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Just from abroad, it is also from within. >> we have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders but from violence that gathers within. there is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home, but theres disdainful pluralism, in the disregard for human life, in the determination to defile national symbols. they are children of the same foul spirit and it is our continuing duty to confront them. >> their determin...

Nashville covid-19 task force as well as the nashville board of health and he joins me now. first of all, just to level set, doctor, can you tell us how things are going in your state with covid right now? >> things are the worst its been since i first took over in march of 2020. our cases are the highest they have ever been, our mortality is the highest, the hospitals are literally at the -- im a practicing surgeon and we are literally now cancelling procedures that are important so that we can...

Lets take a look at where we stand in comparison to that goal. so dr. fauci as you said, just said that well below 10,000 cases a day. thats his goal. he wants to get well below 10,000 cases a day. yesterday we had over 150,000 cases per day. you can see thats a huge difference. the last time we were below 10,000 cases a day in the u.s., that was march 25th of 20 20. so we really have a long way to go, and unfortunately, were headed in the wrong direction. take a look at this graph. all the way ...

But look the community is still very on edge. lawmakers are set to receive briefings in the coming days and no one wants to leave anything to chance here. >> that chatter about violence, theyre looking back sort of like past prologue for january 6th, is that right? >> exactly. one of the briefings that one of the lawmakers received yesterday were told at cnn it was a lot more detailed than what they got before january 6th. theyre looking how they handled that situation, learning from their past ...

Children, there does seem to be a tailing off of the latest surge. i know things can change. the graph was like this, and now its starting to go this way. do you see some hope, talking about infections, but also deaths and hospitalizations. do you see some hope in that data? >> i am seeing some hope in that data, but were still having very, very high positivity rates among people getting tested. for example, here in georgia where its 17%. were still seeing a lot of people hospitalized. the hospi...

Fingers crossed, maybe its starting to go down. hospitalization in many ways the most reliable way to track trends in terms of covid. do you think this will stick? what do you see here? >> weve been following this closely. looking at the growth, pace of growth and seeing if youre seeing contraction in the pace of growth. i think we are seeing that, especially in many of the states that had the straight-up exponential growth. youre starting to finally see some slowing of that. its similar to what...

Comparing the vaccinated to the unvaccinated for the country. now, you can barely make it out because at the bottom of that graph, flat, is the vaccinated population in the hospital. and the line on top thats going up still is the unvaccinated. so, yes, were seeing a contraction of overall growth, but this is entirely, almost entirely a story about the unvaccinated. so what seems to be happening here to get to the point, is that youre seeing this virus, delta virus sort of go through these commu...

Weekend. but here we are. we talk about childrens hospitalizations. as you mention, you go back and you look over the year, you see these dramatic increases overall on the graph of what it looks likes with childhood hospitalizations. this is the deepest growth weve seen throughout the pandemic with children. if you live in a state with low vaccination rates, your kid is 3 1/2 times more likely to to the e.r. and be admitted to the hospital as compared to if you live in a state with high vaccinat...

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States learned its lesson that nation building does not work? >> no, the united states is determined to -- even though we are going to, say thats not a lesson of afghanistan at. all i think the lesson of afghanistan was never to have fought the war in afghanistan. i wanted to say one other thing. in the graph you put up, for the cost of the war, another important measure that frequently gets ignored is the war killed by conservative estimate 160,000 afghans. we must never forget. that it is not ...