the 12 to 17 year age range. and so that could effectively prevent about 110 of our school children from being hospitalized. that s 110 children that mean the world to their families. and so why wouldn t we take this step? but i have friends with kids in your school system who if they have a chance to talk to you as i am right now would tell you you re taking away, my freedom. it should be the parents choice. what would you say to them? well, i think at this time we are being called to work towards working for humanity, working for our communities, working for our children. and what i would say to them is what the data shows. is that vaccinations affect the health and well being of our children. we made this decision based on
in freedom and democracy. they failed to drive our nations apart or to cause us to abandon our values or to live in permanent fear. the fact that we re coming together today in faith and resolve demonstrates the failure of terrorism and the strength of the bonds between us. with us today, joe biden and jill biden will visit three sites of attacks. in new york there s a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. local time the moment the first plane struck the world trade center. then the name of each victim will be read. at the pentagon a flag will be unfurled on the west side of the building where american airlines flight 77 hit and near shanksville, pennsylvania a private observance at the at the site where united airlines flight 93 crashed.
prosecutor levco. so you ve got to wonder how good this witness boney is going to be for you, right? yes. certainly his credibility was going to be in question. why put him on the stand then? i felt like i didn t have a choice. if i didn t put him on the stand, i suspect they would have, but also i thought the jury ought to hear it. this is the story that boney told in court. he said he met david camm in july 2000 playing basketball in a local park. we talked to boney in prison. it was just a pickup game of basketball, and i didn t know him or really anyone there. i just i m fresh out of prison, you know, and the scene is different. after the game he said camm was bragging, talking smack about how easily he d beaten boney. and at that point, i just said, well, you know, i may have lost the game, but at least i have my freedom. and he s like, freedom? i was like, yeah, i just got
all. so i m not done with baton rouge just yet in this program. i have been speaking with the governor of louisiana lately about what is going on in his state. so when i said i was coming down, john bell edwards met me at the hospital amid the huge influx of patients, begging people to please get the vaccine to protect themselves and their neighbors. stay with us. people don t realize when they say my liberty, my freedom, fine, all of that is true. but there s a ripple effect. sure. a public health emergency, when you have a virus this contagious and deadly, it requires for a moment to manage that. you can only manage that by curbing what people do. so we are all were mindful of people s liberty interests. i don t wake up in the morning saying let me put a mandate on people. the only thing worse is not doing it. what s your message to everyone out there? you are in the thick of it.
enter into our analysis of that data. so it s very clear that masks work. it s very clear from vaccines, and a lot of people have misunderstood, vaccines were never intended to make us never get the virus, they were intended to keep us from getting very sick and dying and it s working extremely well. so masks are absolutely a tool that should be utilized. we try to stay clear from the political side of this. we ll leave the politics out of this and just talk purely medically. what would you say to people in the state of texas who say i don t want to get the vaccine, i don t trust the vaccine, i m never getting the vaccine, or people who say i m not going to wear a mask because i don t need to wear a mask or it infringes on my freedom. what would be the case you would make to them from a medical point of view. from a medical point of view i d make the following. i m old enough to remember being in a gymnasium and getting a polio vaccine and that was at a