dottie: his caddie is his best pal from the university of minnesota. yeah, don't look at that flag. got to miss left. like that. frank: still a tricky chip because it has to go pack up over that ledge. jim: justin thomas 13 under but one over for today. nick: 50 yards but into the w wind, face for the sand. jim: to eight. frank: sam burns for birdie. lost in a playoff last start to abraham ancer. he moves to 14 under, just that back now. lots much confidence after that first win at valspar and had a good season. dottie: 108 yards, couldn't ask for a better angle here. extremely proficient wedge pla player. frank: never hits it too hard. dottie: never, ever. frank: and i don't mean that in distance, just the rhythm. sometimes people grab a short club and rain into it. up to seven. jim: how do you like this swing, nick? >> it is short but lovely online. i love when he tries to come down as if he is hitting a draw but uses a wrist action to hit a fade. that is how he gets it on the raoeight plane. jim: newark airport close by. fasten those seat belts, folks. a little windy out here sti

he has a master's urban and regional planning from the university of minnesota. please give chuck. thank you. thank you. and a little bit about organization, strong towns, organizations now evolved into a national movement of people trying to reconfigure their communities to be more financially sound post world war to america. the financing mechanisms of it act very much like a ponzi scheme. you have this immediate sugar high with this long term liability kind of hanging out there in the future. and the last generation standing is the one that's gonna have to pick up the bill. we prayed on our fellow americans just so we could keep the growth going and nobody stopped to consider the impact that this was going to have on real people and real families. i was bird dogs, finding foreclosures for other investors. and i just saw that a majority of wealth create and united states was for real estate. so i was determined to follow that track. it was so much fun at the height of when we were making money. company had season take us to the lakers right behind the lakers bench. so toby bryant'

. >> my guest, epidemiologist michael osterholm of the university of minnesota. >>> a changing countrye new census report. rural america shrinks as urban america grows. what that means for political power in the coming decade. joining me for inside analysis is pollster cornell belceh, anne gear ran, white house correspondent for "the washington post." republican pollster kristen soltis anderson and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. the scale of the developing disaster in afghanistan has exceeded the most pessimistic of predictions. taliban forces seized control of the city of jalalabad without a fight overnight. they've now entered the capital city of kabul. they're negotiating with the government to take over the city without bloodshed. they're looking for unconditional surrender. president biden yesterday increased the number of troops he's sending to

and the university of minnesota, centre college, and state university of new york have stepped up to cover students. we expect more and more to follow. if you're a business, a non-profit, a state or local leader who's been waiting for full and final fda approval before you put vaccination requirements in place, now is the time. you have the power to protect your communities and help end the pandemic through vaccination requirements. let me be very clear our wartime response will continue to deploy every tool at our disposal to get more people vaccinated. just today, hhs announced that it's changing its reimbursement policies so pharmacies and other vaccination providers have additional support and incentives to administer vaccines in smaller long-term care settings. this will help ensure long-term care residents have greater access to covid-19 vaccines. let me be very clear at the same time that we drive more progress on vaccinations, our covid-19 surge response teams continue to work with states to respond to delta outbreaks. we are working with 17 states and have deployed over 700

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the university of minnesota and state university of new york have stepped up to cover students.ow. if you're a business, a nonprofit, a state and local leader who's been waiting for full approval before you put vaccination requirements in place, now is the time. you have the power to protect your communities and help end the pandemic through vaccination requirements. our wartime response will continue to deploy every tool at our disposal to get more people vaccinated. just today hhs announced it's changing its reimbursement policies so pharmacies and other vaccination providers have additional support and incentive to administer vaccines in smaller long-term care settings. this will help ensure long-term care have greater access to vaccines. at the same time we drive more progress on vaccinations, our covid-19 surge response teams continue to work with states to respond to delta outbreaks. we are working with 17 states and have deployed over 700 federal personnel, served hundreds of ventilators, ambulances and other critical assets to support hospital systems and established doz

university of minnesota almost did it. they said when the fda approves it. which i hope will be soon. it has already been approved for levels of use. that that will be required. i think you'll see more and more of that. that will also create huge incentives. >> thank you, senator. i agree quite emphatically we need the mix and the complement of the softer and the harder approaches. you did mention schools. i would like to invite donna to join the conversation. you work with so many schools, in tennessee but other states, and with senator klobuchar, talking about the need for trusted messengers. i wonder, donna, if you could talk about how you have seen misinformation effect the schools and the community's you work with, but also how you have seen teachers and school administrators, the heads of ptas push back on that disinformation, to build confidence in the vaccines. >> thank you so much. it is a pleasure to be here today. i do have the privilege of working with school communities across the u.s. and my colleagues who you don't see behind me are doing the s

