washington. the upcoming trial of derek chauvin derek chauvin has minneapolis bracing for weeks of protests. have you seen that? tonight we get an update from business owners who have their dreams burned to the ground literally during the george floyd riots of last summer. also the unreported details of meghan, harry, and the oprah relationship. raymond arroyo has at all. first, time to retire the control freak. that is the focus of tonight's angle. it was just about this time last year when people begin to lose their minds. remember? [laughs] they were paying $50 for a $6 pack of antibacterial wipes on amazon. lining up at all the grocery stores to buy carts full of toilet paper, paper towels, dishwashing detergent, bleach. and enough batteries to power a small city. well, dr. fauci, he was still only a fledgling star on broadcast and cable. you could already tell he was basking in the glow. >> it's the danger of minimizing the risk of infectious disease outbreak? speak of the danger of minimization in any arena of infectious disease and outbreak is the you might get people to e complacent, number one. number two, when bad things happen, your credibility is lost because you have downplayed something. >> laura: and now one year and a staggering number of deaths later, we know or we should know the truth about covid. namely the fact that young americans have a greater chance of being killed in a car crash then dying from this virus. and then there is this truth. states with mask mandates fared no better with the virus than those without mass mandates. we know that lockdowns don't change the cycle of the virus. look at california and new york versus florida and texas. we know kids kept out of schools suffer greatly. the isolation, the loneliness has driven more teenagers to take their own lives or overdosed on drugs. we know that the schools that have stayed open, they haven't become super-spreader's. parochial schools with smaller budgets than public schools somehow managed to keep their kids in the classroom and they kept everyone safe with some creativity and some simple protocols. we know this virus is especially hard on those that are obese, diabetic. hypertensive. if you were watching the angle last spring, you knew that. we are going to learn a lot about obesity, heart disease, hypertension. diabetes. all of these things made people much more susceptible to having serious, serious complication, even comorbidity. you are patient's preconditions when they come in and that they already have underlying conditions, many of them. obesity being one. and a high bmi. we know that we have therapeutic such as inhaled steroids. simple over-the-counter meds like vitamin d3 and zinc that also boost our immune system. we know that our fda has in many ways failed us by not allowing for the use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, both used around the world to reduce covert hospitalizations and deaths. thanks to former president trump, we have vaccines which millions of americans have already received. the cdc estimates that 83 million americans were infected in 2020 which means they are protected by the antibodies and are unlikely to develop covid at least for the time being because of their innate immunity as well. t cell immunity, you bet. it wasn't surprising to see this headline today. in illinois, they just had the lowest one-day death toll since september. florida saw its lowest hospitalization since september. arizona, covert charts are looking good across all metrics. in hawaii and wisconsin, even more good news. the data are what the data are. we are currently seeing the slowest spread of the coronavirus since the pandemic began. what is the cdc's response? more guidance, disconnected from reality. you have gotten the vaccine and now you think wow, thank goodness. i have the vaccine. i am home free. think again. because apparently it is masks forever. >> and fully vaccinated people are visiting with unvaccinated people from multiple households, everyone should wear masks and physically distance and meet outdoors in a well ventilated space. >> laura: wait, wait. we are closer to herd immunity. the cdc still doesn't think we should be free? >> everyone should be avoiding and large gatherings as well as nonessential travel. when in public spaces should continue to wear a well fitted mask, physically distance and follow other public health measures to protect themselves and others. >> laura: okay, this is completely insane. it is the reason we still see people wearing masks while driving alone in their cars. the vaccines were sold as a way to get our lives back. obviously that's not true. of all the public health officials who have been consistently wrong, former biden covid advisor michael osterholm is in a category of his own. recall he is the one who consistently claimed that we are in the worst weeks of the pandemic. he never does a mea culpa when he's wrong. he just keeps repeating itself in doubling down on doom. now is millions of americans are getting vaccinated, this was his big pronouncement. >> you know what, you wouldn't catch me tonight in a crowded restaurant somewhere even with my vaccination. >> laura: good, stay home. more room for the rest of us at the restaurant. too many of us have lost our ability or may be the will to think for ourselves during this time. sometimes we have abandon common sense and instead we adhere to the edicts of the expert class that's neither expert nor classy. the rules and advice keep changing. it was 15 days to slow the spread. now it's closer to maybe 15 months. last summer dr. redfield said masks were as good as vaccines and if we wore masks for two months, it would basically be over. instead cases spiked. let's remember the wise words of dr. fauci one year ago today. >> there's no reason to be walking around with a mask. when you are in the middle of the outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet. but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. >> laura: of course he later did a 180. all for noble reasons, right? he went from no masks she must wear a mask to you must wear to masks. it's time for us to break free of the cycle of failed experts and unconstitutional orders. if you are trapped in a blue state that won't open up, that denies the data and the science, bows to the teachers union, it's time to get up and either leave altogether or get involved in politics on the local level, the state level, anyway you can. they year later, it's time to retire or just ignore the control freaks. it's time to declare victory and move