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it's kind of the lost month. is that going to make a difference? >> the difference today, don is we have a large array of tools. what the president announced today, that we are going to have at-home tests available for free for americans. 50 million at community health centers and then insurance companies are going to be required to pay for those at-home tests. we're going to have boosters. we're going to have a big effort at community centers to vaccinate kids. between all of those things and some coming therapies on the market, it's a very different version of facing this pandemic than it was a year ago. >> you this incnk that will be helpful, at home testing? >> with an at home test, what can you do? if you're positive, you can instantly get treated and not go out and infect other people. you can have people over. you can see your grandmother, your friends, go to school, go to work. so these are big differences. last year we were talking about, do you lock down, or do you stay open? now we have such a large array of tools that we don't have to have that debate any longer. >> including vaccines and boosters and on and on. >> but you got to use the tools. >> you have to use the tools, right? if you had a test at home, you wouldn't have to go outside and possibly infect other people. listen, i want to put up -- this is the president's plan. he plans to have insurance companies reimburse americans for at-home covid tests and provide free ones for the uninsured. and as you said, have insurance companies pay for it. why involve insurance companies with all the forms and red tape, and you've got to distribute the tests and all that. >> i wasn't in the white house for the debate on how they're going to do this but i'm sure they put a premium on how to do this quickly and make it equitable. let's face it, people who live in nice parts of manhattan and california and others, they're using these tests. they can afford these tests. but it's really people that can't afford $10 for every test. if i were in the white house right now, i would call the insurance company ceos and say, why don't you send these tests directly to people's homes so that you're going to pay for them anyway and ask them to go ahead and do this for the rest of the emergency. i hope they would oblige. >> when i was talking to my producer tonight, she said, great, we have andy slavitt live. i was talking to her, you were on with jake tapper, and you were talking about your time at the white house. you believe that you made some mistakes, underestimating the delta variant, right? are you confident that the white house isn't doing the same thing, especially when it comes to omicron? >> well, look, i think in 2020, there was nobody that said in 2021, we're going to have an even worse variant. it's easy to have the perspective of hindsight, but everybody around the world, not just in the u.s., not just in government, and i'm including myself among them, thought we were taming this thing in june, that we were not going to see a more complex variant emerge. when it did, we quickly adjusted, and the president quickly adjusted. let's look at it. we've been able to keep our lives going. we've been able to get 99% of schools open. we've been able to get businesses back opened. so even despite delta, which has been a surprise and a blow to all of us, we've been able to move the country forward. >> i want to talk to you about this new cnn analysis showing that since the vaccines have become widely available, the risk of dying from covid is more than 50% higher in states that voted for donald trump than in states that voted for biden. if the administration hasn't been able to get through to these people now, how are they going to do it? >> you know, i'm beginning to wonder, don, whether or not those folks are well-led by their representatives and people in congress. as we know tonight, ted cruz wanted to have a showdown to shut down the government over essentially anti-vaccine approach that he wanted to take. and, you know, i think that what president biden does is continually calls for everyone to pull together, make this not political, just focus on saving lives, keeping businesses open, making the economy go forward, keeping schools open. and what he gets in return is congressman jackson from tennessee -- i'm sorry -- from texas, who is already calling omicron a hoax. and senators who are unwilling to move the country forward. so i think this is not true with every republican elected leader thankfully, but those that are misserving their constituents are putting them at great risk. >> i don't know if you got to watch the program, especially with your time at the white house, but, you know, it was -- it didn't land well with a lot of people -- or some people, not a lot of people, when i said, i don't think you're going to be able to convince everyone. and i don't know, you know, if it's the people's job who are doing the right thing to face the dire consequences of the people who are doing the wrong thing, and to put the responsibility on them and to not allow the people who are doing the right thing to not be able to go to ball games or concerts or what have you. the folks who are not, shouldn't they face some consequences for that? >> the elephant in the room here is that about 20% of the public really doesn't believe in science or institutions or the establishment. >> they're