remember what happened last go round. i also can t help but think about the people who are still dying. even though deaths are down, we re seeing more than 200 deaths a day and more than 99% of covid deaths in june were among unvaccinated people. if that won t change minds of people who aren t vaccinated, what will? i know it. basically everyone who dies from covid-19 is a preventable death. this is what s so heart breaking, and we have the fact that it s not only deaths. now we have new studies coming out of oxford university showing that people who have long hall covid, a significant percentage of gray brain matter degeneration. it s linked to memory and performance and speech. all of these young people who think they re impervious, even if they don t die because the death numbers are low among young people, they re going to have a lot of debilitating symptoms that could go on for a
election. are we getting a preview of what the president s defense is going to be once the senate trial starts? spreading more misinformation and making it partisan? absolutely. that s why some say there s no use in adding the mueller report. it won t change minds. republicans will spread disinformation. they will talk about hunter widen. th biden. they will continue with the same playbook regardless of what democrats say. there s not a persuasion that will go on within the senate chamber itself. let s go to 2020. joe biden campaigning on this no malarkey tour. not sure how helpful that is. want to get your opinion on this john kerry reference. john kerry comparing biden and
a sea change on this. and here we come up on the one-year an verniversary. if the shooting death of all these children in our country, and as we look what happened in aurora, colorado, the shooting of the people in the movie theater, and we look at gabby giffords in congress on the corner and little christina dying going to the grocery store, if those won t change minds and a congressperson almost being assassinated by going out to meet the public, if that doesn t change minds, what really will? well, i think, you know, as we stand today, almost 200 children have been killed since newtown, as you mentioned, thomas. and i don t want to speak with you one more you know, in one year and say 200 more children or more have been killed. i d like to go back to what benji was talking about when it comes to gun safety advocacy and the way they framed the debate. i think it would be very useful going forward, they definitely
cause fewer cold nights and days. is that accurate, according to this report? yeah, it already has. they are basically measuring temperature records and seeing in the last 50 years we have more warm nights, fewer cold nights, fewer, you know, cold days. and more things like heat waves. those are the sort of broad temperature effects that can already be seen and we would expect to accelerate as things get warmer. we have the climate change deniers and people on the other side say they re going to think this report is biased, but do you think this changes any minds? it depends on who you re talking to. there s as many different kind of climate naysayers as there are different kinds of foods. there s all kinds. the debate really among the naysayers is yeah, it s happening, but it s not going to be so bad, not so much that it s not happening. it won t change minds. that s how you make a living, you won t change a mind, but you might hope people in the middle
neil: so this won t change minds. not the opponents, their mind is made up by the pope. neil: religion is a big issue to you and it isn t for you. it s about so politicized and politics is controlled by religion just like medicine is, that there s if you if you re a diehard religious person, nothing s going to change your mind. neil: you re an atheist, correct? i m an agnostic. i just say i don t know. i m honest. neil: but you knew enough when last time you were here to tell me when you die, you stink and then you re in the ground, over. well, you re not always in the ground. neil: that s true. sometimes you re in the morgue in a hospital in the crypt or you re lying in the street. but that s all we know that happens at death is what we observe. we don t know anything else. we can t investigate death f you investigate death or try to, you