that's what eric swalwell did.are not going to get into the details of the relationship because this is a family show, and honestly it's pretty creepy. but we can tell you that the spy's name was fang fang. she unfortunately is unavailable to join us on the show. amazingly, eric swalwell is still with us. he still around. in fact, he's been elevated to a seat on the house intel committee, the perfect reward for the boyfriend of a chinese spy in the city with collusion with foreign powers. eric swalwell exits his relationship with a chinese spy and he is sent to the intel committee. it does make you wonder. swalwell, you will recall came from nowhere 9 years ago to be one of the most powerful and longest-serving members of congress. took an awful lot of money to do that, but somehow, despite being mediocre and inarticulate and totally unknown and very young, eric swalwell had the money to do that. so where did that money come from? good question. the fbi determined that he had raised most of that money illegally. a

here you have eric swalwell on some kind of cheetah hunt.man like eric swalwell. what do you make of it? >> well it is and he's obviously taken off his shirt to intimidate his faithful native bearer and the native bearer is clearly -- a thousand pardons, i bow before your magnificent imperialist nipples! [indiscernible] or are you just pleased to see me? >> tucker: [cackles] >> i'm generally empathetic towards -- if you compare this just simply topless shot to topless shot, eric swalwell to vladimir putin, putin, although he doesn't have as good an animal companion, because eric swalwell is doing a whole midnight at the oasis [indiscernible] to bed bit, but putin on the other hand uses his topless nests as a power move and of course with eric shadegg well, it's just a decadence move. this is just the other side to the story you've been telling for the first 20 minutes of the show, talker, which is that you can't do this, you can't do that, you've got to be doubly vaccinated and even if you're doubly vaccinated you still need a covid test and

shady -- swalwell. meet congressman eric swalwell.n the house intel committee that got worked by a chain seals spy and worked with a group that denaits to terrorists. instead of writing legislation he's swallowing expensive cianti. politicians wants the finer things in life but never on their own dime. swalwell prides himself on coming from the humblest of parents. his dad was a police chief, and his mom was an administrative assistant. but he group in dublin, california. which was ranked the best place to live in 1994 by money mag. he thinks you should get free stuff. but he's the one getting fry stuff. he likes to live high on the hog. thousands of dollars spent on fine limos and luxury hotels. not a single dollar came from his pocket. it all came from donors and corporate lobbyists. and he goes on tv and screams big money needs to get out of politics. >> we need a voting rights act that would get rid of dirty money and dirty maps. it's gerrymandered. just because donald trump is gone, it doesn't mean corruption within racism and bi

congressman swalwell, you're reaction to that?i remember every second of that day, sadly, and there isn't a day that has gone by where i haven't thought about that day. so that sounds like someone who shouldn't be an investigator. he is a witness. he is a part of propagating a big lie, asemibling a lie, and he had to know what trump was up to, and what he did and what he did not do to save life and the counting of the voice. >> joyce, i'm going to put up a tweet of yours from today. you wrote the fact that doj turned these notes over the house oversight committee, the type of internal product they typely fight to protect, suggests this is serious, potentially criminal conduct. talk about that. >> doj will hold any of its internal work product, particularly notes that a senior official might take in a known call. that is not something they turn over without a fight. but they believe the events are so important and the information is so critical, they're going to permit former trump administration folks to give unrestricted testimon

swalwell is in trouble.e already is under the microscope for his relationship with an alleged chinese female spy. texas land commissioner george p. bush will join us tonight. he will give us his take on his state agency suing the biden administration over the border crisis. we'll talk to him about harrowing stories for people at the border. farmers, ranchers, people in the community suffering major damage from illegal immigrants crossing into their property. they want the government to pay up. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay. welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin tonight with republicans blocking the senate from starting debate on a bipartisan infrastructure bill. they didn't get the 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. they're arguing the democrats are rushing the process. the final bill there is no bill even written yet. hillary vaughn is on capitol hill with more. good to see you, hillary. reporter: liz