it featured historian kirsten delegard, who leads the university of minnesota's "mapping prejudice" projectf you're told all the time that the "influx"-- that's the language that was used-- the influx of a person who was not white into yr neighborhood would bring down your property value, that that was a real source of anxiety for individual people who maybe did not see themselves as racist >> reporter: explicitly, such covenants are now illegal. but they've left lasting scars. just 25% of black residents of minneapolis and st. paul own their homes, a rate that's well bew the national average, and notable because this is considered one of the most affordable metropolitan areas in the whole country... if you're white. about 75% of white residents here are homeowners. the disparity has had consequences. according to the minneapolis federal reserve, the median net worth of white households in minnesota is $211,000. that same number for the state's black households? is zero. >> the way that we accumulate wealth in america is largely through our homes. >> reporter: jennifer ho is minnesota's hou

michael osterholm joins us now from the university of minnesota. appreciate your time and getting your expertise this morning. it seems like the country lost a month of progress large events are getting canceled, businesses as you hear from ed pushing back a return to the office. what needs to be done to get the country back on track? >> well thank you for having me, boris. let's just be really clear that we still have a very large part of our population that is unprotected. over 90 million people who are eligible to get vaccinated have not been vaccinated. so this surge that is occurring right now and primarily in the southern sun belt states may end up lasting another four or five weeks and those states and dropping precipitously, the question is still out on what will happen with the other states, will they see the kind of surges weeks later than we see if the south. but the bottom line message is we need to get people vaccinated now because we're still going to have a lot of susceptible people even after the surge is over. and we're talking abou

twin cities pbs documentary, jim crow of the north that featured a historian who leads the university of minnesota'sjudice project. >> if you're told all the time that the influx, that is the language used, the influx of a person not quite into your neighborhood would bring down your property value. that was a real source of anxiety for individual people who may be did not see themselves as racists. >> explicitly such covenants are now illegal, but have left lasting scars. just 25% of residents of minneapolis and st. paul own their homes, a well below the national average, and notably because this is considered one of the most affordable metropolitan areas in the country, if you are white. 75% of white residents are homeowners. the disparity has d consequences. according to the minneapolis federal reserve, the median net worth is $211,000. for black households, that is zero. >> the way we accumulate wealth in america is largely through our homes. >> minnesota's housing commissioner. >> if you are not allowed to buy in affluent neighborhoods and given preferential pricing on your mortgage, if you bou

michael osterholm, the director of infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota, the owner of a staten island pub, and frances suarez, the mayor of miami. kerry, let's start with you. you are outside a hollywood hospital where they're seeing a striking rise in children with covid. how many kids are we talking about? >> reporter: well, i'm at the memorial hospital here in hollywood, which is part of or connected to it is the childrens' hospital, so when your kid is injured or sick, this is the hospital for the greater broward county that you're rushed to. and the numbers for covid are disturbing, because so many people have felt that this covid challenge that our nation is up against with this pandemic has been something for older people, and certainly we've seen the numbers dropping. but when we get to kids it becomes very much a real situation for anxious parents. so the numbers that they have here right now at the hospital is 23 covid patients who have been pushed in the emergency room in july, 240 covid patients came to the emergency room, and that's an 18.6 p

"outfront" now is an infectious disease physician and scientist at the university of minnesota. ntioned in terms of emails you received, what other kind of messages have you gotten over this? >> well, i think i'mon social ma and email people can send not very nice messages but a lot of characters out there, just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character. >> that's one way of putting it. you're a very kind man. you have done dozens of trials throughout your career. have you ever run into anything like this kind of, i don't know, this kind of hate? >> well, i think, you know, it's a lot of passion out there and unfortunately, there is just not a lot of data and so for early treatment, you know, this far into the pandemic, we really only have one therapy that's been proven to work and that's the monoclonal antibodies. otherwise there is small studies and promising drugs that might work but not a lot of actual data. that's a problem where people can get very excited based on limited data of things that aren't quite proven yet but are promising. >> so of course, a l

