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hey, everybody. i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." we are two hours this week. i'm in for d. lemon. this president went from everything is all under control to this is all going to disappear. to 156,000-plus dead. it is what it is. >> right now it's under control. >> how? 1,000 americans are dying a day. >> they are dying. it's true. and it is what it is. >> it is. it is what it is. it is a pandemic that you are not doing enough about on purpose. inaction on purpose. by now, we know that this is happening because it is what it is, and he is who he is. that is somebody who won't admit

he screwed up, who won't say now he has to do it differently. he doesn't want to address the pandemic because he warned it was going to go away. don't worry about it. then what did he say? it will get worse before it gets better. what are you going to do about it? nothing. instead of acting, he is distracting. listen. >> we are continuing to monitor, and monitor particular hot spots across the south, southwest and the west. and we're seeing indications that our strong mitigation efforts are working very well, actually. >> he's reading it because he doesn't know what he's talking about. and that's suggestion is just wrong. it is at odds with reality. for the reality, here's erica hill. >> our national response to the pandemic should be a national embarrassment. >> it's under control as much as

you can control it. >> the data that comes from the white house task force backs up exactly what dr. birx said. there's uncontrolled spread in over 32 states in the country. >> six months into the pandemic, the virus is not under control. despite the president's claims. cases surging in southern illinois. >> data can tell you if you are winning or losing against the virus. unfortunately right now the virus is winning in jackson county. >> early gains giving way to spikes in san francisco. >> people filing complacency. they weren't scared anymore. >> there are some bright spots, california's positivity rate is declining, and 14 states, including arizona and florida are seeing a dip in new cases over the past week, of the 28 states ini s is in yellow, thos

steady, they are plateauing at a high level. >> i think the new levels will make what we have had already seem like i wish we were in the old days. >> deaths which lag two to four weeks are rising in 27 states. arkansas and west virginia seeing record hospitalizations. atlanta's georgia world congress center now a surge hospital. >> it seasoneds me we're headed in the wrong direction so many months after we had an opportunity to get it going in the right direction. >> 260 employees can't work because they tested positive or been exposed to the virus. testing and contact tracing are still lacking, the key to reopening schools. >> we don't want to endanger one teacher or student. one support professional, one community member. >> teachers in one phoenix district calling on the governor to issue statewide safety mandates. arizona top education official

warns it's unlikely any school in the state will be able to reopen safely for in-person or hybrid learning. >> if you look at the facts the u.s. has about 4% of the world's population and a quarter of the cases. 25%. we have a problem here in the u.s. >> something else to think about. goldman sachs economists are pointed to parents as the next group of workers who could stand to lose their jobs noting single parents, those with young children at home and parents who can't work from home are most at risk to not be able to work and prepandemic, we should point out, about one-third of the u.s. workforce had children at home. >> erica, very important perspective. thank you very much. we're in a jam, right? so many of the people who watch this show are parents. and, you know, one of the bonds we have is that i'm living it the same way you are. i don't know what i'm going to do with my kids. i know the schools are trying to figure out.

i don't like the hybrid model. why? i see it as the worst of both worlds. we all want our kids back in school. so do i. find a safe way to do it. find the space. find a way to do it safely and get the rapid tests, and then i'll put my kids in the school. why would i want my kids in the school to be exposed to a group setting where they don't really know who is sick and who isn't. and i don't buy this fever thing either. why? a lot of things can give you a fever. you can have covid and not have a fever. this no smell, no taste thing. that's a good piece of science that that helps us know. i'm going to send her there, send her there, they're going to be exposed and come home. i can't have my mother around. i have to worry about my in-laws. and then i still have to deal with my wife not being able to do what she wants to do workwise because i get it easy, right? i'm lucky. i have to come here and do this. we're still going to have the kids at home and have to play that zoom bs again where they won't let you see the lesson,

but you have to help the kid with the plan and the kid doesn't know what they're doing and what if your kid is not a self-starter? all of this could have been avoided and still could be avoided if this president would put his arms around the problem instead of pushing it away and covering his eyes. get us the rapid tests. do what the uk did. instead, we get this. >> the figure i look at is death. death is going up now. it's a thousand a day. >> if you look at death. >> it's going up. daily death. >> take a look at some of these charts. we're going to look. >> let's look. >> if you look at death -- >> started to go up again. >> well, right here, the united states is lowest in numerous categories. we're lower than the world. >> lower than the world? what does that mean? >> lower than europe. >> in what? in whatted?

