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it's wireless so good, it keeps one upping itself. tonight cnn is learning that president biden is still deciding whether to extend the august 31st deadline for removing all u.s. troops from afghanistan. pentagon officials say that they need to know by tomorrow in order to have enough time to get all troops and equipment out of kabul airport by the 31st. also tonight, the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol expected to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of

certain people, including some members of congress. and the fda giving full approval to pfizer's covid-19 vaccine. it's also an important week for the president's domestic agenda as house democrats are divided on infrastructure strategy. lots to get to. let's bring in now cnn white house correspondent john harwood and cnn political analyst mr.m mr. john avlon. good evening one and all, both johns by the way. john harwood, you first. let's start with this critical week for the president's domestic agenda. this is where the rubber really is going to meet the road here, and it comes down to the democrats this time. so give us the latest. what do you think? what do you know? >> well, look, don, the democrats are going to have to decide whether to hang together or hang separately, and this is -- the margins are so small in the house and senate that anybody or any small group of people in the house can take down the president's agenda if they want to.

so you have this group of moderate democrats in the house who have been threatening to withhold support for the larger budget bill that they're going to do with democrats-only votes, the $3.5 trillion, unless they first get a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. nancy pelosi doesn't want to do that because they're trying to manage the support of the progressives and the moderates at the same time. she has shown historically a lot of skill at legislating, and so you'd have to bet at this moment that she works it out. but democrats are going to have to decide again how unified are they going to be, and are any one of these groups of democrats willing to take down joe biden's agenda? they can if they want to. i think the white house is betting that they won't want to, but there's some sweaty hours ahead. >> okay. that was -- that was vivid. so, listen, john avlon, a new

nbc news poll showing that the president's approval rating dipping below 50%. it's 49% now for the first time. it was 53%. now it's 49%. if he can get this infrastructure deal over the finish line, do you think that's going to get him more public support after the shock of afghanistan's fall? >> it will help. the more wins you can put on the board, the more things you can do to boost the economy and deliver on your agenda in ways the american people can feel, particularly outside democratic strongholds, that will give him a boost. the reality check here is biden, while he's dipped below 49%, donald trump never was above 50%. the only president in the history of gallup polling never to be above 50% in his entire presidency. so this is no reason for panic, but it does speak to the very really damage and there will be a lasting mark on this botched withdrawal from afghanistan. it will not drive the decisions of most folks come next november in the midterm elections, but

there's no getting away from it. this has been a botched withdrawal despite the enormous numbers they have put on the board in the last several days in terms of getting people out. but i wouldn't overindex this particular poll. see it with a sense of perspective, and democrats should be focused on delivering and getting their -- >> john, you said overindex this particular poll, but do you think people are overindexing what's coming out of -- yes, most people agree it was botched. did you think they were overindexing this because at the end of the day, getting out of afghanistan, he's got the public squarely, clearly on his side. and as you say, i don't know, a month, two months, three months, four months, six months from now, will this even register? >> yeah. and it should because there's a humanitarian crisis and things will get worse. taliban aren't going to offer amnesty to women and girls behind their borders. this is going to become worse.

it will be a mark. the majority of americans do want to get out of afghanistan, but they disapprove of the way joe biden has done it to date. that's just the reality that the white house has got to face. you can't spin your way out of that. what you can do is focus on your domestic agenda, but this has been a mistake. >> and focus on getting people out of afghanistan. >> absolutely, 100%. >> john harwood, the fda officially giving full approval to pfizer's covid-19 vaccine. does the white house think this is going to have a really big impact on the daily numbers of shots going into arms? >> i think it's going to have some impact on the margins. you know, there's about a third of the country has not been vaccinated. not all of them are firmly fixed in terms of not wanting to get the vaccine. some are hesitant. some are slow to move. some are waiting for a little more authentication. so there is a quantum of people who they believe are going to

get pushed over into getting vaccinated. every little bit helps, but joe biden was quick to note today that aside from people who individually would be persuaded to take the vaccine, he's hoping that companies, universities, other institutions begin requiring vaccination as a condition of employment, condition of entry to consume a business's services. some of those things piled on top of the individual decisions that people would make on their own may get those numbers to start creeping up. they've got to creep up for the united states to get on top of the delta variant. >> yeah. >> and that, by the way, don, is the most important thing for joe biden's agenda, even more important than getting the infrastructure deal passed. it's getting control of the pandemic. that's his top priority. that's related to the health of the economy. it's all of a piece. if he can get all those things going, if he can get vaccinations up and get these economic bills that will make a

