greetings and salutations democrats and republicans are at war with each other little substance of change can happen in this clash of power different visions on basic things like what it means to be a democracy the role of the police what it actually even happened on january 6th and who won the 2020 presidential election republicans are leading the charge on this information lives and fighting to maintain a white supremacist status quo recently the centers for disease control and prevention c d c added another wrinkle to the growing partisan divide c.d.c. director rochelle alinsky is on the defense after the agency told people who are

fully vaccinated against kobe 19 if they can go without a mask the c.d.c. recommendation comes at an odd time considering america is nowhere near herd immunity to mask or not to mask that is the question well masking bell along ideological lines from the very start conservative states largely refuse to mandate it and those states also have lower vaccination rates but more importantly how do restaurants bars grocery stores and other public spaces know who's vaccinated and who isn't will they be be virtually checking for vaccine cards or operating on an honor system these are the primary questions state and local governments are grappling with now once he made her sunday morning t.v. rounds with a stop on n.b.c.'s meet the press and at this today. this was not permission to shed masks for everybody everywhere this was really science driven individual

assessment of your risk. well the problem with that statement is for too many americans never saw it as a threat to begin with and the c.d.c. updated guidance could bring unintended consequences and to make matters more quickly the largest nurses union can do in the new c.d.c. mass guidance saying it's not based on science so who should we believe and may is mental health awareness month and all indicators point to disaster for americans particularly children the stressors of code 19 job loss housing insecurity and school closures shot the rates of anxiety and depression through the roof with masking mental illness and a partisan divide it's time we start watching the hawks. on a cd the streets. are so let's see. this is the only

state police traced this crazy city this least systemic deception to leak show which is why we're. doing this. welcome everybody to watching the hogs on the beach across the rio is on vacation joining me now is infectious disease expert dr bob arnot good to see you again dr bob over to sugar in for a world. well dr bob i wish we were having a conversation under better circumstances but the c.d.c. its latest guidance is sending a lot of people into confusion the c.d.c. says the update is backed by the science particularly science driven by israel but doesn't israel have a much higher coated vaccination rate in the u.s. in or their risk associated with unmasking america this sooner. great questions for for show us q runs the c.d.c. defy the brightest infectious disease expert of all time i had

a chance to work with your team on a couple films this year she's a phenomenal visual i think though that you know she has a weak team in terms of prevention at the c.d.c. the on almost everything wrong you weren't supposed to mess they only came to mask you rather than mass producing you know and 95 coffee hi folks ration maps people 100 of these terrible maps that provided like 3 percent protection the school guidance kept most schools closed this year you know or you know where they ended up at and thank us for inhalation high for precious mass and here in vermont we stay open all year so i think the advice is terrible for us on this earth that you say the very one huge reduction in that is. incredibly high vaccination very cut it has a very high vaccination already nothing very few that hospitalizations serious goes for the vaccine trial and you pointed this out. 41 percent of republicans are getting the vaccine the united states is going to devolve into a series of many states are going to have green states like vermont you know we're

number one in health care and for people colors well we're number one in terms of actually asian mississippi is number 51 vaccination 51 in terms of health you're going to have the states we have very low vaccination rates you don't have the various you insert to achieve unity of all and it's going to be a disaster the worst far though is to have all these patients or say you don't need a vastly more there was not the intention but i love your expression of that is it's the law of unintended consequences that is the idea was to say you could have actually next great we're going to take off your mask you know what if you haven't gotten one yet here's a lure get the vaccine you have to heat up your mask i think is a disaster i think is very much like what he did back in february when he told the indian population that goes over the years were empty. back to life as normal and as you saw these huge religious schools and political rallies so why not encourage shots of the group no one should through the roof here because the facts emerge but

nonetheless i think you can see the slow unintended consequences there were and you can see your number of sessions highlighted by the un peace. breakthrough infections on the johnson and johnson back see more to come you can jump the shark on me a little bit here dr bob but since you lead into it private industry is already jumping on the mass mandates we have some of the biggest places starbucks target trader joe's and wal-mart they're all basing theirs on some type of honor system they had do you have a vaccine do you not have a vaccine i'll take your word for it how can that possibly work and do you think this new c c mandate causes more problems specifically for state and local governments. i view huge costs for state and local governments especially in red states where you know reason or were i'm asking you what's so interesting is you know a year ago for worry you will you know they figured out how to cover the content

