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rob whitman, dusty johnson, james comer, former federal prosecutor jim trusty, texas attorney general ken paxton, fox news contributor deneen borelli. canada's crackdown on truckers, it is growing. we have arrest and no-go zones. data leak of donor names on internet. truckers say bring it on. homeland security warning it will monitor truck protesters here as quote, domestic terrorists. senator john kennedy says stop it this is quote a primal scream ever frustration from truckers. it is that big brother pummeling the little guy into submission not talking to them. the senator asks the white house what is your road map to normalcy? law machers weighing revelations that hillary clinton's team dug out data from computers at the white house and trump's apartment building to go after trump. growing concern weak security for white house computers being exploitedded by political opponents? is this a national security

problem? also the clinton campaign surveillance on government computers may have been bigger than realized. virtually no media coverage of that after a four year blitz on trump russia. new polls coming in. america's frustrations mounting. democrats, media, not keeping up with america on the botched and historic mishandling of the pandemic, crime inflation, defund the police and more. now this, california may soon drop mask mandates for schoolchildren a shock vote. landslide recall vote in san francisco. voters ousted three school board members for politicizing children. we have biden's border crisis. border patrol agent putting their lives on the line. a spike in drug busts, gun seizures, border towns swamped with crime and mayhem in neighborhoods there. we have a "gallup poll," majority of americans disapprove of the white house on this. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now.

♪. elizabeth: we begin with stocks ending mixed today amid reports of federal reserve is eyeing faster interest rate hikes as inflation soars to 40-year highs. oil continuing the march toward $100 a barrel. natural gas prices ticking up as well. nato, ukraine, russia's troop build up is continuing. 140,000 troops, separatists at ukraine border. republican senators introduced their own sanctions bill would hit russia's financial sector hard if it invades. bipartisan talks to slap financial penalties hit a wall in congress. republicans moving ahead on their own. rob whitman, house armed services, former state department senior advisor christian white ton. first to you, congressman. the white house keeps warning about rising gas prices but only talking about a federal holiday

on gas tax, your reaction to that? >> listen, the federal holiday on the gas tax will have little effect on gas prices. we saw release from the national oil reserve, very little impact. this is temporary cessation of the federal tax. it doesn't get, liz, to the fundamental issues here, that is supply. this administration canceled the xl pipeline first thing they came in, stopped energy production. those are the biggest things that have the biggest impact on prices not a temporary holiday on the federal fuel tax. elizabeth: to the congressman's point, christian, you talked about this too, keystone pipeline carries 35 million gallons of oil a day. that is basically 10 times more than what polluting trains could deliver, christian. the white house has been slammed for botching. the president is not the president of the far left. he is president of the united states. your reaction to that? >> president insulting allies

like saudi arabia or at least partners in the gulf. they have gone hat in hand begging saudi arabia, begging other oil producers to increase production. guess what? the answer is no. they will stick with the current plans to increase production by 400,000-barrels per day each month. the actually production output is less than that. if you look at production in the united states we're still off 1 1/2 million barrels per day before the coronavirus crisis started. why is that? it is because of canceling keystone but also it is because of this atmosphere that biden and the congress has created to talk down u.s. domestic energy production, to scare away investors, to talk about the green transition on wildly optimistic terms. it just won't happen when they do. so you're seeing the result of that at the pump. elizabeth: we hear you. gas prices are close to four dollars a gallon. listen, first time it us hitting there in nearly 14 years. watch the white house press secretary say gas is going up. this is the price americans must

pay for war. watch this. >> well i think what the president was touching on was the fact that if russia decides to invade there could be consequences here at home and that could have an impact on energy prices which could have an impact on prices at the gas pump. in his view defending democracy and liberty is never without costs but we need to convey to the american people exactly what that could look like. >> this administration rationing the production of u.s. energy contributes to that high price. if we want to unmine the russian economy, you know mine their war machine, you know mine their crypto -- kleptocratic leaders let's start producing u.s. energy. that will help us, it will hurt them. it's a better way to go. elizabeth: congressman, christian, that was senator bill cassidy. your response to the white house press secretary saying defending democracy is never without costs so that is why we should pay for higher gas prices? >> situation we find ourself in

