i'm missy ryan, national security reporter for the washington post. it's been five months since the us withdrew its remaining forces from afghanistan. in this time the taliban has consolidated control and afghanistan's future remains uncertain at best. i'm delighted to be here with the head of the un refugee agency for a conversation about the ongoing crisis in afghanistan. commissioner filippo grandi, welcome to washington post live. >> thank you for having me on this important topic. >> it's a pleasure to be with you. >> commissioner grandi, afghanistan's economy is in shambles. winter is setting in and the nation is gripped by food insecurity. over 3.5 million people are displaced within afghanistan including at least 700,000 uprooted during 2021.how would you characterizethe humanitarian crisis in afghanistan right now ? >> you gave already some of the most important elements of its very very serious humanitarian situation. now, a little correction if i may to your initial presentation. in the video. the 3 and a half million people that are displa

a little bit later we will be talking with the "washington post" book critic and getting his take on some of the notable books of the past year but first, here's some publishing news. this week former white house chief of staff mark meadows book was published. lots of news came out of it including that president trump tested positive for covid-19 prior to the presidential debate. the former president was in a bunker for safety following the murder of george floyd and the then president threatened to bomb a village of a taliban leader didn't cooperate with him. they since denounced as fake news and all seasons presses the publisher. also this week the children's publisher scholastic, home of the harry potter series and worth an estimated $1.2 billion is facing a potential challenge to the company's recent leadership. the former ceo robinson who died earlier this year left the majority of the company stock to a long time employee. now this surprised mr. robinson's family. a scholastic was founded by mr. robinson's father in 1920 and was considered a family business. according to news r

speak with you and your audience and i appreciate the focus of the washington post on children. it is so important because frequently kids are not thought of in these types of situations. >> i am looking forward to our conversation and i want to get into some of these questions about the impact of the pandemic on kids. but first i want to ask you more specifically about your own hospital. we have seen these surges across the country, but how is it impacting children's national? >> we are -- children's national is a hospital here in washington, d.c. we serve the region. we have seen the trend that has affected hospitals and health systems in communities across the country. we, through the beginning parts of the pandemic, with the original variants, we would see routinely a peak of maybe 20 patients in the hospital and they were sick. about one third of them would go to the icu. and people were thinking may be well, it doesn't have that much impact on children. but as things went along and now with this omicron variant, we have seen just how -- what a false set of conclusions that

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welcome to "washington post" life. saying thank you so much for having me and happy new year. >> happy new year to you too. let me start with the news of the day if i may. we have a record-breaking million cases out there and president biden has called for increased testing and doubling the number of anti-viral pills available and a state of emergency now with the increasing number of hospitalizations. what is your take on the possibility of this new variant? >> i call it the oh my. variant instead of the omicron variant. just to make a little bit fun of it even though it is not fun to be experiencing this at all. variants are coming because we are allowing the virus to circulate around the globe continuously so as the virus circulates the virus makes copies of itself and it makes copies of itself and anyway it's possible for the virus to come back around and cause more harm. in the case of omicron obviously it's better at being transmittable from human-to-human. there is previous immunity whether it be from a prior in

that's some final advice of the washington post. i will mention and bring us right back to january six this new radio for a series presented by gambrell looks at the build—up to january six and the causes of those riots and looks at the hearing on conspiracy theories and you can listen to the entire series right now on bbc silence. —— bbc sounds that is it for this edition and thank you for watching and thanks to all of our guests and we will see you next week. hello. well, friday evening was clear and quite cold with an early frost, but now a weather front is sweeping across the uk and temperatures will actually be rising through the rest of the night and into the early hours of saturday morning. so, by the end of the night, it's raining heavily across western areas, mild, temporary snow across the highlands, and then that frost lifting across eastern parts of the country. i think many of us on saturday morning are in for some wet and very windy weather at times. some of that rain could be torrentialfor a time. come the after

capitol. >> good afternoon and welcome to washington post life. dozens were injured physically. many more have wrestled with emotional and mental trauma since then. yet most are now back at most are back at work. even for us against city members of congress. i am honored to be joined by the police sergeant. you're joining us today in your personal capacity and your comments are your own and not on behalf of the capitol police. sergeant, i want to thank you for how you have been open over the past year with us and others about the long journey that it has been for you to recover. you've discussed some of your injuries and even your surgeries. i know you've had the capital back on patrol. one year later, how are you doing and what is it like to be back in the capital? sgt. gonell: thank you for having me. [indiscernible] i'm back at work. this whole past year has been very difficult, challenging. it. the amount of physical therapy has been painful. mental health sessions trying to help me cope with some of the moments that i endure, they >> trying to help me cope with some of thes