case try see if you can contact a somebody with co if you are one of these mobile cabins and i slipped they went down to 0 not replace the other than the chinese over the last year is that they have had actually passports and their passports as your vaccination status as the number animal as you have it has test results if you want to partner we can move it or you have actually asked for we are underneath it and we have a little piece of paper but now they're selling the us health chowderhead ones so there's no way of knowing who so so you know in the name of sort of then you know not to trust you markets you know were tens of thousands of more people because we don't have the right kind of actually in passports like the chinese that you see you really know somebody is the back not so it is a mess you spec wise will be lost and to your point i think the largest nurses union actually agrees with the when they have condemned the c.d.c. got it guidance saying quote this newest c.d.c.

guidance is not based on science does not protect public health and threatens the lives of patients nurses and other front line workers across the country now is not the time to relax protective measures and we are outraged that the c.d.c. has done just that we are still in the midst of the deadliest pandemic in a century. e.u.r. 1000 images was the word of love but were they shut down a year ago i mean it's as if we said hey you know i'm holding up deaths are down you don't have to are safe you got any more to take with the speed stuff it's ridiculous i think part of my fundamental most important thing is the c.d.c. has caught the disease completely on this is an air more numbers great article in wired just a couple of days ago indicating that you know because this is steve you go through the year americans or even the red zones it was apartments or you know whatever it is if you don't have the right kind of ventilation there then you know one individual can become a super spread of this virus every claims you know we know that 2 things were great

in rishon works and we know that hi folks x. words small change in those a way we were going to do or taking away exactly at the moment disaster. and we just have a very short amount of time left but i want to get your thoughts on this may is mental health awareness month and after the year we've all had stressors anxiety and daily life triggers have caused lives to spiral out of control during the pandemic 4 in 10 adults across the us reported symptoms of anxiety and depression what do you think it's going to take to get us back on track and do we have the infrastructure to support these critical mental health needs. also we don't have the infrastructure we want to do with. psychiatry massachusetts general hospital rated number one in the country is that going to see things one is it's ok not to be ok a lot of us are this sort of very large you or to the inside. but he also received then which is that a year ago 5 percent of the patients were treated as it's now it's like 95 percent

still have tools we have tell us to anybody in the country can he still holds the medicine rule solo allows people be able to access that kind of care and that's he actually said that is a likely that tell us a guy who's going to be going to you said that rather than sit here under doctor's office and having to park in all the stress and anxiety in your son's and what not city for us like our 1st you can actually do with that the sort of extra layer of protection street so i think the resources can be there if we use child psychiatry and if we have parents and coaches and brothers sisters will step up to say look you need help and i'm taking the extra step to get that help and dr bob i'm going to have to stop you there i totally agree with you as a matter of personal privilege i am doing tell a pair of self i can say that it works thanks for joining us and we look to have you read various next. model but. there seems to

be no end in sight to the latest round of fighting between israeli forces and hamas the conflict started 2 weeks ago after violence broke out when israeli authorities in east jerusalem pushed 2 of the. palestinian families in order to make way for jewish settlers now an international call to stop ongoing bloodshed it's falling on deaf ears israel bows to push forward parties alex the hell of it as the story. as israel's iron dome takes 0 rockets fired by hamas a new day brings fresh is really strikes to the gaza strip. as the current round of violence enters its 2nd week. entire families were exterminated and their homes were demolished on top of their children by the brutal raid that spread death terror and human remains in the rubble that destroyed buildings and streets the palestinian death toll is approximately 200 including $59.00 children almost

and then they are children they are 234 years old what did they do that made it necessary to kill them one of the targets the israelis were after they talked to the missiles at small children who did nothing wrong they were torn to pieces by adding to the dead over 1200 palestinians have been injured and what some are calling unprecedented attacks a journalist on the ground reporting for r t described the scene as really intensive ever strikes killing women and children inside their homes and it is important to note that israel did not send out 3 warning for these buildings this board before they bombarded them which is something on the precision as israel 6 used to warn to people before they attempted to strike and even think that is really saw it there have been at least 10 deaths including a 5 year old boy killed by hamas rockets while much of the world is asking for

