kennedy: oh yeah. >> two weeks later witmer, copying him, doubled down on promising we the people ofn, science and data now we know there weren't any data. kennedy: they didn't even care enough to keep numbers. that's what's so frustrating talking to you throughout this pursuit, obviously you are not surprised about these numbers. the rest of us are in look at this and go okay, originally it was 5675 deaths, you add an additional 1036 onto that number, that's a lot of people and families who heartlessly have had those deaths and back pain mast and whitewashed and taken away so what happened to gretchen now? what can the state of michigan do? in california they can call people and new york ramos was forced to resign mostly over sexual harassment claims, what happened with gretchen witmer? >> let me do this quick, these numbers go to july, six months in the pandemic, 5600 people from of the numbers over 8000. it's half of new york, everything that happened in new york is half in michigan because we are half the size, everything in new york happened here so what happened in new york? th

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yesterday i spoke with governors witmer and wine who both said separately that these teams, in addition to adding more clinical capacity, or -- ra morale boost to the doctors, the nurses, and the hospitals they are working in. they have been working day and night to save lives. now dod is deploying six additional teams to ohio, michigan, rhode island, new jersey, new york, and new mexico. we will also be deploying an additional hhs team to rhode island. i didn't several weeks we are prepared to do more. -- in the next several weeks we are prepared to do more. these teams are in addition to the more than thousand staff deployed to 26 states, two territories, the district of columbia and 24 tribal nations. since march of 2020, since the beginning of the pandemic, thousands of federal personnel have deployed all over the country. as critical as our doctors and nurses are, countless other professionals keep our hospitals running. patient transporters, food workers, and cleaning staff are all at the heart of these health care facilities. so, for that reason, with the president support i now

yesterday, i spoke with governors witmer and wine both said separately that these teams in addition to adding more capacity our immorality was to the doctors, the nurses and support staff in hospitals they are working in. they have been working day and night to save lives. so now dod is deploying six additional teams to ohio, michigan, rhode island, new jersey, new york and new mexico. we will also be deploying an additional hhs team rhode island. and in the next several weeks we are prepared to domore . these teams are in addition to more than 1000 staff that are already deployed to 26 states, two territories, the district ofcolumbia and 24 violations . and since march 2025 at the beginning of this pandemic thousands of federal personnel deployed all over our country . as critical as our doctors and nurses are, countless other professionals our hospitals running. patient transporters, workers and cleaning staff are all at the heart of thesehealthcare facilities . so for that reason, with the president's support i am now directing an expansion of our fema policy to permit funding to st

witmer is disputing the methodology which led to unfavorable conclusions about her administration. report is expected to say they were nearly 30% more viruses. and actually reported by the state. they're having trouble keeping students in class. some kids even organizing walkouts and protesting what they believe to be lax safety measures. they join us now with the latest. >> they have seen dramatic drops in attendance as cova 19 cases sore and students raise their voices with concerns. >> do we feel safe in her school building? >> no. >> a record of 580,000 kids testing positive for covert across the country as big urban countries on the north or sing attendance rates fall roughly 20%. in brooklyn hundreds of students left their high school classrooms and protests demanding new york city offer remote learning. attendance they are hitting 76%. and hovering even lower around 70% los angeles, chicago, and boston were students are planning out walkouts for friday. with more than 700,000 people started by a high school seniors calling for the option go remote and massachusetts schools.

what cuomo did, witmer followed. really quick, right question marks in proportion?lion people. new york has got to 60,000 covid desk, michigan has 30,000 covid deaths. new york lied about its nursing home numbers. it really has 16,000 deaths. we lied, it is really 8,000. we are just half the size of new york. we undercounted by 42%, new york undercounted by 46%. that means we have thousands of dead people, numbers represent people. and we did not account for them. brother, let me go on here, because normally started to feel this. we shut down schools, we shut down business, we shut down sports, we run into the economy, to do what? to stop death. of whom? the elderly. the one that we all knew was the most vulnerable. and we lied about it. we made this disease, covid, seymour vero to the general society and more benign to people who lived in these facilities. and it turns out 40% of all the deaths in michigan are in these facilities. we blew it. it's criminal, man. i'm somebody's got to be fired. >> tucker: that is such an insightful point. they inflated the threat to

anti-democratic means of having a bill become law in michigan and circumventing the veto by governor witmerery small percentage of people that need to sign on to that bill as long as there are republicans in the majority in the house and senate, go ahead and pass it by a mere majority vote. interestingly enough, michigan house and senate doesn't have a problem with passing major, major legislation with just a majority. there's no 60-person rule that we have, but what it essentially will do is make it much more difficult it on vote both absentee and also it would have your vote count in person and those would be addressed federally, but the issue that you raise about mike pence basically opening the envelopes and counting the votes. as you know, there were seven states that offered an alternative false set of electors including my state. that's something that we really need some sort of federal legislation to ensure that a vice president can't just simply pick an alternative, false slate of electors that was never properly certified by the state. >> attorney general shapiro, in pennsylvania

pretty soon, no wn will be left to capture gretchen witmer, when you lose al sharpton and dick durbin, you are on [bleep] i lbd and no wn want to get near you. the only way off is to swim right through it. joe is calling eaive wn racist. this from a man who went to the funeral of a kkk leader. his mvp implied he was racist during the debate. a bunch of people call calling everyone else racist, including each other. too bad they can't tell you why you're racist, just like critical race theory, you just are. whose voting rights are americans denying? they keep saying it's jim crow on steroids but they can't find any victims with giant foreheads and back acne. there's no evidence that republicans have tried to stop illegal voters from voting. how did georgia, a red state that has a large black population flip blue in the last election? because republicans kept black people from the ballot t box. they name one person kept from voting. is it a convicted murderer? i don't know. then say so. we need clarity of who we're discriminating against. and yet, the media plays along. >> president bid

fortunately, governor witmer eliminated that gross civil rights ruling but shows how it can be in modern times. i cannot thank you enough inspiring so many, testifying before our committee. so i wanted to leave time for you, as well as others on the panel that we wanted to ask you about, that, really, the trauma that comes with living as you are in our country, and how do you think we should be addressing it in congress? >> if i may, i want to go on two things, one is congresswoman max ine waters, thank you for your leadership. often hidden in the shadows that black people are facing more generally, i reached out for the opportunity to w further that discussion as well, and very much related to the previous conversation about the challenges with shelters, i want to offert up two things that a potential f remedies that would prevent people from needing shelters and one is decriminalizing sexar works, ofn the case black transwomen are forced into sex work as not being able to h show up, offere job interviews, promotion opportunities and support in more traditional economies so morecr talk

the white house back down the idea to intervene in shut down the pipeline however michigan governor witmers to play politics to shut down the pipeline as the biden administration is still in consultation over the pipeline space. also to join my colleagues the gentleman from michigan to introduce the act with that executive authority for operation cost 40 and one —- border energy infrastructure. with the deputy secretary and again in keeping with the great tradition of this committee with the former chairman dingle to the name and estimate was named after asking a series of yes or no questions if there is no unsafe or hazardous condition to warrant to shut down quick. >> i am not personally aware of that other agencies have the jurisdiction are not a lot of time i have prepared. >> in late 2020 yes or no based on safety data president you pipelines are considered the most efficient method for transporting energy products? >> as a general rule for those in and talking significant volume. but what about line five? >> i personally haven't spent time and i don't know the analysis. i have not pe