what's going on is a disaster and i don't think any defenders of joe biden should shy away from acknowledging what a human tragedy this is. i don't think we haven't paid that much attention to the myriad of other human tragedies that are attached to this war. you don't see round-the-clock coverage when there are civilian casualties of an american missile strike. and so we have a somewhat distorted picture that it seems like everything was kind of okay and then all of a sudden chaos broke loose. >> now, i want to turn now to covid-19 pandemic. as schools all over the country reopen, we're seeing huge outbreaks and still many republican governors are banning individual school districts from requiring students to wear masks. president biden has directed the department of education to use the civil rights enforcement arm to investigate these states as