Children, perhaps close to halloween. Next steps, pfizer and its partner, biontech, will apply to the fda in coming days to get their vaccine authorized for use in children. The New York times underscoring the urgent need for a safe and effective vaccine for kids asap writing this, quote, children now account for one in five new cases, when the highly contagious Delta Variant has sent more children into hospitals and icus in the past few weeks than at any time other time in the pandemic. Its coming at a complicated moment for kids in schools with classrooms all across this country shutting down or having to revert once again to remote learning just days or weeks into the new School Year. Doctors in alaska, idaho, and montana are facing what the Washington Post describes as agonizing ethical questions, forced to Ration Care for some of its sickest patients as hospitals surpass capacity due to covid surges. The state of alabama revealing their grimmest of statistics, that deaths outpace
I think well be vaccinated in april. Dana what makes you say that . Bill Johnson Johnson is coming online with 30 million doses, single shots now toward the end of march. I think well see really a chance for perino and hemmer can step up. Dana i think thats one of the questions. Once we get vaccinated what can you do . Its why dr. Anthony fauci is facing criticism saying well have to keep up precautions even after getting the vaccine. A sampling of his messaging over the past couple of days. I think there will be others coming and that is when you have a fully vaccinated person and they come into contact with someone who is known to be infected with sars covid 2 they dont have to do the kind of quarantine that we have been recommending. We do have a good vaccine again. Thats more incentive to say rather than even think about declaring victory and saying well, we have Herd Immunity and were in good shape. We have to keep pushing and pushing, continue to do the Public Health measures tha
The argument that then President Trump was in on this the whole time. Its the kind of evidence that can as a constitutional matter cut against any defense that maybe things just got out of hand, or donald trump would oppose and regret what his fans did. Lead impeachment manager jamie raskin capping a dramatic day with an appeal for facts and sense. Ive talked a lot about common sense in this trial because i think i believe thats all you need to arrive at the right answer here. Lets not get caught up in a lot of outlandish lawyers theories here. Exercise your common sense about what just took place in our country. Exercise your common sense. At a time of incredible division, where politics and ideology, which a system under rule of law ought to be able to debate and debate peacefully, when those conversations of debates have turned into lies, were all living through it. It was part of the recent political era, but its clearly part of the action of the insurrection that you can see with
Duty and, most of all, upholds the constitution. And mike pence is not a traitor to this country. Hes a patriot. And he and his family, who was with him that day, didnt deserve this, didnt deserve a president unleashing a mob on them. Especially because he was just doing his job. As this was unfolding and the crowd grew more violent, the president , of course, was not alone at the white house. And the people closest to him, his family, advisers who saw this unfolding in real time begged him, implored him to stop the attack. An aide to mark meadows, the president s chief of staff, urged his boss to go see the president , saying, quote, they are going to kill people. They are going to kill people. Thats what those around President Trump feared. And still, nothing. It wasnt until 2 38 p. M. , nearly two hours after the start of the siege that donald trump even acknowledged the attack. And when he finally did acknowledge the attack, here what he said. On the right, youll see what had been
As sad as that fact is, as condemnable as theas decision w, it is still true that the final vote on Donald Trumps conviction was the largest and most bipartisan vote of any president ial Impeachment Trial in american history. I salute those republican patriots who did the right thing. It wasnt easy. We know that. Let their votes be a message to the American People, because my fellow americans, if this nation is going to long endure, we, as a people, cannot sanction the former president s congress, because if Lying Aboutre the results of an election is acceptable, if Instigating A Mob against the government is considered permissible, if encouraging Political Violence becomes the norm, it will be open season, open season on our democracy. And everything will be up for grabs by whoever has the biggest clubs, the sharpest spears, the most powerful guns. By not recognizing the heinous crime that donald trump committed against the constitution, republican senators have not only risked but po