matthews. it has been almost one year since the department of veterans affairs had its first case of covid-19. in that time much has changed. across the country and around the world. the v.a. has seen over 10,000 deaths, including 130 employees. this heartbreaking number highlights how important this work is as we continue our oversight of the funding and policies that were used to keep our veterans and workers safe. as the largest integrated health care system in the u.s., v.a. has an enormous responsibility to veterans and their families. and to the nation as a whole. when we last held a hearing on v.a.'s covid response, there were some areas of deep concern and areas that had been improving. members were troubled by what was happening at the time with regards to the provision of ppe, the standard of covid treatments provided to our veterans, and the need to make testing available to all. while some of the problems were mismanagement by the trump white house, there were problems in v.a.'s man

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~ u, to know how long will this last, matthew? ~ _, , , matthew?ood news is there is an end _ matthew? welcome the good news is there is an end in _ matthew? welcome the good news is there is an end in sight _ matthew? welcome the good news is there is an end in sight right - matthew? welcome the good news is there is an end in sight right now. - there is an end in sight right now. it looks like the cold will receding the next few days, temperatures around 10—15 above in houston by the time we get into saturday and sunday. so a light at the end of the tunnel, but for the time being, a few more cold dark nights with hazardous temperatures that will be extremely dangerous for the vulnerable and the elderly. matthew, from the washington post. thank you so much for talking us through that. thank you. thank you. it is going to be a critical decision — with profound implications. nato defence ministers are meeting, to discuss the future of the alliance's, 10,000 troops in afghanistan. hanging over them — a deadline of may the first — agreed between the t

he has not met matthew muller. sent to reporter henry lee, lee suspected were written by a lawyer. a lawyer police now believe was matthew muller. >> what emerges from the e-mails is a complex picture of someone who needs attention, who needs to be perceived a certain way. >> reporter: for example, the way the writer of the e-mails was outraged when denise was accused of a hoax. >> so when he says, how dare you not believe ms. huskins, that she was kidnapped, what he's really saying is how dare you not believe i committed this crime and pulled it off? >> you can't see my handiwork because you lack talent, because the police here are failing miserably and they need to recognize how flawed they are and how wonderful i am. >> he is a master criminal. >> he is a master criminal, and he's running circles around everyone else. >> reporter: maybe he was. remember, from the beginning, vallejo police apparently couldn't believe the elaborate details of the kidnapping. when aaron told them he took so long to call 911, becaus

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matthew just sorry marc just hit upon something that i wanted to ask you about as well which is when it comes to the humanitarian costs of an internet shut down especially during a health crisis during a pandemic what is the impact of that look like. the impacts are varied and they're across the board i mean we have the economic impact and that's something we've been trying to assess now it varies but it's always high for the population so presently if you're 4 point $5000000.00 u.s. dollars per day you're going into shock then and then. for a developing economy but look at the bitterness where you have nation scale internet shut down not too long ago and the impact of that was in the region yes that was around $60000000.00 u.s. dollars per day because it's an economic powerhouse of the region where you have really all kinds of sectors there you also have the tech sector just starting up there and and what we see is that yes these are restrictions on political freedoms on the future of people to have their own voice but it's also ruining the country's part of light it's damaging the

monitor block and even replace the content of its nearly 1000000000 internet users let's bring in matthew bua he's the head of the asia program of article 19 that's a human rights group he joins us via skype from bangkok matthew good to have you with us so how worried should cambodians be about all this and why is the government doing this now do you think. yes this is a massive threat for freedom of expression and internet freedom in cambodia and it's actually something that should be worrying for the entire region really there's 2 main concerns here the 1st is censorship the government already has some tools to restrict what people can see on the internet but this will make it much easier for the government to do that with all the data having to pass in and out of a single portal and the 2nd big concern here is certain ailments the government's going to be collecting all i.e. addresses so the government is going to know not only which websites you visited but what you've done on those websites so i think this is quite a concerning development and something that needs to be the pushback

