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two mta employees are being hailed as heroes after saving a toddler who wandered on to train tracks just outside the city. >> may day, may day. we have a toddler on the tracks. >> you just heard an engineer on a train moving 70 miles an hour, spotted the boy first. slammed on the brakes before he radioed others. a conductor on a train heading the opposite direction, saw the child, jumped out of his car, and grabbed him. brought him on to the train. tell boy had a has autism, nonverbal, he was uninjured, thankfully. he only had a splinter in his hand. his mother called the rescue a marria miracle from god. the engineer and three others
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were given commendations. that's it for us. thank you. 21 to drink, 18 to vote. how about 13 before you get access to social media? tonight, congress taking action in the midst of the largest epidemic of teen mental illness on recovered lawmakers argue they know what is driving the deadly crisis and that it is social media. today a group of bipartisan senators unveiled a bill that would establish a national minimum age of 13 for social media use, calling it a common sense bipartisan approach to to that this suffering. the legislation would require tech company to get parents consent before creating accounts for users under the age of 18. this federal move follows utah last month, becoming the first state to require consent from parents before minors joined any social media platform. that's the most aggressive step
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taken yet to shield kids from potential dangers online. and it is not just legislators who have been active. in january, the seattle public school district filed suit against the parent companies of tiktok, instagram, facebook, youtube and snapchat, alleging all had intentionally contributed to the youth mental health crisis in the state of washington. and last month, the the county in which i was born and raised, bucks county, pennsylvania, baltimore the first county in america to file suit against social media companies. at the time, d.a. matt weintraub told cnn, it is no different than opioid manufacturers and distributors causing havoc among young people in our communities. these developments, they coincide with john fetterman admitting himself recently for clinical depression at walter reed. his public candor have sparked a very necessary conversation. while his hospital admission came the same week the cdc
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released a report documenting a mental health crisis among american adolescents, particularly our girls. they surveyed more than 17,000 teens across all 50 states and washington, d.c., and they found that in 2021, the percentage of high school students who experience, quote, persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness was 42%, up 28% from a decade earlier. when you break it down by gender, 57% female, 29% male. in 2011 the share of high school students who seriously considered attempting suicide was 16%. by 2021, it was now 22%. just stop and contemplate that. more than one in five american teens has seriously considered attempting too side. among girls, that number is 30%. ready for this? 24% of our girls have actually made a suicide plan.
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the numbers on depression and suicidal thoughts are even higher in the lgbtq plus community. so what might account for the stunning spike in this data? youth use of technology. psychologist jean twangy raised a giant red flag about this in 2017 after studying the mental health metrics of teens. she published her findings in a much-talked about book. it is the term used to refer to those born between 19 navy and 2012. she also wrote a provocative article in the atlantic back then saying this. around 2012, i noticed abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. in all my analysis of generational data, i had never seen anything like it. it is not an exaggeration to describe i-gen being on the brink of the worst mental health
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in decades. much of this can be traced to their phones. she warned of what was on the horizon and she was right. six years later, she's just published a follow-up. a new book with more data backing up her hypothesis connecting social media to teen depression called generations. she points out that 2012 marked the year when more than half of america now had cell phones. it was also the year that facebook acquired instagram. it was the beginning of the selfie era which all coincided with steep declines in teens hanging out with friends, dating, having sex. that might sound like good news for parents but it's actually tied to steep ritss in teen depression and suicide and much of it can be traced to changes in their interaction due to technology. ironically, connectivity has made us more disconnected. look, it's not complicated. gl things happen for us when we
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socialize in person and have common experiences regardless of party affiliation, income or race. the alternative is perilous. all of this separation is harming our kids, leaving all of us scared and distorting the depth of our political divide and it is made worse by the fact that society still doesn't treat brain and physical health the same. there remains a stigma to the former which causes those afflicted to remain in the shadows. schools, work places, health care plans and american society in general doesn't treat those with a mental illness the same way it treats those with a physical affliction. think about it. god forbid someone in your orbit gets cancer. what happens? people rush to raise gofundme money, bake cakes and take care of the kids. but if the affliction is depression, many will shun even those they know. that's if the illness is made public at all.