>> take a look. right here. case deaths. >> you're doing death as a proportion of cases. i'm talking about death as a proportion of population. that's where the u.s. is really bad. much worse than south korea, germany, et cetera. >> you can't do that. you have to go by -- you have to go by where -- look. here is the united states. you have to go by the cases. the cases of death. >> why not as a portion of population. >> when you have somebody that has -- where there's a case -- >> oh, okay. >> the people that lived from those cases. >> surely a relevant statistic to say if the u.s. has x population and x percentage of death of that population -- >> no. you have to go by the cases. >> look at south korea. 51 million population. 300 deaths. it's like -- it's crazy compared to -- >> you don't know that. >> you think they are faking their statistics, south korea? an advanced country? >> i won't get into that. >> let's bring in dr. ashis ashish jha, director of the

harvard global health institute. look. i'm not going to burden you with the politics. here's the problem is that he is spending time distracting from the reality instead of addressing it. i don't even get the political play. i know this isn't your deal, but he's got time to put his arms around this and get us where the uk is right now with testing, which creates a solution for the angry gym owners who were on the show. a solution for the angry parents, like me, who don't want to send my kids back this way. i hate this hybrid model that's like the worst of both in my opinion. what is the reality of -- he says today, we played this game yesterday. i want to play it again. yeah, we want to get to where the uk is. how big a deal is it? >> how big a deal is what the uk is doing? >> how big a deal for us to get where they are.

>> here's the story, chris. and again, thank you for having me back on. >> always. >> we are in trouble, not just because we haven't built the testing infrastructure we need, but we also don't have a serious federal response anymore. testing is actually falling in half the states across the country. we're worse off now than we were two weeks ago. the only piece of good news in all of this is that today, seven state governors basically announced that they are going to go it alone. they're going to go without the federal government, and they're going to go through their own testing and build up their own testing infrastructure. and i think states are basically giving up. >> sdwhwhat does it do to have n of them coming together? >> with seven of them coming together you get the market size you need to be able to go to companies and say, look, if you ramp up, and we can help you ramp up, we will be here to purchase your product. this is what the federal

government should have done four months ago. they could have gone to companies and said build up your things and we will pay for it. they didn't. and now the states are doing it. we're going to have other states join in. and -- >> is it fair to say that's the way it should have always been and the blame isn't on the president or the federal government. it's on the states for not figuring this out sooner? >> no, there are two reasons why we should have gone with a federal response first. you could argue states maybe should have given up on the federal government a little earlier, but the money sits with the federal government. they have the purse. they also have a bunch of powers. they have the dpa, the defense production act. and so while states can do this, i think everybody acknowledges this is plan b. this is the second best choice. i think at this point it's incontrovertible, the deal would have been the federal government doing it. they couldn't or didn't so now the states are. >> let's talk brother to brother here for a second here with schools. i can't in good conscience --

it's not my job to do this anyway. we've been proxies sometimes. they see me talking to people like you who know what they're talking about and by osmose, i i might know something. i can't tell people in good conscience to send their kids back to school. i don't know if i'm going to do it. this hybrid thing sounds stupid to me. we'll only put them there sometimes. so you're only going to put my kid's hand in fire sometimes? if they are exposed to a classroom and you can't count cases, then whether it's one week a month or four weeks a month, it's too much. and obviously at home has all these logistical issues that are academic. that's not public health, per se, but i guess it's better than going every week in terms of exposure, but don't you have the same problem if you can't count cases, then you're not ready to have kids in those places? >> yeah, so i am a big believer in testing in schools as one of the ways of counting cases, as you say, and of -- >> they say they can't.

they say they can't get the tests that give you the quick response, and they can't get the lab access to get quick turn around. >> yep, so there are two things here. first of all, and also schools don't have the money. so congress has to put in the money for schools to do this. and then, yeah, like again, it would have been helpful if the federal government had ramped up these rapid tests. the white house gets a daily test with 15-minute turn around. could you imagine if our kid were just as important as the folks who visit the white house? if we had done the things to get to rapid testing in america's schools we could hope now. my argument is, if it's not safe to open now, start online. work really, really hard to b d build up the capacity to do rapid testing. when it's available and you have case numbers low enough, then go to in-person teaching. it's better than risking it when it's not ready. and it's better than giving up altogether. so that's been my suggestion and advice to school superintendents and mayors across the country. >> that's what they say to you.

