day it is causing more deaths and it is causing more sickness. >> it's -- it's awful to watch. wisconsin governor tony evers, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you. that's "all in" on this tuesday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you for joining us this hour. so i'm going to show you an ad not a recent ad, from a few years ago. based on this ad alone it is a little bit hard to figure out what the dude is talking about besides the fact he is disappointed, that he is very sorry, that he's trying very hard to look sincere. it does come across his name is tom reynolds and he approves this message. >> i'm tom reynolds and i approve this message. this evening i was told about

odd but not explicit e-mails from mark foalo. even though i have not seen the e-mails i reported what i'd been told. i've since been told newspapers had these e-mails for months and foley lied about them. later more e-mails were revealed. i'm disappointed i didn't catch his lies before. for that i'm sorry. >> and that's the end of the ad. it ends like that. for that i'm sorry, go to black. he's sorry for that. he's very sorry about that, but what exactly is he sorry about? his name is tom reynolds, republican congressman from new york first elected in the late '90s and that apology ad, one in a pan theon of political ads, it ran actually as a campaign ad, not just like a video he put on his website or something. it ran as an ad. in 2006 right before he was up for re-election in the mid-terms

that year. and although you cannot tell in the text of the ad himself, what he was apologizing for was a role played by him and his office in the most recent scandals in history. in 2006 mark foley resigned from congress in disgrace after it was revealed he'd sent very explicit messages and horribly inappropriate e-mails to teenage boys who were serving on capitol hill as congressional pages. these young assistants who work at the u.s. capitol. that story first broke -- the mark foley story first broke to the public in 2006 right before the mid-term elections. but the fact congressman foley had been sending inappropriate e-mails to teenage boys, the public didn't know that but it had been known on capitol hill for a long while at that point

including by his colleague congressman tom reynolds of new york. he was not just a new york congressman. he was in leadership. he was the fourth most powerful republican in the house. it turns out one of the pages, the teenage boys who was getting these wrong e-mails from congressman foley, he went them to a member of congress who sponsored him to become a page, and that congress member went to rep lds so something could be done. reynolds and his office therefore were told about mark foley and these e-mails. they were told more than a year before the story broke and foley had to resign. reynolds knew a full year before that something was wrong. he says he did forward the information. he says he told the house speaker who then was denny has trt who then would later have his own problems with these matters. he said he told the house speaker but he did nothing further and meanwhile mark foley stayed in congress the whole

time. ultimately tom reynolds' chief of staff was interviewed by the fbi. the fbi then was investigating whether mark foley had been shielded from investigation by members in congress. heading right into the mid-term elections in 2006 that was why congressman tom reynolds, number four republican memberf of the house, had to put out this weird, vague and abrupt apology ad. trying without really explaining to dispense the role his and his office had come to play in that nasty scandal before voters went to the poll in november to decide whether or not he'd be sent back to congress. in the end voters in tom reynolds' district, they did re-elect him. he squeaked by which was notable because that was a really, really republican district.

it was a narrow victory for him given the size and the shape of that district. and that would be his last race for public office. after hedid get re-elected in 2006 he announced he would retire and he wouldn't run again. he said it was time for him to take on new challenges. and so instead of running for reelection the next time around in 2008 he endorsed a new republican to take his seat, a guy named chris lee. and chris lee seemed like a real up and comer in the republican party. this was a really republican district. chris lee was a vocal anti-gay, anti-abortion republican, a married family values kind of guy who really campaigned on that as one of the reasons he should be in congress. he voted against the repeal of don't ask don't teleabout gay people serving openly in the military. he voted against the fair pay act for women getting equal pay. but even though chris lee was this up-and-coming conservative

republican from a totally safe republican seat in new york, his time in congress ended up being short-lived. because just a month into his second term in congress chris lee abruptly resigned after this photo of him surfaced. oh, what are you doing with your hand? turns out family man chris lee was soliciting women for sex on craigslist, yes, craigslist hence the flexy shirtless photo which was apparently part of that whole process. so that comes out. chris lee resigns. he resigns from the same seat that tom reynolds had retired from after he and his office got caught up in the mark foley child sex predator scandal. they go from reynolds, they get chris lee. chris lee is only a short time. then they get a special election to fill chris lee's now vacant seat. and again that was a same republican district in new york.

