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i cannot stand our leaders, and greg abbott is the dr. evil of texas government. everything he does is cruel and craven. >> listen, you mentioned ron desantis of florida. today questioning joe biden's memory after the president yesterday jokingly referred to desantis as governor who? it's only going to get worse, this feud between them. there's only one side here that is putting lives at risk. am i wrong about that? >> no, not at all. and just the awful thing is that governor desantis and governor abbott, the two of them are trying to blame immigrants. they're trying to blame immigrants for the spread of the coronavirus around the country. and if you really looked at the data, more people have died and more people have been hospitalized because of the decisions of governor desantis and governor abbott during this crisis and pandemic than have even come close to dying because of some immigrants spreading coronavirus. and so it's awful. it's horrible, but in the end, don, we can do everything we can. we can speak truth, which we should keep doing and keep having thi

and greg abbott is the dr. evil of texas government. everything he does is cruel and craven. >> you mentioned ron desantis of florida, today questioning joe biden's memory, after he jokingly referred to as governor who. >> and just the awful thing is, governor desantis and governor abbott, they're trying to blame immigrants for the spread of the coronavirus around the country. and if you really looked at the data, more people have died and more people have been hospitalized because of the decisions of those governors than have come close to dying because of some immigranthorrib. but in the end, we can keep having this conversation, but it's up to us and the rest of the voters to tell the politicians we are not going to stand for this anymore. >> matthew, i have to say, i left home, seriously, without my tan suit because i planned to wear it today. this is the closest i could find. the viewers have seen it before, but it wasn't in my office. and i have to ask you about president biden's wardrobe, wearing a tan suit, similar to one else,

i want to turn to the pandemic and the texas governor greg abbott testing positive for covid. let's hope he gets well, he's okay with this. he's sevening regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment. but how does this look when he's against mask mandates, banning schools from requiring masks? >> like you, don, i hope and expect that governor abbott will get better and there's every reason to think he will. not only has he been vaccinated, tested every day, but he also -- even though he has no symptoms -- immediately got the gold plated monoclonal antibody treatment, which of course is not available to most people and typically not available to people who are asymptomatic. and i've got to say, i don't think -- for somebody who through his actions endangers vulnerable people in his own state for votes, hypocritical is not strong enough a word for that. i think the word is immoral, and i don't know that that reality will harm greg abbott in texas, but the fact that he would carry on with the protection of the best that medicine has to offer while doing what he's doing to facilitate

and texas governor greg abbott himself has tested positive for covid-19. he is being treated with rejenre regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment. for those of you not sure about putting things in your body, regeneron. >> there he is, maskless at this event. he could have spread it to others because he is maskless. he's lucky he is vaccinated because it stems the disease. many are not. you cannot make this up. the governor has been actively preventing other officials from mandating masks that could stop infection and stop the spread. so think about it. like i said before, this virus has no politics. the science is very clear. get vaccinated. mask up. >>> a former translator and interpreter trying desperately to save his family still in afghanistan. his message for president biden as his homeland descends into chaos. >> the united states made an extraordinary sacrifice in afghanistan. 2,448 americans lost their lives in afghanistan. tens of thousands of americans were injured in the war in afghanistan over 20 years trying to help that country stand up and

while in texas the governor there, greg abbott, who issued -- who has issued an executive order banning school districts from acquiring masks, has himself tested positive for covid-19. he is isolated in the governor's mansion and is not currently experiencing any symptoms, we are told. but he is being treated with regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment. so for those of you who are concerned about putting things in your body that you're not so sure about, yet regeneron. put it up, danny. this is him, the governor, at a crowded indoor event, at a republican club meeting the governor attended just last night. maskless. governor abbott fully vaccinated. he's been refusing mask mandates. he apparently refused to follow the cdc guidelines for indoor mask wearing in areas of high transmission p because there he is maskless at this p event. and now he has covid. and he could have spread it to others because he is maskless. he is lucky he is vaccinated because it stems the severity of the disease. too many people are not. boy. you cannot make this up. the governor has been actively preventing

but now governor greg abbott is calling a second special session. joining me right now, representative nicole collier. thank you for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> i love the flag behind you as well. you blocked the legislation in texas for now. but governor abbott is already calling a second special session tomorrow afternoon. voting rights is still on the agenda. so now what? >> we knew this was going to happen. the governor has vowed to call special session after special session to get what he wants. in fact, he has used the more than 2,100 legislative employees as pawns in his game for power. so we know that he will stop at no -- >> representative collier, okay. representative collier, her shot has frozen, her skype has frozen. we'll try to get her back. some of the lawmakers are still in washington, not sure if they're going to continue to stay there, if they're going to rotate in and out. the governor is finishing up one special session, calling another one to try to get this done. we're going to take a break, we'll see what happen

governor greg abbott banning mask mandates including schools. some school districts are defying this ban for the sake of the children. >> if we don't do anything, it could go as many as 2,000 new cases every day by the end of the month. so i felt it was time to step in, even though i'm going to get in trouble and i need to step in and just have some courage and make a decision i think is in the best interest of the district. >> in the best interest of the children. let's remember, kids in texas are getting sick and their contracting covid. listen to this dire warning tonight from an official in dallas county. >> in dallas, we have zero icu beds left for children. that means if your child is in a car wreck, if your child has a heart, congenital heart defect, we don't have one. your child will wait for another child to die to get a bed. >> in america in 2021 in one of the nation's premiere cities? one sick child needs to die before another sick child gets an icu bed. think about that. this is america. one sick child needs to do before another can