not convincible. >> and we've got 81% of americans who have had one vaccine shot, 81% of adults. but that last 20% has a very different belief system. you're absolutely right. we've run up against a wall. in most of life, don, 80%, you win. with this virus unfortunately 80% is not enough. >> even though 21%, as you say, or the 20%, that's the reason that the virus keeps spreading and it keeps replicating is because it is being allowed to. they're allowing it to spread. do you understand what i'm saying? >> absolutely. absolutely. so we are all, i think, paying a bit of the price for the fact that we have a number of people that have been left behind. we need to look really hard at how we communicate with people, what's causing this. i think it's far bigger than the pandemic. i think it's far bigger than donald trump. i don't think he caused it, but i think it's something we're going to have to figure out. >> andy, it's such a pleasure. please come back. it's good to see you. thank you very much. i want to turn to cnn's donie o'sullivan who has some disturbing reporting about facebook and anti-vaccine messaging. here we go, donie. good to see you. you found out that facebook was selling ads comparing vaccines to the holocaust? i mean this is despicable. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, don. i mean it's really messed up what they're allowing on their platform. take a look at these ads that facebook accepted money for and allowed run. one there showing a picture of a vaccine, saying "slowly and quietly but it's a holocaust," again playing into this insane idea that the vaccine is a tool of killing people. another that ran, i'm originally from america, but i currently reside in 1941 germany. a few nights ago when a fox news personality compared dr. anthony fauci to a nazi doctor, the angel of death, it caused outrage, right? but this stuff is not happening in a vacuum. for a lot of americans, this kind of thing is all over their facebook feeds. and facebook will often like to say, this is about free speech. we don't want to tamp down on too much stuff, even if it's misinformation. but this is different. these are actual ads that facebook is taking money for and then putting into the feeds of americans. now, facebook did take these ads down after cnn brought it to their attention, but, again, don, this is the sort of stuff that facebook should be finding themselves. it's a trillion dollar company. >> why is it up to us to point it out to them? but at least we're doing our jobs here as journalists. i'm glad that facebook took the holocaust ads down. but ride the red wave also ran ads for a t-shirt that said, "make hanging traitors great again." i mean what the hell is that? how is that okay? >> reporter: it beggars belief. i've been dealing with facebook for a long time. i mean it's only been a few months since we saw gallows outside the capitol, people calling hang mike pence. again, this is not about free speech. it's not about charged political rhetoric. that's an ad that facebook is taking money to run and to put into americans' facebook feeds, and even after we asked them about it, they said that it didn't seem to break any of their rules. >> donie, all righty. well, there you go. thank you, donie. appreciate it. i want to bring in now cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein. i mean -- >> yeah. >> ron, come on. >> yes. >> come on, ron. >> well, first, as is often the case, donie's reporting kind of leaves you breathless. facebook is an incredible contributor to the strains that we are seeing in our society. it's hard to think of a company since the heyday of the tobacco cover-ups of the '40s, '50s, and '60s that has behaved more irresponsibly on a sustained basis. it's just remarkable to watch, you know, week to week, month to month, the revelations. >> ron, the holocaust invoked again and again. qanon congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, the jewish space laser lady talking about vaccine nazis. senator ted cruz calling -- i don't have enough time and energy. you have all of these people. let's see. i'm going to go over it. i hate having to say all of this. chip roy calling them tyranny. what is happening -- what is this rhetoric doing to the fabric of our country? what is it doing to the sane people? >> well, look, i believe -- i wrote the friday before the election that the 2020s will be the most dangerous and difficult decade for america since the 1850s, the decade before the civil war. and largely for the same reason. you know, you have a faction now that is -- the trump faction is the dominant faction in the republican party, who believes that democrats in all sorts of ways, from vaccine mandates to, you know, quote, cancel culture, are irrevocably transforming america, and therefore any means necessary is justified to oppose that. you know, we are living through the most sustained kind of threats or implications of violence in congress itself since the 1850s, since charles sumner was caned by a south carolina house member. you know, we are seeing a majority of republican voters say in polls that the traditional way of life, american way of life is disappearing so fast we may have to use force to save it. that is translating not only in polls but the kind of threats we see to public health workers and local government officials and school board members. this is a very dangerous moment, and the mainstream of the