Enough is enough nine months the majority has encouraged, incentivized, paid, pleaded, pacified a minority in this country to get vaccinated. We are the only country that has willfully ignored the availability of a vaccine to protect itself this egregiously. Think about that. From first to worst. Why . The reality . Too many too often for bad reason refused to keep themselves and others safe. Is that their choice . Yes. But mandates like this are controversial, right . Why . We dont like the government telling us what to do. But, of course, it does, right . Wear a seat belt, right . You Cant Blow Smoke in my face in enclosed places anymore, right . You Cant Drink and drive, right . Too much of the controversy here is just oppositional animus, not about good policy, and certainly not about science. The majority cannot have their freedoms infringed upon by those who refuse to do what is right. Yes, you have the right not to take the vaccine. That is your choice. But that doesnt mean the choice comes with no consequences. And today Joe Biden said something that im telling you will echo all over this country. Enough is enough. The stigma of minority americans supported by the stigma of minority republicans, we cant allow this to stand in the way of americans who have done their part. This is not about freedom or personal choice. Its about protecting yourself and those around you. My message to Unvaccinated Americans is this. What more is there to wait for . What more do you need to see . Weve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us. He is right. 75 of adults have one dose. Thats impressive. And yet whats the reality . The pandemic continues, perpetuated by those who unreasonably resist. Some 80 Million who remain unvaccinated in america and are eligible to be vaccinated. So now there will be a consequence for their recalcitrance. Biden laid out new man dates that could apply to at least 1 Million americans. They havent made the order, but these are the headlines from the president. Mandatory vaccines for approximately 4 Million in the federal Work Force and millions of contractors that do business with the federal government. No option of being regularly tested to opt out. Same goes for the 17 Million or so Health Care workers at facilities that receive certain federal funding and about 300,000 educators in programs like Head Start. Businesses with more than 100 workers must ensure their employees are tested weekly or face fines. Expansion of free Covid Testing and production of rapid tests. Tsa to double fines for passengers who wont mask up. Why didnt the President Demand extensive travelers be vaccinated through the faa . That may still come if people dont do the right thing. Remember, a month ago, what he did today seemed highly unlikely. They didnt want to have to do mandates. Thats going to be the spin, this is what he always wanted. If this is what he always wanted, he would have done it months ago. People have been asking for a passport, to show digitally all over this country to show that people arent faking the vaccination and that he had to do more. For months theyve been saying that to him. So that argument just fails. Now, the resistance says this is unconstitutional. Now, have we seen an order this broad before on a vaccine out of the government . No. Are there strong precedents for vaccines being a must in situations . Yes. But we will see how the order is drafted and then there will be legitimate litigation that unfolds. I think thats a given. But we can already see a really grotesque Double Standard at play with the pushback to this idea. And the absurdity of the pushback deserves a brushback. So let me get this right from the right. Insisting that doing what science overwhelmingly shows protects a person and those around them from a deadly virus is wrong, though it defies no existing law that deals with the subject. Basically why . Because a person has a right to choose what to put in their body. Thats their personal freedom. But you only believe that with the vaccine. Because you are all fine ignoring existing constitutional law to prohibit a woman from having the right to control her own body. You practically ban access to Reproductive Rights in texas in defiance of the standard set out by science and law. Governor abbott from texas says what biden is doing is a Power Grab. Governor abbott says it is okay to use his power to force a woman to stay pregnant after being raped. And when asked why is that okay, he says, well, rape is a crime and im going to arrest rapists. Thats not a Power Grab . Youre going to arrest rapists . So its okay that a rapist can rape, make someone pregnant and they have to deal with it . Thats not a Power Grab by you. Under your law, a rapist can sue a woman who wants to end the pregnancy forced on them by the rapist. The rapist can sue under your law. But Someone Cant be told they have to take the vaccine to work for the federal government. Thats a Power Grab. Are you serious . Your resistance is not about science, its not about law, and it sure as Hell Isnt about freedom. Its about animus and advantage. Where is the shame in holding such conflicting positions . Now, look, we may see the law on Reproductive Rights changed in this country. That may happen. But right now abbott and those in favor of the Texas Law are f flagrantly, willfully and wantonly violating what is constitutional law now, and they know it and theyre doing it on purpose. So you have no High Ground in arguing what is constitutional. Still worse, you are playing politics to protect life in one case that you say is fine, while arguing the point that costs us lives with this antivaxxer irrationality. Your insistence on existence is making us sick. And now it is making the people