that's some final advice of the washington post. i i advice of the washington post. i will mention and bring us right back to january 5ix this new radio for a series pre5ented to january 5ix this new radio for a series presented by gambrell look5 5erie5 presented by gambrell looks at the build—up to january 5ix 5erie5 presented by gambrell looks at the build—up to january six and the causes of those riot5 at the build—up to january six and the causes of those riots and looks at the hearing on conspiracy theories and you can listen to the entire series right now on bbc silence. that is it for this edition and thank you for watching and thanks to all of our guests and we will see you next week. snow and ice me for tricky chaplain conditions and places on friday. we will see less of that in the forecast for the week ahead. saturday will bring arre5ts now and more rain courtesy of this frontal system working at three east with heavy bursts of rain. we have a wedge of mild air. generally speaking mild leather around on 5peaking mild leather around on saturday mornin

hosted by "the washington post," this runs half an hour. jonathan: welcome to "washington post live" and another in our series on race and american. this is a weekend when we as a nation celebrate dr. martin luther king jr.. but the civil work of that great man remains undone. his eldest son is using the holiday to focus on voting rights, with action in arizona tomorrow the birthday of martin luther king, and here in washington on monday, the holiday. joining me now is martin luther king iii, chairman of the drum major institute. welcome to "washington post live." martin: thank you. jonathan: i saw you maybe a couple of weeks ago. let's talk about a tweet to put out an hour ago. you twisted, until our freedom to vote is secure, we don't see progress on issues that matter most to us, abortion access, gun violence prevention, economic equality, racial justice, climate change. president biden and congress, do what is right and pass voting rights legislation, all caps, now. i hear you. millions of americans hear you and agree with you. why don'

from the washington post, this runs one half-hour. robert: i am robert barnes and i covered the supreme court for the post. former federal judge -- christine rodriguez who was the chair. welcome to washington post life. robert: old friends getting back together again, i see. tessa rodriguez, would you start us off, please, and tell us the impetus for this committee and sort of the unusual mandate that you had, which was not really to make recommendations to the president. >> the committee was effectively making good on a campaign promise that then candidate joe biden made during an interview when asked about the prospects for the supreme court reform. he said that he would form a committee in order to study those ideas. the committee was set up not to make recommendations, but to candace as wide a range of views as possible in order to provide an actual analysis of the proposals that are prominent in the public discussion for the presidents benefit to better inform his understanding and the public debate over whether discipline court

robert costa is from the washington post. susan ferrechio is chief congressional correspondent at the washington examiner. susan, i wonder for our viewers who do not know your publication, tell us about it. we are a news website in a magazine based in washington, dc. our team of reporters cover breaking news, congress, the white house, politics in general, elections, and we also have a team of opinion columnists added into the mix. we are grateful for you joining us. and our final guest is zing tsjeng, editor in chief of vice uk. and, zing, for people who don't know vice well, what is your editorial remit in charge of vice uk? we are a global youth culture website. we have a tv film studio, we are on tiktok, social media channels, snapchat. and we also publish a website, very retro in this time and age for our gen 2 audience and we have audiences all over the world from la to new york and london and asia. we are at a stage where websites are retro — that's where we have got to. unfortunately, if you're talking to people who

philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the washington post, coauthor with carol leonnig of "i alone can fix it". alexi mccammond, a reporter from from axios. and harry litman, former assistant attorney general. he helped prepare justice breyer for his hearings in 1994. he now hosts the podcast "talking feds." thank you for joining me on this historic night. phil, let me start with you. a week after the filibuster carve out for voting rights, we are now looking at how a new justice will be seated. how contentious could these confirmation hearings, potentially even with a democratic majority? >> they could be incredibly contentious, in part because that democratic majority is so slim, 50/50, decided of course by the tie breaking vote of president harris. president biden is going to need to count on all 50 democrats to support him in the supreme court nomination. there is not going to be much margin for error. he is going to be thinking, i think, about what kind of nominee can he put forward that is going to not only galvanize and win over support from progressive democrats, l

