Tammi Brown rolled up her sleeve at an outdoor ceremony at the Chatham County Health Department on Dec. 15 and as Gov. Brian Kemp and Georgia Commissioner of Health Dr. Kathleen Toomey looked on, she became one of the first people in Georgia to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
As the Chatham County Nurse Manager, Brown likes to lead by example. And like the other five panelists who will be joining her 6 p.m. Thursday for a public discussion about the facts and myths of the COVID-19 vaccine, she wants to know why some people don t want the vaccine.
One recurrent theme stands out as she talks to the vaccine reluctant, even other healthcare workers.
left alone on their own. shannon: trace gallagher live in los angeles for us. thank you. time now for your real news roundup. get this, on the flight to washington, d.c., a national championship champion from the alabama crimson tide decided he should pray for president trump. he said when he shook the president s hand, he asked them, would you let me pray for you? the president said, yeah, come on, and that is the story behind the now iconic moment yesterday outside the white house. missouri democrat claire mccaskill s tough fight for reelection may be getting more difficult as a prominent african-american newspaper claims or campaign is dodging issues of concerns of the black community. a local community organizer writing in the st. louis american, i know what role racism plays in the democratic party, as the highest elected official in the missouri democratic party, she must lead in confronting the scourge of racism and white privilege in
administration has overturned obama-era policies that reserved the most severe drug sentences for high level and drug traffickers. you can t address crime by locking all people up. reporter: jake oliver is ceo of the african-american newspaper, published in baltimore for 125 years. i think they re taking a sledgehammer to a problem that needs to be more sensitive in it being addressed. you just can t eliminate something by stomping it out. the program that his attorney general produced is an insult. reporter: katherine pew is baltimore s mayor. the focus by the justice department on reducing crime is a maker o major one for all cit across the nation. reporter: she appreciates any investment. so to the extent that we re looking at investing in police departments by providing them with the technology and so forth
prm president obama appointees, they are looking at it in a different way and the interpretation of how these things should be regulated, it s a difference of opinion on how we interpret it. but make no question about it, this president is determined to help civil rights. it s just how you do it. people at the white house are working hard on this we just need to give them time and the understanding that they ll get something done. i don t think there s real room on civil rights or civil liberties for the american people. but that s just me. thank you both. i wanted to take just this moment to correct one thing i said in that story. i said african-american newspaper, it is the afro american newspaper. 125 years there in baltimore and washington, still being published today.
and hopefully, this will move us forward in the future. well, it is a dialectic, i completely agree with you. i ve given a speech like that to an african-american newspaper in philly years ago. and i believe it s a war and a war goes on. it goes back to the civil war and the know-nothings. there s always this left versus right. it s not that neat, but it is a battle about values and who we are. rob reiner, i ve always considered you an unhyphenated democrat who knows his values. thank you. that s a good thing, by the way. thank you so much. up next who reads the newspaper all the time, ahead of me, even, in fact. the power behind the power. we ll talk more about donald trump s son-in-law, jared kushner, and if bringing him into the white house would violate the nepotism law the anti-nepotism you can t hire relatives. anyway, watyou re watching hardball, the place for politics. and power plants account for more than a third of energy-related carbon emissions. the challenge i