we care about most, our kids, sicker than ever. And at the worst time. Kids are going Back To School. And this mask madness, these vaxx gaps, anywhere creating more cases in kids than ever. Biden solved this problem also. And the president had a message for us parents. The safest thing for your child 12 and older is to get them vaccinated. They get vaccinated for a lot of things. The best way for a parent to protect their child under the age of 12 starts at home. Every parent, every teen sibling, every caregiver around them should be vaccinated. Do you know why . Because enough is enough. And we cannot have a tyranny of a minority in this country. It is literally making us sick. If there were to be a Freedom Argument to be had, it would have to rebound on the side of the majority. We cannot live our lives the way we want to because of a discreet minority that is insistent on keeping us sick. And so biden said, what this country needs not just to hear because we already know it but to act on it. His words certainly echoed across the country all the way to california where just tonight the nations second largest School District, the Los Angeles unified school board, just voted to mandate Covid Vaccines for all students 12 and older going into school by The End of the Calendar Year in december. There are some exceptions. Teachers and staff already have to be vaccinated. The question is will this start a trend in cities nationwide insisting that people be safe . Have we finally said enough is enough . And this will lead to moves that finally gets us to the other side of sickness. Lets discuss with two better minds, dr. Lena wen and dr. Zeke emanuel who advised Thenvice President biden on the transition. You knew where Bidens Head was during the transition, and he was slow on mandates. He didnt even want to talk about them six or seven months ago. What do you think about what he said today . I liked that he said federal employees have to get vaccinated or tested or face a very stiff fine. Ive been calling on a mandate for Health Care workers since april 14, and i like the fact hes mandated Head Start teachers to actually get vaccinated, too. Theres more mandates i wish he would have given. I think he should have incentivized states so that states that mandated kids 12 to 17 get the vaccine get some bonus so that we could get all kids in Middle School and in High School vaccinated, and as you mentioned, i think mandating vaccines for air travel, Train Travel or interstate Bus Travel would also be important. Remember, last year we had this huge surge around thanksgiving and christmas because of all the travel. We really have to start now to get people vaccinated to prevent the surge around Thanksgiving Travel and then christmas travel. So i would have liked to have seen an expanded mandate. I think weve waited too long already. Well, but you cant let perfection be the enemy of progress. Just because he hasnt done it yet doesnt mean he wont. Because, again, a couple months ago, we couldnt even talk about mandates. They would be like, no, no, no, lets see whats happening. Now, lena, in terms of pushback, one of the things i want to see them do is you have to have a national passport. If you dont have a centralized system of who has the vaccine, who knows how many vaccine cards people are carrying around already, you have to have a standardized system. But the pushback is going to be, lena, youre asking for an unamerican thing. You are going to force me to put something in my body if i dont want to, and thats unamerican. What do you say . I say that we need to start looking at the choice to remain unvaccinated the same as we look at driving while intoxicated, that you have the option to not get vaccinated if you want, but then you cant go out in public. Because when you go out in public, you have the potential to infect others with a potentially deadly disease. Just like you can choose to drink in private if you want, but if you get behind the wheel of a car and can endanger other people, there is an obligation by society to prevent you from doing that. I think what president biden did today is exactly right to say that the vaccinated should not have to pay the price for the socalled choices of the unvaccinated anymore, although to your point, chris, i definitely wish that he had also announced some type of proof of vaccination. Because at this point, we have this flimsy piece of paper thats so easy to counterfeit. We dont allow this to board an airplane. You dont go to a Tsa Checkpoint and say, i am who i say i am. Heres a piece of paper where i wrote my name. We have i. D. Fire or a reason. Some states are doing it, New York is doing it, but youre right, we need these policies to uphold. People say, if you vaccinate or not, people are getting sick at the same rate because i hear of vaccinated people getting sick all the time, so it doesnt matter, i shouldnt be forced to take it. Your answer . Its not the same rate. Youre not getting sick at the same rate. Those people who are vaccinated are getting sicker less frequently, and more importantly, theyre getting less sick. Theyre having mild or symptomatic cases. Theyre rarely ending up in the hospital and very rarely diying. The unvaccinated end up in the hospital, and they have children four times the rate in those states because there is so much virus floating around, too much easier to get sick. Not only does the vaccination protect you, it protects the people around you, and especially children. If you care about children, you ought to be vaccinated. Lena, the idea that weave never seen a Vaccine Mandate this broad before, through osha or any government body, its too broad, it overreaches. I dont think it goes far enough. I actually think that what zeke