Used to it. Unlike the mountain west, which lives with forest fire, this kind of smoke has Felt Dystopian and new. In fact, its not just your imagination of it feels that way to you, if you live in that part of the country, the Air Quality Index in parts of Newark City yesterday was over 170, which is the worst it has never been in 14 years. When you think about that air quality, there is no way to escape it. No matter how much money you have, where you live, in The End, everyone has to prove the same air. Its a real wake up Call Yesterday for everyone in the parts of the country covered with the smoke. Breathing that same air that emanated from wildfires thousands of miles away in the west. Turns out, we share the same climate with them. Right now there are more than 80 fires burning across the 13 states, many more burning across canada. And as this incredible New York times Interactive Map shows the smoke from those fires is why the air is so hazy in these parts of the country. Here on the Eastern Seaboard in the east west. The biggest fire in the country this year is the Bootleg Fire in oregon, you can see there on the map. Its about the size of Los Angeles has burned more than 340,000 acres of forest. It is so large that it is generating its own weather, like fire clouds that managed to create their own lightning, and even fire tornadoes. The Bootleg Fire like so many out west is fueled by the drought, and last months record heat, you may remember that june was the hottest june on record in nearly 130 years. Records were broken across the northwest, with multiple days topping 100 degrees. Completely unseen before. In oregon in washington, nearly 200 people lost their lives to the heat. Across the west, thousands more are now on the path of Fast Moving in dangerous wildfires. Its not just happening in the u. S. Siberia, which, if you know one thing about it, you think its cold, famous for its freezing temperatures, it is experiencing its worst Fire Season in memory. 4 Million acres burned with villages already evacuating their children because of the dangerous smoky air. In germany last week, hundreds were killed and dozens of towns destroyed by the worst flooding in 1000 years, Tens Of Thousands of people are still without gas in power. In china, another once in 1000year event, nearly a Years Worth of rain falling in just three days. Causing flooding that was so intense it left passengers trapped on a Subway Car as water poured in from all sides. Hundreds of people had to be rescued, a dozen passengers died. Extreme temperatures, extreme wetness, extreme drought, extreme weather events like this, as we said many time, the new normal. A new normal that has been brought to us by decades of inaction, let chiefly by fossil fuel interest, the politicians they donate to an american right, and american media, devoted to denying signs and opposing change while speeding us towards this disaster and worst. This is the context for one of the big News Stories of this week which is, and it seems sort of weird and small in relation to what i just showed you, but the fight over the bipartisan infrastructure bill. You mapping today there was a procedural vote just to begin debate on that bill, that failed because republicans filibustered it. Even though the bill omits a ton of what president biden had pledged to support in the Campaign Trail to fight Climate Change. It does include 47 Billion dollars to help communities become more resilient to disasters and severe weather caused by a warming planet. And up to an additional 530 Billion to support electric vehicles, public transit, Energy And Tax credits and some other climate friendly policies. Sounds like a lot of money. I guess. You remember the Trump Tax cuts alone cost the government 2. 3 trillion dollars, okay . Those Tax Cuts which by the way continue to fuel inequality and produce a world in which the richest man on earth seeks to leave it with aims of polluting a new frontier. We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry and move it into space. And keep earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is. That is going to take decades and decades to achieve, but you have to start. I saw that cold yesterday and 100 thought it was a parody. But that is what he said. The rest of us, couldnt get on a Rocketship Yesterday to escape what is going on. This is the one planet we have and, were all in it together whether bezos thinks he can get away with it or not. What is going to happen as the disasters intensify in ways that we have only started to get our heads around is that people are going to start moving to escape climate catastrophe. As i wrote in a piece for the 25th Anniversary of msnbc, in the last decades in the u. S. Weve seen a steady migration driven by weather, and not the Weather Board of Climate Change but whether people choosing to leave or winter, moving to the sun belt, this Pacific Northwest to get away from harsh winters, guess what . A lot of those places that people have moved to over the last few decades are the ones getting rocked by our declining climate. Were probably going to see massive migrations again as