That. This is the laymans most people, which is relatable to our audience. The establishment, these are the rules we created ape its and its been this way a long time. Regular guy, little guy, said times have changed, found a loophole, what you. According to your rules, you cant get mad at us. Its a reflection of whats happening in our larger culture, Larger Society right now as it comes to womens rights and me too and issues of race and equity and equality and all of that. Its like, people who have been there, the establishment whos been there for so long, the entitled, right, the people who, hey, look, were the wealthy, these are the rules, we want to live by and continue, and the underdog is saying no, no, no, we deserve a place as well and now this is the clash. So, hey, the rule thats whats happened. What i find interesting about it is i love that these people came together to prop something up. Now, you can say no, no, no, youre ascribing virtue where theres only value. You saw theres that, too. Decided to reverse it and play it. I dont see it that way. I see it as people saying, you know, i dont like that these guys are just selling down our community so there can be just vacant strip malls all over the country. Thats true. Because they take away all their liquidity, all their cash. And were going to go the other way on it and i choose to see it that way. We cant ask everybody their intentions. You are right, d. Lemon. Yeah. Were seeing a conflation of what happened there. Rules for thee but not for me. Not for me. God has helped those he has helped already. The big guy has to win even if we have to stop the game to figure it out. That pissed people off and why we cover it. There are a lot of arrogant Hedge Funders who are mad a lot of Hedge Funders who took a bath in this as well. Took a bath in the hands of the little guy. Never seen that before. Theyll be all right, though. I have a lot to get to. Someone im sure you want to talk about later which is a legendary cicely tyson. May see rest in peace. Thank you for the legacy of her greatness and her choices. I sat down with her for, like, an hour, maybe more a couple years ago. P it was fascinating. Youll see more of that. I got to run, get to the show. She that you for an hour, shes not only a great actor, great voice shes a great actor. But for patient. D. Lemon, i love you. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. So another working day for a president determined to undo the legacy of his predecessor. A president today taking action to reopen obamacare at a time when americans are in desperate need of health care. Roll this. Today were about to sign two executive orders, basically the best way to describe them, to undo the damage trump has done. The Affordable Care act and restoring the medicaid to the way it was before trump became president. Which by fiat he changed, made more unaccessible, more expensive, and more difficult for people to qualify for either of those two items. The Affordable Care act or med medicaid. This is a reality. More than 430,000 americans have died thus far in this pandemic. Millions more are desperate for health care and vaccines. 847,000 people filed for unemployment just last week. This country is in desperate need of leadership. And President Biden is pushing forward, believing bipartisan is possible but well aware of the rocky road still ahead. Yet, the Republican Party is obsessed, obsessed, obsessed, and thats not hyperbole. Im not exaggerating. With the previous president. Obsessed with protecting him and refusing to hold him accountable. For what . The big lie, the one that incited one of the worst moment in this countrys history. The House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy making a pilgrimage to maralago today. Who paid for that . Thats what i want to know. I want to know. Im just asking the question. Did taxpay can we find out if taxpayers paid for this . I hope not. Making this pilgrimage to maralago. A source saying it made him look like he was, quote, crawling back to trump. Thats exactly what it looks like because thats exactly what it is. The Republican Party is in full retreat from any kind of ac accoun accountability. Actually embracing the former president and his loyalists. This one, right, shes one. Marjorie Taylor Greene is in congress and they want to kick liz cheney out. Interesting times that were in. Right . Because the qanon congresswoman is close tore the center of the gop now than republicans like mitt romney or liz cheney. Marjorie Taylor Greene who is still pushing the big lie in a town hall tonight. We had done a lot of work in our preparation, talked to a lot of people, looked at a lot of evidence that i think still needs to be looked at and should be presented in court. I truly believe that. Still, still, and they know its a lie. Marjorie Taylor Greene has removed dozens of facebook posts from 2018 and 2019 in which she endorsed Conspiracy Theories, repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent democrats, executing prominent democrats. Cnn obtained video so shocking that i want you to hear them and think about the fact that marjorie Taylor Greene is now a United States congresswoman. Okay . So pay close attention to your screen. We dont know the exact dates, but we believe that they were recorded over the past few years before she was elected to congress in november. So listen to her false, racist, claims about black men and gangs. Okay. So going on, you