a cease fire to end the bloodshed including some of the u.n. the most urgent and depressing task at this moment is to the cease fire and the stuff is israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not ready to comply with our battle against a terror organization continues in full force we are charging very happy to prices from hamas for their bearable aggression the i.d.f. carried out attacks on more than 1500 targets during the last days according to the israeli military it has destroyed 15 kilometers of militant tunnels and the homes of 9 hamas commanders. in addition this airstrike is said to have taken a hard hit the commander of the northern division of islam. on saturday president joe biden spoke with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas calling on hamas to seize rocket fire into israel in addition today abbas met with

a u.s. diplomat in ramallah biden also talked to netanyahu get a rating his strong support for israel's right to defend itself while raising concerns about the safety come journalists in the war zone over the weekend an office tower which housed several international media organizations was destroyed by the i.d.f. . netanyahu and his really military official said they've transmitted intelligence to the united states which shows hamas was using the building for their operations however the u.s. secretary of state while on a visit to denmark countered that claim i've not seen any information provided. it is based on intelligence that would have been shared with other colleagues and i'll leave that to them to assess. efforts to stop the ballots are being blocked as u.s. representatives to the united nations continue to obstruct efforts by other countries

who are asking for a joint statement from the u.n. security council which would condemn the violence and calls for a truce but not for watching the hawks i'm alex marquardt. as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v.'s available on all platforms coming up we explore how one mississippian received life in prison for marijuana possession and why you can't reform policing without qualified immunity stay tuned to watching the. but 1st like when you on the most common crimes book property if somebody would've

been told me to come to spend my life for replaying committees i'll talk to story corps in the solti was clearly seen. every night although we were attacked by the arabs oh we will attacking them and we will extremely shocked and saying that's not possible i'll make those moves to such scenes and then the soldiers simply myself can sleep in the. house with all the pools of war we've all gotten over they all are. really much sick and close citizens in the on call. tools like and i think in my heads that there is no way to be able to live together without tearing down the street mob of. the world is driven by shaped past and present there was.

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obama must protect its own existence is it just an. inequality in racism or the foundations of the american criminal justice system blacks are charged at rates higher the whites serve longer sentences and year after year cycle repeats itself. the war on drugs is ill fated and targeting as it is is doing exactly what it was designed to do a case in point russell allen allen is a black man serving life in prison stemming from a marijuana conviction in mississippi that was uphill just this week the

mississippi court of appeals denied russell's appeal arguing he is a habitual offender that classification eliminated any judicial discretion and basically guarantees harsh sentencing even when the offense is nonviolent and i know what you might be thinking 3 strikes laws and yes this is similar but you up under statutes have faced scrutiny across civil rights and criminal justice advocacy circles and poor really good reason they systemically attack blacks who are 3 times more likely to get arrested for marijuana infractions than whites even though use imposition rates are similar across both demographics in alan's case the 38 year old was found guilty of possession in 2019 but because he had 2 prior charges he is facing life. but his case isn't unique the mississippi clarion ledger reported just last year that there were 86 have been to offenders serving life without parole because of convictions for nonviolent crimes just like allen the

bite administration for its part is working to make a campaign promise a reality police reform. but to get a police reform bill across democrats need republican support it's no secret that police reform is needed last summer's george boy protests put the issue front and center and both sides could agree on that but the sticking point is qualified immunity republicans one except the bill that includes it progressive democrats want except one without it but moderates like house majority whip james clyburn signaled that he's willing to compromise on. joining us now to discuss criminal justice reform and police accountability is a former police officer and prosecutor authorizer good to see you are. a life sentence for nonviolent offense things particularly egregious but allen's case is that rare a louisiana man with given life in prison for less than $30.00 of marijuana

considering states themselves are finding ways to profit off of marijuana why are these sentencing theatre still occurring. i mean this is. over heritage from the war on drugs and other types of drugs who are just as measures that we saw coming up in the east and seventies i will say this is a business a bit of a misnomer since it was like for marijuana possession 3 seriously which is you for 2 for burglary and one for firearms session and just. look at past inventions an attorney what you since it's going to be in fact you can go get things that you were going to for eternity your sentence but i think this really is a test with the help of war on drugs has lost its way particularly kind of what we know about. this individual is we know that people start. people kind of each out of crime. just stop committing crime after