but after those couple of skabdles and those couple of guys voters in that new york district in that special election decided to change course and they decided they would choose a woman to represent that district and they would choose a democratic woman to represent that district, the first democrat elected to that seat in like 40 years. and her name was kathy hochul. the same kathy hochul who two weeks from today will take the oath to become the first woman governor of the great state of new york. and how kathy hochul got to this point in her career turns out to be a path paved with just an astonishing number of men behaving aastonishly badly in power, getting caught and thereby being forced out of offices they would have otherwise preferred to hold onto. i mean first just stick with that one congressional seat for a second, right? there's mark foley, the guy sending sexually explicit message to minors. the incumbent in that seat in

new york tied into the mark foley scandal, his career sort of ends in disgrace then there's the shirtless tiny fist flexor guy, chris lee whose career ends in disgrace. then kathy hochul gets that seat. it's a seat no democrat had any business winning. but she wins it in large part thanks from those scandals from her republican predecessors. she holds that seat for that term without any scandals of her own, which is a notable thing in that case. but then that district cots up in a bit of redistricting in the 2012 elections. again it's still very much a republican seat and she loses that seat after one term to another republican man, a man named chris collins. remember him? chris collins would go to pick up the baton from badly behaving republican men from this one single congressional district. he ended up getting arrested while serving in congress, indicted on 11 felony chargers for an alleged insider trading scheme. he pled guilty.

he was sentenced to multiple years in federal prison before he was ultimately pardoned by president trump because he's a republican who supported president trump. but that's just origin story number one for the woman who's about to become the new governor of new york. this congressional seat with skid marks all over it from the felonies and sex scandals and child sex abuse scandals of all the men who held it other than her. meanwhile in 2014 having survived her brief tumble in that totally toxic congressional district kathy hochul ran to become the lieutenant governor of new york state. her running mate was a man who's running for governor along side her andrew cuomo. helps to remember how cuomo himself ended up running for governor in the first place. he was the previous democratic governor of new york? elliot spitzer, forced out in a

lurid prostitution scandal. after he was forced out for that, his number two david patterson took over the job as new york governor. but david patterson was basically forced out too after a corruption scandal revealing serious domestic violence allegations against his top aide. patterson was ultimately found not to have committed witness tampering but the aide against which the allegations were made did plead guilty to harassing his former girlfriend. in the midst of that scandal and the investigation thereof governor patterson ends up not running for another term. andrew cuomo steps up, he wins the democratic nomination to run for governor of new york in 2010 after that mess from the two previous democratic governors. in order to actually ascend to the top job, though, cuomo had to go through the general election, right? and he had to defeat the guy the republicans had nominated for governor that year. that candidate was named carl pal deano.

during his campaign he was found to have had a frequent habit of circulating wildly racist and profoundly -- profoundly -- i mean profoundly pornographic e-mails to a surprisingly large number of political pals. i'll tell you just from a personal perspective or pulling back the curtain here a little bit, the carl paladino pornography e-mail scandal led us in this show to setup a whole set of rules internally we still use how to handle the reporting and broadcasting of stuff that is news worthy and so wildly, wildly offensive it cannot be described at a staff news meeting without all of us getting referred to hr. and it can't be accessed on work computers without them getting seized by the company. so that's how -- that's who andrew cuomo beat to become governor of new york after the elliot spitzer and david

patterson scandals. she's elected thanks to an assist from congressman mark foley sending sexually explicit solicitations. and the other family values conservative congress who posts the sad cheesecake chest hair photos of himself, thanks to him she gets to congress. that frees her up to go to albany as the running mate for the guy who succeeds the prostitution scandal governor and the domestic violence was it witness interference scandal governor which leads to a special elections contest. the results of which is that kathy hochul covered in other peoples slime but none of her own eventually becomes lieutenant governor of the great state of new york. ta-da. but how does kathy hochul become

governor of the great state of new york? grad you asked sort of, not really. this is eric snyderman. he used to be the attorney general in the great state of new york. he was one oof the attorneys who made the gig into a very national profile job. new york attorney generals in particular tend to do that. it's -- being new york attorney general is a job that brings with it a lot of power, a lot of opportunity for news making. typically it brings with it a lot of swagger. elliot spitzer was new york attorney general before he became governor. so was andrew cuomo, for example. but eric schneiderman took over on the fast track in 2018 and presumably greater things beyond all possible doubt. in may 2018 "the new yorker" published a granular detailed just heinous accounting of how eric schneiderman had subjected

