Righty place, and still parents are on edge and worried about kids getting sick especially one that cant be vaccinated, and theyre right to feel that way. More than 251,000 kid infections just in the past week according to the American Academy Of Pediatrics. Its the largest number since the pandemic began. Cases are accelerating. So are hospitalizations. And it will likely get worse at least for a while. Thats the problem. Whats the solution . Solution has always part them, part us. A lot of kids getting sick are unvaccinated. When will the fda approve the vaccines for kids 12 and under or under 12 . Right now its 12 to 18. Ill be talking tonight to an influential member of congress whos pushing for answers and so will we. Los angeles could become the first major School District in the nation to mandate Covid Vaccines for students 12 and older attending class in person. Mandate. The board of education there has a vote scheduled for tomorrow. Now, as for us too many adults remain unvaccinated, and that puts kids at risk. Too many places are playing politics with masks, and that means refusing to wear them. Thats the only kind of politics that can be played with masks. And the longer those politics are played, the worse the spreading will get. Covid claimed the lives of 13 School Employees from the Miamidade County public schools in florida over the last three weeks. Three weeks. All were unvaccinated. The second Circuit Judge there just ruled against the governors appeal to ban Mask Mandates in schools. Saying the Governors Mandate would violate the florida Parents Bill of rights. During the appeal the ban is banned. Governor desantis remains defiant. I dont know why the mass have politics around it. If you want the masks do it, if you dont want to do it, dont. The data has never supported that schools are driving community spread. First of all, thats a false premise. The Issue Isnt whether schools are causing cases all through the community. Its how do you keep kids from getting sick in communities . Its a false premise. Now the good news is new Case Numbers in florida are down a bit from a record high last week of more than 151,000, so you would think this satime to be extra safe, and the governor knows he is making it political. Remember he is mr. Dont fauci my florida. This is about the School Community and what your kid exposes my kid to. See, thats where your freedom to do what you want ends, right . You get to do what you want until it impacts somebody else and their freedom. The governor knows this. Hes an Ivy League trained lawyer. He knew a judge would likely not allow him to ban masks. Meanwhile parents are paying the price for the politics. Lets bring in two of them who are part of a lawsuit that led to this florida judges ruling today to allow Mask Mandates in schools without punishment. John and robin mccarthy. They got a 6yearold, liam, Got Asthma. Hes now quarantining at home because he was exposed to another first grader at school who guess what tested positive. Welcome both of you to prime time. Hows the Little Man . Hes well. Thank you. Good. And i know youve been doing some of the rapid tests and so far theyre negative. We got both today and theyre negative. So the masks worked. They really did. Nobody thinks the mask is perfect. Nobody should think the vaccine is perfect, but they help. You guys are concerned about your kid. Youre concerned about you, but, john, youre also concerned about your parents, right . Correct. I mean a child gets it if they have masks i believe theyre protected. If they dont have masks like some of the counties in the state of florida, they get it, the teachers get it. As you said 13 teachers here in Miamidade County had already died from this. What do we have to do . I mean, we have to follow the science, do what we have to do to not just protect our children but to protect our teachers and protect the people that are elderly that are the most vul f vulinable. I believe my son and others in his class are vulnerable as well. Thats why were pushing to keep this a Common Sense thing. Were looking for a solution. Were not looking for a problem and just to keep our Kids Safe. I mean where in the united states of america have we ever had to go to quarantine to keep our children safe . I feel like im in a dry zone. For us what happened to us this weekend we werent even told a kid tested positive it will tuesday and we had already gone home to celebrate the jewish holiday with my parents. And my dad teaches at University Of Florida and is a doctor and professor. So the whole issue is we endangered our parents we exposed let him go. Let him do what he wants. Its his nap time. Yeah, you Cant Control 6yearolds. We didnt even get told until tuesday, and he was exposed on friday so the whole issue is that we exposed so many people but thank god our Pcr Test literally came back two hours ago. Heres the good news, hes got plenty of energy and i like the spiderman shirt. Luckily its not iron Man Or Weve got a problem. Happy new year. Its not getting off to a great start, though, for us caring for one another. Why is let parents choose not good enough . For our situation its not good because as you can say just put our child in danger not necessarily in his school, but he has asthma. So when parents send their kids to school without a mask on they