matthew leaving school and heading to uni learning to think for yourself and fend for yourself and enjoy your 1st real freedoms is an amazing time of life but that's not the case with his generation of students is that. it's not and that's exactly what they expected out of the college experience is to develop a sense of independence and freedom in life and to learn who they are and that is primarily through social interaction with their peers and they weren't able to do that this past year obvious things are going to grow up differently from us to reckon more more to pendants less courageous introverted depressed. well this is a time of life where you can set a church rectory for your psychological health weight later in life but the truth is we don't know we have never seen this large scale impacts on college students before in recent history so we don't know what the long term impacts will be but we certainly expect this to last at least for the next few years that's an awful thing to hear what what are the psychological or what could be the psychological effects of that considering ju

matthew leaving school and heading to uni learning to think for yourself and fend for yourself and enjoy your 1st real freedoms is an amazing time of life but that's not the case for this generation of students is it. it's not and that's exactly what they expected out of the college experience is to develop a sense of independence and freedom in life and to learn who they are and that is primarily through social interaction with their peers and they were able to do that this past year obvious things are going to grow up differently from us to reckon mold more to pendants less courageous in for voted to protest. well this is a time of life where you can set a church actuary for your psychological health weight later in life but the truth is we don't know we have never seen this large scale impacts on college students before in recent history so we don't know what the long term impacts will be but we certainly expect this to last at least for the next few years that's an awful thing to hear what what are the psychological or what could be the psychological effects of that considering just

matthews and ms. lopez, when are we -- are we going to be able to create confidence that 2021-2022 will be a productive school year? that's what i want to hear. >> thank you. hello, vivian? >> yes, hi. i'm a parent of two children at clarendon elementary school. one of who is a very high personal needs child but he is matriculated into general education. i want to give a voice tonight to all the parents like me in our school district, who's children have robust i.e.p.s. i feel that plans to date have not taken these children adequately into account. continuity for them means returning to five day full day of schools to access the services that are important to them. each day matters for all children and even more so for these children. my child can barely access his class in distance learning. he is not adequately able to access the services that are so desperately needed by him and other parents. we have issues of privacy concerns. many parents who are suffering with their special needs children are

matthew browning is an environmental psychologist a cleansing university in south carolina and joins us from the u.s. matthew leaving school and heading to uni learning to think for yourself and fend for yourself and enjoy your 1st real freedoms is an amazing time of life but that's not the case for this generation of students is it. it's not and that's exactly what they expected out of the college experience is to develop a sense of independence and freedom in life and to learn who they are and that is primarily through social interaction with their peers and they weren't able to do that this past year other things are going to grow up differently from us to reckon mold more to pendants less courageous introverted to practice. well this is a time of life where you can set a church actuary for your psychological health weight later in life but the truth is we don't know we have never seen this large scale impacts on college students before in recent history so we don't know what the long term impacts will be but we certainly expect this to last at least for the next few years that's

owen jones assistant professor of digital humanities at how my belief in university and in bangkok matthew viewer head of the asia program at article 19 an organization which promotes freedom of expression and information welcome to the program alp let me start with you today could we see the government shutdowns of the internet becoming normalized and is this becoming a trend now or are we just better at tracking the shutdowns. you know so if you ask me we've seen this normalization happen already. across the world we're seeing if shutdowns become poets with a political discourse or even a method to suppressing those who discourse as happens during elections during protests during political scandals so it is possible possible. hold and this is a huge problem who site is across the world. is it a situation that is growing well yes it is spreading but also we are becoming wiser to the situation because we are better able to monitor measure and advocate so there is a niche to these incidents and in a way it's a developing incidents to everyone that they're going to help but notice you noddin

well yesterday with the heritage minister in canada matthews holder has talked about does iraq see this legislation the e.u. has talked about it as well as i said it really springs from legislation in germany and now in the e.u. with the digital copyright act there. this is going around and around and i think it's felicia's because it's not really about copyright it's not really about content this is about the relationships that both publishers and platforms have with citizens jeff jarvis and matthew main from to both of you gentlemen we appreciate you taking the time to talk about this this story has some long legs i'm sure we'll be talking again soon thank you thanks. it has not been this cold in texas in decades now on day 3 of a massive winter snap thinkers are being pointed who is to blame for the millions of people who are left without power and heating many still don't have electricity this in a state that produces more energy than the entire country of britain texas has its own independent power grid separate from the u.s. power grid in a moment we'll talk about the temps and tr