know you know what keeps im going to cover this, too, but the generations of black and hispanic men, do you want to know what holds them down . Gangs. Being in gangs and dealing drugs is what holds them down. The lack of education is what holds them down. Thats thats not a white person thing but gangs control them. They they tell them they tell the young men in their communities, dont go to school. Dont no, dont you move out of this out of this project. Dont you move out of this community. You join this gang. And thats where you belong. You belong with us. The gangs are holding them back. Its not white people. Its crazy. Marjorie. Marjorie. White people arent in gangs . White people arent in gangs . Okay. I want you to tell that to the Police Officers and lawmakers menaced by rioters including proud boys and oathkeepers at the capitol. What would you call them . Huh . Okay. Think about that. And theres more. More vile garbage from a woman who and i remind you again is now a u. S. Congresswoman. Here it is. If you want islam and sharia law, you stay over there. You can have a whole bunch of wives or goats or sheep or whatever you want. You stay over there. But in america, see, we made it this great, great country. We dont want it messed up. We sure dont. Can you play that for yourself . Everything that you said about say that about you, we dont want it messed up so stop messing it up, marjorie. You know these people love to talk about making America Great again. Immigrants made and make America Great. Religious tolerants made and make America Great. Free speech makes America Great. But ignorance, bigotry, hateful comments, bigots, hateful comments, cloaked in false patriotism, that doesnt make America Great. You are shaming this great country with those comments, and you should be ashamed of yourself. And this is a congresswoman that the Republican Party is embracing . Come on, yall. That whole party of Family Values thing, can you really claim that . And especially the christians. After the porn star and all of that and now this . Was that ever really real . Hm. Example after example. Mirror. Need a mirror. But heres the thing. Even if they censured marjorie Taylor Greene, it wouldnt solve the problem. You know why . Because marjorie Taylor Greene is just a shiny object. Just like donald trump was. Symptom of a much larger problem. Thats the trap. If you get blinded by marjorie Taylor Greene, by her, you let Everybody Else get off scotfree for what happened at the capitol and whats happened in this country over the last five years. Culminating with what happened at the capitol. Shes a symptom of what is wrong with the Republican Party. A party that is turning on its own. Turning on liz cheney . Liz . You know how conservative liz cheney is . You know how dedicated to the Republican Party liz cheney is . Come on, yall. Her daddys dick cheney. Come on. Really . Liz cheney who tried to do the right thing and vote to hold a former president accountable. A crowd of Trump Supporters showing up to condemn her. Oh, boy. At a matt gaetz rally today. If you want to prove that you have the power, defeat liz cheney in this upcoming election and wyoming will bring washington to its knees. So its really tough its its so transparent, matt gaetz is so transparent, he wants publicity so bad, it just he reeks of it, right . Do you give him that . Thats what he wants. So do you really elevate that . But, anyway, thats a whole other show. This is a party that tries to kick liz cheney to the curb while embracing marjorie Taylor Greene. Shes no outlier. Theres Madison Cawthorn has well, sewed cloth masks emblazoned with the word, useless, on his website before taking them down. A spokesman for cawthorns campaign telling cnn upon hearing the masks were being sold on his campaign website, Representative Cawthorn firmly requested they be removed. He promoted his website today, though, with this tweet. First, they came for our free speech, then they came for our free markets. Next, theyll come for our Free Shipping on ordn orders on 50 more with promo code, freedom 50. Okay, so that proofs my point about him, about gaetz, about hawley. He wants to sell a book, yall, and youre falling were being silent lensed, this is not who we are, theyre taking away our whatever. They want to sell books, they want to sell websites, they want attention, media attention. This is not about values and whats best for the country. It really isnt. Attention. Come on. Yall know im telling the truth. So as we were talking, josh hawley who now says his objection to Joe Bidens Electoral College win wasnt about keeping trump in office, he just wanted to spark a debate about what he called Voting Irregularities in pennsylvania. So i used to live in pennsylvania. I know all about pennsylvania voting. I used to live in atlanta. I know about theirs as well. Theres irregularities in every precinct. Nothing unique about pennsylvania. The senator telling cnn, i was very clear from the beginning that i was never attempting to overturn the election. Kind of makes you wonder why he didnt say that to fox news on january 4th, 2 days before the insurrection. Are you trying to say that as of january 20th that President Trump will be president . Well, that depends on what happens on wednesday. I mean, this is why we have the debates. No, it doesnt. This is why we have the votes. Hm. Think its a game. Well, it is a game. To them. Josh hawley who saluted the crowd before the riot broke