more hot water for congressman eric swalwell, we are not an election year by campaign records show he more than half a h million dollars in the tesecond quarter he spent a lotf money on alcohol, limos and out the hotels where his will wife once worked. swalwell is in trouble, he's already under the microscope for his relationship with another legend female chinese by, the texas land commissioner george p us tonight and he'll give us his take on a state agency suing the biden administration over the border crisis, we will talk to him about harrowing stories from people at the border, farmers and ranchers and people in the community suffering major damages from illegal immigrants crossing over the property, they want the government to pay up, thank you for joining us i'm elizabeth macdonald and "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show, you you watching the foxig business network we begin with republicans blocking the senate from debate on a bipartisan infrastructure bill they did not get the 50 votes to overcome ass filibuster there arguing democrats are ru

joining us now are democratic congressman eric swalwell of california, he served as the house impeachmentger in the second impeachment trial of president donald trump and is the author of endgame, inside the impeachment of donald trump, and joyce vance former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and a professor at the university of alabama school of law, she is an msnbc legal contributor and thank you both for being with me. congressman swalwell, i need to start with you, it's hard to believe that the second impeachment of which you were an impeachment manager was just, it was still this year, just a few months ago, is there anything, do the notes, nine pages of notes that we've seen, do they fit with what you possibly saw as an impeachment manager a few months ago? >> part of me which is that we could to impeach him again and make sure that he could never run for office, because he's seeking to do that and he has all of the elements in place to try and overturn an election again if he tries to run for office, so good evening, jonathan, good evening, joyce. this is what we s

at least eric swalwell in that shot was wearing a shirt. we will get to that later. exactly does the biden administration determine who isn't a white supremacist? is it the same way the fbi determined robert morris had a fully constructed lego capitol set in his living room? joining me now julie clerks senior contributory american greatness and one of the few people in our country who has extensively covered the prosecution of january 6th and of course leg divo gate as well. julie, you have stayed on top of these stories, we can make light of it all we want. but the reality is, it's indicative of a prosecution that is ongoing. what does this in part tell us about what merrick garland and others are doing with this prosecution? >> i mean, pete, you just hit the nail on the head. we can laugh about this because it is so preposterous. you have fbi agents who are seizing and confiscating legos using it as evidence against americans and their prosecution. but the bottom line this is a political persecution against trump supporters this would not be tolerated by any other

and in his response to eric swalwell well, i may be able to put a full screen up that shows this. i can tell you he says, well, the context isn't important because the words of the sentence or the paragraph actually began as such. and in context when i talked about kicking ass, i was speaking about 2022 and 2024. your thoughts? >> oh, lord, michael and thank you so much for putting that up on the screen. in congressman swalwell's suit, which i have right here, the context is where we says we're not going to let socialists rip out the heart of our country. he's not talking about 2022. he's talking about trying to subvert the 2020 election. it's non-sense to say he used the aside as such, therefore i could not have been talking about 2020. they're being cute. and again, he didn't even want to accept service of the lawsuit. if you remember there was a bunch of stories a month ago that eric swalwell couldn't even find mo brooks. this whole idea first they didn't want to accept it but now i've accepted the suit but i was acting in my official capacity, they're just trying to avoid gett

i will begin with you, congressman swalwell. as a member of congress, i don't think we can be reminded enough of how dangerous and how precipitous our potential loss of this country was back in january. with these new quotes coming out of this book, does this make you look any differently to that time? are you even more frightened thinking about how close we were? or is this just par for the course and you realize now, hey, look, i knew this was that dangerous six months ago. i'm glad the rest of the public is picking it up? >> jason, i would not say how close it had come, we actually crossed that rubicon for the first time ever in our country's history and we did not have a peaceful transition of power. i don't say these people who spoke up were heroes. your other guest, miles taylor, spoke up when it was a great political risk to do so. people like alexander vindman and fiona hill -- this is coming out after the act. i just happened to think had these people spoken up before the january 6th insurrection, maybe officer sicknick

except to share responsibility. >> congressman swalwell, what happened to that guy? >> he is treading water in donald trump's ocean and purely, purely interested in himself, not the sake of the country. you know, jonathan, democracy nearly died on january 6. this has to be a serious investigation. kevin mccarthy has shown he's not serious about january 6. that's why he would put the guys holding the gas cans in charge of an arson investigation. you know, banks and jordan. i think the speaker showed today that if we're going to make sure that we understand how this happened, what donald trump's role was, why the capitol wasn't better protected and make sure that it never happens again when we have to certify elections in the future, we need a serious approach. kevin mccarthy is just not up for that job. >> congressman swalwell, i agree with you and i think the american people agree with you that there needs to be a serious investigation. but can there be a serious investigation if there aren't more republicans on that committee, more republicans other than congresswom