real difference in people's lives, that will be a significant step forward for him to try to get past the afghanistan situation. >> i got a lot of guf for saying it was absurd to think that the current president should somehow get the former president to help him encourage people to get the vaccine. the proof of that was this weekend when the former guy said, hey, you should get the vaccine and got very loudly booed for saying it. >> he did. >> never going to happen. ridiculous. it's like what are you people thinking? thank you, both. i want to turn to the race to get thousands of americans and u.s. allies out of afghanistan. white house officials say that during a 12-hour span today, approximately 10,900 people were flown out of kabul. cnn's oren liebermann has the story now. >> reporter: at kabul international airport, the end of the month is coming too quickly. the u.s. is trying to hit its self-imposed august 31st deadline to complete the

evacuation from afghanistan. >> in the days remaining, we believe we have the wherewithal to get out the american citizens who want to leave kabul. >> reporter: taliban warning there will be consequences if it takes any longer. a firefight at the airport sunday that left one afghan security member dead underscoring the tense security situation as the u.s. tries to maximize the number of people it can fly out. >> we are pushing the limits to do everything we can to get every single evacuee out of kabul. >> reporter: in order to speed up evacuations, the pentagon activating the civil reserve air fleet for only the third time, using 18 aircraft from commercial carriers like united and american to move evacuees from the middle east onwards. for now, though, the u.s. prioritizing getting american citizens out. several thousand have left the country already, the pentagon says. a senior state department official says there are still several thousand more. the pentagon acknowledging helicopters have left the airport not once, but twice to pick up evacuees.

pentagon press secretary john kirby hinting at more. >> on occasion, where there's a need and there's a capability to meet that need, our commanders on the ground are doing what they feel they need to do to help americans reach the airport. >> reporter: for now the u.s. embassy in kabul is telling afghan special immigrant visa applicants and evacuees not to come to the airport until they're told. with potentially little more than a week less of this evacuation effort, fear of a totalitarian taliban regime is growing. the brother of an afghan interpreter received these letters from the taliban. a court date for helping u.s. troops and shielding his brother, and then a notification of his death sentence. these court decisions are final, and you will not have the right to object, the third and final letter reads. you chose this path for yourself, and your death is imminent, god willing. there are still some 13,000 people at the airport and more trying to get through every day. but a new terror threat from

isis-k, an offshoot of isis in the middle east, forcing alternate routes to the airport for safety, even when there is so little time left to evacuate. tuesday marks one week until the end of the month, and a defense official familiar with the discussions around the u.s. troop presence in afghanistan says it is a crucial day, decision day. if the u.s. wants to get all of its troops, that is 5,800 in afghanistan, out of the country by the end of the month, that decision needs to come on tuesday. don? >> the dire situation at the kabul airport is sparking fear, confusion, and grief for thousands of afghans who helped the u.s. military over the course of this two-decade war. many are desperate to escape, waiting for visa approval, including the family of yasser. he's a former translator for the marines, and he came to the u.s. seven years ago. he is worried the taliban may retaliate against his family, still living in kabul. they sent yasser a video that they recorded from their window, panicking as they saw taliban

militants scouring the neighborhood and jumping over a neighbor's fence. >> yasser joins me now. we're not revealing his full name in order to protect his family still in afghanistan. we're so happy that you could join us. we are really hoping that your family will be able to get out all intact. hello to you. we know that you're frightened the taliban will go after your family because you worked with the marines. and i understand that you have just learned that they have made it to the airport just within the last couple of hours. how did they get there? >> yes. well, first, don, thank you for having me over here. i've been working under, you know, paperwork for past three days with my teammates. all my friends and colleagues that i've been working from 2012

