was not scheduled to take care of covid patients at all. we contacted the florida department of healthhe seeking comment from dr. ladapo multiple times when we first aired this reporting and never heard back andis reached out again this we and press secretary for the florida department of health calling our request for comment quote cute, that was an actual quote, thanks for reaching out to ask about this unsubstantiatedab conspiracy theory. it s cute thatsu you re asking r comment. this is a state government. we then also heard from the communications director at floridaea department of health. he confirmed that dr. ladapo did not treat covid patients during much of 2020 when ucla was running a covid board but claimedru that he must have treated patients prior to and period, i m sure you can find documents thataf prove that if you re finding other documents to promote your
0 we ll see what happens but so far he seems like he sitting tight. mark caputo, thanks so much. thank you. that is all in on this thursday night. the rachel maddow chill starts right now. right now. desparting supreme court justice stephen breyer at the white house today. the event basically formalized the announcement of justice breyer s retirement. president biden also invited justice breyer and his wife to have a sleepover in the lincoln bedroom sometime i president biden at the white house today, he reiterated his pledge to appoint an african american woman as his nominee to the supreme court for justice breyer s seat. even though other presidents including ronald reagan, including donald trump, have made pledges of that kind, to pick a specific demographic for the court. in reagan s case he pledged in advance to appoint the first woman justice and president trump a female justice and nevertheless, republicans and tearing their re hair out, so outraged that a black woman is fi