the head of the pan american health organization has called on the international community to providersonnel and equipment to the country, which suffered a devastating earthquake last saturday. the earthquake is now known to have killed nearly 2,000 people. 0ur correspondent james clayton reports from the village of near the epicentre of the quake. as you head out from the city of les cayes to rural marceline, the road is marked by landslides... ..and deep cracks. the village is remote and the scale of the damage, catastrophic. rosemary took me to her house. her 15—year—old son was charging his phone when the quake hit. the wall collapsed on him. translation: these are his books. - he had recently got them so he could start a new year of school. and now, he's gone. i wrap his shirt around my waist. it keeps me strong. when you come to these rural areas, the level of destruction just ups a notch. almost every single house here is completely destroyed. five people were killed in this house alone. and to understand why, you have to look at the cement and rock that these houses are built

as you know, today, 31 million americans have received health care through the aca. over the last three months, as result of the special enrollment issued by the president, more than one million americans were able to receive health care coverage. we will expand that, whether under medicaid, the marketplace. we want to explore all these opportunities to give all americans the opportunity to have health care as of right, not just as a privilege. rep. neal: similar to our draft of the bill and the families act, the budget proposes an investment in childcare to make it more affordable and available, upgrade infrastructure to make it better and safer, and a childcare workforce, which we know is predominantly women of color. secretary becerra, we stand ready to work with you on this crucial part of the president's plan for a strong economic recovery. can you tell us how making this long-term investment in childcare and short-term rescue efforts are still needed to support workers and families? sec. becerra: mr. chairman, let me thank you in this committee for your work on

student not feeling well will move to the health clinic, the native american health clinic, assessment will be made and parents called. >> reporter: she can't wait until the students fill the seats. >> will be filled with artwork. that's my favorite part. >> reporter: nbc bay area news. >>> state's positivity is 17.1 percent. climbing for several weeks. but county by county, santa clara county, two months ago, 0.3%. now 3.2. san francisco, another surge going on. two months ago, 0.5%, now 5.7. alameda is 5% rise. and contra costa county is now nearly 8%. >> more clarity on the supplemental covid shots some folks are getting. zuckerberg hospital has offered a supplemental shot to anyone who received johnson & johnson vaccine, since it's a single shot, some people want a second shot for more piece of mind. cdc guidelines say they're not necessary and city san francisco's director of public health reinforced that. supplemental shot is not recommended. given to courtesy to people who got j&j in san francisco and have consulted with doctor. >> things are starting to get canceled again. cast

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disease control also has relationships with countries as well as regional bodies like the pan—american healths the africa cdc and so well as the africa cdc and so we feel assured that where these vaccines are going, they will be used for their purpose. we know that these vaccinations work, right? so this is the message we are sharing at home, we still have work to do at home within our borders so we are working to reach those who haven't yet been reached but we know that people are lining up readily around the world and i think we are very happy to be able to do both, right? provide doses here still for people who absolutely need them but also ensure that people are receiving these two countries throughout africa, latin america and the caribbean and asia and elsewhere. we recognise i think alongside other g7 countries that there's more required, right? there's more required, right? there's more that we can do to share, obviously but there's a lot more we can do to help up supply and so it really is going to take all of us and as you said, that's government, and its industry, that communities

david gifford is the chief medical officer for the american health care association. do you worry if people are unvaccinated, that they'll leave nursing homes and just go to a different type of facility >> yeah. you know, there's a lot of hesitancy, and if we can't get enough workers, it will be very hard to care for the residents. >> reporter: sanders fears the return of dark days, when families were forced to say good-bye to isolated loved ones. >> i'm not going to be that person. i'm not going to let that happen to my mom. >> reporter: catie beck, nbc news, austin, texas. >>> we're back in a moment with what's driving up the cost of renting apartments and tell you how to save >>> as people begin returning to the office, many are heading back to cities and discovering that finding an affordable place to live has gotten harder. stephanie ruhle now with the skyrocketing rents in tonight's "price you pay." >> reporter: across the country, rents are rising as employers tell employees it's time to go back to the office. >> i have a return to the office coming in septembe

