tomorrow i have a special piece on that brand new that i hope you'll tune into "the beat" for or dvr us or find me by going to arimelber.com or @arimelber and i sometimes write back. "the reidout" with joy reid starts right now. ♪♪ >> tonight on "the reidout" -- >> so this sounds more like a bookkeeping issue than it is of a national security threat which means it doesn't rise to the level of justifying, raiding the former president's home. >> this seems big. when you look at some of the president's biggest kind of cheerleaders, emgroene, jim jordan, have gone kind of silent, that tells you all you need to know, too. >> as the justice department finishes its initial review of the classified documents, trump

per lined, the dni confirms it's looking into the risks to our national security. also tonight, lindsey graham and the politics of violence. he says if trump is indicted, republicans will riot in the streets. quite a contrast to pivotal moments in history when nonviolence prevailed. plus, the mid terms and why after roe no one with any sense is still talking about a red wave, and as kids head back to school, how to navigate the sometimes confusing guidance out there about covid and other health threats. we begin "the reidout" tonight three weeks to the day since donald trump announced that the fbi had searched his mar-a-lago home to retrieve classified documents he took with him when he left the white house. during that time the twice-impeached former president has continued to try to play the victim claiming he's under attack by the mean old biden administration and some sort of political vendetta, but in that same time span we have learned not only the multiple attempt

made by both the national archives and the doj to retrieve all of these documents but how highly classified some of them were and what they contained. according to friday's redacted copy of the affidavit, the initialing trove of material collected in january included 184 unique documents with classification markings, some marked as top secret. we also learned that some of the documents are markings indicating they could include some of the government's most highly guarded secrets such as human intelligence sources. that as the director of national intelligence director wants to determine the risk to national security. we still don't know what trump was doing with the document and who had access to them. not once has trump explained why those documents were being kept at his not all secured golf resort like the slippers you would take from a nice hotel. all of this while the former president's legal team struggles to find a defense argument they

can stick to for more than a few days. of course, it must be hard when they are dealing -- when they are being directed by trump himself and when according to the "new york times" people familiar with his thinking say trump sees attorney general merrick garland not as the federal government's chief law enforcement officer but merely as a political foe and someone with whom he can talk about how much anger exists over the whole situation. later this week a u.s. district judge will hold a hearing over trump's demand for a special master to review the materials seized by the fbi to seek out any privileged material. judge cannon who was appointed by trump in 2020 issued a two-page order this weekend indkeating that she is ready to grant his request. the doj responded today confirming that they will comply, but here's the thing. they have already completed their review of the materials, and they are already working on address any potential privilege disputes. let's not forget that in the fbi's search of mar-a-lago they

seized even more classified documents, including some that were meant to be read only in special secure government facilities. joining me is editor at large at "newsweek" and former fbi double agent and glen kirschner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. i wanted to talk to you today because you're in the unique position of having been a double agent, been someone who relied on the protections afforded to you by the secrecy of what you were doing, and i am very interested to hear what you make of the fact that donald trump had all of this classified material, including classified material i should say at his house, including human intelligence materials. >> you know, joy, maybe i was out that day at spy school, but i'm pretty sure they never told me, hey, we're going to protect your identity, but if it does get out, don't worry, we'll bring the espionage act to bear. look, the point about secret intelligence is that it remains secret. everything that's happening now

from a master to, hell, even the fbi agents pulling the documents out of mar-a-lago, that puts the intelligence contained within them at ring. you know, there's a social contract that i had with those fbi agents. i went into places that i didn't know were safe and they agreed to protect my identity. once i gave them that information i had no idea what was going to happen with it, who was going to see it but i had a guarantee that my name and identity would be kept safe. in esnamg, best case scenario you're compromised. the worst case scenario is pretty darn bad and there's a lot of worst case scenarios. it just frustrates me. everything with trump is a 12. hard to feel like when everything is a 12 nothing is a 12 but this is personal. this is something that puts people's lives at risk. in a best case scenario trump was incompetent but when we've seen trump toys rarely the best case scenario. >> just to be clear. this is my lovely wonderful

