i think three therapy dogs, self-esteem dogs. he admitted on a podcasts something like that. how do i know? rachel: how do you know? i love that. therapy dogs with the royals [laughter]. joey: there was some nascar news yesterday. pete: there is a race today. almost down to the round of four in nascar. joey: they re getting to the end. this is the best time of year. hunting, college football, baseball, nascar all at the same time. it s a surprise i m working today, it really is. really shows my dedication to providing pete: he was live texting me all day about the football games. sorry we did not rope you in. rachel: your favorite holiday combing around the corner. pete: my favorite holiday, not halloween. thanksgiving. my favorite holiday. don t give gifts. lots of food. watch football. hang out with family, meaning of holidays, christmas notches the birth of christ more important. pete: more important, correct. rachel: it is about the birth of christ, not the birth of tha
the federal safety net and will cost nearly $2 trillion. plus the new york governor digs in. two former aides say andrew cuomo harassed them. the top two democrats in new york s legislature say he should quit. but the governor says no. legislators who suggest that i resign because of accusations that are made against me, the i was elected by the people of the state. i wasn t elected by politicians. i am not going to resign because of allegations. no. there is no way i resign. up first, though, major new information in the covid pandemic fight. just last hour the cdc offering a public health playbook for americans who have received their covid vaccine. a list u might say, of what they can do safely and what they can t. we would like to give the opportunity for vaccinated grandparents to visit their children and grandchildren who are healthy and who are a local. but our travel guidance currently has been unchanged. dr. wallenski there laying out the guidelines and try
washington, d.c., as we saw with the sussman trial, is going to be tougher than maybe most juries across the country. pete: matthew, equity question, we don t have a whole lot of time, as the former acting attorney general, are these, is this explained away there are political actors atop the fbi and doj who are happy to advance their political allies? is it as simple as this? or was there confusion? how do you explain it? i don t think there is any doubt, pete that there were people at the top of the fbi in 2016, and 2017, that did have political agendas that did put their thumb on the scale to try to help hillary clinton and to hurt donald trump. pete: it feels like it is still happening today. matthew whitaker, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. thank you. good to see you, my friend. pete: good to see you too. feels like it. resignation calls growing for homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas with new
this health question. my understanding is a lot of the dissent about boosters was sort of this global equity thing. americans will get three shots where 3 or 4 billion people in the global south never had one. i sort of thought about that myself. i haven t gotten boosted. i m going to go tomorrow. part of the reason i was thinking, is this wrong? am i doing something wrong, am i taking a shot away from a person who hasn t had a shot yet? i have come to thing, that shot is not going to someone in the global south if i don t get boosted. but there is an equity question that hangs over all of this, isn t there? there is and equity is a profoundly important subject, but let me tell you what we re doing. you can do both. you can optimally protect people with a booster shot at the same time as you provide equity to the extent you possibly can for the developing world. i don t think there s anybody that has been more vocal about this from the days of antivirals
taiwan in the near future, in part because the americans have made very clear that we are committed to their defense in a way that we haven t, say, with ukraine or georgia or afghanistan. it s a very different story, and the chinese government knows that. but getting back to the point of the summit today, we should understand, this is an equity question. the chinese are not there. they re the largest carbon emitters, but not per capita. the americans do more than that, of course. and not historically. we re in the place where we are today because of the rich countries, not because of china. there s a massive disagreement between the developing countries in the world, who are going to have to bear most of the burden of a world that is challenged by climate change and the americans and europeans and japanese. ian bremmer, we ll have to leave it there. thank you so much. still to come, a 17-year-old who opened fire at a police brutality protest last year says he did it in self-defense