on the quite united states capi. i want you to listen to republican senator tom cotton who apparently thinks it's a bad thing for what he calls public health burocrats to consider what is the best interest of public health. >> if you turn these decisions over to public health bureaucrats, the only thing they will consider is what they think is in the best interest of public health. >> duh. yeah, because that's their job. [ laughter ] >> it's right there in the title. come on, tom cotton. and listen to the congressional republicans. most of them doctors turning a discussion of the delta variant into, wait for it, democrat bashing. >> this is an evil virus. it's killed over 600,000