director rochelle lidsky is on the defense after the agency told people who are fully vaccinated against covert 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 while masking fell along ideological lines from the very start conservative states largely refused 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 is vaccinated and who isn't will they be checking for vaccine cards or operating on an honor system these are the primary questions state and local governments are grappling with now wilensky made her sunday morning t.v. rounds with a stop on n.b.c.'s meet the press and had this to say this was not permission to shed masks for everybody everywhere this was really ringback science driven

individual assessment of your risk. whoa 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 prickly the largest nurses union condemned 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 covert 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. if you want to go on a cd the streets. are so you could see the brass is the only

state police traced graves suggests least systemic deception is complete show which is the way some feel. 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 are you sure gordon for a while. 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 it through have a much higher coby vaccination rate in the u.s. in or their risk associated with unmasking america this sooner. great questions for faller show us he runs the c.d.c. if i the brightest infectious disease expert of all time i had

a chance to work with your team a couple of films this year she's a phenomenal visual i think though that you know she has a weak team in terms of progression at c.d.c. that counted almost everything wrong you weren't supposed to mass they only came to mask you rather than mask reducing your end 95 quality hi folks ration mask people hunted up these terrible mass and provided like 3 percent protection the school guidance kept most schools closed this year you know or you know it ended up at an ambulance for an election haifa christian mass and here in vermont we stay open all year so i think the advice is terrible for us on this earth you say the very one huge reduction and that is. incredibly high vaccination very cut it has a very high vaccination raney nothing very few of us hospitalizations serious goes for the vaccine trial and you point this out. 41 percent of republicans are getting the vaccine the united states is going to devolve into

a series of many states you don't 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 inserted to be unity of all and it's going to be a disaster the worst far though is to have all these patients or say you know you know vastly more there was nothing intention but i love your expression that is it's the law of unintended consequences that is the idea was to say you could have actually next great orderly take off your mask you know what if you haven't got one yet here's a lure get the vaccine in your mask i think is a disaster i think it's very much like what he did back in february when he told the indian population that code is over the i.c.'s are empty. about her life was normal and as you saw these huge religious schools and political rallies so what

are the current shots of the group now will shoot through the roof here because actually right but nonetheless i think you're going to see the slow unintended consequences that were and you could see your number of infections highlighted by the yankees. greats who infections on the johnson and johnson back see more to come and you can jump the shark on me a little bit here dr bob but so since you let into it private industry is already jumping on in the mass mandates we have some of the biggest places starbucks target trader joe's and wal-mart they're all basing their is on some type of honor system they had do you have a vaccine do you not have a vaccine now 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 because it's huge ground so especially in red states where there's you know reason or were masked you know it's so interesting is you know a year ago february you know they figured out how to cover the contact case tracy

if you can contact to somebody with co if you were one of these mobile cabins and i slipped they went down that you know 0 number of cases the other than the chinese have done over the last year is that they have had actually passports and their passports as you vaccination status as the number animal as you have those test results if you want to part with that we can move it or you know that actually passed or we're underneath it and we have a little piece of paper but now they're selling the shelf chowderhead ones so there's no way of knowing who so so you know in the name of sort of. you know not oppressed human rights you know we're 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 who somebody is from back not so years mess news that lives will be lost and to your point i think the largest nurses union actually agrees with you and they've condemned the c.d.c.

got it guidance saying quote this new of 33 guidance is not based on science does not protect public health and threatens the lives of patients nurses and other print 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 you are a letter that was sort of lovable 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 don't anymore to take wind speeds down 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 airborne numbers great article in wired just a couple of days ago indicating that you know because this is so. if you go through the air americans are walking in a red zone it was apartments or you know whatever it is if you don't have the right kind of ventilation there then you know one can if you can become

a super sport of this virus every claims you know we know that 2 things work you know a great integration works and you know that hi folks mission x. words it's won't change in those a way we learned what to do or taking away exactly at the moment top 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 figures 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. oh so we don't have a huge structure and want to actually. psychiatry massachusetts general hospital rated number one in the country is a couple interesting things one is it's ok not to be ok a lot of us are this sort of large you or to the inside. but it also is there an interest in them which is that a year ago 5 percent of their patients were chosen because it's now it's like 95

percent so we have tools we have tell us that anybody in the country can he still holds medicine rule solo allows people to be able to access that kind of care and that's he actually said that is a line really that tell us a guy who's going to be going to use that rather than sit here in a doctor's office and having to park all the stress and anxiety in the room your thumbs and what not a 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 charles psychiatry and if we have parents and of his and brothers sisters will step up to say look you need help and i'm taking the extra step to get you 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 and mary 6. 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 only on deaf ears israel 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 fought