republican party is not doing anything to restrain these impulses. if anything by their refusal to sanction gosar and boebert, they're encouraging it. >> is that why this brazen stupidity is being allowed to fester in this country? when you have a former president who defies his own covid protocol and goes to a debate and what have you, and then you have these other just wack jobs, is it because republicans won't hold -- the leadership won't hold it to account or mainstream republicans? why is this being allowed? i don't understand it. >> well, look, i think that is the single biggest factor allowing for the radicalization of american politics, that, you know, the mainstream republicans, the roughly one-quarter of the party that is not -- and i don't know if it qualifies as the mainstream anymore, but what we used to call the mainstream, are not holding the line, are not resisting what has been a very successful effort by trump to break down the walls between the gop and the most radical elements in american society. all of those voices in the republican party are operating under the implicit protection of trump. you see it in the way people like kevin mccarthy deal with them. he is afraid to discipline them in any real way because he realizes that to do so would invite a thunderbolt from trump. and the failure to discipline them encourages them. and the way in which trump has kind of mainstreamed arguments and language and views of far-right groups encourages them. and so all of these -- and you see rather than standing up to it, republican elected officials in state after state kind of going along with the big lie and passing legislation making it tougher to vote or making it easier to interfere with the counting of votes or conspiracy theorists running for election positions. i mean we are kind of steadily moving toward a crisis moment where you see all of these elements of social division, you know, coming together. biden has chosen largely to kind of, you know, as andy slavitt said, to focus on where he can work with the other side rather than calling out this danger. there's a big debate among democracy experts around the world about whether the best way to respond to growing authoritarianism is to call it out or to focus on what some call normal politics of building coalitions and delivering material goods. biden is betting very heavily on the latter even as all of these clouds gather, and it is a defining bet not only for his presidency and his party but for the country. >> listen, i know -- mainstream republicans, they don't like it when people call their party names. but if they don't want people to associate their party with bigots, then they need to call the bigots out in their party. if they don't want their party to be associated with authoritarianism, they need to call out the people who are kowtowing to thauthoritarianism out in their party. they're not doing that, so now they have become the party of all of that as long as the leadership and the mainstream republicans think that this is going to get them to hang on to power. then they become the party of everything that they hate people calling them. thank you, ron. >> well said. thank you. >> thank you, sir. alec baldwin speaking out tonight about the fatal shooting on the set of the movie "rust" that took the life of cinematographer halyna hutchins and wounded the director, joel souza. >> you have this colt 45. you just pulled -- >> the hammer as far back as i could without cocking. >> you're holding the hammer? 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she says -- ask then i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. >> at the moment? >> that was the moment the gun went off. >> it wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled. >> well, the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. >> joining me now, cnn legal analyst joey jackson and former editor of the hollywood reporter, matt bellamy. joey, i want to go to you right off. you're shaking your head. why? >> i don't think -- listen, i know there's an imperative for public relations purposes. he wants to get out there, and i'm sure he feels miserable as it relates to what happened here. but doing an interview in circumstances like this is fr fraught with difficulty. why? you have a sheriff's department that's undertaking a criminal investigation. you're making major admissions here as to what you did. this is all about the handling of the weapon and even prior to the handling of the weapon, what if anything did you do to assess that weapon, to evaluate it, in addition to what the armorer did to ensure there was no bullet in here. when you're talking about criminality, it's not only you meant to kill someone. there's other steps. sometimes you kill someone not meaning to do it, but you're negligent with respect to what you do or do not do. that's a problem. there's another thing. there are also lawsuits here. so it's not only criminal exposure, but you're facing civil exposure. it's only money, i get it. but when you go out and do an interview like this and then you sit for a deposition as well, those legal things where lawyers ask you questions and everything you say is in a transcript, and then, for example, they tell you you're under oath and you lie, and so it's perjury. so i understand from a public relations perspective you want to get out there and, you know, you want to tell your story. but from a legal perspective, i