the conversation she may have messed. former republican house speaker and board member of the fox corporation, paul ryan, appeared on fox news earlier this week and, drumroll please, criticize donald trump and called him unfit for office. it s going to be a very close race under terrible choices were being presented with and that s what the primary voters selected and never regret the fact that s where we are. a lot of these folks who also shared your same concerns about donald trump that said, we are rallying around donald trump. you said though that would not be the case with you. he said he s a populist and an authoritarian narcissist. character is too important to me and it s a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn t have. that s pretty strong. that s the way i feel. i agree with that. i don t support biting either. i think his policies are terrible. i hate the fact that i have to write in a republican like i did in 2020. voted for him in 2016 hopi
just crushing the disease. you look at communities where they have vaccination rates up into the 70s and 80s and 90s and covid is going away. then you look at rural counties in arkansas and missouri where vaccination rates are around 25% and 30%, and you combine it with this highly contagious new variant, and we see these surges of covid. you look at the nationwide line on covid cases and it s flat. what that hides is that covid is plummeting in metropolitan america. it s on the rise in small towns and rural areas. it s scary. that point about the messiness is important. i remember when we did a segment early on about vaccination about how west virginia was doing a good job ahead of other states. there s lots of ways in which the data doesn t sort in this red/blue way. the worst hit was the northeast, new jersey, new york, connecticut. no testing. hospitals melting down. you look at the death data, it s awful.
have to take biden very seriously as a candidate. what is his biggest plus and biggest minus? well, you know, it s funny because i think in politics as in life, everybody s strength is their weakness. joe biden represents balance. he has experience. he is a known quantity. he s known around the world. and all the turmoil of the trump years he s a guy that represents a return to normalcy and brings 45 years of experience to it. the flip side of that is he brings 45 years of experience to it and that is also a burden of politics as jennifer and rick were saying just a little bit going. you bring with you all of your accumulated votes, your comments. we have seen several stories surface in the last few days about things he said in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s and you ll continue to see that if he enters the race except at a more rapid pace.
anything else. samuel, you have the book, the untold story of the attack. what did you learn that you can tell us? . the untold story is the story about the benghazi attacks told through the perspectives of security services. the five special agents who were stationed there the night of the attack. we cover the history from these attacks throughout the world from the 70s and 80s and 90s and the last years. how in reality such attacks are nothing new at all. they have been going on for a long time. here s the thing. forgetting about the attacks on the past, you have got the mother of shawn smith. it s been a year. no one has told her what happened. do you know what happened? we have details. we have expeditionary diplomacy
here is the attorney. i hope to give people a perspy. i hope to give people a perspective in the 70s and 80s and 90s and how it was when he was able to operate with complete impunity. he talked a lot about corruption. john connolly is now serving four years in prison. they gave connolly money and information and tips him off to stay on the run for 16 years until his capture in june of 2011. jon: we will have more happening now in just a moment [ lorenzo ] i m lorenzo.