and welcome to "washington post live." i am arianna sotomayor,, congressional reporter at the "washington post" covering the house of representatives. that's why i am very excited to have this time the conversation with congressman jim clyburn. he is of course the third-highest ranking democrat in the house serving as the majority whip. congressman thank you for joining me today. >> thank you very muchrn for having me. >> there so many things come so many things is want to ask you about but, of course, i need to start where the news has been in the last 24 hours which is of course the supreme court. i know there are now several names that are being floated, and you have been someone who has counseled biden for hiscally the beginning of campaign to this day, even though a lot of your colleagues are actually thinking that judge brown jackson seemed to be the front runner. there's been one consistent name for you, one consistent recommendation combated courses judge childs. can you tell us a little bit about her, why you like

welcome to "washington post live." martin: thank you. jonathan: i saw you maybe a couple of weeks ago. let's talk about a tweet to put out an hour ago. you twisted, until our freedom to vote is secure, we don't see progress on issues that matter most to us, abortion access, gun violence prevention, economic equality, racial justice, climate change. president biden and congress, do what is right and pass voting rights legislation, all caps, now. i hear you. millions of americans hear you and agree with you. why don't you think any action has been taken or will be taken on voting rights? chair: -- martin: i would first of all say i was greatly disappointed yesterday to hear senator sinema and senator manchin take positions that appear to close the opportunity for something to be done. but what i am perplexed by more than that is, there are 50 democrats, those two included in the 50, who say they do support the bills. i don't know how you can support the bills without stating that you want a pathway for that to happen and no one seems to be

welcome back to washington post live. we have spoken about this, your vantage point on and before january 6 was unique. your team piece together a broader landscape of intelligence before the sixth, and that led you to conclude if it really was a danger of extreme violence. your office was not in the mainstream of law enforcement discussions about planning for that day. so years passed and i want to start with a candid question. is there anything you wish you had done differently with the intelligence with what you know and what you believe the day leading up to january 6? >> i struggled with that over the last year, and i actually struggled through the last 15 minutes with the interview had with sergeant canel. i will tell you he is not unique. i will tell you firsthand that the officers are struggling with what's happened that day. if i knew then what i knew now, there would be, i think, an opportunity to have prevented what those law enforcement officers at the u.s. capitol, and from the d.c. metropolitan police had to

newman, welcome back to "washington post" live. dr. newman: well, thank you,-page. i really appreciate having the opportunity to speak with you and your audiences and i appreciate the focus of "the washington post" on children. it's so important because frequently kids are not thought of in these types of situations. >> i'm looking forward to our conversation and i want to get into some of these questions about the i. -- impact of the pandemic on kids. but first, i want to ask you about your own hospital. we've seen these surges around the country in the last couple of weeks, but how has the omicron surge impacted the availability of beds? mr. newman: the children's hospital in washington, d.c. and we serve the region. and we've seen the trend that is affected hospitals, health systems, communities all across the country. we through the beginning parts of the pandemic with the original variants, we would see routinely at a peak maybe 20 patients in the hospital. and they before sick -- and they were sick. and about 1/3 of them would go to the i.c.u. people were thin

"the washington post" explains it in their story this morning. the u.s. economy sent more confusing singles in -- signals in december adding just 199,000 while pushing the unemployed it right down to a new pandemic low. according to the labor department monthly jobs report. it was the second month where job month -- job growth came in well below expectations. economists had forecast more than 400,000 jobs added in the month while the unemployment rate sank from 4.2% in november to 3.9%. that means unemployment is nearing what was a 50 year low of 3.5% achieved in february 2020. the october and november initial reports with 546,000 and 210,000 jobs added respectively were revised upward. in interviews, many economists said they felt the report was stronger than the topline jobs figure. but the numerous economic forces unleashed by the pandemic in 2020 including inflation, labor shortage, and supply chain woes continued to weigh on the labor market and make it hard to predict what will happen next. we want to know from you what your job situation is. before

here the headlines for you from "the washington post." for workers, home sick, worsening a labor shortage. "washington post" eli rosenberg reporting nearly nine million people missed work in late december and early january as the omicron variant either infected themselves or caring for someone who was. pam in royal, arkansas, democratic caller. hi. good morning. caller: hi. i'm ok. just recovering surgery and i'm sitting here watching television. in your top news -- host: your top news story? caller: what i'm calling for is everybody talks about president biden being old and being in office. what about mitch mcconnell, the wishy-washy, changes his mind all the time? there are a lot of old people in there that can't make up their mind trump was right, trump was wrong. and all the other issues that are happening that biden had throwed at him he was trying to fix when he got in there. he's only human. host: ok. eddie in massachusetts, republican. hi. caller: good morning. as calvin coolidge said, the business is business. sr.ry to say last m