with russia is completely doing of this administration. everything that should have been done early on. first day president biden came in office should have sanctioned the nord stream 2 pipeline, instead of continuing dependence on russia for energy and europe, he should have said no. that is not the direction we're going to go. that empowers russia, that gives them resources they need to fund their war machine to threaten countries like ukraine, threaten places like the other nato countries. those are the things incredibly important to understand with this, somehow say this is the cost of democracy, no. this is the out come of failed policies of this administration. that is why we find ourselves in this particular situation. this was completely avoidable. elizabeth: what do you say, christian to what the congressman just said? >> i think that's right. for saki to conflate what is going on with ukraine there are much broader factors here including the reduction of u.s.

production. frankly the impact on the dollar that we've had already, that will occur from just the unbelievable spending and dilution of the dollar from federal policy, that sort of our actions against saudi arabia, against the u.a.e., against others in the gulf, that will have much bigger impact than what is going on with ukraine, the wrong war, the wrong place, the wrong adversary, the wrong time. biden never bothered to explain the american people what interest we have in ukraine which i think are very few in number. they will will be a little surpd if he is telling them they're paying four bucks a gallon because of that. elizabeth: christian makes an important point, congressman. is russia playing the world? are they really going to go to war or is this a big gigantic war game? they don't want ukraine going into nato. russia is a developing country. its inflation rate are eight, 9%. its interest rates are 9%. its stock market is half the size of apple's entire stock

price, market value, rather. now we have russia threatening to cyber hack our power grid, our electrical systems, our water supply and more after they shut down the colonial pipeline. what is really going on with russia here, congressman, final word? >> couple things going on. russia would love to have destabilized and weakened ukraine especially with president zelensky going out the door, have their thumb over ukraine, essentially ukraine as a satellite for russia. secondly i do think there is a strategic purpose for this. i think they would love to take eastern ukraine to have a land bridge to crimea where they could then put a large-scale naval facility so they have full control of the black sea, big presence in the mediterranean. in turn the indian ocean. that gives them a worldwide footprint much more than the regional footprint they have in their extensions from the north atlantic and north pacific. elizabeth: good to hear from you

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with fuel, food or other supplies. they could also lose their licenses police say but when these flyers started going around here, it was almost like a mood shift from the truckers, not out of concern that they have to leave this area but rather it strengthened their resolve. they have been honking their horns louder today. they don't seem to be going anywhere. listen to one of the protesters we spoke to here. >> i have no idea what they're going to do here. i have, i never been in conflict with the law in my life so i don't know what they will do but i, i am committed to staying here. as long as i, that the truckers are here i'm with them. absolutely. i support what they have done. these are the warriors. reporter: police tell us they now have the resources and a plan to safely and peacefully remove the protesters and the trucks from the city center on parliament hill here. they also say that you should expect to see action from them,

liz, in the next hours and days in terms of removing them from this area that they have occupied now for 20 full days. >> great reporting. grady trimble, stay warm. stay safe up there. we need you on the story. terrific journalism from grady trimble. let's welcome back to the show congressman dusty johnson from house transportation and infrastructure. thanks for joining us, congressman. let's square this because we don't think the viewer is getting the information what the truckers are saying. the public safety minister in canada, he is saying an organized group wants to overthrow the government. the truckers are saying we don't want to have to quarantine. we'll lose weeks and weeks of work crossing the border. 90% of us are vaccinated. the average seven-day caseload of covid in canada is just 8600 out after population of tens of millions. so what is, why is canada's trudeau cracking down so hard on these truck protesters and not talking to them? >> that is exactly the right

question. not only, i don't support lawlessness but two years into this pandemic, we have a vaccine. we have therapeutics. what we really need are leaders who don't have a lockdown mentality. you know the trudeau administration says you can expect action from us. how about action in trying to get society, our schoolchildren, our economy back to normal? that is what a number of these protesters are asking for and for the life of me i don't understand why trudeau wants to turn this into a zero-sum game rather than talking with them to figure out how do we right size -- government is trying to do way too much still with regard to this disease. elizabeth: congressman, i would like your reaction to this video from an event in november 2013. then liberal party leader trudeau is asked about china and he was praising china's communist dictatorship. watch this. >> the level of admiration i actually have for china,