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insurance coverage often not equitable. they refuse the paperwork of participation leaving people in need to scramble for scarce treatment resources and too many go untreated. and that's why this crisis has become such a deadly one. but with this new legislation finally there's some hope. there could be help on the horizon. there might be solutions. i want to talk about this now with a friend of my saturday program. nyu professor scott galloway. the author of the book adrift, and host of the professor g podcast. thank you so much for being here. what do you make of the fact that there is this bipartisan bill seeking to impose an age requirement to access for social media? >> well, i think it is good news. governments are supposed to prevent a tragedy to bring us together and represent the public. and i think it is heartening to see this. quite frankly, it is overdue.
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this has been as you mentioned, going on since 20 level. my colleague has basically found that it is causational. he found that social media was in fact had a big r coefficient. what was most stunning in his research was that he found that the levels of depression which sort of increased naturally or hit natural levels even through covid. and that's the ultimate catalyst for social distancing, it was social media, not covid. so i hope this happens. the s.e.c. for the finance industry, the fda for the food and pharmaceutical industry. we literally have no regulation across an industry where now one in five tenth graders are spending seven hours a day. as you reference, appears to be
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the increasing cause of harm and depression among our most valuable resource. our teens. >> i heard bill maher address this subject recently. it might have been the night that you were on most recently. in a word, he referred to it as mingling. we've got to mingle. our kids need to mingle. they are growing up now devoid of the social interaction that was part and parcel of you and i when we were being mentored by older folks that we wish to follow in their footsteps. >> well, there's a very dangerous trend. most social activity among young people is asynchronous. when you take out the in-person dynamic, our discourse becomes more coarse. people don't learn in real-time what is appropriate behavior and what isn't. people have an opportunity to misinterpret people's intentions. think about your twitter feed.
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you never say these things. people would never say these things to you in person. i don't care if it is orcas or dogs or human. what is the most severe punishment other than capital punishment in america? it is isolation. we're mammals. we're meant to see, touch, and feel each other. when we don't, we literally go crazy. in this instance, when the number of teens who see their friends every day has been cut in half, you have skyrocketing mental illness. what is the most important thing is that there is a cohort effect. the natural solution would be to reduce the amount of time kids spend on social media. what he's found is that when kids are spending so much time on social media, when one person gives it up or their parents take it away, they, too, become depressed because they are ostracized or isolated. so we're talking about a
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generational impact on social media. not just amongst those who are using it but everyone in that cohort. >> i know business leaders including those in silicon valley pay close attention to what you're saying. what do you think their response will be to all of this? it is multifaceted. there's the federal level, the state, the county that i was raised in, the school district in seattle all saying the same thing. how do you think they'll respond in silicon valley? >> reporter: they'll act very concerned, say that this is a huge problem. they will welcome at least publicly regulation, and then they will deploy an army of capital and lobbyists to slowly kill any regulation. they will be totally disingenuous and they will attempt to fight this and claim that they are concerned but this isn't the right regulation and
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it will make incredibly significant statements. like they're concerned with the first amendment constitutional rights of teens. the rest of corporate america, one cohort will be exceptionally concerned. that is the cohort called parents. michael, of all the things we'll look back in terms of this era of technology, what we'll regret, we'll regret monopoly abuse. the thing we will regret the most hands down. we will ask ourselves over and over in the full light of hindsight, how on earth did we let this happen to our children? >> as always, i appreciate your insight. i think you're right. >> thank you, michael. >> hit me up on social media to let me know your thoughts. next, taking on big business. usually a mantra of the left. but ron desantis' battle with
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now a republican governor who is a potential republican presidential candidate is officially at war with big business. and his nemesis is one of the biggest companies in america. disney today suing florida's ron desantis accusing the state of retaliating against the empire for speaking out against legislation that bans schools from teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity. desantis and his office says there is no legal right for a company to operate its own government or get special privileges. speaking, of course, about the benefits and breaks that disney gets for its monumental presence in florida. is it a war worth taking on politically? a billionaire has donated millions in the last election. 12 of his candidates won. he was an early supporter of donald trump. but he says he's not giving a dime to republican candidates this election cycle.