preschool incidents and now we're looking at where it's all playing out again over the last 9 days matthew i want to look more specifically at me and more for a few moments because right now you have an issue with facebook there were facebook is trying to limit the spread of misinformation by me and mars military they say that they will significantly reduce the distribution of all content on pages and profiles run by the military of course facebook is essentially synonymous with the internet in me and more so many people use it there it is ubiquitous. as a platform but of course facebook was also heavily criticised for allowing itself to be used to incite hatred especially against for him to muslims in 2017 and in fact facebook in 2018 admitted that it failed to do enough to prevent its platform being used to incite violence and spread hate so how significant a move is it right now that at this point in me and more after this coup that facebook is taking these actions. so it's been an evolution for facebook myself and friends were raising concerns about the way facebook was being used to i

matthew leaving school and heading to uni learning to think for yourself and fend for yourself and enjoy your 1st real freedoms is an amazing time of life but that's not the case for this generation of students is it. it's not and that's exactly what they expected out of the college experience is to develop a sense of independence and freedom in life and to learn who they are and that is primarily through social interaction with their peers and they weren't able to do that this past year obvious things are going to grow up differently from us to reckon more more to pendants less courageous introverted depressed. well this is a time of life where you can set a church actuary for your psychological health weight later in life but the truth is we don't know we have never seen this large scale impacts on college students before in recent history so we don't know what the long term impacts will be but we certainly expect this to last at least for the next few years that's an awful thing to hear what what are the psychological or what could be the psychological effects of that considering just

matthews for your work on what you've done with the covid vaccination. it is very positive. i just wanted to highlight that and i'm one of the four and 60,000 employees of the va and i know it hasn't always been easy to be an employee of the va but you should be proud of the work that you have done. having said that we have a lot of work at a bus. part of that is thinking outside the box. we have heard from countless members on this committee as far as rural areas being vaccinated and i would ask access is the number one thing that people are trying to get. if you could give us specific programs and specific areas that you've been successful in gaining access we would love to take a look at that. you don't have to do that now but specifics and the and bolts of things per day know the va has proximately $10 billion in cares act funding. my question is what do you plan to use those funds for like. >> the majority will be used for health care. the remainder will be used for things like ppe and to continue to strengthen our emergency response capability to sustain ourselves thro

matthew whitaker. top justice department official now running the criminal division who got hired out of the same law firm he worked at with an attorney who is now representing hunter biden in hunter biden's fight with the justice department. also top republican senator ron johnson now demanding to know why google is taking censorship to a whole new level. google's youtube censored in testimony about covid-19 treatments that might help americans. plus we're going to go behind what critics are warning about dr. fauci. he repeatedly confusing americans how to handle covid-19. we've got more on new york governor cuomo's team now under fire for unhinged, off the wall personal attacks on u.s. congressman after they demanded that the justice department subpoena governor cuomo for whitewashing and covering up thousands of nursing home deaths from covid-19 that are directly connected to governor cuomo's executive orders. also tonight alexandria ocasio-cortez accused of hyping and quote politicizing what ocasio

matthew: it is going to be with you.we focused on was everybody remembers she was the first and only female delete the federal reserve. -- to lead the federal reserve. but when you compare her record to her predecessors and her successor, you find janet yellen has, by the markets on measures, the most stability in financial markets of any fed chair in recent memory. you can look at it anyway you want to quit whether it is traditional economic figures are just market measures like volatility. she comes through as unflappable. that is what surprised us. tom: you taught me the fed worries about employment. the secretary-treasurer has to worry about employment most of what could she do to move the needle on 9 people out of a job? matthew: she said if you're going to make a difference, up to have a robust physical program. that is what the biden plan is. it is not without its critics, but her point of view is that it has to be robust and it has to be now. that is the only way this economy is going to turn for the better, to g

