declaring that science is back after another epic clash over covid restrictions on when we can finally get back to normal. senator rand paul and dr. anthony vouching feuding it from americans need to continue wearing masks after getting vaccinated. you ve been vaccinated and you parade around in two masks for show. you can t get it again, there is virtually a 0% chance are going to get it and you re telling people that have had the vaccine and have immunity, you are defying everything we know about immunity by telling people where to wear masks who have been vaccinated. let me just state for the record that masks are not theater, masks are protective. if you have immunity they are theater, you are wearing a mask to give comfort to others, you are not wearing a mask i totally disagree with you. jesse: the two going after each other again today. instead of saying it might happen, he needs to show me a scientific study showing that it is happening because i m not o
school in person. federal health officials now say students need to remain only 3 feet apart as opposed to 6 feet as long as everyone is wearing a mask. that is a major policy change of interest to so many parents and so many kids who are eager to close the laptop on telelearning and get back to the classroom. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. the president s visit to atlanta was originally scheduled as part of the white house s help is here tour, touting that $2 trillion rescue plan, and although the main focus of the trip has turned to the aftermath of that deadly shooting rampage, the president and vice president will meet later this afternoon with asian american community leaders to discuss the escalating threats and violence against asian americans since the start of the pandemic. we re also learning a lot more today about the victims of those shootings, not only their names and their ages, but their stories. like delainie yan who went to the spa for mas
On the Campaign Trail. But he has been out and about in bristol. A Campaign Asset or a ticking time bomb . What about you . And we speak to the human and animal residents of Dumfries And Galloway to find out whether Scottish Independence would be a deciding factor in their vote. No coalition of chaos here. We will be getting the pet theories of our panel, stephen bush from the new statesman, and the sun on sundays dave wooding. Lets catch up on the latest developments from the Campaign Trail today. The Liberal Democrats have launched their Party Manifesto in east london. Leader tim farron called on voters to support his party and ensure they get a choice about britains future relationship with europe. I believe that our children will have a Brighter Future if we are inside the european union. That they will be safer and better off. That our economy will be stronger and our country will have more influence in the world. Butjust because i believe that doesnt mean i think people who voted
Code of conduct. Good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. More than a0 of Maternity Wards in england closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once in 2016, according to data from the labour party. 42 out of 96 trusts in england that responded to a Freedom Of Information Request said theyd shut Maternity Wards temporarily on 382 occasions. The most common reasons given were too few staff and not enough beds. But the government says the numbers are misleading. Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes has more. For some years, Maternity Units have been struggling to recruit enough midwives. The Royal College of midwives says theres a shortfall of around 3,500. Now, based on a Freedom Of Information Request, labour says a growing number of Maternity Units are closing doors to new mothers. In england, 136 nhs trusts offer Maternity Services. Last year, 42 of them closed their doors to new admissions at least once. There were 382 separate locations where units were closed, up b
Last issue that most republicans in the congress can agree on. They are all for tax cuts, thats part of what it is to be a republican i think. Is there anyway that this this doesnt pass . A very narrow majority in the senate, there are benefits in this tax code now that would have to be stricken to make room for the cuts, so you dont have a big blowout in terms of the budget and so they will be fiercely supported and defended by those affected. It wont be easy, not with a narrow majority of the kind that we have now among republicans. Democrats by large do not favor tax cuts, particularly tax cuts they will inevitably say benefit the rich. Its not that easy sl for this reason. For one thing, every time you pass tax cuts and you are the president tonight say theyre going to increase the number of people in the zero bracket, you
have fewer and fewer people actually playing texas. That is fewer and fewer people who stand to gain when taxes are cut because it is simply a mathematical truis