they're, it's a dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime. >> what is your reaction to that? >> i mean admiration and dictatorship should never be that closely together in a sentence. it is amazing to me, when you look at the kind of tyrannical oppression that china has engaged in, not just in the last year or two, but certainly all the way back to 2013. we have known for a long time that president xi and that whole regime is bad news. those are the kind of values that we should reject and the fact that prime minister trudeau ever said anything like that frankly i think he should apologize to canadians. i'm not canadian but to me it is amazing would be able to say anything like that ever. elizabeth: canada, what are you doing? alberta, saskatchewan, prince edward, i think quebec, looking ontario, they're dropping mandates and restrictions so

what is trudeau doing? now we have our homeland security warning about truck protests here, they will treat them like domestic terrorists. watch senator john kennedy on this. watch. >> if you're going to be a smart ass, first you have to be smart otherwise you're just an ass. this by the truckers is a primal scream of frustration. it is not about the vaccines and they have a point. i would ask the same question of mr. trudeau and president biden? what is your road map to normalcy? elizabeth: what is the road map to normalcy, congressman? we have ipsos poll. 2/3 of canadians say the country is not doing enough to get back to normal. 2/3 of canadians say drop restrictions, live with the virus. polls show the same thing in the united states. instead you see a top-down aggressive position from the government towards its citizens.

>> here is what we know. we know there is a high level of vaccination in canada and the united states particularly among vulnerable populations. in south dakota, 99% of our citizens 65 years old and older are vaccinated. with very vaccines, therapeutics, readily available n95 masks and we know this is not a disease you have to live in fear of if you've been vaccinated. the idea we're still talking about locking down schools and restaurants, the fact when i'm working in d.c. i have to show an i.d. to eat in a restaurant? none of this makes any sense. you know we can is about what the road map to normalcy. we can be there tomorrow. we can be there tomorrow. we already have all the tools we need to keep vulnerable people -- [inaudible]. elizabeth: you meant safe, not sick, right? >> yes. exactly. keep them safe. >> congressman, thanks for joining us. good to see you.

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rise. you look how the media has handled trump, republicans. they, if you look at kavanaugh, all the confirmation hearings from conservative republicans where democrats accused republicans of sexual harrassment and wrongdoing, the media was all over that, but when democrats do it or fellow colleagues in the media do it they try to cover it up. it's a state of hypocrisy here. it is another reason why more and more americans don't trust the media. elizabeth: yeah, i mean the credibility crisis hits the media, white house, congress, nih, cdc the media personally attacking john durham. they failed to report the bombshell allegations hillary clinton paid computer research to data mine computers in the trump's new york apartment building to spy on trump. instead going full on about other topics. it feels like the viewer out there is not getting the information they should on things like the origins of the

pandemic, how crime has blown up in this country because ever defund the police, because you know, bernie sanders, aoc, cori bush, rashida tlaib, katie porter, ayanna pressley said defund the police, it goes on and on and on. media is not covering hunter biden sell being access and his own corruption stories there out of his laptop. >> they are not. when they report on republicans, take tip and run with it whether it is verified or not. they double done on it. when they learn, like we learned with the whole russia hoax it was all a scram they report nothing. when it is a democrat, they turn a blind eye. look at hunter biden, look at hillary clinton, look at all the scandals in the biden administration. you don't see anything in the mainstream media about that. it is still about trump. it is about republicans. whether it is kavanaugh confirmation in the supreme court, anything about donald trump, whether any republican, the media will go

all-in. when they are proven wrong they won't admit they were wrong. sometimes people make mistakes. i'm sympathetic to that. but you see the liberal mainstream media they will not admit they are wrong. they turn a blind eye to the democrats. i just don't pay attention anymore. elizabeth: it is becoming like a security crisis. if you have such weak white house commuters that a political opponent candidate at that mine, get information to go after the rival, hunter biden selling access to his father worldwide with places like china, military intelligence backing companies in russia, kazakhstan, romania and more, if you have security crisis, domestic security with defund the police, right, causing crime to pop, let's watch an msnbc guest blame the pandemic and vaccinations for rising crime. watch this twisted logic, watch. >> so it is totally unsurprising that street crime is up this year because last year nobody was on the street.