the climates we have been acclimated to change rapidly and in some cases rendering places in our own country, essentially, unlivable. All of this, what youre seeing there, this is what is happening right now Day By day while the republican party fiddles and the right wing men that whips of a frenzy against an imagined threat or tries to get people not to get their covid vaccine. Fires are courting the west the smoke is coursing and as they put it, no one is safe. Governor Kate Brown joins me now. First, governor, maybe you can give us an update on how things are with the fire in your state. Thank you, chris, for having me. We are incredibly grateful to the firefighters battling the Bootleg Fire in southern oregon. Of roughly 300,000 acres, we have 2000 firefighters on the fire, and we are working hard to make sure that it is contained. I literally got a text from Governor Murphy Yesterday New Jersey saying that they were seeing the smoke in New Jersey from these wildfires in the west. And you are absolutely right, Climate Change is here and we must be taking action. We must be better prepared and we must do everything we can to mitigate the effects on our people. You know, i think of organize a pretty wet place but i know it is a big state and the parts and i think our wet are probably those that are more coastal. But i wonder sometimes whether states like yours or states around the country have Modeling Or Planning regimes that allow them to think about what is an oregon Fire Season going to look like over the next 25 years and what that means for where people develop and where people move in your state. Do you have your hands around that . Were working on it. To give you a sense of the Fire Season this year, weve had twice as many fires and burned at least four times the acreage as this time last year. The reports on the ground from the Bootleg Fire or that the conditions are napalm like. We have a Couple Of things happening, drought, and unseasonally warm climate, and it is creating the perfect storm for these catastrophic fires. But i think there is a Couple Of things, number one, we have to take action and that is what we are doing here in oregon. We have now one of the most aggressive clean energy policies in the country, we are working to invest in Ev Infrastructure on the climate side to reduce our reliance on carbon fuels. Secondly, we have got to mitigate these fires and with legislation i just signed this week, we are going to invest in more modern firefighting equipment. More people on the ground. Frankly, the efforts to create more resilient landscapes. Thirdly, obviously, we have to be better prepared for these climate emergencies. Just to give you perspective, since april of 2020, we have had for federal Emergency Declarations in oregon. And addition to the pandemic, we had the horrific wildfires of last fall, we had flooding, we had Ice Storms in february, and of course most recently, weve had the horrific heat dome event. It strikes me that a large part of governance, in any time, is managing disaster. But that that is going to become a larger and larger part of what governance mean in the century. Its not just this one off, but Disaster Management preparation, mitigation and then dealing with the aftermath is actually going to be a central thing that governance is about. That is absolutely right. You mentioned the green parts of oregon which are primarily the willamette valley, last Year Weve had evacuations in a county, literally next door to portland our largest city, and a very green city both literally and figuratively. In terms of emergency preparedness, and management, we have been in Crisis Management mode. In terms of these Climate Change events. I am incredibly grateful that we have the biden, Harris Administration in the White House that understands that we need comprehensive, collaborative partnerships to develop Wildfire Strategies for the entire western region. As you know, Climate Change knows no boundaries and certainly these wildfires dont know either. All right Governor Kate brown of organ, thank you so much for making time for us. No line is a profess of climate justice, at the university of british Columbia Author of a number of books including on fire the burning case for a green new deal and she joins me now. Naomi, i know that you have reported and written about Migration And Population movement in response to the warming of the planet. I think it is something that we dont think about a lot because we dont think of our era of being an error, like the Great Northern migration were huge amounts of people are going to move amount, but it seems to me inevitable that theyre going to be huge Population Displacement and movements in the era that were entering in right now. Well, i think were in that era, chris. Its good to be with you. When we see this huge migrations from central america, climate is already a driver, a un figure puts it at 20 Million people on the move because of the climate crisis. And theres often an intersection of issues. It isnt just one single issue that pushes people to make that decision to move, its usually multiple issues. Youre