Having it both ways where theyd be saying get them out, get them out. But dont bring them here. Cant have those people here, theyre brown, a lot of them are brown. A lot of them . Now because you have so many on the right and a lot of veterans actively trying to get people out, theyve been quieting people with their xenophobia for now. Thats the only Perceptible Change ive seen, the Big Lie, the recall in election in california is going to be rigged. Trump is spreading that bs again. All of the same visiis still at play. Im not saying youre doing it, i meant us in general, the media. To think that were in a place now where as you said has not changed much because people are still believing the lyie s even with all of the video that came out of January 6th. Even with all the evidence that came out about the election. The most secure election, the most secure in the history of this country. Even with that, even with the fraud happening in arizona and no information being found, with all of that, the lies, the mis misinformation, as you said the disinformation the power, the power. Spilling over into the covid. Absolutely. The power is what people want to be true. Why would you not take the vaccine . Because you want to believe that you wont need it and that the risk is worth it to stick it to the people that you want to be against. Thats what you want it to be true. You want that on January 6th they didnt really do anything wrong. You want to believe that its about the deep state. You want to believe that its about everybody else. Those are the people who are susceptible. The problem is it doesnt take many to do something really awful, maybe in ten days. Yeah, yeah. Brai brainwashed. It is a cult. All right. Thats the truth. Okay, ill see you brother, youre the man. D. Lemon, i love you. You know what . Youre okay. Sometimes i love you. Sometimes i dont. I aim for mediocrity. Anything above that is gravy. Im only kidding. Ill see you soon, thank you, brother. This is Don Lemon tonight. Ive got a lot to talk about it. The president has a lot to talk about as well. Hes going to give a major speech tomorrow. The president contending with how we got to where we are tonight with covid, a place where virtually every single death is completely preventable. Did you hear what i said . Every death is completely preventable and unvaccinated kids across the country are now caught in the political battles over masks and vaccinations. West virginias republican governor, jim justice who has been provaccine all along has just about had it with people, people who are spreading Conspiracy Theories in his state. He has had it in his state where less than 40 of residents are fully vaccinated. For god sakes of living, how difficult is this to understand . Why in the worlD Do we have to come up with these crazy ideas and theyre crazy ideas that the vaccines got something in it, is its tracing people where ever they go, and the same very people who are saying that are carrying their Cell Phones around. I mean, Come On. Come on. We just need to use good sense and get ourselves vaccinated, and then well stop this thing. Hes right. Come on. It would take all kinds of shots, my back hurts, this hurts, ill take that shot. You dont know whats in it. Do you really know whats in it . But youll take that. Im in pain. I need to take it. Youll take that. Right . You dont even know whats in over the counter medicine, be u you take that. You dont know whats in that beer youre drinking, but youll take that. I hear people say im not taking that because i dont know whats in it, and then theyre going outside smoking cigarettes. Really . And then down in florida, right . A judge is handing governor Ron Desantis a Defeat Today allowing schools in the state to mandate Ma Masks while the case is appealed. As the Mask Wars heat up in School Districts across the country, minnesota governor Tim Walz is pushing masks for School Kids too young to get vaccinated. These little ones dont have the choice to take the voaccine. You wouldnt let them run across the street without looking. You certainly wouldnt put them in a crowded classroom without a mask. Lets remember how vicious these Mask Wars have gotten. Here it is. These are demonic entities in all the School Boards of the united states of america and All Of Us christians will be sticking together to take them all out. Masks dont work. These doctors that sit up here that were sneering at us and looking at us like were scum bags, they need to go back to [ bleep ] medical school. Your children and your childrens children will be asked how many vaccines have you had, have you been a good little nazi so i was having a conversation with we were listening to chriss show and i was having a conversation with someone who works here, and were the same age, a man of a certain age, and she said, man, im an older parent now and when i was in My 20s and 30s when i had my kids, im so glad i didnt open my mouth because i was so ignorant, i didnt know. You think you know everything when youre young, and you get to be a certain age, especially when you get to be in your 50s, i dont know, you know but i knew more than i knew when i was in My 20s, 30s and even 40s. So sometimes people should just have a seat and listen to the experts. Its hard to believe that anybody takes stuff like that seriously, right . A good little nazi, ha ha ha. What does that prove . Nothing. But if we are going to get more people vaccinated, were going to have to find a way to get the message across, the message that masks and vaccines save lives. So cnn talked to some folks in missouri about why they dont trust the vaccine. Here