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eric swalwell had sex with a chinese spy, that is not speculation, that is known.arently the u.s. intel agencies know it. they have a classified report on him, where does this leave us? >> last night, matt boyle our political editor for breitbart news broke what are pretty explosive details about not just his sex life but the way our house intelligence committee is compromised. we knew she was infiltrating operations within the united states, various offices and having relationships with up-and-coming politicians before she abruptly left the country a few years ago and we knew she had an intimate relationship with him, now apparently we do. as of now, swallwell hasn't denied this is deep penetration by the chinese government. >> we directly asked him to come on and comment on this, it sets up a very uncomfortable and bad dynamic, if i'm your boss but you have information on my weird proclivities, i'm not really your boss anymore, you have power over me and that's what it looks like here -- the intel world knows the details of his sexual relationship with a chinese

in the house, eric swalwell, a member of congress in the bay area, we know has had sacks with a chinese yet he remains on the intel committee. does that shake your faith a little bit? it turns out to new reporting of breitbart news that it is a classified report the biden administration won't reveal it. and that's not just speculation that is known and apparently the u.s. intel agencies know it. now he is supposed to oversee them but they have a classified report on him. >> last night, matt boyle, our washington editor for breitbart news broke what are pretty explosive details about not just the sex life but how are house intelligence committee was compromised. operations were made in the united states with operations in various relationships with opposition, and we don't know the extent to which it was intimate. now we apparently do, and this report as of now compass while well hasn't denied. this is deep penetration inside of this while well operation by the chinese government. >> we directly asked congressman swalwell to come on and comment on this. it sets up a very uncomfortable an

eric swalwell thank you so much for joining us, i really appreciate it.fbi's release of new video today which always shows us a new perspective on just how violent this was, and shows us that they are still going after suspects who they have not identified asking the public's help. >> lawrence, it shows that this indeed was the largest crime committed in the united states, when it's all said and done, there will never have been more criminal indictments from a single incident. this proves this idea that this was just a day in the park, or tourist incident. donald trump incited and inflamed and invited this mob here. i'm convinced that if donald trump did not do that, these folks, otherwise, would have never come. but for donald trump, january six does not happen. second, lawrence, and this is important for your viewers, we can all play a rule by going through the fbi twitter and facebook accounts and re-posting and retweeting these videos and play our own civic duty and making sure that those who participated that day are held accountable. i can't retweet

there's few people in politics easier to hate than eric swalwell.e military. this is a frat boy who made it into politics, that's okay, i don't hold that against him. but at some point you have to actually be a politician, not just an idiot. maybe not, i don't know. there's a bunch of them >> greg: i think idiot is part of the criteria. tyrus, what do you make of this guy. >> hold on let me get my swalwell >> greg: oh, yeah, the look. >> thank you for asking, greg. i didn't think i was going to win, so we just partied like a rock star. i have to be honest, i probably would do the same thing. i can't be trust wind campaign funds because i would be like, yo, let's go buy a pavement you know how many voters vote for guys like both? i would convince my team i need a boat and jet skis. at least own it, $10,000 on limousines >> greg: he does strike me as a phoney and not a bright one. >> and how dare you say frat. he wasn't in no frat. >> it's the military in me. >> finance department like we do, i get called in i ordered two pizzas and they say do you re

