>> in his statement, the texas attorney general essentially called you not by name an activist character and attention grabbing judge. it certainly doesn't help the situation we're in right now to be kind of hurling effective like that. what does it say about the state and public health? >> well, this is not about democrats and republicans. we should all be on team public health. that virus doesn't care with what your politics or anything else is. it's relentlessly looking for a host. and so i don't want to get into that, the name game or the blame game with people. i'm listening to what our doctors and the cdc are telling us, which is we are in a state of crisis and we have to act quickly and we need to put masks on people in public settings. today in the metroplex with 7.7 million people, a 19-county area, we had two pediatric icu