we appreciate your thought that was professor of political science at the university of ron home. it was a nice in berlin now look in case of elected brutality by offices during sundays. protests against covert restrictions demonstrates as claim police used. excessive force and video shows riot squads getting heavy handed with protesters. who the details are not at all your correspondence. peter. while there's been a lot of videos doing the rounds since sunday showing violent clashes between police and protest as to where they are demonstrating against measures put in place to stop the spread of coven 191 video. in particular though, is drawing a lot of attention because it seems to show a police officer grubbing a woman by the neck and throwing her to the floor. the well, this is also drawn the attention of the un wrap onto for torture. that's nills meltzer . he's put out an appeal on his social media accounts calling for anybody who witnessed this incident to come forward. he's so far not talk to anybody in the media concerning his potential involvement and what that would form t

a professor of political science at the university of ron says, throwing accusations without evidence, could lead to an escalation between iran and the west. inches are very high right now. so throwing ations without any evidence might actually lead to an escalation. nevertheless, it's an open secret that you on israel have been engaged in a sort of like a shadow war in the past few years. and lately, in the past few months, the 2 sides have been attacking each other ships, but they don't think any sides at the moment want war. nevertheless, the future will really depend on whether you're on we'll be able to reach a nuclear deal with the united states. the history has shown us that the re, these are actually very clever in sabotaging uranian negotiations with the americans. so. busy busy if, if in fact these re, these are behind the red flag operation, then i think that will sour the situation and it might lead to a breakdown of the negotiations. now if the negotiations actually break down that i think that would really escalate the tension between iran in israel in the region on degr

schools and daycares in illinois must follow cdc guidance of universal masking inside regardless of vaccine status. >> reporter: the florida governor ron desantis has banned any such mask mandate from schools in his state even though it just set a new record for covid hospitalizations during the pandemic. >> if you are coming after rights of parents in florida, i am standing in your way. >> reporter: the federal government is only issuing guidelines for most leaving policies up to states. biden administration is taking steps to mandate covid news con secretary plans to seek authorization for mandatory covid vaccinations for active duty troops. >> delta variant has affected us in the military as it has affected the rest of the country. when we have more to say about the status of the vaccines, we will do that. >> reporter: biden administration is working on a plan to require almost all foreign visitors to be fully vaccinated prior to entering u.s. rules will be phased in and apply to visitors coming from all countries. >>> covid cases rise in the united states and the virus is also surging around the world, even countries once models of

of brown university and he gave the title. lincoln is thinking out loud, what is the will of god in civil war. >> you and i, ron, are not reading many of these fragments and notes, that's up to the reader and you especially do that in the appendix. now, you have a co-author of this book. >> i do. >> and i hope he's getting royalties and that's abraham lincoln. [laughter] >> because in the appendix, wrote pages 166-279 and you may give a little context to each one, but that's all lincoln. and you ask us to read through them and ourselves be interactive and try to understand and question and conceptualize what we're reading of lincoln. there's 111 of them there. and you only go through 11, 12, 13 in the main part of the book, the rest is up to us, to the reader. so ask us to be interactive and analyze. it's so varied. the items there. now he goes over slavery, the nature of labor, a number of times he talks about labor. was a fragment for the house divided speech and certainly the longest responsive' ever seen for any autograph request and there it is. robert e. lee may be with his farewell to his troops and general order number

published by johns hopkins university, 212 people decide every day last week, which means about 1 out of every 5 covid deaths in america last week was in florida. for governor ronlly. his opposition to mask mandates doesn't seem to be popular. according to quinnipiac university 60% of florida voters say they support requiring students, teachers and staff to wear a mask. 36% oppose it. randi kaye has more on the vocal, sometimes physical confrontations that have been occurring in florida and around the nation over masks in schools. >> you think we're just going to give this up but we're not. >> reporter: in lake county, florida tempers flared over mask mandates. >> i don't want them to wear masks. it's my kids. it's my choice. it's my freedom. >> reporter: hundreds on both sides of the issue turned out to protest. even though masks are still optional in this district. the issue wasn't even on the school board's agenda. but that didn't stop parents from speaking out. >> i really feel as though the only way you're going to get control is to close it down for a month. >> shut up! >> reporter: in jacksonville, florida more anger over masks. >> your job is to educate

