juice, how much does your horse weigh, some of these terminologies that may or may not be referring to iver meckten. it is going to make people sick. anthony, you have a new piece in which you take on what you describe as america s conspiracy culture. commonly people attack the media for putting forward bad information, but you write they avoid putting blame on what you call the most influential source of bad information in american life, donald trump. elaborate on that. so in that column i was referring to two twitter threads that had gone viral in recent weeks that were shared around very widely. tucker carlson read one of threads in its entirely in a 7-minute segment on his show. so these were influential threads, and the thesis of these threads was essentially you can t blame the people who believe trump s big lie about voter fraud. and you can t blame the people who are vaccine hesitant because the media sometimes gets it
take charge of making a better future. but i got to i want to check on these 14 to 18-year-olds in about 10, 15 years and see how optimistic they are. you don t give a lot of commencement speeches, do you? come on, man you ve got to brag us up a little bit. although, anthony, i will give you credit for one piece of that in terms of perception. i m not going to make you speak for all young people in the world, but there s another aspect to this the washington post ipsos poll that speaks to the way young people are maybe viewing the world now where about half of the teens polled believe they ll be rich in the future, and 19% believe they could be famous in the future. i think that feels very much like the impact of social media. although when it s broken down by race black teens were the most optimistic about being rich in the future, which i thought was a very baller thing to put in a poll. but a fifth of young people
losing troops very personal for the president because he s a military father. and part of the reason they wanted to get out of there they feel it s to protect the troops by exiting this conflict. as you see the situation unfold within new orleans you re seeing the president already engaging, got the briefing today you mentioned earlier. and certainly i think we ve seen it before and we ll see it again offer comfort and support as this unfolds as presidents do in these tough moments. catherine lucey of the wall street journal, i appreciate you helping us start off tonight. anthony allonzo stick around. we ll talk to you later in the hour. but coming up, the pfizer vaccine now has full fda approval. what impact will that have on americans who are still hesitant to get their shots? plus teen popster olivia rodrigo has a point, god it s brutal out here especially for teenagers themselves. so why do nearly all of them express optimism about adulthood? our panel will be back to
white house tonight getting updates on the hurricane and afghanistan, and that they re trying to get through this situation and maybe evacuations in both locations. but these are very challenging situations with lots of moving parts. and there was a lot of specificity in his statement today where he said he expected another attack and that u.s. retaliation, you know, will occur if necessary, that it s not over. so i think you re hearing a lot from him there s more to come here. anthony allonzo, i d love to get your gut checks on this week particularly because as i understand it the three of us have something in common. anthony, i understand your brother is a marine helicopter pilot and one of your best friends is also a marine corp veteran of iraq. let me just start with you, anthony. and then i ll come to allonzo. how are you and they processing all of this? i prefer to only speak for myself, but i can say that from talking to a wide variety of