you know, in the last decade, we have spent 150 million i m sorry, we spent over $50 million in training over 150 police officers in the alert response model, so we have tried to go through prevention through response. we need to change that paradigm. we need to look at prevention through preventive actions. let s take, for example, the school fire problem that we had decades ago. there has not been a child killed in a school fire in america in the last 63 years. why is that? because we went through prevention model. we have sprinkler systems in schools, fire extinguishers, we train every kid in america the fire drill once a month, we have fire retardant materials. fire retardant building woods and metals and stuch ff like th and fire houses around every corner. we need to take that same plan, that same concept, and use that in the active shooter model.
from obscurity to a call from president biden on friday, what does that signal to you about what democrats are feeling, how they deal with this issue? it really went viral, right, abby? i think it shows and you saw president biden, you saw people like hillary clinton elevating it, a lot of people tweeting about it, promoting it. i think it speaks to the fact that democrats are looking for a way to land on a plain-spoken defense and celebration of their policies and their ideas in this moment when the gop is really leaning into these cultural wars and these attacks. i think you re going to see more of them pushing for conversation like this. many democratic strategists don t feel like it s a good idea to tough this stuch. other than mallory, and john king running for governor in maryland who made this front and center in his political ad, taking on this false argument about critical race theory, i m not seeing a lot of democrats wanting to have this conversation in a fulsome way
i keep doing that. that would get you in trouble. yeah, of course. i think, you know, that the question on vice president harris, is she were to run or anybody is saying what are you going to run for? what s your agenda going to be? and senator sanders would make his judgment and determination at that point. hey, what are you going to be fighting for? not just i m running. i m leaving my options open to see what does the field look like and what kind of agenda are we as an democratic party looking for? what would you like to see done now that s realistic with the way the senate works tuch for democrats to campaign on in the fall? god, it hurts me in my soul, honestly. not your question, but it hurts my soul that the answer is so easy. right now you have amazon workers organizing in staten island, senator sanders visiting there this weekend, starbucks workers across the country, like a national field campaign. these workers are the courageous heroes. they are doing the hard schr
control virus policy, that s unjust and unhealthy. it is time for government to lead. which leads me to this week s survey question on my website. i want to know what you think. should president biden mandate all federal employees get vaccinated? joining me now to discuss this is kathleen sebelius, former health and human services committee. and director of the world health organization collaborating center on national and global health law, he wrote a great piece for my website this week. and he s the author of the book global health security, a blueprint for the tuch. professor, you have said that the law and judiciary have