in michael, the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota and cnn medical analyst and emergency room physician. she's the author of "lifelines." doctor, let me start with you. the cdc moments ago recommended this third dose of the coronavirus vaccine for certain immunocompromised people. did the vaccine advisers make the right call, do you think? >> definitely. in fact, if anything, this is something that is overdue because we have known for some time that there is a group of people, a small group of people who are severely immunosuppressed, who do not mount the immune response to these vaccines. these are also individuals who are more susceptible to illness from covid-19. they could harbor the virus for longer if they were to contract it. so there is a public health reason for this as well and giving them a third dose could increase their immune response. this really makes sense with this group of people. what i really like about what the cdc decided is they said we're not going to put additional barriers in place. you don't have to prove y

joining me is the director of the university of minnesota center for infectious disease research and concern for epidemiologists like yourself. how concerned are you about it? >> we have a number of variants that come forward literally by the month just because of the mutations occurring with this virus around the world. occasionally some of them become variants of concern, which the one from south africa is. everything i see supports the fact that delta is the number one variant on the block and will stay that way. it is highly infectious. while we're watching closely south africa, i had to suggest like real estate, location, location, location, this pandemic is about delta, delta, delta. >> i'm curious how we should take this. if you look at our case counts, it looks like we're beginning to plateau. are we? or are we starting to reach peaks? >> we are definitely hitting a plateau in the southern states up through arkansas that were hit so hard over the past six weeks. they only make up about 12.5% of the u.s. population. while those case numbers are surely important in how the surg

michael osterholm, the director of the center for infectious disease, research and policy, university of minnesota. he was also a covid adviser to the biden transition team back then. michael, indeed, because of the news tonight, i would like to begin with you. during the simpler days of our single strain, uncontrolled pandemic, we made it a habit on this broadcast of asking you what inning we were in in the fight. those were the days before vaccines. i'm tempted to ask tonight, have they added on innings in the game or do we find ourselves, perhaps, in game one of a doubleheader? >> well, i guess i would take it a slightly different direction, brian, i gave up on innings and i am now in quarters, which minute of the quarter it is. we really had game changers when the variants arrived. they have fundamentally changed the game that were playing. from my perspective, right now, it's all about the variant. it's about what delta is doing, would it will continue to do and what we can do about it. >> i know of your concerns to get the rest of the world vaccinated, and i think all good hearted americans

host of the new podcast the bureau and michael osterholm, for research and policy at the university of minnesotawas a covid adviser to the biden transition team. good to have you all here. where are we in the latest surge? >> well, first of all, you have to understand that we don't really know why surges occur. what happens that suddenly causes big increase in cases and why do we see a very sudden drop within five to seven weeks at the top of the surge, that has been happening around the world. i expect the same to happen here. i think another four to five weeks and we will see the numbers drop. but in the meantime, we are in trouble. right now, tonight, if louisiana was a country. it would have the highest rate of cases in the entire world for any country that's how bad things are. i don't think people yet really understand it's the challenge that we have for the next five to six, or seven weeks. >> and five to six, to seven weeks, schools are already opening in someplaces and many will be open in the next four weeks or so. children under 12 though, of course can't be vaccinated yet and there's

the university of minnesota and state university of new york have stepped up to cover students.e expect more and more to follow. if you are a business, a nonprofit, a state or local leader who has been waiting for a full and final fda approval before you put vaccination requirements in place, now is the time. you have the power to protect your communities and help end the pandemic through vaccination requirements. host: vaccine mandates, support or oppose. derek in philadelphia, why do you oppose? caller: i oppose because they are not covering any people that have complications due to severe reactions. i also oppose because they should be concentrating more on testing. there is nothing about testing anymore. host: what more testing would you want? caller: ems workers, firefighters, police should be tested once a week whether they get vaccinated or not. the vaccine keeps you from getting sicker. it does not keep you from getting covid and passing covid. so they are not testing every week. you do not even hear about testing anymore like you did before. host: the washington post ta

places opting to require the vaccine is the pentagon, new york city department of education, university of minnesotages in louisiana. here is the former fda chief under president trump. >> we have more data about efficacy and safety than almost any other vaccine in the history of vaccination. the data are clear, the fda has spoken, the vaccine is safe and effective. >> safe and effective. united airlines has moved up its deadline for its employees to get vaccinated or lose their jobs, the deadline end of september. and state and local government officials should support and impede companies looking to implement vaccine mandates. >> if you are a business leader, a nonprofit leader, state or local leader, who has been waiting for full fda approval to require vaccinations, i call you on now to do that, require it. >> about 82 million americans have yet to receive a shot that is about 29% of the eligible population. >>> cruise industry is stepping up its safety protocols as the delta variant surges. over the weekend carnival says all guests over 12 years old must be fully vaccinated to sell sail from po