posse, he is helping to create profound distrust in the american political system and in the american public healthin american democracy. the eventual consquensequences their actions may be genuinely stolen or disputed election in 2024 and political violence on a scale the u.s. has not seen in decades, end quote. applebaum calls michael lindell, the pillow's guy name a lover of myths. she wrote the profile as a warning of how dangerous he is. ann applebaum joins me now a fellow at the john hopkins school of international studies and wrote the important book "twilight of democracy." ann, i wondered, first of all, welcome to the show. i wondered when i saw this thing, i wonder why you would do this and give this guy oxygen. but as soon as i started reading it, i understood what you were doing here. you were telling us how he operates and how he ticks and compelling right from the beginning. he does believe this. he is not manipulative for the sake of it, he believes this stuff. >> oh, yes, i think there are different categories of people in that world and some of them are clearly cynical. he is not o

centers for disease control has relationshs with countries as well as regional bodies for the pan-american healthanization , as well as the africa cdc. we feel assured that where the vaccines are going, they will be used for their purpose. laura: without billions more shots, more variance could emerge that could endanger all of us. are you talking to american drug companies about how they can step up their production to produce enough vaccines for the entire globe? >> that's an ongoing conversation we are having about manufacturing in general. this administration has worked with the government of india towards increasing supplyrom their manufacturing capacity. we made announcements from the government of south africa. we recognize alongside other g-7 countries there is more required. there's more we can do to share. there's a lot more we can do to scale up supply. it really is going to take all of us. that is government, industry, communities, and health care providers assisting in these efforts. laura: lowest pace, thank you very much for joining us. let's go to afghanistan where the capital was

the head of the pan american health organization has called on the international community to provide urgent medical personnel and equipment to haiti, following a devastating earthquake on saturday. the disaster is now known to have killed nearly 2,000 people. hundreds of firefighters have spent a third day battling a fast—moving wildfire near the french riveria. it's the latest in a string of deadly fires to affect the mediterranean in recent weeks, during intense heatwaves. scientists have blamed the impact of man—made climate change. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. taliban leaders in kabul are engaged in careful message management — amnesty for all, no safe haven for foreign fighters, and respect for the rights of women and girls, they say. but then the rider — under their islamic law. now, it's too early to know what taliban governance 2.0 will look like, but it is clear many afghans are fearful. my guest is kamila sidiqi, a trail—blazing women's activist, entrepreneur, and former government official in kabul. is her cause lost? and where d

when the american health paper wrote the the, the west to east when very so they did not to south and never the twain shall meet . people do not care about far away land, where the electorate, where the population cannot run its own business. it's only when foreigners are a way that people care. i mean thanks so much for your time, i guess i'm a oran defense and political commentator. thank you. thank you. will be i splinter group that i mentioned just there. isis k. behind thursdays, bombings, as they claims it's a group that's been active in eastern afghanistan and pakistan. and at last, the savage campaign of bloodshed, when it was founded back in 2015 the the we did hear about this group for example, and i believe, april 2017. when trump and essentially authorized the pentagon to drop the mother of all bombs in eastern afghanistan, i believe in the none go har, province on ices k. but the roots of this group and its existence is poorly understood. and of course, when we hear these press briefings at the pentagon, there's very little context as group actually is a direct by product

the head of the pan american health organization has called on the international community to provideaturday. carissa etienne said many hospitals in the worst affected regions had been either damaged or destroyed. the earthquake is now known to have killed nearly 2000 people and injured about 10,000. much of the response effort has been focused on the badly hit city of les cayes and has not yet reached the rural areas. 0ur correspondent james clayton reports from the village of marceline, near the epicentre of saturday's quake. as you head out from the city of les cayes to rural marceline, the road is marked by landslides... ..and deep cracks. the village is remote and the scale of the damage, catastrophic. rosemary took me to her house. her 15—year—old son was charging his phone when the quake hit. the wall collapsed on him. translation: these are his books. he had recently got them so he could start a new year of school. and now, he's gone. i wrap his shirt around my waist. it keeps me strong. when you come to these rural areas, the level of destruction just ups a notch. almost ever

