been going back months. months. there was a seething hatred. it was a game. everyone else was just collateral damage. it just destroyed my heart. i m angry now, and i was never a very angry person. hello, and welcome to dateline. in the eyes of his daughter, randy baker could do no wrong. he was her rock and a mentor for countless others. randy dedicated himself to a deeply personal mission counseling others to overcome addiction. it was a battle he, too, waged as a young man, so when randy was found dead, investigators wondered, did someone from his past put an end to his future, or was there trouble closer to home? here is keith morrison with the secret keepers. it was a warm colorado morning on the right side of summer. the road beneath his wheels, the vast blue canopy above, renewed possibilities in his heart. randy baker recovering heart patient cruised through the sun to the job he loved, better now back to sweet routine. so why this morning fatigue? ran
right now, the big star d. lemon. look how beautiful this is. can we show it? look, you were born here. i wasn t. i moved here. i still look at the skyline and, you know, driving on the fdr, what have you and expect to see the buildings around every turn and it is a reminder every day when you look that way it s not there but especially today and it s also a reminder how much we lost but a reminder, as well, on how we can come together no matter what as americans as we did after those horrible attacks. yeah, that s what i always thought 100%. beautifully said, my brother. i ve always felt that s what never forget really is a reminder is about, not what happened, obviously we know what happened but how we were 9/12, 9/13, 9/14. we made mistakes. it didn t last forever. we put things aside and came together with a collective will. yeah. you contrast that with where we are today. i m telling you, this vaccine hesitancy, there is a personal freedom thing, people don t wan
tonight, president biden s message to the republican governors criticizing his sweeping new vaccine mandates and threatening to sue to block them, and i quote have at it . and as the delta variant spreads like wildfire, especially across the south, tonight big developments on mask mandates in schools in two states where the virus is surging. plus california s recall election hasn t even happened yet and right wing media is already spreading lies about the democratic governor s potential to beat back the recall. also ahead, my interview with a professor and commentator on race telling me what he got wrong about the state of race in america after living through the trump era. you don t want to miss that interview. i want to bring in susan glasser, national correspondent for the washington post philip bump. good to see you both. thank you so much. one day i will see you in person in studio, hopefully soon. and the reason why i haven t seen you is because of this. so, susan, p
and amanda carpenter. good to see you, john. president biden announcing new vaccine mandates that could affect 100 million americans. what are you hearing from the white house? reporter: in terms of why they didn t go further is the biggest proposal i ve heard from people like our colleague jonathan rainer who you have on your show a lot, the doctor has said he should have mandated air travelers be vaccinated. the white house says they didn t do that because they think it would jam up airports and impede the economic recovery without doing all that much to improve vaccinations because a high proportion of air travelers are already vaccinated and all that much much covid is not spread because of good air filtration systems on plaeps. in terms of how it works is what joe biden is counting on here is the threat of fines on businesses applied through occupational safety and health administration to impose vaccine mandates on large businesses affecting tens of millions of worker
syndrome, i don t even remember the handoff. i don t even remember what i said. it s kind of crazy, when you honestly, though. this is this is honesty. you meet especially, when we were in our big studios, the number of people that we would meet on a daily basis. and i have been doing two hours for, what, five, six, seven years. i forget how long. two hours a night. and i don t mean to be rude. people would say, hey, do you remember i was on your show? and i would go, oh, yeah, i remember. don t quite remember. and then, they have to remind me, prompt me and then i will go now, i remember. but i think i was interviewing like, maybe, 20 people a night at one point. and so, you know, there s only so much information that can be held up in this little, tiny you know, i think it s interesting. you know, thank god you and i don t really think about why we do what we do. we just do it. i love it. we think about what we say, but we don t think about, you know, what i