potentially expose him which could be fatal. So for us if you dont wear a mask you could potentially endanger a child. Now, the governor makes a different case. He says this is about parents making choices, john, for their kids. And thats the way a school and a community should run. Whats your response . I mean, the governor i dont believe believes what hes saying. I mean his kids are being home schooled, so its either him or his wife. So you have children going in. Look at some of the other counties where theyre having to quarantine the whole school. Our son was next to somebody who had covid. I dont believe he caught it at the school. His whole class is fine. Why . Because were following the science in Miamidade County. We know what works. And were doing a fantastic job, so we have one child out of 21 that had covid. As of right now none of those other kids in the class caught this. So my response to the Governor Desantis is hes not sending his kids to school. Hes home schooling them. We dont have that luxury. So this is about using Common Sense and keeping our Kids Safe. And i just i dont i do not believe that he believes some of the things hes saying. Or his wife doesnt it, one of the two. Go ahead, john, finish your point. I mean the point is if he believed what he was saying, why isnt he sending his kids to school . He pulled his kids from school, what, back in august. So he wants our kids to go to school. We live in the largest county with the most cases. Nigh niece works in miami Childrens Hospital and theyre just full there. The whole state of florida is full, and im talking children. The new variant of the delta im not a doctor but its supposed to be more transmittable and more dangerous. And if you a child like my son who has asthma he could end up in the hospital. My nephew was in the hospital 14 days. Imagine a child being in the hospital not being able to see mommy and daddy. Could you imagine that . They have to stay outside because they have covid. I hear you. I get the fear. Its real and thats why youve been so active. You john but also you, robin. Youre part of a separate federal suit with other parents claiming that desantis mandatory School Mask Ban violates inada, Americans With Disabilities Act because it places your medically sensitive kids, you know, him having asthma in jeopardy. Whats the update from the lawyers in that suit . They just had a hearing today. I believe desantis was arguing we hadnt exhausted all the remedies. But thats kind of a moot point because were saying all children should have access to safe schools, so i think were waiting on the judges ruling and were going to go from there. Thats pretty much it. I guess the fear has got to be that kids how long have you been back in school . Two weeks. All right, so youre weeks. Youre ahead of us. In the north we say we usually go back after labor day. A couple of School Districts went back before. But its just ramping up. Thats the concern, right . Kids are just starting to be together again in big groups. We still dont know when we can get them vaccinated. Even if you can get liam vaccinated youre going to center to talk to the doctor obviously about the asthma. But is that your concern, john, this is just the beginning . My concern is that we do everything we can to keep our children safe so they can get vaccinated. I dont know if its going to be next month or the month after. Its worth the wait. We shouldnt put any children in harms way. The vaccination some say its going to be in october. Some say november. Were going to do what weve got to do to get where we want to go. And thats what were doing for our son, the teachers, and other floridians here in florida trying to keep everybody this is a pandemic. I mean my grandparents were from New York. And in New York they had the spanish flu, and you know how they beat it. They used masks. They didnt have the science we have now, and they were able to get over that. So were going to do what we got to do to get where we want to go, and what we want is our child at The End of the day safe and your child and other children safe as well. Let me ask you one thing and then you can go Take Care of the kid. But ive got to tell you, hes doing a good job. For saw him share some of his snack. Thats some rare air for a 6yearold Boy especially to be sharing. You guys are doing a good job. In fairness to desantis, youve got a 6yearold. His kids are like 5, 3 and 1 so a couple of them are barely in school yet, so i take your point about whether or not he knows what hes doing. Your school was already going against desantis ruling. Are the parents with you on this, john . Yes, 100 . Ive never seen such a group and remember we live in Miamidade County. Its a multicultural county. People from argentina, brazil, Columbia And Europe and New Yorkers now like us. So its weve all come together you want to give me an oreo . Let me have the cream side. He doesnt always eat this unhealthy i promise you. Thats a staple right there. Were lucky in that respect. Tha that is true. God willing he stays healthy, the tests hold up and You Guys get to keep your Kids Safe down there, and i look forward to checking in with you. And i hope we have a very good and sweet new year. We could use it. Thank you. Thanks for the cookie, liam. Appreciate you. One more. Thank you very much. Take care. Have a good night. All right, look, we need to understand not only how many of our kids are getting covid but youve got to see where and of course why. Thats why we have the Wizard Of Odds. Hes been looking at the Numbers Region by region. What the distinguishers . Hes got some interesting points to make and the numbers come from the cdc. Next. Wealth is your first big investment. Worth is a partner to help share the load. Wealth is saving a little extra. Worth is knowing its never too late to start or too early. Wealth helps you retire. 