four different women to what the magazine described as nonconsensual physical violence. all four women alleged schneiderman repeatedly hit them often in a sexual or at least sexual degradation context but never with their consent. schneiderman denied he ever assaulted anyone. but just three hours after that story dropped in "the new yorker," he resigned in disgrace as attorney general. and that is how the great state of new york got its first ever woman serving as attorney general, barbara underwood. she'd been the long time solicitor jen olof new york which meant she among other things represented new york in its maker court cases. barbara underwood stepped in to temporarily take over the job after the schneiderman scandal and his shock resignation. and that's a high pressure, high profile job, right? and underwood took it over at

such a high pressure, high profile time. to be suddenly shoved into that kind of job which doesn't have a natural successor lined up, but barbara underwood stood up, took the reins and nailed it. she sued donald trump fake family charities straight out of existence. sued the epa for rolling back climate policy, successfully challenged trump's inhumane challenges in court like that citizenship question on the census and forced family separations at the border. underwood won seemingly universal praise for her brief tenure as new york attorney general i mean aside from the defendants whose door she beat down. barbara underwood took that job under the weirdest and highest pressure circumstances. but she was nails. she was great. she was super effective. among other things she proved, she showed, she lived that for sure new york was ready for a woman to be attorney general of the state for the first time

ever. barbara underwood took over. she held down the fort after the schneiderman scandal. in the next election it was letitia james, tish james who ran for the job outright and ran by a mile. she won by a more than 25-point landslide. underwood had been appointed to the job in the immediate wake of schneiderman's scandal. that made her technically the first acting attorney general of the state of new york. tish james was the first woman ever elected to the gig. and she also turned that job into a nonstop headline generating machine. as attorney general of new york tish james sued the nra, leading the almost indescribably influential and powerful gun lobby to declare bankruptcy and flee the state. right now she's leading a big multi-state lawsuit against the almost unimaginably influential

and powerful company facebook. she started a civil investigation into the trump organization, which has since morphed into an ongoing criminal inquiry into the former president's business. but then there was this. in december a former staffer to governor andrew cuomo accused him of sexually harassing her for years. two months after that another former cuomo staffer came forward saying she, too, was sexually harassed by andrew cuomo when she worked in his office. cuomo denied. tish james went to the governor. ultimately the governor agreed. between now and then more women came forward with similar allegations about governor cuomo. others made allegations of a toxic, emotionally abusive

workplace. for months governor cuomo continued to deny he'd done anything wrong. but then last week tish james reported her finding. she dropped the report that included -- that contained the findings of her investigation into governor cuomo's conduct. it was a bombshell. she found during his time in office governor cuomo had sexually harassed at least 11 women. according to tish jam's investigation the governor broke both federal and state laws and in fact created a workplace culture of harassment and fear. five different prosecutors, five different district attorneys have since requested the underlying evidence from tish james investigation to potentially conduct criminal inquiries into governor cuomo's behavior. there are at least two criminal inquiries already under way. at least one woman identified in the report has already filed a criminal complaint with one county sheriff's office. and now today in a stilted, oddly staged difficult to watch

rollout, governor andrew cuomo of new york resigned saying his resignation is effective two weeks from today. he's still adamantly denies that he knowingly did anything wrong. but regardless either way that makes his number two, his lieutenant governor kathy hochul, now the next governor of new york. kathy hochul has spent nearly her whole life in new york state. she was a practicing lawyer before working as a legislative aide on the hill. ultimately won a county clerk seat. later she won that ill-fated seat in congress. since she became lieutenant governor during cuomo's second term she's famously driven to every county in the state every year she's been in office. she's from a traditionally more conservative part of up state new york. in the past she described herself as an independent democrat. she was once opposed progressive priorities like issuing driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants. at one point she got an endorsement from the nra. but she has moved to the left or

at least to the center since then. she's renounced her old stance on the driver's licenses. she's adopted a more traditionally progressive slate of policies. she's considered to be essentially pragmatic and to have followed the same sort of path that a lot of upstate new york relatively conservative democrats have followed when they've move into statewide or indeed national office. essentially lining themselves up more with the party at large as they get into bigger settings that account to larger numbers of voters. by all accounts kathy hochul's governing style is nothing like that of her former boss. she's probably known as able, well respected, pragmatic, scandal-free. she's a totally worthy inheriter of this job. but the inheritance of this job honestly is thanks to an almost unbelievably relentlessly

depraved pantheon of terrible men in both parties doing terrible things in office mostly but not exclusively to women and teenagers. i mean that is what happened with all those terrible men doing terrible things. it took her to the congressional seat she held, the governorship, took her to the scandal and investigation that led today to her getting the governorship of new york. and on one hand it is cause for some sort of celebration new york finally has its first woman governor and an able and well respected one at that. but maybe to get the next one shouldn't take a prostitution scandal, a child sex abuse scandal, a domestic violence scandal, a bizarre online sex solicitation scandal, sexual abuse scandal and a serious sexual harassment scandal to make this possible. maybe that shouldn't have to be the path to women having power.