to 2014. there was some progress on their paperworks, but it was very unfortunate for them like, you know, they couldn't get their visa as the embassy was getting shut down in kabul. my family was very frustrated and exhausted about this process, like it would take too long for them to wait for. and i was just doing my best to just get them out of there and promise them, you know, anything i can do for you, i will definitely do it. and right now they're just like -- you know, i've heard from my team that they were just like about to -- you know, they made it inside luckily and right now they're just -- i have no contact with them. it's for past 30 minutes, i have no idea what's happening. >> so you said they don't have their visas. do they have the proper paperwork other than that, that they may need to get out? >> yes. i've been reaching out to one of

my major. he wrote it down like a letter for them saying there's no threat for them to be in the united states. and also i've processed their passports and i.d., identification card through the u.s. embassy in kabul. i've sent them all my documents, my citizenship, my u.s. passport, you know, all the documents that they have asked me and required for them. absolutely everything needed for them to have us process their visa, they have it in hand right now. the only thing i'm just waiting for them to get their visa, but i don't know how. it's very confusing and very hard for me to think about how they will process a visa this quick for them. >> but at least they have made it to the airport, and that is a journey and a struggle within itself. that's an accomplishment that they've made it this far. so let's be positive and hopefully that they will, you know, get the visas and get everything that they need. so let's talk a little bit more about your family, okay, yaser.

up until tonight, your loved ones have been in hiding. you have told your family to burn all the documents about you, even pictures of you. why did you do that? >> absolutely. absolutely. as i've been witnessing, you know, videos coming and footages coming through the social media, they started searching houses. they started out like the past two days, and the only reason for me to keep them safe, i don't have to leave any evidence as i was working with the u.s. marines back from 2012 all the way down to 2014. anything i would have left over in kabul with them, i would just like to tell them to burn the hell oitut of it, and just clea everything that i had over there. that is just for their safety reasons. i haven't seen them for these past seven years, and that's another reason for them, for safety reason that i couldn't go over there. so right now, i don't want them to go through, you know, this

humanitarian crisis, this happening in afghanistan, absolutely a disaster. i told them do not leave any evidence behind and anything you have on me, just burn it up. >> yaser, i know you want to speak directly to the president. what do you want to say to the president? >> i want to say to the president, i know he is a family person, and i've known he has lost his family in a very tragedy way, his son and also his wife was involved in an accident. i don't want to be another victim of losing my family in a very tragedy way. my hope that as a u.s. citizen right now that i've suffered and sacrificed just to prove my family that i can provide for them. i can make them proud that their son could achieve a lot of stuff, and i just come all the way down from afghanistan as a teenager to the u.s. and i waited for seven years to get my citizenship, and once i got it, i promised them that i will get you guys out of there with my citizenship process.

but unfortunately everything just falls apart, and, you know, i was just speechless. i couldn't even talk to them anymore. like how can i resolve this problem right now? my -- >> i think that you may be -- don't get too ahead of yourself. you may be able to help them get out. there is still hope. they've made it to the airport. so let's see what happens, and you're going to keep us updated. we're all rooting for you, and we're hoping your family gets out safely. i know you're anxious. i can hear it in your voice. you're trying to get everything out as anybody would be. but we're rooting for you, and we're praying for you. our thoughts are with you and your family. thank you so much. let us know what happens, okay? >> thank you very much for having me here, and thank you for making this happen. i absolutely appreciate you guys. thank you very much. there's also news tonight on the investigation of one of the darkest days in american history. the house select committee investigating january 6th plans to ask companies to preserve the phone records of multiple

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there's a new development tonight in the investigations into the january 6th insurrection. the chairman of the house select committee confirming that they will send notices to multiple telecommunications companies requesting that they preserve the phone records of several people, including some members of congress. cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem joins me. she is a former department of homeland security official. and senior analyst elie honig joins us as well. e elie, you're up first, you say this is a crucial step in the january 6th investigation. how is this going to help the committee get to the bottom of what happened that day? >> yeah, don, this is absolute lay essential information. just so people understand what these records actually look like, what they show is what cell phone number called to what other number, when, and for how long.