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Nationally an overwhelming number of parents support Mask Mandates in schools. There you have it, okay . And parents across the country have critical reason to feel that way considering the number of coronavirus cases among kids are rising dramatically. Harry henton, the Wizard Of Odds joins us now to break down the numbers. So lets look at it first in terms of new cases where and then lets get to why. Yeah, i mean heres the key thing. I want to get to the why as well, which is that if we look at this, what do we see . Were seeing more. Thats the word i keep using, more. Look at this surge in Pediatric Cases versess all cases in the latest data we have. Pediatric cases are overwhelmingly growing compared to all cases. Why . Heres the reasons why or some potential reasons why. Number one, more people are generally going out taking more risks. More. More transmissible, the Delta Variant far more transmissible. Kids, more of them are going Back To School and that potentially raises the risk. And more more of them are not wearing masks because of a lot of the restrictions on mandates were seeing and more people taking risks just generally speaking. Now, i think whats important to point out, though, we sort of have a pandemic in different regions, right . Were in different stages. So if you take a look here at the top five states where there have been the most childhood cases over the last week, look at this. About 1,000 new cases per on average per 100,000 where the most new cases, and the five states where there are the least new cases only about 125 new cases per 100,000. Whats the difference between these two places . One thing we know is its not just masks its not just theyre wearing masks. More people are vaccinated in those yarea as well. How many people are vaccinated at this point . This i think tells the entire story. 72 of the folks vaccinated of the eligible population in the state with the least number of new cases versus the number with the mostonly about 54 are fully vaccinated of the eligible population. Now, lets hit one more beat here about the vaccine. Once again were hearing numbers, oh, you know, they said it was going to be a panacea. They said the vaccine was going to be perfect, but now im hearing about more and more break through cases, so maybe its not so good, maybe i dont need it. First only trump said the vaccine was a panacea. He said it would be magic and it would make the virus just disappear. Fauci and the others have been qualifying it and you can argue about their messaging and whether they stay ahead of the data enough. But nobody has said it was a panacea. But what does the data show us, harry, about the difference in terms of real illness if your vaccinated or unvaccinated . Well, concentrate right now on the childhood hospitalizations, those zero to 17. Obviously some of those folks can be vaccinated, but a lot of them cant. Look at the trump states versus the biden states. And we obviously know theres a lot more vaccination in the biden states. What we see is its basically a Flat Line if we go back to september. Look at the trump states, at an alltime high in terms of Coronavirus Hospitalizations among those age 0 to 17. We know in the places in which we have the most vaccinations we know the hospitalizations are lowest among the most vulnerable. This is to me as clear a sign that you can see the vaccine works not just to keep cases down but to prevent kids from going to the hospital. And look, raises a couple of questions. One, how many people can you get vaccinated, but how many can you get to kids . Because 0 to 17 a bulk of that cant get vaccinated. On the one side, the clineical side, when will the fda approve the vaccine for kids . 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Parents, teachers, even the American Academy Of Pediatrics have joined the chorus. Now lawmakers are leading the fight for answers. Last month more than 100 members of congress led by democratic representatives Ro Khanna and Katie Porter signed into a bipartisan letter demanding a briefing from the fda to clarify this time line. Congressman porter joins me now. Its good to see you. Three weeks ago, what have you heard . Well, we did get a response back from the fda. It was very brief. Essentially repeated what we already knew is that the fda is working on it, but we did schedule an Inperson Briefing when we were back in washington so congress can get more information. I think the biggest concern i have is just the confusion. We have people say the beginning of next year, people saying november. Pfizer is going to submit the data in september. We missed a real opportunity to be in conversation with parents out Back To School, which is really trust me as a parent im