we can't do the testing. we're afraid. >> yeah, and -- >> and that they don't have space. they talk square footage, too. but that bothers me. this is a dovetail into your area and politics. you know this already. but, you know, in 1918, they did a better job at teaching kids in outdoor spaces, putting up tents. they did that with the courts. we haven't done any of that. we haven't innovated anything here. why? >> why? just because i feel like -- two reasons. one is, first of all, i think we have way overpoliticized this. too many politicians starting from the top who have made this a political issue. that's really frustrating to me. the second is i do think people are not being creative enough. i've been saying to folks, look at your public libraries. use that as space. >> churches. armories, community centers. nobody is using any of them. >> right. go outside. look in much of the country, september, october, you can do it outside. maybe with space heaters even in

november. but the point is you can be outside for a good chunk of the fall. let's do that. we know that's safer. but it will require real leadership. if it's not coming from the federal government, it's going to have to come from states, governors and then mayors and school superintendents have to do it. they're not used to fighting a pandemic but they'll have to learn how to do this. and a lot of us in the public health world ready to help. we want to help schools, help teachers, help school superintendents figure this out and get going. >> weak people make hard times. and that's where we are right now. we are not thinking. we're not thinking like some people who want to survive, who want to get ahead of this. who want to beat it. and it really is going to be the tale of this administration and really this period in our history. dr. ashish jha, thanks for keeping us straight on what the possibilities are. >> thanks, chris. so, look, it matters that the president says things about

historical figures, about other presidents, about institutions that changed our society, like the civil rights act. it matters because it is a window into what he is about as a person. the pandemic is what it is. he's right. hold on. and he is who he is. he trashed john lewis again. why? a week after his funeral. trashed lbj. he diminished the significance of the civil rights act. he said, oh, yeah, how did that work out? what? and he dismissed the wildly, unequal numbers of black people killed by police all in one interview. so what does that interview mean to somebody who is an advocate and an ardent supporter, an implementer of the black lives matter movement. angela rye. i'm going to help her get her jaw back off the floor into her

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president trump says he's done more than any other president for black americans. all while downplaying the civil rights legacy of the late john lewis. here's what he told axios' jonathan swan about the congressman. >> how do you think history will

remember john lewis? >> i don't know. i really don't know. i don't know. i don't know john lewis. he chose not to come to my inauguration. he chose -- i don't -- i never met john lewis actually, i don't believe. >> do you mind him impressive? >> i can't say one way or the other. i find a lot of people impressive. i find a lot of people not impressive. >> do you find his story impressive? >> he didn't come to my inauguration. he didn't come to my state of the union speeches. and that's okay. that's his right. and again, nobody has done more for black americans than i have. >> i understand. >> he should have come. i think he made a big mistake -- >> taking your relationship with him out of it, do you find his story impressive, what he's done for this country? >> he was a person that devoted a lot of energy and a lot of heart to civil rights. but there were many others also. >> let's bring in angela rye. good to have you on "prime

time." >> great to be here, chris. >> what do you hear in his words, not so much about john lewis, but the significance. >> well, i hear someone who doesn't know about john lewis. i hear someone who has not done any research, has no education about john lewis' tremendous contribution to civil rights and beyond. after john lewis crossed the edmund pettus bridge, he stepped into a robust and life-long career in legislative advocacy and public service. something that donald trump could certainly learn from. i'm sure it's convenient for him to erase the legacy of john lewis because that would mean he would have to acknowledge the ways in which republicans have engaged in voter suppression, and he's benefited from it, right? it would mean that he would have to acknowledge the fact that even though hr-1 and hr-4 were passed in the house this year, that the senate has been negligent in taking up either legislative measure that would make elections fair and safe in

this country. so it is not in donald trump's interest to acknowledge the life-long legacy and history of john lewis. and i also think it's significantly unfortunate, given the fact we just lost this giant of a man, and donald trump is stuck on whether or not somebody attended his inauguration four years ago. >> by the way, we can both imagine him saying the same thing about dr. king if he were alive during trump's era that if dr. king said something about trump that trump didn't like, he wouldn't care what he was about. >> that's exactly right. >> this guy is meaningless. if you're good to him, you're bad. if you're bad to him, you're bad. we're not used to that in someone that's a leader of the free world. he can say civil rights act, angela, how did that work out? i did more with bail reform than that. >> you know, chris, i think that the trouble here is the one thing i appreciate the fact is

