placebo. they didn t actually get the vaccine. but it was a randomized control trial, the best type of clinical trial we have. and those that got the vaccine, again, got a third of the adult dose. 16 kiddos in that placebo arm got actually tested positive for covid, jose. three in the vaccine arm got it. so it was 91% effective, the vaccine was, at preventing a positive test. i should note, for all of your viewers, that nobody in either arm actually developed severe covid. we know that that s rarer. still, 16% of all cases in the united states are amongst children, number one. number two, in places like idaho and montana, 4% of hospitalizations are accounted for by kids. so this can still covid can still result in children ending up in the hospital. but i will say for this specific trial here, 91% effective at preventing mild symptoms, a positive test, really important when we think about keeping schools safe and healthy.
for a secret deal between the pakistani and american governments and that bin laden wasn t buried at sea but instead had his body parts tossed from a helicopter on the way out of pakistan. now these are pretty serious claims and they come with serious caveats. for one the story was reportedly passed on by the knocker where hersh, who was a guest on this show last night, has been a contributor for decades. it relies on two sources, a retired pakistani general and a retired u.s. intelligence official, neither of whom seem to have had direct knowledge of the events in question. and as soon as the article went up the pushback started. that story is riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods. i started reading the article last night, got a third of the way through and stopped because every sentence was wrong. i simply have never heard of anything like this and i ve been briefed several times. the story that i read is full of lies. the story our president put out is the truth.
the difficult as it s been for speaker boehner and the republicans to get out of the cul-de-sac that they have marked into the spending bills, that it s going to be very difficult to do it on the debt limit. i think that most people in washington like people on wall street think end of the day that rationality is going to prevail. and this unbelievable self-inflicted wound will not be inflicted by the congress. but i think he is a larmd enough about it. he is trying to mobilize allies. and people who hatch got the checkbooks to make an impression on members of congress. doesn t make an impression on rank-and-file members. they re in, two to one, republican districts. you know, barack obama, got a third of the vote in the districts. they may not respond to wall street. leadership responds to business donors and the president is trying to get them to cut off the renegade members who won the go along. in short, money talks. the does talk.
both. i think he is concerned that as the difficult as it s been for speaker boehner and the republicans to get out of the cul-de-sac that they have marked into the spending bills, that it s going to be very difficult to do it on the debt limit. i think that most people in washington like people on wall street think end of the day that rationality is going to prevail. and this unbelievable self-inflicted wound will not be inflicted by the congress. but i think he is a larmd enough about it. he is trying to mobilize allies. and people who hatch got the checkbooks to make an impression on members of congress. doesn t make an impression on rank-and-file members. they re in, two to one, republican districts. you know, barack obama, got a third of the vote in the districts. they may not respond to wall street. leadership responds to business donors andn t preside the presi trying to get them to cut off the renegade members who won the go along. in short, money talks.
voters as just voting for identity politics, but it s really about policy. if you go back and look at the democratic party in the 1930s, when fdr first ran for president, he got a third of the black vote, right? by the time we get past the 1960s and the civil rights act 64, republicans couldn t get more than 15% of the vote after that. but if the republican party really wants to stare into the abyss, they should realize that as late as 1960, right, when nixon was attempting to beat john f. kennedy, he got a third of the black vote. the republican party is now, with hispanics, on the cusp of where the democratic party used to be with blacks. the black split, democrat/republican, was exactly what the hispanic split is now. you could go 20, 30 years from now and see the hispanic vote just like the african-american vote, absolutely ungettable for republicans, if they continue on these policies. richard nixon got a third a third. a third of the african-american vote. wow.