said about Interstate Travel was exactly right, but in this case we have Childhood Immunizations that we dont even think about. All 50 states have laws on the books to require Childhood Immunizations which we should be looking at the Covid Vaccine the same way. When it comes to employers, i think what the biden administration did was quite brilliant because it gives Air Cover for businesses that have wanted to do this, that have wanted to put Vaccine Mandates in place, but they didnt want to have their employees complain about them. Now they can say, hey, we didnt really want to do this, but the administration, the federal government, is making us do it. It also helps to level the Playing Field so that people arent then going to threaten to go to another workplace if every workplace has that same requirement. Thats a good thing. I dont think this is overreach. I think this is whats needed in the middle of a pandemic, and i think the biden administration, if anything, could have gone further. Lets see what happens next. Dr. Zeke emanuel, dr. Lena wen. Thank you both and stay healthy. Thank you, chris. Politically this is a good night for biden and he needed it. There is a disconnect in this country. Whats said by the media, whats said by political insiders, too many of you are saying, why do they say that . Whats going on . You dont connect to this insider dialogue. Youve been saying enough is enough for a long time and you heard the president say that tonight. What will that mean for his numbers . Right now the polls are not at the top, they are at the bottom for him personally. Will this matter . Lets bring in the wiz. 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But working with the veterans groups, that may balance it out, but regardless, the priority for the people is going to be the pocketbook, and thats going to be the economy as a coefficient. The quantitative will be what are the numbers that suggest the same . Biden came out to say nenough i enough and he needed to do it. His Approval Rating is dropping significantly because of covid and issues related to the economy. Will this change the concerns . Enter the Wizard Of Odds with the numbers. What do you see with his approval . What i see is if you look at the coronavirus and say is biden doing a good job communicating a clear plan, what do we see . We see that number is dropping from june to 51, july at 48, august at 40. Many americans are saying he does not have a clear plan. Yes, afghanistan is part of that, but when you see americans over and over again saying the most important problem facing the country is the coronavirus and youre not articulating a clear plan in their mind, you have to come out and speak to the american people like biden did this afternoon. A few months ago, mandates were a nogo zone. Now he went there tonight, enough is enough, heres what were going to do, a couple steps down that road. What are we seeing in the numbers about the Susceptibility Or Enthusiasm for americans today . I think its a good political move and for a very clear reason. You can see the majority of americans favor the idea of Employer Vaccination requirements. But remember, there are more americans who are vaccinated than unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are the vast majority, so what you see is they want these Vaccine Mandates. Hes not playing necessarily to the unvaccinated. Yes, he wants them to become vaccinated, but hes telling the unvaccinated folks as he is personally just pissed off, im going to get these people vaccinated come heck or high water. Lets look at the Suc Susceptibility of this idea of employers and employees. With employers, what are we seeing . A high percentage of them are saying, in fact, we are going to require you to be vaccinated. In may it was 5 . In august its all the way up to 19 long before the Biden Announcement even came in. Heres the thing we know from the numbers, that these mandates do, in fact, work. They do get more people to get vaccinated who are unvaccinated. We can see this through both delta and united. What united did, they basically said youre going to have to go get a vaccination. Delta said essentially, you know what, were going to fine you if you do not, nain fact, get your vaccination. Weve seen over 50 of employees who are unvaccinated previously are now, in fact, vaccinated once that Vaccine Mandate went into effect, and with delta, 20 of those unvaccinated employees are now getting vaccinated. They dont have the straight Vaccination Mandate but still getting 20 . Thats still a significant chunk and united over 50 , thats a great chunk. So thats on the employer side. And the employee side, you believe there will be tacit acceptance . I believe looking at the numbers, not every single employee are not going to get vaccinated no matter what. Some cant. Some are immunocompromised, some have other exceptions, but usually its political resistance. Thats right, its resistance because of politics for most of them, and the numbers say a good chunk of them will go out and get vaccinated fif there is an Employee Mandate in effect, and i will say looking at the numbers out there, Employee Mandates are the best way to get the unvaccinated vaccinated, and i think thats why you saw biden come out today and argue for just that. You all know you are in a good place as a leader when youre matching the mood of the country. And we are in the enough is enough. With kids going Back To School and cases popping up, we know why it is. Thank you, we appreciate you. Thank you. We go to Los Angeles. The first major School District to mandate students 12 and older get vaccinated. Remember, you Cant Mandate it, probably, legally any earlier than that because the Fda Hasnt approved the drug for