committee doesn t plan to release this report until next fall? doesn t there need to be more accountability and more urgency before then? well, i think you have seen a sense of urgency of the people that they are talking to. uh, the they are trying to get the facts and i think now, more than ever, the facts matter. and i am not going to tell someone what timeline to do their investigation on because i think it s more important that it be done in a thorough and factual, nonemotional, nonpassionate way. and meanwhile, the situation on capitol hill is still very toxic nearly a year after the january 6th attack. you came on cnn. you shared a threat you got over voicemail, similar to what some of your colleagues are experiencing. let s play that for our viewers and talk about it. you god damn old, senile [ bleep ]. you are as old and ugly as biden. you ought to get the [ bleep ] off the planet.
for covid. compared that to jackson, mississippi, where masking and vaccination are voluntarily, 6.4% of students there are testing positive. evan sant oro reports. i m confident in what we re doing. and you know what, i could make a change at any moment and i will make a change if i see it is necessary. superintendent john striker s covid-19 plan at schools in jackson county, mississippi, is to keep masking and vaccination and quarentining voluntarily. he collected his own data to krapt his own policy. he said he s chosen quality education over pandemic fear. we lost a teacher to covid. and it broke our heart. i wept. but when i make my decisions i need to do the best i can to make nonemotional decisions. striker stands by his nonemotional decision to essentially do nothing. since school, and the data, and so you know i feel that our
he stands by his nonemotional decision to essentially do nothing. and using the data. and so, you know, i feel our kids are safe relative to the other schools with those options. reporter: school starts august 5th in jackson county. there are around 9,000 students in the district. and his own data shows an astonishing 6.4% of them have reported a covid infection, a number he says is starting to trend down slightly. the medical director at the los angeles unified school district is running a program with a completely different approach from jackson county, mississippi. we have a robust and one of the largest testing programs in the nation where we re testing all students and staff regardless of vaccination status every week. reporter: all adults inside los angeles schools are required to be vaccinated. everyone is required to wear a mask. los angeles schools have been in session for almost three weeks. just half of 1% of the students
and so we just need to get to the bottom of what really happened that day. that was domestic terrorism. that was an attack on our capitol. police officers died that day, and people were beaten that day. windows were broken. furniture was broken. tear gas was used inside the a person was killed. i heard that gunshot. so we really have to do our best in a calm, non-emotional, fair way, dig into this, and what made it happen and how it happened. and when you put it like that it seems quite simple, what a no-brainer to get to the bottom of what happened. but then what is it about the lawmakers who are resisting the idea? what do you believe they re afraid of, including the 16 lawmakers who had helped craft a request for an investigation initially and then are now backing down on such an idea? well, let me first praise the 35 republicans that joined the democrats in voting for this
president s worst impulses or do we have to sit back and say, well, throw your hands up in the air and watch it unfold? i never believed that. matter of fact and i think you know this. you ve been advocating for a congressional role in even the military actions we have around the country. congress candidly has abdicated their role ever since the passage of the first authorization to go into afghanistan and then they ve used it, the executive branch has used it creatively to do other actions and congress has let them do it, and shame on congress for doing that. they can absolutely get back. now they have to have a logic, nonemotional, substantive debate, which sometimes is hard for them to do. you need to start talking about what are our interests in making sure that syria is stabilized and doesn t become a proximay se for iran in the region that would destabilize the rest of it? you need to be able to have those conversations. congress needs to get back in