now with widespread vaccinations and the lifting of restrictions there are many more people who are out. elizabeth: your reaction to that? >> total bs. they do not report, they, these liberal shows on cnn an msnbc, i wonder where they find these guests that come on there? the explanations, the defense of all the democrat policies that are creating inflation, that are creating spike in crime, that are just diminishing our standing on the world stage, they always have an excuse for it. they want to pivot and blame trump or the republicans. look at what we've discovered about inhillary clinton and the russia scam over the last week that is bigger story than watergate. what all uncovered about hunter biden and his shady business dealings, that is 10 times bigger than they ever accused the trump children of doing. the media won't report on that.

that is hypocrisy, why so many americans are still confused what is really going on in the world. i think more and more people are starting to tune out to the mainstream media. elizabeth: if republicans to take back control, what will you investigate, what is on the list? >> on the house oversight committee we'll look at hunter biden stuff. everything that hunter biden is doing traces back to china in some form or fashion. traces back to ukraine and russia. if there is a russian scandal among a relative of a president it is hunter biden, not the trump children, it is hunter biden. we're also going to look into the origination of covid. our committee the one dug up all the emails that tax dollars did fund gain of function research. we proved dr. fauci and dr. collins were trying to spin the fact a lot of the early scientists thought that this was a lab leak, this was man-made. they tried to spin the narrative on that. so we're not going to let up. we found a lot of information. we're going to continue pressing on it. those will be the top two things on oversight committee's to-do

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star. their then senior vice president rodney joffe said used his companies to spy on former president trump. we're tall by finance laws fec doesn't regulate how campaigns spend their cash but they properly report the cash they make and spend. interestingly when you look at that report of cash going in and out of the campaign, our fox news researchers searched through these fec records found that the biden and clinton campaigns were the only ones to pay new star for services. clinton campaign paid new star $3,000 for mobile services and the biden campaign paid over 1thousand for accounting services. republicans say they think this is criminal. senator ted cruz telling fox business this, quote, these criminals need to go to jail for their crimes. if this was donald trump's campaign there would be wall-to-wall coverage and chuck schumer would be talking about

impeachment trials but when faced questions from fox, the white house is deferring to the doj. >> would that be considered spying? >> again i point you to the department of justice. reporter: today hillary clinton has responded to these accusations simply tweeting that all of this is a scandal, a lie, and nonsense. liz? elizabeth: wow. hillary vaughn, great reporting there. joining us now former federal prosecutor jim trusty. your reaction to hillary vaughn that hillary clinton is saying this is all a lie? >> if you're capable of using finances to create a false russia narrative at a presidential candidate's expense you're certainly capable of denying it. so i don't know you can get particularly excited about hillary's denials. there is awful lot of questions, not so many answers quite yet but the questions from the recent pleading what is a sensitive arrangement with the white house mean? what was joffe during the obama

years? why is it that this data was fair game for him to access? then also keep in mind the context it was an unsuccessful technological link between the trump and russians that sussman apparently tried to say was a smoking gun. so there is a lot of open questions. i don't think we can completely rush to judgment on any of this stuff quite yet but it is very interesting. elizabeth: isn't it an issue, white house communications and computers are not secure? no one should be able to access them. the fact that the clinton campaign was able, isn't that a national security threat? who else has access to white house communications? >> yeah. fair question but keep in mind, we just have to be pretty precise on some very high-tech stuff. this is not the actual substance of any communications. this is not being able to read emails or text messages. this is literally having these kind of almost like gps coordinate hits, this computer had some sort of inquiry or some sort of connection with another computer of interest or server

of interest. it's a very loose -- elizabeth: we get that. what i meant was the computers are communicating with other computers on internet traffic. but you know the issue too is that the clinton surveillance, by the way the clinton campaign brought this information to the cia. the cia has no business engaging in domestic investigations right, involving a u.s. citizen i guess. really, fbi also got it too. so the fbi concluded in 2017 there were no links between trump and alfa bank, trump organization in february 2017 but they kept going. is this computer surveilance by the clinton campaign bigger than realized? there is serious line in the durham probe indictments, computer researcher, hillary campaign had funded, the team had funded said quote observation of a government inspector general at an unnamed government agency, that computer was talking to a foreign