say not, in addition to what he actually said. >> what do you mean? >> he's talking about the manner in which he handled the gun, the fact that he cocked the trigger. >> he didn't say the trigger. >> he said he pulled the -- >> the hammer back. >> the hammer back, right? he said he didn't pull the tri trigger. i don't know that that's a statement that's sustainable. >> i intend to go to matt to talk about the hollywood story but i saw you shaking your head during the sound bite. are you saying he shouldn't have done this interview? >> absolutely not. i think there are damaging things that are stated in addition to whether people actually believe what he's saying as to whether he pulled the trigger or not. i would not have done that, know. >> matt, i want to go to you because you heard his explanation. baldwin says he never pulled that trigger. he got very emotional when he spoke about halyna hutchins. watch this. >> she was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with and liked by everyone who worked with her and admired. i'm sorry. but admired by everybody who, um, who worked with her. >> so in response to that, matt, and to what joey said, maybe he felt compelled regardless of whatever the circumstances, whatever exposure he had, that he had to say something because he feels so awful about it. how do you think he came across in the interview because this is still an ongoing investigation as joey pointed out? >> absolutely. baldwin is an emotional guy. he always has been. i mean it's gotten him into trouble in the past. i think this is a guy, remember, who pulled over on the side of the road and did an interview with paparazzi a couple weeks ago. so he is just an impulsive guy. i think he probably said, you know what? i know there's an ongoing investigation. i know this could potentially be bad for me. i want to do it anyways. he also has an interest in the public sphere of getting this information out there. this is new information we did not know, if it's true, about the fact that he says he did not pull the trigger. whether that's consequential in a legal forum is another question. but in the public forum, i think it does cause people to look at this and say, oh, okay. why did he say this? is it true? what actually happened here? >> i think he did say in the interview that he had to do it. he did say it because some of the things he said were so far afield and so egregious that he wanted to respond to them. listen, i imagine if you took someone's life, i may say, you know what? screw it. i'm just going to say how i feel and tell the truth about it and tell what i know. joey, alec baldwin made the point that he was purely a creative producer. you were talking about civil liabilities, right? he was purely a creative producer on the film. watch this. >> i am a purely creative producer. my authorities as a producer are casting and script, which were actually married to the role of being a lead actor in a film. >> so you're not the kind of producer who is looking at the line item of each budget? >> no, no, no. there are basically two types of producers who are really in charge of production. people that raise the money, and the people who spend the money. my consultations or approvals were completely about casting and about the script. i don't hire anybody in the crew. >> not even the cinematographer? >> he will apprise me of what he's doing and he'll say to me, i got halyna hutchins to be the dps. how do you feel about that? are you excited? i'm very excited. she's wonderful. >> he said that he wasn't the person looking at line item budgets. he was focused on casting and script. do you find that significant? >> you were part of a team, is that right? as part of that team, you wanted to ensure the safety of the set, and you know everyone has different positions. but it's not exclusively that. as a team, you want to ensure that every piece goes right, isn't that true? what am i saying? i'm saying there will be questions that will be asked that extend beyond the mere excuse that you are purely doing this particular segment. in fact, beyond your producing, you were given a gun. at any time when you were given that, did you feel it might be appropriate to examine it? you heard before other actors and what they do in handling guns and you've undertaken many roles not only as a producer but as an actor, and you know that it's dangerous. you know that you can't put your trust in everybody else, is that right? because of that, you have to assess yourself. did you do that, sir? did you examine the weapon? did you look into it? did you determine whether it was safe before you pointed it at anybody? i think you cannot limit and say when you do any job, that this is all i do, and therefore i'm responsible for nothing else. i'm sure he feels miserable, don, positive. you look at that interview, it's compelling. but there's a life lost here, and the issue is did you have anything to do with it as a result of your carelessness? don't tell me what the limitations of your role are and what you only did. tell me that you and everybody else should be given to the safety of everyone on that set. you didn't do it. the issue is you're civilly liable. a larger issue is will the sheriff find you criminally liable. wouldn't have been on tv doing any of that. >> there's at least one other member of the crew who is backing up alec baldwin's claim. we'll hear more and we'll talk to joey