i visitedrc a church just a few months ago in tulsi, oklahoma. it was the last structure left standing one of the greatest acts of domestic heroism we have seen for the torching and bombing a black wall street. and i met a pastor there, pastor turner, a great spiritual alchemist who somehow turned the only remaining structure, after horrific violence he somehow turned it into a symbol, i talked to mothers of the movement. these are the great black women whose sons were murdered, nays we now know. i learned from them this unbelievable demonstration of spiritual alchemy they somehow turn their tragedy into a grit comic guts, determination to never stop fighting as long as a breath and their body and blood in their veins. they will fight for the nation , even when it so savagely let them down. i get strength from those in the nation today who demonstrated alchemy greater than any power i could possess. somehow, and our darkest of times we still are a nation. we can find to ignite the world. in a nation were so many peoples have been thoroughly faile

time the immune system needs a dangerous signal so often this is aluminum or something similar that tulsi me in the system to attack this pathogen in the future but if it's a well it's my life i don't care if you say it's very important that everybody gets to do if one individual is this person is protected but the people around it need to be facts. a bad spell that newborn children or people that cannot get vaccinated because they have. some other diseases like cancer they can be vaccinated if everybody or can be protected if everybody around it is being vaccinated because this herd immunity which the whole society is basically protecting the weak individuals if they give it seemed to a patient how does the immune system knows how to fight the pathogens well you have to see this kind of like. training where the danger signal is the coach and immune system are the players so the coach is telling the player like how to play and how to win this battle or win the match it's a very good explanation thank you for that in the year 2008 young men traveled from london to how book what he doesn't

. >> stephen: you were a tulsi gabbard man all the way. >> there you go. not my guy.him in other situations, i'm not crazy about the uncle joe character, the uncle joey "i took down corn pop. hey, how you doing," the touchy-feely. i don't like that -- >> stephen: he prefers "pops" by the way, not "urchgy joey." >> pops. he told me, "joe, always take the train because it always gets you there with a bagged lunch." but i feel like that's not the core of who that guy really is. and i have recently been thinking about something, and that is that we are a country in terrible anguish right now, just-- we are in pain. american exceptionalism-- the kind of... the blindfold is off, and we're kind of seeing ourselves as who we really are, that american exceptionalism is not like a title that you wear like you were miss america in 1937, and you'll always be miss america. like, it takes effort and work to maintain. and if you treat it as a fait accompli, it will erode, and you will lose it. and we are seeing that erosion. and we are fearful and we are angry, and we are in pain. a

. >> the university of tulsi. university of tulsa. >> i yield back. >> thank you very much.which one is next? i don't have the -- i know that mr. mcnerney and mr. foster have been here a long time. miss horn? >> yes chairwoman, i'm here. >> okay, you are recognized. >> thank you very much madam chair and sandy, it's great to see you even if it's virtually. i appreciate all that you are doing as a fellow oklahoma and you should know mr. olson tries to strip the red river rivalry all the time and it is a university of tulsa graduate, ou beach texas any day. thanks to all the witnesses here today. it's a very incredible subject. sandy, i want to start with you if i could. just following up on miss stevens line of questioning about the flexibility and the afg program. speaking with many of our fire departments here in my district that have big, big departments such as oklahoma city and small rural departments across my district and volunteer departments know the importance. in terms of the flexibility, i know that the proposal gain some flexibility but it strikes me as one of th

. >> and shannon, bring us up to speed on what's going on with the tulsi rally. moved to saturday.hy was it moved to saturday? and what about the concerns from officials about having this sort of gathering inside? >> right. well, you know, you mentioned the date being moved. this is one of the rare instances of the president appearing to bend to public pressure, particularly from his allies like senator langford of oklahoma, who urged him not to have an event on this celebratory day that really marks the emancipation of the slaves and to move it one day, and the president tweeted publicly that was the reason he was moving it. but of course, the day was only one issue with this event. you mentioned the masks, temperature checks, and hand sanitizer that will be available, still no word on whether masks will be required. unlike some of these protests, this is an indoor event where you'll have 19,000 people packed in very closely, sharing batrooms, sharing concession stands, and shouting and chanting very loudly, which the cdc has said is a known method of transmission. so certainly, a

first one on saturday tulsi, oklahoma.talking about getting a bigger venue because brad parscale who is head of his campaign tweeted out that more than a million people are requesting tickets. so, the governor is trying to find maybe a bigger spot. talk about how they are going to prepare to make sure covid doesn't circuicirculate. pass out hand sanitizer and masks and temperature checks is that enough? >> that's a good point, ainsley. i will point out something you didn't ask me. protests across the united states have not shown uptick of cases. so if we're going to have protests, we certainly can have rallies. the state of oklahoma only had 185 new cases in the entire state yesterday. so i think that's a good choice of states. i think the mask and hand sanitizers are a good idea. i would add if there is a way to build in some social distancing which you know i'm a big fan of. it's very hard to do that at rallies that should be something we should at least keep in mind. we can't have this both ways. if we are going to have

the example of the tulsi rally and the hypocrisy was so whoe r overwhelmingly apparent here that the president is actually encouraging people to follow the exact opposite of what the public health experts are recommending. i don't know how dr. fauci is able to keep taking this, but i'm glad he's there to offer some modicum of rationality to what is coming out of the white house. it's stunning, chuck. >> the last question on masks in tulsa, i think it really almost undermined the entire whatever they hoped to get out of this briefing, the white house. that answer, that inability to say the word mask, to talk about that, he tells you to listen to local officials and then said unless it's the trump campaign. on that front, so i think you're right there. i want to get back to this issue of what dr. birx i guess was hinting at, but again, this briefing was very confusing because the vice president in many ways spent more time talking, but she talked about changing the contact tracing, trying to go to community based contact tracing, which is like, i thought that was the plan all along. is

talking about covid versus the energy level of donald trump as we are going to see him tomorrow night in tulsiuite a difference. it's stark. >> it's just like 2016. tohillary clinton basically in august looking at the polling saying i'm going to take a knee and try to run out the clock. and that's when everything changed for that campaign, when the president and vice president pence then, candidate pence outworked hillary clinton in doing three times as many events as she did in that month. and people said all right. this is a guy who is at least willing to work. joe biden you don't see that sort of energy. in regards to the president wants rally and by the way with the debates i doubt they will go beyond three debates. it's always been three debates in the general election. biden campaign will never agree to that they would rather have less quite frankly. as regards tomorrow night in tulsa. i would hope that the president and his campaign would consider moving forward only outdoor venues it. is summer. we have seen now it's almost a certainty that this contagion spreads far less outside than