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Discrimination. we have to realize we're really punishing our children with bad policy makers who are really putting them as our sacrificial lambs of society today and we have to do what we know best which is protect our kids and get them to school, get them to learn their reading and writing and stop all of this nonsense. lawrence: i've only got a few seconds left but all these schools and colleges requested what was it, $170 billion and then on top of that, after they get the money, they want to close again. like they should return it, right? >> that's right. yeah. absolutely. i said at the ...

Others in there. no less than 50% of money to financial aide. you have to do outreach students if they need adjustment on the financial aid. apparently you have to be following the science and following the evidence. yet, lawrence, if you have a young student population, eager to go book to campus, all of which are vaccinated, most are used to wearing a mask, even if it is not effective, especially not necessary with their age group or omicron, they're being told back to the zoom classroom. you're not coming back. it is devastating for kids. lawrence: it is unbelievable, pete. these colleges a...

Continuingly introduced new fresh, air filter through hospital great help of filters. sure enough, despite hundreds of million people have flown over the past 20 months, there only a few dozen confirmed cases on airlines. it seems like this is a place that we really should have been focusing on for the last 20 months i need to focus on even more now, doctor céline gounder. >> so the indoor quality air at hovered have been on this topic. we have really focused on improving indoor air quality, ventilation and air fruit filtration in schools. there is over 170 billion dollars in the american res...

Infiltration in k-12 schools. there is over $170 billion in the c.a.r.e.s. act, the american rescue plan, and other legislation that allocates funding -- as i said, almost $200 billion of funding for k-12 schools to make these kinds of infrastructure upgrades. but that has to be planned at the school district level. school districts need to assess their buildings, come up with infrastructure plans, work with vendors to do that. and then spend the money. and that is not an easy task for school districts to do. >> i will say this. you can buy hepa filters. they're not cheap, but they're also not...

Hillary vaughn is on capitol hill to break down the numbers. is it that simple? >> it is not that simple. house democrats in this proposal are betting on the fact that this massive social spending package of 3.5 trillion stuffed with free things like free community college and universal pre-k will contribute to economic growth and generate $600 billion in tax revenue over the first 10 years. the rest of it are cominals on the table in the house right now. they want to raise the top personal tax rate from 37 to 39.6% raise $170 billion. this tax would only impact individuals making more than $4...