the head of the pan american health organisation has called on the international community to provide urgent medical personnel and equipment to haiti, following a devastating earthquake on saturday. the disaster is now known to have killed nearly 2,000 people. hundreds of firefighters have spent a third day battling a fast—moving wildfire near the french riveria. it's the latest in a string of deadly fires to affect the mediterranean in recent weeks during intense heatwaves. scientists have blamed the impact of man—made climate change. now on bbc news — click. this week: could ai spot the next best sporting talent? when it sees it, that is. we find something fishy... and i get my hands and hips on some gadgets for fun in the sun. hello and welcome to click. this week, we have a summer themed specialfor you — although the weather isn't great, i'm hoping the rain is going to hold off. but what a summer of sport it has been. england may not have been able to bring it back home this year, but this weekend is the start of the premier league season, and clubs are gearing up to welcome the f

looking at this one, sweden stock command, a tree mask wearing a month ago now, but the same american health agency says we should all still be very much wearing one because of data they come up with about the new delta straight and that would spread. i'll pilot experts thrush that the conflicting recommendations with coming up after the breaks they witnessed the oh, i use join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me ah, with me ah ah, i use the, the, the, the ah, again, january storming of the capital buildings and shock waves throughout america and commissions. now looking for answers, but there's a tragic aftermath. it's not making many headlines for police officers who defend the capital that they've committed suicide to the money in recent weeks. well, joe biden is called them american heroes said the same time family members believes they couldn't overcome simply the mental strain of hiring event. they had to deal with to meet true, poke reports. there are now 4 confirmed

david gifford is the chief medical officer for the american health care association. do you worry if people are unvaccinated, that they'll leave nursing homes and just go to a different type of facility >> yeah. you know, there's a lot of hesitancy, and if we can't get enough workers, it will be very hard to care for the residents. >> reporter: sanders fears the return of dark days, when families were forced to say good-bye to isolated loved ones. >> i'm not going to be that person. i'm not going to let that happen to my mom. >> reporter: catie beck, nbc news, austin, texas. >>> we're back in a moment with what's driving up the cost of renting apartments and tell you how to save it's time for the biggest sale of the year, on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it helps keep you effortlessly comfortable by sensing your movements and automatically responding to both of you. and, it's temperature balancing to help you stay comfortable all night. it even tracks your circadian rhythm, so you know when you're at your best. in other words, it's the most energy-building, well

i'm now working on a project on religion in american health care. with that, i will turn to our first question and ask each of our scholars to talk about the role of religion in their own work and the way in which thinking about religion has changed the way we can understand these aspects -- certain aspects of american history. >> thank you for that. she left out of her own introduction is that her book is also an award winning book, church history prize. thanks for bringing us all together. my current research project examines the fbi and its relationship to religion from 1924 to 1972. the focus on religion in the project illuminates vital aspects of the vital's internal culture and practices and how that shaped the public perceptions of the fbi's political work and in particular the fbi's understanding and american understanding more broadly of the relationship between religion and national security. existing studies of the fbi have dismissed the role of religion in the making and shaping of the bureau. the role of religion has been more prominent

the head of the pan american health organization has called on the international community to provide, which suffered a devastating earthquake last saturday. the earthquake is now known to have killed nearly 2,200 people. our correspondent james clayton reports from the village of maarsseleen, near the epicentre of the quake. as you head out from the city of les cayes to rural marceline, the road is marked by landslides... ..and deep cracks. the village is remote and the scale of the damage, catastrophic. rosemary took me to her house. her 15—year—old son was charging his phone when the quake hit. the wall collapsed on him. translation: these are his books. - he had recently got them so he could start a new year of school. and now, he's gone. i wrap his shirt around my waist. it keeps me strong. when you come to these rural areas, the level of destruction just ups a notch. almost every single house here is completely destroyed. five people were killed in this house alone. and to understand why, you have to look at the cement and rock that these houses are built from. it's really hard

we look into what the implications and american health care system buckles under the number of code 19 patients cases have reached levels. not st. seems the winter of 2020 ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello. we're going to begin here with an update on the southwest monsoon. we're starting to see some storms light up across the moon by on wednesday through the western gods, but it is dried toward the northwest that includes new delhi. but i want to take you where i think the most intense rain will be, and it's for the indian states if odessa and taylor gone on on wednesday, but heavy falls still for northern bangladesh and to nepal and baton as well. and you know where we have just seen continuous rain sheets of rain falling for southern and coastal sections of japan. check this out. the city in queue to $364.00 millimeters of rain over the past 24 hours. that is double what you should get for the entire month of august. and once again, we're still seeing that rang q, chicago, and haunch you just think the darker the color, the more intense th