and i think investigators need to look for two specific things here. one, was there contact between members of congress or their staff and the people who actually rioted on january 6th in the days and hours leading up to that? if so, they need to follow up. what were you talking about? why? number two, were there communications between congress and their staff and the white house. we need to know who was talking to who in the white house. we know mccarthy, we know jim jordan were in contact with donald trump. how many times? who else? that will give congress a road map on how they answer the most important questions in this investigation. >> juliette, we're told the committee is looking to get phone and email records from several hundred people, including members of congress. why so many people? i mean what do you think they're looking for, investigators here? >> so it's exactly as elie said. what calls were coming in and what were going out and when. so what's key here is not just for a legal case. remember, this is not a legal proceeding. this is a commission to determine sort of a narrative of what happened. in this instance, it is what was

the extent of the conspiracy, and was it as big as the 600 or 700 or 800 that we anticipate at least were in the capitol building at the time? if it's much smaller, then who was directing it. then that comes to members of congress. so part of this is just sort of what is that narrative of how we got here? a lot of us, we know what it is, right. trump incites something that then builds to this. so they're just creating that narrative. the other is really important. this is what we've talked about before, which is we still have to worry about this threat. and one way to undermine or dissipate a terrorism threat is to make the terrorist organization look like losers, like they can't actually function. so i really love what's going on now is because you cannot have a winning team because that is how terrorists recruit and raise money. so what you're seeing now, i think, is people are going to run scared. the congressmen are going to be on defense. i love it. that's the way you break this thing up. no recruitment, no money.

>> elie, are there any legal issues obtaining records from members of congress? could they fight this? >> yeah, so they could try to fight it, don. it's hard to do that as a third party because, remember, the members of congress are not parties to this. this is congress telling the phone companies, hey, hold on to those records because we're going to need them. congress to try to intercede. a, that looks terrible. b, it's an uphill climb. this is a congressional subpoena. courts are generally going to honor it. that said, congress needs to have some basis to request these records. they can't just do it willy-nilly. if they get these records, they do need to preserve the confidentiality except whatever is relevant to go into a report of course. >> so, juliette, jim jordan said he's got nothing to hide, but this was just him last month. watch this. >> did you speak with president trump on january 6th? >> yeah, i mean i speak -- i

spoke with the president last week. i speak with the president all the time. i spoke with him on january 6th. i mean i talk with president trump all the time. i don't think that's unusual. i would expect members of congress to talk with the president of the united states when they're trying to get done the things they told the voters in their district to do. i'm actually kind of amazed sometimes that people ask them. of course. i talk with the president all the time. >> on january 6th, did you speak with him before, during, or after the capitol was attacked? >> i'd have to go -- i -- i spoke with him that day after, i think after. i don't know if i spoke with him in the morning or not. i just don't know. i'd have to go back and -- i mean i don't -- i don't know that -- when those conversations happened, but, um, but what i know is i spoke with him all the time. >> okay. so, look -- [ laughter ]

so anyways, do you expect -- he's not going to remember. oh, the day there was a big insurrection, i don't remember exactly. >> i called him after to talk policy, which trump was wont to do throughout his presidency. >> him and kevin mccarthy, you think they're going to be called? >> yeah, they both admitted to phone conversations and what jim jordan -- the trap he's gotten himself into is not when he talked to trump on january 6th. he consistently said he talked to president trump. were they actually in communication daily, twice a week? is the last time he talked to him a month ago, two months before january 6th? look, if jim jordan is talking to former president trump 20 times a day, that's going to appear in the record. he's going to have to prove that. >> elie, real quick, if you had that person as a witness, what would you say?

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a surge of covid cases and deaths has proved that we are still far from the end of this pandemic. so for all of us who got vaccinated and have kept up mask-wearing when it was needed, how are you feeling?

angry perhaps? well, my next guest, economist, professor, and "new york times" columnist paul krugman lays it out in "the times," calling what many are feeling, and that is the quiet rage of the responsible. and professor krugman joins me now. thank you, professor. i really appreciate what you wrote here. so let's talk about this. good evening to you. dr. fauci told anderson just a bit earlier here on cnn that if most people eligible to be vaccinated get the shot, the u.s. could have control over the virus entering into next spring. the rage of the responsible may be quiet now, but how long do you think people are going to be willing to have their lives and their children's lives disrupted, even endangered because of anti-vax and anti-maskers? >> well, i hope that people won't take it, you know, a minute longer. this is the most amazing -- i mean the self-indulgence of people who are deciding that they don't want to do this because -- they have various