country. what is that about? is this even bigger than we may realize? >> yeah. i mean look, it's fascinating right, it is high-tech. not necessarily conclusive in terms of the things out there right now but the very fact that somebody out in the private industry can report to the inspector general, hey, by the way, one of your guys might have been in touch with somebody in a foreign country that he shouldn't have been, that he might have had his computer accessed by foreign actors, it is horrifying that is the low-grade technological warfare going on right in front of us in plain sight day after day but with very political motivations. so again, have to take a little bit of a wait-and-see but there are some serious issues that are being raised by these please pleadings. i know they're under attack by sussman's attorneys. they are claiming they are gratuitous, not accurate. for that reason we have to wait

and see. man, the cybersecurity of this country and the manipulation by political actors deserves a very good hard look by people like john durham. elizabeth: jim trusty, thanks for having you on. thanks for spending time tonight. we'll have you on soon. biden's border crisis. a spike in drug busts and gun seizures. border towns have been swamped with crime and mayhem. a "gallup poll," americans disapprove of the white house on this. we have the story. polls coming in, america is frustrated with the chaotic handling of covid restrictions. california may soon lift its mask mandate for schoolchildren. we're going to dig into it on "the evening edit". ♪. care. it has the power to change the way we see things. ♪♪ it inspires us to go further. ♪♪ it has our back. and goes out of its way to help.

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♪. elizabeth: welcome back to the show fox news contributor deneen borelli. deneen, it is great to have you on. california could end its school masking requirement for students. that is according to the top health official there.

cases are down more than 75% from a month ago. this could happen in two weeks. what do you say to this? >> well it's about time, liz. listen, americans, first of all don't like being told what to do. they are tired of big government, they are tired of the mask mandates but you know big government made a big mistake when they went after the precious and that is the children and you know, i spoke at a unmask the children rally in greenwich, connecticut on a sunday in 20-degree weather, liz. it was a great turnout. moms, dads, grandmas, grandpops were out there. they are tired of the mask mandate and tired of big government. elizabeth: "cbs poll," multiple shows increasing frustration on part of americans with the chaotic handling of pandemic restrictions. it is growing anger over pandemic shutdowns destroying livelihoods.

then there was defund the police that really destroyed a lot of small businesses and american families and how they made their money. deneen, i would like you to weigh in on senator mitch mcconnell talking about mask mandates. watch this. >> a week ago leaders in democrat-run new jersey, connecticut, delaware and oregon announced they would axe or relax their mask and or vaccine mandates in the near future. by the end of the week states including california, illinois and nevada, new york, and rhode island followed suit to varying degrees. the only science that changed in the last two weeks is the political science. the only date that that has changed in the last two weeks is democrats polling data. "the washington post" put it like this, the abrupt end to mask mandates reflects a shifting political landscape. elizabeth: you know, shifting political landscape. we see that coverage on cnn and

msnbc. their inside voices talking. they're admitting, saying the quiet part out loud. it is polling showing. because of the midterms, politics is why the states are moving on this. what is your thought? >> yeah, no, that is what is happening and we're also seeing what i think it is 30 house democrats that are not seeking to run for re-election, because they know there is a red wave coming, with the massive growth of government, the mandates, americans being told what to do and how americans are being harmed. we have people losing their jobs, people whose businesses were closed because of the shutdowns and were not able to open up again. we're faced with inflation and the open border. there is just one issue after another that is going on in our country and americans have had enough. you're also seeing americans uniting across the political spectrums, liz. because they are seeing the massive overreach of government

affecting them on a daily basis. elizabeth: yeah. it is bringing people to the center, right? it is bringing democrats and republicans to unite on this in the center. your reaction to san francisco, a shock vote, a landslide recall vote to recall three of the city's school board members. parents saying these members pushed hard on progressive politics to the detriment of children. this is san francisco saying this. it's a 70% vote to get rid of these three individuals who were politicizing children during the pandemic and botching school shutdowns. your reaction to that? >> yeah. i would say, who is next? parents have had it, liz. you have these radicals that are running these schools, these school boards. they have not been challenged for many, many years. now americans are stepping up, asking questions, pushing back. you have americans running for office, they're running for local elections, running for school board positions. it is about time.

