intimidate local school officials and educators. education secretary miguel cardona is looking at deploying the department s civil rights enforcement toomer investigate states banning mask mandates and whether they violate the civil rights of children. governor desantis is not backing down. you got to wonder where are your priorities that you are so obsessed with this issue so obsessed with taking away parents rights letting afghanistan burn, our border burn and some other things in our country fall to pieces. while these renegade districts do allow a doctor to exempt a child, palm beach county doesn t even allow that only with an exemption under federal disability law. bret? bret: phil keating in miami, phil, thanks. you can find nearby vaccine locations by going to vaccines.gov. chicago police are grieving the loss of their colleague tonight. officer ella french was shot and killed during a traffic stop earlier this month. today her companions paid
joe biden didn t lift a finger, governor. how do you not react when it s happening before your eyes? not only that, he was on vacation. they had to ply him off vacation to give kind of a half cocked statement on camera. then he goes back on vacation and he s obsessed, while you have all the stuff going on with afghanistan, obviously all the stuff at the southern border which you and i have talked about, one of the biggest border disasters in the history of the governor. inflation, gas prices, what does he do? he s obsessed with having the government force kindergartners to wear masks all day in school. in florida we believe it should be a parent s decision. biden thinks the government should be able to come in and overrule the parents and force these kids to wear masks. you ve got to wonder, where are your priorities that you re so obsessed with this issue and taking away parents rights and you re letting afghanistan burn, our border burn, and so many
mandates directing the department of education to take action against those who try to ban them. more than a dozen states have mask mandates in place for public k-12 schools. but in places like florida and texas, where those mandates are banned, school districts which require masking face sanctions. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis and president biden continue to go back and forth with a war of words. we believe that s the parents decision. joe biden thinks the federal government should come and overrule the parents and force these young kids to wear these masks. you have to wonder, where are your priorities that you are so obsessed with this issue and so obsessed with taking away parents rights and you are letting afghanistan burn, our border burn, and so many other things in our country fall to pieces. harris: power panel. wendy and matt. i ll start with you, matt for your timeline reaction. i just keep coming back to
letting afghanistan burn and i will border burn in so many other things in our country fall to pieces? sean: when covid first hit, you mobilized every single state agency. to protect the very large elderly population that you in florida. for example, you never sent covid patience to nursing homes or the villages or any communities where people are older and more vulnerable. now, if you have done something. not that the has said in no uncertain terms that the vaccine will not prevent you from getting covid, you ve now done something that s quite innovative and that is you have now institutionalized and mobilized your estate once again to build that the use of monoclonal antibodies centers, regeneron centers, eli lilly centers. so when people that are fully vaccinated or not get covid they
education to take additional steps to protect our children. this includes using oversight authorities and legal action if appropriate against governors are trying to block and intimidate local school officials. reporter: ron desantis responded with this. got to wonder where are your priorities that you are so obsessed with this issue and taking away parents rights, letting afghanistan burn, border burn and so many other things in our country fall to pieces. the second news conference the president has held but he didn t take a single question about it. god bless you all and god protect our troops. thank you.