the head of the pan american health organisation has called on the international community to provide urgent medical personnel and equipment to haiti, following a devastating earthquake on saturday. the disaster is now known to have killed nearly 2,000 people and injured about 10,000. hundreds of firefighters have spent a third day battling a fast—moving wildfire near the french riveria. it's the latest in a string of deadly fires to affect the mediterranean in recent weeks during intense heatwaves. scientists have blamed the impact of man—made climate change. now on bbc news, ahead of cop26, the un's flagship climate conference, global questions looks hello and welcome to this second edition of global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from barbados. the caribbean is the region in the world that's most vulnerable to natural disasters such as hurricanes. these have become stronger and more frequent as temperatures and sea levels rise, causing coastal erosion and damage to marine life and ecosystems. the government here in barbados says that climate change is the biggest threat to the c

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meanwhile, the pan american health organization warned wednesday vaccine inequity is unnecessarily prolonging the pandemic. the organization's director, dr. carissa etienne, said donations from wealthy countries were far too little to protect the hundreds of millions of people who remain vulnerable. >> a handful of companies produce all t world supply of covid-19 vaccine. many of them are letting price and country of origin, not need, to determine how doses are rolled up. much of today's vaccine supply remains in the hands of althy nations around the world. we st expand regional pharmaceutic productioso we can be in the driver seat of our own pandemic rponse. amy: back in the united states, the house committee investigating the january 6 capitol insurrection has requested a massive trove of documents related to the attack, including internal trump administration communications. the request to eight federal agencies covers records involving melania trump, donald jr., eric and ivanka trump, jared kushner, mark meadows, hope hicks, stephen miller, and kayleigh mcenany, among others. investigator

britain, germany, and israel ramp up plans to offer a third covid-19 vaccine booster shot to some, american healthxperts say a third dose isn't needed yet for the general population. but there is an effort underway to get them for immunocompromised people. >> we are trying very hard to get the regulatory mechanism in place very soon to get those individuals a boost that might bring up their immunity to the level where it should be. >> reporter: and, wolf, this just in. organizers have announced they've canceled the new york international auto show which was set for later this month due to a surge in covid-19 cases. >> i suspect a lot of other things are going to be canceled as well given this dramatic increase in cases. let's get some insight from our experts joining us the dean of the brown university school of public health, dr. ashish jha, and a member of the fda's vaccines advisory committee, dr. paul offit. what's your reaction to the news that the defense secretary is expected to take steps in the coming days to make covid-19 vaccines mandatory for all active duty u.s. military personnel? >>

a student who is not feeling well will move to our health clinic, native american health clinic, an assessment will be made, parents called. >> i'm going to focus on community building, learning who my students are decompressing from the last year. >> i'm a little nervous. it's going to be kind of weird, but i'm going to get over that. >> reporter: later this morning, and throughout the uniform, oakland unified superintendent will tour various schools with the state superintendent and the mayor of oakland at some of those stops. marcus and laura. >> bob, we know that some students we've been tracking in brentwood and oakley came down with covid as well. talk about how likely they are to catch this delta variant as well. >> well, laura, if you look at the month of july and you compare the first half to the second half, there's been a huge jump in cases among children nationwide. you take a look at your tv screen, the first half of july there were just over 43,000 covid cases among children. again throughout our country, second half of july you're looking over 110,000, according to the american

we have quarantine spaces, a student not feeling well will move to our health clinic, native american health clinic, assessment made, parents will be called. >> i'm going to focus on community building in the class, learning who my students are decompressing from the last year. >> i'm a little nervous. it's going to be kind of weird, but i'm going to get over that. >> reporter: later this morning, and throughout the afternoon, oakland unified superintendent will tour some of her schools with the state superintendent and the mayor of oakland at some of those stops. >> i know some students in brentwood and oakley we've been keeping track of it, they came down with covid. talk about the likelihood of more kids catching the delta variant now too. >> i don't know about the likelihood, but i can tell you that what we've seen in july we've seen a jump in the number of cases among children nationwide between the first half and second half of that month. you can take a look at the numbers. these are numbers from the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association. first half of

