democratic senate debate in recent weeks. dasha, you have been on the ground here. let me start with you. the fascinating part to me about mccormick s event is what wasn t said. i was the first one to bring trump s name up. in fairness, he didn t even say the word republican until the very end. if you didn t watch the tv ads, it was almost discombobulating. that s a very different picture to what we have seen on the air ways and at the rallies and from all of these candidates. oz has the trump endorsement, but all of the other candidates are trying to represent the trump brand. and when you talk to voters, which we have been doing nonstop, as soon as the trump endorsement happened, i called voters and every single one of them was scratching their head. they didn t understand why oz was running. they didn t understand why he was running in pennsylvania. would you have gotten this same reaction had he endorsed mccormick?
vaccinated either. we are learning so much about the variant. the data that is coming out in recent weeks about the variant affecting the upper air ways should not necessarily give us relief when it comes to children in the sense that children who get upper airway infections may actually have severe illnesses, right? so for you and me, it may be a cold, for a child and their small air way could lead to hospitalization. now, for context the percentage of children is still small, anderson. the percentage of children is still small? yes, the percentage of children who require hospitalization is small. but we should not complacent saying it s upper airway disease, let s a all gather and keep living our lives as we have been. i want to play something that the former fda commissioner said yesterday about the variant s impact on kids. it appears to be a more upper airway disease than a lower
the the variant. the data that is coming out in recent weeks about the variant affecting the upper air ways should not necessarily give us relief when it comes to children in the sense that children who get upper airway infections may actually have severe illnesses, right? so for you and me, it may be a cold, for a child and their small air way could lead to hospitalization. now, for context the percentage of children is still small, anderson. the percentage of children is still small? yes, the percentage of children who require hospitalation is small. but we should not complacent saying it s upper airway disease, let s a all gather and keep living our lives as we have been. i want to play something that the former fda commissioner said yesterday about the variant s impact on kids. it appears to be a more upper airway disease than a lower airway disease, that is good for most americans.
other ways. some of which don t get on your air ways for good reason. it s in the middle of the war. we should provide the planes. they are potentially very important. to the ukrainian defense. here at capitol in the coming week we expect to see more legislation aimed at punishing russia for the invasion of ukraine. including the proposal to revoke russia s most favored nation trading status. speaker nancy pelosi said she would like to get that passed by theened oeft week. end of the week. despite the bombardments, ukraine rail way system continues to be a reliable lifeline for people. if you can imagine you can take a train to kyiv. from this part of the country. fears of being targeted by russia are a challenge for all of its operators. we have that story.
escalatory and potentially a problem, nonetheless, what seems clear from both sides of the aisle they don t see this idea going away anytime soon. listen. what we ve heard directly from the ukrainians is they want them badly. they want the ability to have better control over the skies in order to give them a fighting chance. so i don t understand why we re not doing it. one of the things we have to remember is this is all about air defense and you can do it with planes, you can do it with drones which have been incredibly effective in ukraine. we have to remember, dana, it s not just america, there s also allies we re working on as we can see we coordinated on the sanctions, as we re coordinating on the issues of the planes but also we are coordinating in many other ways. some of which don t get on your air ways for good reasons. it s in the middle of a war. we should provide those planes because they are potentially very important to