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And threatening to, quote, dish all the dirt on donald trump to get back at the ex president over his endorsement of the covid-19 vaccine. joining me now is juanita tolliver, msnbc analysts. and errin haines, an msnbc contributor. erin, right-wing editors heard the reporters but what about the impact that this entrenched anti vax minorities that are having all of us? including people of color. >> absolutely, jonathan, let me also just thank you. and also think britney for showing the human toll ...

Our first priority is tackling covid in the president is doing that. hes doing that with a plan that actually has free testing out there. we shouldve had that in alaska ministration. boo finally f retesting. he has done that by mobilizing around pfizers new pill. it can be a therapeutic for covid. im hoping, within months, we can increase production on that. and second, people are still concerned about prices of inflation. the cost of gas is still high. the cost of groceries are still high. the ...

Impact on your family. what >> he is, thank you so much for having me on, jonathan. the virus has had a huge impact on my family. nearly 30 relatives are getting positive for covid. family members who passed away in mexico. and most recently losing my grandmother to covid. so it is definitely we very defining for these last two years. >> you also read about the efforts to get your family vaccinated. i worked hard to convince my family to get vaccinated and i was able to get at least ten of them ...

Its what led me to drive to my cousins to say goodbye to my father who was on the ventilator. its also with divided my family. this year, i thought hope had come in the form of the vaccine. but i had family members who did interested, others with excuses for why they didnt need it. well joining us now is we brittny mejia, reporter for the los angeles time. and we dr. lipi roy, internal medicine physician. brittani, let me start with you. and first we, congratulating you might sound weird. but co...

She is with really excited. theres a variety of factors including my grandmother passing away. i would say that continuing having conversations with family is important. its better late than never. its important to take away those extra steps. i set up that and we the right for her, that a point for my sister. >> brittny mejia, dr. lipi roy well, thank you both for joining us tonight. and again, brittani, our condolences to you in your family. 89 million americans are unvaccinated tonight. even ...

And you heard all even oliver and in this earlier, npr reports of people who live in pro trump counties, early three times as likely to die from covid-19 owes those who live in counties that win from joe biden in 2020. counties of the new higher share for the vote of travel controversy, saw higher covid-19 mortality. great this is, in large part, disinformation information spread by republicans. republicans are also playing the blame game when it comes to the economy. despite the fact that the b...

Cases. florida set yet another new record level of more than 58,000 new cases on wednesday. and despite all of this, people are still planning travel, parties and event for new years eve. even as experts predict infection rates will continue to grow. the pre omicron record high for average daily cases was 251,000 set back in january 2021. before vaccines were widely available, more than 85,000 people were hospitalized with covid. some hospitals are overwhelmed. northeast, ohio, issued a plea in ...

Rates but, well, yeah, survival rates, deaths. let me read some reporting from npr. npr looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the u.s. from may 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available, people living in counties that went 60% or higher for trump in november of 2020 had a 2.73 times the death rate of those who went for biden. counties with an even higher share of the vote for trump saw higher covid-19 mortality rates. that just lands with a -- a...

Have republicans found themselves on this side of death? or more importantly, do they care that they are on the side of death? >> look, i saw a recent and pr map similar to the one you just put up, jonathan, and it shows that trump helped counties and districts that voted for him overwhelmingly in 2020 are facing death rates three times higher than the national average. and that is not changing their minds. because on top of that, facing death through not being vaccinated as we heard the cdc say...

Five hours for testing. he says, we have not received any assistance from the state of florida at our testing sites. local governments have been left to figure it out and respond on our own. we errin haines, the number of people were waiting for hours to get tested suggests that they have not turned well on covid. will there be a political backlash to let it rip on republicans? >> yes, youre exactly right. we have seen those images of those long lines of people who are trying to get tested for c...