this evidence has been hacked by an anti—fraud investigator, known as uche tobias.targeted the email accounts of high—ranking members of the nbm, revealing the intersection between the black axe, politics and crime. distorted voice: the neo-black movement as an organisation - isjust a charade. the endgame of the organisation is to subvert the opinion of the public into believing that they're legitimate, when, in fact, the opposite is true. it's a big smokescreen for what they really are, which is a mafia. uche's obtained potentially explosive evidence, thousands of emails exposing the long history of axemen infiltrating politics in benin. a hacked email from 2012 suggests politicians funnelled 35 million naira to the nbm to assist with an election campaign in edo state. in return, axemen were allegedly promised 80 roles in government. distorted voice: politicians reach out to the black axe, _ mobilise young people, and, for that, they're promised money and they're promised roles within government. so, when elections come around, you just have more and more cultists

uche claims they are desperate to kill him.00, 300 death threats. these people are capable of the most horrific crimes. i knew that investigating the nbm was a dangerous business, but myjourney was nearly over and i needed answers. after weeks of negotiation, the president of the neo—black movement agreed to meet me. i had to ask him, face—to—face, if the nbm is the real power behind the black axe. we've gotten a couple of security operatives to go with us. we have an armed escort at the back. i mean, i would be lying if i said that i'm not slightly concerned, especially when the allegations are put in front of him. the nbm came in force. the newly—elected president, ese kakor, was accompanied by two lawyers. behind me, the boys filmed our every move. the president was quick to dismiss any suggestion the nbm is a front for black axe. some people say that the neo—black movement of africa is actually a smokescreen for the black axe. how do you react to that? i then show them evidence their former leader, augustus bemigho, was not

uchÉ blackstock is the founder and ceo of advancing health equity. dr.hear from the president on tuesday. >> alicia, i need the president to be bold and courageous and innovative this tuesday. we heard so much about a very vaccine-centric strategy, and we need a plan that will involve layered mitigation, which we talk about so much. we need him to use his bully pulpit to encourage all states to have indoor mask mandates. we need him to make rapid testing even more accessible to people so they don't have to go through their insurance companies. we need him to talk about how he's going to make the testing infrastructure more robust. we also need to hear how he's going to set ventilation and air infiltration standards for businesses and schools and how he's going to close the gap in terms of vaccination rates because we're still seeing the same inequities we saw at the beginning of the vaccine rollout. we're now seeing with boosters nevertheless racial inequities and socioeconomic inequities and how we're going to keep workplaces safe as well. i want to hea

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uchÉ blackstock. she's an msnbc contributor.doctor, the pandemic has killed over 800,000 people. the new variant omicron has reached the u.s. we should caution it's still early, but some research suggests it's much more transmissible as delta but perhaps not quite as deadly. give us the latest you've seen on that variant and also the long-term game plan for combatting the virus. >> good morning, jonathan. obviously, that number, 800,000, is incredibly staggering. 400,000 of those deaths have been since the vaccine rolled out. so obviously, you know, the strategy we've been using since january is not working. i think it's due to a couple of factors. obviously there are gop leadership and a number of states that are pushing back on vaccines and vaccine mandates. there's tremendous information out there, and the administration needs to be more aggressive in using mitigation measures other than vaccination. we're at another inflection point where we have this new variant and we're seeing signs it's more transmissible and may be able

uchÉ blackstock. she's the founder and ceo of advancing health equity and an msnbc contributor.t. can you explain what she means when she says the booster helps boost the efficacy against omicron? >> right. thanks so much for having me on this evening, zerlina. we don't have tons of data. this is all based on preliminary data, and most of it is based on lab studies. and essentially what we see is when you mix essentially the blood of people who are vaccinated versus people who are unvaccinated, omicron decreases the effectiveness of those vaccines, and so it's really important for people to understand we're seeing with these lab stories is that people who are vaccinated and previously infected or fully vaccinated and boosted actually do really well up against omicron, but this is just the lab data. what we're waiting for is real-life data, and we won't have that for several weeks. >> that's such a good point, and i think the distinction between how it works in the real world and how it works in a petri dish -- i don't know if that's what it's in technically. >> right. >> if you

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uche, shot back.tt. in particular, one of them was his trainer. and we heard from the defense attorney that he basically called them the liars. saying that they are the ones that were paid for something else and lied about being -- taking part in this at the direction of mr. smollett. he called them a lot of other names, as well. but really, went after the o-san dar yoe brothers because those brothers, along with police, were the ones who said, look, this was fake hate crime. we were responsible for the perpetration of this game but it was smollett who planned it. the jury will have to take all of the information they have learned from surveillance video to police body-camera video when they went in to talk to mr. smollett the night that he reported this crime and they will have to put that all together and try to come up with a verdict. and they will begin again tomorrow morning. wolf. >> sara sidner in chicago. and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room