and matt right after this break. don't go anywhere. neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. introducing the all-new gillettelabs with exfoliating bar. it removes unseen dirt and debris before the blades, for a shave as quick and easy as washing your face. ♪ i didn't have health insurance, not because i didn't want it. i worried it was too expensive and i was having a hard time paying our other bills. but now, for the first time in our lives, i can do both. covered california makes health insurance easier in every way. with financial help for millions of us and free assistance to compare your options. covered california. this way to health insurance. enroll by december 31st at coveredca.com i'm back now with joey jackson and matt bellamy. are you surprised that alec baldwin did this interview? >> i'm surprised his lawyers let him do that interview. i'm not surprised he would want to do that interview. he's a very emotional, kind of hot-headed fwie. and i understand given all the attention on this guy, his desire to get his story out there and tell people what his side of the story is. i'm very surprised they let him given the ongoing investigation, given all the things that are involved, the civil cases. very surprised. >> joey, there's at least one member of the crew who is backing up baldwin's claim that he didn't pull the trigger, but another one has filed a lawsuit. alec baldwin says he's been told he is highly unlikely to be charged criminally. do you agree with that? >> it's a difficult criminal prosecution. as i was noting before, not all crime is predicated upon, i intended to do it. sometimes you could be so careless and so reckless in what you do that it amounts to criminality. so the prosecutor has a real decision to make. but at the end of the day, you look at two things. number one, what did he not do? and should he have had an obligation to evaluate and inspect that weapon? i don't care how many other people did it. and did you and should you have pointed it at someone? and as it relates to someone backing up your story, i mean am i in a position to note whether you pulled the trigger? are you really that close that you can examine and know exactly where my finger was at the very moment that the gun went off? and so that's a credibility assessment. >> matt, i'll give you the last word here. what do you think? >> i really think that if i was the investigator, if i was the district attorney in new mexico and i saw this interview, i'd say, really? someone told you that you're not going to be held criminally liable here? that's our decision whether to bring charges, not yours. i would be very annoyed if i saw this interview, and i think that's probably going to play a role going forward. >> it's sad all the way around. thank you, gentlemen. i appreciate both of you. authorities saying two teachers flagged the suspected michigan school shooter for concerning behavior just before the shooting, and prosecutors now say there's a strong possibility he had a gun in his backpack during a meeting with school officials before the attack. were red flags overlooked? 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>> well, we call all of these red flags leakage, and they're communications to a third party, but sometimes that's a person, more often it's through social media, videos, journal entries, and of course we have all three of those things. we are unclear what the disturbing behavior was that caused the teachers to refer him to counseling and administrative intervention both on monday, and by an entirely different teacher again on tuesday. that's when prompted them to call the parents. but the thing that we did not know in all of this equation -- okay, we've got the social media with him holding the gun saying, look at my new beauty, that he had gotten this gun just four days before. we did not know he had this gun in his backpack at the school or this meeting would have gone entirely differently. that's why i have to bring the parents in. what went wrong? the parents bought a gun, didn't know he had, and were completely unaware during that meeting that he had the gun with him. they should have known where that gun was, and clearly this child never should have had the gun. >> wow. areva, the prosecutor is telling us tonight she believes there is a strong possibility that they had the gun. it wasn't for sure. strong possibility, in that meeting that casey talked about with school officials and the parents just before the attack. he was let back into class after that. is anyone responsible for missing this? >> well, that's the question, don, right? that's why this prosecutor has said she has not ruled out the possibility that both of these parents, not just the father that bought the gun, but the mother as well, could be facing criminal charges. there is conduct that can be so careless and so reckless, such as having a gun in your home that's not secured, such as having ammunition in your home that's not secured, that that conduct, you know, rises to the level of criminality. that's what this prosecutor said is under investigation. i wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see criminal charges brought against this family. there's some precedent, some cases where individuals have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and other kind of reckless conduct for doing something very similar, which is bringing a gun into a home and allowing