them. And even if they do, and its as an emergency use authorization, thats soft ground legally also. But the fda has approved it for 12 and up, so they mandated it in order for them to go into school. What will this do in terms of the rest of the education worlds approach to preventing outbreaks . You have the can you and you have the should you . We have the interim head of l. A. Schools here next. Have you ever sat here and wondered couldnt i do this from home . With letsgetchecked, you can. Its virtual care with Home Health Testing and more. All from the comfort of. Here. Letsgetchecked. Care can be this good. Psst psst allergies dont have to be scary. Spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. Psst psst flonase all good. My auntie called me. She said uncles had a heart attack. I needed him to be here. Your Heart Isnt just yours. Protect it with bayer aspirin. Be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. Enough is enough. Nobody likes to force anybodys hand. You should do things because its the right thing for you to do, but when you dont, especially where kids are involved, somebody has got to do something. And the president said it tonight and now were seeing it reverberate across the country. The nations second largest School District in california just made the Covid Vaccine mandatory for all students 12 and older. That is the Los Angeles unified School District. They voted just tonight that all eligible students must be fully vaccinated. Megan riley is the Interim Superintendent and joins us now. Thank you. Good evening, chris. Its nice to see you. So lets break this into two parts. One, can you do this . Everything that we have looked at says that we can do this. Were protecting our goal is to protect children and our goal is to have children in school and not online. What was the biggest resistance . I think the biggest resistance would be just looking at all the Science And Understanding and weighing all the options. We know there is hesitancy out there and people have concerns about it, so again, making sure the science was very sound and just overwhelmingly compelling on dooing this as the right mov. So from can to should. What pushed you from i know this is uncomfortable, its controversial not this sb interview, i hope but the idea of doing this kind of policy. What pushed you over the line to think you had to do it . I think a few things. One is the data coming out about the Delta Variant. We know its highly transmissible. And its been overwhelmingly obvious that in the past 18 months when we saw our schools were closed for a majority of time that kids did not thrive in that environment and they didnt learn as much as they should have, and again, looking at what weve learned from that period of time and having tools like masking, vaccines, all of the ventilation issues, we used a multilayered approach to create the safest possible controlled environment in schools so we can keep kids safe while they learn in the best environment possible. I think its the thread of delta and the information and frankly the science thats been collected around the Delta Variant and its tran transmissiy and the fact that it is affecting kids. 60 agree with all the testing youve been doing. 5200 cases were reported among students, 2900 among staffs. 67 of the School Outbreaks are associated with sports, so youre going to start with that. What is what happens if you dont get vaccinated . Were giving kind of like a timeline that says that people kids students should get vaccinated. You mentioned sports. Thats one of the first things, those that are involved in extracurricular activity, the data you just cited, those that are playing sports and doing athletics and more things are more susceptible and there is more Case Outbreak from that, so were asking that they get vaccinated in the october time frame. The other students 12 and older, were asking they get vaccinated their first and second shot from pfizer in the november to december time frame and using Winter Break for that vaccine to be taken into effect, and by january 10th, were asking that everyone be fully vaccinated. Weve already put in place an Employee Mandate, so all of our employees need to be vaccinated by october 14. This way we create the safest possible environment for those eligible to be vaccinated to learn, and frankly then we create a safer environment for those children zero you know, to 12 years old that cant get vaccinated, that theyre safer being surrounded by adults and others that are vaccinated. And if you dont get vaccinated, will you have the option of Athome Schooling . We have an independent Study Program in california thats the option, so there is an educational option. I have to say i dont think its as viable, kind of as rich a program that you would have when you come back to class. Megan riley, thank you very much. This is a big move for the School Districts. Its going to reverberate around the country. Thank you for joining us to discuss it tonight. Thank you, chris, for giving us the time to talk about this. We want to talk about constitutionality. A scheme to nullify the constitution. 