we know where donald trump stands. and that's nowhere. unfortunately, with some of the republicans, they have paid a lot of lip services john lewis' death. they talked about how much of a hero he was. if he was so much of a hero and leader, they should be following suit. donald trump can create whatever revisionist history he wants to about the legacy and all that he thinks he's done for black people, but the facts are not on his side. it's up to the american public to educate ourselves about the truth of what is coming out of his mouth, and it's not much. >> and on policing, which is obviously going to be relevant in this election, obviously the pandemic is overcoming everything. but that is going to be a big undercurrent of people's feelings about the state of play in america. here's what he said about policing. >> do you believe, though, mr. president, that many police treat black people differently from white people? >> well, i hope not.

i hope not. certainly the -- >> you've seen the statistics. >> the knee on the neck was a disgrace, okay? that was a disgrace. >> i'm talking about what does systemic racism mean to you? >> i hope the answer to that question is, do i -- does anybody really answer that question accurately? does anybody really know? >> what about analysis. what's your -- >> i have seen where there is a difference, and i don't want there to be a difference. i don't like that there would be a difference. but with that being said -- >> why do you think black people are -- why do young black number -- why do you think black men are 2 1/2 times more likely to be killed by police than white? >> i don't know. i don't like it. >> is that enough? >> of course it's not enough. and i think again it goes right to the heart of what we're talking about here which is where donald trump sits. donald trump is the chief executive. the commander in chief, right? the leader of the free world.

he doesn't have to not like something, chris. he's not a pundit on air, right? this is someone who can use the power of the executive. president obama used to say with the power of the pen, right? he can use the power of the pen and change it. he can engage in executive action, executive orders. sign legislation. he can urge the senate right now to pass justice in policing. instead, he pulled out this watered down version of an executive order after the deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor which, by the way, he has yet to speak to. he's not done anything meaningful in this area. yes, i give him credit for the first step act, but it's time to see some changes after the first step. the first step is not what's going to save black lives in this country. right? he doesn't have to like it. by the way, it's three times more likely to be killed, black men are three times more likely to be killed than white people. and if he really doesn't like it, then he needs to prove it with executive action and with signing some legislation into law that will actually save

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president trump, don't vote by mail. it's all fraud. it will be the most fraud-ridden election in history. president trump, if you're in florida, you should vote by mail. seriously. he tweeted whether you call it vote by mail or absentee voting, in florida the election system is safe and secure. the home of the hanging chad. so, in florida, i encourage all to request a ballot and vote by mail. why the change? let's go to the briefing room. >> i want to ask you first about

what you tweeted out earlier today in regards to florida. and your comfortableness as it relates to mail-in ballots for florida. >> i'm glad you're asking. >> why does that apply to florida and does not apply to mail-in balloting across the country. >> florida has a great republican governor. >> 20 states with republican governors that allow for voting by mail, with no excuse. only florida gets his thumbs up. i wonder why. we have the wizard of odds to break it down. harry enten, what's the answer? >> the answer is that he's losing in florida. that's the easiest answer to the question, right? take a look at the latest average of polls. he's down by six points. biden is at 50%. so he's losing, and he feels like he needs to shake things up. this is always what it is with the president. he's transactional. he sees he's losing.

he wants to change up the game. >> how important is florida? can he win without it? >> it would be very difficult. you go back over the last 96 years, and this, i think, is the key number. only twice in the last 96 years has the winner of the election not won florida. 1960 and 1992. in fact, for a republican, no republican since calvin coolidge in 1924 has won the presidency without winning florida. so while there are certainly universes in which trump can win without winning florida, they are very, very minute. >> what happened in '92 that would happen to -- have to happen this time for it to vote against trump and yet he wins? >> i mean, look. obviously, if trump were able to maintain that base in the midwest right in those great lakes states, if he won pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. in that case, if everything else stayed the same from the 2016 map, he would lose florida and

win. that's the universe in which it happens. but it's not really a real probable universe for any number of reasons, not the least of which is the president is polling poorer in the upper midwest in those great lakes battleground states than currently in florida. >> another aspect here is that mail-in requests are indicative. you note that what we're seeing in florida is that so far, democrats are jumping out to a huge advantage in mail ballot requests. that is why he was bashing the idea of being able to vote this way, but also probably why he's now asking his own people to do it. >> that's exactly right. the republicans were so worrying down there over this developing trend. take a look at the margin in the requests between democrats and republicans. it's nearing 600,000 voters. back in 2016, the number of requests for the 2016 general election was basically even. so president trump is seeing this math, is seeing the polls that show him down, and, obviously, recognizes that