out, who voted to overturn the results in arizona and pennsylvania even after the riot, says he has no regrets and was never attempting to overturn the election. Give me a break. Come on. This is what we have come to. The acting chief of the u. S. Capitol police calling for permanent fencing around the capitol. Congresswoman alice stephanik tweeting this, its the peoples house and shes adamantly opposed. Shes saying that we cant have fences around the capitol but inside the capitol she votes to uphold the big lie that brought them that brought the folks there. And against doing anything to hold the president accountable so it wont happen again. So if you dont want it around, if you dont want fences around the capitol then maybe you should vote in a way that it doesnt happen again so you dont have to put fences, right . That would make sense. That would be logical, but you know, hey, who am i. Just a dumb constituent out here. I dont know. It really is the peoples house. And the people should be able to freely come and go and be a part of our democracy. But the reason that we cant is because the president and his enablers incited a violent mob and nobody is being held accountable. Now get this, nancy pelosi says members are concerned for their own safety and she goes on to say this. When the enemy is within the house of representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside. And lets remember, it was marjorie Taylor Greene who in January Of 2019 liked a comment that said, a bullet to the head would be quicker to remove pelosi. This is what weve come to. We dont have to stay here. We dont. There is a choice. Its a choice of the american peo people. The choice the American People already made. Lets remember, the republicans dear leader, the former president , led the republicans right out of the majority in the house, right out of the white house, right out of the majority in the senate. So go ahead, everybody. Do it. Go Kiss The Ring of the defeated king in exile. The rest of us will move forward with our democracy and with the work that needs to be done. And heres the picture for you. I want you to think about this of where weve been and where were going. Im talking about a legendary person. Actress and Civil Rights Activist cicely tyson. After nearly a century of life on this earth, she died today. Remember her, and i want you to remember that america wasnt always great for everyone. Especially if you didnt have white skin. Listen to the elders. When i hear young people deny the fact that rosa parks could not sit on the bus or that i could not go to the soda to an Ice Cream Parlor and sit at a lunch counter. Its not real to them. They h they hear tell of it. They dont believe it. So i said, you know, we fought for everything so that the next generation wouldnt have to do that. It could be better. Thats right. Thats right. Thats right. Hm. Those are the people who made America Great. And now we have the gop embracing people like marjorie Taylor Greene and her racism and refusing to hold the previous president responsible for inciting insurrection. Is that really where republicans want to be . 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Call now and get your free infokit Kevin Mccarthy leaving no doubt in anyones mind, i should say, he thinks donald trump a twice impeached disgraced former president is firmly in control of the Republican Party. Visiting trump in florida today to Kiss The Ring after mccarthy said just two weeks ago trump bears responsibility for the deadly capitol insurrection. Lots to discuss now. Cnns senior Political Correspondent abby phillip is here and republican Strategist Doug Hye as well, former rnc communications director. Look at that. Abby, im going to start with you. You just heard the racist xenophobic vile coming from marjorie Taylor Greene. Why is the gop embracing her . Theyre running away there holding President Trump accountable. Instead, Kevin Mccarthy is kissing the ring. Please explain to the viewers what is going on. Look, i think that republicans in washington, some republicans in washington, and elsewhere, have been in denial for a long time about the degree to which this sort of conspiratorial thinking and really kind of this sort of outofthebox world marjorie Taylor Greene is in is actually the Republican Party right now. This is really at the core of the trump base and the interesting thing about this is President Trump, himself, has known this for a long time. Its why he was sort of soft on marjorie Taylor Greene for a while and then eventually when she when she was elected, when she became the republican who was likely to win that seat, he invited her to the white house. They had her over multiple times. So President Trump has known for a long time that this is part of the Republican Base and now were seeing it really in full view. That is why Kevin Mccarthy is so afraid to reprimand her because if he does that, he knows that theres a risk of offending a very large swath of the party right now. The same swath of the party, maybe 75 of them who believe that the election was rigged, many of those same people think that theres really not a whole lot wrong with some of the things that marjorie Taylor Greene is saying. Doug, you know, youre calling on gop house Leadership To Strip Representative marjorie Taylor Greenes committee assignments. Or expel her. Look, its becoming clear that she is closer to what the current gop represents than republicans like mitt