the president said when he was running at the height of the presidential campaign, that he wanted to put 300,000 more police officers on the streets because everyone deserves the safe community. you re only gonna get that through investing and through policing. it has to be just. they have to be held accountable. it has to be transparent when things happen. i don t think the answer to crime is that we pull funding from police. we just add more funding to other areas. i think that stacey abrams, who is a very smart public servant, is articulating her values in terms of saved communities for everyone. in many ways, aren t we hearing some of the right-wing kind of turning up the volume of voices that are more fringe then speaking for the average voter, including the majority of black voters, so they can
controlling the senate. and they don t want to do anything that shows the american public how split and divided and angry parts of the party are. and so, you know, congresswoman lofgren was saying, where s the leadership. why aren t we hearing from them? i think she asked a very good question. you need to hear from the leadership on both sides when things like this happen. and we are not hearing it right now on the republican side because they re just waiting to take control of the congress, get what they want from the american electorate, and then maybe maybe they ll start to deal with this. problem is officer dunn, as you know all too well, this isn t something you kind of control. once this gets out of hand, it s not as if suddenly political leaders can say, okay, now that we re in power we re not going to do this stuff anymore. you have people starting to attack their own. you have, you know, folks in the republican party in texas going after dan crenshaw, you know, calling h
its capacity to pursue self-determination, self-defense, and not make this sort of inter imperial great bauer s fight. fair point. molly, let me ask you this. the house passed a ukraine democracy defense land lease act, by a vote of 400 and 17 to 10, this week. i m sure you were shocked to hear the ten, who voted against it, including matt gates, paul gosar, marjorie taylor greene. the far-right of the congressional republican party is still keeping this pro putin stance. why aren t we hearing more from the democrats about this? i could ask the same question, but i want to keep asking it. this is a very unpopular stance in america right now, not backing ukraine. why there are no costs for the republicans that are doing this? it s like political malpractice. i mean, remember freedom price, remember republicans, all these democrats lost their seats because they wouldn t support this war that had nothing to do with 9/11, right?
gosar, marjorie taylor greene. the far-right of the congressional republican party is still keeping this pro putin stance. why aren t we hearing more from the democrats about this? i could ask the same question, but i want to keep asking it. this is a very unpopular stance in america right now, not backing ukraine. why there are no costs for the republicans that are doing this? it s like political malpractice. i mean, remember freedom price, remember republicans, all these democrats lost their seats because they wouldn t support this war that had nothing to do with 9/11, right? here we have a situation where we have a very popular little country, it s all about democracy, you know? they were completely unprovoked. it s a very popular war. people want the president to
second part to your point, raising this awareness around anti-virals, i have paxlovid sitting on my shelf at clinics. cvs has paxlovid on the shelves. we re not using it given as much positivity we re seeing around the country. it s an opportunity, much across the country. it s an opportunity of getting treatments early to help keep people out of the hospital and he want prevent downstream consequences of covid. you re right to bring up long covid. there s so much we don t know and can t be underscored enough. the white house was quick to note that she had been boosted twice. right. we know that second booster is eligible for americans 50 and up. what s the holdup for americans under the age of 50? why aren t we hearing more about those people getting that second shot? yeah, just to really be brief about it. we have very clear data out of israel and uk and united states, albeit early on second boosters,