something needs to change, and that to me is the most logical explanation why all of a sudden, vote by mail or absentee, any of that, all of a sudden it's acceptable to him in florida while it's not acceptable apparently to him anywhere else. >> but the problem is that he caused his own problem. because you are seeing in the numbers that his own people are less likely to want to vote by mail because he's told them not to vote by mail. >> that's exactly correct. president trump has caused this problem, and he hasn't just caused it in florida. this, i think, is what's so key. he's caused it nationally. if you look at the polls right now and you say, okay, how are you going to vote? vote in person or would you prefer to vote absentee or by mail? what you see currently in the polls nationally right now is that democrats overwhelmingly, 51% of them in a race in apc news/"washington post" poll, said they wanted to vote by mail versus just 20% of republicans. that is a huge margin, and much

different than what we saw in 2016 when that margin didn't exist. it's very clear that republican voters have been listening to president trump and, therefore, they don't want to vote by mail. and you know what? banking votes before election day in a pandemic that's unpredictable puts democrats at an advantage. >> especially at a time when he hasn't gotten any kind of game together on the pandemic. when this starts in september that early voting, those will be people who are voting with kids who haven't gone back to school, the economy is not opening, they're not doing the testing. they're seeing it in the uk is better. other countries are going to echo that acceleration and we may not. that's a bad time to have voting. that's when mail-in voting may make a difference. harry enten, thank you. from context to the urgency of consequence here. breaking news on this election in parts of our country, okay? a primary race is getting national attention. you'll recognize one of the names even if you don't live there. let's bring in jessica dean. thank you for joining us don't.

what is the news out of kansas? >> well, chris, we can report tonight that roger marshall has defeated chris kobach there in kansas. you mentioned people may be familiar with one of these names. chris kobach hard-liner, a trump ally for a while now. and this really was an interesting race that got national attention because it illustrates a divide within the republican party that we have seen playing out. this was kind of a microcosm of that. and what happened was a lot of the establishment getting behind marshall really believing he was the one that could win the senate seat coming up in the fall. chris kobach getting in the race as well. it was a large race, a big field. and president trump failing to endorse in this race. really kind of staying back. republican establishment had hoped that president trump would weigh in for marshall. they believed that was their best choice. and their best chance of keeping that senate seat.

but president trump, we had reporting from earlier in the cycle that he certainly -- he didn't want to weigh in on this because marshall supported john kasich in the past. so he had really hung back. chris kobach getting beat by roger marshall. democrats hoped it would have been kobach because they thought that might have set up a better chance for them to pick up a seat in kansas. the democrats looking to take back the senate in the fall. but that would be -- if that happened, chris, it would be the first time a democrat had won that seat for the senate since 1932. >> jessica dean, thank you very much. an uphill battle for democrats in that state. kobach is relevant in terms of where we are right now. the president is bashing the idea of voter fraud. kobach was his boy on that. the one he put in charge of the commission to track down fraud in the 2016 election. they had to disband it? it's interesting that kobach goes down in his own party at a

time that trump is playing that same song that you can't trust the system. you can only trust him. all right. another tragedy that needs to be on your radar. in beirut, a massive explosion. as strong as a magnitude 3.3 earthquake. i want to show you this blast because you haven't seen many like it. i mean, it does look like a bomb went off. dozens are dead. thousands are hurt. and there are lots of questions because we don't know that it was a bomb that went off. we don't know whether this was an attack, whether this was a manufacturing accident. why did this happen? i mean, it is obviously spectacular to see. but what is behind it? a lot of people were hurt and killed. we're going live to our

correspondent in beirut, next.