. >> ian bickford, president of the american university in afghanistan, thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you very much. >>> florida governor ron punishing schools in florida that have required students to wear masks. even as portable morgues are brought in to handle the overflow of coronavirus deaths. >>> plus, are florida residents beginning to turn on republican governor ron desantis over his handling of the pandemic? we'll look at those numbers next. i'm morgan, and there's more to me than hiv. more love, more adventure, more community. but with my hiv treatment, there's not more medicines in my pill. i talked to my doctor and switched to fewer medicines with dovato. dovato is for some adults who are starting hiv-1 treatment or replacing their current hiv-1 regimen. with just 2 medicines in 1 pill, dovato is as effective as a 3-drug regimen... to help you reach and stay undetectable. research shows people who take hiv treatment as prescribed and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit hiv through sex. don't take dovato if you're allergic to its ingredients or if you take dofetilide. taking dovato with dofetilide

in florida the state board of education vowed to punish two school boards that passed mask mandates. defying governor ron desantis who opposes universalg rules. >> just try to interrupt as much as possible. if you look at the guidelines it just said if everybody wears a mask what i understand from it, there will be less quarantine. even if you have the same positive cases. >> reporter: more than 8,000 cases among students and staff have been reported in florida's largest school districts. more than 29,000 people have quarantined so far in just those districts. and the largest district, miami-dade, hasn't started school yet. president biden said he will step in vowing legal action to protect school leaders battling desantis over masks. >> we're not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children. >> reporter: but desantis is refusing to budge on school policy seeming to relish a fight with the white house over schools. >> seriously if the federal government can come in and overrule the rights of the parents with covid and force masking of kindergartners and first graders given how covid is suc

well, on monday governor ron desantis announced that the state could withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members if they impose these universaland we learned today that the florida education commissioner sent letters to leon and alachua school districts to tell them that they will be investigated for noncompliance. and the governor's office said that broward county school districts should expect the same. as for miami-dade public schools, the largest in the state, they are still deciding when school begins in about two weeks from now. >> critically important issues. >>> there's also a significant new development in the battle over school mask mandates in texas where republican governor greg abbott is also trying to ban them. let's go to our senior national correspondent ed lavandera. >> reporter: this is now ending up in the courts, but just a short while ago, a judge in san antonio, texas, has ruled against governor greg abbott's executive order prohibiting the issuing of mask mandates. this judge is essentially has ruled in favor of a request for a temporary restraining order by bear county and the city of san antonio. this

of education vowed to punish two school boards that passed mask mandates. other boards voted in mandates too, defying governor ron desantis who opposes universal masking rules. >> if you look at your guidelines, it says if everybody wears a mask, what i understand from it, there will be less quarantine. even if you have the same positive cases. >> reporter: more than 8,000 cases among students and staff have been reported in florida's largest school districts. more than 29,000 people have quarantined so far in just those districts. and the largest district, miami-dade, hasn't started school yet. president biden has said he'll step in, vowing legal action to protect school leaders battling desantis over masks. >> we're not going to sit by as governors try and block and intimidate educators protecting our children. >> reporter: but desantis is refusing to budge, seeming to relish a fight with the white house over schools. >> if the federal government can come in and overrule the rights of the parents with covid and force masking of kindergarteners and first graders, given how covid is such a small risk relative to past flus and other respiratory viruses, then

of education vowed to punish two school boards that passed mask mandated. other boards voted in mandates too, defying governor ron desantis, who opposes universal masking rulesok at your guidelines, if everybody wore the mask, from what i understand, there will be less quarantine, even if you had the same positive cases. >> reporter: more than 8,000 cases among students and staff have been reported in florida's largest school districts. more than 29,000 people have quarantined so far in just those districts. and the largest district, miami dade, hasn't started school yet. president biden has said he'll step in, vowing legal action to protect school leaders battling desantis over masks. >> we're not going to sit by. >> reporter: desantis is refusing to budge, seeming to relish a fight with the white house over schools. >> think seriously about, if the federal government can come in and overrule the rights of the parents with covid and force masking of kindergarteners and first graders, given how covid is such a small risk relative to past flus and other respiratory viruses, will they be able to do that every single school year? >> reporter: evan mcmorris-sant