talking about migration within the united states, that is not something that we talk enough about. That is happening. If we think about the paradise fire, the campfire in 2018, that burned Paradise California to the ground, that fire displaced 50,000 people at its peak and the Neighboring Community Chico suddenly had 20,000 new neighbors, that is significant because chico only has 100,000 people. One of the officials talked about that as 35 years of growth overnight, okay . You go from 100,000 220, 000, that raises all of these issues about housing, transit, all kinds of infrastructure and that is why we need such an expansive approach to what we think of as Disaster Management. Its not just firefighters, though it is certainly firefighters, it is what makes a community resilient, able to absorb shocks and in chico, its all been about the lack of affordable housing. So when we think about something like a green new deal, we often hear these critiques like what is Housing Doing in their . What is Health Care doing in their . Education . That is disaster preparedness, because it is investing in the infrastructure that is going to allow people to absorb these kinds of shocks that are locked in. Re locke yeah the locked in part is the hard parts to get our heads around because were coming up on one degree of warming, were probably going to get to at least one more, with the carbon which put in the air. I do think, i mean theres a lot of grim news, but one thing that is palpable to me is that this issue rising a peoples party list. This caught my eyes today, the economists has been pulling people, they asked them openended questions about what are you most concerned about and one of the polls say that its americans rank Climate Change as their top issue. If you watch the political discussion if nothing else in the u. S. , the salient and privacy of this has gone up, partly in correlation to the frequency of disaster. Yeah, it is a reminder that when it comes to the political calculus of the climate crisis, we often hear from politicians we have to meet people where theyre at. Where people are at changes and its never wise to count out the earth Climate System as a key actor in this, right . Our planet has a way of intervening in these debates and changing peoples views very quickly, and i think that that is what is happening, and you are white, that poll is dramatic its the first time that climate has ranked second. And crime, gun control, abortion, education all trail behind. As you know, chris, in some ways i think separating out climate from other issues like the economy, or health, its in some ways it doesnt make sense, climate isnt an issue its our literal infrastructure. We are all inside it, and every other issue is inside climate. But it is really striking that people feel that sense of urgency now. Well i had that Thought Yesterday it changes whats possible. Yes, i had that Thought Yesterday while i was reading unhealthy air on 176. And i remember reading articles about political mobilizing issues in china clean air. And the article read as if you are rich businessmen in shanghai, there are many things that you can do, but at The End of the day, you still have to go outside and walk in the same air as everyone in shanghai does. And you have to send your kids out to play in it. And i thought about that yesterday, there is literally no escape from this air. Wherever you are, obviously people have to work outside, but there is a commonality here i hope is increasingly daunting on people that we dont get out of this one. I live in british Columbia And Weve had this Experience Summer after summer. And there is something unique about that claustrophobia, especially in the place where most people dont have Air Conditioning or any of those kinds of filters. Because the truth is you can buy your way out of of it out of a little bit, you can have a shielded, climate controlled environment. And private schools are under domes, so never underestimate what these superrich will do to escape the impacts of the air it behavior. Just look at Jeff Bezos in his cowboy hat, standing next to horizon we spoke to the astronauts we had this sort of what ecological awakening, they didnt think that they would be scouting for way stumps. An awakening . True i can say that i am surprised by these guys, but that was something else. Going up to space, we about where the soviet Jog Like went, but i had a revelation that we have to pollute up. There its always a pleasure to talk to you, thank you for making time for us tonight naomi cline. As i mentioned, you can read my essay on how heat is going to start restructuring our lives. After Kevin Mccarthy, the main disappointments of that select committee, including the members who try to overturn the election. There was a question as to whether pelosi would exercise the partially had reserved. 