abbott's office as he is fully vaccinated.imposed a statewide mask mandate and blamed migrants for the spread of governor 19. raices tweeted -- "turns out it wasn't an immigrant or asylum seeker who was spreading covid-19 all over texas after all. " talk about the significance of governor abbott, it is terrible he has come down with covid, he is getting a very expensive treatment at trump did, the monoclonal antibodies, but what he has said about migrants and covid. >> i mean, it is wearable that he has tested positive and i genuinely wish him a full recovery. but his rhetoric is simply shifti blame for the increase in covid infections from the inefficiency and wrong headedness of his own policies and putting it on the backs of migrants. public health officials roundly agree that migraines are not necessarily bringing in covid in any higher numbers than anyone else. we have continued to allow commercial flights internationally. will continue traveling -- people continue traveling abroad and come back. the only difference is th

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i want to turn to the pandemic and the texas governor greg abbott testing positive for covid. let's hope he gets well, he's okay with this. he's sevening regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment. but how does this look when he's against mask mandates, banning schools from requiring masks? >> like you, don, i hope and expect that governor abbott will get better and there's every reason to think he will. not only has he been vaccinated, tested every day, but he also -- even though he has no symptoms -- immediately got the gold plated monoclonal antibody treatment, which of course is not available to most people and typically not available to people who are asymptomatic. and i've got to say, i don't think -- for somebody who through his actions endangers vulnerable people in his own state for votes, hypocritical is not strong enough a word for that. i think the word is immoral, and i don't know that that reality will harm greg abbott in texas, but the fact that he would carry on with the protection of the best that medicine has to offer while doing what he's doing to facilitate

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abbott has never been one of them. the announcement of the governor's illness came just a day after he attended a packed fundraiser with few, if any, masks on the attendees in his tweeted photos despite the state hovering at around 50%. this is a man who signed an executive order barring any state entity from enforcing mask mandates, including schools, where many students are not old enough to get the vaccine. we've known for over a year that masks are one of the best ways to slow spread of this virus, and yet the governor has continually thumbed his nose at this simple way to save lives. and his lieutenant governor, dan patrick, is no better, blaming the recent surge of covid cases in texas on african-americans despite his own lack of leadership when it comes to virus mitigation strategies. meanwhile, pediatric hospitals all over the country are seeing a massive influx of young coronavirus patients. in the lone star state, doctors are, quote, scared of what's coming. the cases keep rising. things are so dire that gove

abbott is vaccinated and his office says he's isolating and receiving antibody treatment.ter dose of the vaccine. his office did not respond to requests for comment. last night his re-election campaign tweeted video of abbott addressing a large, maskless crowd at a republican club outside dallas. the news about abbott comes as texas is seeing a surge in covid cases, with the governor standing firm on his ban on masks and vaccine mandates. multiple regions across texas are completely out of icu beds, including in the austin area, the state capital. and just last week, a dallas county judge warned of zero beds available, zero, for children in the days before the start of school. over the weekend, the texas supreme court sided with governor abbott, blocking lower court rulings allowing districts to implement mask rules. but thankfully for texas children, some school districts are defying the governor, defying his order despite the court ruling, including dallas and harris county, home to houston and bexar county, where san antonio is located. joining me now is julian castro,

abbott. mr. levitt. >> good afternoon, and thank you, chairwoman klobuchar, ranking member lee, chairman durbin, and members of this or committee -- of the subcommittee. i work for innovative pharmaceutical companies for most of my career. i appreciate the subcommittee's focus on ensuring robust comfort in. while i am currently with a law firm, i spent many years as in-house counsel in the pharmaceutical industry, and i bring that perspective to my testimony today, on behalf of the pharmaceutical research and many factual errors of america, -- manufacturers of america, phrma. the activities on behalf of its members are limited by the antitrust laws and the antitrust compliance policy. as i am here on behalf of the trade association, i won't be able to comment on individual companies' current or future strategies relating to drug pricing, r&d, relationships with customers, or how member companies might or might not individually respond to the marketplace to a change in law or regulation. the highl

i cannot stand our leaders, and greg abbott is the dr. evil of texas government.ida. today questioning joe biden's memory after the president yesterday jokingly referred to desantis as governor who? it's only going to get worse, this feud between them. there's only one side here that is putting lives at risk. am i wrong about that? >> no, not at all. and just the awful thing is that governor desantis and governor abbott, the two of them are trying to blame immigrants. they're trying to blame immigrants for the spread of the coronavirus around the country. and if you really looked at the data, more people have died and more people have been hospitalized because of the decisions of governor desantis and governor abbott during this crisis and pandemic than have even come close to dying because of some immigrants spreading coronavirus. and so it's awful. it's horrible, but in the end, don, we can do everything we can. we can speak truth, which we should keep doing and keep having this conversation. but it's up to us and the rest of the voters to tell the politicians w