reasons, but this is one of those things where, you know, this is not a personal choice. your decision not to get vaccinated, your refusal to wear a mask puts other people in danger. it disrupts life. it's keeping kids out of school. and we spent so much time being careful about the feelings, you know. we don't want people to feel bad. you know, people's feelings doesn't entitle them to endanger the rest of us. >> yeah. well, and folks, you know, the trumpers saying it used to be, i don't care about your feelings or whatever. give me facts, whatever it was. facts don't have feelings. but here's the thing. you talk about the quiet responsible, right? but then you have the folks who are the loudest voices, and that's the rage of the irresponsible. it is everywhere. you see it everywhere. we covered the tennessee school board meeting where pro mask parents were threatened and verbally assaulted. last week a talked to an "l.a. times" reporter who witnessed a stabbing at an anti-vaccine

protest. a teacher was attacked and had her mask ripped off her face at a meet the teacher night. how do responsible people deal with that? >> i think at a certain point, you have to say, we can try and keep on explaining why masks and vaccines are a good idea. but at some point you just have to say, look, we're angry too, and you are the ones who are ing inflicting harm on other people. i think one of the important things, even if this was sincere, even if it was really about freedom, you know, freedom in quotes, they wouldn't have the right to do this. this is -- you know, your freedom doesn't mean the freedom to put my health at risk. but it's not even really about freedom. it's clear that the kind of people who are opposed to this, it's not just that they insist on their right not to wear a mask, but they get angry if someone else does wear a mask. this is just not about -- this is something, you know -- at a

certain point, i'm tired of trying to psychoanalyze. i'm tired of talking to guys in diners and trying to figure out what it is that's motivating them. at a certain point, you have to say those of us who have been doing the right thing are mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. >> i agree with you 100%. the kaiser family foundation that covid -- $2.3 billion in june and july alone, professor. you're the nobel prize-winning economist. it's not just patients who are going to be footing this bill, right? it's all of us. >> yeah. i mean health care, even if you're not on a government program, health care is very heavily subsidized. we do not have a free market health care system. furthermore, the insurance cost -- you know, all of it is tied together. in some ways, the direct health care cost is the least of it. you know, it's a few billion

dollars, which is a lot of money, but it's a big economy. but think about all of the things that we can't do, all of the damage being done. so even if you just want to put it in dollar and cents term, this is a huge cost in addition- it's a huge financial cost. >> a record 10 million available jobs in june, but there is a shortage of workers to fill those positions. so i mean let's talk about overall the economy. what gives here? how does it affect the economy overall? >> well, we are -- look, in spite of all of that, we are in fact adding jobs. we've been adding around 800,000 jobs a month in recent months, which is pretty good. we're right up there were morning in america rates of job creation. but it's clear that people are,

in various ways are reluctant. i think that the right way to say it is that people learned some things. the pandemic disrupted our routines, forced people to do things differently. if you are lucky, you were able to work remotely, and lots of people do not want to go back to commuting. and a lot of other people were temporarily unemployed for a fairly long stretch of time, which gave them enough time to realize that, you know, the poorly paid jobs, particularly poorly paid jobs in leisure and hospitality were not really -- you know, were not worth taking back. they're not willing to take those jobs unless they're offered more wages or they're offered better working conditions or both. so we really have had a kind of a wake-up call, saying, okay, you know, life is too short to be stuck in these really terrible jobs. if people have alternatives -- and even without government benefits, many people do have alternatives. >> do you think that's -- i was having a conversation last night about someone who doesn't want

to return to work, and she said, look, i'm more productive working remotely than when i'm in the office. i really don't see a need to return back to work. you think that's legitimate for many workers or for some? >> oh, yeah. no, it's going to be a minority. there's lots of things you can't do. face to face delivery of services. you can't operate an assembly line remotely. in some cases, we've learned that remote learning doesn't work for younger kids. but other things, you know, we all have our particular things. a lot of what i do, i mean i've been teaching classes to graduate students remotely, and that actually for a small class of graduate students, it works fine. so in some ways, it's better. so it's going to be very selective. but clearly remote work is one of those things that's gone from being a marginal curiosity to being something that's going to be a major part of the economy

from now on. >> i got to tell you, i was way more productive working -- i didn't work remotely for this job but for other things i do, writing a book, pre-omoting my book. i did the book signing tour on the zoom, and it was very, you know -- i was surprised. >> giving speeches in asia is a whole lot more pleasant if you don't have to take a 14-hour plane flight. >> thank you, professor. it's always a pleasure. best of luck to you. >> same to you. >> thank you. schools are opening, but kids under 12 still can't get the shot. what you need to know about keeping your family safe as they head back to school, next.