last word, matthew?atthew: i'm going to second joel on independent registration and independent commissions and get rid of partisan gerrymandering. i would increase the size of the house of representatives, which can be passed by majority. all it needs is a majority. we have not increase the size of the house of representatives since 1912 when it represented, one person represented 200,000 people, we now have one person representing 750,000 people. it would make the electoral college more representative. it would receive more representative votes for key states you would have to campaign in. i would do those things. we fundamentally have to think about what we do about the united states senate because it is unrepresentative. maybe the thing is, adding more and creating more states to make it more representative in the united states senate because today it not represent the country either. jeffrey: beautiful. right in on time, well done, everyone. thank you so much to our phenomenal panels, all three pane

here's the big test, matthew. if they do that, use that fraud defense in any way, will any of the 45 republicans that said look, you give us the constitutional out, we'll take it, will any turn and vote to convict? >> well, i mean, that's the question. there are two parts of that. first part, i don't think any of the 45 change the vote, no matter what argument donald trump falls into, that his lawyers make, bad mistakes, they're already set in stone on that. i think the question knows he is not likely to get convicted, but i don't think that's the point. if i were the democrats i would keep pursuing this, even if i knew we weren't getting conviction because here is why. you can't get to reconciliation which is what the republicans want to push the side of unity, don't do the impeachment, it is going to divide the country, there are lessons around the world you have to have truth before you get to reconciliation, but bigger lesson in our country, reconstruction. we are starting at the beginning of black history mon

we somewhat knew that this was going to come they've been rumors of a cool matthew for some time now 1st of all what is your reaction and what do you think the military in taking this action is trying to achieve ultimately. well this is a it's a profoundly dark day for the people of myanmar. the coup in many ways doesn't make sense the military already had political power it already had significant economic power so. to a certain extent were some threats of a coup over there over recent days as you noted but this is still a shark and you know we are thinking about people being more right now we're worried about further arrests we're trying to make sense of just how far the military has cast its neck in terms of arresting. people in this situation the. a military and of course the government even nonsense which he had been criticizing a great deal for the treatment of the routing of people in rakhine state and the mass exodus that led to the crime down in rakhine in 2017 what you know what is the current situation as far as white south and send in myanmar how are people there coping o

so i'm going bring in matthew dowd, the former chief strategist for george w.y scaramucci. look at this group we've assembled. thank you, gentleman. it's good to see both of you. matthew, how shortsighted with republican senators be that after all the evidence that's presented -- is this a five-alarm fair for leadership and the republican party? >> well, it's definitely a five alarm party for leadership across the country, and we've got a signal point on the senators that seem to don't care about this in this moment. i would just council people, when we look at this, don, the most important part is not the punishment part of this. it's not whether donald trump is going get acquitted or convicted. the most important part is truth and accountability and defining who's accountable in this, not only donald trump but others in this. and it's something we didn't do. i loved your first segment of this. it's something we didn't do in the aftermath of the civil war, and then for 150 years we're dealing with the aftermath of that and we still are when we didn't come to t

well yesterday with the heritage of minister in canada matthews holder has talked about does iraq see this legislation the e.u. has talked about it as well as i said it really springs from legislation in germany and now in the e.u. with the digital copyright act there this is going around and around and i think it's felicia's because it's not really about copyright it's not really about content this is about the relationships that both publishers and blood forms have with citizens jeff jarvis and mathew ingram to both of you gentlemen we appreciate you taking the time to talk about this this story has some long legs i'm sure we'll be talking again thank you thanks. it has not been this cold in texas in decades now on day 3 of a massive winter snap thinkers are being pointed at who is to blame for the millions of people who are left without power and heating many still don't have electricity this in a state that produces more energy than the entire country of britain texas has its own independent power grid separate from the u.s. power grid in a moment we'll talk about the temps and tr

