green has changed the mind of an anti-vaccine leader in hawaii. 66-year-old chris wycoff now quit a grm that he co-founded to oppose vaccine mandates after tested positive for covid-19 and was hospitalized. he now says, before i thought josh green was exaggerating the situation. and after my experience, he sounds very rational to me. joining us now is dr. josh green, lieutenant governor of hawaii. thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. this has been a strange road for you. what has it been like for you to have one of the founders of this protest against you, this horrible thing that has been happening outside your home, now agree that you re right? well, mostly i felt terrible for him. he caught covid and got very sick. he and his wife ended up in the
founder of that organization caught covid, and got very sick. i heard that. his name is chris wycoff. he had been opposed to vaccines. he was opposed to any sort of mandates, and i mean, really aggressively opposed and then as you say, this month, he got really sick and hospitalized and then he had a change of heart. we only have a very short message that he put out, but here it is. now, all of a sudden, i m in a bed, i can t move, i can t breathe. so he talked about how he was afraid he was going to die, and he talked about we should be more concerned about safety than protesting. i think people should be getting together in large groups he said i don t think people should be getting together in large groups to protest, and he said before i thought that lieutenant governor josh green was exaggerating the situation, but after my experience, he sounds very rational to me. is that gratifying to you? really i feel heartsick that