psychological issues. the depression. and the anxiety and so on. what we need to learn is like everyone else. we ned to begin having the face-to-face interactions with others where we can share our i can t thank you enough for being with us. it s a pleasure to speak with you. i thank you. my pleasure. thank you. if you or someone you know is in crisis, help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. call or text the national suicide and crisis life line at 988 or text home to 741741. for folks that speak spanish [ speaking non-english ]
six hundred and fifty thousand, but one point two million coupled with the over four t million that whee know enteredy the country illegally. allly.l of those illegal immigrants, every american is havinamericg to pay forr whatever they stay. they have to pay for all their f their health care, that havingir to pay for all of their food,sii esall of their necessities, medical care, education for their kids, and this countryo me is thirty $1 trillion in debt. explain to me why the american people shouldn t be outraged dit didn td dn t be outraged respect our laws, sovereignty and borders shouldn t be sentt e home s. look, it s a great question.k and i think we have to first ise look at it first. you know, immigration is a wan federal issu e, but if we want immigr if we want to see any changes in the immigration systemd , we ned to pass some sort of immigration bill . immigration reform. i understandon i that some of td folks should pay taxes, should learn english, should go back to to
same groups to get into boarding schoool whol who then h to be the exact same groups who benefit from it. and getting into college,roup who thens need to benefit fromcg the exact same thing, getting into graduate school, who are exempt then the exactthe pr same groups who benefit from itf in the professional workforce. if it wa s working, you wouldn t need it at every step ofof the the cascade. and here s the thing. tucker. nobody makes a case for affirmative action in the nba. nobody makes a case for affirmative action in the nfl because they know why that would ruinthl basketball and itd would ruin football. none of us would want to watch h it. why do we think it s any different when it comes to science or engineering? and i will tell you from my experience in the classroom or otherwise, i think that that s exactly what s happening in our culture, is we have an assault on meritocracy and an assault on excellence. and i think that s a. n assaultn assa on the american soul. we ned to
mailing tests to people? so what they did, the fda continues to authorized tests as they became available. the federal government did not invest. remember that buy now. we bought up 150 million and delivered them free to the states to any one at risk. what they did was allow the fda to authorize them but they didn t invest. they didn t place orders. that s why all the lines that we stood up with the billions of dollars got shut down because there was no demand. this was complete incompetence and look of forethought by the biden administration. now we re stuck giving them out to every household. we ned a couple billion test as month. we have 500 million over a few months. so we need to be strategic and get the tests to people that benefit like those eligible for oral therapy. not just shotgun. there s not even a testing coordinator now. it was carol johnson.
smaller, frankly, bill that doesn t do all of the things that we need to do, then we need come to a quick agreement on the reconciliation, the build back better reconciliation package. we ned to make sure that we do what we had said we would do for people in this moment of tremendous crises, so many crises that we re facing. and then on the covid front, we are still in the thick of the delta variant summer, and we re starting to hear about yet another variant. it is in most of the u.s. and appears to be immune to vaccines. so should you be worried? i m going to get that answer from dr. erwin ledbetter. and the impact covid has had on access to preschool, especially for the poorest among us. that is ahead, as well. we begin this hour with the white house s response to the controversial texas abortion law. president biden just yesterday denouncing the restrictive law that bans abortions as early as six weeks as, quote, almost un-american, and reiterated his support for roe v. wade.