getting a lot of information Back To School time would have been nice to have a better sense what are the steps in the process and what is the potential time line. Right, because, you know, we care about the kids. Youve got two teens and a 9yearold. Ive got two teens and an 11yearold. We care about them being sick the younger they get, right . It scares parents more and more. So unfortunately the bulk of the kids that were most worried about are in the Age Category that cant get vaccinated. So heres the Fine Line for you to walk. You need to get It Done, but if they say youre rushing them, then youre really in the soup because now people arent going to want to take it. Well, i think thats exactly what were concerned about is the information flow. So the more that the fda tells families about these are the steps in the process, this is where we are, this is what comes next, this is what were looking for scientifically, these are the data theyre collecting, the more Trance Parent they are the more trust theyre going to build in the process. So when the science says that its safe to vaccinate kids well have parents ready to go trusting and informed. So nobody is suggesting that we rush the science. What we are suggesting is that the fda can keep americans better informed about this process. Right. And look they dont have a great Track Record for this. This would be for Emergency Use for the kids. And they had all this data, and we kept having all these Big Shots come on the show and say with the regular vaccine for adults, look, its fine. Its really good. Theyre just crossing the ts and dotting the is. They already have the data they need. Its fine, but they didnt approve it. But you had about 1 in 3 people who were vaccine hesitant, not resistant say, yeah, that would matter to me if it were approved. So they didnt do that great the last time, theyre not doing it great this time either. Well, its a black box. We all need to trust the fda and the scientific process, and i do. But as a member of congress i also have an obligation to get answers and do an oversight of the fda. Its their job to build that trust in the vaccine process, in the authorization process, and part of that is helping parents understand the steps, what is coming, what is next, how many kids in the trial, whats the steps . And Back To School, weve known Back To School is coming for a while. My kids start counting down the Day School starts to vacation. We could have used that time to answer questions about it. We missed that opportunity, but im going to try to get Information And Share it with my constituents as much as i can. Look, you know, we had orientation for the middle Schooler Today because the kids have to have the masks on in school, public school, but they want the kids masked up. And, you know, people are on edge. They want the information, and youre right, congressman, if you dont prepare the parents when theyre told to get the vaccine theyre going to have have all the questions they have right now. Let me ask you Something Else which is trickier as a situation. You want to prioritize Child Care in the new budget bill, and i totally understand the need. But politically i think your party is in a jam because you have this Spending Bill somehow married to the infrastructure bill. And ive been saying for a long time theres no way these two things happen at the same time. And do you think that you can find a way through your party to get a Reconciliation Bill done on spending that gets anything done that you want . Absolutely. Look, when we talk about infrastructure, we talk about making an investment in our economy. We talk about how improving roads or bridges or ports would help our economy grow, would help us compete globally. It is the exact same conversation with regard to Child Care. The lack of affordable Child Care is creating a productivity crisis. Its creating a weaker economy, and theres no american whether theyre a parent or not who doesnt benefit from a strong economy. So these things are absolutely tied together. Theyre tied together in president bidens build back better plan and theyre going to be moving through congress at the exact same time. It doesnt doby good to create reds or bridges if Workers Cant leave their homes, cant leave their children to go through those jobs. Let me tell the audience the part i think is interesting. Low and middle income households would pay no more than 7 of their income on Child Care for kids younger than age 5. Wages for those in the Child Care Work Force would also be raised to 15 an hour. Now, that is really important because thats a group of parents that struggle the most to make ends meet. But do you think that you should just draft that bill as a stand alone . Because the moderates in your party and i dont think its just joe manchin. I think youve got several of them. They just let him do the talking in the senate. They just dont like the Price Tag. Let me be clear investing in Child Care is worth every single dollar we put it in. Let me give some quick facts. Womens Work Force participation is at a 30year low. The Job Numbers we saw in august 12 of those jobs went to women. And Child Care in this country in more than half of the stateses cost more than instate college tuition. Its not just low and middle income families who cant afford Child Care. Its