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But at the same time the administration is trying to take away his job. brian: wrote the most comprehensive book on the challenges america faces. go ahead. ainsley: meaghan mobbs was appointed by the west point board by president trump. obviously a west point veteran. the military board she says should not be political. and she talked to brian. listen to this. >> i think its imperative that we fight for this. one of the last places where we should be politicizing anything is our united states mi...

Possible advice and instruction to our west point cadets. brian: to me, its something that would be invaluable some outside. s on things that matter so much. after all its life and death. what exactly do you do? >> so we are an advisory board. so we provided a vice regarding morale, curriculum to the superintendent, to the dean to the cam cant of cadets and that report get passed to the president of the united states. and the reason to believe why this outside board exists is exactly what you ju...

At the end of the day, while people will listen to what you say, they believe what they see. and while i hate that these are the experiences that have been cast upon our community, our school districts, these are the realities and we have to find a way to mitigate them. many would say that closing schools would be the best way to go about that. many would say that vaccines would be the best mitigation effort. but in some ways we have observed vaccinated employees come down with the virus and we ...

Numbers. whatever it comes to the governor you have a back and forth argument over masks, and what is being talked about is the numbers on the rise. take a listen. >> this closure this week is really a targeted short-term targeted strategy. we have been able to have quality instruction this year and we want to be able to make sure that we can do that on a long-term basis through the intermediate measures that we have to put in place now. >> the cdc classifies anything as 100 cases out of 100,000...

Effort. but in some ways we have observed vaccinated employees come down with the virus and we have observed those who have not been vaccinated who have been able to avoid it. so, again, its an elusive process. we are doing the best we can to mitigate it and ensuring that our students and staff remain healthy and well. >> when i said that virtual instruction sucks, i am speaking to parents. i know the teachers are trying. i go through it with my three kids. and now two of them are going back to ...

Direction and who have trouble with attention. you know these things. so how are parents respond to go going back to virtual learning, not mentioning home care issues and what that means for their ability to work? >> those are the challenges. those challenges are real. aisle be honest. i am proud of the way the families have responded. they understand that on any given day we will put our best foot forward to provide a quality educational experience. at the same time, when we are at capacity, no...

Weekly covid cases in this country. you remember when we used to say, yeah, at least its not the kids, thank god. no more. a 250% increase from july. covid has caused one school district to shut down in-person classes already because of what? cases leading to a lack of transportation. three of their transportation employees died within a two-week period after reporting covid complications. could there have been comorbidity? yes. do you know how much of this countrys adults have what fits in the ...

Given day we will put our best foot forward to provide a quality educational experience. at the same time, when we are at capacity, not enabling us to do that for in-person learning, this is what we resort to. it is not preferred. we are built to provide in-person instruction. we have allocated our staff to do that in the buildings. this is our effort. this is the need to be pivotal. this is a need to be agile and so thats where we are. we will make the most of it. we will make the best of it. m...

Like what? obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension. now students are going back to virtual instruction which, yes, sucks. the district has also reported 116 students who have tested positive. 452 kids in quarantine for close contact. we have the super superintendent for griffin-spalding county schools dealing with this problem. thank you for taking the opportunity on "prime time." >> thank you as well. >> now, when you are looking at the problem, the idea that you know what its being caused by an...

Newsom today. she says its a part of a fight thats been waged across the country. >> you got to understand whats happening right now. whats happening in texas. whats happening in georgia. whats happening around our country with these policies that are about attacking womens rights, reproductive rights, the voting rights. workers right. they think if they can win in california they can do this anywhere. we show them, youre not going to get this done. not here, never. >> this is the sixth recall a...