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today's announcement by new york democratic governor andrew cuomo that he will step down from office in two weeks means that lieutenant governor kathy hochul, is poised to become the first woman governor of new york state. once she steps into that role in two weeks time hochul will cease of course being lieutenant governor of the state. according to state law the person who will temporarily replace her as lieutenant governor is our next guest, the president of the state senate in new york, the majority leader in the state senate. she'll also now be acting as lieutenant governor of the great state of new york. her name is senator andrea stuart cousins. she's led the democratic party

in the new york state senate since 202. that makes her the first woman to lead a state party in new york. she'll soon be the first black woman to serve as the state's lieutenant governor. but that is happening under these extraordinary circumstances that have been a long time in coming. andrea stewart cousins called on governor andrew cuomo to resign all the way back in march. today he finally did. andrea cousins of the new york state senate joins us now. thank you for joining us. i know this has been a difficult and intense day. >> it has been very, very difficult, very intense. but i so appreciate your pattern recognition because i always like to tell the history of how we get to places, and that is such incredibly important history. so thank you for that. >> thank you for thanking me, but it makes me feel like i need to take a shower just talking about it. i mean it is absolutely bipartisan. it spans federal office and

statewide office up to the very highest levels through multiple generations of political leadership with all different kind of creeps. i have to ask you if you have a diagnosis for what accounts for all of these levels of men behaving terribly that led ultimately to this resignation today. >> well, you know, rachel, i think we know what it is. we know that people get kind of enamored with their power. they get enamored with titles. they get enamored with the position that they hold over other people. and their ego kind of get really big. and sometimes people forget. it is extremy, extremely hard to forget if you are really centered on public service. and somehow i don't understand why people feel if you do this then maybe you're allowed to do

other things. for women i've found in this position, and certainly it's a position that had been largely male, largely white male, that when women get an opportunity to show up, we have to -- first of all we thought 20 times before we even decide to run. and then we've been told by a million people that we can't. and then you find yourself in this place. and you have to really focus on doing your job exceptionally well in order to be able to retain it for yourself. and you also know that you don't want to be the last. that women fight hard to get in our spaces, and we don't want to be the last. we want to lay a path for our daughters, our grand daughters and for every other woman who might be inspired by what we do. so i think the focus is certainly -- you know, i won't say every man -- but i'm just saying that most women come in with a mind-set they really have to prove themselves. and frankly, i think we're at

this moment now where our leadership is going to be paramount to the success of not only our state but our nation in many ways. >> and you are going to have a key and unique role in that new leadership. this we assume temporary role as lieutenant governor right now which you've assumed essentially through the power of succession. lieutenant governor hochul ascending to the governorship. what should the country expect from lieutenant governor soon to be governor hochul? how long do you expect to be in the lieutenant governor position? obviously the national spotlight is here because of the scandal for the man now leaving the position. but what should we know about soon to be governor hochul and yourself? >> okay, so first of all i think i have to clarify because people are saying oh, you're going to be the lieutenant governor. i don't believe that will be the case. why? there's a two-week span between the time the governor actually

resigns. so had he been as remember as governor spitzer did, had he said oh, i'm stepping down immediately, then immediately the succession happens. lieutenant governor kathy hochul is still the lieutenant governor while the governor is still the governor. so she will have two weeks to make a decision about who will be her lieutenant governor. and i believe that's what's going to happen. so i'm glad i get a chance to clarify this because i've gotten a lot of congratulations and the reality is -- which is fine -- but i'm perfectly sure she'll pick a lieutenant governor in the next two weeks. and then if she doesn't, yes, i get to ascend to that until she does. but i'm looking forward. i spoke with her this morning. i'm looking forward to as her partner, as being one of those people. remember there are only three men in the room until i showed