. >>> texas governor greg abbott fighting the counties in his state over mask mandates tested positive for covid. let's go "outfront". good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, president biden on his way back to the white house. this is the taliban makes their presence known across afghanistan. today holding a press conference. they had a whole press conference and releasing a video of their co-founder arriving. it is the first time he's stepped foot in afghanistan in 20 years. hugely symbolic picture and a huge victory for the taliban. taliban forces are negotiating with the united states to ensure the safety of americans still stuck inside afghanistan. the takeover comes as the white house is mounting a full throated defense of the administration's response to the withdrawal of the few remaining u.s. troops who have been holding afghanistan firmly. national security advisor jake sullivan says the president takes full responsibility for every decision. decisions of course that led to the sobering images we've seen from kabul like the packed military plane with 700 afghans in

she said go rapid and ridiculous lawsuit against governor greg abbott.ts with a complaint alleging the defendant's conduct was because of race and that certain plaintiffs are either black or white. that is actually a quote from the lawsuit. everyone has a raise, but no, that does not -- violet their constitutional rights >> looked. i would love to tell you this is a racial discrimination case. john is probably right. it isn't. but it is governor abbott interfering the constitutional rights of the state legislators to go to washington, d.c., to exercise their free speech in d.c., and not at the same time be subject to bullying, threats, retaliation. you are going to jail if you come back. that is a government entity interfering with the rights of these legislators. and lo, shannon, if this case by the end, comic democrats has a romance, why did i judge grant a temporary restraining order that is going to join and wrap it from trying to arrest these democrats when they come back to texas question mike >> shannon: i do remember from law school and all those

it's really hard for me to speak on governor abbott's motives. but i have theories about -- um -- how certain politicians might prefer to create strife in public education, which opens up opportunities for charter and other privatization efforts. and so, i think, that might be an underlying factor. and, of course, in the broader-political landscape, i understand that governor abbott might be trying to maintain certain allies. but as a person who's about to walk into a classroom next week with kids, um, i don't -- i don't even want to talk about politics, anymore. i just want to keep the kids safe. >> well, caroline sweet, and thank you. you're here to -- to spread your message, and i hope folks listen. i appreciate you coming on. thanks so much. >> thank you, don. >> be safe. thanks. i want to bring in now cnn medical analyst, dr. jonathan reiner. he is the director of the cardiac catheterization program at george washington university hospital. also with us, mr. mark mckinnon, he is the former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain and the ex

texas governor greg abbott, who's fully vaccinated, tests positive for covid. the recent event where he went the recent event where he went maskless surrounded by others. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. i'm tom hanson in for anne-marie green. this morning, the biden administration is facing pressure to get americans out of afghanistan after the taliban seized control of the country. around 11,000 americans are still there. and national security leaders aren't sure how long it will take to safely evacuate everyone. bradley blackburn is in new york tracking the latest information. bradley, good morning to you. >> reporter: tom, good morning. american military leaders say they're picking up the pace of those evacuation flights. they could transport up to 9,000 evacuees per day. and they're negotiating directly with the taliban to allow for safe passage. the taliban is taking steps to form a new government after reclaiming control of afghanistan. yesterday, a spokesman for the group announced an amnesty program for officials of the country's previous adm

in a press release this afternoon, governor abbott's office said governor greg abbott today tested positiveernor has been testing daily and today was the first positive test result for governor abbott is fully vaccinated against covid-19 in good health and currently experiencing no symptoms. everyone that the governor has been in close contact with today has been notified. governor abbott is not only fully vaccinated, he's actually more vaccinated than practically anyone else in america because as nbc news is reporting, governor abbott received a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine. last night, the governor attended a maskless republican fundraiser in texas. joining us now is dr. jason martin, an icu director and critical care physician in tennessee, which includes the greater nashville area. dr. martin, what is the situation you're facing tonight? >> hi, lawrence, thanks for having me on the show tonight. the situation with the delta variant is typical for other parts of the region. we're seeing the virus really over run our communities. a few months ago, we thought we had this beat down