in new york city facing similar mandates along with tens of thousands of students at the university of minnesotacists and corporate employees and chevron the first oil company to require the vaccine. "outfront" now is professor of global health law at georgetown university. he advised the biden administration on covid vaccine mandates and the author of global health security a blueprint of the future. thanks for being here. you think this is a monumental moment in this pandemic. why? >> i do. we have to sit back. it's about eight months since we first applied these covid-19 vaccines. we have to really pat ourselves on the back. this is a triumph of science and humanity and i think that it's going to be a pivotal landmark to get the country vaccinated because of the landmarks you've been talking about. >> president biden pressed for all americans that said they're waiting for full approval to go out and get the shot without delay but there is a big question how big that group really is versus people who just will not get the shot no matter what. over the weekend even former president trump was bo

headed is michael osterholm, director at the center of infectious disease research at the university of minnesotatransition covid advisory board. thank you for joining us, michael. you have been warning for months about covid complacency, and now we're seeing hospitals fill up, schools having to shut down days after opening. where are we right now and where are we headed? >> first of all we shouldn't have been surprised by this situation. i realize that there was a time where case numbers were very low and people assumed the pandemic had ended in the united states. we had vaccine coming. but let me just remind you that we have over 90 million americans today who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not. that's more than enough human wood out there for this coronavirus forest fire to burn. so this particular surge we're in right now really it's unknown how high it may get in terms of cases. i think right now, my best guesstimate is if we had to look at the southern sun belt states, two or three more weeks at least of increasing numbers. but i think the big challenge is are we going to see other

political analyst and director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. doctor, let me begin with you. i want to show you the cover of usa today for this weekend. it says we are failing one another. this is america's fourth covid-19 surge. it didn't have to happen. it didn't have to happen but what do we do about it now? doctor, how do we -- how do you see this playing out over the next weeks and months when we are fundamentally opposed between those who believe in masks and vaccines and those who not want to wear them? >> the most important message anyone can take from watching this spot is get vaccinated. there are over 90 million americans who could be vaccinated right now who are not. & these are people providing the human wood for this coronavirus forest fire to burn. so i can't say that strongly enough. secondly, we have to understand that this surge which is on going right now and it has all the makings of growing well beyond the sunbelt states, is already in the books in a sense. if we start vaccinating today, the people getting vaccinated to day

, by the white house director in the white house top covid advisors today who is from the university of minnesotag the masts that we are wearing, and 95 masks are not working too slow the spread. when they put the government mandates in place with small businesses or corporations to do the same, you are affecting people's lives, livelihood, and kids to go back to school with social interaction with each other. so i think it is a bigger question of, why are they acting like everybody needs to panic and possibly locked down again and do all these things when they are not doing them and implementing rules that none of them are affected by it? the people that go to barack obama's birthday party are not affected by these rules. they can fly on a private jet, have things deliver to come all the people mandating these issues skirt the rules are not a fight stomach affected by it. >> greg: it is an interesting kind of class warfare in a sense that you can tell people to do the things that you, your cell can endure, but they can't and over time, their lives get worse. and i even put myself in the exceptio

michael osterholm, the director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesotattom line here, why is it taking so long for the vaccine to get at least emergency authorization for kids younger than 12? >> well, particularly for the group under 12 we're still collecting data. and one of the things that we all want are these vaccines right away. but at the same time we want to make sure that they're safe and they're effective. for younger kids under age 12, what's the right dose? we surely may not be wanting to use the same dose we're using in adults. so those studies, which are ongoing, will hopefully provide us with licensed products some time yet even this year. but, as you and i both know, they can't come soon enough. >> so what is the difference, though, between a 12-year-old who is authorized to get the vaccine right now based on the data and, say, a 10 or 11-year-old? what are they really looking at? >> well, you're absolutely right. it seems like there might be a bright line. if you're just one day old or one day younger, you're eligible or you're not eligi

