20 percent of the cases we're seeing are
in florida
uh there are steps and precautions that
can be taken including encouraging
people to get vaccinated
encouraging people to wear masks the
hospital
admissions have slowed i don't think
we've reached the peak yet
but i think we've uh we're going to
settle in hopefully this week or next
week
some governors aren't willing to do the
right thing to beat this pandemic
i believe the results of their decisions
are not good
for their constituents i'm standing for
the people of florida so
why don't you do your job why don't you
get this border secure
and until you do that i don't want to
hear a blip
about covid from you
florida governor ron desantis president
biden back and forth on covet
restrictions this has a number of states
including florida preventing localities
from
having masked mandates those states
restricting local governments from
imposing
mass mandates include arkansas arizona
florida iowa
montana north dakota south carolina
tennessee and texas with that
let's bring in our panel harold ford jr
former tennessee congressman ceo of
empowerment and inclusion capital
morgan ortegas former state department
spokesperson and trey gowdy former
congressman from south carolina
trey you know is this do you think what
we're going to see this back and forth
as we deal with covet 19 this resurgence
and states coming to grips with how
they're going to handle it as opposed to
the federal government
unfortunately brett i think so although
the law is pretty clear the federal
government cannot
mandate masks or vaccines but states
probably can the politics is clear
blame other people when things go bad
and just understand the media is going
to treat gavin newsom
and and cuomo differently from ronnie
desantis or abbott even though
one of them is headed toward recall and
the other is going to rikers
it's the it's the medicine and the
science that has me
concerned bro they're they're new
variants and we don't know the
transmissibility and we don't know the
lethality
so if we could be united in something i
would hope that it would be in staying
alive
i think that's what people want to see
let's unite in staying alive
yeah and obviously there's a lot of
interest in
what is going to happen in just days
really for some places
as kids head back to school weeks in
other places
here's governor desantis and the
education secretary on that issue kids
back in school
if you're trying to deny kids a proper
in-person education
i'm going to stand in your way and i'm
going to stand up for the kids in
florida he wants to
have the government force
kindergarteners
to wear mass in school he doesn't
believe the parents should have a say in
that
don't be the reason why schools are
interrupted our kids have suffered
enough
let's do what we know works let's do
what we know works across the country
we shouldn't get power politics
doesn't have a role in this educators
know what to do i want to make sure
those students have access to in-person
learning
so that's a big question harold and
obviously how the teachers union
comes down on that question affects a
lot of
the decision making going forward
well first of all thanks for having me
on i think that
we're getting a little bit a little bit
of this confused here for because i
think the politics is playing a role
i think trey said it best at the end of
his at the end of his statements there
when he said that
there was a time in politics where the
politics
divided people during the election but
at some point public service has to
start
and you have to trust superintendents i
think in local school districts
a combination of teachers unions and
parents and students and other student
groups helping to make that decision if
they believe
mass should be worn in parts of florida
the florida governor shouldn't cut off
funding to an area
that believes that mass should be worn
if parents and that school district and
school board and others come together
around that
i hope that we can find some sanity
around this and all recognize we none of
us want to wear masks none of us want to
see
transmissions up none of us want to see
hospitalizations or deaths up
but we have a new variant and the
variant is causing
us to look at these things very
differently the titter tat between biden
and desantis just stop
both sides i think for governor desantis
to make the comments at the end
i saw a little bit more with with
president biden on this but both of them
need to stop
uh citizens are counting on government
to give us the best advice
and best counsel about how we should
behave and more importantly what should
what we should do with our kids
one thing i do know kids under 12
there's no vaccine for them yet
so we should be extraordinarily careful
extraordinarily careful in the guidance
and the direction
and what we urge parents and teachers
and school systems to do
in light of that that real reality
morgan yeah that's
uh that's all heartfelt wishes that
would be nice in any other area but
politics and when you have a president
who's gone down
nine percentage points and his approval
rating in the way he handled covert the
white house
clearly made a calculated political
political decision to go after the
governor of florida
or any governor that they can to blame
for the rising case numbers
we had about a month ago around 10 000
cases that had sort of flatlined around
the country now it's a hundred thousand
per day
approval ratings going down uh and so
someone has to
take the blame but i'll tell you parents
are getting incensed around the country
you cannot have another year for
children and public schools
not to go back what's most important is
is that they are
in school around the country 95 percent
of private schools in this nation were
able to offer
in-person options and less than half of
our public schools were able to do so
that's a travesty you shouldn't be able
to be
in school in person if your parents
can't afford private school but not
public school
we need to get our kids back in and i
don't think that our democratic
friends and in the administration
totally understand that
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