matthew, sorry you are having to deal with that. we appreciate you coming on.et's talk about the millions of you and your former texans dealing with water disruptions, people can't find food. you are dealing with frozen pipes. tell us what you and your family have been through just the past few days. >> thanks for having me on, don. i mean i have been more blessed, i think, than many others. i lost my power like most people here in this community did, and we had rolling blackouts, which were more like rolling lights on. we had the lights on for a shorter period of time than the blackouts, and my pipes have frozen. so our power is back on, but i have my pipes are frozen. i have to try to see if i can get that fixed over the next few days and see if there's any cracks in them. today, that's why i haven't shaved for the show, but i was actually out today most of the day delivering water to folks so they could flush their toilets and they could have drinking water. our community -- and not only do i not have water, our community is actually under a mandatory boil o

matthew, great to have you back on.oming in that republican lawmakers and staffers on two of capitol hill's leading investigative panels, house oversight and senate homeland security, they still plan to pursue pay-to-play conflict of interest accusations involving the biden family. what is the low-hanging fruit here? what do you say? >> well there is sure a lot. i'm glad to be on with you tonight. i think hunter biden situation continues not only to be investigated by the department of justice but i think congress through these committees in the house and senate should continue to pursue that. there are also other family members, his daughter-in-law, his brothers have also needed some attention to what their business dealings are in this administration. i think the real concern liz, is, that for the next four years if there is not an active oversight function of congress looking into these pay-to-play allegations and not only previously when he was vice president, also now that he is president, i think people could get

well yesterday with the heritage of the destroyer in canada matthews holder has talked about does iraq see this legislation the e.u. has talked about it as well as i said it really springs from legislation in germany and now in the e.u. with the digital copyright act there this is going around and around and i think it's felicia's because it's not really about copyright it's not really about content this is about the relationships that both publishers and blood forms have with citizens jeff jarvis and mathew ingram to both of you gentlemen we appreciate you taking the time to talk about this this story has some long legs i'm sure we'll be talking again thank you thanks. it has not been this cold in texas in decades now on day 3 of a massive winter snap thinkers are being pointed at who is to blame for the millions of people who are left without power and heating many still don't have electricity this in a state that produces more energy than the entire country of britain texas has its own independent power grid separate from the u.s. power grid in a moment we'll talk about the temps an

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alexi mccannen, and my fred matthew dowd, and found are of the group country over party. we'll also start at the hill with our msnbc correspondent garrett haake. what is going on up there. >> reporter: a resolution would allow greene's committee appointments to be taken away from her. there's been a pretty serious negotiating process, with democrat hopes that kevin mccarthy and republicans would handle the greene problem themselves, they would somehow find a way to act, to punish her, to get her to apologize and repudiate her past views. that hasn't happened. if republicans aren't willing to act, democrats are. when i've heard from democratic lawmakers, you know, of all the crazy things greene has set, the 9/11 conspiracy theories, it's the endorsement of political violence, has them saying you can make any slippery slope, pros argument, this has to be nipped in the bud. political violence is far too fresh in the minds of everyone who lives and works up here after january 6th. it's too connected. you cannot have someone running around in the has of congress who has endors

matthew trebek spoke to abc's t.j.ather's surprisingly large wardrobe. >> your dad's wardrobe, just how would you describe it this terms of sheer size? >> my dad had a very large wardrobe. suits, dress shirts. ties. the wardrobe at "jeopardy" consisted of 300 dress shirts. hundreds of ties. >> reporter: for more than three decades, viewers knew trebek as the face of "jeopardy," but he also devoted time and money to charitable causes. launching the trebek foundation in 2011. and matthew trebek said he couldn't inherit his dads wardrobe anyway. he's much taller. and he wanted the clothes to go to someone who would appreciate them. >> this fits into what he believed and passing along kindness to others. it's nice to see it's continuing after he's gone. >> so awesome. we'll have more of matthew trebek's interview later on "good morning america." he talks about why his father's wardrobe was so big. >>> baby news from kansas city chiefs star patrick mahomes and his fiancee. they posted a photograph. check out mom's necklace