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just about sunrise now in beirut, lebanon, where recovery efforts are still very much under way after this massive explosion that just ripped through that city. 78 people killed. 4,000 injured. something out of a movie. many remain missing. buildings miles away from the center were badly damaged, including our beirut bureau. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman was there when it happened. here's some observations. >> it felt like an earthquake, and it looked like a mushroom cloud. the explosion in beirut tuesday so massive it shook the ground all the way to cyprus, 150 miles

away. the level of devastation is still being assessed, with widespread destruction stretching for miles from the epicenter near beirut's port. firefighters and emergency workers rushed to the scene, one that the city's governor marwan abaaoud described like hiroshima or nagasaki. the lebanese red cross put out an urgent call for blood donations. the casualty count staggering. thousands injured and dozens dead. with the number of dead surely to rise in the hours to come. initially, the state news agency attributed the cause of the blast to a fire at a fireworks warehouse but shortly afterwards, the head of lebanese security said the explosion happened at the site of confiscated high explosive materials. lebanon's prime minister later

said it is unacceptable that a shipment of an estimated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate was stored in a warehouse near the port for six years. that as the country launched an investigation into the cause, expecting an initial report in the coming days. the lebanese president has ordered military patrols in the wake of the incident in a country already on its knees due to a failing economy and the spread of covid-19. the lebanese prime minister has announced that wednesday will be a day of mourning. >> ben wedeman joins us now. thank god you and the rest of the team are okay. anybody get hurt on our side? >> yes, our cameraman richard harlow was on his scooter and was blown off of it. he injured his hand and he has a large gash on his leg. despite that, he came immediately back to the office

and did live shots for a few hours. but the office, chris, is in shambles. this is our studio, was our studio. the windows were blown in. the frames of the windows blown in. much of our equipment is damaged. and all of our other cameras are no longer working as well. this office like many in this building, like many houses and offices throughout beirut have seen their windows blown out, massive destruction. and you were referencing the more than 70 people killed, more than 4,000 wounded. this is really just a very preliminary number. what we've had all night long is local reporters live on television going down the list of the people who are missing, and there are many. and also reading the list of the names of people who are in

hospital but relatives haven't gone to see them. so even though it's almost 6:00 a.m. here the city is still trying to pick up the pieces, and we will not have a clear idea the extent of the damage and of course the final death toll. >> and the big question looming over it all is why. they're looking into whether it had something to do with manufacturer. the president was told he was told it was an attack. now we're hearing from defense officials they don't have any proof it was an attack. send our best to you and the rest of the team. appreciate it. all right, let's take a break. when we come back the second installment of our life lessons. i'm turning 50 on sunday. can't celebrate anything these days. i'm certainly in no mood to, so what i want to do is tell you a little bit i've learned in these

five decades. doesn't even feel five days, but i'll make it stretch next.

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- [announcer] for just $20 a month, 67 cents a day, or any amount, you can give a child hope. call the number on your screen or visit wish.org to grant wishes today. lesson number two is you are only what you do. now, why do i say this? because it has complete application. why am i saying it at all? because i'm turning 50 on sunday and i decided to celebrate with the rest of us by just passing along some of the things that are now painfully obvious to me, as someone who has lived a long time, blessedly so. made a lot of mistakes, and has become increasingly aware of their own flaws.

we don't like to talk about that, especially in my position, right? we're supposed to go with some kind of illusion of grandeur, some kind of illusion of somehow being better than the people who watch us, somehow aspirational, but that's rarely the case. and when it seems that way, it's often fake. but the reality is that i think the more we can relate about our fragility, our flaws, our problems, our struggles, the stronger we'll become. strong people make good times. weak people make hard times. that's what we're dealing with right now. part of our weakness is that we talk too much, and we believe that too much is achieved by what is said. how? i love you. yeah? do you live it? do you show me? do you do things for me, care about me? do you put me before yourself ever? i'm a good dad. really? do you tell your kids no when they want to hear yes? are you with them? are you on your phone? do you show them that they matter? do you show them that you can be tough on them but you still love

them, but that's not some excuse called tough love which is really just harshness as some proxy for strength? i'm going to do the job for you. do you? do you work your ass off? do you grind every day? i want to lose weight. do you work out? do you diet? i want to be better. i'm sorry is my favorite one. don't say it. do it. sorry is a promise to do something better. show me. show other people. my goal is to show you. talk is cheap. save it. we talk too much. life teaches you to do more and say less. if for no other reason, so much more is communicated with action than can ever be imparted with the most eloquent prose. we are what we do, not what we say. we learn that in politics every single day. we're suffering under the yolk of our misplaced trust in words

right now as a pandemic devours us. what we do will define us. that is true for all of us, and each of us. life has taught me that. and i hope to not just teach that lesson, but learn it, but to live it. you are what you do. that's a lesson number two. we'll be right back.