teens on them for longer. that was by far the biggest change in teens lives over that time period. it s not just that they started spending more time online, they also started spending less time with each other face to face and less time sleeping. technology was interfering with things that are good for mental health as well. you can t say it s aggression causing this, because then you d have to say, okay, teens became depressed for some completely unknown reason and then they bought smart phones and went on social media. that doesn t really work for the generational trends. there is the seattle litigation and more, the county where i was born and raised with more litigation, utah taking a bold step in this regard. i had the state nsenator who sponsored that here a few weeks ago. bipartisan senators are stepping forward and saying 13 has to be the age. is that enough?
a reminder for insenator, more than 17,000 people have died from covid in your state. but this is nothing new from rand paul who was one of the first republicans to give oxygen to conspiracy theories about dr. anthony fauci, even going after him in covid hearings and fund-raising off it. those conspiracies were so ramp nlt the doctor and his family have received death threats. their priority isn t keeping their constituents safe but rather investigating the man who has dedicated his entire career to finding cures and treatments for deadly diseases. elon musk is even getting in on it, tweeting, my pronouns are prosecute fauci, throwing in a gratuitous swipe at trans folks because of course. while rolling back twitter s covid information policy and replatforming thousands of users who have spread conspiracies to the public. joining me is dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases.
not least of which is the candidate s own behavior. that is why republicans across the state of north carolina, including u.s. nsenator thom tillis have sunk six figures and also their reputations on trying to unseat him. polls close at 7:30 in north carolina, jake. and at that point, we ll see if madison cawthorn will have awkward encounters if he in fact is still the republican nominee. all right, dianne gallagher, thank you. let s discuss this with david irvin. a cnn political commentator and he s supporting dave mccormick. we also have with us keisha lance bottoms, a former mayor of atlanta and cnn political comme commentator. david, you have worked on elections since 1997. republicans could very well nominate gubernatorial and senate nominees who you fear might be too risky to win in the general election. how concerned are you? jake, so you and i discussed this. pennsylvania is a purple state generally. when donald trump won in 2016,
to watch. but if we just simply leave today, believing that if we had planned better, if we had better execution, we could have avoided this panic and confusion, i think we re just inviting another iraq, another afghanistan in the future. finally, mr. secretary, just quickly expand on your point about the message that it sends to china. this idea thatd chie ha needs would love it if we stayed another ten or 20 years and why this isn t a sign of weakness, and it s an ability for you and the national security infrastructure to reorient resources toward fights we can win. i think, nsenator, you put i well. in my assessment and the assessment of many others, as i said, there s nothing that strategic competitors like china, like russia, or adversaries like iran or north korea would like better than for us to reup the war, double down
0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we ve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. but instead we went into iraq, which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. and we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops. when there