it is, listen. Well, the one thing is they shafted my president. If they would have had the vaccine, already had it, but they wouldnt give it to him because they knew damn good and well hed be reelected. So they had to swindle around and skin around and keep it from him just as soon as the election was over, we got it. You shafted me on my president , i aint taking your medicine. Not from ill take what they give him, but im not taking yours. He took the vaccine, though. I dont know that. That guy sitting next to him with a dog is me. Hes just smiling or whatever. Look, heres the people they sit around and they watch and they listen to certain people who give them misinformation. They are adults so theyre responsible for their own being and what they think. What he thinks is actually wrong because the fact is the former president did get vaccinated. Okay . And this president has actually given him credit for helping to get the vaccine out. And just a couple of weeks ago, the former guy got booed by supporters in alabama for recommending the vaccine. And a new study out tonight confirms that pfizer, the moderna vaccines are about 90 effective in keeping people 50 and older out of the hospital. Come on, people. Lets deal in facts, not just what you want to believe and not having your own beliefs reinforced. There are facts and those are the facts. The White House hoping that the president s new Vaccine Mandates will make a dent with the 26. 7 of eligible americans who are not vaccinated, and then there is the White House tonight, apparently removing 11 officials from the previous administration from Military Academy Advisory Boards after a 6 00 p. M. Deadline for them to resign, and these arent just any officials. Were talking the likes of Sean Spicer, remember that . Period. Biggest audience, period, Sean Spicer and then Kellyanne Conway of the alternative facts. Well, white House Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying this today. I will let others evaluate whether they think Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer and others were qualified or not political to serve on these boards, but the president s Qualification Requirements are not your party registration. They are whether youre qualified to serve and whether youre aligned with the values of this administration. So Kellyanne Conway proving that she is not exactly nonpartisan, firing off a letter to President Biden saying im not resigning, but you should. This from the woman who served a disgraced twice impeached oneterm former president. Not only served him, she helped to get him elected. In november, months before he left office, the former guy dismissed several members of the Policy Board before their terms were up including Madeleine Albright and henry kissinger. Now there are people in the group asked to resign today who seem pretty qualified. But theres also Heidi Stirup a former white House Liaison who was banned from entering the building after she tried to assess sensitive information about bogus Election Fraud in december. And then there is retired colonel Douglas Mcgregor whose history of controversial comments includes a 2013 Radio Show where he talked about what he called the entitled underclass of people concentrated in large urban areas and the threat they supposedly pose. Now, who do you think hes talking about . Or as we say in my house, who you think he talking about . Thats who hes talking about, exactly who you think. Weve got a lot r more to Come On all of this as the White House is slammi k Texas Governo Greg abbotts claim hell eliminate rape. To carry the pregnancy to term . It doesnt require that at all because obviously it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion, so for one, it doesnt provide that. That said, however, lets make something very clear. Rape is a crime, and texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of texas. Jen psaki saying this. Governor abbott has a means of eliminating all rapists or all rape from the united states, then thered be bipartisan support for that. So in the meantime, mea meanwhile, theres this ominous News Tonight on capitol hill, this is what i was talking to chris about, a source telling cnn the u. S. Capitol police formally requested that the fence around the capitol be temporarily put in place again ahead of a planned rightwing rally on September 18th, a rally in support of rioters jailed after the insurrection on January 6th. The latest intelligence on the socalled justice For J 6 rally knows theres been an uptick in violent online rhetoric. A source of the Capitol Police board is likely to approve the fencing though it is expected to be smaller and up for only a few days at most, fingers crossed, we hope so. So it was just hagt months ago that the Big Lie of bogus Election Fraud fueled one of the darkest days in american history, January 6th. Hunting lawmakers, forced to r for their lives, beating police officers, american heroes, trying to defend the seat of our democracy. We all saw what happened on that horrible day. Remember what you saw with your own eyes, when you hear those calls for, quote, justice for the rioters who tried to take down our democracy. And those are the facts. Another one is that its clear that the White House has a Message Tonight for democrats that it cant afford to lose. Youre either with President Biden or against him. 