fauci's nih is blocking and stonewalling "the washington post." they spent tens of millions of dollars on you super dangerous virus research in places like china. more flip-flopping from dr. fauci. more rules for thee, not for me. democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez getting blasted not wearing a mask in florida after cortez slammed florida. we have this story, even progressives want to replace biden with their own far left candidate on the 2024 democrat candidate ticket. will we see more jockeying for power and voter alienation? will it get worse. reports that nancy pelosi will retire after the midterms according to the washington post. first time ever, fentanyl outpaces heroin seized at border. crime in u.s. cities is growing fueled by drug gangs. more families find their loved ones are getting sick dying from fentanyl in fake prescription drugs. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: happy new year, everybody, thanks for joining us. we're going to start with this, more than 14 million u

judge griffith, professor rodriguez, welcome to "washington post" live. cristina: thanks for having us. judge griffith: hi, cristina. cristina: good to see you. robert: old friends getting back together again, i see. professor rodriguez, would you start us off, please, and tell us the impetus for this committee and sort of the, i guess, unusual mandate that you had, which was not really to make recommendations to the president. cristina: the committee was effectively making good on a campaign promise that then candidate joe biden made during an interview when asked about the prospects for the supreme court reform, he said that he would form a committee in order to study those ideas. the committee was set up not to make recommendations. but to van cass as wide a range of views as possible in order to provide an actual analysis of the proposals that are prominent in the public discussion for the president's president to better inform his understanding and the public debate over whether the supreme court needed reform in the first place and over which types

. >> good afternoon and welcome to washington post live. i am an investigative reporter. it has been almost one year since the attack on the u.s. capitol and while the aftermath continues to ripple across america, the last year has been the focal for members of the capitol police. last january, they found themselves on the front line of the insurrection. members were injured physically and many more have wrestled with trauma since then. most are now back at work and they are there even though threats have only increased. i am honored to be joined today by u.s. capitol police sergeant aquilino gonell . thank you so much for joining us. before we get started, i want to mention to our audience that you are joining us today in your personal capacity and your comments are your own and not on behalf of the capitol police. sergeant, i want to thank you for how you have been open over the past year with us about what a journey it has been for you to recover. you discuss some of your injuries and you have posted about your surgeries online. i also know you have been back now at th

forines the washington post is hosting a discussion with martin luther king iii about voting rights. >> arizona was always since legislation has already occurred and arizona. in addition to legislation, there has been a court ruling as well. when you look at the black and brown and most of all indigenous communities that are there, it is the right area to be. finally, because senator sinema is there. we want her to know and all of her constituents have to have some level of influence on her. if it all comes to a head on january 15, that's very important. >> have you had a conversation with senator sinema about voting rights? >> no. we have requested to have conversations and up to now, we have not been able to have a conversation. senator daschle we have had a conversation with but senator sinema, no. even our constituents have not been able to get meetings. i don't know if that is true, but that is what we have heard. host: what does it say that you have not been able to successfully engage in dialogue with her? >> the main things disappointment. as i said yesterday, history is not

on the tensions with russia here's the washington post. front-page story, allies all over the map on ukraine. reporting for the post that is russia amasses tens of thousands of troops on its borders with ukraine along with tanks and artillery, missiles capable of striking the capital, officials in washington, a key evan across the nation are weighing the timing of invasion. one camp is convinced a russian strike is imminent. but ukraine's president is now personal -- is not persuaded that the intelligence western nations of shonen backed up their dire assessment. some think russia could strike but are not sure of the timing and whether he will accept diplomatic compromise that he can sell as a nato retreat. that in the washington post. tom in north carolina, republican. tom, good morning. caller: yes i'm here. host: we are listening. caller: nancy pelosi kicked the two republicans off the committee -- host: you keep breaking up, apologies. hopefully you can call back. new jersey, independent. caller: i believe americans in this country hav

produced by pfizer and moderna. >> hello and welcome to washington post live. it is, norma's pleasure to what -- it's an enormous pleasure to welcome a viral immunologist, a key scientist behind the invention of the mrna vaccine. a very warm welcome. >> thank you so much for having me. happy. -- happy new year. >> let me start with the news of the day. we have a record-breaking number of cases out there, president biden has called for increased testing. in maryland we have an increasing number of hospitalizations. maybe you can give me your take on omicron and the possibility for new variants. >> i call it the oh my gosh variant. [laughter] we are allowing the virus to circulate around the globe continuously. in the case of omicron, you are seeing it being more transmittable, there is some evasion of pre-existing immunity whether from prior infection or vaccine responses. because of that, we are seeing record numbers of cases. the interesting thing and most important part of it is just like with the previous variance, largely the vaccine is keeping people safe