it to be left in a place where it can be accessed by a teenager or a child. at the very least, don, we should expect to see civil claims, civil lawsuits brought by the four students, unfortunately, that lost their lives as a result of this senseless violence. and not just against these parents but potentially against the school because as casey and you just talked about, this kid had been flagged by two different teachers. so it raises all kinds of questions about what the school knew, what the parents knew, and why this wasn't stopped before these four kids lost their lives. >> casey, what about the other students here because, i mean, the other students -- it wasn't just those that were killed. sadly, there were many injured as well, and the other students in the school have to deal with this as well. >> right, and that is why the prosecutor is charging this child, this shooter, with terrorism. it's symbolic, but it's important. and they've made the point that currently there's hundreds of these students who survived this attack and, you know, are traumatized. they are having nightmares. they can't eat. they don't want to go back to school. and you have to understand that, you know, we cannot become immune to the trauma that these kids go through. whether a shooting happens at their school or they just have to go through the drills to prepare for it, it's becoming too commonplace. if there's any lesson here, let's not point fingers at the school. they were doing everything right. they were following protocol. but every parent out there who owns a gun, legally or illegally, i want you to find that gun tonight, make sure it is locked up and kept away from your children because there's going to be some real lessons here if these parents are charged. we're going to start looking at parents a lot more harshly when their children do these sorts of actions. >> do you know the hoops that i had to jump through and how old i was until my parents would even let me have a bb gun, right? i mean it was a fight. how -- how are these teenagers getting ar-15 type weapons and nine millimeters? who does that? what has happened? >> i think we just got to call it out, don. first of all, kudos to your parents for putting those kind of restrictions and limitations on you as a kid. that's what we should be seeing with respect to all parents. we shouldn't be having to ask the question, how are kids getting access to guns, particularly when we hear stories like this where the parents are the ones who brought the gun and brought it into the home, that gave access to this gun to this 15-year-old kid. parents have a responsibility to protect not just their child, but protect other children that their kids may come into contact with. and i hope we do see harsher penalties against parents who are not being responsible with respect to gun ownership. >> yeah. thank you both. i hope we see each other again under better circumstances and we're not covering something like this. thank you. be well. a big update to a story we first brought to you last night. police arresting a man in the shooting death of jacqueline avant, the wife of clarence av avant. how they caught the suspect, next. powered by the makers of nyquil. new zzzquil ultra. when you really really need to sleep. ordinary tissues burn when theo blows. so puffs plus lotion rescued his nose. with up to 50% more lotion, puffs bring soothing relief. a nose in need deserves puffs indeed. america's #1 lotion tissue. this is aerogarden. this is how you grow, and grow more. every day. all day. for more than just meals. grow your own fresh herbs, heirloom veggies and more. up to five times faster than with soil. no sunlight or green thumb required. it's even easier and fresher than the supermarket. that's why aerogarden has earned its thirty-five thousand five-star ratings. aerogarden changes more than what you eat. it means a fresh way to live. grow more every day, with aerogarden. available at aerogarden.com and these fine retailers. ♪ wait, oh, yes ♪ wait a minute, mr. postman ♪ yeah, yeah, mr. postman - "dear michael, i appreciate your help, patience, and support through the reverse mortgage loan process. you are an asset to aag." this is from helen, a happy customer, who got a reverse mortgage loan from aag. you see, a lot of people aren't sure if a reverse mortgage is really right for them. so michael and all the experts at aag work hard to make sure you understand exactly what you're getting. they want to make sure you're happy. - [announcer] call aag today and find out how a reverse mortgage can help you eliminate monthly mortgage payments, pay for living expenses, and even high interest credit card bills. call now at the number shown on your screen. - a reverse mortgage with aag can be easier than you might think. or as ann says, "working with folks at aag was like dealing with a friend who had our interests at heart". whether that's for paying off medical costs, or as dennis says, "finally getting that new truck i needed". reverse mortgage loans have helped over a million families get tax-free cash for a better retirement. - [announcer] if you're 62 and own your home, aag could help you get the right loan for extra retirement money. call today for your free no hassle reverse mortgage guide. call the number on your screen. - these letters show why aag has such a high customer satisfaction rating. 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