right. it depends where you live. this is a local situation. it will come down to the courts in states and cities and counties and also it comes down to the renters and landlords of the minute amount of money that has been released to the states. $3 billion i think it is. that has to be going to the court or the renter or landlord if they qualify. so they are the ones that will have to take action. they will have to talk to each other and if they can t talk to each other the evictions that are going to start. they ll start in the next if you days or weeks because it has been 16 months that a lot of these individual landlords have not collected any rent. you can t tell me that all of these people there is a lot of hardships and jobs lost. where we are today versus march of 2020 is very, very different in this country and i think the moratorium, the time is for it to end. there is plenty of help out there if you need help.
and the essence of what he is saying there. dana: and the vaccines work. you also read bill mcgurn. masks are a covid distraction as you say. bill: have you watched the olympics? i have not. the least amount i ve ever watched the olympics. you guys may well agree with this. i imagine a huge percentage of your viewers feel the same way. i used to be so excited for the olympics and track the medal counts and everything else. it is hard to figure out when they are airing. time zone doesn t help. streaming makes it difficult to know what s live and not. the least amount of watched olympics are all time and some of the athletes aren t likable. bill: you had an athlete from qatar and italy and they had a face-off. neither one of them succeeded. dana: it s a jump off, right? they both have to you jump, like penalty kicks and instead
it s probably unconstitutional, dana. the main reason that it has been invalidated, it goes beyond the statutory authorization that the cdc had. they didn t have legal authority to order this. i think it s very interesting that biden is asking the states to help, which goes to the constitutional issue. this is intrastate commerce. the arrangements between renters and owners are overwhelmingly intrastate. it is something that congress ought not to be involved in in the first place and why biden is turning to the states to deal with it. in the meantime as you point out, about 93% as of the weekend, 93% of the money that congress had appropriated for this hasn t been disbursed. dana: it is just here is
time zone doesn t help. people don t know what exactly is live and not live. when event are going to air and hard to track down and follow at times you don t have can michael phelps. the u.s. men s basketball team u.s. women s soccer team has lost. katie ledecky has already lost. so, in addition to the covid atmosphere without the fans and the overall i would say doom and gloom that has seemed to surround everything, it s a challenging environment. i also think you have to add in that this is not a time when i think many americans feel particularly excited about the american experience. we re very divided. there are people who aren t happy about the flags or protests or ceremonies. and so it doesn t feel like a celebratory event as the olympics typically does as a result i think all of those events are conspiring to create much less for enthusiasm than would typically be the case for an olympics event.