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de regreso a estados unidos el gobernador de texas abbott se sumÓ a la creciente lista de contagiadoslidad en texas es que los contagios registran los niveles mÁs altos desde enero. estos ocurre en medio de un abierto desafÍo de varios distritos escolares a la prohibiciÓn de greg abbott, el gobernador, del uso obligatorio de las mascarillas en los colegios. pedro nos habla de esta preocupante situaciÓn en texas. pedro: una crisis sanitaria causada por la nueva propagaciÓn de la pandemia de covid—19 en texas se acentÚa y se reportan cerca de 12.000 personas hospitalizadas y mÁs de 5000 casos nuevos diarios. hoy el gobernador abbott fue diagnosticado con la enfermedad luego de asistir a un evento del partido republicano ddonde la mayorÍa no portaba mascarilla. [habla en inglÉs] pedro:gabriel lÓpez superÓ el contagio tras pasar varios dÍas en una sala de quitados intensivos y relatÓ su experiencia. gabriel: la gente que se muriÓ porque no tenÍa la vacuna. ellos tenÍan la primera y yo creo que fue la razÓn. pedro: el gobierno de texas anticipando aumento de muertes solicitÓ al gobierno fe

and greg abbott is the dr. evil of texas government.ned ron desantis of florida, today questioning joe biden's memory, after he jokingly referred to as governor who. >> and just the awful thing is, governor desantis and governor abbott, they're trying to blame immigrants for the spread of the coronavirus around the country. and if you really looked at the data, more people have died and more people have been hospitalized because of the decisions of those governors than have come close to dying because of some immigranthorrib. but in the end, we can keep having this conversation, but it's up to us and the rest of the voters to tell the politicians we are not going to stand for this anymore. >> matthew, i have to say, i left home, seriously, without my tan suit because i planned to wear it today. this is the closest i could find. the viewers have seen it before, but it wasn't in my office. and i have to ask you about president biden's wardrobe, wearing a tan suit, similar to one else, who got you know what for it. >> it's funny. the origi

governor greg abbott is banning mask mandates in schools. a dallas county judge is asking a texas court for a temporary restraining order against the governor over his ban. while the state capital of austin, a teacher pleads with her school board to defy the governor and the mask requirements. >> you've asked me to be brave as i practice getting 24 fourth graders into a bathroom, you've asked me to be brave as i think about what would happen if there was some sort of extreme danger and my class is on the playground. you've asked me to be brave and come back to work during a pandemic after surgery and six months of chemotherapy after sage three cancer and i've done it and i will do it and i will show up and i will get in the closet and look for the path to the woods. you don't have to do these things. but just as i will be brave and think about how my body might shield children from danger, i ask that you be brave today. you know what you need to do to protect children. do it, implement a mask mandate and vaccination requirements for students

governor abbott said on twitter the event was standing room only, he was excited about that. he was there in person, he was there, you see that's him circled on the right side of the screen. that's his tweet from last night again, this event the 600 person standing room only no mask event was last night, and today is when he announced he tested positive for covid. among other things, spare taught for the contract chasers working on that particular case. okay governor, you say it was you and 600 people in the room? do we have a list of who was in attendance? governor abbott is one of the governors who has fervently oppose any mask rules or vaccine rules in his state. he's not just against them, he's blocking them. last month he issued an executive order banning any locality in texas from issuing any such rules. one local school district and counties like dallas, and bear county to found him anyway, he decided he would take his fight to the state supreme court, but now he has covid. he is isolating and the governor's mansion, doesn't have symptom and is receiving monoclonal ant

texas governor greg abbott is now one of them. today he said he tested positive for covid. >> i also want you to know that our have received a covid-19 vaccine, and maybe one reason why i'm not feeling any symptoms right now. >> abbott is currently in the process of trying to enforce a ban against my mask mandates in school districts across the state of texas, with that let's bring in our lead off guest on this tuesday night philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning senior washington post journalist, ben rhodes, former deputy national security adviser for president obama, his latest book is after the fall, being american in the world we've made. also back with us doctor nahid bhadelia, an infectious disease physician, the founding director of boston university center for emerging infectious disease infections policy and research. good evening and thank you to you all. then, given your life's work i would like to begin with you. you obviously dealt with afghanistan to a great extent in the obama white house, you are obviously around jo