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Supreme Court Justice Steven Briar just broke convention tonight. He spoke out publicly about how the High Court handled the texas abortion case, or really, refused to handle it. Watch. I thought the last decision you mentioned was very, very, very wrong. Ill add one more very. And i wrote a dissent. And thats the way it works. But its a procedural matter, so well see what happens in that area when we get a substantive matter in front of us. That is the hedge for the Supreme Court, right . Not breyer, he was being very candid there. But the 54 vote from the Scotus Allowed Texas Abortion Ban to remain in the books because there isnt a ripe instance. Now, a substantive matter before the court may be headed their way sooner rather than later. Thats because the Justice Department just sued the state of Texas Today. The lawsuit asks a federal judge to block the near total Abortion Ban from being enforced on the grounds that its unconstitutional. Why . Because it violates the Supremacy Clause, right . Which is that the constitution comes first, Federal Law comes before state law. And the constitution leads all and a Supreme Court case is constitutional law. And the Supreme Court precedent here is roe v. Wade, meaning you should not disrupt that, and thats what texas just did. Nancy northam is the president for the center of Reproductive Rights. Its good to have you on prime t time. Im going to jump the conversation because a first Year Law Student would know that something that violates constitutional precedent is a problem. But heres your problem, is that they may take this case and they may be looking to change precedent. America is going to be woken up to how meaningless Stare Decisus is here because justices can change it any time they want to. How worried are you . Im actually Quiteie Lated T elated that the Department Of Justice sued texas. It has never before happened that the Department Of Justice has sued a state. Your question of roe v. Wade and how secure is it in the Supreme Court, they have taken a case, thats our case from mississippi, which weve asked that question. So that will be coming before the court this fall. So the Dobbs Case in mississippi is about a 15week benchmark. The Texas Law is a Sixweek Benchmark and then this civil authority for people to sue, basically they become the executors of law. Which one do you think is a problem . Theyre both clear violations of the constitution as the department of Justices Lawsuit made clear today. There has been an unbroken line of Supreme Court cases that have said that previability, the government cannot take the decision away from a person about ending a pregnancy. So that unbroken line of cases goes back 48 years now, and the precedent is very strong. There is only one Justice Breyer said it. What the court did last week was very, very wrong in letting the sixweek ban stand. They basically said they didnt have a real claim in front of them yet, but they will. The question then becomes what seems likely here . Look, the 54 thing is scary to people like you because these judges showed a real openness to this situation that we havent seen. And yet roe v. Wade has been dinged up before. The Casey Case and others, while refining the standard, theyve had Notification Principles and things like that that have taken away a little bit of a right of a woman to have complete control over this process. How concerned are you that there will be further erosion with this court . Of course were concerned, and our brief is going to be filed in the Supreme Court tomorrow, i think, or next monday. But heres the thing. We are in such an unprecedented time to have had the Department Of Justice come in today, and were talking about the politics and what the court can do, but meanwhile, on the ground in texas, its now been nine days that 85 , 90 of patients are being turned away. Some are leaving the state. We hear from our clinics in New Mexico that they are waiting because of people moving from texas, and there are people of color, people who are undocumented immigrants. Yes to the battle by the Supreme Court, but we are putting injunctions, and thats why the Department Of Justice coming in today is just enormous. Do you think it will help to get an injunction . Absolutely. Because of the Supreme Courts action last week, were stuck in our case in the Fifth Circuit on a nonexpedited basis. The Department Of Justice, i assume quite shortly theyll be seeking an injunction, and it is put before the same District Court that our case is in is a related case. I think its a very strong complaint. It makes it clear that both the Supremacy Clause of the constitution allows the Department Of Justice to sue, and that this is a clear violation of roe versus wade. I think it does increase dramatically the chances of having an injunction. So to have this response from the Department Of Justice when people are still hurting on the ground, the Vice President met with providers in Texas Today to hear how dire the situation is on the ground. This is a whole new day in the Attention And Focus and force of trying to get texas back in line with the constitution and to be able to restore the rights to the people of texas. Look, its all coming to a head and its going to be a seminole moment that really shines a light of exactly where we are with womens rights and the equality of the same in our society today. Nancy northam, thank you for the very smart take. Appreciate you. Thank you. Some good news on the afghanistan front. I know this is touchy politically. It really shouldnt be, okay . Everybody should want to get americans and their allies out of afghanistan, and today more of them were able to get out, and a big reason why is that the White House has now approved a partnership with the digital dunkirk folks. This amazing network, ive never seen anything like it, of veterans and ngos, their allies, people here, people there trying to do the right thing. Its not left or right. Its just doing whats right. Weve been closely following those missions. We have a guest ahead who is one of those groups working with the government and on the ground. How big of a deal is it today . What will it mean . Next. Living life to the flavorfullest . Heck yeah. Panera. Live your yes. Free delivery on our app. People with moderate to severe psoriasis, are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the entrance they make, the surprises they initiate. Otezla. Its a choice you can make. Otezla is not a cream. Its a pill that treats Plaque Psoriasis differently. 