romney or adam kinzinger. Well, i think thats the tugofwar that republicans are facing right now. You know, fortunately, im going to tell you theres a precedent for how Kevin Mccarthy and Steve Scalise should do this and, don, i would tell you ive known Kevin Mccarthy since 1996. Ive known Steve Scalise for at least eight or nine years now. They set a precedent when they pegged steve king from iowa as being a racist who shouldnt be on committees. He had made so many awful racist comments over the years that they finally said enough is enough. They stripped him of his committee assignments. That was the right thing to do. Follow the precedent that youve set then and look at whats going on now with Marjorie G Greene Taylor marjorie Taylor Greene, excuse me and strip her of her committee assignments. The fact shes on the education and Workforce Committee of all committees when shes out there saying things like the parkland shooting didnt happen, its a conspiracy and so forth, she shouldnt be on any committees but certainly shouldnt be that committee, in particular. Abby, manu raju, our colleague, caught up with the new democratic senator Raphael Warnock calling for comments hes calling her comments, meaning Marjorie Taylor gr greenes, deeply repulsive. He said this. I quote. I think the o nus is on the people in her own caucus to answer this fundamental question, wheres the line, whats too much . So, congresswoman greene is among the many gop members that support the election lie. Isnt that the bigger issue here, abby . Yeah, i mean, look, its all part of the same thing. I mean, the willingness of people in congress to back up a lie that has almost, i mean, really no basis in fact, that is so on its face false, and that they all know are false, is its a broader problem. It makes them it makes it harder for them to condemn people like marjorie Taylor Greene because many of them are all in on it, too. You just talked about josh hawley who is now trying to pretend as if he wasnt saying to, you know, the mob of people that gathered outside of the capitol that the outcome of the election could be changed on january 6th even though he knew that that was not the case. At the highest levels of government, these lawmakers are not doing the right thing and it i think the onus is on Republican Leaders to decide whether theyre going to lead their party or just be dragged along by this base that is that has been misled, that is deeply engrained in Conspiracy Theories. And it seems right now that the consensus is they are being dragged along by the base. They are not leading. They are following where the masses are. So, you know, doug, we sit here all the time, right, we report on it, whatever. I just wonder how do republicans look right now to the country, falling all over themselves to support a defeated president while joe biden just plows right on ahead with jobs, covid, health care issues, issues that really matter. Yeah, look. A big part of the Republican Party in the senate, is a vote no hope yes caucus, meaning they know somethings a bad idea, but they cant really do anything about it. Or they know somethings a new idea and cant support it. Thats clearly the case with challenging the election results. What i would tell you, don, is there a resistant strain within the Republican Party. There is good news there. You talked about liz cheney earlier. For me the real question is do we want to be the party of liz cheney or do we want to be the Conspiracy Theory party . Maybe we also answered that question with the election of donald trump and four years of it. But there are people who are backing liz cheney right now. A gop superlobbiest john schofield, are organizing fundraisers to support liz cheney. John boehner supporting this. This is the real fight within the Republican Party now and, you know, basically, you know this, don, most americans dont really care about the Heart And Soul of the political party, but this is not just about a political party. Its about the Heart And Soul of the country. Thats why these fights are so important right now. Doug, thank you. Congratulations. Abby has a new show. Well, shes the new host. Congratulations. Our show Inside Politics on sunday morning. Make sure you tune in. Thanks, don. Abby did a great job as usual. Ill be watching again this sunday. Getting up early for me . Get up early. Thank you. And dvr. Thank you. Good to see both of you. Be safe and warm. Its cold up here in the northeast. Thank you. Thank you. Outrageous Conspiracy Theories from marjorie Taylor Greene, reopening tragic wounds especially over the parkland shooting. The mother of scott vegle, a teacher and coach who was killed trying to save his students joins me with her message to greene, next. More . At morgan stanley, a global collective of thought leaders offers investors a broader view. We see companies protecting the bottom line by putting people first. We see a bright future, still hungry for the ingenuity of those ready for the next challenge. Today, we are translating decades of experience into strategies for the road ahead. We are morgan stanley. 