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But mccarthy responded by Yang King The Rest of his suggestions out of the Committee And Pelosi is responsible for politicizing the committee. Its just a piece of powder. Well aussie has broken this institution. She has created a Sham Process. We unless Speaker Pelosi Rig versus course and receipts all five republicans, we will not participate. They voted against a bipartisan Commission Ed i do few bottom to rehydrate that. But even though Kevin Mccarthy takes is bob and goes home, but this cheney was nominated to the Committee And Cheney was not having any of mccarthys lies about whos to blame here. At every opportunity, the Minority Leader has attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened. To block this investigation. And the rhetoric around this from the Minority Leader and from those two members has been disgraceful. This must be an investigation that is focused on facts, and the idea that any of this has become politicized is really unworthy of the office that we all hold and unworthy of our republic. Do you personally urge the speaker to take a step . I agree with what the speaker has done. Im joined now by two excellent reporters who have been tracking this all day. Sawhill cooper is a and as and Olivia Beavers sahil. , mcconnells republicans, vetoed it by filibuster in the senate. That led us to where we are now. It seems like that history cannot be lost on anyone in The Hill . Chris i think youre right to know that Kevin Mccarthy has moved the goalposts here when the year began. He said the former President Donald Trump bears some responsibility for the January 6th attack. He called for an investigation into it and said, yes but Speaker Pelosi, please give us equal representation, please make sure republicans have equal say in subpoena power, and one by one, pelosi made those concessions. Mccarthy tapped his ranking members of the homeland security committee, john katko, to go shape. That they came to a deal, mccarthy ultimately said he does not support that because he wants the scope of that investigation to extend beyond the January 6th attack. He also wants to investigate other forms of political violence associated with the left. That was a Deal Breaker for Speaker Pelosi and thats where it all fell apart. I should note here, 30 house republicans did vote for that but now the choice has become for democrats when republicans were not going to give the bipartisan democrats are going to be used of running a Sham Process regardless of what happened. This decision by Speaker Pelosi according to democrats, this process is about her choosing to keep republicans off the committee that she believes are going to be running interference on behalf of former president trump. Specifically Jim Jordan and Jim Banks whom she believes were linked to individuals, and or meetings associated to the January 6th attack, chris. Olivia, i want to play today, cheney seems like an in interesting number here. Shes very outspoken, she voted for impeachment, we have reporting that she curse that Jim Jordan and said you caused this on the day of the insurrection, when they were huddled in some secret location. Shes on the committee now and im curious, what she does here, lets look at what she says here and i want to get your reaction to how important you think that was and how much coordination there was with the speaker. Today, the speaker objected to two republican members. She accepted three others, she rejected to. One of whom may well be a Material Witness to events that led to that day, that led to january six. The other who disqualified himself by his comments in particular over the last 24 hours demonstrating that he is not taking this seriously. He is not dealing with the facts of this investigation, but rather viewed it as a political platform. What do you think the effects of that are and what to make of the meaning of cheney rising to the Defensive Pelosi there . That certainly was something that was really an incredible Moment Today watching that. Seeing that List Cheney is saying she supported Pelosis Decision to boot off banks and jordan, we actually heard that pelosi and her office consulted with this cheney before this decision was made. So she was theyre able to sauce out their plan, and now we have cheney saying that she supports it. And chris, you wont be surprised to hear that republicans that i talked to were very pissed off about cheney doing this. They were trying to say that shes going to be a democrat if shes not one already, even though she is one of the more traditional house conservatives. Just go look at her voting record. But this is a member that democrats are going to lean on, that they say is going to be part of their Credibility Credibility for having a bipartisan investigation. And republicans are saying that she does not count effectively. Part of the political calculation here sahil, but i dont think this is the most important thing, but to your point, here trump didnt want an independent commission because would have more stature and credibility. So they turned against. It same Reason Mcconnell whipped against it, is why mccarthy won against, that they want to be able to attack commissions as partisan and they will go after whatever the makeup was. It seems like pelosi is saying, and none of, youre Gonna Run against us anyway there is a difference of Opinion Chris between how the two