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There were also protests in switzerland. a pass is required there to enter bars, restaurants, and fitness centers. meantime, argentina has started vaccinating children as young as 3. right now the rollout is focused on children with weakened immune systems and other high-risk conditions. covid cases are unfortunately surging in russia. on saturday the government reported more than 1,000 deaths for the first time ever. for more we are joined by cnns nada bashir in london. the breaking of the re...

West virginia second highest in the nation. national politics is getting in the way of public health. >> if they had more vaccinations i would think these numbers would not nearly be as bad. seven-day new case average third highest, current hospitalizations, highest. seven-day death average, fifth highest. lower vaccinations, higher case loads, higher hospitalizations, higher deaths. >> justice is pleading with them to get vaccinated. are they listening? >> unfortunately not. weve seen as cases ...

Were seeing more patients not only in volume, but theyre sicker. so more patients on ventilators, more patients that need icu beds, and of course thats putting a strain on the staff and the especiallized staff needed who are taking on more and more case loads. some nurses are quitting. the national guard has come in to help a lot of these hospitals in areas just recently. some national guard members came in a couple days ago to this facility behind me, the university of texas medical center. and...

Thats a positive unintended conse consequence, or is it possible it will go the other way and well see just many more people hurting? >> well, i think it is positive in the sense that, you know, one of the strange things about this period is that you had a lot of labor shortages. you know, the first hit from covid, you had 22 million people losing jobs. and so, you know bs b, business just shut down, and then ramping back up takes time. so labor shortages have been a real problem over the last f...

Explain. >> theres not a consensus for vaccine mandates at this point. public is pretty closely divided when you ask about the various vaccine mandates that might be imposed on federal workers or health care workers or eggers or -- educators. requirements for vaccine to get on an airplane. the country is still evenly, pretty evenly divided. as i show in the piece, among the vaccinated, theres a much stronger consensus for all of those measures, including as i said, a substantial portion somewher...

Said, a substantial portion somewhere between a third and a half of the vaccinated republicans. i think that points to direction of where this will go if case loads we main high and the promise of normal life recedes. as the number of people who have been vaccinated increases and as the case loads remain high, i do think theres going to be growing support for tougher measures. theres going to be growing need for it because as im sure you have talked about either here or on the radio because the ...

Other branches? whats going on here? they were losing case loads. ed: he was on the phone with andrew mccabe. >> because he was on the phone. it makes sense he was on the phone with peter strzok and andrew mccabe. weighs too busy going after president trump and not doing his job. ainsley: sara, lets talk about something else too. mid terms are around the corner. if they retake the house they could impeach the president. open up investigations on the president. there are s. a long list. scroll th...

This country, come here legally, dont come here illegally. in order to carry out these important policies, i have sent 35 prosecutors to the southwest border and moved 18 judges to the border. these are supervisory immigration judges that dont have existing case loads and will be able to function full time on moving these cases. that will be about a 50% increase in the number of immigration judges that will be handling asylum claims. these actions are necessary. they are made even more necessary...

So many undocumented kids trying to come into the u.s. they have forced authorities to look for space beyond federal holding centers. they have converted facilities never meant to hold immigrants. earlier today, homeland security secretary jeh johnson visited one of those places. he was in arrest artesia, new mexico and urged lawmakers to spend nearly $4 billion to stem the tide of immigrants. it has pushed the courts to case loads. the justice department has never seen before. in june, there we...

Your office and is private attorneys started taking everything to trial. how long would it take for the system to break if you took everything to trial? >> you know, the professor michelle alexander who has written a book called "the new jim crowe" said what if everybody exercised a the right to trial. that would force the system to reprioritize the cases it tries. 60% of the people in prisons and jails are in drug offenses. in those places they went to trial, theres no way the system could hand...