bay which the obama administration tried and failed to empty and close. the biden administration has said it plans to reduce the number of suspects held there though there is continued opposition to closing the facility. we still need a capacity to detain these folks and to detain these individuals and not put them in the united states. before the pandemic a judge had set the actual trial to begin in early january. because of the pandemic and other delays we probably won t get to jury selection before this year is out. bill. bill: remarkable. rich edson, thank you, sir. dana: let s bring in andy mccarthy former assistant u.s. attorney. you followed this for many years. where do you think things are today? what do you want americans to know as this again they try to get this trial off the ground? well dana, i think the big thing is that they may not be able to get it off the ground.
biden s handling of the crisis. we have to take a moment here. what you and your staff have been doing amongst other people on capitol hill is tireless trying to help people get out and you should be commended for that. here is biden, blinken and psaki all yesterday. take a look. president biden: our first priority is getting american citizens out of the country as quickly and safely as possible. the president has made clear, our first priority is the evacuation of american citizens. right now our focus and our priority is getting american citizens evacuated and afghan partners evacuated. dana: get your reaction to all of that, senator. well dana, of course we have to focus on getting american citizens out. i m skeptical that there are only 1500 americans left. it wasn t long ago the state department was giving us estimates like 10,000 to 15,000 american citizens. two hours 1500 americans.
long-term harm. anything that we re missing there that you want to add as america starts to get its kids back to school this fall? well dana, the co-author i wrote that piece and i are pro-masking. it turns out in kids they re very inefficient transmitters. delta is unknown. areas with high levels of background infection wearing a mask makes sense. for many kids in low areas of transmission, 40% of adolescents are immunizeed and some kids struggle with masks and we have to remember that. we cannot forget about the 5% of american children with disabilities. the 25% of american kids that wear glasses and have trouble seeing because they have trouble getting a tight seal. so for kids who do well with masks feel free to wear a mask. for kids who struggle we have to individualize and think about a carve outthat gives them and their parents the
dana: over a year americans have lived in fear of covid and while numbers are down and vaccinations are up my next guest argues there is another issue, a pandemic of fear gripping america. here to talk about it fox news contributor dr. marc siegel. make your case, sir. well dana, listen. fear is invaluable but it is a deep rooted emotion that is supposed to protect us against imminent danger. the strongest emotion in the brain. it overcomes all reason. so we try to reason. reason, rational, right? fear overtakes us. you know what we should be afraid of? manipulating viruses through medical experiments to the point where they could go human-to-human. it s called gain of function research. why should that scare us? the virus could remain in nature and never go human-to-human. bird flu was one that killed millions of birds and never made the jump to humans. coronaviruss don t mutate as
can you imagine we re going to form a blockade and wait 15 minutes and then pass out. do you know what i m saying like continue with your fake burgers and vegan lifestyle. there s a lot of pressure on that hose, man. well dana it s kind of a great metaphor though right? people who claim to protect the earth do way more damage than anyone they condemn. first off it sort of looked like breakfast. yeah. this is how messy this whole thing is, if boris johnson wasn t there but this is the thing that killed me who do they think has to go out and chen that up. exactly. if they do block the streets whose going to be harmed the most the people that need to get to work that work hourly jobs are trying to put food on the table? they don t help their cause at all. they achieve nothing and until they are ready to talk about nuclear power as an option i don t want to hear from them. i agree completely with that sentiment. you know, kat, i bet you have some kind of analogy about a guy try