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Factor of two and, larry, you know im not that good at math but thats pretty bad. >> the problem with the economy today is inflation is rising because of too much federal spending and too much federal reserve money creation and we dont need anymore. we have to save america by killing the bill. >> laura: larry, to your earlier point, i want to play this where biden hammered republicans for not supporting his massive pandemic bill. watch. >> i want to talk down the recovery because they voted agai...

Basically june to november, look at that, among those aged 12 to 17, the unvaccinated covid hospitalization rate is 12 times higher than the unvaccinated than the vaccinated and adults 13 times higher. get those vaccines. its a big way to keep the schools open and children safe. >> the down sides of kids not learning in a normal school setting are pretty clear. >> theyre very clear. there was a study that came out, one particular study looked at third to 8th graders, they said were going to take...

Don. that is absolutely right. weve deprioritized kids at every step of this pandemic. we are coming up on two years of disrupted learning and there is a casualness around closing schools i just dont understand. the costs are severe and accumulating, well documented. everything from loss in reading and math gains for kids in school. your last caller said a hundred thousand kids missing from the school system last year. we see the immediate impact of school closures on the inability to detect chi...

He voted for impeachment. he has voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and by the way, hes the guy charged with working out a bipartisan commission to study january 6th that kevin mccarthy supported in theory but then didnt support the deal kind. hes had a political target on his back for a while now. a pickup opportunity for democrats. hes running in a biden district, but its likely to change in the new new york map when we see what it looks like. >> what is our math on impeachers not s...

Looks like hes somewhere, i used this analogy, youre going up the ladder here, right, hes not the lowest rung, hes not the highest rung, but hes certainly somewhere in the middle here. do you expect this to go to trial? or do you expect them to do everything they can to see if they can get him to -- if he can -- if there is someone more to give, if they can get him to do that. >> yes. and let me explain what may seem like an odd answer. overwhelmingly, when people are indicted by federal prosecu...

Sticks. lunch option big mac, whopper or white castle. surprising kids now who i think would eat better that are obese, one in five kids. get off the i pad, nintendo switch. play some kick the can! >> absolutely. its the screen time. next up. forget about science. one mississippi middle school is offering female students shape wear to give them an ideal body shape and alleviate body shame. what the heck is going on? why arent they doing reading, writing, math. theyre giving out shape wear? >> im...

Welcome back. theres a lot of uncertainty for students as they head into winter breaks, with the surge in the omicron variant. schools districts around the country are going to remote learning or maybe theyre considering it after the holidays. our next next guest says thatsd idea. in a "new york times" op-ed, he said we learned our lesson last year, do not close schools. im joined by joseph allen, director of a healthy buildings program at harvard public school of health. you say it would be a t...

Around the math of this when it first game. even if its individually not that risky to a given individual, a healthy 35-year-old, right, if its really transmissable, you are going to get in the aggregate a large number. we are seeing this with omicron, like, back of the envelope, it could be a tenth, 0.10 dangerous to folks, if its ten times as transmissable, you literally are going to have the same aggregate amount of people coming into your hospital system even though individuals are looking a...

Theres a john lewis voting rights act. one bill that the democrats want to pass. it would restore protections in the voting rights action that protects against voter suppression and then theres expanding voting access and making election day a federal holiday, election day. the democrats have these proposals. the question is if this president gives this speech today and the math does not change, is there a fallback plan, or is this all or nothing? >> right. to this point it seems kind of all or ...

Allocating more money to making sure theyre getting hundreds of thousands of kn95 masks to provide in schools. theyve spent millions updating their air filtration systems, theyre going to be spending another 100 million plus in the summer of 2022. its unclear what that spending will go towards. overall the teachers still saying between the vaccination rates, the fact that they cant social distance adequately in classrooms and the lack of availability of testing and masks are their biggest concer...