it does not. thanks a lot, my friend. ahead, moms on a mission. a grass roots group of mothers growing rapidly as they fight against covid-19 vaccines and mask mandates, and working to keep critical race theory out of schools. they call themselves moms for liberty. leyla santiago sat with them. reporter: paper and cloth masks don t work. beware of terms like social justice, inclusion. if they ignore our input, we will vote them out. reporter: at rallies in school board meetings across the country, heated debate on everything from masks to critical race theory to book banning being hashed out. covid allowed all of america to see behind the education curtain. reporter: one of the driving forces behind many of the debates stems from a group founded by these florida moms.
facts, the truth about this pandemic, about this virus what we have been saying has been dismissed as misinformation. yet, the people now in charge, you ve got biden putting all his trust in fauci, promoting fauci. fauci and the medical establishment and the democrats who slavishly support them, they have been wrong all along on every single aspect of this pandemic. they told us we had to wear masks because these mask don t work. we know cloth masks don t work and now finally even they admit it we said lockdowns do more harm than good. finally, they admit that we said they shouldn t be shutting the schools, finally two years into it, they are now saying they want the schools open that they won t stand up for the teachers unions in chicago and elsewhere who are keeping them closed. on and on it goes. they have been wrong about everything. they still believe, because it s their ideology that they can micromanage this pandemic. they can do it through top down control. telling businesses w
the group is designed to fight for parental rights in schools and government. we thought we could take skills we learned and inside information that we learned about the public education system to help parents advocate more effectively. reporter: the founders say the group is conservative but nonpartisan, yet many of the issues they re fighting for are including eliminating mask mandates in schools. 520 counties. they looked at schools that had mask mandates and didn t and it showed masks did work. there are multiple studies show this. happy to let you look at them if you would like. they re right here. when moms for liberty are going into the school board meetings to voice frustration and citing things like masks don t work.
let s stop the charade. harris: can we pop up that video because on the little monitor where i am, i couldn t see. is that aoc hugging? first of all, we hope she s okay. she is symptomatic according to the report, so she is sick, but she got a positive test shortly after hanging out. where is that? miami, florida. to make the point of what kennedy is saying, they don t have a mask mandate but if people choose to use them, they can do that. she went down there and left a restricted area here in new york city and chose not to do that. brian: yes, there s a lot to say there. number one, she goes down there and now he found out that cloth masks don t work and now we found out that we were going to get n95 masks, which surgeons say they don t even want to wear because it leaves dense in their
more people died. you see a new rhetoric coming out of government. 75% of the tests have many of us have been saying this from the very beginning there is an overcount of deaths. people who come in in an automobile accident and they happen to have covid. same with the children in hospital. almost the vast majority of the children in the hospital with covid were admitted for other reasons. then they were tested and found to have covid. since a lot of the children have no symptoms the question is what does it actually mean? this is a real problem. the government is finally shifting its rhetoric even on the mask. fauci has been all in on cloth masks. his allies at cnn are saying cloth masks don t work. we re coming to somewhere because they ve shown they have lost control completely of this thing. it is a contagion-out the community but much less deadly than previous variants. bill: when it comes to you and dr. fauci, why is it so personal between you two?