eric swalwell. he is like the result one would get if you did a hybrid cloning of dr.s is what would come out. thank you, leo. and this is someone who allowed himself to be compromised by a chinese spy whose nickname is literally fang fang. if the person next to us as, by the way, call me fang fang, it's time to go back to tender and find another girlfriend. that's probably a situation you don't want to be in. what is she do? she rewards him by praising this no-name california congressman, only has access to the most classified info. exceeds me. so now, thousands of dollars of campaign funds on limos and booze deliveries and high-end restaurants, which when i last checked had nothing to do with actual campaigning. of course that's not going to happen because the media isn't covering the story. they are providing cover. you look at the home page of "the new york times," "washington post," cbs. they haven't touched the story. it's "silence of the lambs." because why would you want to insult one of your most active anonymous and dubious sources? i'll leave you with this s

that material is now all available to the lawyers in the swalwell lawsuit.can use that as the basis for subpoenas to people like ivanka trump, who is reported in some of the books as having gone to her father repeatedly to say, you've got to do something, and he didn't do anything. and others and the manipulations that we were trying to do. and they were specifically -- there's reports of donald trump actively refusing to do anything. all of that can be lifted out of what is now the book context and put in under-oath depositions by the witnesses who actually participated in that as this lawsuit goes forward. isn't that what we'll see in the discovery process? >> exactly. and we'll certainly see this very powerful committee that nancy pelosi has put together that includes people like liz cheney and adam kinzinger and of course adam schiff and jamie raskin and a number of others, a committee that is going to hear evidence directly from some of the people who were in communication with the white house at the time. jim jordan can't quite remember whether he didn

congressman swalwell, great to see you again.or coming back or coming to this saturday show. because we haven't heard enough from house minority leader kevin mccarthy, i want to play kevin mccarthy and steve scalise and talk to you on the other side. >> speaker pelosi will only pick on people that will ask and a failed report. a sham that no one can believe. >> we see these kind of actions taken by speaker pelosi to cover up the facts that she doesn't want out there. it is completely debased the legitimacy of this commission, because clearly they're searching for the truth. >> congressman swalwell, would love your reaction to this. what are they afraid of? >> the truth, jonathan. let's put aside this morning that dana milbank of "the washington post" concluded that kevin mccarthy is not able to speak english and he's seeking a job that's literally called speaker, we'll put that aside, they are afraid of the ground truth of january 6th. the ground truth is donald trump assembled, incited, and aimed a mob at the capitol, not just a

in this case, eric swalwell made a motion for default.ks hasn't responded, i should win by default. on friday, brooks responded. all the judge has said just now is that well, brooks has responded. this is not a default. this is not a forfeit. and now the case will move forward on the merits. >> as we just heard, there are worries about more capitol threats. in your experience as a prosecutor, i wonder do you think the punishment for some rioters will be a deterrent for future violence? >> so it ought to be. punishments really do matter. punishments really do impact people. we're all human and react to ince incentives. one of the legal proper purposes of sentencing is what we call deterrents. judges have a job to make sure they're deterring basically scaring that defendant and others who may be considering committing crimes in the future. prosecutors need to be really careful but aggressive in the way they charge these cases. and judges need to understand that a lot of people are watching what's happening in the sentenci sentencings. they

eric swalwell tells us what he expects.o we are hours away from the first hearing of the january 6th select committee. officers who testify under oath for the first time and sources tell cnn there will be never before seen video from the deadly riot. joining me eric swalwell of california. representative, thank you very much. as a matter of fact, i went long we are that couple. i thank you for your patience -- >> that was an important segment, don. >> appreciate your patience. you were an impeachment manager for trump's second impeachment, the charge against him was inciting an insurrection and tomorrow, the select committee is going to hear four officers on the front lines during the attack. what do you expect to see, congressman, and hear? >> tomorrow starts with four police officers who were on the front line, don, fighting in hand to hand combat to defend the count that was taking place in the lives that were inside. essentially, it's to make sure animating through the officers that january 6th is a day that is not eras

congressman brooks is being sued by eric swalwell who has accused brooks of inciting violence at the that day by urging the protesters to start taking down names and kicking us, which they certainly did try to do. congressman brooks sought to dismiss the case against him, arguing he is amused -- immune from the west fall act which protects federal officials acting within the scope of their employment this week, the department of justice rejected that notion that congressman brooks was acting in his official capacity, and if -- refused to defend him in court. joining our discussion is laurence tribe, professor at harvard law school. he won 35 cases in the supreme court. thank you for joining us tonight. the dishes -- justice's decision on the brooks case, does that have any impact on how they might approach donald trump as a civil defendant in the same kind of lawsuits? >> it certainly does, lawrence. the justice department's brief not only said that it is no part of the job of any congress person to attack congress to incite insurrection, it pointedly said it is no part of any federa