you, me, your viewers, governor abbott.d the captains of team public health are the scientists who trained their entire adult lives to advise us in this moment. unfortunate ly unfortunately, that's not happening here in texas but we're going to do what we can. >> you have said this isn't about, quote, parents versus governor abbott or clay jenkins versus governor abbott or the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. we're all team public health, and the enemy is the virus. i wonder, do you really think that message is getting through in this polarized political climate where masks have been turned into a culture wars issue, not a public health measure by the republican party, by fox news? >> you know, i think it gets through to some people. it's very unfortunate and harmful that we cannot focus on the science. this is a battle that we are now losing. and the two tools we have to turn the tide and win the battle are vaccinations and masks. and yet we have got a group of people out there in elected office looking at polls and say

. >>> texas governor abbott has spent months advocating against masks, about babout but thnow - >> itested positive for covid-19. >> he says he is doing just fine but it makes him the latest public figure to down play the risks only to come down with the virus. rosa flores is in dallas with more. >> reporter: governor abbott has tested positive for covid-19 according to his press office who also says that the governor is fully vaccinated, he has no symptoms, he is in isolation at the governor's mansion. he is being treated with monoclonal antibodies and that the first lady of texas was also tested and she has tested negative for covid-19. his press office also saying everyone in close contact with the governor has been contacted. that might include the people in these pictures. take a look. governor greg abbott tweeting these monday night showing his attendance at a mostly maskless rally in collin county. governor greg abbott now a part of the alarming statistics in this state, the growing number of people who have tested positive for covid-19. now, all this happening at a time when

we are seeing this, clearly in dee fiennes of the order that governor abbott has issued over the last few weeks and the governor has said there will be no mask mandates. to control the surge of the virus that it would be the personal responsibility of texans to do what they needed to do to protect themselves, but clearly the superintendent of dallas schools was saying -- or told me yesterday that he was looking at the numbers and the trend lines that he's hearing from medical experts here in the dallas area and he says he's especially concerned for elementary and middle-school-aged children who can't be vaccinated yet and he had concerned about the spread and trajectory of where this is going. he explained to us why he decided to step out and defy the governor's orders. >> you're essentially defying governor abbott of's order of no kind of mandate like this. why do you think it's important to do that? >> well, he has a big state to run that's very different. this is dallas isd, i know my numbers, i'm responsible for this district and everything that happens and if we can save a few li

abbott tested positive for the virus last tuesday. he was fully vaccinated. at the time, he said he wasn't experiencing any symptoms. he has been in isolation at the governor's mansion. yesterday abbott said he could have had a mild infection through the vaccine. he will remain in quarantine. >>> former president trump back in the spotlight. he held a rally in alabama last night. during his speech, mr. trump encouraged people to get the covid vaccine. that did not go over well with the crowd. >> you know what? i believe totally in your freedoms. i do. you have to do what you have to do. but i recommend, take the vaccines. i did it. it's good. take the vaccines, but you got -- that's okay. that's all right. >> there was some booing. the rally was held in alabama. that city declared a covid state of emergency ahead of the event because of a number of rising cases. >>> i said, we've got to get this out. i'm not taking no for an answer. >> it took three rotary clubs in two different states, plus one willing driver. how they all teamed up to get bay area kids some

of migrants turned down the vaccine and joe biden putting his finger on ron desantis and governor abbotthe height of hypocrisy for the president who's on does not seem to be the president of all americans. sounds like is the president of those coming to the border. >> listen to the recording in texas, he puts a lot of context around the numbers and immigration is a challenge every administration has to be but it doesn't seemed like things are going well right now. coming up next, privacy concerns for iphone users, a new tool that could expose your photos to hackers. when the big satellite show continues. ♪♪ welcome back to the big saturday show. criticism growing over apples new plan for iphone users photos. as part of new safety feature on these images. running the? tweeted, i think this is the wrong approach and setback people's privacy all over the world. instead of focusing on making it easy for people to report content shared with them the software and private photos on your phone, even photos you haven't shared with anyone, that's not privacy. i agree with that and i want to go to