up in the room frankly because it's always the governor, the speaker and the majority leader. and up until the time i was elected majority leader in 2019 there were only three men in the room. the room is going to look very different now. the first woman governor, the woman majority leader -- the first woman majority leader and the speaker, an african-american male. very different room, and i'm looking forward, frankly, to seeing how we can, again, continue to move us forward in our progressive way so that we can continue to build our economy, fight covid and prove once again that when you let other voices at the table and you let people have a chance, amazing things can happen. >> do you expect that governor cuomo may yet be impeached? obviously he has said he's leaving office and as you note that'll happen within the next two weeks. one of the things impeachment could theoretically address is

prohibiting him from holding office again. do you think there'll be an effort to actually continue with the impeachment proceedings despite his resignation? >> i think there's certainly people who are wanting to see that happen. there are other people who feel like, you know, the fact he's stepping down is something really significant and we need to move forward. for me i trust the assembly will take a look. i know there's another meeting oof the judiciary committee on monday. they'll take a look what they have. they were having as you noted a broader investigation, so they were looking into nursing home numbers. they were looking into the book deal. they were looking into vaccine test preferences. they were looking into different things. so i think that in addition to what the attorney general has looked at they may have some things they might want to look at further or maybe not. but i do believe we'll know a

lot more next week once they've had an opportunity to reconvene and, you know, start talking about how to go forward. we, i want to say in new york, have really taken steps around sexual harassment and workplace safety and really creating an environment that needs to be well coming with swreery tolerance in sexual harassment. since 2019 we've had sexual harassment hearings around the state. none have been had in 25 years. so this a very serious thing. and the fact women came forward, this very powerful man and stood their ground, it was corroborated by our very able attorney general is really significant and i think, you know, more than enough to say that, you know, times up, we've got to move forward. and that's what we're doing. the rest i think we'll know more about and maybe there'll still be impeachment. but whatever happens we need to

progress. >> andrea stewart cousins is the majority leader of the new york state senate, one of the three men in the room at this point. and i mean that with all the irony with which i deliver it. thank you so much, madam majority leader. i know these are going to be trying times ahead as well. keep us apprised. we'd love to have you back as new york goes through this transition. >> i so enjoyed being here. thank you, rachel. thanks for what you do. >> i appreciate it. all right, we've got so much more to get to tonight. stay with us. we've got so much more to get to tonight stay with us re....beginners' yo. namaste... ...surprise parties. aww, you guys. dupixent helps prevent asthma attacks... ...for 3!... ...so i can du more of the things i love. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems. it's an add-on-treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as two weeks. and can reduce, or even eliminate, oral steroids.

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60 prisoners and 14 staff. two days after that press conference that sheriff himself, the man who made the announcement about the outbreak in the jail, he himself tested positive for covid. the day after that the spokesman for that sheriff's office announced he too tested positive for covid. the second in command a man named allen white he not only tested positive for covid, he was hospitalized with it. four days after that the sheriff himself died from covid, sheriff lee vance, age 63 years old. this is all in hinds county, mississippi. the local paper there the clarion ledger, this is their front page today. undersheriff will get vaccine. that back story is that tragedy that's unfolded over the last couple of weeks there.

white who is unvaccinated said his experience with the virus over the past few weeks has made him a believer in the vaccine. in addition to becoming extremely ill and getting hospitalized himself alan white lost his boss and friend sheriff lee vance to covid last wednesday. i understand mandates and my body my choice as an individual. i can only speak from personal experience, and what i believe in and what i recommend to everyone is get the vaccine. white said his doctors told him because he now has coronavirus antibodies he doesn't need to be vaccinated for three months. quote, but after my 90 days are up, he said undersheriff alan white will be standing in line with his sleeve rolled up. that was the front page of the clarion ledger in jackson, mississippi today. done in biloxi, mississippi,

here's the front page of the sun harold today. coast hospital sends plea to public as icu's reach capacity and up in column a there, the worst is yet to come. it was a weekend of sickness and health in mississippi. quote, we are rapidly depleting our hospital resourcesch the worst is yet to come in mississippi. please get vaccinated. over in arkansas here's the front page today of the democrat gazette. after record admissions icus down to the last eight beds. only eight intensive care unit beds were available in the state of arkansas monday. and the hospitalizations of covid-19 patients jumped by the largest daily increase yet to the largest daily total yet since the pandemic began. in louisiana here's the front page of the advocate from batten rouge today. delta variant driving surge in hospitalizations. quote, we just don't know how far this is going to go.