we have more with bloomberg's matthew martin who joins us. : -- matthew: saudi arabia has announced thisto beef up the economy to attract international firms into riyadh where there is a vast complex, which is sitting largely empty now, and they want to attract some firms in. there is something of a recognition within the government whilst smaller companies, mostly international firms have big bases in dubai from which they serve the region, obviously, a huge chunk of the revenue they are getting comes from contracts in saudi arabia. the government is trying to -- a couple of months ago, we had this program of incentives that was talked about, which gave companies tax breaks and some leeway in the requirements to hire locals. that was the carrot to attract people into saudi arabia and now, this is perhaps the sti ck, that if companies do not take the offer of relocating their headquarters into riyadh, they will no longer be eligible for government contracts. >> what is your sense on the ground in riyadh to on how many companies are already trying to get ahead of that decision, given some

matthew, how shortsighted could house republicans be after all of what's presented is it a fire alarm leadership and republican party? >> well it's definitely a fire alarm fire for leadership across the country and we've got a sager nal point -- signal point on the republican senators that don't seem to care at this moment. i would say the most important part is not the punishment part whether or not donald trump will get convicted, that's not the post important part, the most important part is defining truth and accountability who is accountable not only donald trump and others in this. it's something we didn't do -- i loved your first segment -- it's something we didn't do after the reconstruction of the civil war, we're still dealing with the aftermath of that whether we didn't come to truth and accountability. so i would say everyone should look at this sometimes you lose battles but raise awareness and expectation about ha you want. -- it happened in the civil rights movie. emmett till was acquitted in 1955 though the evidence was convincing but that then led to the -- the freedo

with me now, matthew whitaker, former acting attorney general. great to have you back on, matthew.ens of hollywood celebrities pressuring joe biden to kill the keystone pipeline but senator joe manchin, afl-cio chief richard trumka say that is a bad idea. it looks like it is getting more politicized by the day. what do you make of it. >> it is. who is getting caught the good people in the dakotas working on the pipeline whose jobs depend on it. i saw a a great feature who interviewed the folks. day one they would stop the project. day one, january 20th, all those people lost their jobs and the project was stopped. so for a lot of americans, this administration sure looks like a job-killer f we listen to hollywood elites that have no connection to the real economy and how we're going to, you know, take all of the above energy approach, then i think, you know, we're going to be in real trouble if our policy is dictated by hollywood. elizabeth: yeah. 14 state ags are threatening to sue. we're talking about creating poverty in the middle of a pandemic in states like montana, texas, ame

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but the local d.a., matthew, was saying, you know what? we're not going to prosecute them and just let these rioters go. what do you say? >> well, and don't forget, these are the same types of arrests and rioters that the current vice president of the united states was raising bail money for. this prosecutor charges people with felonies, gets them to plead to felonies, and then they're sentenced to probation. that is not going to punish people for committing these types of crimes like throwing molotov cocktails at police, and it's also not going to deter future violent crimes because everyone knows that the turnstile at the county attorney's office and at the courts is just going to let them back on the streets. i think it's a really bad message to potential violent criminals and, ultimately, portland needs to implement a much stronger law and order philosophy if they're going to prevent future riots -- elizabeth: yeah. >> -- property damage and possibly loss of life, ultimately. elizabeth: yeah. 30 have been killed since the riots of last

most taken from degare types and early photographs by matthew brady's studio. if you were to see the whole thing, you see that they look like they're sitting in the same chair in front of the same curtain background that matthew brady uses for every congressman. you can't swing a cat without finding a 19th century photograph, a member of congress from brady's studios sitting in these chairs. it's very interesting to see during this reconstruction period that really is a sense that these people are members of congress. there's this sort of, you know, civil war is the b.c. and a.d. of american history, seems like it's very much a huge pivot that's happened as shown by this kind of representation of them. >> well, for african-americans and historians talk about this, the reconstruction period is really the second american revolution in which political rights were extended to this group that had been excluded for so long. and rainey and revels, their two careers in the house and senate respectively embody the experiences of the african-americans who served in this