texas, which is basically acting like them and trying not to do anything about covid. they rank number three in states in numbers of deaths. their numbers aren t good but this guy wants to run for president. he s hired people and brought people around him who are covid denialests including the new surgeon general. so inside of the university, what did people feel would happen to them if they were to dispute that florida is not doing well on covid? what were they afraid would happen? well, i think there were sort of real threats about reducing funding. we saw research on covid being cut. the funding right in the middle of a research project. we were told about that. we have reports of scholarship being stocked, which has a tremendous impact on faculties, professional lives. yeah. very quickly i was going to ask you why haven t people resigned then to
u.s. population. that is huge news. given that covid is surging again. most of it tied to the delta variant causing a 25% spike in hospitalizations since last month driven by the still unvaccinated. michigan is seeing a record number of covid hospitalizations straining limited resources. beds, and emotional reserves. across the country, new cases have climbed from an average of 95,000 a day to 120,000. roughly 1600 americans are dying every day because of this virus and we re on track to hit the horrifying milestone of 800,000 covid deaths in a matter of days. meanwhile the omicron mutation is detected in 21 states. pfizer said people that received three doses of the vaccine are better protected against this new and highly transmittable variant. these are blood samples. we have to wait to see how this
and in my opinion, and this is my opinion, the governor appointments the board of education and members of the board of governors and the governor appointments most of the members of the trustees and they appoint the president and the deans. so it s hard to say. i m not here to point the finger at any particular person? you re saying above. it was coming from above. i lump them together. and, you know, fernan my friend, above in florida, i lived there 14 years. you and i have known each other for a long time. we know what above means in florida. ron desantis made it clear he does not want covid to be real or believe it real and feels like it s a flu and doesn t care. he s appointed people like the doctor that seems to believe the same thing and embarrassing harvard with those believes and
select committee, an on again off again that meadows is using to drag out for almost three months this investigation and no surprise, he s also hiding behind claims of executive privilege. the president has claimed executive privilege. i m going to honor that. i m not going to be the first chief of staff to actually waive that. it s not mine to waive. meadows is right on one count. it s not his privilege to waive. biden is the president and he s already waived executive privilege for the testimony of other trump administration officials. what we re really watching is a pathetic attempt to get back into the good graces of his former boss because trump is angry for revealing in his book that trump tested positive for covid a week earlier than previously known and trump knowingly and recklessly came into contact with more than 500