no. the question was correct me if i m wrong. how was he as a governor in general? generally, obviously outside of his personal behavior. outside of his personal behavior. can you separate the two? no. i was asked a specific question. i tried to answer specifically. what do you want to ask me specifically? i d like to ask you about infrastructure as well. given you said this is such an urgent bill that needs to be passed, why not have the house take it up immediately for a vote? we ll get it done. i ll get back to you. thank you. would you like to see the fda speed up approval of the coronavirus vaccine. you were listening to joe biden and kamala harris. a wide-ranging set of questions dealing with everything from afghanistan to infrastructure to andrew cuomo to covid-19 and the delta variant and everything in between. this was on the heels of hum touting the passage of
people right now. we are seeing people lose their lives because of misinformation. reporter: facebook is defending itself in a statement to fox news: we will no be distracted by accusations which aren t supported by the facts. the fact is that more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about covid-19 and vaccines on facebook which is more than any other place on the internet. more than 3.3 million americans have also used our vaccine finder tool to find out where and how to get a vaccine. the facts show that facebook is helping save lives, period. ultimately, arthel, white house officials are saying they re going after facebook and other big tech companies because they say this is not about political speech or freedom of speech. this, in their mind, is about saving lives and keeping people healthy. arthel? arthel: live at the white house, david spunt, thanks. eric? if. eric: arthel, protests in support of cuban demonstrators are breaking out in southern californ
guidelines which states that vaccinated people to not need to wear a mask. sheriff alex villanueva says that s one of the reasons his department will not be enforcing the mandate n. a statement he said, quote: the l.a. county health department has authority to enforce the order, but the underfunded, defunded los angeles county sheriff s department will not expend our limited resources and instead ask for voluntary compliance. also some business owners worry the mask mandate will make it even tougher to get employees back to work especially since the county isn t ruling out other covid restrictions. people don t believe that they re not going to get shut down again, and they don t want to give up those benefits because they don t though what s going to happen, and i think this just furthers that problem and creates confusion, and that s what leads to an inability to forecast and an inability to do business cleanly. reporter: and at this point it s unclear what l.a. county when l.a
realize that the world is watching and cheering for their freedom and liberty. really quickly, pardon me, yesterday president biden, he accused facebook of killing people for not regulating or blocking or deleting disinformation, misinformation about the covid vaccine. so the administration is communicating with facebook to try to correct this issue. as this is not a political initiative, but an effort to curtail a public health crisis, do you see this as censorship and spear tomorrow collaboration conspiratorial collaboration or the responsibility of the prime minister of the united states to protect americans the president of the united states to protect americans? i think he should tell americans the correct information as we knows that. the president of the united states, nor should the government of the united states, be involved in trying to censor anybody or anything. censorship is one of the things that s used by totalitarian regimes to shut down any kind of discussion, a
peak of the pandemic. also l.a. county, the nation s post populace county, has roughly 10 million people. right now 452 of them are hospitalized with covid. that that s a small percentage of the population, less than 1%, but the number of hospitalizations has doubled from 216 a month ago, and local health experts find that concerning. they say over 99% of covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations at county hospitals are among the unvaccinated. and with only 60% of residents vaccinated, a mask mandate is a better option than increased restrictions. everything is on the table, you know, if things continue to get worse which is why we want to take action now given that we re at this level of substantial transmission. the next level is high transmission, and that s not a place where we want to be. reporter: but critics question whether the mandate is backed by science since it does not align with the cdc s