on. that's the angle. joining me now is dr. harvey ration. professor of epidemiology at yale school of public health. and the stanford university epidemiology professor. doctor, why have we allowed the cdc to apparently have so much sway about the way we think about our lives and even think about our freedom? >> i saw a cnn headline that said that the cdc has given vaccinated people their freedom back. the cdc doesn't have that power. with the cdc should be doing is giving good, scientifically based advice and trust people to make judgments. for vaccinated people, it means you're immune. it's very, very unlikely that you're going to pass this disease onto anybody. live your life freely. it's long past time they gave that advice and i'm glad they stepped up to that. >> laura: doctor, the big announcement today from the cdc was that if your vaccinated, strike up the band because then you can be with some other vaccinated people indoors. i guess one other family of vaccinated people. you can take your masks off. and you can maybe be with small children. people are acting like oh, thank you, thank you for giving us a little bit of our lives back. dr. risch, i'm not an immunologist. it seems like a lot of people have forgotten basic immunology who supposedly learned it in med school. >> well, the problem is we have made everything black or white. either the masks protect or they don't. either the vaccines reduce transmission or they don't. this kind of thinking has led to the closest approximation to truth which isn't the truth which is the masks help may be a little. vaccines help a bit. everything helps when you add it all up. you can't make definitive statements. when the cdc makes definitive statements in approximation it's not very accurate. >> laura: with most adults who have not yet been vaccinated. dr. fauci is already talking about vaccinating children. watch. >> we project that high school students will very likely be able to view vaccinated by the fall term. maybe not the very first day but certainly in the early part of the fall for that fall educational term. elementary school kids, they likely will be able to give vaccinated by the very first quarter of 2022. >> laura: why are we even talking about vaccinating a group that is extremely unlikely to get sick from covid, die from covid. we don't even have a lot of indication that they've spread covid into teachers or adults around them. >> i think it's a mistake. the vaccine trials themselves have not checked whether they work in children at all. the harm from infection from covid to children, more children died of the flu last year even though the flu disappeared in the fall. for children the idea that they should be vaccinated fails a basic test. would you benefit a child by vaccinating them with covid? no. i think the answer is no. for someone who is older and vulnerable, absolutely. it's a great idea. for children, i don't know understand why you'd want to vaccinate children for a condition like this. vaccinate children for measles, mumps, rubella. absolutely. for covid, i don't see the argument. >> laura: i hear this from parents all the time. they watch this segment because it's what they are so interested in. you've been so invaluable as time has gone on. they are really worried that their child is not going to be able to be enrolled in schools. public and private. if they don't get this vaccine. do you see this conflict? where do you see it playing out? how do you see it playing out especially if kids were already exposed and had some type of exposure. obviously convert some immunity that way as well. >> it's unconscionable. the state has no interest in vaccinating people that doesn't reduce the transmissibility very much. the only interest in the state is protecting people who are unexposed and get exposed other people. if vaccination doesn't reduce that very much than the state has no interest. it cannot mandate a behavior that is an experiment on humans. it violates the nuremberg code in order to do experience on people that have no interest for the state in the first place. >> laura: doctor, quickly. we mentioned before, michael osterholm out with another dire prediction. >> we still have a lot of high-risk people out there. when the surge comes basically they're going to be highly vulnerable. the other thing that we see right now is every governor wants to open schools. the problem is if you look at europe right now, the challenge we are seeing is a lot of transmission in schools with this new variant. we're going to have some tough days ahead in the older population and the younger population. >> laura: doctor, 20 seconds. speak we've already vaccinated 50% or 60% of people in many states over 65. a lot of the people at risk of dying are vaccinated. it's pessimism for its own sake and not likely to come true. >> laura: dr. doom once again. great to see you. thanks so much. we are going to get to some other really important news on covid in a moment but right now some breaking news of the border. despite biden's denials of a crisis brewing, "the new york times" has reported moments ago that the number of unaccompanied migrant children detained along the southern border has tripled in the last two weeks alone. to more than 3,250. more than 1360 of the children have been detained beyond the 72 hours permitted by law before a child must be transferred to a shelter. joining me now a senator tom cotton. i know he wants answers. senator, why is joe biden waiting until later this week for a briefing from his team on this growing security, health-related and humanitarian crisis of his own making? >> hey, laura. good to be on with you and that's a great question. we have a crisis of the border. this is the biden border crisis. joe biden and the democrats may not think it's a border crisis because i don't believe in border so by definition they don't think there can be a crisis of the border by the american people know that we have a crisis. this was altogether predictable. predicted. i said last year during the campaign you cannot promise amnesty and open borders in health care for illegal aliens and not expect a migrant crisis of the border. what's happened? not just in the last few weeks but every month since the election we have seen increased numbers at our southern border. they sent a team to ask about whether or not there were enough teachers there or what the accommodations were for kids. how about the team asks what are we doing to stop it and turn the migrants back and tell them it's not the way to come to america. >> laura: the press