bernard ashby, miami based vascular cardiologist and ivan melendez. the state point black, lifted all restrictions and didn't even ask his own state medical experts? >> if you come to my office and you have a blood pressure problem, i don't give you a depression pill. if you have depression, i don't give you an antibiotic. you cannot give the same medication for every disease process. texas is diverse as a country. in the very south, completely different than our brothers that are in corpus and dallas and houston and san antonio. incidentally, i was giving a conference to a large group of people via zoom day before yesterday about the importance of mask wearing when someone in the audience says, and what do you think about the governor's announcement? and he puts his phone up to the zoom, and at the same time that i'm enforcing the use of masks, our governor is saying the exact opposite. so you can imagine our embarrassment, our despair. you know, we always want to be professional, so we don't do personal attacks. but it's a very hard position to defe

bernard ashby, and dr. ivan melendez, thank you both for being here. appreciate you both. appreciate the passion. that is tonight's reidout. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the motion to proceed is agreed to. >> the covid rescue package moves forward in the senate, and republicans keep their eye on the ball. >> let's not attempt to steal knowledge of our nation's history from our children like the grinch attempted to steal christmas. >> tonight the latest gop stunt to keep americans from getting relief. >>> then why the man arrested after breaking into nancy pelosi's office was just dragged kicking and screaming back to jail. >>> plus why the voting reform bill that just passed the house is crucial for democracy. >>> and as vaccination rates climb, dr. peter hotez on why we may soon hit an anti-vaxxer problem when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. on january 6th of this year, shortly after noon, news leaks that merrick garland would be getting

bernard ashby.ctor of the committee to protect medicare. so good to see you, dr. ashby. so, you know, talk to me about your reaction to these accusations that the governor is prioritizing, you know, wealthy, white communities to make sure that they have access to these vaccinations. >> well, fredricka, numbers don't lie. the disproportionate impact of the pandemic has fallen on the shoulders of the poor americans, more floridians in addition to people of color, particularly black folks in america. and as it stands right now, we account -- black folks account for less than 6% of the current amount that are vaccinated. that's a real problem. and we've seen this governor make decision after decision that aligned itself with industry and corporate interests and those of the elite class rather than the community. so from the fact that we don't have mask mandates to the fact that he prevented us from enforcing anything to decrease the virus it all has translated into unnecessary deaths and hospitalization