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why? he says the party is too interested in book banning, critical race theory and now disney. the 2024 rivals of desantis if he cheeses to jump in don't think it is a good fight for him. take nikki haley today, for instance. >> if disney would like to move their thousands to south carolina and bring their billions with them, i'll let them know i'll be happy to meet them in south carolina and introduce them to the governor and the legislate that you are would welcome it. >> the message is we're like old republicans. pro business. but desantis sees it as a win to make like frozen and let it go. >> when we had the kerfuffle with disney, that helped a lot of ceos in the country. they could go to their board and say we don't want to be the next disney. we have to stay out of this. >> at least for tonight, it seems disney has had enough
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telling desantis, if he wants to fight, be our guest. i'm joined by cnn economist, i read the disney complaint. it makes a pretty convincing argument when you go through the tiktok that it was all retaliatory. meaning desantis and that which did he to disney. never before had he been questioning the whole composition. >> absolutely. if the republican party was once about condemning democrats for choosing winners and losers, there is about the republican party deciding they are entitled, at least certain members, are entitled to choose winners and losers. the winners being friends. the losers being perceived political enemies. i think desantis has been quite clear about his motivation. >> it doesn't seem to have cost him in florida for reasons i'm not quite certain. i don't know how it would play across the country. i saw some polling data that suggested republicans don't want government to be retaliatory.
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what do you think the stakes are? >> i think that desantis's actions should be viewed in the context of these punitive measures. retaliatory, regulatory, tax-related measure for perceived political enemies. it is interesting that peter teal is pulling out and you connected that to desantis' actions. remember, trump was quite the innovator. he used government procurement to try to use the power of the state to crush his political enemies. in some cases, cnn, right? he supposedly intervened to try to block a merger that involved a parent company of cnn. or other media companies or any other companies that had crossed him. so this is not particularly original to desantis. in some ways this is it's a facsimile version of the trump policy. and it does seem like there are members of the gop base who like it. who like this sort of grievance
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politics. not governing in the interests of what is most economically efficient or what promotes public welfare. it is about using the power of the state to crush your enemies. >> apple pie, mom, disney. >> yeah. why are we fighting mickey mouse? >> the fox executives and the board of directors did not know about what had been redacted, emails, texts, communications, private communications from tucker carlson. it came to light on the eve of trial and apparently precipitated this settlement. your thoughts? >> you know, i think it is possible that is what happened here. i'm a little incredulous in that, you know, are we really shocked there was gambling in casablanca? are we really smocked tucker carlson was saying misogynistic comments behind the scenes?
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i'm be. if his bosses are saying that's beyond the pale, i'm a little skeptical of that version. >> fox, as an observation as an attorney, fox gets the worst of all worlds. typically you don't want there to be a public airing of your dirty laundry. in this case, it all got out. >> we don't know that all of it got out. >> and yet they wrote the enormous check as well. they will should have settled sooner as a business prom significance. >> that would have been a better course of action. they got at least some of the dirty laundry aired. we don't know what else was suppressed, or what else wasn't disclosed and released in discovery. so it doesn't seem like they came out particularly well from this episode. again, they should have known what they were getting into, right? it's not like they should be surprised that one of their
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on-air talent members who is known for making misogynistic and racist comments on air was making similar comments lind the scenes. they shouldn't be surprise that had they were saying things that turned out to be allegedly defamatory of a major company that was suing them. that was happening in plain view. >> to be continued. thank you. we appreciate your being here. once again, republican state lawmakers move to silence a democratic lawmaker. this time the state is montana. the issue, transgender rights. i'll speak to a legislator who voted to ban a fellow representative from speaking on the house floor. and later, actor and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger joins us via may colleague dana bash as he fights against hate in america. future . we've been creating it for more than 100 years. from the most advanced technology to the broadest, mostst reliable network of sales and servicece dealers. we lead.
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snrmt the first openly transgender member is being punished for saying this about a bill restricting transgender rights. >> if you vote yes on this bill, and yes on these amendments, i hope the next time there's an invocation, where you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands. >> my next guest voted in favor of the ban. is there more to this story or is that it? >> i would say there is more to the story. there is not too much more though on the house floor, like in congress. we have rules for decorum.