all american families. In the exact same way we see a lot of families up and down the Income Spectrum struggling to afford college. Im pushing for a bill in which no more has to pay more for Child Care. Thaelg thats going to give us the maximum Work Force Participation And Help women go into leadership position, help us be globally competitive with other countries who have long ago made these investments in Child Care. We absolutely need to make this investment in our Work Force if we want to have a strong, stable and growing economy going forward. I disagree with none of that. And in fact weve seen that exacerbated by covid in kids having to stay home from school. And very often it has been mothers who have been sacrificed to have to stay home because now they cant work. Theyre not getting back into the Work Force as quickly. Theres no question. Im saying the politics. Are you better off making it a stand alone because i do not think that youre going to get through your own party a bill that has anywhere near the Price Tag that You Guys keep throwing out there, 3. 5 billion, trillion, whatever it is that theyre not going to want to do it. Should you try to go small ball here . This is very important. Make it a stand alone, make people have to vote on this. We need to do this Part And Parcel because part of what were conveying is that women are part of the Work Force. Women are part of the economy, that this matters. We tie these things together because they are tied together in reality in peoples families. You can create jobs. You can build roads and bridges, but like i said if People Cant leave their houses they cant take those jobs. With regard to what this is going to cost, look, its an investment. You look at every dollar you spend and what is your economy going to get back . And also we are not done in congress working to figure out how were going to pay for this bill. We have large corporations that are paying nothing, nothing in taxes even as low and middle income families and parents are dropping out of the Work Force because they cant afford to even get to their workplaces with Child Care. So we need to raise the revenues through having a fair Tax System so that we can pay for things that will make our economy grow for everybody. I am not questioning the problem at all. I just want that to be clear. Im just saying when you mix this remedy, this wrong auralably and the remedy in with all the other stuff going to be in with that bill it may get at an a minimum slowed up if not hacked up for the sake of some deal. Thats why i was laying it out there. I appreciate you making the case. Its hard to rebut because the facts are the facts. Congresswoman Katie Porter, the problem you are right about. I help the solution helps a lot of families and women in this country because they need it. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Be well. Lets keep firing up your brains. Katey porter, super smart. But, again, will her party make that deal . The need is there. Should it be a stand alone . Well see. Theres a quiz. I want you to take the quiz. Its easy. You cant not get the questions right, and were going to talk about it on the other side of the break. Go to the the New York times website. Its just this story is in the New York times. What im saying is this quiz is there on its website. It has to do with who you are in these polarizing political times. I am going to take a basic Advocacy Position although i am going to question what im advocating for with the mastermind behind this quiz that youre going to take. The Twoparty System has failed us. Everybody agrees. What is the fix . I just tweeted out the quiz, a link to it on my page chriscuomo. 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Did you take the time during the commercial break to take the quiz . If you did youd see when you went there that there is a different paradigm, six parties basically breaking each of the existing ones into three. So lets bring in the better mind that put that format together for the New York times. Hes also the author of breaking the twoparty doom loop. The case for multiparty democracy in america. Lee drutman. Its good to see you. Its good to see you, too. Glad to have you onboard. Absolutely. Im much older than you. Ive been saying this for a very long time because the Twoparty System being binary in Nature Foments decision and makes Opposition Part of the nature. Which is as long as drutman sucks im okay. And what it does is it stymies progress and we see where we are now and why it seems so intractable. In terms of why it wont happen, first lets start with the benefit. Why do you believe six parties, four parties, five parties would be better than two . Well, first of all for the reason that you imagine which is im tired of you saying i suck but the lesser of two equals only works when theres just two parties. When you have four or five or six parties you cant get away with that in campaigning. Youve got to actually stand for something, so we get rid of the demonization. Fundamental problem of our governing now is that everything is in terms of wins and losses for one of the two parties because both of the parties are trying to get back into power or getting a old on power. So no one actually wants to solve any public problems. They just want to have issues that allow