director. there have actually been really catastrophic situations for our spies. back in 2021 the "new york times" reported that trouble numbers of informants recruited from other countries have been captured or killed in reese enyears. adversely intelligence services in countries such as russia, china, pakistan have been hunting down the cia sources and in some cases turning them into double agents, so, again, the risks are real, navid. this isn't theoretical. >> that's absolutely right. look, china and north korea, iran, russia, every day they are looking for our spies. there are people here today that are spying for the benefit of the united states of america, and we owe them a minimum duty of protecting their identity. look, i don't know whether the result of those deaths was because of something trump did or didn't do. this is a problem, and the somers point that you have to do everything in your power to protect them. the fact that trump sees this information potentially as something that's beneficial to him as a transaction, you know,

not this idea of higher service or selflessness or just duty to people that are frankly risking their lives and their family's lives for our country, it's just par for the course when it comes to trump. >> glen, let me go to you on this. donald trump has made it seem like he's treated worse than anyone would be treated under the same circumstances, but i think it's fairly obvious that he's been treated much, much better. he was able to hold on to this information that the government desperately wanted back for nearly two years, 18 month. you pointed out, i follow you on the twitter, you pointed out there's a woman named asia jenay lovullo who went to jail and what she went to priss op for was taking classified documents with secret classifications to her hotel room and failing to use a diplomatic pouch. she went to prison. trump is golfing. your thoughts? >> and. the point is that we should hold folks accountable when, you know, they violate the trust placed in them, particularly as

government employees, but the point is you see when somebody like miss lavarello that engages in a breach of security that is not as dangerous as what donald trump did, those document he stole from the federal government and unlawfully concealed at mar-a-lago, and let's be clear, we have no idea what he did with them, how he might have exploited them or compromised our national security. but there's no dispute that what he did is a million times worse than what miss lavarello did and she promptly landed in prison, you know, for the one secret document that she miss handled. what did our federal government, our executive branch, our department of justice do when they learned that donald trump had this treasure trove of classified information? they negotiated with him

endlessly. they catered to him, begged, pleaded, implored, please give us the documents back. that is not the way our federal government should handle breaches of our national security. >> we've had reality winter's mom on the show. i highly doubt there was begging and she was thrown in prison. david p-trace who served this country admirably. he didn't cry bone spurs. he signed up and served the country and still got prosecuted for exposing classified data. can you imagine anyone else other than donald trump, maybe pause he's a former president or maybe because he's the luckiest s.o.b. on earth that could be free from jail and not be in manicles and shackles 18 months after taking that much classified data. >> no. and at some point it becomes

deeply unjust. fork, the food soldiers of donald trump's insurrection that he told to attack the capitol, stop the certification of joe biden's win. fight like hell or you won't have a country anymore. those folks are being indicted, convicted and they are being imprisoned and yet donald trump who orchestrated the attack has a tee time tomorrow morning and miss lavarello sits in prison. that's a deep injustice that needs to be recommend deed with donald trump and his israel associates. >> let me play roy blount and the relentless defense from the maga-elected republicans who aren't serving their constituents they well. he was donging and weaving as stephanopoulos was asking him some pretty straightforward simple questions. >> was he right to take these documents to mar-a-lago?

>> well, i think we need to know more about the document. >> was it right for the president to take these government documents that he was supposed to turn over to the national archives down to mar-a-lago? >> it was -- you should be very careful with classified documents. everybody need to be more careful >> do you believe it was right for the president to take those documents to mar-a-lago? >> he turned over a lot of document. should have turned over all of them and i imagine he knows that now as well. >> he hasn't said that. he sailed he's done nothing wrong. >> you've been involved in briefing members of coming. what do you make of a member of congress who also takes the oath to defend this country against all enemies, for and domestic, not being able to simply state that it's wrong if not illegal to steal essentially our national secrets and put them in your bed rom. >> look, it's indefensible. the reality is that be whatever

the information contains, including the fbi agents, when they go in and retrieve the documents and have to go in and archive it and index it. right now you are putting people who don't have access to that information. let's talk about the mortgage of it. you have a duty to protect this country eeoc credits, full stop. look, when i was working operations, there was a opportunity when i was sitting down with my russian case officer and that document had been made clear. i gave him the document. there was a point when the fbi was going to arrest me. you don't take classified information. if you have access to classified information you have a duty to protect it. there is no excuse. at best they should come out and say he was incompetent.

