cigarettes have almost more utility like social utility, there is no good, they re pure cancer sticks. where as social media you can connect with your friends, you can connect with interests, you can keep in touch with family and read the news. so there are good things that come out of social media. thank you for joining us on this very us withy wednesday morning. coming up, andrea talking to dr. fauci about that pfizer news, next. i about that pfizer news, next
is that a number? anyway. it would be zero. and we haven t had any. let s focus on the people that have the pour to do something, which is congress, which can t seem to agree on lunch at this point. they are coming together on big tech and we have to move beyond zuckerberg and start to regulate in some way a lot of this stuff around data, around privacy. and all kind of areas and stop arguing about free speech. and discuss large companies that have enormous power over all of us, especially during the pandemic which allowed mark zuckerberg to become that rich or any of them to become that wealthy. i think focusing on him is a mistake. let me follow. i see it as donny sees it. i don t have the relationships, the expertise in tech, but people make the tobacco parallel. i don t think that s strong enough. tobacco companies knew they were killing people. i don t think they felt bad, but they didn t really resist warnings saying these are cancer sticks.
they could be damaging their ears? why not do something about the constant cacophony of jack hammers, squealing brakes or incessant honking from cabbes. i know you tried in 2005. if you ll champion paternalistic policies why go small? do you know how many people slept in new york city homeless shelters every night in january alone? 50,000. that s according to the coalition for the homeless. it s a record for the big apple. here s a thought. maybe we should be just as concerned about the skyrocketing number of homeless people especially children as we are about cancer sticks, fatty foods and ear buds. just a thought. coming up, another asteroid comes uncomfortably close to home. do you need to be worried about the about the rock the size of a city block? first, though, nbcshe ll take u
we will send you back with what we believe. but to turn back on people who are criticizing you with violence and killing people and riots, how secure of a religion is this? by the way, they go around saying they are a religion of peace, but they are killing each other because of a cartoon. we are getting way too serious. from a cartoon to a carton. president obama completed his first physical as the man in charge and all signs point to awesome when it comes to the chiseled in his good health. the 6 foot 148-year-old 180-pound man-chilada has the heart rate of an athlete and the blood pressure of a monk. the only warning his physicians game him was to, quote, continue with the nicotine replacement therapy. wait a gosh darn minute. didn t the president give up the cancer sticks over a year ago? what in flavor country is going on here? could he be smoking a bunch, but in private? possibly in disguise? would we have tape? i think we have tape.