frustrating to you. what is the federal government saying? what are law enforcement folks telling you with respect to health, to covid testing and to making sure if someone is positive with covid that the right actions are taken? let me say this, charles. since the pandemic started and the sarge, one thing is lack of intervention or large of concern on the southwest borner. dr. fauci saying we need to mask up, be protected. the variants are increasing in this country. what you don t hear is saying let s take care of the southwest border. these people today are being released in our communities. we re impacted by this. i talked to the governor this morning. my governor here in arizona. once again, nobody is talking to border communities, nobody is talking to our border governor. i know texas governor abbott is
it s fine. don t worry about it. do your job. save our city. don t worry about it. again, when we were the only ones allowed to go out there. when we were charles: i have a minute to go believe me, i salute the work you did. it was amazing. the emts and the paramedics. let me just ask with a minute to go, is there something that can be done on the federal level, on the city level that would make you feel better that would asuage some of your concerns? if they told us that can make sure our medical bills and we will remain on payroll should we have some sort of side effect from these vaccines, then it will put a lot of people s mind at ease. we re not going to be kept on payroll and they re not going to cover our bill. as a matter of fact, the mayor announced if we want to be covid
charles, we receive dozens and dozens of questions. you ll see a number of them tonight asking their own questions from families across the country with real concerns about going forward what their kids will do in school and they re emotional and upset. charles: right before you, i m not sure if you were listening, the union in the new york city of the paramedics and the emts, they re frustrated. these are paramedics and saying hey, the way this is cobbled together, we lack confidence. if they re in the system and they lack confidence in what they re hearing, how could the cdc or this administration expect everyone to feel just to come on board. yeah, i heard that interview. it s really telling. and eye opening that they re on the front lines in new york, going to help people in trouble. those people are for the most part all vaccinated. there s some decisions that
tested, we have to pay out of our own pocket. how is that reasonable? charles: no. some things have to happen. thanks. i m sorry. i apologize. i m out of time. i appreciate your candidness and i hope someone in charge is paying attention to your concerns. thanks very much. i have to switch gears here. not everyone is opposed to the requirements for vaccinations or testing. new york city teamster local 237 union president gregory floyd says that the mandate is a responsibility. thanks for joining. i m not sure if i heard your colleague, oren but he brought us serious concerns. perhaps members of your own union don t share the concerns. the mixed messages, the fact that the emergency approval for the vaccine. some people are not happy that it s not received an official approval just yet.