maybe that has a ring of truth to it, but anything else, it's not believable. >> as president of the united states he was surrounded by people who could have told him what was legal and what was not. he had his own white house counsel. he apparently didn't listen to anyone. last question to you, glen. there is an element of donald trump's truthiness, his ability to filter himself, but actually that sometimes is actually the best evidence against him. there's a "new york times" piece that talks about the obstruction threat against him right now. georgetown unilaw professor julia o'sullivan who said essentially the emerging timeline of the government's repeatedly stymied attempts to retrieve the documents plus the claims that trump said he did nothingioning because he declassified the document in his possession is a possible for him. he's making a mistake whether he believes it matters whether it's top secret or not. he's essentially conceding he knew he had them. if so not giving them back in and of itself was obstructing

the return of these documents. >> that's why there's three federal crimes being investigated by the fbi, one of the three federal crimes that the judge granted the search warrant on. finding those crimes had been committed. there was probable cause to believe they were committed and there was probable cause to believe they would find evidence of those crimes on the property at mar-a-lago. one of them was obstruction of justice. now, mind you, none of those three crimes required classification of the documents, so that is -- that's nothing but a donald trump talking point to fool the gullible, and the fact that he retained these documents after they were demanded, after doj officials and fbi agents went down there and begged him to return them, after they were subpoenaed, he violated a subpoena, and he retained those documents unlaw fundamentalist i have to tell you that is a relatively easy obstruction of justice charge to bring against

donald trump. it's a 20-year federal felony, and we are all and how many times have we talked about this, joy? we are all waiting for the department of justice to move out and to begin to hold donald trump accountable. >> just treat him like you would treat any other american. when you're not p.you're a regular person and subject to all the same laws that we are. thank you both. up next on "the reidout," lindsey graham pours gasoline on the maga fire warning that republicans will resort to violence if donald trump is held to be accountable. more on the "the reidout" after this. e accountable. more on the "the reidout" after this weathertech is the ultimate protection for your vehicle. laser-measured floorliners... no drill mudflaps... cargoliner... bumpstep... seat protector... and cupfone. ♪ what about my car?

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sunday marked the anniversary of two pivotal milestones in the civil rights movement. the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old emmett till, the chicago boy who was abducted, tortured and murdered after being accused of whistling at a white woman while visiting family in mississippi. and the march on washington in 1963 eight years later organized to coincide with the day that till was murdered where dr. martin luther king jr. delivered his iconic i have a dream speech. the lynching of emmett till was horrific evidence of the racist celebs routinely waged against black americans in the suit with imputin, and i should warn you the following video is graphic. till's mother mamie insisted on an open casket for her son's funeral so the world couldn't turn away from the image of his mutilated body, a funeral

attended by 50,000 people at a church on chicago's south side. >> they said that about one in every five had to be assisted out of the building they were would just go into a faint. >> i think black people's reaction was so visceral everybody knew we were under attack and that attack was symbolized by the attack on a 14-year-old boy. >> but the righteous anger over the murder of this child did not lead to violence, far from it. despite concerns within the kennedy white house in 1963, the march for jobs and freedom brought more than a quarter million people to washington also without incident. in fact, in his speech dr. king made an explicit call to nonviolence, to conduct the struggle with dignity and discipline, and i would just like you to contrast that with