uchÉ blackstock. we appreciate when she joins us.pproval of this pill in the fight against covid? >> good morning, jonathan. thanks for having me. i would say pack slow individual is a game-changer. it would be the first medication to treat covid that you can take orally, but we have a few barriers to get through. one, it takes about six months to manufacture this pill. so initiallily we're going to have a limited supply. only tens of thousands of doses this year going to hundreds of thousands of doses starting in 2022. that was important to keep in mind. however, it decreases hospitalization and death by about 90%. it's performed much better than the merck tablet that is very similar. some of the challenges will be that people need to get tested first. we see there are major problems with getting tested here in the u.s. as well as getting a prescription from a health care provider. so you're going to need to have access. those are some of the things we're going to have to think about once this pill gets authorized. >> dr. blackstock

uche blackstock.t out from under this until we look at this as a global challenge. >> exactly. until we seriously and aggressively global vaccine inequity this pandemic will go on forever, essentially. you know, rich countries or rather high income countries have essentially hoarded the majority of the vaccine. they've made agreements with vaccine manufacturers that are essentially preventing the prespies and technologies for these vaccines to be able to be shared with low and middle income countries. and that's why we're seeing the emergence of variants like omicron because as the virus spreads, as it infects individuals it replicates every time. and we have widespread transmission around the global south and the rest of the world that doesn't have vaccines. and that's why we're seeing the emergence. and we'll continue to see emergence of these variants until we seriously address global vaccine inequity. >> i they say not to dishearten people and disengage, but we wonder why we're still here. there i

uche blackstock, and kurt bardella, my blazer partner here, adviser to the democratic congressional campaign much for joining me this evening. dr. blackstock, i don't think we can focus on this enough. i want people to understand, what is the difference between the omicron and the delta variant? and why is that something that doctors are concerned about in this latest surge? >> thanks so much for having me, jason. the two main differences is that the omicron variant is two to three times more transmissible than the delta variant. so it's much more contagious. it also has a mutation that allows it to evade immunity from a previous infection or from full vaccination. so those two factors make this variant much more scary. and we're seeing the doubling rate of it, every two to three days. we're seeing cases soar exponentially. and we'll see things probably worsen after the holidays. >> so one of the things about previous variations of coronavirus is, you know, you can get tests right after you get off a flight, they say sometimes it may take one or two days to show up. how fast is omicron compa

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uche blackstock, an msnbc contributor as well as the founder and ceo of the group advancing health equityd eli stokols, white house reporter for the "new york times." we have got a full, the white house is saying they are doing everything they can but are they really? operation warp speed did do everything it could to bring us the vaccine. what we still don't have two plus years in is quick, reliable testing. could they not be spending an awful lot of time and money creating testing capabilities on our phones, in our homes so we can know what we're dealing with before we walk out the door? >> steph, you saw the white house and the president specifically very clearly on the defensive on this issue yesterday, but listen, what we saw was a white house that is speaking to a very specific audience. it's what they believe is the majority of americans who feel like over the past two years they've done everything that's been asked of them, they've gotten vaccinated. they've been masked up for the most part. they're avoiding large gatherings, and yet, they're still extremely frustrated to see that

uche blackstock is a physician and the founder and ceo of advancing health equities. she is also an msnbc medical contributor. andy, dr. fauci told my colleague, chris hayes, that the administration is hoping to flood the system with tests, but biden's plan will require insurance companies to reimburse those who buy at-home tests. is this the most effective way to make testing affordable? >> well, this is a multi-pronged plan here. the first thing that they've done is they're putting 50 million tests for free in community health centers. that's in addition to 20,000 free testing sites for every american in the country. and now they're basically saying is insurance companies have to pay for these tests. for any consumer. because today, you know, many well-off people who live in nice areas, if they want to go see relatives or go to school, they can afford to take these tests frequently, but for many people, they can't. if i were in the white house today, i would be calling the insurance companies and asking them to send these test kits to people's homes. they're going t

uche blackstock. she's been seeing the lines, too, and she said, it's so frustrating, because it's like we don't learn from surge to surge. we know that the city is going to be distributing about 500,000 rapid at-home tests, as well as masks to community organizations, but dr. blackstock said we should have learned what was going on in europe that we knew it would come here, stephanie. >> all right, doctor, give us a reality check. break it down. what does it mean for people who are vaccinated and boostered, people who are just vaccinated, and for those who got nothing. >> well, if you look at the issue with delta, which is right now still causing the majority of the serious illnesses we're seeing, particularly in new york. actually being fully vaccinated and boosted, you actually have very, very high levels of protection against getting even infected and in particular, serious illness. however, what we're all concerned about is omicron, which is coming now. and that is also now in new york and it's i

>> senator, as you noted we already prohibit things on youtube kids uch such as being able to comment, and we would support working with you in regulation in this area. >> okay. you would support working with us, but would you support banning likes? >> yes, senator. again, we already do not allow for this on a youtube kids platform. >> and again, the american academy of pediatrics just declared a national state of emergency for children and teen mental health. we need to outlaw the -- the question we have to answer ultimately is whether or not, for example, we're going to ban auto play for kids with this feature when one video ends, another quickly begins. kids stay glued to their phones so apps collect more data and make more money. today 82% of parents are worried about their kids screen time. to each of you today, do you agree that congress should ban auto play for kids? yes or no? ms. miller, we'll start with you this time. >> senator, each of the items you're outlining we already prohibit. we do -- we have auto -- excuse me, the default set to auto play off on youtube kids as wel