to the health of our other american guests. friendship between the chinese and the american peoples. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> i can only say that i've never seen this before. it exceeds all expectations. and one stands there and seeing the wall going to the peak of this mountain and realizes that it runs for hundreds of miles, as a matter of fact, thousands of miles over the mountains and through the valleys of this country. it was built over 2,000 years ago. i think that you would have to conclude that this is a great wall and that it had to be built by a great people. many lives, of course, were lost in building it because there was no machinery or equipment at the time. it had to all be done by hand. but under the circumstances it is a certainly symbol of what china in the past has been and what china in the future can become, a people that could build a wall like this certainly have a great past to be proud of and a people who h

we should be boosting older americans, health care providers -- >> right now? >> we should open this up to the general public. i think in particular we should be boosting health care personnel, many of whom like me were immunized eight months ago. we know that the efficacy of the vaccine starts to drop after about the first six months. with the delta, a waning immunity from the vaccine and surging delta and rising numbers of patients in hospitals is a very toxic mix. so i would start boosting health care providers right now. we're seeing people outside of the immunocompromised going to pharmacies to get boosted. so rather than having sort of this black market process, the federal government should just open this up and create a process for the entire country and maybe in a tiered prioritized way, let's just start boosting everybody. it's coming. >> and the white house says in the past week florida has more covid cases than the 30 states with the lowest case rates combined. that's extraordinary. and let's listen to florida governor ron desantis. he is continuing

to the health of our other american guests to the health of all our for a friends present, and to the ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and realizes that it runs for hundreds of miles, thousands of miles over the mountains and for this country. it was built over 2000 years ago. i think that you would have to conclude, and that was a great wall and it was going to be built by great people. and there is no machinery. and it all had to be done by hand. under the circumstances, it is certainly a symbol and tell china in the past has been and what it will be in the future will become people can vote of all like this, and certainly have a great passed between product and and a people for this kind of a past must also have a great future. my hope is that in the future, perhaps as a result of the beginning that we made on this journey. that many many americans, particularly the young americans, who looked a travel so much, would have an

with many americans and health care professionals asking how we found ourselves back here in yet anotherbreak. >> what we're seeing clearly is that this virus is targeting those that are unvaccinated. the clear thing that we know now is that the unvaccinated people in this population are driving transmission, and ultimately creating risk for all of us. >> 93 million people in this country who are eligible for vaccination, who are not yet vaccinated, they give the virus a lot of leeway to circulate and ultimately perhaps be an even more difficult variant. >> reporter: the numbers are especially worrying in the sunshine state, where cases here hit record highs last week and pediatric hospitalizations are the highest in the country. even as cases skyrocket, masks are optional here. including in many schools. >> i think it's all politics. i don't think it's about public health or the kids' health in florida. >> reporter: at the end of july, florida governor ron desantis issued an executive order banning mask mandates in schools, leaving the decision up to parents, not school districts. >> th

americans. swhous health officials and medical experts are expected to recommend a third booster shot. the booster would apply only to people who got the two shot vaccines from pfizer and moderna. it would be administered eight months after a person received their second shot. sources say that plans to give out the third shot may be ready as soon as the middle of next month. >>> sacramento's mayor considering a mandate requiring people to show proof of a vaccine to enter bars, restaurants, concert venues and gyms, as new covid cases sky rocket. according to the sacramento be there are about 28 new daily cases per 100,000 people. a few more details, l.a. considering a similar mandate like the ones implemented in new york city and new orleans. san francisco is set to require proof of vaccination starting this friday. >>> today marks one year since the start of the hennessey fire, which was one of the several fires in the north bay that soon morphed into the lnu complex wildfire. the lnu, czu and scu were complex fires that started from one of the most severe dry lightning storms ever in

and beaming biles — after struggles with her mental health — superstar american gymnast simone bilesronze on the beam. in other news... first minister nicola sturgeon says scotland will remove most of its remaining covid restrictions from monday — face coverings in indoor public settings will continue. this change is significant and hard—earned. the sacrifices everyone has made over the past year and a half can never be overstated. coronavirus cases continue to fall in the uk, but deaths have risen to 138 — the highest reported daily figure since march 17th. borisjohnson meets the opposition leader of belarus — after one of the country's athletes at the olympics sought sanctuary in a foreign embassy. sprinter tells the bbc why she did it. i want people to stop being afraid, i want them to speak out because when there is pressure it's really important not to keep silent. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. team gb have won their biggest haul of medals in a single day so far at the tokyo olympics. of medals in a single day so far there was double gold for britain's sailors. dylan f

