as it is for many new presidents through the spring. he was getting some bipartisan support, especially on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. and this has been a difficult summer. and his fellow democrats, biden s fellow democrats are looking ahead to the midterm elections and they re very concerned. there s a lot of quiet chatter within the democratic party among the top operatives, lawmakers, and officials here in washington that the democrats are destined to lose the house majority and may lose the senate majority as well. it s not a good sign to see their president s approval rating slip the way they have these past couple of weeks. it s not to say all is lost. democrats are buoyed by this infrastructure deal, if that deal ever becomes law that could be a big win for biden and something he could carry to voters in the fall and next year. but it s been a difficult and challenging couple of weeks for the biden presidency when you
journalists, because there s no communication without misinformation online. so there s always going to be misinformation. but we look at when certain tropes get picked up by influential individuals which then leads to much more amplification, much more attention to key wedge issues. if you look across the globe, there are different ways in which disinformation forms and travels. and in the u.s., issues to do with race and then also with the pandemic are at the forefront of where we see the most disinformation. our enemies have always said, according to the intel experts, that it s better to be at war even if it s a war of intelligence and words and social media against an opponent that is battling illness, battling strife. and indeed, for a minor investment they can get all they want because we re a trusting society, and social media has no
vaccinated if you are going to come out here to provincetown this summer. yasmin. it is such a good point, antonia, and it destroys this argument about being vaccinated is a personal choice. maybe it is a personal choice if you are staying inside your house and not doing anything, not interacting with anybody. if you are actually going out to parties, as you said, and exposing yourself to others who are subsequently getting the delta variant and getting sick with the breakthrough infections, it is no longer personal. it is in fact public. great reporting. appreciate it. i want to bring in dr. uche blackstock, founder of advancing health equity. thanks for joining us on this. this is really troubling because we are doing more and more stories every day about the breakthrough infections, right? in the very beginning as more and more folks were getting vaccinated all we were doing was the numbers are going down, the numbers are going down and we were all so encouraged. then there was
in this area, 69% of them are breakthrough cases. you know, the good news is that people have mild and asymptomatic cases right now because they ve had the vaccine, but that doesn t stop people from feeling concerned and upset here, in particular because provincetown is a community that is lgbtq centered. many people who live here have personal connections to the aids epidemic. i am actually standing right now near an aids memorial. so when you talk to folks, the notion of there being this outbreak and fear and stigma is hurtful to them because they feel they ve done everything to keep this community safe. almost everyone here went out and got vaccinated. take a listen to a conversation i had with a resident here named joe carlio about this. we have artists. we have a huge gay population. we are extremely welcoming, but we also went through an epidemic that devastated this town. we re in the shadow of the aids monument right here. it brings back memories in a
threatening his wife, financial issues. that s in one bucket. then there is this mental illness issue, and i think it is important we make that distinction, right? because we re not here to have a conversation about whether or not someone is qualified to run for office or to be a member of senate with a mental health issue. i think it is important someone is forthcoming about their mental health. that s something that should be applauded. we will get to that in a moment. but let s talk first about what we know when it comes to herschel walker and his history with his wife and his financial dealings. yes, as you said in your introduction, walker had talked about some of his anger management issues in that 2018 book where he was very open about his diagnosis. he tied the two together, explaining that he created these alters, he called them, to shield him from childhood trauma. he was an overweight child, he