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when you violate those rules, you have to apologize for violating the rules or you won't be recognized until you do. >> i took a look at your state constitution. i think it is article 5 which speaks of being able to expel a member for good cause. is that what triggered this vote? good cause? >> well, specifically, what triggered -- there are two different stages. the first thing was representative zephyr wanted to say on the house floor, with the individuals who voted for it had blood on their hands. that's what led to the lack of recognition. a vote that was experienced today was based on that in addition to obviously not apologizing for saying that on the house floor, there was then an organization of bringing a bunch of individuals that agreed with her to the house floor to yell at members and throw stuff over the gallery and prevent us from actually being able to do our business. >> representative hopkins,
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haven't you just made her stronger? to me it is akin to the case we saw in tennessee with the three legislators. two of whom were expelled and then very quickly restored. i would love to see zooey zephyr's fundraising today. i have to believe it is through the roof. and all of a sudden people who never heard of her are saying her name and in many cases, probably rallying to support her. >> i think that's true. i like representative zephyr. so i think that's all for the better for her. i would say you've been around for a while, and d.c., about a week ago, two weeks ago, there was a congressional hearing during which the congresswoman from georgia said some comments in violation of the committee's decorum and rules. somebody else on the committee called that out and used the rules to keep her from participating through the rest of the hearing. that may have made mtg more popular with her constituents.
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but do you want to violate the decorum of the body? >> did we lose the feed? oh, son of a gun. i was enjoying that. i will finish my thought and i'm so appreciative of him coming on the program. oh, he's back. we lost you there for a second. i'm thrilled you're back. what i was going to say, i'm all about decorum and civility. i enjoy having this conversation with you. i found it objectionable, do you remember when one of the representatives yelled out at obama, someone yelled, you lie. i think that's terrible. in this case, the punishment so outweighed the quote, unquote crime and will have the opposite impact of what perhaps you were looking for. >> i think that's fair. i think that our purpose isn't to worry about whether somebody is fundraising or whether or not someone is popular with their
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constituency. $16 million might not be all that much to new york and california but it's a lot of money in montana. we have the budget to put together. we have conversations and they lose their individual freedoms. i think our worry is making sure we can have those conversations without them being interrupted for political purposes. >> final thought. am i right this was given priority over resolving the budget? like you have to address that and you have very little time left on your calendar. >> no, no. the budget is moving along regularly in the process. the only thing that did upset the momentum of the budget was that the house wasn't able to conduct business for a significant amount of time because we had a gallery full of energetic individuals looking to get their voices heard, yelling cuss words. >> i can't imagine this sits well with the governor.
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tonight, a special treat. former california governor and action star arnold schwarzenegger sat down with dana bash to talk about how he's combatted rising antisemitism and hate crimes in america. dana, i'm envious. what a privilege you've had. i've been in his company before. he is really interesting. >> no question about it. and especially on this topic. he invited me here to los angeles to usc. he has schwarzenegger institute set up there to focus on public policy. and broadly, about bringing people together. his focus lately has been about combatting hate. he called this forum a terminating hate. i'm sure you get that. and the whole idea was to bring people together like a former skin head, which he did, and a rabbi was there, to have a
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conversation across lines, among people that don't normally have these conversations, and his personal connection to this was fascinating. >> you have worn so many hats in your lifetime. a body builder, movie star, governor of california. you're using this chapter of your life to speak out against hate. against antisemitism in particular. why? >> well, it's not this particular -- it's like anything that i see that really bothers me, i get involved with it. if it is the fight against fossil fuels, a cleaner environment, motivating people to get up and become successful, or if it is prejudice and hatred that i've seen over the years rise. so it became kind of alarming to me. you don't have to just sit there and watch this whole thing.
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i think that you can get involved and use your platform to speak out about it because of my history. i come from a country that was part of the second world war. austria, hitler himself was part austrian. and it is all because we let this grow. this antisemitism and this hatred. so i come from a place that has been done once before. and i don't want that to happen again. >> you stood up at this forum and you said -- >> and i was born with a father that was a nazi. think about that. >> the air went out of the room. i've heard you talk about your father but not like that. what made you say it that way?
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>> you have to understand, when i improvise a speech, i don't think about how i say something or what i say. >> you used the story of your father to try to reach people who are getting sucked into groups that propagate hate. talk about making that connection? >> my father was, and so many other millions of men were sucked into a hate system through lies and deceits, and so we have seen where that leads. i've seen firsthand how broken those men were. the kind of atrocities happened. how many millions of people had to die and then they ended up losers. the confederacy loses.
