she is now director of the republican accountability project. thank you both for joining me this evening. doctor hotez, let me start with you, tell me about this new booster shot that trump thinks is a scam. why do we need it and why are we finding out about it now? >> mattie, everyone of us thought since day one that this would be a three dose vaccine, and i can imagine that if the president were in meetings back in 2020, he would have realized that as well. and the reason is this, those clinical trials were done with vaccines, but the pfizer and moderna vaccine, each spaced three and four weeks apart, respectively. we did that because there was an urgency, we were losing 3000 american lives per day. we had to get any body responses, virus neutralizing responses into peoples bodies as fast as possible. and we did, it and was very successful. we saved thousands and thousands of lives by doing. that the only problem with that is that when you give those