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Theres a lot to discuss tonight with cnns senior political commentator, David Axle Roud and matthew doud, the former chief strategist of president george w. Bush, and the author of revelations on the river. Gentlemen, good evening to both of you. Matthew, were now getting a sense of what well hear from the President Tomorrow in his effort to curb the Delta Variant and boost vaccinations. Is it time to see more sticks and less carrots in this battle against covid . Theres been a ton of carrots and very few sticks. I think we need more sticks. Its gone from hesitancy to out and out obstruction to folks getting vaccine. I noticed today i saw information, 91 of biden voters have gotten the vaccine. 50 of trump voters are gotten the vaccine and that number has not risen very much in the last few weeks. I think were at the point in order to protect the common good, which All Of Us should have an interest in and move forward, i think were going to have to start seeing sticks and thats going to start including mandates and ways to sort of make people do whats best for their communities. David, theres people, you know, i talk to down at the hospital in baton rouge, louisiana, who didnt get the vaccine for one reason or another or for a lot of them it wasnt only political but for the ones who are dug in politically. What else could the president possibly do to convince them . Yeah, well, im not sure he could convince them. I dont think hes the most convincing figure for, you know, for example, those trump voters that matthew was speaking of. There can be requirements, though, associated with employment and, you know, i think he can urge where he has authority implement those. By the way, i would always refer to these as requirements. I dont the Word Mandate has taken on some, you know, really dark implications. We have all kinds of requirements that we live with as part of being a responsible society, including, by the way, vaccinations for our kids for other diseases in the schools. So, you know, these are requirements, and he ought to apply them wherever he can and particularly as it relates to people who come into contact with children, but i think more broadly as well. Hey, david, let me ask you something. I was just wondering why he didnt and the administration didnt take that attitude initially . I think initially they said im not sure the president has, you know, the authority to be able to do that. But shouldnt that have been the requirement, at least from the folks in the government all along . This is a pandemic, this is a public health risk. This is a requirement. Do it or not. And who cares about what people were screaming around the country about were not going to do it. Why not just make it well, maybe they wanted to see what kind of takeup there was as time went on. But clearly at this point, you know, i mean, theres a lot of resentment among people who have gotten the vaccination that anD Done the responsible thing that their lives are now being held hostage in many ways to the people who refused to, and then you think of the fact that our Emergency Rooms are over not Emergency Rooms, Icu Ss and hospitals overflowing with people who wouldnt get the vaccination and crowding out people who need medical care because these rooms are full. I mean, yes, its time to be a lot more aggressive with people. I personally think, you know, and i dont think hell do this tomorrow, but id be a lot more aggressive with the politicians who are you know, who are politically or at least they think theyre politically profiteers off of things like Fighting Mask Mandates in the schools, jeopardizing kids, you know, my 4yearold Grandson started preschool in a place where the governor was pushing, you know, the antimask line, and my grandson wore a mask. Other kids didnt. Within two days he was quarantined because he was exposed to people with covid. You know, this is not right, and you look at the stats where there is this explosion of cases among young people, and its in those states where these fights are going on. That is not how a responsible society functions. We have obligations to each other, and you know, these pl politicians who are so craven as to overlook the obvious danger their putting people in because they think they can score some points with their political base . I mean, they really need to be taken on frontally. We had an irresponsible president and irresponsible promoters and apologists, and so i just but i dont think you should give any credence to someone for people who are irresponsible. I just think you say, look, this is what you must do anD Do it anD Dont worry about them. We need to save lives. Go on, matthew. No, what i was going to say is this underlines, i think, a developed and it has become exacerbated today, this really fundamental line between sort of this idea that im going to do whatevers good for me and i dont really have to ware about the rest of society by community my neighborhood, my state, my country, and its really sort of completely Ant Thet Cal in my view to the constitution of the united states of america, which obviously had individual rights, but the first line of the constitution is we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union. And basically the gop pushed by donald trump, but pushed by many other people on many issues, this is just one of them. But fundamentally on this is the idea now theyre taking umbrage to the idea of asking somebody to do something to benefit their community, to benefit fellow citizens and that now has become a line in the sand. The common good now is no longer seen as part of the american ideal. Also, too, i mean, you know, the folks out there who are supposed christians and theyre not looking out for their fellow man and just looking out for themselves, thats completely antithetical to that as well, to actually being a christian and what the bible teaches. I want to talk about infrastructure now and whats happening. The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says democrats are moving fully ahead on the 3. 