them to win the next election. And it also creates a situation in which we have one party thats the party of the cities of cosmopolitan, Multiracial America and another party thats the party of rural small Town Traditionallest christian america. And they are they are so separated in geographical space and by Social Networks that they view the other party as a fundamental threat. Its fundamentally different. And when you have a Binary System in which people are sorted like that, its really eeasy to demonize. But when you have five or six parties people are going to have more diverse networks and be willing to engage with other ideas. It makes politics more complicated and forces us to actually think. So just going right to left basically the Way Lee did is was youve got your christian conservatives that are morality first, and then youve got your trumptype people, your populist americans. And then you have your growth, whatever you want to call it, Growth And Progress which are traditional republicans, fiscal austerity, but center, Center Right on social issues. But then you get to the new liberals, which would be like, you know, cory booker. And then you get, you know, which is the old democratic party which is where Joe Biden wants to be working for populist and then you get into what the democratic party has become, which is the intellectual elites, right . And then you have the far left progressive wing of it which would be the aocs and the Ilhan Omars With Defund The Police and radical ideas of a lot more spending. That would be the ideological spectrum not that far off. In terms of timing revolutionary war, the 1830s, more people get the right to vote than the 1890s, the guilded age, corruption leads to the progressive area, recall elections, et cetera, et cetera. We used to have the state pick the senators. Things can move. Its about 60 Years Cycle of reform. You think were ready for one . Im ready. Are you ready . Ive been ready because this seems unworkable to me. Lee in his piece if you look at his book he outlines youre going to have to change how you do congressional races to make them bigger Catch Man areas to have representatives which then would encourage other parties, other stakeholders and youd have an on cutting deals so you could keep your plurality, you could keep your power in pliace. Heres the big obstacle, the Electoral College because all the other parties would be squeezed out in the Electoral College, and it wouldnt be an equal footing to become president. And if a party doesnt have any chance of ever having a president , why would people get onboard . Well, that is an obstacle. You can certainly do it for congress, and theres legislation in the fair Representation Act which would create multimember districts with Rank Choice Voting in the house which im very much onboard with. Id love to change the Electoral College. Its a weird, strange, antiquated thing we have, but youre right it is going to put a strong pressure on us having two parties at the president ial level or at least two major candidates. Although i will note that there have been a few elections in our political history in which weve had four parties competing for president. And those have been really elections that have kind of transformed American Politics 1824, 1860, 1912. So its certainly possible you could see that. But i think what we would see at the president ial level is less focus on the d or the r in front of the candidate or whatever labels are most popular and more focus on the candidates themselves and their policies and their promises and their character. And so people would be more open to voting for different candidates for president. And those president s would be able to govern in a more broader unifying Way And Work with congress or the opposite party sometimes get or opposite parties get push back from congress. It would be more of the kind of check and Balances System we had in an earlier era when absolutely im with you. And look, i said a caller just today on my radio show. And lee, i want to you on there and have a longer conversation about this. Say to me, look, if trump was running again i dont like what he says, like a lot of these things but you know what im not voting for democrats, so Id Vote for him again, yeah. Thats a broken system. Thank you for doing the brainwork of thinking about ways to make it better and lets keep talking about it. I appreciate its really up to us. Heres the benefit we have, we know the way it is now, it cant stay that way. Im going to take a break. Ill be right back after this break with a very important bolo next. One thats been paved and one thats forever wild but freedom means you dont have to choose just one adventure you get both. Introducing the Allnew 3row Jeep grand cherokee l jeep. Theres only one. 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Here we are eight months later, and it seems like were in the same spot. Thats because we are. What has changed . The anger, the animus, the misinformation, the disinformation. It just gets layered on. Remember the lasagna of lies . Its just gotten higher and higher. Yeah. Yeah. Theyre not changing their tune. The only change in tune that has been perceptible to me is right at The End of the Afghanistan Exit when they were december prally trying to get people out, you had people on