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governor greg abbott is banning mask mandates in schools. a dallas county judge is asking a texas court for a temporary restraining order against the governor over his ban. while the state capital of austin, a teacher pleads with her school board to defy the governor and the mask requirements. >> you've asked me to be brave as i practice getting 24 fourth graders into a bathroom, you've asked me to be brave as i think about what would happen if there was some sort of extreme danger and my class is on the playground. you've asked me to be brave and come back to work during a pandemic after surgery and six months of chemotherapy after sage three cancer and i've done it and i will do it and i will show up and i will get in the closet and look for the path to the woods. you don't have to do these things. but just as i will be brave and think about how my body might shield children from danger, i ask that you be brave today. you know what you need to do to protect children. do it, implement a mask mandate and vaccination requirements for students

but governor greg abbott there is banning mask mandates in schools. breaking news, tonight. a dallas county judge is asking a texas court for a temporary restraining order against the governor over his ban. state capital of austin, a teacher pleads with her school board to defy the governor and the mask requirements. >> for many years, you have asked me to be brave. you've asked me to be brave as i practiced getting 24 fourth graders into a bathroom. you have asked me to locate in our hiding spot anything with which i might fight off an active shooter. you have asked me to be brave as i think about what would happen if there's some sort of extreme danger in my class is on the playground. i have discussed with kids how we would run into the woods, hide by the creek, all of us together, avoiding danger. you have asked me to be brave ask come back to work during the pandemic after surgery and six months of chemotherapy for stage-three cancer and i have done it and i will do it and i will show up and i will get in my closet, and i will look for the path to the woods. board membe

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he has turned out the rhetorical kind of heat on greg abbott and ron desantis, but that is not changing their direction. the question is whether he is going to look for any policy levers to try to move them away from these positions they're in, banning masks even while cases are surging in their states. as we talked about before, one quarter of all the k-12 students in the country, many of which cannot receive the vaccine at this point, will be attending school in states where republican governors have banned the districts from requiring masks. will biden put any deeds behind the words of criticizing the republican governors? so far, no. but we'll see. i don't know if he can stay on the sidelines on this if it goes south on them. >> i'll just say you did a good job of pivoting and not answering my question at first. you got back around to it. i'm not in a fighting move because of these anti-inflammatories. i can barely get my lips to work tonight. i don't know if you've ever had any back issues, but it's no fun. david, let me ask you. you have to check out what happened on the senate fl

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like texas governor greg abbott who issued an executive order banning school districts from requiring masks. and tested positive for covid-19 the day after he attended this crowded indoor republican club mee meeting apparently not wearing a mask. then there is ron desantis. you can always count on him to try to turn a deadly disease into an applause line. politicians want you to cover your face as a way to cover their own asses. that's the truth. they want to say they're taking this on and doing this even though it doesn't -- it's not proven to be effective. they want to continue to do it. >> god that is it just such crazy. just to say this is bullshit. really. they want to protect kids, governor. what do you want? >> the cdc and ama both agree that masks reduce the transmission of the virus but desantis reacted to the miami-dade school board's vote today in favor of a mask mandate with a statement pushing the same old misguided bad faith view of freedom. this is nothing to do with freedom. how is it freedom to force children who are too young to be vaccinated into schools where they

governors ron desantis and greg abbott playing politics instead of trying to save lives. fighting back against counties in school districts that are defying bans on mask mandates. so joining me now is fareed zakaria. the host of cnn's fareed zakaria gps. fareed, good evening. it's good to see you. let's talk about what's happening now because we are in the middle of a devastating-fourth covid surge, in some places it is worse than it has been throughout the entire pandemic and people are dying. when this could have really been prevented. we have lifesaving medicine. why can't this country hold it together? >> yeah. the -- the most important thing to remember here is that we are uniquely blessed. i mean, there's a small group of countries in the world that have more than enough vaccines. we're at the top of that list. we were ahead of everybody else, in vaccinations. now, we're not, by the way. most european countries have many more, a much larger percentage of the country vaccinated. and in that circumstance, what you are dealing with is something very deadly. you know, i

governor greg abbott, with your ban on mask mandates even in houston where the mayor told city workers yesterday they need to start wearing masks again. looking at you, governor ron desantis, blaming the media. >> i think it's important to point out because, you know, obviously media does hysteria. you try to fear monger. you try to do this stuff. and when they'll talk about hospitalizations, our hospitals are open for business. >> it's so easy to blame the media. come on, man. blame the media, that's your answer? tell it to the people in florida hospitals hitting an all-time high of patients in one day today. you can take your covid denying and, well, you can get the idea. i've said it before lies are killing and they're killing our democracy like the lies from the january 6th deniers who are just honoring the american heroes who fought to defend the capitol that day, those we lost and those who are still suffering the effects of one of it darkest days in our history. four police officers who defended the seat of our democracy have died by suicide. >> their deaths are a sad reminder o

