the terrorists from being able to operate with impunity so they can attack us again here at ho home. >> christ a minute left, i want to ask you one question on another subject. you've been very active on the issue of covid, pushing vaccines, you've even taken some of your campaign funds to do publish a service announcement the highest number of new covid cases right now are in florida and texas, where two republican governors have banned mask mandates in schools and other places. do you think that governor desantis and governor abbott are making a mistake banning individual institutions, school districts, from imposing mask mandates? >> senator mcconnell: you know, i'm kind of reluctant to give governors advice about how they ought to carry out their responsibilities during the pandemic, but i do think it's important to remember that 90% of the people in the hospitals are unvaccinated, so the answer to this is get vaccinated. if we could keep saying that over and over and over again, i think that's the key to this. this is a crisis among unvaccinated americans who seem to be reluctant to beli