south carolina senator lindsey graham's comments last night in defense of the twice-impeached former president's mishandling of classified government documents. >> if there's a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified information after the clinton debacle which you presided over and did a hell of a good job, there will be riots in the streets. >> oh, the entitlement. if right wing republicans don't get what they want there will be riots. yeah, we've seen that before, kind of like the mob laying seeming to our capitol when trump supporters department get what they wanted in the last election. joining me now is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. always great to see you, michael. it is telling to me that lindsey graham, a map of the south, seemed to stand before history or maybe doesn't know his history very well and threaten violence if donald trump -- if the system of justice dares to hold donald trump to account. by the way, he has no idea if

trump is going to get prosecuted. he seems to be projecting. your thoughts. >> he's projecting and he's making a threat. threats were made in the south by pro white supremacist politicians which i wouldn't have called lindsey graham five years ago but i sure would tonight. you know, he's saying if donald trump is prosecuted or you go after him, there's going to be violence in the streets. you know, that is a threat and it's a threat from someone who is as of tonight standing right at the side of donald trump, his little buddy and was someone who -- is someone who we know on the 6th of january, and we're still learning more last year, actually it up leash violence in an effort to hold on to his job and stage a coup d'etat so this is not a idle threat. it used to be, joy, that conservatives in this country were for democracy. they wanted the rule of law. they wanted public safety and

peace. none of those things were being shown by lindsey graham. this is something like a race baiter out of the 1920s saying, you know, if you do such and such there's going to be violence in the streets. i just can't believe that he said that. >> and the thing is, you make an excellent point about it not being an idle threat. donald trump amplified what lindsey graham said on his pretend twitter that he created with devon nunez and he's done that before. it's very much like him saying i lost the election. you should show up on january 6th. it's going to be wild. >> going to be wild. >> donald trump telegraphed that he was going to hurl a violent mob at the united states capitol even going back to december, december 19th saying this is what's going to happen and now he's doing it again. >> and trump reputedly also sent a message in some way to merrick garland, the attorney general, saying that i think things are going to blow up if you go after me in the justice department and then adding he always covers

himself what can i do to bring the heat down which is sort of like a mavial cop saying a nice little story you've got there. hate to see anything happen to it. >> the thing is the history of the united states is replete with violence that results in a group of people who felt inteethled getting their way not getting their way and there's a lot of history of violence in the wake of elections, particularly after reconstruction and to end reconstruction. we have a map that will just show you some of them, not all of them, the lynchings, the burnings of towns, the burnings of places like black wall street in oklahoma. you just could go on and on and on and a lot of these attacks, these violent attacks were riots, race riots that were the result of the group that was in power, this time white democrats to be blunt. >> right. >> believing that they were entitled to hold on to power and wanting to take down the black and tan republicans. >> absolutely. what was tulsa except for black

people had become amazingly and oppressively successful in business and finance in a racist system and the locals couldn't stand it and they basically burned down that area. that is something, that is the kind of thing, look at the number of those things that you just showed us on that map. that was brilliant, joy. how many of those things have been taught in schools? even before the recent effort to be repressive and say, you know, you can not teach about civil rights in the schools or you have to be heightened in what you say about the holocaust. we're going into a time where a lot of school boards and a lot of states are in the process of trying to censor history, and given what i dork and i know how much you love history, the reason we love history is not only because they are interesting tales of the past but the whole idea of the united states is that in general, you know, maybe one step backward but two steps forward, and one of the ways that we take the two

steps forward is to look at history, look where our past leaders and citizens failed and where they succeeded. if we're robbed of that history, we're defeating exactly what the founders wanted us to do. >> absolutely. on that map just to highlight a couple of them, in 1868 a kkk-style group massacred hundreds in response to voter ridge administration. st. bernard's parish, white vigilantes murdered dozens trying to eman pate voters. whites contesting the 1872 election set fire to a courthouse protected by black militiamen. you can just go on and on and on and the other thing about history that i think is fascinating we should always remember is history is the story of change. the same party that ran the american south during the worst periods in our history after reconstruction is the same party that 100 years later, a century later, is the party of the first black president, so these parties change. >> they do. >> and i think for republicans