parties have come to view january six and what congress should do about it. Republicans have come to believe the vast majority of it. They think that the justice they should arrest people, make their charges, and that the Justice System should work it out. Democrats believe that it was fundamentally a fundamental crisis, an attack on american democracy that needs to be zeroed on and investigated as a way to prevent anything like that from happening again, to save the american experiment. Ive talked to many democrats in the emphasized, and the, overemphasize and the reemphasize that part. I think they believe that, i dont think theyre blowing smoke. That difference ended up being irreconcilable especially if you factor in the uncomfortable reality for republicans which is, it was supporters of Donald Trump who violently attacked this building in an attempt to overturn the results of the election, to overturn bidens victory. So the day of, there are many republicans who appeared very tribal by this but as time has gone, on the politics have turned, and will republicans have taken it in a different direction. Olivia Beaver And Sahil kapur, thank you so much for taking time for us. Dont go anywhere, the latest on the arrest of Donald Trumps inaugural Committee Chair and what it might reveal about the Trump Administrations very shady for entanglements. That is next. That is next sure, hes the 76yearold Guy who still runs marathons, right . Sadly, not anymore. Wow. So sudden. Um, were not about to have the we need Life Insurance Conversation again, are we . No, were having the were getting coverage so we dont have to worry about it conversation. So youre calling about the 9. 95 a Month Plan from Colonial Penn . I am. We put it off long enough. We are getting that 9. 95 plan, today. jonathan is it time for you to call about the 9. 95 plan . Im jonathan from Colonial Penn Life Insurance company. Sometimes we just need a reminder not to take today for granted. If youre age 50 to 85, you can get guaranteed acceptance whole Life Insurance starting at just 9. 95 a month. 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Now, we all of course remember special Counsel Robert Mueller was investigating russian sabotage of the 2016 election, you heard about that for years, over the course of his investigation, mueller also started to look into whether lobbyist for the uae were funneling millions of dollars to the trump campaign, and now with the indictment of Tom Barrack that profoundly shady and we are relationship with Queen Trump World in the United Arab emirates is starting to make a little bit more sense. So we know that three months before the 2016 election happened, Donald Trump jr. Met with an emissary for two wealthy arab princes at the trump tower. The emissary told Trump Junior at the time that the princes, the De Facto rulers of both Saudi Arabia in the uae, were eager to help his father win election as president. A few months later Donald Trump did win. And that Crown Prince from the uae flew to New York to meet with the president elect, now as a New Yorker reports, it is customary for foreign leaders to notify the american government when they travel to the u. S. But he did not do so. In fact he arrived at the meeting with an entourage of about 30 people, he was dressed in combat boots, jeans in some of his men were armed. Then on Inauguration Day Donald Trumps incoming national Security Adviser Mike Flynn was texting with former Business Partners about a hugely controversial private Sector Plan that would be funded by the Gulf States including uae to bring nuclear energy to the Middle East, in Fact Flynn was texting about this plan literally ten minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as he watched on the day, we have a deal, whats going to happen . Seven days into his presidency, Donald Trump you might remember signed an Executive Order known as the muslim ban which well left out the uae while including other Middle Eastern countries like syria, yemen and iraq. During trumps first year in office the Deputy Finance Chairman of the national committee was helping spearhead a secret campaign to influence the white House And Congress for the Crown Princes of Saudi Arabia and the uae, god, that keeps popping up again and again. He was later charged with conspiring to charge mr. Broidy was a very busy man apparently and on the day before Donald Trump left office, he pardoned broidy. Now we have the indictment of Tom Barrack who acted to aid the uae and its dealings with the Executive Branch and u. S. Government doing things like advocating for the appointment of individuals favor by the uae in the new administration taking steps to advance the uaes foreign Policy Interest by attempting to influence the united states Foreign Policy. 