workers in new jersey, disney world cast members, many chevron employees, students at the university of minnesota. >> you have the power to protect your communities and help end the pandemic through vaccination requirements. >> reporter: now, louisiana has among the worst vaccination rates in the land, and lsu tiger fans, you're now going to need proof of a vaccine or a negative test before coming to football games. >> the time has come, enough is enough. we've just got to get people vaccinated. >> reporter: so when might the fda greenlight vaccines for the under 12s? >> i think it's possible that we might see that process complete by the end of the calendar year. >> reporter: so, masks in schools in the meantime? well, a federal judge ruled kentucky's governor can't mandate them right now. so he canceled his mandate even though he knows it works. >> it's everything from a district in kentucky that went back for three days masking optional and had 700 quarantines in just the first three days. >> reporter: nationwide, the average daily covid-19 death toll is now over 1,000 and still climbing. aver

we've seen the university of minnesota, for instance, the state university now say they're going to mandate vaccine. i am saying i'm hearing from a lot of people who said, well, i'm on the fence, but now my employer is requiring it so i'm going to show up and get the shot. >> it's really interesting, mandates will convince people, unless they want to lose their job and won't have access to places they want to go, that's number one. and number two, it seems it's already afoot in the country because we've seen vaccination rates tick up. there were 1 million shots given several days in a row last week. and what do you think that's about? >> i really think that's about fear and the reality that this virus can strike any of us, regardless of our age. regarding of our pre-existing health status. the delta variant in particular, but really covid in general does not discriminate. any of us are at risk. and the vaccinations help protect us from severe disease, hospitalization and death. and as people see friends and family members getting sick, getting hospitalized. they see the news stories about t

you heard about the va, university of minnesota.ates will certainly have an impact, i think. let me just show you real quick a snapshot of the country in terms of where we are, this pie chart. we have about 51% that have been vaccinated, another 9% that have been partially vaccinated. it's the red, 25% that are eligible but are not yet vaccinated. so that's the population of people, about 80 million people that could be potentially affected by this. >> look, my thing is that this country is divided but it's not red, blue, democrat, gop, it's vaccinated and unvaccinated. i've got to tell you, up until this point it's all been about be nice to the unvaccinated. don't shame them. let them learn. enough. they're holding up life for everybody else. and now you just wrote in an op-ed something that's popping a lot of eyes but it was a point you had to make, doc. this is going nowhere. covid will be with us six months, 12 months, 18 months. yes? >> yeah. >> yeah. i mean, it's becoming endemic. that's the word that people use. and i also pu

workers in new jersey, disneyworld cast members, many chevron employees, students at the university of minnesotaities and help end the pandemic through vaccination requirements. >> reporter: now louisiana has among the worst vaccination rates in the land and lsu tiger fans, you are now going to need proof of a vaccine or a negative test before coming to football games. >> the time has come. enough is enough. we just got to get people vaccinated. >> reporter: so when might the fda green light vaccines for the under 12s? >> i think it's possible that we might see that process complete by the end of the calendar year. >> reporter: so masks in schools in the meantime? well, the federal judge ruled kentucky's governor can't mandate them right now so he canceled his mandate, even though he knows it works. >> it is everything from a district in kentucky that went back for three days masking optional and had 700 guarantees in just the first three days. >> reporter: nationwide the average death toll is now over 1,000 and still climbing. the average new cases a day more than 150,000. hasn't been that high

the university of minnesota did this as soon as the approval went through yesterday.tment of defense like you were reporting yesterday, already doing that, that's probably the biggest thing. let me show you a snapshot, 51% fully vaccinated, 9% partially vaccinated, it's that green upper left that are the eligible unvaccinated where we think those three factors i just mentioned might have the greatest impact. >> yeah, that is a big chunk of people yet still, sanjay. thank you so much, sanjay. such important news about the vaccine, and how this is going to affect people, and if they are going to take it in more numbers. obviously they need to. >>> "the washington post" reporting now on a secret meeting between the cia director and the taliban. up next, we will talk to a congressman who received a classified intelligence briefing. >>> and no deal overnight, ending a standoff between centrist democrats and nancy pelosi. democratic infighting putting the president's economic agenda on hold. listerine® cleans virtually 100%. helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. ne

michael osterholm director for the center for infectious disease research at the university of minnesota. good morning again. >> thank you. >> let me ask you about what is happening in south dakota. more than 500,000 people are expected to attend. what are your concerns? >> well, any time we bring a group of people like that together, they are going to spend time indoors. it's just a matter ofth bars or casinos. as we saw last year with sturgis we had a substantial number of cases tied to sturgis and then were brought home to their various states then saw more transmission in those states from the people who came back from sturgis so we have every reason to believe this year will be just as bad if not worse and on top of it right now as you know, people really feeling pretty well done with this virus in many locations of the country, the fact of the matter is the virus isn't done with us. we have state fairs that are about to be held, bring in million people to various locations. we have lots of festivals being held this year. so this is the month i think right now these events that are

