specify what wrongdoing the panel would investigate but suggested it would search for evidence to bolster claims about harmful side effects. joining us now, nbc news senior national political reporter mark caputo. we ll let you talk broadly about this idea of ron desantis taking on donald trump, but specifically this action about vaccines. what s he up to here? reporter: well, that s a good question. what desantis is definitely up to is that kind of a political brand built in 2020 questioning expert opinion about covid, covid-19, response to covid. opening schools, opening the state up. fighting vaccine mandates. what s happened over the years is, desantis has gone from this full-throated supporter of covid-19 vaccines. toured the state. told people to get them. called them life-saving. and then just kind of slowly morphed as a portion of the republican party, became anti-vax, which it came to the covid-19 vaccine and now we re
arthel: you re a lawyer and you been fighting vaccine mandates. that s what are the issues i ve been fighting, the other thing i been fighting over the years since i been working for a small business in wyoming, oil and gas companies, all of those things. one more thing i want to make a quick statement. arthel: thank you so much we will be watching. . . .
all of those red states and how it s being helped by the biden agenda. look at all that money. right? that as the president today slammed republican governors, including texas governor, greg abbott, and florida s governor ron desantis for fighting vaccine mandates. the governors of florida and texas are doing everything they can to undermine the lifesaving requirements that i have proposed. and some of the same governors attacking me are in states with the strictest vaccine mandates for children attending school in the entire country. for example, in mississippi, children are required to be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis b, polio, tetanus, and more. these are state requirements. but in the midst of a pandemic that has already taken over 660,000 lives, i proposed requirement for covid vaccines
map, look at the map. put it back up, let them see it again. all of those red states and how it s being helped by the biden agenda. look at all that money. right? that as the president today slammed governors, including texas governor, for fighting vaccine mandates. the governors of florida, texas, are doing everything they can to undermine the life-saving requirements that i ve proposed. and some of the same governors attacking are in states with the strictest vaccine mandates for children attending school in the entire country. for example, in mississippi, children are required to be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, hepatitis b, polio, tetanus, and more. these are state requirements. but in the midst of a pandemic that has already taken over 660,000 lives, i propose