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the fda granting full approval today to pfizer's covid vaccine for people 16 and older. children 12 to 15 are able to get it under the emergency use authorization. the children under 12 are still not eligible to get the vaccine. however, that's expected to change in the next few months. and with schools reopening, thousands of kids are already under quarantine. in nashville, for example, 4,000 students and school employees have been quarantined. i want to bring in the director of the center for child health, behavior, and development at seattle's children's hospital. he's also editor in chief of jama pediatrics and we're always grateful to have him with us because he gives such great information and great advice. good evening, doctor. thank you. let's start with the big news. fda approval, full approval to pfizer's vaccine for people 16 years and older.

kids to 12 to 16 years are able to get it under the emergency use authorization. i said that in the introduction. what do you think? why can't they take the same shots, kids who are under 12, as everybody else? >> oh, it's a really good question. the short answer is that the dose that's being tested in kids is about a third of the dose that's been used in adults. and even though it's going to be very tempting for people to now want to immunize the youngest children, it's not advisable. what is advisable is for everybody else to get immunized and hopefully this will move the needle. don, let me give you a little perspective here, give your audience a little perspective. the delta variant has really been a game-changer. we're still learning about it. but what we know so far is it's much more contagious than other strains of coronavirus, and it appears to be at least slightly more virulent in children.

that means it's easier to spread, and it causes more severe symptoms and even death in children than previous variants. in fact, the early evidence suggests that it's about as contagious as chickenpox. now, most parents of young children really won't remember how contagious chickenpox is because, because their children are immunized for it. but it used to be that chickenpox would spread through schools rampantly. and this virus is way more deadly than chickenpox, and guess what? we immunize children for chickenpox, which is why we don't see it. the south and many of those states that have opened up with low vaccination rates and no masking have showed us just how dangerous it will be to open schools up without masks and with low immunization rates. >> to your point, when i got the chickenpox, almost everyone in my class got it. one person got it, and then everybody got it. but to your point, though, because i laid out the thousands

of students and staff that are getting exposed to covid and either getting sick or quarantining. the country's biggest school district announcing today all school employees have to get the shot. should teachers be mandated to be vaccinated? >> i think so. you know, obviously there can be exceptions for medical or religious reasons. but this is an unprecedented situation, and i was in favor of mandatory vaccinations for teachers even before the fda approval. i think some people said that was an unreasonable expectation until the vaccine had passed this very, very high hurdle of being tested, studied, extensively vetted, and approved like all other vaccines. but now that we're there, i think it has to happen, and here's why. we simply have to get children back in school. i've been talking about this on your show, don, for a year and a

half. >> mm-hmm. >> and it's reached a critical point. we already now know that depression and anxiety rates in children are twice what they were pre-pandemic. we know that children are 10% to 15% behind where they were supposed to be. distance learning has not been working for many, many children, particularly low-income children, children of color, children with special needs. we cannot afford to not get them back into school. and it just pains me so much that they are being kind of sacrificed as collateral damage in this political debate around masking. the idea that we're not going to mask people just because it's an expression of our freedom not to mask is absurd. >> well, then, let's talk practicalities, okay? what can parents do to keep their kids safe? i mean how should kids get to school? is a school bus safe, carpooling safe? should parents be taking their kids and only their kids every

day? talk to me about that. >> it's really good questions. the truth is we know so much more than we knew 18 months ago when we started having this debate about getting kids back to school, and we have a lot more weapons than we ever had before, right? we now know that masking works. we now have widespread available cheap testing. and most importantly, we have vaccines for people 12 and older. if we implement all of these public health strategies, we can really make schools very, very safe. this is another way we fail children. we're in this situation because so many people have chosen not to get vaccinated when they could have. but even now, going forward, if children wear masks, children who can wear masks, which is really every child over 2 who is developmentally normal, yes, they can be safely in school, and we should absolutely do that for them. >> all right. doctor, as i say, it's always great to have you and get your perspective. thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me, don.

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