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>> congressman eric swalwell is a democrat from california who says, some republicans are trying to raise the heroism of the officers who were there january 6th. he joins me. i wonder what response or reaction is to sort of watching the scorn being heaped on these for individuals who came before the committee yesterday. >> it's hard to watch, chris. i am someone who is alive, and was a part of a process that counted votes to make sure the next presidents victory can be sort of fine because of those officers. two of my brothers work every day to defend and protect the community where i grew up. i know the pain that this causes officers, it retraumatizes them. we are not asking tucker carlson to put on the body armor and go and the and hand to hand combat like mike fanone, and daniel hodges, and sergeant gonell did that. day we are not asking for that courage. we are just asking for the decency to acknowledge what they did and recognize the truth of what happened today to our country, in nearly died, sadly it is on life support today. >> the decency question, i think most of your colleagues

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swalwell and mr. schiff. think that's why they were going after republican staff come wider going after carter page to get to trump and i think there's probably somebody in tucker carlson orbit that nsa was monitoring and is no denial that they cut tucker carlson and that monitoring. by the way there's no denial that there was a plan to leak the information to try to in somewhat embarrassed tucker carlson here to only denial is they work expressly trying to get his show off the air. and it's not like the nsa has never lied to us. i mean, we were told that there was no bulk collection of america's data. it turns out there was bulk collection american stayed and no one was ever held to account for that. the chairman is right, and professor wu is right, too. we cannot count on these people to police themselves. and so it's my expectation that the needs to be greater review. so mr. chairman i'm inviting you to continue this bipartisan, bipartisanship come join in calling for inspector general investigation into a

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so to them this was never surprising. >> congressman swalwell, thank you. the book, by the way, "end game: inside the impeachments of donald trump," the new edition available in paperback. >>> straight ahead, another tough day for surfside families. they are now battling weather in this search again. we have a live update. that's next. ing time with frien, knowing you understand your glucose levels. ♪ you need an ecolab scientific clean here. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean now helps the places you go too. look for the ecolab science certified seal. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ oh! are you using liberty mutual's coverage customizer tool? sorry? well, since you asked. it finds discounts and policy recommendations, so you only pay for what you need. limu, you're an animal! who's got the bird legs now? only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... ...me. my symptoms were keeping me from be

. >> joining us now is democratic congressman eric swalwell of california. he served as house impeachment manager of the second impeachment trial of donald trump. he also wrote "endgame: the impeachments of donald j. trump." . you and i had these discussions in realtime when it was happening back then and said it was political fraud to impeach donald trump, especially when there was not much chance he would be convicted, anyway. you as members of congress do what you are called upon to do and what the constitution dictates that you do or you don't. but it shouldn't be about whether it's politically fraught or politically advantageous. >> thank you, ali, and it was effective, right? we did not obtain a conviction in the senate, but by holding him accountable in the first impeachment, we were able to shine a light on this effort by having ukraine put dirt on joe biden, and we stopped it. ukraine was not ultimately able to run the campaign that donald trump was inviting them to run. so shining a light, although it did not remove donald trump, it prevented ukrai

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joining me now is the attorney for congressman eric swalwell.at to see you again, as we monitor the progress. >> thanks for having me back. >> your argument is that mo brooks was acting in his personal capacity. his response to the court he's arguing that it was in more of his professional capacity, which is an important thing to note because he does have protections if he can convince the court that he was acting as a member of congress. you know, how concerned are you about this argument? >> look, it's not a crazy principle that he's raising. as you said, members of congress have cover for things within the scope of their employment, giving speeches, doing things for constituents and that's fine. that's good. we want elected officials working. the key, though, is what is within the scope of employment, and clearly not everything a member of congress or any employee does is within the scope of employment. that's why there's a test to figure out if, in fact, it was. that's the point we think brooks misses or ignores which is what happened on jan