5 trillion spending package. We have seen the Infrastructure And Reconciliation bills on Life Support before, and they have come back to life. So pull out your krystal ball, Crystal Ball if you will, will this get passed in some Form Or Fashion . I believe it will. Im sure what will happen, is well have to bargain on it. It may not end up to be 3. 5 trillion, if it ends up 3. 1 t 3. 1 trillion or 3. 2 trillion, i think that will be a huge Movement Forward and fund all kinds of things we need. My view is hell get It Done. It may not be exactly what everyone wants but something will get done. Theyll get it through. Theyll get the votes of the senators by probably giving up a few things or doing a few things there. In The End i think he gets It Done, and hopefully gets It Done and we can move on to protecting Voter Rights because fundamentally in my view, thats the most important issue of our time is the protection of Voter Rights because without that all of this other stuff doesnt matter. Amen. David, take us inside the maneuvering, likely going on inside the White House trying to get this done and threading the needle between moderates and liberals. Really, we always refer to Joe Manchin as a moderate. I think hes more of a conservative democrat. Hes not really a moderate democrat. We certainly saw that you saw what was going on with obamacare, so take us inside. Whats happening . Yeah, look, i mean, i think theyre trying to get the best deal that they can get, and you know, Joe Manchin has i think now hes at 1. 5 trillion, theyre at 3. 5 trillion. Theyre going to land somebwher in between that. As matthew said, this will be a substantial investment in, you know, the social Safety Net of our country. And you know, but i will tell you when we pass the affordable care act, don, youll remember there were people who were unhappy that we couldnt get the public option that we had fought for and that many progressives wanted in that bill. Didnt they want single payor too . And then well, yes, but beyond that, in that bill, they wanted this public option as a step toward that. We didnt have the votes for that, and the choice was are we going to make substantial progress that will touch the looi lives of tens of millions of americans or are we going to make the perfect the enemy of the of good. I would hope that if biden is successful and i think he will be because i think theres too much on the table for any democrat to walk away from and be responsible for killing if biden is successful, i hope that we dont see a repeat of that. I hope there arent people that say, well, gee, we wanted 3. 5. We wanted 6 trillion. We only got 2. 8 trillion. This was a failure. It wont be a failure. It will be a substantial success, and i think its going to have to happen quickly because in order to get progressive votes to advance the process in the and moderate votes to advance i should say to get moderate votes to advance the progress, this process, they had to agree it was September 27th vote on the infrastructure bill. Progressives are demanding that they move forward on both tracks at once, so this thing is on a very fast track, and were going to know in the next few weeks what it looks like and whether its up or down. Yeah, matthew, i got to run. You think its going to happen, though, right . I think its going to happen. Somewhere in the 2s, you believe. It sounds like you were negotiating to buy a House Offer this and well settle here. Again, im going to say its not near as important on what we need to do on voters rights. Every issue gends on voting rights. I think youre absolutely right on that. Schools areopening as Child Covid cases show a big jump. 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Joining me now to discuss is the director of the Child Center for Health And Behavior development at seattle Childrens Hospital and the Editor And Chief of jama pediatrics. Thank you. Good to see you, sir. Good to see you. You know, as of this week, almost every School Child in the country will be back at school. Whats your concern as we look at this rise in cases in children . Well, the first thing i want to say is that the percentage of new cases in kids doesnt really tell the story, right . Because as others have pointed out, what we have here is an epidemic of the unvaccinated, and who are the unvaccinated . Well, children under 12 are all unvaccinated. People over 12 have the choice of being vaccinated or not. So in a perfect world, if we haD Done everything we could, we would see that 80 of the cases were in kids under 12 because everyone over 12 was vaccinated. The truth is that unvaccinated people are at risk and they get it from other unvaccinated people by and large. So thats the challenge that we have a bunch of kids in schools that are not jeligible to get vaccines and a lot of adults that are refusing to get vaccines themselves and i might point out pushing back on even having children wear masks in schools. So we are going to see covid in schools. Were already seeing it. Make this clear for me then because earlier in the pandemic it looked like kids didnt seem to contribute much to the spread. Has the Delta Variant changed all that . Explain that to us. Delta is clearly a game changer. There are two things about delta, one which we know already, one which were still trying to figure out. What we know is its much more infe infectious, anywhere from five to ten times more infectious. If you