the message is that the trumpist version of their party is not the final version, does not have to be the time version of their party because for democrats the racist southern version was not the final version either. >> absolutely. >> the democrats were such a while supreme courtsy racist party even franklin roosevelt who had some of the largest congressional majorities as you well know in american history in the 1930s was terrified to propose an anti-lynching bill, even propose it because he was terrified of the southern committee chairmen and he knew he needed southern votes to win these elections. just to show everyone that humanity at least in some ways does come forward, what did joe biden propose last spring? an anti-lynching bill called the emmett till bill that brings tears to our eyes to even think about this which says if you lynch someone it's a federal

crime. it's a hate crime. >> yeah. >> it seems pretty small but for decades presidents could not get that through congress. >> absolutely. a perfect ending to the story and ahmaud arbery lays in a grave having been a modern victim of lifrpg. history is a circle and something that we can turn in a circle in a beautiful way. >> we hope. >> mike al beschloss, always a pleasure. >> thank you. still ahead, republicans struggle to navigate a post-roe landscape with another candidate scrubbing anti-abortion mans from their campaign website. we're back after this. campaign. we're back after this.

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. >> it's been two month since the right wing christian national supreme court majority overturned roe and since then an interesting trend has developed within the republican party. candidate across the country are trying to hide their positions on reproductive rights. last week nbc news report that had blake masters, the republican candidate for senate ins a adds, had scrubbed his wednesday out of his positions which had included opposition to legal birth control. j.d. vance, his ohio counterpart, has said he would like abortion to be illegal nationally, but he's not telling -- now telling nbc news he doesn't support a national abortion ban right now. in michigan "the detroit news" reports tom barrett, the republican challenging alyssa slotkin has scrubbed the values section on his website which once touted his anti-choice

position. a viral video of a republican state legislator from south carolina shows just how politically and morally perilous the abortion issue is for republicans. >> the attorneys told the doctors that because of the feet al heartbeat bill, because that 15-week-old had a heartbeat, the doctors could not extract. there's a 50% chance -- greater than 50% chance that she's going to lose her uterus, a 10% chance that she will develop sepsis a herself die. that weighs on me. i voted for that bill. these are affecting people. >> since the court ended a woman's right to reproductive health care kansas voters resoundingly ajected a constitutional amendment and democrats have overperformed in several special election, a surge in recommending administrations by women and the generic ballot has shifted in the republican favor.

this weekend jet ran journalist dan balz wrote that the mid terms are shifting from a referendum on the current president and a real choice between democrats and republicans. no one can predict whether turnout this fall will come close to what happened in 2018, but there are sips all around that this will be another post-donald trump election and not necessarily up that conforms to what the norm was previously. joining me now is a political scientist and vat gist and host of "the cycle" on sub stack and cornell belcher, democratic pollster and msnbc political analyst. ladies first. i want to start with you, rachel. looking at the anecdotal evidence. you've got the senate campaign committee for the republicans cans lipping $10 million worth of spending for pennsylvania, wisconsin and arizona. you've got j.d. vance who says women should stay in abusive relationships begging for much. you've got democrat just hammering republicans over other stuff, not even roe, blake masters wanting to privatizing

social security and ron johnson, you know, you can go on and on and on and plus the number of women who are just signing up to vote all over the country. anecdotally it definitely looks like democrats are surging towards the mid terms. your thoughts. >> i mean, what i would say are you not entertained? right? this is exactly the product of what many people have been working toward, getting democrats to dram this election as a referendum on the republican party and disqualify change, thus disrupting the mid-term effect but as your show opening just pointed out, you know, for all the work that's done on the messaging and strategic front, at the end of the day the catalyst event of having abortion becoming illegal in so many places and thrusting women into a health crisis is -- it's such a negative partisanship jolt to the electorate on our side that it's absolutely allowed democrats a

position to not only, you know, hold the senate but maybe pick up a couple of seats from the weak candidates that they have also gifted everybody with, but now it's putting the house into play. what we really want to watch from here is the again rick ballot aggregate. it's moved from basically three points initially favoring republicans by two and a half points and now it's democrat at three and if that keeps moving north and the electorate is, you know, the angst in the electorate is heightened by strategy, then i really do think we're looking at a situation where we can put the house back into contention. >> cornell you know me so you know i love polls. i'm a polling geek but i have to say i've been incredibly skeptical of the pup dit take over the last year that because history says "x," the out party -- the party that holds the white house loses the mid-terms, blah, blah, blah, i happen to be a person that believe outside events change all that have calculus.