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 are 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 under 3 sedated as israel used to warn to people before they attempted to strike any building on the israeli side 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 a cease fire and to stop. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not ready to comply of us and our battle against a terror organization continues in full force hamas we are charging very heavy prices from hamas controlled or there are there of aggression among the i.d.f. carried out attacks and more than $1500.00 targets during the last days according to the israeli military it has destroyed 15 kilometers of militant tunnels in 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 to 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 when it's really military officials said they've transmitted intelligence to the united states which shows hamas was using the building for their operations however the us secretary of state while on a visit to denmark countered that claim i've not seen any information provided. that 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 bombs 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. 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 life in prison for marijuana possession and why you can't reform policing without qualified immunity stay tuned to watching the. be 1st like when you all know it's coming to inspect. if somebody would've been

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he quality and racism are 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 have been to offender 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 up injures serving life without parole because of convictions for nonviolent crimes just like alan. the bite administration for its part is working to make a campaign promise a reality police are for. but to get

a police reform bill across democrats in the 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 accept a 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 countability is former police officer and prosecutor are the riser good to see you off. 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 while the financing theater still occurring. i mean this is. over heritage front door and drugs and other types of drugs in criminal justice measures

that we saw coming up in the 70s i will say this is a visit a bit of a misnomer since it was like for marijuana possession he had 3 series which is you for 2 for burglary and one for a firearms session and just. look at past elections an attorney what your sense is going to be in fact you can look at things that you were convicted for it turn your sentence but i think this really is a testament to how the war on drugs has lost its way particularly kind of even more of what we know about. i mean this individual is in the east we know that all starts. people kind of each out of crime. just stop committing crime after a certain age and particularly in the early thirty's i'm 44 there's no way we communicate through all that and we kind of ignore these things as relates to

sentencing and looking at past visions yes he looked he had some seriously because in the past but i don't think we know about why crimes committed so also that this last admission is it indicative of a public sex concern public seige a concern really should be what we're looking at if this individual is not dangerous then there's no reason to put it in a prison holding a prison for a license and that is posterous it doesn't make you see it really cost a lot of money and then you're right i mean the fact that some of the glasgow. are held up in this way and this is not going to stop this started. you kind of spread its way through it's 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 their 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 the bishop over most of the for the precise reason i just when she was that it doesn't take into account what we actually know about why he can commit crimes with people somebody who is incredibly violent. by the time i think other. really kind of off the edge as it relates. to mission people just don't do things as they get older i mean i used to be an avid snowboarder of historical. 3 months ago and i decided i'm never going to be just fuel for the same thing that happens with any type of behavior that people on the other thing about which all laws is that when you create a system that doesn't have a lot of seating valves there are people who have those who. are the ones who get caught in the grinder and in this country you know that. 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 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 if i could look at the data in the data said yeah you know what these laws actually our streets safer i would have a much harder time sitting here telling you that restructure. but you often are laws don't work and this is because that's also the. children back in the eighty's they don't actually make a secret because they don't meet the sacred they should probably be advanced. 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 they will put this really qualified immunity started as a weapon for free black people after the civil war that's why it was designed it was just a problem you knew that the law that said you can sue the government who are violating your constitutional rights and what happened in the sixty's that the powers that be got nervous and civil rights leaders were more sophisticated and then started using makes it through was. 18 if you want to actually go and change the way that they fucked me which was reply if you can come up with this judgement doctrine which is quite crazy isn't it conservatives you know support this now because they hate just being doctrines and a judge or a document 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 within the law we're still. very wary routes because. we want to give some kind of a barrier and ensure look police officers and other government actors as it's always hard cops but it wise to everyone and give them a layer of protection so i mean all they need is protected cops who shot. you know man who was lying on the floor room. you know while they were eating for a family pets it projects or police officer who purposely allowed those dollars to sit and bite an individual who is a reader in here guts and here's the one that blows me away also stole money during the search were prosecuted for that and are still protected under the civil side

under qualified immunity rather than the judge officers acting because they all id as metastasizing injury and your complete immunity wrongdoing and this is really a police reform you know doesn't have an impact about new cases but if i just give you a really quick 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 easter 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 keep on watching those hawks and have a great day and night it's like. is

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and. headlines this hour here on artsy israel continues its relentless bombing campaign in gaza we understand more than 212 people have been killed in just the past 8 days . air raid sirens blare across central and southern israel as palestinian rockets rained down forcing people into bomb shelters 12 israelis have died in the bombardment and tension meantime are among the most vulnerable. in new homes and. if. it's holiday time it's not what keeps me strong. enough the people that are left here. plus a huge u.s. weapons sale to israel causes friction among demi.