know, all of these right wing networks getting on and saying they re crisis actors, saying these people made this up. there s prime time hosts on other networks, giving out actors for who s the best actor in this category, and that category. the most disgusting, appalling, morally depraved, just, i mean, stomach churning behavior on people who are not worthy, you know. not even worthy to coexist on the same planet in some ways with these people, the people who made the sacrifice are sitting in there fully vaccinated, air-conditioned studios. mocking these men. mocking them. not diminishing their importance, i m talking about openly mocking their sacrifice and their service. calling them crisis actors, saying they fabricated all of this, apparently, made it all up and others, joe, as you know,
hey. if i give this up, they re going to have direct access. at least the scaffold we can defend. we got to hold what we have. wait, wait, you know, actually, it doesn t sound, elise jordan, doesn t sound like actors to me. and yet you have news hosts on other networks saying that they re just actors who have people who once were respected in washington saying january 6th was much adieu about nothing because at the end of the day, they ended up counting votes anyway. did that look like acting to you? it s hard to watch the totality of all the coverage, even as closely as we followed the aftermath, and you know, having watched it the day of.
vaccinated. of course the numbers are very low for people who get the vaccinate who end up in the hospital or end up dying of covid. so is it mainly to stop the spread to other people? yeah, it s both, joe, but it s mainly to really protect the people who are vulnerable that you might inadvertently, and innocently come into contact with. i mean, you don t want anyone to get infected. if you re not infected, you re not going to transmit it to someone else. point number one to protect you from getting infected, the fact that you re vaccinated, as we know, it is extremely unlikely that you re going to get a hospitalization or die. because people who are fully vaccinated when they get a breakthrough infection, it s extremely unusual that they will get a serious outcome. however, if you have the virus in nascar nasopharynx, and you go home and have in your home, people who are vulnerable, immuno suppression, elderly frail people whose immune
get a variant that s worse than the delta variant, that even the vaccinated people may not be able to handle. that s the reason why people not getting vaccinated, not only is a bad thing for them. it could actually interfere in a negative way with the rest of the country by generating variants that would lieu the vaccine. that s the thing we re concerned about. that s a big concern. dr. anthony fauci, thank you very much for being with us today. and now to yesterday s testimony on capitol hill from four police officers who appeared before lawmakers to describe what they witnessed and what they went through during january 6th insurrection. nbc news capitol hill correspondent garrett haake was at the hearing, and has more. reporter: the january 6th attack on the capitol, recounted in horrifying detail by the police officers who fought on the front lines.
the officers who spent four or five hours battling that medieval mob that had baseball bats and lead pipes and so on, do you stand by the statement that the people that they were fighting were tourists or would you agree with them that they were terrorists? that statement did not say thatem those people were touris. okay. read the statement. i m asking you now, you ve got the opportunity to tell america right now, mr. clyde. m can we just lower or voice here. i m sorry. you got the opportunity to clarify for the whole o country right now, for these officers. i urge you to watch it on tv. i urge you to watch it in your office, officer hodges, officer fanone who experienced traumatic brain injury, who had a heart attack after he was tased by some of the tourists or terrorists, officer dunn, officer hodges, do you think that what they experienced was