have delta, youre much more likely to spread it whether youre vaccinated or not. What we dont know yet, honestly, in the case of children is whether or not delta, in fact, makes kids sicker. A lot more kids are sick so it stands to reason there are going to be more sick kids. I can tell you the scientist in me says the data are not there yet. Im part of a team that is looking at that right now. Were looking at Hundreds Of Thousands of children with covid in the united states right now, and we expect to have an answer about the severity of delta in children this month, but the clinician in me, the clinician in me who takes care of patients does believe Delta Is poses a greater threat to children. I say that because we had our first Child Die of covid in our hospital this past month, and talking to colleagues around the country, everyone is seeing more very sick children with covid than weve ever seen before. So the Data Arent there yet, but i expect they will show its worse for kids. Heres what several doctors have told cnn, that most children hospitalized with covid have preexisting conditions but not all of them. What are you seeing in your hospital . Do you agree with that . Yeah, i mean, the sad truth is that most of the kids at our hospital and across the country are either unvaccinated when they could have been vaccinated and many have preexisting conditions. But not all. You know, we often hear people say about this epidemic, don, that were all in this together. You know, thats true to a point. Were in the same storm, but were not in the same boat. Some of the us are in yachts. We have resources. We can work from home, were immuno competent, we have access to a vaccine, and some of us are in rafts. All of us need to do all we can do to help those in less sturdy crafts, and that means getting vaccinated as soon as you can and masking up according to the cdc guidelines. You know, you were saying that brings up a very interesting point. I know that you basically do Peetd Yacht ricks, Bu Pediatrs but why arent adults back at work . If children can be at school and adults can be vaccinated and wear masks, why are we not back in offices . Theres no excuse for adults not to be back in work and back at offices masking up and being vaccinated. Your previous guests were talking about that. I think thats the direction were going to need to move in. Employers are going to need to start mandating or requiring to take david axelrods word, vaccinations, and insisting that people come back. I was just in i had the good fortune of being back in my homeland of greece where theyve been struggling to get enough vaccines. Everyone was shocked to hear in this country we are paying people, literally paying them to get vaccines and theyre still not getting them. People in this country have no appreciation of how fortunate we are and how easily we could return to some level of normalcy if everybody would just do their part, and i think it is unfortunately going to take sticks because were all out of carrots. I think to have the kids have to, you know, be in a place where some people dont want to wear masks and all of, that i think it would be a good example of us to get back to work and put on our masks, tell people in order to get back to that office you got to be vaccinated and you need to come back to work. Thats just anD Don, one last thing. One last thing that should really absolutely not be on the table. Keeping kids out of school again for another six months, another year, should not even be on our radar screen. Im worried that its going to Come On Peoples Radar screens, but we should have learned by now that that is absolutely not the right thing to do. Weve already made our children pay an incredibly unfair price for this epidemic. Thank you, good to see you. Be safe. Good to see you, sir. Take care. Monument avenue in richmond, virginia, the capital of the defeated confederacy looks a lot like a lot different tonight, i should say. The confederate statue of robert e. 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So tonight a symbol of the confederacy and of the war to preserve slavery no longer overlooks richmond, virginia, workers removing the towering statue of confederate general robert e. Lee from its pedestal. More now from cnns joe johns. Hey, hey, Goodbye Reporter after 131 years on display, the city of richmond, virginia, says goodbye to a monument thats been a source of controversy for decades. This statue of robert e. Lee, the largest confederate statue that was still standing in the u. S. Was E Rrected in 1890, mor than a generation after the civil war, but today it came down. A heavy Duty Crane lifted the 12ton confederate general and his horse from its pedestal, cut into huge pieces for storage at a secure location. For many in the crowd, this day could have come sooner. Its hatred, and i do not like hatred, period. Reporter getting to this point was a monumental battle. The controversy surrounding it was amplified by the black Lives Matter protests last year. And while confederate monuments in other parts of the u. S. Came down, including in nearby charlottesville, in richrichmon once the capital of the confederacy, it took all three branches of government speaking with the same voice to overcome legal obstacles to removal. Yes, that statue has been there for a long time, but it was wrong then, and it is wrong now. Reporter the legislature passed a provision supporting the removal, and finally, last week the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a challenge from some residents in the district and the descendants of the families who donated the property for