have the larger questions about multi-billionaires running conversations. we have the larger questions about our political discourse, but what we re really also talking about here is when and how our federal government will recognize that social immediate gentleman is also news, that social media is a public workplace. that social media is something that we have to stop pretending that it s just, you know, teenagers and smart guys out of harvard and silicon valley who don t know what they are doing. you have politically minded people like elon musk who are trying to dominate public discourse around the world and governments need to get involved. i mean, elon musk seems to me to keep protesting too much. first he came out tweeting saying i hope my worst critics don t leave because you know if the smart people and the people who criticize you leave, twitter will have no volume without the contempt that you get from free from intelligent people like charles blow and the attacks on peopl
he s telling americans, please, get boosted. please, get the vaccine, it s going against things like that, and you know you hear it now even in congress. you hear congressman ronny jackson, the former physician to the president, tweeting saying, well, this is the democrats attempt to try to make up a new mid-term variant. they are losing the messaging war so this is what they have to do. why it s been such a challenge for biden to fulfill the key campaign promise to shut down the virus and pandemic. we heard that from him over and over again and what he s running up is not only the politics at home but also the fact that there are low vaccination rates around the world and until those populations get vaccinated, a key example being south africa which has i think 20% of its population vaccinated you re going to continue to see these mutations. this is going to continue to be a problem so that s the reality that the president confronts even as the country is getting tired and even he
where we re going sheer the the shus going to impeach the president of the united states? but theish sue the issue, are they going to impeach the president today? no. but they re going to get up and say to partner with rudy giuliani was a big mistake. this is bad. i don t like this. this is ugly, this never should have happened. we have an election in 11 or 12 months, i m not going to impeach over this. he keeps tweeting saying, don t do that. defend me. defend my conduct. again, i m not saying they re going to convict the united states. tlifsd yo from that.
and the latest polls, 22% approval rating, 22%, by comparison donald trump is double that. speaking of donald trump, he s tweeting saying i am in the white house working hard. news reports concerning the shutdown is mostly fake. we re negotiating with the democrats on desperately needed border security and gangs, drugs, human trafficking and more. it could be a long stay. on syria, we knew we would head down there and not have a confirm departure. what he seems to be saying or the press secretary tells john roberts, they were doing this way and should not be a big surprise. the bottom line, what s made up and fake. it s real to say that the government is shut down. maybe not all of it, maybe a quarter of it, but it s not fake tore me to convey we are in a
minister abe of japan. it s not that close friendship you see a strong guarantee the alliance is as it should be and no requests for additional money, for troops being based here and something donald trump said in the past. not recently and to know that alliance is strong. seeking reassurances for donald trump as he visits the nation in a couple of days. u.s. president trump arriving and air force one landed outside of tokyo and even before he was arriving, he was tweeting saying can t wait to be with our great military. mr. trump received a rousing welcome from the troops and had kind words for japan. japan is a treasured partner and crucial ally of the united states and today we thank them