sectors to curb the variant. get more shots and more arms. so we are happy to have back with us, doctor irwin red liner, founder of columbia university s center for emergency preparedness, also a professor of pediatrics. doctor, i want to gauge your level of concern. and maybe it s regional, for the weeks and months ahead. well, good evening brian. unfortunately, something like this kind of pandemic, where the wildly out of control delta variant is not likely to say anything. in some ways, in the northeast, we are living in a bubble. hopefully it does not lead to complacency, where we figure we are in vulnerable. i think all bets are off now. i don t want to alarm people, but i think we do need to be cautious. we just had our big labor day holiday, with a lot of people
states, is there a blanket way of saying, we must do x, to ensure kids back in the classroom, across the country, for in-person learning in the fall? yes brian, so there s a lot we can say and do about, this but the first thing is we have to dispel some assumptions as some people of, may look at the map right, now where covid is most intense, it s in the under vaccinated states, with a lot of communities spread, if you looked at it as a static image, you might say, well the northeast would be living in a bubble, and we don t have to worry about. it but i would say definitively, there s a lot more that we don t know about the delta variant, how it spreads, how it s going to spread in the future, in one of the variants might be out there. we may feel secure in various parts of the country, but we should not get too complacent about it. we can have some principles that should be applied nationally, to make sure we are protecting children, starting with the fact that no adult
so we have no options left as far as i can tell. certainly diplomacy, i was disappointed in the state department spokesman talking about this isn t abandonment, we re just right sizing our diplomatic core mission. this is all nonsense. i have been inside that embassy a lot of times, and inside the afghan presidential compound. they re living in a bubble. they re highly secured. they re about to be unsecure. ghani and his senior people are going to run for their lifts pretty soon. director john brennan, general barry mccaffrey, a clear-eyed, depressing assessment of the facts on the ground. thank you both so much for spending time with us dancht when we come back, what new revelations about the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election means to that select committee investigating january 6th. select committee investigating january 6th. 1 for network qualiy
you know, unfortunately, we ve had so much so many political influences on whether people getting vaccinated or not vaccinated, and we look at the difference between the states that voted for trump versus biden, we see this absolute political influence over a public health crisis. it is a tough call here to say what is the right message to get people in arkansas and other under vaccinated states to come around. these are people that are more than just hesitant waiting for more information. these are people that are kind of deadset against getting vaccinated at all, and it is a problem. because as long as those unvaccinated populations remain so prevalent in different parts of the u.s., even different parts of new york city as you guys reported, that s a danger to all of us. so it is not like the unvaccinated are going to be somehow living in a bubble, protecting those who are vaccinated. we still have lots of problems that we need to get over with
stuff with not 100% capacity and living in a bubble, you would have kind of laughed at someone. but you just have to mind yourself. i m not saying zach did not mind himself, because he probably did and he probably got it somewhere stupid, but that s the nature of the world we live in at the minute. meanwhile the rest of the world s top golfers have arrived in kent ahead of the major championship which starts on thursday. it was a blustery day on the course for phil mickelson the current us pga champion who teamed up with bryson dechambeau and in front of plenty of fans ahead of the opening round. we we re we were postponed last year which was a we were postponed last year which was a great disappointment, but we fully understand. we have all suffered fully understand. we have all suffered in different ways. and we had 170 suffered in different ways. and we had 170 days of no golf last year. but the had 170 days of no golf last year. but the set up that they produced this year