joining me two texas democrats named in the suit against abbott. ron reynolds. representative reynolds, 22 house democrats filed a federal lawsuit overnight against the governor and texas house speaker. you were one of them. tell me how it came together. >> first of all great to be on your show. the democrat -- my democratic colleagues and i believe that governor abbott is exceeding his authority. there's no penal code we're breaking. none of us are breaking any law. there is no reason for him to threaten us with being able to be corralled when we come back into texas to be hauled into the house chambers to force us to reform. we believe this is another violation of our constitutional rights and the governor exceeded his authority just as he did when he defunded article 10 effectively eliminating the legislative budget so we believe that the court is the only relief that we have to check to make sure that the governor is not exceeding his authority, which we believe that we're going to be vindicated when the court makes that ruling? >> representati

reportera: los arrestos comenzaron hace dos semanas con una operaciÓn activada por el gobernador abbott no tiene derecho. >> pueden tener un aÑo en la cÁrcel. reportera: los migrantes firmaron un acuerdo con la fiscalÍa. >> les van a dar 15 dÍas en cÁrcel. >> siempre hay el peligro para deportarlos. reportera: el juez tambiÉn advirtiÓ que al declararse culpable ponen en riesgo su futuro en el proceso migratorio. >> da mÁs trabajo. yo sÓlo quiero estar seguro que los derechos de estas personas estÁn protegidos. reportera: ice no respondiÓ sobre estos procesos. patricia: ahora habla la pandemia. la tercera dosis contra el covid—19 ya es un hecho. reportera: un panel asesor del cdc dio la aprobaciÓn para un tercer refuerzo. este cambio cobija a personas que han recibido transplantes, los que tienen vih y personas con quimoterapia. >> estas personas no forman anticuerpos luego de dos dosis. la tercera dosis aumenta los anticuerpos. esto es una polÍtica de salud basada en ciencia y evidencia. reportera: estados unidos reporta mÁs de 130.000 casos en un dÍa desde enero. casi 80.000 han sido h

it shows abbott in a packed room for a party on monday night, no mask on, abbott's office says everyoneen in close contact with the governor has been notified. joining us now is ron brownstein, senior editor at the the atlantic. ron, it's good that the governor has no symptoms, which is what we expect from someone who has been vaccinated. yet to see that picture from the night before in a crowded room, no mask, it does create a sense of political irony. >> yeah. well, look, you don't wish covid on anybody, but it is pretty striking that they announce that the governor has covid on the same day that the state republican attorney general is asking the state supreme court to overturn the mask mandates from school districts in all of the largest cities in texas. and obviously, young kids under 12 can't even get vaccinated. while he is getting the best care, the county executive, the county judge in dallas, announced the other day that they were literally no pediatric icu beds left in north texas, even as they are opening the schools and he is attempting to ban them from requiring masks. >>

governor abbott is doing the same or worse things around it.this is a political party that talked about local control and how we need to empower local municipalities and local jurisdictions to have more power and take more power away from the federal government and what they're doing is exactly the opposite of that. if a place like dallas or houston or miami or tallahassee or whatever wants to do something to protect their citizens, kids, elderly people, the governors of those states are refusing or -- not only refusing to do anything. they're actually proactively making it harder to do anything to protect people. it's opposite of what i thought the republican party was on that issue which is give local jurisdictions more power to experiment and do things that they think are in the best interest of their constituents. they're taking that power away. >> speaking of abbott, in your state, he's asking hospitals to postpone elective surgeries, right, to allow more hospital capacity. how can you do that but then ban mask mandates at the same time? >

. >> harris: texas is not enforcing governor greg abbott's demand or bans on masking.main in some states. the battle over mask wearing heating up as millions of children are heading or have already headed back to school. millions more on monday of next week. 13 of the nation's largest school districts start up next week, most of them with mask mandates. we just scold a few for you there. as the debate divides parents nationwide critics are pointing to misleading talking points from the white house. media outlets have often reported that president biden is discouraging republican governors from outright banning masks in schools when republican governors have only banned mask mandates. that's interesting. biden appeared to blur the lines on this again two days ago. >> president biden: some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures, children wearing masks in schools into political disputes for their own political gain. some are trying to take power away from local educators by banning masks in schools. >> harris: i want to bring in washington times opinion edi

governor abbott is keeping the special session until the entire group comes back to work. >> more credibility questions for cnn. in a report claims the network fired employees refusing the vaccine while keeping chris cuomo on the air advising his brother a major controversy. joe concha has thoughts next. todd: doctor ben carson will join us to explain why extending the eviction moratorium brings assistant closer to a, quote, totalitarian type government. you do not want to miss it. knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need.

