surgeon general of florida, dr. ladapo has done press conferences with governor desantis where he has ominously questioned the safety of the vaccines essentially encouraging people theyva shouldn t get the because they re so dangerous. he earned himself a brief moment of notoriety in the press for refusing to personally himself wear a mask while he was in a meeting with the state senator who had just been diagnosed with cancer. she asked him to please put on a mask because of her serious medical condition. he refused. one of the ways dr. ladapo rose to prominence in media circles and the top position governor desantis put him in was in large part on the p basis of him stakg his credibility on being a front line doctor. in his conservative media appearance, in his op-eds, he presented himself as a front line prdoctor, who spent time aa
right. and russia doesn t want to be part. putin thinking that russia is a super power and should be at the table for all of these decisions, should be consulted and should be at the center of u.s. attention, the same way that russia is at america is at the center of russia s attention. right. julia, we have talked in media circles in the west for at least a decade or so about how russian foreign policy is driven by resentment, resentment from losing the cold war. i have talked about the 25, 26, 27 million russians that were killed in world war ii because of an invasion, and obviously that also hangs in the russian psyche. i m just curious. how connected is vladimir putin with the psyche of russians, whether it is on the resentment of america issue or whether it is on the fear of once again
and, look, there is no greater confirmation that a story is no longer confined to the right-wing media circles than to have the new york times come out and not only confirm the laptop and e-mails, but advance the story with the tax loan that hunter biden got. and i think there s a lot of questions morning. one, what will twitter and facebook have to say because they, obviously, didn t share howard: well, i ll tell you what they say, now it s okay. now it s been launderedded through customs. now the new york times says it s a story, but it wasn t a story at the end of 020. in that story the times reported that hunter biden took out a a loan to repay more than a million dollars in back taxes and try to avoid prosecution, but what else is urn investigation according to that piece? well, for our viewers that are new to this story if they haven t been following it, because we ve been covering it on fox. and, by the way, fox also confirmed the story that the new york post broke 17 mont
0 we ll see what happens but so far he seems like he sitting tight. mark caputo, thanks so much. thank you. that is all in on this thursday night. the rachel maddow chill starts right now. right now. desparting supreme court justice stephen breyer at the white house today. the event basically formalized the announcement of justice breyer s retirement. president biden also invited justice breyer and his wife to have a sleepover in the lincoln bedroom sometime i president biden at the white house today, he reiterated his pledge to appoint an african american woman as his nominee to the supreme court for justice breyer s seat. even though other presidents including ronald reagan, including donald trump, have made pledges of that kind, to pick a specific demographic for the court. in reagan s case he pledged in advance to appoint the first woman justice and president trump a female justice and nevertheless, republicans and tearing their re hair out, so outraged that a black woman is fi
better metric to be using? how shall we be evaluating the fight against covid? does the nfl point the way forward? the nfl this weekend saying we re not going to be testing every player all the time for covid because a lot of them are positive and they don t even know it because they re asymptomatic. the nfl is only going to test if people show symptoms, if players show symptoms. is that the new way forward? it feels to me like in some media circles, this was the week where getting covid became an inevitability, that there s this acceptance everybody is going to get covid eventually, tens of millions of americans already have, and everybody else is going to at some point. is that the proper approach, just to accept that at some point you ll be infected, which doesn t mean you ll get sick, doesn t mean you ll suffer but at some point someone will be infected? is that the proper approach now? and if so, why is it still so hard to find that home test, especially in blue america.