secretary for president biden today said that they have to basically be better with their messaging on this. is this an messaging problem when you have 180 kids, 30 kids under the age of 13. some of whom are kept in these cement cells that they were getting on trump for having to keep people in temporarily until he's basically solved the border problem. >> no, laura. when a politician tells you that it means they have a reality problem. their reality problem is that they created a crisis at our southern border by inviting the entire world to show up and claim asylum. donald trump turned away people who were seeking asylum and told him to stay in mexico and that their claims could be adjudicated in an orderly fashion from mexico. joe biden's administration is seeking out those illegal aliens then donald trump turned away and inviting them to come back to the border. we have gone far beyond catch and release. this is a recruiting release. almost all of these claims will be rejected. the simple fact is if you're from central america and you're seeking asylum, you do that at the southern border of mexico. when you get all the way to the southern border of the united states you're no longer seeking asylum. you are seeking a better job and better living conditions. >> laura: they were sent out of the united states immediately during covid because we are not supposed to be bringing people into the country who are potential covid risk. but that was suspended, done away with by president biden. all right, senator. a little over a year ago. you were getting hammered for suggesting that covid originated in a wuhan lab but now josh rogan today revealed the and 2018 diplomats weren't of risky coronavirus experiments in the wuhan lab. the u.s. government had evidence that the labs or performing gain of function research on a larger scale than was publicly disclosed. has the nih explain why the trump administration was left with the order by the obamas to relieve us of the suspension of gain of function? it was suspended in the united states for number of years and it was resumed at the end of the obama administration. >> the nih has not explained it. they have some explaining to do. there is been recent emails and other correspondence turned up through freedom of information releases that shows the nih was more focused on coordinating with their method with china not offending tiny sensibilities than they weren't getting facts out for the american people. the existence of the cables goes back to josh rogan's reporting last year. diplomats 21 and they discovered that chinese labs sometimes have shoddy, sloppy safety practices. even back in the sars crisis 20 years ago we knew that some of the viruses that caused sars cases had escaped because of negligence and incompetence at labs. it when you combine incompetence and negligence on the one hand and communist malevolence on the other, what you get is a once in a century a global pandemic. >> laura: well, and we'll find out more about this as time goes on if china actually allows us to. i'm not holding my breath on that either. senator, thank you for your work on the gain of function issue and on the border issue as well. great to see you tonight. >> thank you, laura. >> laura: the jury selection for the jury of george floyd's killer looming, the city of minneapolis is at risk of descending into chaos. we're going to get an update from business owners who saw their livelihood burned to the ground during last summer's riots. >> my husband was asleep and i go, you need to wake up now. town talk is going to burn down any minute. we sat there. we watched it melt to the ground, all our hard work. this isn't just freight. these aren't just shipments. they're promises. big promises. small promises. cuddly shaped promises. each with a time and a place they've been promised to be. and the people of old dominion never turn away a promise. or over promise. or make an empty promise. we keep them. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. ♪♪ dad, i'm scared. ♪♪ it's only human to care for those we love. and also help light their way. ♪♪ it's why last year chevron invested billions of dollars to bring affordable, reliable, ever cleaner energy to america. ♪♪ >> laura: nearly ten months after blm rioters ransacked minneapolis, the city is bracing for more destruction. jury selection in the trial of the derek chauvin, one of george floyd's alleged killers is set to begin tomorrow. today's proceedings were delayed after state prosecutors sought to add a third degree murder charge for chauvin. city and county officials expecting weeks of chaos and plan on spending at least a million dollars on fortifications around the city. that number is going up. after a year of vilifying law enforcement, are locals confident their businesses will be protected question on training me is kacey white and charles stotts, owners of talk diner and gastropub who watch their business burned to the ground last summer. it's good to see you. i first met you last august. where you are standing out right in front of your diner. that's an old photo. i can see that it is still not standing behind you today. there is your husband who i didn't have a chance to meet. tell us what you're feeling ahead of this trial. >> gosh. i definitely worry for the city. with the trial coming up. obviously it's something everyone's been talking about for some time now. there is the conversation that we do have more security and the national guard here the trials beginning. but is that going to be focused, all of the security and downtown minneapolis where the trials will be? or is it also going to be for the surrounding neighborhoods that were affected last summer with the rioting? >> laura: charles, the minneapolis police department reported that homicides soared 71% last year. a trend we have seen across the country sadly. so this trial is going to get underway shortly. i have walked those streets and talked to those incredible business owners. is there enough fencing to protect what's left of minneapolis? that particular part of the city if things get out of hand, given the fewer number of police officers. >> enough fencing? absolutely not. the way i see it. not only have, homicides got up, crime and violent crime have escalated. the research that i've done there were 877 police officers last year there were active in the city. this year, that number is down to 638. we have a police chief it's asking the city council for $6.3 million to fill those spots. the city council says no or at least is dragging the process out when th