whether, maybe, some unvaccinated republicans will listen to lindsey graham. but a new monmouth national poll, out tonight, showing 31% of republicans say that they will likely never get the vaccine. so, it s no surprise, that a senior-biden administration official tells cnn that there are governors in this country who are putting politics, ahead of public health. that official didn t name names. but florida s republican governor, ron desantis, would probably be at the head of that list. his state accounts for a stunning 20% of all-new covid cases in this country. hospitalizations are breaking records. there were long lines, today, at a testing site in hialeah and governor desantis? well, he is representing the party of no. i think it s very important that we say, unequivocally, no, to lockdowns. no, to school closures. no, to restrictions.
political discourse in this country. we just had a president, who lowered the discord discourse to a level unimaginable. we cannot have legislating by sound bytes. and i am a big believer that we should be working on trying to make headway for the american people. but there seem to be people who are more interested in what the headline is. more interested in got-ya politics. and so, i ve been supporting chantel because chantel asked me to support her. chantel is the kind of person that i think will help elevate the political discourse in this country. she is a big supporter of joe biden, and i worked with her for about ten years on marcia fudge s various events. and i think she would make an outstanding congressperson. and i do believe that, as my dad used to tell me all the time, the first line of a good
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that will come out as a result of this conversation. but i think in the main, we re going to want to better understand all these people on behalf of the trump campaign, i think 17 by last count if i recall correctly who had dozens and dozens of meeting with either russian cutouts or russian operatives to get a better sense of what he thought that was about if it is at all possible to get him to enumerate that. in terms of my questions, i think i m ninth out of the 13 democrats and here is another way people should view this. democrat, there are nine republicans and 13 democrats, we have therefore if i do my math correctly at five minutes a piece, 75 minutes and every second of that is gold and so we re going to have to be making sure that we make the best use of our time to get the most information and what it is i ll be able to ask is the ninth member of the 13-member questioning will depend of course on what the eight people who went before me have asked. so it s not possible to say
that. in terms of my questions, i think i m ninth out of the 13 democrats and here is another way people should view this. democrat, there are nine republicans and 13 democrats, we have therefore if i do my math correctly at five minutes a piece, 75 minutes and every second of that is gold and so we re going to have to be making sure that we make the best use of our time to get the most information and what it is i ll be able to ask is the ninth member of the 13-member questioning will depend of course on what the eight people who went before me have asked. so it s not possible to say with entire certainty what it is i ll be able to ask because i won t know what is asked before me and how he s responded. got ya. sounds like there is a strategy behind it. i appreciate that. thank you, don. to single new mile of border wall was under construction as of last month. despite the president s claims, we ll tell you the facts about the wall, next. can my side be firm?