all breathe, the informational atmosphere and it is really quite literally undermining both american public health, an american democracy at the same time. the republican party, loyal to donald trump doing whatever they can to get official sounding institutions to parent trump lies, that's the entire goal of all this. it is wreaking unbelievable damage. it hasn't stopped. it will not stop and guess what, we are going to have more elections. as greg sergeant writes in his post in the washington post he says greg sergeant joins me now. >> greg, there is sort of two parallel issues here. they are related, but there is the question of, did the institutions hold, right? you know, raffensperger robust trump, and jeffrey rosen the attorney general blasts trump. jeffrey clark, the guy who wrote that letter, the unbelievable letter that is a shameful piece of work product that should be tarred for the rest of his career and life, that guy, jeffrey clark, he field also, all right? the legitimacy problems is a deeper one. that's what you write about. that's where so much of this is doing it independent avoid

health care. two major institutional actors in american history. and when i think about the military, i want to suggest that the well first of all when i started that project the most common reaction i got was while i have never thought about that before. why would religion have any role in the military? sure maybe many individuals were religious but end of story. what i discovered through this is that a government institution dedicated to not just thinking about their religious lives of soldiers and officers and war, but also an institution that shaped religion itself. sort of the carrots and sticks, our incentives and disincentives for four participation in the chapel to see, due to the challenge some religious groups and also facilitate access to power for others. so to take just one example, that was mentioned if we look at someone like white thousand howard, to understand mid-century american religion, it requires understanding eisenhower's role in the military because what he brought to bear when he got to office, when he became a member of t

health care. two a.j. or international many workers in american history. when i think about the military, first of all, when i said the that was, rur, ilnever thought about that. why in the military? sure, maybe they were -- what i found was a massive procedure and enterprise ked dated to thinking about the religious lives of soldiers and officers and bar with you also an institution which happened are incentives and disincentives for participation in the than lanesy some religious groups and also if a till said power to others. >> if we like at someone like dwight eisenhower to understand mid-central religion requiring eisenhower's role in the military because what he brought to but he until. when he became a member of the church in d.c.,ed a was a part of that season we -- you know, a couple could xoet exist and. in many ways that was a vision that a lot of americans coming out of world war ii shared, but it was also a vision that could be co-opted by others who sought to use religious for other purposes, more sectarian or divisive ones, because there wa

it is really at this moment quite literally undermining both american public health and american democracy at the same time. the republican party, those loyal to donald trump started a movement doing whatever they can to get official sounding institutions to parrot trump's lies. that's the entire goal of all this, and it's wreaking unbelievable damage. and it hasn't stopped, and it's not going to stop. and guess what? we're going to have more elections. as greg sergeant writes in his column, the plum line in "the washington post," quote, it seems increasingly plausible that we'll see an effort to steal the 2024 presidential election if the democratic candidate wins by a margin close enough to permit it. indeed, whether this effort does or does not end up happening, a host of bad actors are already laying the groundwork for right now via a simple execution. and greg sergeant joins me now. you know, greg, there are sort of two parallel issues here, and they're related. but there's the question of, well, did the institutions hold, right? and raffensburger rebuffs trump and jeffrey rosen, the

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mandates all over again and americans are fed up with after the last and have been covid in all the restrictions yet so many illegal aliens can cross the border regardless of their healths and security along the southern border with waiving the white flag saying please get control of this while covid cases are writing -- rising yet again. liz: how can anyone democrat or republican media pundit definitively say the border is not an issue for covid when the cdc and the government is coming. shouldn't this be a hair on fire moment for the government and for dr. fauci and for the cdc to get down there. "the new york times" is reporting migrants are crossing 100 countries. what do you say? >> that's right in as we seek covid cases rise once again and we know migrants are testing positive for this they should be asked where they coming from and those positive cases should be tracked. it's only fair to t americans wo have lived under such difficult situations in the last year and a half and this administration keeps putting americans last and illegal immigrants first. liz: lora ries it's good to see you thanks for joining us. i am liz macdonald then you've been watchingg "the