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here's "the washington post's" version of the that same front page story today. giuliani coordinated plan for trump electoral votes in states biden won. it was mr. giuliani, apparently. you know, you find a little thread of a story, you tug and you tug and you tug some more an one day you're like one more tug on the same thread and the whole sweater comes apart. today the whole sweater came apart and now we're sitting in a pile ofno yarn and you're going oh, that's what it's made of. here's how cnn put it in their story tonight. quote, trump campaign officials led by rudy giuliani oversaw efforts in december 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that trump lost, according to three sources knowledge of the scheme. members of former president donald trump's campaign team were far moredo involved than previously expected. giuliani and his allies coordinated the nuts and bolts of the process on a state-by-state level. the trump campaign lined up supporters to fill elector slots, secured meeting rooms at statehouses for the fake electors to meet

>> good afternoon and welcome to washington post life. dozens were injured physically. many more have wrestled with emotional and mental trauma since then. yet most are now back at work. they are there even though threats against sitting members of congress and our entire democracy have only increased. i'm honored to be joined today by u.s. capitol police sergeant. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> before we get started, i want to mention to her audience that you are joining us today in your personal capacity and your comments are your own, not on behalf of the capitol police. sergeant, i want to thank you for how you have been open over the past year with us and others about the long journey that it has been for you to recover. you've discussed some of your injuries and even your surgeries. i know you've had the capital back on patrol. one year later, how are you doing and what is it like to be back in the capital? sgt. gonell: thank you for having me. [indiscernible] i'm back at work. this whole past year has been very difficult, challen

this washington post event runs about 25 minutes. >> hello everyone and welcome to washington post live, congressional reporter at the washington post, i am covering the house of representatives. that is why i am excited to have this conversation with jim clyburn, the third highest wrecking democrat in the house, serving as the majority whip. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> there are so many things i want to ask you about. i need to start where the news has been, the supreme court. there are several names that are being floated and you have been someone who has been counseled by basically the beginning of his campaign, to this day, even though a lot of your colleagues are thinking that another seems to be the front runner, there has been a consistent name for you, a consistent recommendation and that is judged childs. tell us about her, why you like her so much and white -- whether you have spoken to her or biden in the last 24 hours? >> do for having me. let me start with your question, no, i have not talked to president biden or miss childs in the last 4

"washington post," democracy dies in darkness. really? they are completely disingenuous, and they are reporting on this because an industry persuaded them to do it. marginalized immunity? if got the entire -- if got the dash you've got the dash if got the president. issuing executive order the first day upon taking office to redefine sex to include gender identity throughout the federal of of law. marginalized? i don't think so. >> tucker: probably fair to say she doesn't have any friends who watch fox news. she may not have any friends at all after they see this interview, but she did it anyway because she thinks the subject is that important. it's not just some crazy thing the left is doing, it's the wholesale transformation of our civilization. and we think she's right. you can watch the whole conversation on fox nation, get it for free at tuckercarlson.com. so violent crime in major cities is completely out of control. thousands are dying, americans, dying. this week in chicago, for example, an 8-year-old girl was murdered, here's the

robert costa is from the washington post. susan ferrechio is chief congressional correspondent at the washington examiner. susan, i wonder for our viewers who do not know your publication, tell us more about it. we are a news website in a magazine based in washington, dc. our team of reporters cover breaking news, congress, the white house, politics in general, elections, and we also have a team of opinion columnists added into the mix. we are grateful for you joining us. and ourfinal guest is zing tsjeng, editor in chief of vice uk. and, zing, for people who don't know vice well, what is your editorial remit in charge of vice uk? we are a global youth culture website. we have a tv film studio, we are on tiktok, social media channels, snapchat. and we also publish a website, very retro in this time and age for our gen 2 audience and we have audiences all over the world from la to new york and london and asia. we are at a stage where websites are retro — that's where we have got to. unfortunately, if you're talking to people