the monument. Theres a lot of pain in this statue, you know, in the bottom half especially now, theres a lot of words in there. Reporter but today also renews conversations over whether removing confederate statues is an attempt to rewrite or even erase the united states troubled racial history. At The End of the day, the statue and its removal equally symbolic, the old richmond coming down, and the new richmond ascendant. This is a very powerful place now. Its transformed into a powerful play. Reporter joe johns, cnn, ric richmond, virginia. Joe johns, thank you very much for that. I want to bring in cnn political commentator, bakari sellers. Thanks for joining me this evening. You remember being there when that confederate flag came down right, in your state. So you say that even though youre glad that this racist symbol came down, racism exists, even if you paint all the streets with black Lives Matter. But does Today Help move forward the conversation about how we address race and our history in this country . Unfortunately, i dont think it does. I mean, im someone who believes that statues of robert e. Lee should come down, especially shoutout to Mayor Landrieu whos one of our colleagues, shoutout to all of those individuals who have led the charge to take these statues down, but the battle for many of us is systemic racism. The battle for many of us is the racism thats engrained into the systems in this country. Were having a debate right now in 2021, about the legacy of robert e. Lee. I mean, lets think about that. And there are people who are going to misquote his legacy and say that in 1856 he wrote a letter that said that slavery was both a political and moral evil, but they wont do the Dot Dot Dot and talk about what he said after that in that letter. They wont talk about the fact that he believed that blacks were better off under the Subjugation Enslavement of their white masters than they would be otherwise. They dont talk about the fact that he thought that the only way that we could get free or have our Freedom Or Emancipation was divine intervention. They dont talk about the fact that robert e. Lee was a Slave Owner himself, and they dont talk about the fact that he led his soldiers into the one of the largest slaughters that weve had in the history of the united states of america. And so its frustrating that were talking about robert e. Lee. On the other hand, we Cant Teach Americas history through what is now known as critical race theory, so were sitting here taking down statues, and black folk and brown folk and poor folk are still being oppressed. Well, i mean, theres a lot of willful ignorance when it comes to the history of this country. A lot of it is a refusal for it to be taught, and most people when you say critical race theory, the people who are fighting against it, they have no idea what it is. If you asked them what it was, they would have no idea. I mean, youre right, but you know, the fact is you have people who are this is why let me start over this sentence. This is why controlling your own narrative is so important. Right. And for black folk in this country, we have not been able to write our own stories. We have not been able to share our own history. Thats why its so important. When people like to lift up Robert Event Lee on the pedestal, i have to remind them that that was his fight. That was his purpose. So that Me And You would be in bondage. Do you know robert e. Lee is rolling over like six, seven, eight times during this segment right now . Hes against a more perfect union. Theres no question. And against everything we holD Dear. Theres no defending robert e. Lee or his legacy. Its just dumb. History is as you say in large part about who is telling the story, right . If you tell the story, chances youre going to tell the part that makes people like you look good. I have to get this in. The former president put out a statement condemning the removal of this, saying the country is suffering an embarrassment because we dont have the genius of a robert e. Lee. What culture is he talking about . I mean, i dont know. Robert e. Lee is a racist and a loser. Donald trump is a racist and a loser. Im sorry to even ask you that. But can i answer a totally other answer . You have two losers and racists, they get along. Listen, i love it. I dont like giving ignorant people a platform. Thank you for the answer, it was right on point. Go on. The fact is, i say this oftentimes, because im blessed and fortunate enough to have this platform. But we have to have a larger vision than taking down symbols. Yes. I dont want to make the person who makes yellow paint rich. But my ministry is going here to make sure that we change these systems that put black and brown kids in schools that are falling apart, dont have clean Water Or Air and we have a criminal Justice System that is incarcerating us. Dont forget the right to vote. Yes, im proud of what happened, and i dont want to minimize what happened in virginia. But what im saying is, we have bigger fish to fry if were going to be free. Thank you, bacarikari seller. Well be right back. L night. It even tracks your circadian rhythm, so you know when youre at your best. In other words, its the most energybuilding, wellnessboosting, parentpowering, proven quality nights sleep weve ever made. Dont miss the final days where all smart beds are on sale. Save 50 on the new Sleep Number 360 limited edition smart bed. Plus, 0 interest for 48 months. Ends monday. Renae is not an influencer, shes more of a groundbreaker. Renae runs with us on a John Deere 1 series tractor. 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