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The governor made an announcement yesterday with new guidelines suggesting that elementary and middle schools require masks regardless of vaccination. he did say, though, that for high schools if people are vaccinated they can remove those masks. but those are strong recommendations, but ayman, you know at the end of the day, it will come down to the local and district level. its not clear if or how the state is going to enforce those rules, especially in some of those districts where folks may ...

Story which is that theyre presenting authentic information that promotes the vaccine. what theyre not presenting and whats really frustrating the white house in my conversations with them, theyre not presenting how many people actually view like and shared misinformation. and thats the thing that the white house really wants for facebook to focus on. so, yes, facebook gets some credit for actually promoting authentic content about the vaccine, but they are presenting -- not solving this misinfo...

. nelson mandela, south africas great voice for peace would have been 103 years old today but his country is far from peaceful with perhaps more than 200 people dead in some of the worst violence since apartheid. lets going kelly. lets talk about whats going on there and what you can tell us about the week ahead and what it holds. >> reporter: yeah, alex, the first thing to note is former president his corruption trial resumes tomorrow. he may appear virtually for that. that could be a flash p...

And so homeland security officials, law enforcement in this country need to continue to be vigilant and on the watch for another flash point. >> secretary jay johnson. i always appreciate your perspective. always a gift to the audience and thank you. >> thanks, chris. >> be well. there is an historic push to legalize marijuana at the federal level. a lot of reasons but the big one is, all the disconnect. all the states are making it legal but federally it is illegal. a disconnect. how do we fe...

Misinformation that plays to poison partisanship is part of the problem with why people are not getting vaccinated? >> so, thank you, chris. and let me say first of all as a pediatric icu physician and as a member of trump administration for three years, the covid vaccines authorized in this country are highly effective. they are saving tens of thousands of lives. and there is no such they know as a risk-free vaccine. but the side effects are very, very minor compared to the overall benefit. i r...

This is a lot of empirical evidence that you dont really care about whats happening with the pandemic. i refuse to semiit. it matters too much. you have to care. 200 americans are still dying every day from covid. thats not that many. look. the point is, why? why do we have to have 200 people dying every day? when most of them, almost all of them are unvaccinated? do you think thats a coincidence? we have the doses. its available. everyone from the surgeon general to the american academy of pedi...

Toxic talk. heres a case in point. there is silence on this. >> wouldnt you say a 15, 16, 17-year-old male would certainly fit profile of someone who might be in a gang or be recruited by a gang or be used by the drug traffickers to traffic their drugs, right? isnt that the reality. situation with this? we are letting in people who are potentially gang members, people who will be trafficking drugs, or human trafficking. isnt that your experience as a houston sheriff? >> im always mindful of not ...

Government reaching out to help them that often. fairon. and second, access. which they dont control even if they wanted. as you mentioned earlier, we have an inequity going on in terms of who is getting the supply. so it is very different than people just choosing not to take it because they think it is a thumb to the nose to the democrats. >> your point is there. i think everyone has access because of the delivery of vaccines in pharmacies and we know that theyre even in very high social vulne...

It boiled over on january 6th. but the pot is still boiling. theres no reason to believe that it all dissipated after january 6th. the environment, the underlying environment is still there. and so homeland security officials, law enforcement in this country need to continue to be vigilant and on the watch for another flash point. >> secretary jeh johnson, always appreciate your perspective. its always a gift to the audience. and thank you. >> thanks, chris. >> be well. theres an historic push i...

Group behind the attacks of more than 360 targets in the u.s. alone hand more than 350 companies around the world alone over the fourth of july weekend has suddenly disappeared from the internet. we dont know who or what was behind the sites vanishing but it comes days after president biden spoke with russian president vladimir putin on the phone and warned him if he did not take action against the ransomware groups that were based in russia, the u.s. would act. joining me now from moscow is nbc...