. >> bill: a lot of people respect him out of the university of minnesota. >> it speaks to how much ofloth masks that people are wearing as you hear from experts all the time aren't making much of a difference. anybody in an airplane. walk through an airport terminal. sit and have beer and eat food. pull down your mask on the airplane to drink and eat. none of it makes sense. it's mostly cosmetic theater and the essence of what he is saying there. >> dana: and the vaccines work. you also read bill mcgurn. masks are a covid distraction as you say. >> bill: have you watched the olympics? >> i have not. the least amount i've ever watched the olympics. you guys may well agree with this. i imagine a huge percentage of your viewers feel the same way. i used to be so excited for the olympics and track the medal counts and everything else. it is hard to figure out when they are airing. time zone doesn't help. streaming makes it difficult to know what's live and not. the least amount of watched olympics are all time and some of the athletes aren't likable. >> bill: you had an athlete from qatar

pfizer's vaccine, which is going to see a large amount of corporations and universities like the university of virginia. yeah. and university. minnesotaif you're not vaccinated we're going to and enroll your kid. i didn't hear about that. they're going to do think a lot of college follow and one final just no are, you know, a little piece of fast food workers. their salaries have gone up 10% in the last quarter. so it's little bit of catch-up definitely deserved and makes people. you and i happy when we have our fast food needs met by labor. >> oh, yeah, no doubt about that. and then seeing here you're tracking lyft uber stocks. as prop 22 was struck down. yeah, they were really pushing for that. >> yeah. so they push for a couple years ago. we got it on the ballot and prop 22 was approved by a total of 58% of californians voted yes or and now that's being overturned by a judge basically the judge nominee to county is saying something along the lines of future companies should be legislated or legislator ce to basically qualified and his gig contract employees or gig. full-time in place with 10 point make a lot more benefits. but they

director of the center for infectious disease research and policy, and at the medical school of university of minnesota, dr. michael osterholm, thank you for being on this morning. i gave a blanket assessment of, but where is this heading, young people going to school unvaccinated, are you concerned the spread will continue? >> well, we are right now in what i would call an ongoing journey with this virus. meaning if you look at the southern sates who were hit hard early, florida, mississippi, louisiana, those states are starting to in a sense hit their peak, and i expect to see the new case numbers will decrease over the weeks ahead. however, what's happening in the southeast, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, kentucky, tennessee, southern illinois, what we're seeing in the far northwest, we're seeing in the upper midwest, particularly in second degree, where sturgis was held, what we're seeing in the southwest, we're seeing increasing cases in the area. the cases may go down in the deep south, we're going to see the rest of the country light up more. the million dollar, billion dollar question

brangham: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under- told stories project at the university of st. thomas in minnesota. >> brangham: despite the successful passage of the senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill, washington is still a city known for polarization. but, as author george packer recently explained in an interview with judy woodruff, the divisions in our country are greater and deeper than we realize. the pandemic exposed rifts in america that exist among regions, races and classes. that's the focus of his new book, "last best hope: america in crisis and renewal." >> woodruff: george packer, welcome back to the newshour. the book, as we said, "last best hope", you start with the premise that america's government failed all of us last year on so many levels, but especially by not protecting americans from the from the pandemic. who is to blame for that? >> it starts with president trump, who from the beginning seemed more interested in using the pandemic to adnce his own political interests, to divide americans, to turn us against each other over things that shouldn't have been debatable, li

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caller: i -- host: i'm currently looking at the covid-19 tracker for johns hopkins university for the state of minnesotayou can see here where the numbers of covid-19 infections in the state seems to be going up again in july. there does seem to be a bit of an increase going on in your state. obviously not as many as it was back on november 17 but you can see a train heading back up again. -- trend heading back up again. caller: look at the deaths, we are at nearly zero. they are not following what the virologists are saying and the virologists are making it clear that these viruses that come out that are mutating off of the vaccine, but they are doing is becoming more transmissible but they are more like a common cold. something that is under emergency authorization. host: let's good array who is calling from pleasant view, tennessee on the republican line. -- let's go to ray who is calling from pleasant view, tennessee on the republican line. caller: i believe the biden harris administration from the beginning saying they didn't believe in the shot because it was done by trump. that right there turned