napped '04 when republicans put the anti-gay marriage bills all over in 11 states helping george w. bush get re-elected despite having lied about iraq and happened in 2018 with brett cav -- brett kavanaugh. what are your thoughts? >> the polling is actually picking up this trend line that you've been talking about. if you look at the generic race the way it has moved, you know is six or seven months back, joy, i would argue because i'm old and i remember 2010, i was front seat 2010. i would say that all this looks like 2010 all over again and katie bar the door. it doesn't look like 2010. let's go on nbc's polling. let's go inside nbc's polling, our polling at nbc. if you look at where they had the persuadables in 2010, republicans had a 13-point advantage among the persuadable

cohort in 2010. democrats now have an advantage among that persuadable cohort so now this republican wave is not -- is not growing, it's not coming to fruition. part of that is though because this is -- this has become a referendum on something other than joe biden and democrats, and you will see that when that dynamic change. we saw that dynamic change with job. job and republicans made that election about security, and they changed the fundamental dynamic of this. there's not typically one varl but the overreach on -- one variable but the overreach of taking away a woman's right to choose, and another factor, joy, when you look at the enthusiasm

and the new registration among younger voters and -- and women voters, all of these likely -- all these likely voter models for mid terms, joy, they are wrong, and i've got to tell you right now, we're probably looking at a -- a turnout this coming mid-term that's better than what we had in 2018, and 2018 was an historic mid-term so all bets are off what's going to happen because quite frankly our typical likely mid-term voter models are not going to match up with what's going to happen with young people and particularly women and even voters of color where if you look back at 2010, which i did and look at african american voters right now, they are more likely to be interested in this election and more likely to say they are going to turn out and vote in this election than they were in 2010 so this won't be a typical mid-term election. >> absolutely. i'll give you the last word, rachel. there's the negative impact of

roe and the positive impact of biden doing some fundamental things that young voters like which is things like that $10,000 in help for student loans. >> yeah. i mean, i'm liking biden's accomplishments, the secret deal with schumer and manchin and hits the gop in the gut and completely unaware and it's just -- republicans have made some up forced errors, the grandstanding on the vet bill, for example, that have recently done a lot to make joe biden look not only effective but incredibly effective, right, and i like that -- i think it is important for public perception but more so it's about beltway perception. does the party feel like biden's doing well? do the strategists, the candidates, consultants, the activist base and the chattering class because as long as they are talking happy, i'm happy. >> yeah. the only word i would disagree with in what you just said is some. some unforced errors.

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some big news on the kovd front. a new report from political says the fda is expected to authorize a pair of booster shots targeting the contagious omicron variant as soon as wednesday setting the stage for the rollout of the updated vaccine to begin shortly after labor day, and it couldn't come at a more crucial time as students and teachers start to head back to school with not one, not two but three different public health emergencies to worry about. this covid, still very much a global pandemic, despite most school districts lifting thag their mask mandate and the cdc no longer requiring students to karen team after being exposed to the virus. add on to that empox, a growing concern especially on college campuses even though rates seem sob slowing down in some cities like new york, chicago and frisco. for the first time since 1994 polio is making a comeback in

some part of the country. this weekend another county in new york detected the virus in wastewater samples from july and august. joining me now to sort all of this dr. ben gupta, critical care pulmonologist and msnbc contribute oufrmt missed talking with you, dr. gupt a. let go through this rapid fire. vaccination rates are soup low among kids right now. what should parents be doing sending their kids back to school? >> joy, good evening. always great to see you. patients should get their children vaccinated. the vaccines are incredibly safe. very effective at preventing hospitalizations in the pediatricp population. we know, that joy, the worst of omicron, children rending up in children hospitals at six times the rate versus a typical cold and flu season so this is no -- this is no small thing. parents should absolutely get their children vaccinated. what i would say is wait for the