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they say, oh, this just doesn't work. let's just go and get along and love is more powerful than hate. >> in this video that did you last month -- >> i want to talk today about the rising hate and anti-semitism we've seen all over the world. >> reporter: which was incredibly powerful and has been seen how many times now? >> apparently, at least 100 million people saw it. and billions of impressions. >> you drew this parallel between participating in nazi hate during world war ii and hateful ideology that is growing in the u.s. now. is that the path america is on right now? >> i don't know if it is the path that we're on but i notice the danger. >> you put out another video after january 6th, 2021, and you compared the storming of the
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capitol to crystal night when nazis burned synagogues, jewish businesses and homes. about 30,000 jewish men were taken. that was the beginning of it. what did you mean by that? what did you see on january 6th that reminded you of the beginning of years of hatred and killing in germany and austria? >> the first thing that came to my mind when i saw the insurrection that this is very dangerous. it is a wake-up call to let people know, you have to take this seriously. not just like let's get those right wingers, put them to jail. no. this is much more than that. what creates something like that? and sadly, i have to say, that no one really has covered it well. the insurrection. because they only said what they
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did was wrong and they have to go to jail and punish them. but no one really has gotten into why was it that way? what powers do people have that are really upset and angry with government? >> part of it is that they were told the election in 2020 was stolen. >> but remember that it is always kind of the straw that breaks the camel's back. so it's not that that would drive anyone to washington. i think it was an unbelievable dissatisfaction. there is so much anger. >> you said history shouldn't repeat itself. donald trump is now the front runner to be the nominee of your party, the republican party. given everything you said, does that concern you? >> absolutely not.
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being the front runner of one party and letting them dig this hole deeper and deeper is going to make it easy for the democrats to win. it is sad to see that. that they couldn't come up with a new talent, a new face that is a reasonable, smart, intelligent person that can lead this country in a republican way. >> do you think there's no way he would win again? >> no. >> what if he did? >> what a question. i can guarantee you that he will go maybe get the republican nomination. then when it come down to the actual election. there are too many people now that have seen what he did as president. i think when it comes to the majority on election day, i think they will see the difference between one or the other. that believe me, i'm not the
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first one to say, this is really great to have biden back as president. no. there's no better option, the way it looks like now. >> connecting this back to january 6th. you say the country, you were leader, the governor of a very big state. how do you reach those people when they are listening to the lies of the 2020 election and a leader who is perpetuating that still? >> they will be buying into it because they want to. even when you hear the evidence. for instance, fox, with tucker carlson being fired, by spreading the wrong news, and fox going to court because they've lied intentionally. not mistakenly, intentionally. over and over again about this. people hear that but it doesn't mean anything because they just want to believe the election was stolen. because trump is their man.
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>> and that relates to the hate that you're trying to stop and the, kind of the temperature you're trying to help bring down in this country. how do you do that? >> it's not just that. prejudice and hate goes in so many directions. it is not if you believe the trump election was stolen or not. it has nothing to do with trump. it has to do with just in general, all over the world, we have this problem now that there is this hate and prejudice. we are talking about white against black, black against white, immigrants, it's just, you know, he's from over there and he's a muslim and he's a jew and he's black and he's this. i think we have to diffuse that. >> dane, a one of the things that is so interesting is that
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he's trying to communicate directly with people and engaging in hate. what do you say about that? >> when he started putting these videos out rgts they're very long videos he is putting out on youtube in 2017. he was very hard on those who were propagating all the hate in the protests that turned deadly, calling them losers. as he is talking to people who have come out of this horrible cycle. white supremacy or other groups like that, he has intentionally tried to learn language that better relates to those people in order to reach them so they don't tune him out like they tune other people out. so that's one thing i found very
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interesting. he was trained, he was an actor, becoming a movie star, becoming a politician, he's trying to use that now. and being able to relate by saying, i saw what happened because i saw how broken my father was. even though he never really knew what his father was. he didn't know about his father until he sent someone to investigate because he said no one talked about it in austria. >> on a much lighter note, did he seek to engage you on filling any potholes while you were out there? >> oddly, no. it looked like the roads were pretty smooth around usc. i believe tomorrow he'll be out there doing it again. >> i would like him to come to my neighborhood. the philadelphia roadways could use the governator, please. we'll see more on sunday's state
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today president biden dismissed concerns about what may be the biggest obstacle of his 2024 campaign, his age. >> with regard to age, i can't even say how old i am. i can't even say the number. it doesn't register with me. one thing people will find out is they will see a race and they will judge whether or not i have it or don't have it. i respect them taking a hard look at it. i took a hard look at it before i decided to run. >> he's 80 years old and already the oldest president in american history. he'll be 86 at the end of his term. there is a brighter and more intense spotlight on his vice president kamala harris. joining me is van jones, a former obama administration official. i'm sure you saw tom friedman's column in "the new york times." i will put a portion of it on the screen and read it aloud and ask you to dissecond.