and listen to this from that front page article. quote, at children's hospital in new orleans there were 12 children hospitalize would covid as of monday morning half of whom were under the age of 2. three of the child patients were on mechanical ventilators including a 1-month old infant. over in alabama the decatur daily's front page also leads with how sick kids are getting right now. younger residents in hospital as infections rise. it's the same idea right now in florida. here's the front page today of the florida times union which is out of jacksonville. baptist health admitting more kids. children admissions for covid double in a week. quote, the number of patients including children hospitalized because of controversy in jacksonville continues to rise just one day before local schools reopen their doors. baptist health in jacksonville saying this time last week they had ten kids hospitalized from

covid. but it's gone to 21 kids hospitalized including six kids in that icu in that one hospital. jacksonville. in pensacola, florida, today the pensacola news journal front page is a photo of this very brave 14-year-old getting her shot. they put that over that stark headline, virus hospitalizations break all-time record. speaking of florida, the federal government today did send 200 ventilators and 100 other high flow oxygen machines to st. state of florida to help florida deal with its record number of covid hospitalizations. ron desantis is now not just insisting but threatening retaliation against school district officials who require masks as kids come back to class. those same kind of fights are brewing in texas as well where texas governor greg abbott had to ask state hospitals to pair back and make room for all the sick people with covid.

he also authorized the state health department to hire in extra medical taf from out-of-state to alleviate some of the burden on tex' overrun hospitals and medical staff. nonetheless the front pages in texas are just as stark both in the scale of the problem and the inability and unwillingness to fight it. icu beds projected to fill up soon. in beaumont, texas, new high. two galveston county pastors die with covid-19. in houston tents pop up at lbj hospital as delta pushes harris health to capacity. in dallas look at this big front page above the full headline. abbott's order denied, county challenges ban on mask mandates. dallas school district requires coverings. dallas and san antonio are two big texas counties that have

sued the republican texas governor abbott after he banned any school district from having a mask mandate. today san antonio got somewhere with that. they issued a temporary order, that will at least for now allow san antonio and bear county itself to require masks in schools, which their health department wants them to do as kids head back into the classroom. joining us now is the mayor of san antonio. i know this is a really busy time for you and your city. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> let me ask you first of all, if i explained that correctly in terms of the impact of that ruling and the nature of this conflict you've got right now with the texas governor. >> the delta surge is so dangerous and so rapid that every day matters. and so we contended that the

governor used his emergency powers unconstitutionally to bind the hands of health officials from dealing the actual emergency. it's tragically ironic he'd use his emergency powers from dealing with the emergency. effective immediately our public health authority has implemented a mask mandate for all public schools. it is effective immediately. it's already going to have impact and we believe it'll save lives. >> tell us about the balance of health capacity right now in and around san antonio in terms of how bad the current surge is and how strained your health resources are and what you're expecting as schools go back into session. obviously the mask mandate per anthony fauci on the show last night should make a difference and should help in terms of trying to limit the spread of covid in schools. but how worried are you about health capacity and schools getting started back up and continuing transmission?

>> our hospital capacity, our medical capacity in general like most major cities in texas is already stretched beyond its limit. and you saw the governor already issue a call, which we've been asking him to do for weeks for outside help, for nursing contingeants. our capacity is already past its limit, and the surge of this delta variant is not slowing down. that's our concern is that our hospital capacity has already been breached and there's really no abating it if we don't mitigate. and so we have work to do including getting folks back in masks now that we have that authority. we're going to do that. and we also have to ensure that folks who can get vaccinated are being vaccinated, and that work continues. we did exceed the biden administration's goal quite a while ago. but back in june san antonio had one of the lowest positivity rates for several weeks, months, in fact, less than 2%.

it has gone up almost 20-fold, rachel, in the last 6 to 8 weeksch and so the case numbers are just out of control. and let's not forget the hospital workers, the medical workers, the nurses, the doctors are putting themselves in harms way which they have done triple time for the last 18 months. and they're getting no relief. and they're oftentimes taking this risk back home to their families with how dangerous and contagious this particular variant strain is. >> incredible series of challenges, remarkable that one of them has to be in court literally to give your own health authorities the ability to do what they think is right. ron nuremburg, the mayor of the great city of texas, thank you for being here tonight. we'd love to have you back as you continue this fight. >> we're going to keep fighting for our constituents, rachel. thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. thanks. me >> we'll be right back stay with us thanks

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