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they had done interviews with cnn, with aptn and with the washington post about their journey, about their story. you know, we were mindful of the fact that we had perhaps only 15 minutes to talk to them. and at that point, they were very clear that they were innocent, right? because i nderstand that since alexanda kotey has changed his plea. yeah, well, innocent... sort of innocent with caveats, i think you might say. they admitted in that conversation that they had... what they termed as a peripheral role, that they were, you know, elsheikh said he was driving the van, so i asked specific questions about david haines. what sort of answers are you able to offer bethany? i can't answer- specific questions. i can only offer answers - to things which i witnessed. as for the execution - and the remains, i'm afraid i can't offer any answers - to those questions cos i don't have any knowledge of it. he said his role was to take hostages from place to place. did you move david haines from place to place? i moved a bunch of prisoners. what about david haines? he could have been amongst them

on the tensions with russia here's the washington post. front-page story, allies all over the map on ukraine. reporting for the post that is russia amasses tens of thousands of troops on its borders with ukraine along with tanks and artillery, missiles capable of striking the capital, officials in washington, a key evan across the nation are weighing the timing of invasion. one camp is convinced a russian strike is imminent. but ukraine's president is now personal -- is not persuaded that the intelligence western nations of shonen backed up their dire assessment. some think russia could strike but are not sure of the timing and whether he will accept diplomatic compromise that he can sell as a nato retreat. that in the washington post. tom in north carolina, republican. tom, good morning. caller: yes i'm here. host: we are listening. caller: nancy pelosi kicked the two republicans off the committee -- host: you keep breaking up, apologies. hopefully you can call back. new jersey, independent. caller: i believe americans in this country hav

i tell people, i work at the washington post, top of my line. the guy who sat across from me went to harvard, love him to death. we both worked at the washington post. he went to harvard and i went to a state school. i was abandoned by my parents. i was raised low income. we both got to the post. that is the message. i was motivated enough to get there. he was too, he had great pedigree, but we both ended up at the washington post. your kid can do well without you taking on that debt. those are the stories and motivation we give people. it is a proven component of the program. my husband that i work with prisons in a marilyn's doo-wop inmates who are about to be released handle their money so when they come out, they will be better money managers. i believe in giving back. i love that work, i love the prison work, working with individuals to help them achieve their goals. so that they could have financial freedom. so when that crisis happens, maybe they can't weather the whole storm, but a little bit better. susan: we are about out of time. i wa

columnist for "the washington post." ralph nader, if you can respond to what we just heard, to say the least, you are a critic of how democrats and republicans deal with the elections in this country and what happened yesterday. and then move on to overall what president biden said yesterday. >> well, the two hour news conference was deliberate. i think you wanted to show his stamina -- i think he wanted to show his stamina. yet an opportunity to communicate a lot of important things, which he did not do. by the same token, the media did not make itself crowd. it had a very narrow range of questions and huge areas were never asked. they never asked about climate disruption and the republican opposition to doing anything about it. they did not ask about the military budget where congress gave biden $24 billion more than the pentagon even asked for. they did not ask about the drain on the treasury from hundreds of billions of dollars of corporate welfare -- which is a kind of corporate socialism. they did not ask about the

. ♪ ♪ >> good afternoon and welcome to washington post life. dozens were injured physically. many more have wrestled with emotional and mental trauma since then. yet most are now back at work. they are there even though threats against sitting members of congress and our entire democracy have only increased. i'm honored to be joined today by u.s. capitol police sergeant. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> before we get started, i want to mention to her audience that you are joining us today in your personal capacity and your comments are your own, not on behalf of the capitol police. sergeant, i want to thank you for how you have been open over the past year with us and others about the long journey that it has been for you to recover. you've discussed some of your injuries and even your surgeries. i know you've had the capital back on patrol. one year later, how are you doing and what is it like to be back in the capital? sgt. gonell: thank you for having me. [indiscernible] i'm back at work. this whole past year has been very difficult, challen

philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the washington post, coauthor with carol leonnig of i alone can fix it. reporter from axios, -- and former assistant attorney general, he helped prepare justice breyer for his hearings in 1994. he now hosts the podcasts talking feds. thank you for joining me on this historic night. phil, let me start with you. a week after the filibuster carve out for voting rights, we are now looking at how a new justice will be seated. how contentious could these confirmation hearings, potentially even with a democratic majority, the? >> they could be incredibly contentious, in part because that democratic majority is so slim, 50/50, decided of course by the tie breaking vote of president harris. president biden is going to need to count on all 50 democrats to support him in the supreme court nomination. there is not going to be much margin for error. he is going to be thinking, i think, about what kind of nominee can he put forward that is going to not only galvanize and win over support from progressive democrats, like senators bernie sanders and e

for the washington post. -- foreign affairs columnist for the washington post. our next guest about threats to democracy at home and abroad is the former ambassador to russia mike -- michael mcfall and the former director of cybersecurity infrastructure at the apartment homeland security, chris krebs. michael and chris, welcome. >> thank you for having us. >> good to see you. david: chris, let me lead with you. you got sacked in the last months of the trump administration for pride to protect our elections. i want to ask you how you would gauge elections at home and abroad, particularly in your area of spencer lesage and -- specialization. what would be your report card as of now? chris: i think i am best situated to talk about the to -- domestic election landscape. the unfortunate reality is we probably are backsliding from an elections administration perspective. it is not to -- not due to the 2020 election, it is because of political interference at the state level in federal elections. in arizona. look at

according to a "washington post" tally, there are currently 163 republicans who support the big lie and who are running for positions with authority over election administration. the list include 69 candidates for governor in 30 states, 55 candidates for the united states senate, 13 candidates for state attorney general and 18 candidates for secretary of state. it's tempting to disregard these trump loyalists but proponents of the big lie continue to present a danger to the country because they remain untethered from our electoral reality. meanwhile, voting rights reform remains an elusive goal and gop leaders like mitch mcconnell still don't seem to get the importance of passing it at this moment in history. last wednesday, he took the opportunity to lambaste democrats for tying the anniversary of the january 6th insurrection to the issue of voting rights. >> it is beyond distasteful to some of our colleagues to invoke the january 6th anniversary to advance these aims. washington democrats have been trying to seize control over elections for years. the fact that violent criminals broke

that's some final advice of the washington post. i will mention and bring us right back to january 5ix this new radio for a series presented by gambrell looks at the build—up to january 5ix and the causes of those riots and looks at the hearing on conspiracy theories and you can listen to the entire series right now on bbc silence. right now on bbc sounds. that is it for this edition and thank you for watching hello. this is bbc news. we are edging up to viewers joining us on bbc one for the latest news. before we do that, let's bring you the latest covid new5. before we do that, let's bring you the latest covid news. more than a people across the uk have now died during the covid pandemic. that is someone who dies within 28 days of a positive test. that comes after several days of record numbers of cases being reported. the highly transmissible 0micron variant has swept across much of the country. our health correspondent has been 0ur health correspondent has been telling me about

our friend fred hyatt who recently passed away, the op-ed from "the washington post." speaker pelosi, religious groups would challenge him. you can't, as henry kissinger said, you can't be metternich in the political system because you don't have the same control over making policy. we are a democratic system. therefore, i think it's part of who we are -- as you said in an earlier very view, it goes back to the founding of our republic. when we were faced with do we support our allies, the french monarchy or those idea logic cli aligned with us, that's when it started. it's been with us for 230 years. i don't think it will go away. >> thank you for that michael. we look forward to the book. we'll have you back to talk about it when it's done. chris, let me ask you -- you're a technologist that understands cybersecurity, one of the paradoxes of our age is this wonderful gift of the wide open internet has turned out to help autocrats stabilizes their countries, suppress freedoms. it's produced greater disorder in democracy. it was supposed to work the other way around. i

the price action muted, here is the story out of the washington post in the last couple of hours. lawmakers begin earnings talks amid another round of coronavirus relief targeting businesses and not consumers. the early effort to focus on authorizing billions of dollars to help an array of businesses including restaurants, performance venues, gyms the face of potential blow from the story for much of the last two months. tom: we saw the distribution of money to small business the first time we went around this exercise was pretty molding and wondered how did they distribute that money given the problems before. i think my jim would get the money a year or two later which is probably the next time i will visit them. jonathan: you raise a really important point. it's also been discussed in new york city, businesses that need help. the new york mayor, the need to get people back in the offices because the businesses around those are really struggling at the moment. tom: we are seeing it out of the south. i just want to mention the surveillance cost is worldwide. you can hear it to ne