a certain age and particularly in your early thirty's i'm 44 there's no way i'm going to orange and we kind of ignore these things as relates to sentencing and looking at past visions yes he he had some seriously because i'm asked but i don't think we know about why crime is committed so that this last addiction isn't indicative of a public sex concern policy concern really should be what we're looking at if this individual is not dangerous then there's no reason to put. in a prison little hole going to prison for a license and that is posture wrist it doesn't make you safer and it costs a lot of money and then you're right i mean the fact that so many folk are held up in this way and this is not going to stop the start of california you kind of spread its way through its country it's been affected in the south and really is

a testament to why stop the drugs as it's currently being. and not there is there any value in your loss and considering they have such a long history of abuse and structural racism do you think there is hope of having them rooted out. sure i actually do not like a visual for the precise reason i just would ensure that it doesn't take into account what we actually know what about why crimes with people somebody who is incredibly violent or early twenty's or the time other. really kind of off the edge as it relates. to mission people just don't do good things as they get older i mean i used to be an avid snowboarder of the story of the whole . 3 months ago and i decided never to just you all for the same thing that happens with any type of behavior that people the other thing about has visual laws is

that when you create a system that doesn't have a lot of seeking a balance there are people who have those who because we are the ones who get caught up with wonder and in this country you know the evil because we've traditionally and historically have been. minorities and children and the fact is it's not you know rich black people who get caught up in this is and it's not rich white people it's primarily poor individuals and then great sort of the individuals that almost always get wrapped up in this and again it doesn't make a secret it's. if i could look at the data in the data. yeah you know what these laws actually our streets safer i would have a much harder time sitting here telling you that restructure our and which often are laws don't work i mean this is goes back to also in the. children back in the eighty's they don't actually make a secret because they don't mean to say probably should probably be invented. and

moving on to qualified immunity i know you've written a lot about it you've spoken a lot publicly about it qualified immunity has become one of the most controversial legal theories can you explain to our audience what it is exactly and why criminal justice reform advocates argue it has to end before any true police reform can take place. now surely there will critics are lots of qualified immunity started as a weapon for free black people after the civil war and that's why it was designed to do just that probably neither the law that said you can sue the government or violate your constitutional rights and what happened in the sixty's that the powers that be got nervous that civil rights leaders were more sophisticated and then started using makes it through i was. 18 if you want to actually go in and change the way that they fox news was reply it would come out of this judgment document which is quite crazy isn't it conservatives you know support this now

because they hate just being doctrines and the judge it's pretty simple basically says that if even if we can prove that your constitutional rights were violated you have to go to the 2nd step and show that that was clearly established within that jurisdiction and within the law we're still. very wary rats because. we want to give such a barrier and ensure that police officers and other government actors as it's always hard up but it wise to everyone and give them an extra layer of protection so i mean all i mean is protected cops who you know shot actually. you know man who was lying on the floor. you know while there were a need for a fairly pass if a protective police officer who purposely allowed his dog to sit and bite an individual who is sort of your guts and yours that were. that blows me away also

stole money during the search were prosecuted for that and we're still protected on the civil side underqualified rather the judge officers acted. as it was deciding your groups we were wrong doing and this is really a police reform you know this isn't about new cases but i just want to give you a really quick oh you know are there i wish we could but we are really running up against the clock here i'm definitely going to have to have you back on to give us that last piece there byron passion was definitely there thank you so much arthur rising. and that is our show for you today and remember everyone in this world we're not told we're loved enough so i tell you i love you i'm amazed across people watching those talks and have a great day and night if you like. trash

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laws for this hour here on oxy the number of victims grows as israel's shelling of gaza now and has a 2nd week we speech what 10 year old girl who witnessed the destruction of hyundai of a hood. every day at night are not even in fear the missile in the mornings we hear the cries and screams of people i'm just crying it when they shine a spotlight self-love. i. mean while air raid sirens continue to sound in israel with pensioners particularly vulnerable to a time. when you're both in the lead if. it's holidaying concept that.