and they want to speak to you, get to the bottom of this with you. you re in retirement. i guess you don t have to do any of this. would you speak to them? well, of course. i have a great deal of respect, neil, for the process of oversight. i really do. i have nothing to hide. i can explain everything that i ve done during the period of time that i was involved in that process. i have no trouble with testifying before the congress at all. like i said, i respect greatly the process of oversight in our government. neil: because they re going to target what you did, how you did it, and inconsistent moves in the earliest days, saying you didn t need masks, later on saying you do need masks. you know, saying that this could be maybe an isolated problem before it got to be a big problem, and then criticizing you for saying it ended up being the very big problem you predicted it would be. so they want to get into this with you. it could get nasty. are you prepared for that?
are part of the search and rescue missions, including the distribution of food and water across the state of florida. we have watched the governor of florida step up in a standard way the governors do throughout the country with this looming crisis in his state which was a public health crisis, a murderous kind of storm headed for his state that could easily kill people if they stayed in place. it is a very, very different approach then he had to the murderous coronavirus hitting florida where he was doing exactly the opposite. he was telling people that there s nothing to worry about, they did need masks, they don t need vaccinations, they don t need any protection at all. is there any sense that he is now taking the position basically of the doctor fauci of this hurricane warning? you know lawrence, here in the state of florida we have hurricanes that have hit on a
longer need masks. the euphoria of getting goosebumps thinking about what i looked at the last couple of days. we talked about the challenges that these kids won t have to carry with them and got less than a minute to go jointed touch on that before we have to go? this is one of the greatest untold stories of the entire pandemic. perhaps one of the areas in which history will judge our current public health officials with the greatest burden of responsibility. that is, how this pandemic strategy not the virus itself but the strategy disproportionately affected poor and minority communities. most americans do not live with a second home an inexpensive zoom sweeper in baltimore city many kids and never logged on when they went to virtual learning. those kids and never showed up back to school. we have something called excess noncovered deaths in the united states, we are just beginning to unpack that that something we should ve had the focus of the beginning. doctor makary you ve bee
getting hospitalized. if someone told you jump out of this airplane, but you have 1/25th the chance of getting injured when you land, we d all put on that parachute. i think this is really good, clear information that, while it is not perfect, it will have a significant impact on your health if you get vaccinated. we now see that in starker terms. the white house, as you know, is strongly defending its messaging, but a lot of americans are obviously very confused right now. they re exhausted. it feels like the start of the pandemic. first you didn t need masks. then you do need masks. so how does the biden administration now cut through all this confusion that is out there? well, one seeming truism is that people don t like bad news. when cases are going up, people are upset. they re angry. nobody likes it. and when cases are going down, people think, you re a genius. the best thing the white house can do is what they re doing. just tell people the truth.
they re sending mixed messages constantly. reporter: as americans and elected leaders struggle to find common ground over simple health measures which is it, vaccines or masks? the vaccines work or don t roar. reporter: today those announcing the change defend their decisi would no longer need masks. something has changed, and what has changed is the virus. reporter: the delta variant is driving covid clusters in every day. the attorney general in missouri says he ll sue to overturn kansas city s adoption of the new cdc guidelines. just as hospitals and hot spots nationwide are on the brink of crisis again. we are full, full, full. and it s scary. reporter: as major employers like google and facebook announce today vaccine requirements for those returning to the office, new york city says they ll soon pay people $100 to get vaccinated. if we get people vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated, if we