the mental health, anguish and shutdowns on so many of them, so bad that even biden's surgeon general is sounding the alarm. >> their lives been turned upside down, haven't been able to see friends as often as they would in that has taken a toll, we have anxiety and depression rates going up. children have been struggling for a while and we have a moral obligation to take action. >> joining me is doctor hamada, board-certified m.d. and phd research scientist and doctor peter mccullough, epidemiologist based in dallas, texas. how is it some of these parts of the country are resorting to the same policies as two years ago that have been so damaging to our kids. >> i think in my penis a parent, as a physician, as a scientist and even as someone who has been a leader of the reopen california schools movement and la school uprising which last spring lobbied successfully to get schools to reopen this last fall in los angeles county i can tell you that this makes no sense, this is going to hurt children. is going to be detrimental to them academically, socioeconomically, medically, not referring to covid but