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Ten days after the articles published the fbi interrogated Tom Barrack about his activities in relation to the emeratis. They say he repeatedly lied to them. Yesterday barrack was arrested charged with acting as an agent of the uae, Matthew Coles is one of the reporters who broke that story and he joins me now. Matthew, maybe you could just start with describing was your initial reporting uncovered about what you turned an Influence Operation by the emerati. Thanks chris, for having me. What we found is that the u. S. Government in the u. S. Intelligence community had discovered that rashida was acting as an Intelligence Agent for the head of the emerati intelligence service. And that his job was to conduct, its not espionage in the sense that he was a spy, he was trying to pull secrets out as much as you try to gain access to the trump White House and assert emerati influence into trumps, the Trump Administrations Foreign Policy in particular with the Middle East. He used his relationship with Tom Barrack, which went back a few years in real estate, as the means to do it. And so what we reported was that the emerati had looked at the Trump Administration early on and decided that what they were gonna do is to use healthy Emerati Business people to try to get them into trumps inner Circle And Rashida who was also charged yesterday with Tom Barrack, you should note for the same thing, for acting as a foreign agent without registering with the government. This Influence Operation didnt seem that secretive in some ways in so far as the presence of Saudi And Emerati interests were swirling around the administration and they were constantly doing things that seem to be favorable to the saudis and emiratis, they famously went to Saudi Arabia first. Give us a sense of what the agenda was here, was it just that the emiratis were fighting with the guitars and wanted the u. S. Support for that . Was it something bigger, why were they crawling all over the Trump Administration . Well, what we know now, looking back after four years is that the emeratis, and the uae wanted a total revamp and reset of Middle East policy from the u. S. , they were very unhappy with the obama administration, and they wanted to come in with a new Slate And B have someone like trump who was going to be aggressive on iran, for example. It was one such thing. One of the things that you can see, for instance, this week visiting the first Gulf Monarch to visit the Biden Mine Arc and that is not an accident, that is because the uae, what went on between the uae and the Trump Administration its just now starting to get picked through by the biden administration. There was a lot going on that we dont yet know, that i think is going to take more reporting both from journalist but also from the biden administration that is trying to figure out what went on there. Yeah and we should note that one of the big priorities for netanyahu, for muhammad inside, was to get a nuclear deal with iran because they were united in their Contempt And Hostility to the iranian regime and that was ultimately successful. The lobbying of all of those folks ultimately did produce that outcome. One more question, the big mystery that hangs over this, what was in it for barrack . Its not enumerated in the indictment, but he has real Estate Interest there, what do you make of that . Well theres sort of two things to look out. Our story found that the reason why he used Rashida Al Malik as an intelligent front, he used his business and real Estate Background as a lawyer for others around trump. And the and said assumption there is, getting them invested and entwined financially but allow them to exert influence and on trumps inner circle. Two, although there is no discussion of money exchanging hands, at The End of the indictment it makes a very clear that if mr. Barrett is convicted, they will bring in asset forfeiture, and that raises the question of whether barrack was doing that by being this gobetween between the White House and the emiratis and the saudis, that his business, his fund, would get money there was no question that he got. Something well over A Billion Dollars in investment from the Middle East, from the uae after trump became president. Okay matthew cole, great reporting, and thank you so much for coming on tonight. Thanks for having me chris. Still to come, as covid places crime director of the nih on the debate over vaccine mandates in offices, hospitals, and beyond. Thats next. Thats next. You can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. Call Coventry Direct to learn more. We thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. But we quickly realized that we needed a way to supplement our income. Our friends sold their policy to help pay for their medical bills and that got me thinking. 