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Before joining congress, marjorie Taylor Greene tried to make a name for herself suggesting that the parkland massacre was a falseflag operation. In March Of 2019 she was recorded harassing Shooting Survivor David Hogge and his group inside the halls of the u. S. Capitol. Do you really think Red Flag Gun Laws are going to prevent Mass Shootings . Enough is enough enough is enough youre right, were not people will still do Mass Shootings. They will still do mass killings. They dont need guns. What youre doing, you guys are being used. Being used by the left because youre young. Hogge confirmed on twitter that greene continued to harass him outside. David, why are you supporting the redflag laws . If there had been if scott peterson, the resource officer at parkland had done his job, then Nicholas Cruz wouldnt have killed anybody in your high school or at least protected them. Why are you supporting redflag gun laws that attack our Second Amendment right . Why are you using kids as a barrier . Do you not know how to defend your stance . Walking. Hes got nothing to say. Sad. He has nothing to say because there really isnt anything to say, you guys. He has nothing to say because hes paid to do this. 17 people lost their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14th, 2018, including scott beigel, a Geography Teacher and Cross Country coach who was shot trying to save his students. Scotts mom, linda beigelschulman, joins me now. Linda, thank you so much for sorry. Just reading that just upset me so much. Im sorry. I hope youre doing okay. How are you . Im great. Thank you for having me tonight. Yeah. It really means a lot to be able to to speak my mind and explain how i feel about whats going on right now. You know, you have to live with the reality that your son, scott, was gunned down in a school massacre, sadly, and i cant imagine having anyone question that tragedy, never mind someone who is now an elected member of congress . Well, as painful as it is, silence right now is not an option and i feel that failing to speak out with the actual truth gives credence, you know, and life to any Conspiracy Theories. So we have to speak out. Lets talk about what else you do because you do speak out. You fought with the County Sheriff to get access to Security Camera footage from the parkland massacre. The video shows how your son, scott, opened the door to his classroom to bring more students to safety and was killed in the process. You asked us to play this video, and theres no audio. I must warn our audience it is very graphic and very disturbing to watch. Linda, again, you asked us, you wanted us to show this. Why was this so important for us to see tonight . Because congresswoman greene talks about the shooting as a staged event. It was not a staged event. You know, i only wish that the body in the casket that i identified was a prop and not my son. For the, you know, for the past 1,080 days, and thats how many days it was since the massacre, and i will probably be counting days for the rest of my life, i wish the shooter was a paid actor. This show, not be on it responding to her lies. She has no right to trivialize innocent lives that were taken on February 14th, 2018. She has no right to negate scotts heroism and she has no right to demean my sons memory with her Conspiracy Theories. She just has no right, and we need to speak out because we need to take that right away from her. What do you say to i mean, you have a message to her, but what do you say to her . Shes not the only one with these Conspiracy Theories. Anyone who spreads these Conspiracy Theories or calls these events, this one in particular, but others as well, false flags. You know, its really sad right now, it seems like with the culture that were all living in, unless it touches a person directly, we look away. I mean, we talk about shootings like they just happen every day and its not a big deal. You know, when they first happen, we hear about them. When the Parkland Shooting First took place, we heard about it day in and day out and day in. Now we hear, oh, theres just another mass shooting. Theres no such thing as just another mass shooting. Until somebody is touched personally, it seems like they dont want to do anything about it. And we need to do something about it. We need to stop this because its hurting it very, very much hurts me and i can speak for the other 16 families. And it has to stop. Its just it cant go on like this where everybody just looks away. Whether its this, whether its what just happened on january 6th. It happened and then we look away. We have to stop looking away. Linda, there are, you know, her fellow republican col colleagues, what do you think about them . Because theyre staying silent now. Theyre even appointing her to of all things the education committee. You know, they seem like or they are so fearful. All they want to do all that they want to do is make sure that they get reelected, and im sorry, but thats really how i feel. Its all about getting reelected. Its not about doing your job and working for those of us those of us who elected you. They need to stand up. They need to grow a conscience. They need to find their conscience if they dont have one. Okay . And they need to do whats right. They dont need to go, just like today, running over to get our former president s approval because he because hes going to help them get reelected. They need to get reelected because because of what they do for all of us. Not what they do for a little group of people who maybe donate to their cause or so on and so forth. Its time for them to start working for all of us. And i i apologize for repeating myself, its time for them to grow a conscience. Dont apologize. I think, as often as you can say it, people need to hear it. What do you