congressman eric swalwell a democrat from california would says some republicans are trying to eraseoism of the police officers who defended the capitol on january 6th. he joins me now. i wonder what your response is or your reaction to sort of watching the, you know, the scorn being heaped on these 4 individuals who came before the committee yesterday. >> it's hard to watch, chris. i am someone who is alive and was a part of a process that counted votes to ensure the next president's victory could be certified because of those officers. i'm also someone whose two brothers work every day to defend and protect the community where i grew up. so i know the pain that this causes officers, it retraumatize ds them. we are not asking tucker carlson to put on the body armor and go and in hand-to-hand combat with the insurrections as mike fanone and daniel hodges and harry dunn and gemmel did that day. we are asking them to acknowledge what they did and recognize the truth of what happened that day of our country. sadly, it's on life support today. >> the decency question, i guess i think mos

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congressman swalwell, good to see, thank you for being with us. you and i had this discussion in realtime way back then, when people were saying it is politically fraud to pursue impeachment against donald trump, particularly since there's not much chance he will be convicted of it anyway. you and others made the argument that that is not actually -- that shouldn't be part of the calculus. either you as members of congress do what you are supposed to do and what the constitution dictates that you do, or you don't, but it shouldn't be about whether it is politically fraught or advantageous. >> thank you, ali. it was effective, right? we did not obtain a conviction in the senate but by holding him accountable in the first impeachment, we were actually able to shine a light on this effort to have ukraine put dirt on joe biden and we stopped it. ukraine was not able to ultimately run the campaign that donald trump was inviting them to run. shining a light, although it did not remove donald trump, it prevented ukraine from doing that. i just want to dr

eric swalwell telling me how it is one piece of a bigger picture. >> we are just as vulnerable today,. my fear is that there will be more loss of life as long as the following ingredients still exist. you have donald trump and kevin mccarthy advancing the big lie. you have a country where we have unrestricted weaponry, and you have law enforcement that doesn't have the resources yet to attack white supremacist groups in this country. so if those ingredients still exist, that's a recipe for a disaster. >> new reporting today deals yet another blow to donald trump's baseless claims of a stolen election. an investigation by the associated press found fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3 million ballots cast in arizona, and so far only four cases have led to charges. no one has been convicted. no person's vote was counted twice. >>> but is the battle over voting rights intensifying across the country, new polling shows democratics' efforts to expand voting access is more popular than the type of restrictions pushed by republicans. a poll from yahoo news and ugo

doing to get to the position they are involved steps from american countries i find difficult to swalwellrectly. we encourage trade and companies doing business with each other, we keep them in place. we are integrated as a group, also resilience insufficiency kino sound -- i think companies can be difficult for them but i think president trump created the qualifications on the human rights issues, and president biden hasn't seen that yet, president trump was never credited for being so bold that way and it has affected a number of things we were doing but we are happy to follow the law as long as there is a process and procedure and transparent about what's going on. honestly, what revenue because of this but that's right, we follow the law, we are an american organization and represent u.s. and native american companies. that's where our our grandkids are so we have to fight for the u.s. which sometimes conflicts with the economic interests. >> one minute left. >> i want to talk about section 230 of the communication piece decency act. it's traditionally been opposed to any changes to t

congressman eric swalwell, democrat from california which i guess makes you a homie of mine. thank you so much. it's good to see you. we'll see you again. >>> let's go now to new numbers today in the coronavirus pandemic. the average of new cases this week is up almost 70%, as the delta variant spreads at an alarming rate, covid hospitalizations and death rates are also up. today cases are on the rise in almost every state. health officials warning unvaccinated areas are driving these increases. the head of the cdc calling this a pandemic of the unvaccinated. in los angeles county, an indoor mask mandate returns tonight as health officials are struggling with an alarming rise in covid cases there. let's go to nbc's gad vin nay gas. let's talk about what people can expect when they're in public places, right? indoors it's masks on. >> reporter: alex, that's correct. it's going to be just like it was before june 15th when masks were required in all indoors settings. it's going to be for the vaccinated and unvaccinated here in los angeles. and you mentioned these numbers, you kn