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it is no secret kamala harris has not elevated her stature in the last two plus years. i don't know what the issue is, whether she was dealt an impossible set of issues to deal with. all i know is the doubts among voters to serve as president which were significant enough for her to quit as a presidential candidate before the iowa caucus in 2020 have not gone away. which is it? which of those do you buy into? >> i'm not sure. i will tell you this. i have known kamala harris for a long time. she did an extraordinary job as a da in san francisco, as the attorney general and as a senator. and i just think sometimes if the team never really gives you the ball and lets you shoot your shot, you might underestimate that player. i mthink what you will see goin forward is joe biden if he's smart will run a jimmy garden
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rose garden campaign. he will let kamala harris go out there and do the blocking and tackling on the campaign trail. i expect people will become more and more impressed with her as she gets more and more opportunity. i don't think she's been given the opportunity in the last two years to shoot her shots. >> she did get a ball on a number of high-profile issues, border related immigration issues. >> listen, border issues shs voting rights issues, these are very, very tough issues. not only did she not get them done. no president has got them done in your lifetime, well, since reagan. so you have a generation and a half of executive failure on that issue. she did the best that she could on that. voting rights was a disappointment, et cetera. but there were other things the administration got done. and her job going forward since now you got a divided government and you will not pass any more bills, her job is to make the case with the administration. she has a great case she could make for the administration, and
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i think she will rise to the occasion. now is the time she will get that ball and get that opportunity. >> how should this be handled by the president? should the question of her competency, the tom friedman raises, should it be dealt with straight on by joe biden. >> he's dealing with the issue of his age. i think there he should take a page from reagan in '84 against walter mondale and raise it and make jokes about it and deal it. reagan famously would crack jokes about his age. he said george washington said this, but i wasn't here to hear it, guys. he took it on. he made it his own issue. i think biden is still definancive on the issue of his age. he needs to get passed that. and these questions around kamala harris, i think you will see her grow now that she has the opportunity. everybody understands this is the oldest guy ever to run, so the vp matters a ton. she will be under more scrutiny, but i think she will also have
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more opportunity to prove herself. >> every four years we talk about the significance of a vice presidential pick. we have shared a set talking about how important it was. this time it is going to be important. this time we're going to mean it. >> yeah, absolutely. it's -- listen, she is in such an unusual position. she's a woman. she's black. she's asian and she's running alongside the oldest person to ever do it, so she's essentially running for president. that's what she's doing. i think she understands that. i think she's going to rise to the occasion. i agrow with you. they gave her tough assignments that literally no president has been able to solve. i think it's been unfair to her. now she has a great case to make and an opportunity to make it. >> thanks for being here. appreciate it very much. what's appropriate for students to wear should they be allowed to express political opinions through their clothing. alisyn camerota takes that up with her panel.
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versus an algorithm. look, we have a problem. and the idea that senators stood up today and said, you know what, you ought to be 13 before you get on social media, i think it is a step in the right direction. we talked about disney tonight and governor desantis. desantis is messing with the wrong mouse. the idea like go back five years. imagine that i said to you a presidential candidate will take on disney and seize political advantage in it. doesn't make any sense. quickly on kamala harris and joe biden's age. let's be honest, vp harris is a decent person, but she's a drag on the ticket. i just had that conversation with van jones. i think she has to up her game or that will end up being the case. thanks for joining us. i will be back tomorrow. "cnn tonight" with alisyn camerota begins now. >> welcome. president bide
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