linda, what do you want people to know about your son . What do you want people to know about scott . You know, scott was a really humble person and very private. And what scott really wanted for himself was to live his life the way he wanted to live his life and teach younger people, teach the youngsters, no matter what age they were, to live their lives the way they wanted to be treated. And thats what scott did. Okay. He literally lived his life the way he wanted to be treated and he taught school the way he would have liked school to be taught to him. And he coached and he coached and he he learned about he learned about the people on his the kids on his team. He loved he loved his students. He loved the people, the students he coached. I get letters all the time, at least once a week, i got one yesterday, about a student whos graduating this year who scott had in his class in 2018 and why that young man was able to go forward. Why when somebody laughed at him in class when he was giving a speech, hed look at scott and scott gave him the thumbs up and he knew it was okay. Scott, he was just a normal guy who really had finally come into his own and learned to love life and to learn. Especially, especially the child who maybe wasnt the most popular or having a hard time. You know, he i a quick story. He, in the grocery store, he saw a youngster having a hard time with his mom and the youngster was carrying on and scott bent down and went over to him and said, you know, is it really that bad . You know, lets talk about it. What, is it really that bad . You know, or in camp when he was a counselor at camp, he had one of the campers who wasnt there, you know, when he was younger, he had just come into camp maybe when he was 9 or 10 and Everybody Else had started when they were younger. And he really wasnt in a group and couldnt find his way and he wasnt, you know, he wasnt very sportsminded and scott said to him, you know, what is it that you really like to do . And he said, you know, i like crafts and, you know, maybe id like to be in one of the shows. And, again, by the end of the summer, that child was happy and got an award, whether it was an award from the Theater Group or whether it was an award for arts and crafts. Scott really loved helping the underdog, so to speak. And that was scott. Scott did not grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth. We always say, you know, lets not forget from where we came. And he never forgot from where he came. And he passed that along. Guess what, got one hell of a mama. Thank you. 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So Anything Congress can do right now to help move forward the president s plan will help us immensely out here in the field. Two cases of the South African Coronavirus Variant have been discovered in south carolina. And Officials Say the two adults have no travel history, no connection to each other. It is clear that this is spreading in this country. Should another lockdown be imposed . Well, first of all, when we talk about these variants lets just be clear these are mutated viruses that have spread from their origin. In this case we talk about the South African origin or the brazilian origin. We also talk about the u. K. Variant. Right now the u. K. Variant is cheerily throughout almost all the United States and spreading probably very quickly. We dont have a good system in place to detect that. We are 42nd in the world as far as countries go in sequencing these viruses. Weve got to change that. The Current Administration has vowed to do just that. And thats important. As far as the South African and the brazilian variants which weve just reported on this past week, they, too, are here now. Theyre spreading, and this really poses a significant challenge for us. In terms of what do we do about it . Well, i think right now we have to help americans understand, yes, the case numbers are dropping. Theyve gone from 300,000 cases a day to 150,000 cases a day. But these are what we call baseline numbers. Think about when it used to be 32,000 or 60,000 or 70,000 or a big number . Were at a very high number now. And one particular variant, the u. K. Variant has the possibility of raising the number of cases in this country mightily over the course of the next 6 to 14 weeks. And so i think were going to have a whole new round of responses to this to this virus in particular. And i guess just to sum it up, id say, don, were really good on pumping the brakes after the car has been wrapped around the tree. We need to look at what we can do now to hold back those numbers of cases from getting to that large number. So then what about what about the possibility of a mandatory quarantine for anyone traveling into the country at this point . In a sense right now we are doing that with the travel restricts, but, you know, make no mistake the virus is already here. If another person did not enter the United States in the next six months, weve got all the virus we need right here to spread. So its important that surely we slow down the International Spread of these viruses. But everyone understands theyre here now. They are going through our communities as we wake and as we sleep. And thats what we have to understand. Thats why we need to be much better prepared and not be lulled into this, oh, boy, look were over the hump. You know, weve beaten this thing. We have not. And vaccine, its so important. 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