fourth shot though. if you're wanting to time maybe shots, sometimes you want to get the vaccine appointment over with if you have young kiddos, got the flu shot and covid vaccine together, joy. set real expectations for less than 50% of adult americans actually get a flu shot so that's why congressional funding for testing and treatment, especially for adults who are high-risk is so critical. and the fact that it's being held up is so dangerous because as people they're gonna reap on therapies in easy access to them in our hospitals. we don't have it, and we're talking -- about >> have we just gotten too lax? there's monkeypox out here. now the last several times i have traveled on flights i've been one of the very few people on with masks. people of seemed of whipped off the masks, gone back inside, back to indoor restaurants like there's no danger. are we getting too lax about

these threats? >> absolutely and it's being reflected in policy. the fact that congress is holding up this money is a big deal. there will be an unavoidable winter surge. i also say joy that this is a time where employers need to step up. we must remember that over 50% of americans get their health benefits through their employer. employee benefit programs need to step up now, and these tests and treatments were not favorable through the government, they need to give these test treatments for free. for monkeypox just to be key here, education is going to be key. hand and mouth disease presents many similar symptoms, it can mimic monkeypox, but parents out there worried about all these threats have a conversation with the pediatricians. very likely may not be monkeypox maybe some other

disease. >> we're talking about polio. how is polio back? i thought polio had been eradicated in years. how is it? back >> who unfortunately because there are some individuals that despite polio vaccine safety, it's very safe at preventing infection, much less severe and, some people are not getting vaccinated, so that's one reason why it's back. the oral polio vaccine this vaccine. that's used in some parts of the world, that can cause some folks can cause some to get infected as well. a version of the vaccine we have in the united states does not do that. it's very effective at preventing infection. it doesn't cause it, but that's the reason why it's back. really important for adults at their to get this question all the time, if you're in a place where you are caring about polio and the wastewater, you can get a one time once in your

lifetime booster shot. or if there's somebody who doesn't know, you can get that shot for her kids, parents make sure that the children get the shot, that's best thing you can do to keep your kids safe. >> has kids go back to school, it's always great to talk to our friend the doctor. thank you for your time. all right coming up, by tribute to an incredibly special athlete and the sport that she changed forever. stay right with us. stay right with us rked this hard to only get this far with his cholesterol. taken with a statin, leqvio can lower bad cholesterol and keep it low with two doses a year. side effects were injection site reaction, joint pain, urinary tract infection, diarrhea, chest cold, pain in legs or arms, and shortness of breath. with leqvio, lowering cholesterol becomes just one more thing life throws your way. ask your doctor about leqvio. lower. longer. leqvio. can you believe someone thought this would help you hear better?

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tennis superstar serena williams is competing in the u.s. open just one last time, facing a dank at covid at the arthur ashe stadium in new york city. that's the side of serena's first open win in 1999 when she was just 17 years old. it is hard to imagine the tennis world without serena williams, and also her big sister venus. building on history created by the great half he has some. this promise they change this predominantly white sport. but also what was possible. we are talking to the hardest serves in history. and serena would be go on to become the most dominant female of fleet and maybe ever. brace yourself an emotional appearance because the sisters will be flying doubles at the u.s. open after they were awarded a wildcard, a fitting finale as serena prepares for a

new chapter. earlier this month, serena ants announced in vogue that she would hold up her racket, calling it an evolution in. the 23-time grand slam champion redefined with a woman's tennis player can be and inspired a new generation of black tennis stars like naomi osaka. her very existence in thrall tennis fans but had a way of throwing the tennis world into a tizzy. her hair, body and very existence were constantly picked apart. she was a frequent target of racist and attacks. she accused an empire of sexism saying she was treated differently because she was a woman, highlighting gender discrimination in her sport in any sport. let me tell you, he didn't have to be a tennis fan to obsess over that sport. that's the thing about serena williams. whether it's wakanda catsuit, banned by tennis french officials or how she won the

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