all right the thoughts of august mcneil senior member of the scottish national party thanks very much for speaking to us on a sunday as well. ok moving on the world press freedom day was marked this week by u.s. authorities who mainly focused on journalists rights in other countries the day arrived is was revealed that the united states had witnessed more than 400 assaults on journalists over the past year there are also a 139 arrests and over 100 cases of reporters equipment being damaged on the 2021 tracker shows more and more incidents every day. has been taking a closer look at press freedom in america. if there's one thing entrenched in the d.n.a. of us democracy that would be putting america on the pedestal of righteousness at every given opportunity like here we're seeing every day. the work that journalists are doing around the world in increasingly difficult and challenging conditions nothing is more fundamental to the good functioning of our democracies they advocate they seek safety they celebrate the u.s. knows how to throw one hell of a party for a truth teller look no fu

henry mcneil turner for example in washington who was quite enthusiastic about colonization. so so yeah, the ame was more inclined to favor and other churches were about baptist methodist church were more up to oppose. um let me ask this one. this is that. did the us play a role in establishing liberia? yes. yes and creating their system of government, right? it was liberia was established by the american colonization society a private outlet and which had some money from the federal government to start with but not much. so it was it was more of a private. enterprise which led to the establishment and and not liberia then becomes a country an independent country and not just an outpost of the american colonization society in 18 in 1847. i believe it was. okay. it did lincoln change his initial feelings of colonization based on reading uncle tom's cabin. that was as far as we know. he didn't read uncle tom's cabin and then the story that he he met harriet beecherstone said that this is the little lady that started the war. i've never found any significant evidence to suggest

chief mcneil like the rain system because it's adaptable. any region, any fuel type. any terrain. i thought you would ask us, for example, brody punches. the numbers for sacramento square miles fuel type fog ruffian more. i estimate the order southwest of hits that there be around 16 drones to contain at any ignition within approximately 8 minutes in the foothills of the sierra that equation would be different. some areas will need more drones. others less. every fire engine isn't the same. we specialize the equipment to the job at hand. the aircraft is the same. even the type of fire suppression agent. the drone would carry could be different. we are moving towards an ultra-high pressure liquid solution, retardant currently it's a key to activate a dry chemical now it's important to know macneil nor bowdie think drones could replace firefighters on the frontlines. >> that they just might be able to help those firefighters before they get to the fire line. any ignition is never more than a couple of minutes away. >> well novel, but could sure use that help. hey, make sure your cel

mcneil is the fire chief in dixon and has almost 30 years of firefighting under his belt. we need new tools. we need to embrace whatever technology is out there. chief mcneil like the rain system because it's adaptable. any region, any fuel type. any terrain. i thought you would ask us, for example, brody punches. the numbers for sacramento square miles fuel type fog ruffian more. i estimate the order southwest of hits that there be around 16 drones to contain at any ignition within approximately 8 minutes in the foothills of the sierra that equation would be different. some areas will need more drones. others less. every fire engine isn't the same. we specialize the equipment to the job at hand. the aircraft is the same. even the type of fire suppression agent. the drone would carry could be different. we are moving towards an ultra-high pressure liquid solution, retardant currently it's a key to activate a dry chemical now it's important to know macneil nor bowdie think drones could replace firefighters on the frontlines. >> that they just might be able to help those fir

mcneil jr. a former science writer for "the new york times" who recently published an essay titled how i learned to stop worrying and love the lab leak theory. he credits a former colleague for causing his reflection. that former colleague is nicholas wade who, himself, wrote recently for the bulletin of atomic scientists. wade does not come to a conclusion but says neither the natural escape theory nor the natural emergence ehypothesis cn be ruled out. he noted this. because president trump said the virus will escaped from a wuhan lab, editors gave the idea little creditence and joined the virologists. quote. facebook even went so far as to ban posts saying that covid-19 was man-made or manufactured and reversed that policy this week. president biden shut down a state department investigation whether the virus could have leaked from a chinese lab using ineffective resources. on wednesday, biden changed course ordering intelligence officials to reinvestigate the origins of covid and report back

looking at the underlying reasons why, discovered fantastic tomes like mcneil's plagues, strongly recommendthem to people. >> i planned to bring that book up during my questions because i read it in college. >> you still -- nicholas can give an informed answer but on most of the medical aspects, certainly on much of the broader history so there have been a lot of new research not just on the medical aspects. and economy standard historian and not a medical doctor. a lot more on terms of how societies work and economic responses since then. i wanted to get that across, the impacts on women's equality. forget the huge impact on quality, gay and lesbian rights, violence, we underestimate how much is changed because infection has receded so much. all of that before covid, i deserve credit for being one among another. who thought there was going to be at some point another global pandemic in a way that was fairly obvious because we had a lot of close calls. the things that's mentor fighting in the last year was how much i underestimated the impact of this pandemic, quoting economists and others

chief mcneil like the rain system because it's adaptable. any region, any fuel type. any terrain.thought you ask us, for example, brody punches. the numbers for sacramento square miles fuel type fog ruffian more. i estimate the order southwest of hits that there be around 16 drones to contain at any ignition within approximately 8 minutes in the foothills of the sierra that equation would be different. some areas will need more drones. others less. every fire engine isn't the same. we specialize the equipment to the job at hand. the aircraft is the same. even the type of fire suppression agent. the drone would carry could be different. we are moving towards an ultra-high pressure liquid solution, retardant currently it's a key to activate a dry chemical now it's important to know macneil nor bowdie think drones could replace firefighters on the frontlines. >> that they just might be able to help those firefighters before they get to the fire line. any ignition is never more than a couple of minutes away. >> and that was richard sharp reporting for us tonight as we take a look at t

former "new york times" reporter don mcneil looks into it. cnn said dr. fauci crushed donald trump.onald trump was right or wrong. how can be you so definitive and authoritative in your language when you didn't know about it either. look at cnn contributor joan harwood he was politicizing this last year. here is cnn contributor john harwood. watch this. >> well they say they have seen evidence but haven't shown anyone else the evidence, that is the key distinction. the scientific research has suggested strongly, shown strongly according to anthony fauci this was not a concocted virus. this was not something that the chinese created as a bio weapon in a virology lab to harm other people. the problem for president trump is that he is running for re-election, looking for ways to deflect blame for the performance of the administration. elizabeth: looking for things to deflect blame against the administration. okay, so, what do you think of that theory? >> well, obviously that's ridiculous. we know that donald trump didn't create covid. in fact he had "operation warp speed," he developed

. >> the segment of the audience that showed up to watch "west wing," they watched "the mcneil lehrern was the first wave of what we now have, remarkably specific niche programming. ♪ >> "freaks and geeks" really sympathized with the losers and had great empathy for its characters. ♪ because you don't see that i got something going right here ♪ >> "freaks and geeks" breaks my heart every time i think about it. >> i'm sorry. did i crush your twinkies? >> it lasted 18 episodes. and they're perfect 18 episodes but nbc hated it so much. >> roll down the windows because i got a big one a-brewing. >> oh, no, please don't. >> they thought it was a show by losers, about losers, for losers. they hated it. they wanted no part of it. they killed it. >> at the end of the '90s, the jig is starting to be up for the networks. basically, quality migrates to cable. >> "oz" comes on in '97. and it's set in this fictional penitentiary. wow. what a strange show that was. >> in "oz," sometimes the things you can't touch are more real than the things you can. for instance, fear, hatred, loneliness are more