university of phoenix, you can count on fixed, affordable tuition from the moment you enroll to the day you graduate from your program. learn more about our tuition guarantee at phoenix.edu >>> governor rony reneged on parents after it just voted to impose a mask mandate in their school. hillsboro county defying the governor, who has outlawed requiring masks in the classroom. >> more than 6,000 students and staff have tested positive since the school year began with tens of thousands of others in quarantine after being exposed. >> reporter: the governor said he's heard all across his state asking for many leeway to lock down the spread of coronavirus in school systems. he's heard them and he doesn't really care about it. here in hillsboro county, it's the seventh or eighth largest school district in the country. the school system has been open for nine days. 12,000 students are quarantined. that's more than 5% of the population of this school system. there have been hundreds of cases of coronavirus. yesterday an emergency board meeting the board voted to impose a new mask mandate on students and staff in the system. they changed the mandate before the school year started that said that a

ron first. ronald white junior is a reader of the library, senior fellow in washington d.c. he's taught at ucla, wentworth universityheological seminary. he's lectured at the white house.r previous books include american ulysses, life grant, a lincoln biography, lincoln's greatest speech, the second inaugural, liberty and justice for all, racial reform and the second gospel. the latest book lincoln and private personal recollection, tell us about our greatest president. random house book 328 pages it's $28.oo one of our shows here, at our 83-year-old shop, we are comfortable as you can see in the 21st century even though we are 19th century oriented and we have been broadcasting these author interviews called house divided 2004, inspired by this work on c-span. next time we hope ron will be here in our shop and we welcome our viewers to stopping by appointment. we are thankful to c-span for following our programming so many years and we welcome c-span viewers to follow our lifestream, house divided which are on right now. take a break with history, every friday 1:00 p.m. thank you for being instrumental in putting t

in florida, for instance, four of that state's five largest districts are now openly defying ron desantis and his ban on universal mask rules. the same battle is playing out elsewhere. administrators in texas face a similar situation with their republican governor. one school there forced to get creative, circumventing the state ban on mask mandates, by including masks as part of their dress code. joining our conversation, msnbc news and host and executive producer of the emmy nominated "the circus" on showtime and host of the podcast, and former congresswoman donna edwards, an msnbc contributor. i want to do the vaccine news first, because this white house has been battered for the last seven days over the chaos that's ensued in afghanistan. i worked on afghanistan issues, you have both dealt with them. donna you as a policy-maker, and i think a lot of parents are thinking is the delta variant going to rob my kid of a school year or break through and compromise an elderly parent. i think it's a huge deal that we're back up at 1 million vaccinations a day, john heilemann. >> a huge deal. hi, nicolle. that was not

ron johnson is saying this is not a deadly disease. i think that's emblematic of where republicans are. you would think at this point something would have shocked them out of their parallel universe. they seem to be determined to allow more people to die, whether it's of covid-19 or global warming instead of taking the steps that are necessary to deal with these crises. >> hayes, with republicans living in what i think you can describe as just another reality, "the new york times" frames the fight democrats are facing on capitol hill as a lack of trust that republicans are no longer in the business of acting in good faith. to add fuel to this lack of trust, house minority leader kevin mccarthy said this weekend, it would be, quote, hard not to hit nancy pelosi with the gavel if he wins the speakership in 2022. he's said it was just a joke. how do these antics and gop resistance to facts hamper the legislaive process. how are these people supposed to work together? >> part of it is for the last few decades, a big part of the republican party's whole reason for being is not to legislate but to give the appearance of doing something to their base. and what that something is kind of

universities should have any say in what people decide to put in their own body. ashley: you know who has come out of this very strong, strongly, i believe? florida governor ronervatives because of his rhetoric, telling biden, go away, leave us alone. we'll not put tease these mandates in place. >> ashley, i live in the great state of florida right now. i came down here from new york couple months into the lockdown. people love governor desantis here because he is a straight-shooter and he tells it like it is. ashley: that is exactly right. i did exactly what you did. i too are in florida, rob. it is a wonderful thing. rob, thank you very much. appreciate your time. let's check the markets, bring in our good friend, david bahnsen. good to see you, david. let's begin with the delta variant of the virus, is this a real threat to the markets? >> well clearly not. the delta has been going on for a few weeks now and the markets had a bunch of up days, had a few down days, but it is in the trading range for a while anyways. i said this to you before, ash, this is not a new story. the market shrugging off covid hysteria, going on over a year. it's a healthy indicato