you, me, your viewers, governor abbott, they all need to be on team public health.happens on team public health, are the scientists, the advisers in this moment, unfortunately that's not happening in texas, but we are doing what we can to make it happen. >> you said that this isn't about parents about against governor abbott, or the vaccinated against the unvaccinated, we are all team public health. and the enemies the virus. do you really think that that message is getting through in this polarized political climate? we are masks have been turned into a culture war issue, but a public health measure by the republican, by fox news? ure by the >> you know, i think it gets through to some people. it's very unfortunate and harmful that we cannot focus on the science. this is a battle that we are now losing. and the tools that we have to turn the tide and win the battle our vaccinations and masks. and yet we've got a group of people in elected office, looking at polls and saying what the people in their polls want them to say, which is the opposite of what the doctors t

texas governor abbott testing positive.e's not showing symptoms, he has been vaccinated, we're happy for that. so why would he be treated with regeneron's monoclonal antibody if he's not showing symptoms? >> there's been a couple of studies around this now where basically, broadly speaking, the regeneron, the monoclonal antibodies, the outcome measure is to keep people out of the hospital. so that's one of the things. and first they were testing it primarily in people who had mild symptoms who were at high risk of potentially having to go to the hospital. and they found that it had very good efficacy there. and then there was a trial looking at asymptomatic people as well, people who might be considered high risk or higher likelihood of needing to be hospitalized. that's the way these antibodies are supposed to work. in a sense the vaccines induce antibodies. they teach your body how to make antibodies. with regeneron you're essentially giving those antibodies. the vaccination antibodies last longer. but the whole point is

texas governor greg abbott is one of them. today he said he tested positive. >> i have received the vaccine and that may be one reason why i'm not feeling any symptoms right now. >> abbott is currently in the process of trying to enforce a ban against mask mandates in school districts across the state of texas. with that, let's bring in our lead-off guest on this tuesday night. phillip rucker, senior washington corn for the "washington post," co-author with carol leoning. ben rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser for president obama. his latest book, is after the fall. being american in the world we've made. after back with us, an infectious disease physician. the founding director of boston university center for emerging and infectious diseases. given your life's work, ben, i would like to begin. but you obviously dealt with afghanistan to a great extent in the obama white house. you were obviously around joe biden during those same deliberations. if you were brought on to counsel the president, starting first t

greg abbott becomes a victim of his own war on masking. the texas governor says he has covid. >>> and at the epicenter of haiti's earthquake, hospital workers struggle with a massive influx of patients. >>> good to have you with us. the man who may become afghanistan's new ruler has returned from a 20 year exile. baradar was cheered by the taliban as he arrived tuesday. he co-founded the militant group almost three decades ago and looks said to take charge again. the taliban have been settling into kabul after taking the capital, and this comes as the u.s. tries to cut off their access to cash. officials say the bulk of assets at the afghan central bank, billions of dollars, are not even in afghanistan. and the u.s. treasury is working to effectively freeze them. meantime with thousands of people still trying to escape at the airport in kabul, u.s. officials are in talks with the taliban. pentagon spokesman john kirby was asked about that on tuesday. >> do the discussions include talk about allowing americans or afghans through some of the

we knew that the supreme court justices were hand picked by governor abbott, this is a corrupt system. we were never surprised about this. the fact that they would be so bold about it, was kind of surprising. we're here. we're going to be fighting forward on keeping republicans from rigging the system, from politicians from rigging the system for themselves, and we're going to fight this every step of the way. we're going to use every method, every tool we have available. >> representative israel, the texas senate passed its version of an elections bill this week, despite the 15-hour filibuster that i was talking about from one of our democratic colleagues. looking at this legislation as a whole, how does it add barriers to ballot access? >> well, it adds barriers

it is not over yet. >> and abbott and desantis keep on fighting with masks.ou find important similarities where these feuds are happening. what is that? tell me about it. >> we have never seen about this defiance of this many large jurisdiction from republicans toover ride and free their decisions. what we are seeing is the governor in each state in both texas and in florida are trying to override decisions in counties that voted against him. if you look for all counties in florida trying to oppose the mask mandate, hillsboro and miami beach and orange county, they all voted against desantis in 2018 and similarly in texas, all the big counties except for tarrant county voted against a bo abbott. what we are seeing is as crystallization of a long dynamic where you have republicans in the sun belt states rooted in -- using their state's power to override the decision. this is the moment i think where we are seeing the breaking point and those metros pushing back and it is going to produce epic battles for the governorship in 2022 in florida and georgia and ariz

