tires, drain their gas tanks. imagine if they did that. that was a cnn analyst imagine them trying to start something, imagine if i said that about blm-ers. canadian truckers, easy target, no thumbs up emoji for them. then, she backtracked and said she was trying to talk about peaceful protests. no, she is an advocate for attacking peaceful protests. cnn, wrong side of history, wrong side on everything. jeanine: is in that incitement? go/their tires. the amazing thing is canada is not used to this. the canadians do not protest on the level of the united states. to give these truckers who gave everything, at a time where they didn t know how dangerous covid was to make them into terrorists and insurrectionist is absurd. what s so hypocritical i m tired of using that word is for biden to say stop them.
but we were well prepared and expected that we were going to see variants, there s no doubt about that, but i believe that the vice president was referring to the fact that if you look at the number of mutations in omicron, it s unprecedented. there are about 50 of them, 30 of them in the spike protein and about 10 to 12 of them in the receptor binding domain. we ve never seen anything like that before. so in that context she was correct. all right. dr. anthony fauci, i ll admit i have like 17,000 other questions, but we don t have that much time. i m sure we ll be seeing you in the days to come. appreciate you coming on and sharing your expertise. thank you, chuck. good to be with you. up next, how are states going to deal with this new dangerous covid wave? are we about to see more mask mandates? i m going to ask the governor of colorado, democrat jared polis, when we come back. colorado, democrat jared polis, when we come back.
that seems like a lifetime ago. last year? it was like a sifi movie. it wasn t necessarily true. how many american lives could have been saved if the former president told the public how sick he was, how dangerous covid is? he put his own life at risk, he put american s lives at risk instead of telling people to take covid seriously, he hid the truth. covid, foreign policy, the eco economy, our democracy, we need to take these issues seriously. we need serious people but instead, this is what we have. who are the voices with the power in the halls of congress? anybody from the qanon congresswoman to matt gaetz trying to blame the fbi demanding answers to what he calls the burro s involvement in january 6th and predicting the gop will take power.
involvement i don t know. reporter: as atrocious as the doctor s fake conclusions and conspiracy theories are, he is just one of the doctors spreading dangerous covid disinformation to millions of people across social media. according to the center for countering digital hate. let s be absolutely clear, lies cost lives in a pandemic. if you are encouraging people not to vaccinate, you will cause people to lose their lives. reporter: he is encouraging people to distrust life saving vaccines. and, like other disinformers, he is using false, twisted information and unproven conspiracies to do it. reporter: do you think the covid vaccine works? i think that the covid vaccine is very effective at what it was designed for perhaps, but it is not preventing death. certainly not. reporter: it is not preventing death? no. reporter: even faced with indisputable facts, he doubles down on his belief that life sa saving vaccines are more
together, with the truth because he and other high-profile physicians who deny the facts collectively reach millions of americans. while the vast majority realize it s bs, a dangerous number of people believe the lies. here is cnn s senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin. reporter: dr. rashid buttar at one time had more than a million followers and is considered one of the top spreaders of disinformation about covid-19. more people are dying from the covid vaccine than from covid. reporter: that is not true. neither is his tweet that the red cross won t accept blood from people who have had the covid-19 vaccine. he posted, most who took covid vaccines will be dead by 2025. but his biggest whopper is the overarching conspiracy theory that covid was a planned operation which was politically motivated as part of a secret global plot to depopulate the earth. you believe the pandemic was planned? i do. okay. i do. but you don t know. i have no idea. and you don t