calling gop governors like ron desantis and greg abbott disingenuous, pointing out they're risking kids' lives. you've been watching it closely. why are they doing this? >> got to say number one, i fully support biden in leaning into this issue extremely hard. but i think it shows his frustration because he's getting a little bit off his winning playbook. joe biden was successful in 2020 because despite everything that donald trump threw at him, he didn't make it petty or personal. he stuck to the policies. and here he's on stronger ground talking about policies of vaccination, why masks work, why we need to all go in on this together to protect children, then calling ron desantis disingenuous or hypocritical, i don't think he's wrong but emotions around this are so hot right now, i think a lot of people, especially suburban parents like me so anxious about school, need someone to guide this into a safe port. feeding into the desantis frenzy doesn't make it better. >> dr. reiner, the president making it clear how dire this is, kids at risk. but not sure what he can do about the actions

i've been talking about every night on this program, two republican governors ron desantis in florida, greg abbott in texas standing out in front of everyone and making the issue all about politics. trying to advance their own political futures. desantis and abbott moving to punish local school district officials who are defying them and putting mask mandates in place. today it's even spilling into arizona where gop state law ecmakers are calling on the republican governor to with hold public funds from school systems that require masks for students and teachers. but it's not only politicians politicizing covid. a white house reporter for the fox propaganda network trying to trip up the press secretary jen psaki today on the question of vaccine hesitancy, which at this point is vaccine refusal. let's just make it plain. vaccine refusal and trying to blame the president of the united states. watch this. >> at the time when donald trump is out there saying we're going to have a vaccine in the next couple weeks, next couple of months and joe biden is out on the campaign trail saying don't trus

in texas where the virus is also surging, governor greg abbott banned mask mandates in schools and just breaking tonight, a dallas county judge is asking a texas court for a temporary restraining order against the governor over his ban on mask mandates. and tonight, a teacher in austin pleading with the school board of trustees to defy the governor and put a mask mandate in place. >> for many years, you've asked me to be brave. you've asked me to be brave as i practice getting 24 fourth graders into a bathroom. you've asked me to locate in our hiding spot anything i might fight off an active shooter. you've asked me to be brave as i think about what would happen if there was extreme danger and my class is on the playground, i discuss with kids how we would escape in the woods and hide and after surgery and six months of chemo for stage three cancer and i've done it and will do it and i will show up and get in that closet and i will look for the path to the woods. board members, you don't have to do these things but i'll be brave and think about how my body might shield children from dan

think this is why the president is taking on republicans, republican governors like ron desantis and greg abbott in texas who keep playing politics with this virus? >> i think he has to and i think he will have to more. to go back to your question to david. the real question is what is the lesson you take out of this bipartisan infrastructure bill? it is a big accomplishment and it would not have happened without biden's legislative skill and the skill of his team. it is hard to imagine anything less ideological and the issues that congress faces than pouring concrete. particularly if you avoid raising taxes in order to pay for it and with a lot of cats and dogs. i mean, this does look more like a one-off than a big movement in a new direction. what is happening later tonight with a complete partisan vote on the reconciliation bill, much less republicans blocking any effort to move voting rights to even later in the evening is more indicative of this. and the same question with the way he's dealing with republicans in congress to the way he's dealing with them in the states. he has heated

greg anti-calling for a special legislation this weekend to push voting restrictions that democrats blocked by fleeing the state. >> our fundamental view is if you are pushing for election, that makes it harder and not easier to vote. that makes it less accessible. it limits the ability to get to the polls, to take time off to do that. our question is what are you afraid of here? are you afraid of more people getting out to vote? what is the concern? >> it is all related. the january 6th deniers and their nothing to see here insurrection. what insurrection? that's their message. what insurrection? they're all part of it, too. their lies about tourists, peaceful patriots, black lives matter and antifa. all part of big picture, part of the big lie. the doj has charged more than 550 people in question, the insurrection. a federal judge telling one, you called yourself and everyone else patriots. that's not patriotism. patriotism is loyalty to country, loyalty to the constitution. not loyalty to a head of state. that is the tyranny we rejected on july 4. president joe biden surrounded by lawmak

the fop calling out newsmax's greg kelly for suggesting capitol rioters may have mistaken d.c. police officer michael fanone for a member of antifa. the police union not holding back saying this, and i quote, "suggesting that hero officer fanone was mistaken for antifa despite the police-riot gear he was wearing, is downright dangerous. don't believe the lies being spewed by this clown." it was just two weeks ago when officer fanone told cnn that he and others in the force felt that the union was not doing enough to call out those who have downplayed the severity of the january 6th insurrection. you have heard officer michael fanone, on this show, tell his story of what happened that day. we have shown you his body camera footage, which is up now. he was beaten and tased to the point of having a heart attack. he almost died protecting the capitol. suggesting anything otherwise is certainly clownish behavior. and before we go, i just want to make sure that you know about we love new york city. the homecoming concert. join us, this -- for this once in a lifetime concert event. it