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And shot at a college scholarship for minors. this as the white house offers a partnership with anheuser-busch, promising to buy a round for the whole country if the nation reaches the presidents goal to have 70% of u.s. adults partially vaccinated by july 4th. joi joining me now to discuss is cesar vargas, chief external affairs officer for anheuser-busch. so good to see you. first, how do we all get our beer, if, of course, america does reach that goal of 70% inoculated? >> i know, its exactly...

Much more sense to team up and make this announcement together. because if the goal is to drive excitement and awareness, we can do that much better together than we could on our own. our incentive really, fredericka, is that moment when this country is getting back together again. when they get back together at bars, restaurants, at a ball game or just in their back yard for a barbecue, we hope an anheuser-busch product might be there. but its not about the beer, its about the people and moment...

We can. do our part. this is really a collective effort. we want to complement what the government is doing, what other companies are doing, and we want to bring what we can so we can get to this milestone, which will be great for all of us. >> okay. >> were so close. its a very exciting time, fredericka. were so close to being on the other side of this pandemic and at a time we can start getting back together with our family, with our friends at bars, restaurants. were going to do everything we...

From new york to here in miami. but they had one thing in common, fredericka, and that is the motivation behind their run for local office. if you could say something to george floyd today, what would that be? >> thats a deep question. >> to understand that pause -- >> i think that -- >> reporter: to understand that pain. >> im sorry. >> reporter: -- is to understand their drive one year after the murder of george floyd. >> we can no longer ignore what is going on. we have to have these hard con...

Ruling? >> i think its a seriously flawed ruling, fredericka. to compare an ar-15 to a swiss army knife runs counter to what any ordinary person would believe. the ruling was also shocking coming on gun violence awareness day, where literally thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people, are thinking about how their lives and their families were adversely and very negatively impacted by gun violence. i expect this to be reversed on appeal, and i think this only strengthens the resolve of fo...

Enforcement. but what he started is something thats going to create some everlasting change for individuals that look like him and look like me. >> reporter: and fredericka, a little more perspective. i spoke to city council member braxton winston. hes a protester-turned-politician. his point is, yes, this is the next step to take it to the ballot box for this particular movement, but he argues its not enough. these candidates once and if elected need to have a greater understanding of the insti...

You helped break this story or gaetzs ex-girlfriends cooperation. what more can you tell us? >> fredericka, this woman is a former capitol hill staffer. she did not work for the congressman, she worked for a different lawmaker, but she was linked to congressman gaetz in the summer of 2017. that is the time period thats really critical in the investigation into whether he may have had sex with an underage girl. to be clear, this ex-girlfriend is not the underage girl at the center of this investi...

Influential. i think the president did an outstanding job. im watching from the side, and ill tell you, as a practitioner and historian of diplomacy, it was first rate diplomacy. we have to see now whether the cease-fire is going to hold and whether hamas will exploit the situation to rebuild its arsenal and redig its tunnels. the actual achievement of the cease-fire, in the face of significant israeli opposition, keep in mind they will pay a political price for this. make no mistake about it. v...

Its interesting, fredericka, the majority of israelis were actually against the cease-fire. almost 80% polled against the cease-fire. frankly, they dont want to go back to the same situation where hamas can replenish its missile supplies, start rebuilding tunnels and two, three years from now were in the same situation. a lot of skepticism but also relief. im talking to you from tel aviv and theres a sense of coming back to life after being shut down 11 days under rocket fire and the year before...

Same. commander kenneth hodder, thank you so much, thank you for all youre doing. you always, salvation army, is always doing extraordinary work to help one another out. >> thank you, fredericka, so much. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. legal pressure surrounding florida congressman matt gaetz continues to mount. the republican lawmaker is under a federal probe over allegations of sex trafficking. cnn has learned gaetzs former girlfriend has n...