it is about the control, proper leadership in our country, in the local communities. it will take americans to step up and play a roll and push back on all of this nonsense. i think it is great. elizabeth: who else is pushing back the outspoken san francisco mayor london breed agreed with the school board members. this is the mayor who said enough with the soft on crime policies, enough with the woke agenda. that is the mayor saying that. >> well enough is enough. citizens are afraid to go out in the streets across the country, liz. we've seen uptick in crime in new york city alone. it is horrible. it is terrible to read about these stories on a regular basis. so, security, liberty, freedom, that is what americans want for our country. elizabeth: okay, deneen borelli, great to have you back on. come back soon. more mayhem at the border. what border towns and neighborhoods are having to deal

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for patrol increasingly using guns, drugs, stopping crime, swapping were neighborhoods, towns and renters. casey siegel has more. >> the stream of migrants crossing over the southern border illegally into the united states shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. something practically become routine as we been here covid this story almost like clockwork around sunrise when our cameras were capture a flurry of activity here in la joya, texas. some mornings are busier than others but all ultimately seeing a mix of unaccompanied minors, family unit and single adult mostly from the northern triangle countries, el salvador, honduras and el salvador. we watched them being apprehended by several agents. overall encounters of 137%

across the entire southern border for fiscal year 2022 compared to the previous drug seizures are up. look at these images provided by featuring a truck with of cocaine stashed away inside the vehicle door found this week here in texas. then the humanitarian component look at this dramatic video from eagle pass texas for over the weekend a family of three from haiti saved from drowning in the rio grande river trying to come across and enter the united states illegally. agents manage to save everyone including a 5-year-old girl. liz: terrific journalism, what a great report, thank you for joining us texas attorney general ken paxton, your reaction? >> i've been down there many times, i saw the same thing over

time it didn't matter where i was, all along the border since the biden administration of her, this is a common theme seems to be continuing more than it was last year. liz: sir, we have that much the mayhem at the border but there's breaking news coming in you and the republicans in your state are saying the white house from mask mandate complained to our focus on in the airport, cap the border can't tell us what's going on with this. >> we filed a lawsuit with another organization in texas along with congressman and i arguing the mask mandate criminal penalties came from the biden administration never passed by congress and it's time to end. people should not be subject to criminal penalties by an administration that has no authority to do that. liz: stars that and then there's this. the president and vice president focusing on root causes of the border crisis. aren't drug and human trafficking route cross?

>> it does to me at the root cause, they haven't focus on that, they've allowed both to occur at larger levels and without a scene, thousands or die and it is sad to know we could prevent this and we are not. liz: fentanyl thefts doubled and lost two years, african-american our single biggest increases in drug overdoses, internal overdoses in the top cause of death for americans 18 to 45. it's more deadly than car accidents, cancer into suicide, more fatal in this age group and covid so where is the white house on that? >> i've predicted this when they started letting people go across the border and move agents to processing instead of stopping the drug trade and cartel from profiting and yet here we are years later with numbers up the numbers are dramatic increase in that means american lives are lost the trend is on an upward trend. liz: and now pulling and showing

americans disapproval and unhappiness with this president at the border now 58%. that's 8% rise since last year. >> the only thing i am surprised is it's not higher because i can't show anything at the bar going well for the border or the market people, we are losing more people, illegal immigration is more of an issue for the entire country. liz: final word on the border town and neighborhoods? >> they suffer, they are afraid and people crossing their property and cartel members moving across their property and afraid for their property and their lives and some have to leave because they are so afraid or move their cattle or property somewhere else. liz: thank you for joining us, will stay on that lawsuit you have brought against the white house, good to have you on and thank you for spending time with us. come back on again soon. i'm elizabeth mcdonald, you've been watching the evening edit,

that does it for us, thank you for watching and we hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ kennedy: to mask or not to mask? is still a question. democrat leaders finally peeling back covered mandate, five states including california new york no longer requiring masks indoor. the mandate remains in place, poor children eight hours a day of school while five other cities opted to unmask everyone despite criticism the decisions our political mark doctor anthony fauci says