but governor greg abbott the texas says moving full steam ahead on the bill vowing to call a special session after special session until they show up and it's passed. the writing is on the wall. here now is texas gubernatorial candidate and former florida congressman colonel allen west. colonel, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. greetings from houston, texas. steve: it's good to have you this morning, sir. what do you make of these two run away texas democrats who, you know, they left your state and went to deck and now they have gone on vacation to portugal because apparently they had made the reservations a year ago or something like that and they had nonrefundable tickets. obviously they had to go. they had nonrefundable tickets, colonel. >> yeah. it's amazing.

they are taking that power away. >> speaking of abbott and your state.itals to postpone elective surgeries, right? to allow more hospital capacity. how can you do that, but then ban mask mandates, at the same time? >> i mean, here's -- this is basically a guy that's brought gasoline to a wildfire. and now, he's -- he's trying to figure out how do we make sure there's more fire -- more fire people to the place he brought gasoline to, to help put out the fire that he has, actually, himself, been making worse, at this point in time. and the idea that both of these governors are trying to blame immigrants for this? governor desantis and governor abbott have spread the virus, and i say this very clearly and sadly, have spread the virus to more places and to more people than any immigrant ever has in this country. those two governors have helped spread the virus, which has caused immense damage to our country. and now, they're trying to backstop it by sort of acting like they are trying to fix the problem in the aftermath of having caused the problem. >> matth

dijo que en florida los padres decdidiran si sus hijos llevarán no mascarilla a laescueal y greg abbottporque cada quien sabe cómo cuidarse, esto a pesar del incremento de casos en el estado , en texas y también dijo que no habrá nuevos confinamietons . >>> y en colorado padres de cientos de estudiantes proetaron contra el uso obligatorio de las mascarillas esto entre niños de 3 y 11 años y abogan porque las flas deteminen si niños usano o no la mascarilla. >>> hablemos de las nuevas mortaorias y acá contratio a lo que muchos piensan no quiere decir que será psoile vivir sin rentas, pero no se recibe esto de manera automática primero una persona debe presentarse en corte cuando reciba la denuncia por falta de pago . >>> nadie está perdonando nada, estamos dilatando el proceso de pago final y cuando tengan la citación teinen que venir a corte porque si no vienen el abogado del propietario y el juez pueden determinar el proceso de desalojo. >>> también hay que llenaer una solcitiud para pagar rentas atrasadaso y para esto deben demostrar que están desempleadas, que les redujeron el salari

there's a reason why republican governors like ron desantis and greg abbott and christy nome do not care about covid in their state. and it's not because they're some ideological anti-vaxers or anti-maskers. it's because they believe taking the trumpian road will lead them to the white house in 2024. trump's talking points are what get delivered to his base even if he's not the one saying all the words. >> guess what they're doing in this terribly run city? they're deciding you can't go to plays, you can't go to movies go to bars, restaurants or gyms, can't go to anything unless you have your vaccination card which takes a dollar to make a knock off card. >> if you have theablies and what if you can't get the vaccination? you have to shelter in place now like an american in afghanistan? >> yes, brian, what an accurate comparison. look, people who do not get vaccinated are a public health risk. and so it is in everyone's interest, democrat, republican, independent, whatever to get vaccinated and encourage everyone else to do the same. donald trump has the ability to save millions of lives

that same drug has also been administered to governor abbott now for treatment of covid.ands the risk. i think the message here is also vaccines are not perfect. i don't know the timing of that third dose. it may have been very recent. but vaccines are not going to prevent all infections, especially if you're exposing yourself to this degree, to indoor crowds without a mask. this speaks to the need to be layering interventions, masking, improved ventilation and air filtration, socializing outdoors when possible, in addition to getting vaccinated. >> the head of the world health organization this month called for a halt on booster shots, saying the vaccine gap between wealthy countries and poorer countries in this world of ours has widened. so is it an ethical choice for the u.s. to make about supplying these extra shots? >> i don't think it's just humanitarian or ethical or moral argument to be made to have this moratorium on extra doses. i think this is, frankly, in our self-interests. it's pragmatic, it is what will have the most public health impact to spread the vacci