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Rise and every state, schools and workplaces across the country are trying to figure out how to keep people safe. Last night, we share the story of how fox news, of all places, has implemented eternal vaccine passport system. Yes you heard that right. Earlier this week, a federal judge upheld in Indianas University Policy that all students and professors be vaccinated on campus. Today, with less than 60 new York City Health Care workers vaccinated, which they announced that they should get weekly tested and vaccinated. But will this be enough to correct the most known for his work with the team responsible for match mapping the genome. He was awarded by general the george bush, he received a price from brooke obama, and hes become the director of the National Institutes Of Health and is responsible for the biomedical health research. Hes been the head of this agency during the entire pandemic and doing the spread of the pandemic, they have the most updated information on vaccines and breakthrough infections. He joins me now. Doctor collins, is a great pleasure to have you on the program. I thought maybe wed start with this question on bandits. Its a Policy Question so slightly we out of the gamut of pure research, but im still cares to get your thoughts about what we know about whether institutions or private companies, or the u. S. Army, or the new York City police, for us whether those mandates could be effective in the efforts of Vaccination Rates . If mandates were applied they would definitely increase the Vaccination Rates. But people want to know is the legal basis for this. In 1905, massachusetts, the Supreme Court said yes, that is a legal we faces one in order to protect Public Health that is killing people. We have one now thats killing people called covid19. There is a health, and basis. Well and while they have to be fully approved before this legal opportunity kicks. And i went to a hospital, the national institute of health is the largest hospital in the world, i would like very much to be sure that all the people who interact with him and no Compromise Pea patients are immunized against covid19. Right now i cant require it because its still emergency use, but i sure as heck and exhorting people to do that, fortunately, they work at nih, they mostly agree. What so there is an issue of controversy, which is the use of an organization. Critics have said that the full lack of authorization is one of the impediments for more vaccination, for two reasons, one the legal predicate for requirements and mandates, and to because people, if you swim in the waters of Vaccine Hesitancy or vaccine skepticism, and they say just emergency use, people of the fda, say look, we have a process and rushing it doesnt help at all. How should we think about this . We i think we should think about It Thud the likelihood we have fda getting in approval for the will potentially happen in the course of the next Couple Of. And so this is really not a good reason for people to hold off rolling up their sleeve. This is certainly gonna come through. But i do want to defend the fda, they are working 24 7 ongoing through this. They dont want either to be in a circumstance where somebody would say, well you didnt really look at all the details of the manufacturing when thousands of pages of application. Theyve got to do their job, its coming. But come on, folks if this is the reason youre deciding not to get immunized, this is a pretty flimsy one. This is definitely the case that these Prison Vaccines have been proven and theres lots of data that it is safe. We dont need a full Fda Approval to accept that. We right now we have an outbreak happening in the country, it is primarily operating through hospitalization and severe illness and the unvaccinated. We have cases up to hundred percent in the last two weeks. We have the number of hospitalizations up 49 , deaths 42 . Those are bookkeeping perpetually surprise that the disease is still there, what is your assessment of this outbreak, how bad it will get, and how people should be thinking about protecting themselves even though theyve been vaccinated well yes its like weve been to this movie before, and we dont like the, ending why dont we we do have something like 62 Million people who are fully vaccinated in the country that is getting close to 60 . That is going to protect them. The good news in our conversation here is, if youre fully vaccinated, even with Delta Variant out, there even with these numbers going up, its not probably gonna have much of an impact on you. But if you are unvaccinated, this virus is looking for you and this is the moment it seems that for everybody to hit the reset button, if theyve been hesitant about getting immunized. Look at whats happening, 99. 5 of the deaths in the last few weeks from covid19 have been unvaccinated people. If we dont want to see that terrible tragedy and the loss of life continue in the space, maybe its time to get off the fence and say, okay, ive heard these things of about conspiracies. I looked at, them all of, them none of them have a basis. This is one of the most remarkable scientific achievements that humankind is put together, vaccines that are this safe and this effective, is its founding. And i have to say its disheartening that still we have some 85 Million americans who are resistant to taking advantage to this gift. Doctor collins, were out of time but i would love to have you back, theres a lot more that i would like to talk about, including some of the controversy around the wuhan Virology Lab thats been in the news. So if you could come back that will be great. Doctor collins, thank. You be glad to. Thanks chris. Fantastic. 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