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The State Department says more than 30 u. S. Citizens and legal permanent residents were invited on the flight, but they werent sure how many were actually on the plane. Meanwhile, the biden administration is on board with a plan for the State Department to run lead on all the groups behind this digital Dunkirk Weve been talking about, this massive Volunteer Effort to evacuate at risk u. S. Citizens ask afghan allies who were left behind after u. S. And nato troops withdrew. Ive never seen anything like it, and i think its beautiful. I dont think thats a left or right statement. I think its just doing whats right. Now, this effort includes groups like Task Force Pineapple led by former Green Beret Retired Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann and we welcome him to prime time. What i like is that youre doing better. How Big A Deal was it today that the White House finally said were going to put our arms around you guys . Well, look, i mean, first of all, i really like the statement you made, that this is absolutely not a left thing. Its not a right thing. It really is the right thing. Its honoring a promise, right . You know that extremely well, and what i love about it too is that its our Combat Veterans that really stepped up and showed us what that looks like. And they continue to do that. I think if this goes forward and we do get that closer connection to the State Department with this citizen liaison network, i think it could be potentially really powerful. Well wait to see. I hope that happens. So you guys met with them and basically said, look, were doing all the work. Were doing the logistics, were raising the money. Were getting people to airport, and you arent letting us fly out, and youre not letting us arrange thirdparty transfers so you can do whatever vetting you want to do with these people. Did they have an answer for that . Well, i mean, not to the degree that i would like to see. I think theres still some more questions that need to be answered there because were doing the work, like you said, and when were ready to go right now, were ready to play that responsible role as a citizen liaison network, we know who these people are. We know are where they are, and they trust us to move them and to help them move. Thats something whether thats in safe passage, chris, or in resettlement or reintegration, weve had those relationships for years and years and years, and we know how to play that role responsibly, and i still think we have some work to do to get there. I think we can, but were really just waiting to see how the State Department plays with that, but we really hope they do. How many people do you have waiting that could get out if you get word of somewhere to bring them . You know, there are a range of groups, i mean, pineapple is ours but all of these nicknamed groups that are veterans groups, its in the thousands. I mean, i dont want to get super specific on it, but its in the thousands. What do you say to people quickly by the way, this is just one conversation. Colonel you can come on whenever you have news to report, who youre getting out, who helped and who didnt. You have this platform. I dont care whether its popular or not, its the right thing to do. The Big Pushback is you dont know who youre even putting on these planes. It could be isisk coming here to kill us. And all these people could have gotten out already. They had plenty of time. Youre talking about Combat Veterans, green berets, Navy S. E. A. L. S who have worked with these people in combat. They have fought with them, bled with them, they know exactly who these people are. And the idea that these people all should have got out already . Absolutely, but what i love about the way our veterans are doing, rather than getting angry, theyre just getting to work. Thats what we can all take a lesson from. Ive never seen anything like this before, and i get that its got the stink of politics all over it, i wish the politicians had just stayed out of it and just helped you guys with the funding and the resources to do the job, but as an american, i appreciate you once again for yours service. Be well, and again, you got an ear here whenever you need it. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. God bless and be well. Well be right back with some big news about the handoff next. And one we explore 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. Is struggling to manage your Type 2 Diabetes knocking you out of your zone . Lowering your a1c with onceweekly ozempic® can help you get back in it. Oh, oh, oh, ozempic® my zone. Lowering my a1c, cv risk, and losing some weight. Now, back to the game ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. 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Lemon and i are so thrilled that so many of you are checking out the Handoff Podcast that we just kicked off season two today, and heres the even better news. Every episode of the show is now available for free on all podcast platforms, apple podcasts, spotify, wherever you listen or just go to cnn. Com thehandoff. Okay . Thank you for watching. The Big Star of the handoff himself, don lemon of don lemon tonight. Youve got that right. Its so much fun doing look, if you think we go a little bit overboard or we push the boundaries during this television handoff, then you actually need to listen to the podcast. I actually had someone say this is the best one that it was very courageous, very brave of how far we went with talking