acceso contra el coronavirus (covid-19) pueden tener excepción en texas gobernador de texas, greg abbottbbott tiene el argumentos que tenía aprobación de emergencia en la florida un padre arrestado por negarse que su hija usara mascarilla en una escuela de broward y 9 condados de la florida exigen mascarillas en sus escuelas aeste enfrentamiento por la mascarilla en medio de un repunte de contagios por coronavirus (covid-19) rogelio nos habla de la preocupación de padres de familia >> las imágenes evidnecian que el distanciamiento social no se cumple en escuelas del país como en esta preparatoria de (nombre en inglés) donde un estudiante grabó las imágenes que son un argumento para padres de familia que quierne que sus hijos estudien desde casa >> es difícil tener distanciamiento social >> la madres excigieron que las escuelas del tercer distrito escolar más grande del país tenga aprendizaje remoto >> para mi niña que no ha sido vacunada >> y la amma de la chica está preocupada >> no quireo que mi hija llegue a casa enferma >> en estados como florida la discusión es de padres que están c

governor abbott fully vaccinated. he's been refusing mask mandates. he apparently refused to follow the cdc guidelines for indoor mask wearing in areas of high transmission p because there he is maskless at this p event. and now he has covid. and he could have spread it to others because he is maskless. he is lucky he is vaccinated because it stems the severity of the disease. too many people are not. boy. you cannot make this up. the governor has been actively preventing other officials from mandating masks that could stop infection and stop the spread. so think about it. like i said before, this virus has no politics. the science is very clear. get vaccinated. mask up. >>> a former translator and interpreter for the u.s. military trying desperately to save his family still in afghanistan. his message tonight for president biden as his homeland descends into chaos. >> the united states made an extraordinary sacrifice in afghanistan. 2,448 americans lost their lives in afghanistan. tens of thousands of americans were injured in the war in afghanistan

people think a lot of disinformation and joe biden by attacking governors desantis and governor abbottho support governor desantis and governor abbott think the president is wrong about vaccination. so i think the masking piece is the intrusion on the goal to get as many people vaccinated as possible because of the transmissibility of the delta variant. that is the focus of the effort, not the sideshow over masking. paul: kim, what about the politics of the mask mandates? do you agree with allysia finley? >> i agree both on what is happening but also the politics. the reality is it's very different to say state government doesn't have the ability to impose something that the way that abbott and desantis is mentioned that is preserving freedoms in the states. the reality is we have no evidence showing that masking actually helps even the cdc acknowledges it is a function even at the level of the mask that you have and how well it's put on desantis was on fox that florida had a great real-world example schools were open last year son had masks others didn't. there was no statistical diff

okay, i want to pop up this video again, abbott's event last night.gh-transmission county in texas. just to remind everyone, the cdc recommends people wear masks in public, indoor settings, and areas with high transmission, even if they're vaccinated. listen, no one wants anybody to become positive with covid, but after all, he is the governor of the state and has a responsibility to set an example for the people in his state. does this prove exactly why mask mandates are actually a good idea? >> right. so, you know, you can't find a mask in that crowd. what that turns out to be now last night in texas is a superspreader event. the governor of texas positive today was almost certainly infectious and contagious last night. i think his behavior is astonishingly hypocritical. so he would deny school districts in texas the ability to protect our most vulnerable citizens now who are our kids, who are all unvaccinated, all kids under 12 are unvaccinated. he would deny them the protection of ensuring that all the kids are masked while instead cloaking himsel

and similarly in texas, all the big counties except for tarrant county voted against abbott. so what we are seeing, i think, don here, is the crystallization of what has been a long-developing dynamic where you have this republican coalition in the sun belt states that is rooted in their dominance of preponderantly white urban areas, big metros that drive the economies in the population, and this is the moment where we're seeing the breaking point, those metros pushing back, and it's going to produce epic battles for the governorships in 2022, in georgia, florida, arizona, and maybe in texas, although it's less clear that the government will have a top tier mandate. >> amanda, vaccines and masks are free and liberty. what is it about getting others sick with the delta variant? >> i can't believe anyone feels free when they're staring down the possibility of getting a tube stuck down their throat. here is where all the energy is at. all the pushback of mask mandates is cloaked in this medical freedom, pushing back, as ron desantis said, medical authoritarianism coming from the