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i hope everybody's realized by now
these masks make a difference the last
thing we need is neanderthal thinking
that
in the meantime everything's fine take
off your mask forget it
it still matters well that neanderthal
thing
joe biden's still taking heat for that
blasting red states for
lifting coveted restrictions another
republican governor firing back
montana governor greg g 40 tweeting if
making data-driven decisions to reopen
loving freedom and trying to get back to
normal is what a neanderthal would do
then well i guess you can count me as
one
and guess who joins us right now the
governor himself good morning to you
governor
hey steve good to be with you thanks for
having me on it's good to have you as
well
uh jen saki said yesterday you know he
was talking about the behavior of
a neanderthal he wasn't saying they were
neanderthals
you're not in your head no what do you
mean
well for for for a president that called
for unity
uh to degrade himself to name calling
doesn't make any sense at all and
honestly as i said in the tweet you know
if we're
working to protect our most vulnerable
uh we lifted the mass mandate we
prioritized
taking the care of the people that are
in most need and we're getting great
results hospitalizations are down
and montana's open for business we're
getting back to normal
hold the phone you so you got rid of the
mask mandate a month ago
and the hospitalizations are going down
that's not what we're hearing from the
administration we got to be more
careful well we are
not out of the woods yet and montanans i
trust montanans
uh to with with their own uh health and
that of their loved ones
uh but we got to shift away from these
impractical
uh mandates one size fits all just to
give you perspective steve
uh we have we have 56 counties in
montana i have one county
that's nearly three times the size of
rhode island
with just a thousand people in it right
uh we
we it doesn't make sense to implement a
one-size-fits-all for the whole country
sure
that's why they call it big sky country
out there there's a lot of sky there's a
lot of land
uh it's beautiful governor i'm sure
you've been hearing these stories out of
brownsville texas where a bunch of
people are getting on the on the buses
after being processed by border patrol
and they've got coronavirus and the
federal government is not stopping them
i just got an email from a viewer by the
name of ann
down in saint pete florida she said
what's the difference between
governor cuomo knowingly sending people
with covet back to nursing homes
and president biden knowingly sending
people with covid from mexico
into american communities
well it's not just the immigration steve
i mean i uh
in montana we're concerned about meth
coming across the border sure it's
ripping our families and communities
apart
and uh opening these borders back up uh
it's just not good for our communities
here in montana yeah
ultimately and the news this morning is
that apparently
in connecticut which is not a red state
it's a super blue state
the governor there is opening
restaurants to full capacity sports are
going to resume
they sound more like montana there than
new york where things here are still
pretty
locked down but when you look at what
happened
over the last year maybe we didn't have
to shut everything down
people have figured out how to operate
business and
operate schools safely at a distance
with the appropriate measures
well we took decisive action when i got
into office in january we
immediately got rid of these business
restrictions hours of operation
capacity limits we've lifted the mass
mandate i think the biggest decision we
made
was to to simplify our vaccine
distribution
to prioritize the most vulnerable and
we've gotten great results
and last week we were recognized as
getting more shots and arms than any
other state in the country
i'm proud of that we're protecting the
vulnerable and we're opening the
business back up
all right very good glad to hear your
story from montana governor thank you
very much
you're very welcome thanks steve