chewing the cigar uses this short little man who looked like he owned the world being toward through the offices by a young woman dressed as spider woman in spandex and to me that's who run pro men will always be this guy who owns the world it can make young women dress up in spandex. new bank joint marvel 2 years before. the company. when i started at marvel you know i was i was surrounded by the people whose comics i had grown up reading it was really amazing it was fun it was exciting everybody was thrilled to be there when the announcement came that the company was being sold . everybody was nervous and as we

right let's speak to caroline hellman now who's professor of politics at the occidental college she's joining us live from the front of the sites for talking to us this is clearly a national if not an international emergency but a leader is often defined by how he'll she rises to the it to the event to the occasion how's president trump doing but i think it's safe to say that his delayed and inadequate response will 'd cost lives the question is how many we know that china declared new virus on december 31st the world health organization declared a major emergency on the same day that we had our 1st case in the u.s. confirmed case january 21st and president trump proceeded to downplay it to call it overhype to say that it would it would disappear he even went as far as to call it a hoax or claiming he wasn't doing enough about it a hoax meanwhile even now that he's kind of pivoted and acknowledged that it is in a pandemic he is still not doing enough in terms of invoking emergency right. to increase productions of tests an emergency ok but this is a president who often misspeaks he us

hellman's marketing team also began to dictate the contents of the comics. artists and writers were told to engineer more crossover stories that featured its best selling superheroes to display a comic book stores like this one in new york. we know that there were people there were ravenous wolverine and punisher and always spider collectors and all you got to do is put those characters into or a low selling comic and suddenly you some more copies because people wanted to maintain their complete spider-man collection of the complete wolverine collection . but at some point the guy who collects every appearance of wolverine can no longer afford to collect every appearance of movement at some point you chase the guy away by trying to take too much of this money. the plots also figured into one another so readers had to buy all related issues if they wanted to make sense of them as production increased the quality and content of the comics began to suffer . and this started to alienate the company's cool audience. bounce if marvel was losing ranges why was it s

train the afghan forces, coach the afghan forces, it can also carry out a strike which was done in hellmanvince a few days ago. the ability to retaliate is there and what nato and the u.s. are saying, we aren't going to give that up soon. the counter terrorism support is there for the long term. the taliban know that. eric: the president wrote the book, the art of the deal, he's known to negotiate, he's reached out to people, kim jong un and many others and he spoke on the phone with the taliban leader and the president the other day mentioned he would be willing to meet with taliban officials. he came under some heat when he said he was going to invite them to camp david. remember that? what do you think the next step should be? what would you advise? should the president meet with the taliban? >> no question, trump and general mill it ie want to pulle deal off. the taliban has signed the agreement. so if they live up to their deal, reduce the violence, show up at the inner afghan talks, keep fighting isis, it's possible we could see a high level, even president trump perhaps meeting with

dean hellman we're so proud of you. here in t here right gaston hall with my grandson liam who is here as well. in any event, my college classmate mary beta is here, we went to trinity college. in those days, georgedown was not so -- georgetown was not so co-ed. we had a relationship for a long time. my husband went here. hree of my children did. my son-in-law. i have an honorary degree. i don't know if that counts. but whatever. anyway, here's the thing. ere were some shall we say differences of opinion abolition or suffragists. nd abolition won that. and eventually the vote came much later. when it came it was interesting to me because i heard an introduction. when it came the headlines the next day said when -- women given the right to vote. no such thing. women weren't given anything. women were starved. women sacrificed for decades in order to achieve the right to ote. it took some time get the implementation of it all. we had won member of congress from montana, jeanette rankin. she was republican. she came to con

the "washington post's" james hellman tweeting just tonight, "new york city ems received 6,406 medical that's the highest volume ever recorded in new york city. it surpasses the record that had been previously set on september 11th, 2001. that is going to do it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i have to tell you,

the "washington post's" james hellman tweeting just tonight, "new york city ems received 6,406 medical 911 calls yesterday." that's the highest volume ever recorded in new york city. it surpasses the record that had been previously set on september 11th, 2001. that is going to do it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i have to tell you, listening to general semonite was a real pleasure. having worked in government and int rablthed with the army corps of engineers they are just among my favorite get it done people. they always know how to get it done. and the only thing that ever gets in their way is politicians. and it was great to hear his clarity, his directsness. and i have to tell you, my phone was just ringing with texts coming in of people overjoyed to get that kind of clarity that you brought out in that discussion with the general. >> the specificity with which he's speaking about what he's doing, the fact that he's volunteering the urgency of the nature

renee hellman has health issues that make her vulnerable to the coronavirus.d -- i hear reba in the background. she likes this story. the owner gets the groceries, sonny then delivers those every day to renee. renee says the visit, the deliveries make her day. you know who makes our day? soda pop. we want you to meet this 75-pound boxer who is amazing. he's a life saver in a different way. he works at the stone house urban winery in hagerstown, maryland, where they do take-out orders. soda pop does the curbside pickup delivering two bottles at a time for customers. they also put a treat in the backpack with the bottles so the customers can say thank you to soda pop for his special work. guys, just another reason why they truly are man and woman's best friend. and i was really trying to get reva to make a cameo but not cooperating. so you'll just have to take my word for it. robin, i know you have little man lucas. >> yeah, he's cooperating. yeah, yeah, as we know, get your rescue on. that's lovely what you shared and so true. i love how people are sending pict

so were getting an amazing response, we just got our first grant from the hellman family foundation, large grants are starting to come in which will be the most expensive mission we have ever done and we donated over $25 million and money and aid around the world from puerto rico to the bahamas to australia and still building in those places. so this will be our most expensive mission, i do not think i would get into corona but this is a crisis, it's a disaster and it affects so many areas and so many people that will have nothing and that's what we specialize in and people who have lost everything. neil: it's very impressive and shows a lot about you as well. where are the virus prevention kits themselves. >> that's where we have the immune boosters, hydration kits, gloves, the masks that we have in our warehouse we are saving for healthcare workers, we have be strong cash cards, we have hand sanitizer, medical information, cleaning supplies and a price gouging issue, as i mentioned we have a facility right now manufacturing hand sanitizer just for be strong and ford because there i